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[TRAILHEAD] Tarot By Saranna... The Remake!
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duke9509
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[TRAILHEAD] Tarot By Saranna... The Remake!

Ok, at first I thought this was part of the game Myth of Objects, but we have now found out (from the PM) that they are two separate games (being run by the same person).

The trailhead:
Shortly after creating my ARG Twitter account (don't have a personal one), I was followed by Saranna Tarotseeker ([url]http://twitter.com/#!/tarotbysaranna[/url]). Her only post pointed to her website at http://tarotbysaranna.blogspot.com/

There are already several posts on her blog there. The first several seem to be explaining how Tarot works, but then we get to a post from June 29 with a picture of a new moon titled "lies between," a post on August 23 with an image of a strange lady titled "It's Coming," and a picture of a Jupiter Tarot card from August 27th with the title "The Lost Will Be Found." The picture of a lady has the filename "autumn-equinox21", and the card is titled "oneoftwo". She has now also posted something which was possibly a PM nod from when we were all confused.

The site also has an "About Me" page, a page with pictures of different cards, and an ad saying "The first reading is free!" that provides an email address: tarotbysarannaSPLATgmail.com

I will be lurking this one.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:11 am
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I may too, she followed me on twitter.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:40 am
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duke9509
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You know, it occurred to me that I should have included this in my original post:
The PM also told me that the game doesn't technically start until September 23rd, so there won't be that much activity leading up to that point.
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tarot by saranna updated her blog with a hint towards the new game. The tarot Justice card pictured has an inserted letter string cipher.
solve "wbxlgolldxmia"
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
A Vigenére Cipher with PW "strength" deciphers as: eight is eleven.


Am not very Tarot savvy 'tho have read that the Strength & Justice cards' numbers are interchangable depending on the Tarot dack.
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I just noticed, September 23rd has come and gone and yet nothing has happened to get the game started. I hope it didn't explode before it took off...
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I sent an email ages ago asking about the free reading. She promptly emailed back asking me to pick a card from the deck, but I never heard anything back after I asked about 'The Fool'. I was wondering about this also...

EDIT:
She emailed me back this afternoon.

Quote:
[I apologize for not responding more quickly. I wrote a lengthy explanation for my silence on my blog.]


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HappyPhantom wrote:
I sent an email ages ago asking about the free reading. She promptly emailed back asking me to pick a card from the deck, but I never heard anything back after I asked about 'The Fool'. I was wondering about this also...

EDIT:
She emailed me back this afternoon.

Quote:
[I apologize for not responding more quickly. I wrote a lengthy explanation for my silence on my blog.]


i just found this today from you guys... figured i'd post a response i sent to her on twitter and her blog for a potential code to the box that was left for her...
~.\\eridian / KiraXan on twitter

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Just sent Saranna another email and left a comment on her blog.

Her recent posts are below. FYI I have my tarot deck beside me and a book on meanings as well so feel free to ask about them if you don't know.

I'm posting the cards she posts since they're really pretty.

[url] http://tarotbysaranna.blogspot.com/2011/10/prisoner.html [/url]

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Prisoner

Allow me to provide an explanation for the strange postings on my blog and my long silence.

I am often in contact with those from "the other side." Sometimes they come to me in dreams. I had one awhile ago in which one of my old customers, a man long dead, came to me and said "It's starting up again."

I said, "What?"

He said, "You will know when it begins." Then he said something else I couldn't understand about fall and the moon. I assumed he meant September 23, the fall equinox. However, nothing specific seemed to happen on that day.

Over a week ago I left my house, and when I returned I found that I had no cable, internet connection, or phone. My house had been ransacked. My crystals were smashed. In the middle of the living floor was strewn my tarot deck, the one I use most frequently for clients. Three cards were missing:

The Hierophant
Death
The World

There was also a note taped to my refrigerator:

Do not attempt to establish contact with anyone.
We will let you know when you can.
We are watching.

I was too afraid to tell anyone or leave my house. I also came to realize that my mail delivery had stopped as well. Finally, this morning everything started working again. I saw that the little flag on my mailbox was up, so I went out there and checked it. Inside as a small lock box with a 5-part combination lock. Each part can be a one or two-digit number. I've been playing around with it but can't seem to crack the code.

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Been sort of lurking this one...

Those three missing cards have to be significant.

The Hierophant - V (5)
Death - XIII ( 8 ) - EDITED to avoid an emoticon
The World - XXI (21)

Maybe the numbers assigned to those cards are a part of the combination somehow?

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and the equinox - 09 and 23 [or reverse for american type of date?]

not in this game - just lurking but enjoyed it last time...
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I mentioned that I read Tarot in my email to her and she emailed me back saying that I should pick a card.

I picked the Five of Cups and she did an "actual" reading of it. It was super close to my understanding of the card. She mentioned I should keep the friends I have close.

I'll post the actual email later as I can't copy and paste gmail emails on my phone.
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@Saranna Are you still working on the combo for the locked box?

@me I am still working on the locked box combination and have not cracked it yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

~
Saranna on twitter ~Seven will die.
(Links to blog post.)

@me on Twitter to Saranna ~ Seven what will die?

From @Saranna to me ~ Seven people. I have not met them yet. They will bw revealed to me in time.

Sarranna's still working on the locked box combo...I'm thinking Halloween since 'souls walk the Earth' then. That's from my grandma who was superstitious.
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The Watchman

Hope you all don't mind if I join its been a long time since I last contributed anything. (Hatshoe wore me down)

Anyway I noticed that the August 23 blog post had a comment from the watcher that was removed by the author. I followed his name to his blog which is titled Veritas Viridis (something like Green Truth). The address is http://howardfair.blogspot.com

There are no blog posts and he is only following Saranna. It is fairly empty and was started in August of 2011. The only thing on it is a real time earth moon phase tracker. Lower there is also a big empty box but the source code looks pretty standard. It possible it should be filled with nature quotes and is just a HtML mistake

The twitter feed is interesting however and it takes highlighting it to see it:

OOG - GAME CHAPTER FINISHED. MORE LATER IN YEAR POSSIBLY??? WATCH THIS SPACE. 11 days ago

We hide in the open here his salvation. Through the mirror this plant is shown green: 1AD4AF Oppose us for the reddening answers...The Green 14 days ago

For those that look for Forest-he is with us-residing in the green.He is safe-that is until the time of balance, of reckoning, of harvest... 22 days ago

@tarotbysaranna Dear Saranna-we are the Green and speak via the Watchman.We have no paths that cross for WE now have Forest.Do not follow... 22 days ago

~~~~~~~~~~ We have Forest - for now. He is safe. The Green. ~~~~~~~~~~ 25 days ago

Arrow 1ad4af is a color hex for vivid teal.

EDIT: Well being re-new here I now see that Howard is a well establish game so I imagine this blog is to stop our trails from crossing.
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Yes. Howard Fair had a crossover with the original Saranna game. That comment was part of a misunderstanding about whether there would be one again. There wasn't. Howard Fair has since ended.
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