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[Telos954]

I KNOW, this is a double post. I wanted to keep thoughts separate with out filling an entire page with one post. I've done it before, and no one likes it. Moving on!

I was taking a break from the active thinking points of this game, and decided to go more on the 'where's waldo' route. Took that picture that was uploaded earlier, screwed with the sharpness, brightness, contrast and got the image 'hidden' in the background to be a little clearer. It looks (to ME) like (possibly) a cauldron.

http://i39.tinypic.com/jze32x.png

[aquarius904]

Well, based on our chat earlier, Vlad told me that we need to stay away from the tragedies and focus on the comedies of Shakespeare. Here's a list of them:

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

So, we confirmed Livingstone is the starting point, the directional marker to both the treasure and the character (their names are similar) and this characters last words are referenced in a poem.

Seeing as names are a theme here, I'm guessing we have to look at the NAMES of the buildings at Strathmore to figure this out. Maybe. Or maybe not. You never know with Vlad/Shadow. Anyway, here's a list of the buildings with actual NAMES:

Alexander Turnbull Building
Barony Hall
Collins Building
Colville Building
Crawfurd Building
Curran Building
David Stow Building
Graham Hills Building
Henry Dyer Building
James Weir Building
John Anderson Building
John Arbuthnott Building
Jordanhill Campus
Livingstone Tower
McCance Building
Sir Henry Wood Building
Sir William Duncan Building
Smith Building
Stenhouse Building
The Lord Todd
Thomas Graham Building
Tom Bone Building

This is what I've got going now...

[Sirannon]

This is probably wrong, but if we're looking at similarities in names, could it be Touchstone, from As You Like It?

[Telos954]

[ironnikki]

New email from VS:

[Telos954]

SV mentions sending more out due to Aquarius and my self, probably half way through the pastebin I linked. The new email (and picture) are, I assume, what he meant.

[veebee]

Well, I gave it another shot, and came up with a new journey.... which was wrong again

[veebee]

[QuintusSeptime]

I went into Picnik and boosted the color saturation, it really makes the image a lot more readable. Question, though: I'm not sure if this is someone's shadow thing they sent Vlad, or if it's a message from him. Did anyone write a poem starting with "I exist somewhere between darknesses"?

[veebee]

[Telos954]

New email :

[Telos954]

[veebee]

New e-mail:

[Telos954]

Originally, I wasn't going to say anything and get a lead on this second guardianship hint, but as I'll be gone for 8-9 hours, I figure someone will have already solved what I have. So here's my input on the letter with the newest email :

[veebee]

I just edited my post above to add a link that might be relevant