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[Jane Smith]

petunia wrote:

[DrTachyon]

Hey now, I'm just posting about what info I'm receiving. Speaking of which...two more pages arrived today!! Same story as before, same envelope marked confidential/destroy. The text is as follows:

I begin to wonder if our research has failed us. We are on expedition day 3 and days of digging, plotting and surveying have led to naught. Are we in the right place? The tales we unearthed were so sure. There was no doubt back in warmer latitudes. Now that we are here we spend our days scouring the ground for any evidence of the burial site and nights pouring over research. I am positive we will find some error that would explain our lack of success. I will not despair. The answer is here somewhere!

The sun has now set. What poor manners to cut our work short in the hour before our our triumph. Even as we put down our tools on our final day of digging, the glint of black ivory caught the Sun's final rays. We have found the tomb. Tomorrow we shall see if this expedition was worthwhile.


16 dogs per sled = 48

48 * 3 lbs is 144 lbs per day

2 lbs wet
1 lbs dry 16 lbs per day

Kannannask (?)

[Jane Smith]

wellll.. if it states "Kananaskis" Then we are still in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kananaskis_Country

As you can see we have a research facility. a university and a large population of early native peoples.

Tombs relation? Finding /alien/king/god/

WHAT IN THE GODDAMNED TOMB???.. well next week

sleepy jane go sleepy

[petunia]

[njberry]

could the wet and dry be the food the dogs will eat ?

[Jane Smith]

We are all for mystery Dr. but if you would be so kind as to not take pictures with the potato you have obviously been shooting with..umm that would be greaaatt...

So based on your photo here is what I see:

Kanocorn
Krispycream
Kluckkluck
Kammaramadamadingdong

Did I mention I am old now and cannot see well?

If this kananAssLickMcnasty is important we might want to make sure it says Kannannask.

I just say this incase we are not in a totally fictional universe here and they want you to "find" some thing, or we are researching eskimo/language/lore/sammiches.....mnnn sammiches

Any ways discuss Karmacoma..er Kannanask

*Hugs*

[jono]

[petunia]

Except we're not sure they did in fact pack cocoa.

Quote:

- Put in a double order of cocoa for the ???t

[DrTachyon]

Okay, here is a better shot of the page. You all can tell me what it says

[petunia]

Yay, much better! Thank you Dr!

Ok, that last vowel definitely doesn't look like an A. So my best guess is that is says Kannannisk. Which gets us exactly bupkis. In fact, this guy's handwriting is not the most consistent - check out the words "Tomorrow" and "expedition". Cold fingers?

But hang on... the math part says "48 x 3L is 144L per day," but the wet/dry part says "lbs' for pounds. L is for liters, not pounds, yeah? So the dogs will be hauling a bunch of liquid something out of the tomb. Seawater? What good would that do, wouldn't it just fill back up?

Also not sure about the 2 lbs wet/ 1 lbs dry thing. I can barely tell the 2 and the 1 apart. In fact they both kinda look like 2s to me. And the 1 in "16 lbs per day" doesn't have the horizontal line on the bottom like his other 1s do.

Then there's the implication that they don't have much time, because a mining company is going to start drilling for something soon. Oil (also known as black gold, not black ivory)?

This expedition is starting to sound awfully messy, even for archaeology.

edited because it's black gold, not black old

[jono]

Well coffee and tea were standard issue for these trips the exact amounts depending on the nationality of the trip.

I find it interesting they are ordering the cocoa as opposed to packing it, suggesting that it was a special buy as opposed to something they already had.

Black Ivory is also a coffee made from beans trapped in elephant dung...but that makes even less sense.


What is confusing me is that we have specific details that are utterly accurate (Primus stove) yet stuff that is totally out of place for this kind of thing (the ship)


One way of explaining the dogs would be the fact the dogs met them via the ship as opposed to keeping them on the train, this has many advantages, one of which is that your dogs are fresh for the hard bits of the trail as opposed to keeping them busy when you can drag it yourself, or maybe the dogs are from someone else suggesting this is an unofficial trip so they are having to pull supplies from various people and places.

My main issue is the fact that they are trying to dig up a tomb with what sounds like 2 or 3 people..that might take a while especially in frozen soil, however it would totally fit with using the dogs to move soil.

[Jane Smith]

I feel a letter coming on ..

lets do this.. I have a few hours "WHATS IN THE GODDAMNED TOMB??? < jane goes for ride in mean time

[petunia]

Sure, I could use the exercise... (and have also been waiting impatiently for Tuesday)

Wildass guesses:

frozen mammoth rhino thingy
OIL
Stargate
alien wreck

Yeah, pretty thin over here. I haven't had my coffee yet.

[Ameliå]

its prolly worth mentioning the black ivory could be anything in a tomb, it could even be something as simple as a black flint arrow head



(studied archaeology)

[petunia]

So you've seen the phrase "black ivory" in this context before? My google-fu is lacking.

So, it's Tuesday night.................. *drums fingers impatiently*