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[Billy Brown]

[Fauxbia]

According to the servant, all the prolog points to is the nature of the portals and the date they are to open so we need to keep the focus here but we are missing a piece of the puzzle so I feel there isn't much we can do until that piece surfaces....

[mrshomersimpson]

well on the twitter they just asked wilh to email the maths working suggesting the maths is perhaps wrong.


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[Billy Brown]

The Servant has also clarified that we are indeed missing a page from the Duodecad but that it's perhaps not immediately important.

Tweet to axlwilh:

[njberry]

Just got this email.

[zerovin]

Wow, got sick for a few days, and on coming back it seems the stuff in the prologe seems pretty much solved. Nice

[mrshomersimpson]

[Billy Brown]

Apologies for the length of this post but I've been having a few emails back and forth that clear up a couple of things.

I looked at Balmoth's post again and he mentioned that he used ROT -14 to get to the ultimate answer, with the -14 coming from the maths equations. However, The Servant mentioned that our maths is wrong.

Looking at it more closely it seems that ROT -14 isn't valid (the accepted range seems to be from -13 through to +13). So for our purposes, to arrive at the same answer we actually need to apply ROT +12.

I put this to The Servant and the indication is that using ROT +12 is something we were perhaps supposed to try automatically, given the significance of the number 12 overall so far.

The upshot is that those pages are separate from the maths page - the maths was never meant to be applied to this part of the puzzle and is something we need to keep working on.

[The Grim Axel]

So, I reworked the math bits from the beginning as they were on the pages that we see. (Not making any assumptions about the 'missing dash')

I found that c1 = 3, c2 = 18 and c3 = pi/2 which would make C = 28

On the second page, I got that the short leg of the triangle would be -6 and thus V = -12.

However adding these two would be 28 - 12 = 16... which still isn't the answer we're looking for.

I'm about to email The Servant and see what he says about all of this and see if he can say where the 'missing dash' was supposed to go.

[Billy Brown]

[lethearen]

Howdy! I finally got confirmation yesterday that I've officially been assigned the 5 of Spades!

"Start at the poles" ... "poles" anagrams to SLOPE, which could be relevant to the maths and figures?

Also... I'm sure this is silly. But has anyone looked for hidden writing on their physical pages? Like UV ink or similar?

Edited to add: I noticed the map is of the ilk that has the Prime Meridian going through Paris instead of Greenwich.

[phenexfirf]

Welcome, 5 of Spades! It's great to have you with us.

Good thought on the "poles" anagram. I am guessing we are going to need more information to truly figure out what could be meant by some of these statements. For instance, what is supposed to go in the 5 underscores after "Start at the poles:"?

[njberry]

Finaly got my post guys

[The Grim Axel]

Some correspondence with The Servant about the math pages. He replied to the email I sent explaining my work.

[fernandocarulli]