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booba
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 		Great try Renna! My cryptogram solver http://quipqiup.com/index.php has a slightly different ending:

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SOMEBODY HERE WISHES ME DEAD AND I THINK I KNOW WHO IT IS BUT I MUST LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO CLOSE THE OPENING AND STOP THE TIME SEQUENCE MUST NOTIFY KEL


Breaking news: The good Doctor is pushing up daisies Sad

http://catherinepsnow.wix.com/blog#!Oh-my-gosh/cmbz/566dc6c20cf2bbe8cab7a5b2

EDIT: Just noticed that I posted that in the wrong topic. That was a fun game too.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:38 am
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Renna
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 		Well, Kel makes a heck of a lot more sense, doesn't it? Smile Do you want to let Noah know not to be looking for Rex? lol

PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:52 am
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Nashman88
Boot

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 		Progress...?
I'm in! This looks really cool.

Have just been doing a little bit of work on the symbol, and discovered that it is

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the Celtic 'five-fold' symbol - it is a symbol of balance between the four (or five, depending on who you ask) elements: air, earth, fire and water


I have e-mailed to enquire about it, and whether or not it could be linked to the tarot cards.

No reply yet, but I have just discovered this:

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http://www.whats-your-sign.com/celtic-symbols-tuatha-de-danann.html


It seems that the symbol and the tarot cards are linked by

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Irish history - specifically, the goddess Danu and the gifts she gave to her children, known as Tuatha de Danann


Couldn't seem to find anything to break the Kel password though... Sad

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:38 am
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Nashman88
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 		'Time Sequence'
Also, Kiara's note found with the cards mentions a 'time sequence'.

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The fivefold symbol can be seen as referring to time, but the usual sequence appears to be: sword, spear, grail, stone. The flipped sword and spear, in the order as given by Noah, seems to deviate from that.
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/five-fold-celtic-meanings.html


Noah has said that time is a bit strange on the station - perhaps Kiara's disappearance is linked to a time lapse somewhere?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:49 am
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icarus496
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 		Maybe?
So, I would say the cards are linked with the symbol, because
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Each tarot suit has its own elemental significance. The stone is clearly earth, the swords are fire, the spears are air, and the grail is water.


Also, Noah mentioned that time flows weirdly at the station. The posts seem to be out of chronological order. Is it possible that we need to find the correct order for the posts? Like, the first post is clearly one of the last chronologically.

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Touchstone
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astrofig wrote:
Now that I think about it, I assume Kel must be Sasha; his last name is Kelly, right?


I don't think so - in the first email booba received:

Noah wrote:
Dear Kel,

As you know, one of our members went missing last June, after a deteriorating relationship with her husband and a souring of the overall mission goals and team morale


From the blog, Sasha and Kiara Kelly are the married couple, so it wouldn't make sense for Noah to be telling Sasha about the situation with Sasha's own wife like that. Sasha is also (presumably) on the station, and it seems from context that Kel is not.

On the other hand, in the latest clue post on the blog, Kiara's cryptogram message says that she "must notify Kel", which does indicate that Kel is at least a mutual acquaintance of both Noah and Kiara.

I'm intrigued by the "Fishing" post on Noah's blog. It's a big stretch, but in T.H. White's Arthur story The Once and Future King, Merlin turns the young Arthur into a series of animals to teach him various lessons. The first lesson involves Arthur being turned into a fish in the castle moat, and one of the first things he must learn is how to swim properly - he has to learn how to "move" from the fish in the moat. Fish are also often associated with knowledge or wisdom in Celtic mythology.

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icarus496
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 		The main thing
So, I think the main issue is finding the kel password. If we can find that, then this whole thing will either make more sense, or we will find a new layer of info.
Also, who else thinks sasha's reaction was a little over the top? I mean, your wife did something wrong, I get it, but screaming what the hell and storming out? Seems a bit weird.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:33 pm
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icarus496
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one of the first things he must learn is how to swim properly - he has to learn how to "move" from the fish in the moat. Fish are also often associated with knowledge or wisdom in Celtic mythology.


Stretching that even further, the 7 of staves (or spears in the case of the given tarot cards) can sometimes mean travel, or moving. Wisdom is also associated with the water element, where the tarot cards (goblets) could also come into play.
First of all, big thing, is that that the tarot cards shown are the suits of the minor arcana, or the "Little mysteries". There could be something involved with each card, and solving them all gives us the password?
But, the meaning of each card, assuming the spears are staves/wands, the swords are swords, the goblets are cups, and the stones are pentacles/disks.
Ace of wands: Optimism and invention
Ace of swords: Intelligence, reason, justice, truth, clarity, fortitude
Ace of cups: Joy and inner peace from friends and family, but some cups minor arcana can also mean love.
Ace of pentacles: symbol of possibility in the area of prosperity, abundance, trust, security and groundedness.
Maybe the pentacles could represent the station? Not sure. But, this just occurred to me, what if we use the meaning of the cards to order the posts chronologically? Dunno.

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zerovin
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 		New email sent out

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Apparently Kiara wanted you to know the following message:

"Somebody here wishes me dead and I think I know who it is, but I must live long enough to close the opening and stop the time sequence."

Okay, so that means somebody at the station. She can't mean me and she surely didn't mean herself, so that leaves Sasha, Greta, Liv, and Alyssa. Where to begin?

As for the time sequence, I believe we have another clue. I found a notebook Kiara had been writing in. It was wedged beneath a pile of cookbooks in the kitchen. I asked Liv about it and she said she never uses those cookbooks. She seemed so genuinely confused that I think she's telling the truth.

Much of what was written in the notebook wasn't relevant, but on the last page was the following sentence:

"Go back to the day before yesterday."

More soon.

-Noah


I have a feeling we really do have to work out what post is when if the clue tells us its something "the day before yesterday"

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icarus496
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 		Email response to me, and new post from the blog
So, I sent Noah this email:
Hello Noah,
I recently found your blog, and many of the posts on it seem to be out of chronological order. Is that due to the membrane, or the time effects in liddlebrook station? And, what is the membrane a weak barrier between? Your blog seems to imply universes...
Thanks, Ben
I got this response:
Dear Ben,

T'hank you for contacting me. The Membrane is really more of a metaphor for a border or transitional place. A crossroads of possible universes seems the best explanation, but even I don't really understand it.

-Noah
SO, he didn't answer my first question, leading me to believe there might be something there. I have tried checking the post order based on context, but I still don't really know what's happening there. But, the section in the email that says "Go back to the day before yesterday" could be refreshing the post about fish, as it is the post before the last one. The fact that we should revisit the dream post is also supported by the fact that the old man said that his dreams are never wrong.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 10:13 pm
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Shalron
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 		Sounds to me like this "Seer" stuff certainly isn't nonsense! I'm thinking Kiara's probably a seer too, maybe she's gone to the dream world?

If this is the case, then the dream featuring Kiara could have been her real self and she's been able to "move" like the fish instructed.

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Renna
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 		I asked Noah if he could tell me who Kel was and this is what he said: I can't really tell you who Kel is, and anyway, it might be difficult to explain.

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icarus496
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 		Cage??
So, I think we may have to solve the number sequence that was given in the first email, then send that to Noah. I don't know, but it seems like the only solvable thing we've been given.
8, 13, 21, 34 were the numbers provided.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:18 pm
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booba
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 		Here is some speculation I posted awhile back:
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Fun with Fibonacci !
Stand under the cage and press the buttons in what order.....
My first thought would be 8-13-21-13-21-34 but I wouldn't bet the cage on it.

EDIT 13-8-21-21-13-34. may be better


Maybe someone better than me at math can express those numbers in the proper order according to the actual equation? http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciNumber.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

Or I may be headed down the wrong path entirely.

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icarus496
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 		Well, it seems less me they are already in the right order, so it must be something else? I dunno.

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