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[Puzzle] /alphabet [SOLVED]

jbd · Decorated Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 295

Solve:

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:43 am

Crow · Guest

Hehe, that chat's a funny one. Do you think unknown is Syn's new friend?

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:13 am

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

The last bit continues to crack me up, but the first part? Plague references creep me out entirely too much. Possibly because I read Connie Willis' Doomsday Book, which made me cry uncontrollably. I vote for no plague for our Wiskie friend.

Also, I'm leaning more and more towards thinking that Nonamie (I forget who said that, but I love it) is Eccleastia. It would make sense for her to abandon her old name, along with its connotations of firm beliefs and traditions. She's changing, and her name should change, because it no longer accurately represents her and she doesn't yet know what does.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:40 am

chippy

nice puzzle, good solve. yeah the last bit is very funny! im thinking yes for plague. Possibly, a plague that led to desperate measures to find a cure, but has led to much much more. also, the friend does seem like eccle hesitant about saying "quack", but doing so, cos thats her job

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:02 am

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Omnie:agreed there. Ecce is quite different in emails to us these days. She is integrating a gentler personality into herself I guess.

also one thing, evidently, the chat seems to ALWAYS hold a clue to the type of puzzle going in later on the night, it being the subject that makes no sense, such as the talking about pushing buttons from last night before the puzzle. So any such anomalies in the chat definitely need to be the touchstone for clues.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:44 pm

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Duckie

Quack!
Woo Hoo!
Quack!

Nice solve, guys. ONE of these days I'll be up and awake when the puzzle is posted... just wanted to say nice job.

Quack!1

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:36 pm

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ITS A LION! Shocked

GET IN THE CAR!

DreamOfTheRood

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:42 pm

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hkdl

You know I've been checking my own nickname for awhile now lol, figures it would go up the day I didn't check *shakes fist at wife*, Great Solve guys!

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:48 pm

jordanmc

actually the idea that ring around the rosie is about the black plague is a huge urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

but its widespread enough that I could see the PM using it as a reference to the plague.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:14 pm