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[Worker]

[tacomadude]

[Stormalong]

I'm pretty sure the Futures are a puzzle unto themselves. My current spec is that each future is a clue pointing to a character from Greek mythology. ie, from last week's The Eagle: "Heel, boy" = "Heel boy" = Achilles. If you stop reading them as horoscopes and start considering them in this light they start to make a lot more sense.

BTW, someone on IRC mentioned the "Heel, boy" thing, which is what got me thinking in this direction. But I don't remember who it was, so I can't give credit. Sorry.

I also believe that the "eel and cucumber rolls" = "unscramble older clue" is correct. It was a kick in the ass from the PMs to get us to go back and look at last week's futures.

This weeks futures are further clues I think. Thus the "Floundering?..." future would also indicate Achilles (if Achilles is indeed the correct answer, which I'm not sure of. Other suggestions have been Zeus and Hermes).

Anyways, I'm not really well versed in Greek mythology, so I'm having trouble coming up with answers that I'm really confident about. So I'm throwing this out there hoping people can run with it.

BTW, you can get a nice reference to both sets of Futures at http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Futures

[tanner]

SPEC
almost certainly wrong but ......

get together with a like mind this week. Let two halves make a sphere. = lovers

Your fiery nature ignites a skirmish against a rival team. = match

Funnel your energies into something positive, and stop it. You know, before someone loses an eye. = ventures or adventured
funnel = venturi energies = es positive = add loses eye = -i ---- adventured or ventures

so lovers (match) adventured maybe

ok maybe not


lovers = "mooning about james" ?
hmmmmm

[Avatrix]

I can't help but think of the phrase Ascendancy Point as something astrological. A bit of searching turned up this:
http://www.neroprediction.com/charts.htm

The quote that drew me in is:
"According to the most famous astrological manual that has come down to us, Firmicus Maternus's Mathesios written in 334 AD, the sun on the ascendant (the eastern horizon) "

referring to the "ascendant" as the East--this may indicate the direction of a large mass for the Perplexians. From the letter:

[thebruce]

Plus, there's still that strange occurance of "SCARLET" in the first letters of all the names on the Masthead page on PCS...

[RI_Barnica]

[Carmilla]

[Solitude]

[maxim]

Am I the only one who gets the feeling we are really missing something here? I mean, since The Sentinel went live, we've made little or no progress, which I had previously thought was because they were giving us time to digest the info. However, now I feel like there IS something in the Sentinel for us, and we are really missing it. The futures are really cryptically worded, as though something is there. Could it be that it is just too difficult for us? I might be wrong; they could still be leading us into the start. But I don't know... I've been pouring over these futures all day, and I can't find anything, even though there is so much of it!

Eel and cucumber rolls/Unscramble older clue just makes me even more certain that there ARE anagrams in this stuff. Some people have said this is wrong, anagrams have not played a part in PPC. But look just look at the futures page... "It's time to get back to basics. Traditional values are on the rise." Doesn't get much more basic than anagrams, surely?

Sorry to have to moan about it, but when you know something is there but you can't find it, it's really exhausting!

[rowan]

[rose]

stormalong wrote:

[Worker]

[Hakukaze]

Spec The Spider

[Stormalong]

rose, LOL, should have known it would be you.

I'm thinking that once we find a name for each Future, we take the first letter of each name (12 letters) and thats our answer. It might possibly be an anagram, due to the prod we got "unscramble older clue" (assuming, of course, we got that correct).

I picture the "Heel, boy" clue as an easy one, a freebie. The PMs put it in to get us thinking in the right direction.