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[Lovek]

Re: Transcript of the letter from tcotsa

[thebruce]

kind of an OT question:
where are people posting their physical addresses that PMs are able to find them and mail things, if not fully publically visible? hehe
/me is a little sad that he's never got any swag snail-mail *sniff*

[Lovek]

[negativeview]

If the previous person was correct about the word 'ceruse,' then this is weird. The word ceruse is a rarely-used synonym for Cerussite, which is apparently the main component in lead paint.

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

[TylerK]

I've just been reading this thread, and I just want to make sure I understand... the boot/plume/beetle puzzle was not solved yet, but some administrative flub-up on the part of tCotSA caused the clues for the next puzzle to start being sent out?

[skywing]

ceruse is white

[RedHatty]

They mean nothing to me. the symbols on this set of "hangman" dashes are different though - |_| and inverted of the same

the letter is an H

and you can visit my flickr and see them with the all sizes options when you click on them - ignore the rest of the stuff there

edit to add, unless the lines go with the shingle in some way???

[skywing]

No, I don't think the lines have anything do do with the shingle, but I thought of something. Take the number of lines in each "cluster" and turn those numbers into letters.
Edit: Just tried it. No dice, even checked for ROT-ing.

[jamieroert]

Contacting tcotsa

[jamieroert]

Re: Transcript of the letter from tcotsa

[TylerK]

Banging my head against the beetle/boot/plume puzzle... only one thing I've noticed that might be significant. To recap, the text for each is:
TOESOYNOC
LERIKUELS

BETOYERALLOATREKY
SOWEHISHOTERKY

ETLEERPOTTORECKRROWS
SEMMELEDBEYSRETB

Not sure if this should be spoilered or not, so I will... (There doesn't seem to be a "wild speculation" tag)

[Lovek]

W00T! We've been moved to ARGs with Potential!

That means we can break things up into different threads. Anyone want to start breaking up puzzles into separate discussions? I can do some when I have time, but that might be a day or two.

[negativeview]

At one point, I had gathered all of the unsolved puzzles together for my own convenience. It should still be on this harddrive somewhere. After work I will probably post what I have and see what needs to be updated.

As a side note, does anyone have any suggestions for following the insanity that is multiple threads? I usually purposefully join the smaller games because they are easier to follow in one thread. Attempts to join bigger games have ended in me being endlessly confused. This will be the first one I'm part of that became multiple threads and I'd like to still keep up if at all possible.

[Lovek]

[JohnnyCon7]

I got another letter from tCotSA, I'll start a seperate thread for my wood and cloth puzzle, and add the letter to that thread once I get a little time to scan it.