Post by Todd on Jul 27, 2016 8:26:59 GMT -5
It seems to me that it might be prudent, while we await further words from the airwaves, to take a look at what we have yet to fully understand. I'm sure that this is merely a partial list, but hopefully is still a good start. Please feel free to add!
The Common Ground between images - Our esteemed Bernard has pointed us in somewhat the right directions here, I think, with his advice on Resolving Conflict. According to that, we are to examine the extraneous images, four per issue.
Horoscopes. They may not be relevant to any of the wider issues, but are certainly "solvable". I believe at least a few of the earlier issues have been cracked.
Vault - No recent mention of this, although we learned that we have to collect 12 codes to open it. Some we have, and some, I'm sure, we still need.
4 Locations - As per the crumpled note that accompanied the latest C&C issue, and was referenced in the article that related the death of Christopher Bachman. Which are the four locations? Those mentioned in the Socialite articles, or those listed as part of the Mysterious Travel column?
That should keep us going for a bit. Ready, Set, Solve!
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 12 months ago
Don't forget that there's still that mysterious bridge letter that still avoids solution.
Kevin C. Johnson
Posted 12 months ago
I've got the horoscopes just about wrapped up! And I think I've had a breakthrough on one set of images. I'm also in the middle of revamping the Wikia page, so bear with me...
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 12 months ago
Drop me an email on the images. We should compare notes to see if we're on the right path. Thanks for taking up the responsibilities with the wikia page. This stuff almost becomes a full time job, doesn't it? I'm in the middle of typing us my assessments, notes and theories on Chapters 1 through 4 as we speak. This has become such a glorious obsession.
Kevin C. Johnson
Posted 12 months ago
Feeling stymied by other mysteries, I decided to take a look back at other loose ends from the previous issues, and noticed something interesting. The names of the issues have always bothered me for some reason, as though they were concealing something. This was when I finally noticed that the newest issue, The Venerable Store of Nell, seems to correspond to a story by the same author responsible for the works behind that same issue's horoscopes. Charles Dickens wrote The Old Curiosity Shop, and one of the main characters in that is named Nell.
I have yet to make the same system work with the other issues, but it may just be early in the day for such mental exercises. Bernard, I don't suppose you have the ability to make a nice cup of Turkish Coffee? It would be just the thing...
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
I have been working on a similar hunch... I cannot say anything with certainty until further investigation, but as 'The Venerable Store of Nell' clearly alludes to the writings of Dickens, as referenced in the Horoscopes cited above, one might suspect that as in the previous issue the Horoscopes describe the chapters of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' suggesting that 'The Feline Nemesis' may well be none other than Alice's recurring bugbear, the Cheshire Cat. The significance of the potential association, whether animal, geographical, or philosophical... well, that remains to be seen
Mme. Orijen
Posted 9 months ago
The secret title of the quarterly is one word that they all have in common. I can give you a nudge if you like.
Kevin C. Johnson
Posted 9 months ago
Important Question: With our copies of Ye Martian Weyfarere, we all got one of three cards with images on one side, and riddles on the other that alluded to texts, and possibly a movie. One card had the image of the King in Yellow sigil, and the other a clock face.
Does anyone have the third card handy? And does it happen to have, in fact, the image of a Man Bound to a chair?
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
I've been wondering about those cards as well. It bothers me that we don't have the compete set. Also, thesecret name of the quarterly, I suspect, has something to do with literature or perhaps a common ground between the authors.
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
As I re-read my last entry, I thought of something I had not considered before. The horoscopes, we can agree, end up corresponding with written works. The clue in the crossword from Ye Martian Weyfarere states that the vault requires the names of four writers. The only problem with this theory is that there are more than four issues of the C&C.
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
I have wondered about that, as well. I suspect that the prologue does not count, in terms of picture commonalities and authors. Probably.
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
I, too, have wondered about how relevant the information from the Prologue actually is.
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
I would still be curious to see a copy of that missing third card, but the mystery may have been solved without it. To get the secrets out of a bound man, one does need a Luke, just not the type with a chilly handshake.
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
Thanks for the tip!
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
Possibly relevant to the Bridge Letter. . . It would seem the POWER picture is a mill, specifically King's Mill. We already know that the MONUMENT is the Queen Elizabeth Way Monument and, of course the bridge. Charting the course of the river between them reveals thesnake. This gets me no closer to a solution but perhaps for someone else. . . curios-and-conundrums.wikia.com/wiki/Special:NewFiles?file=Snake.jpg`
Ringmaster
Posted 9 months ago
Oops, I meant to redact that link. Possible spoiler warning.
Ringmaster
Posted 9 months ago
The Common Ground between images - Our esteemed Bernard has pointed us in somewhat the right directions here, I think, with his advice on Resolving Conflict. According to that, we are to examine the extraneous images, four per issue.
Horoscopes. They may not be relevant to any of the wider issues, but are certainly "solvable". I believe at least a few of the earlier issues have been cracked.
Vault - No recent mention of this, although we learned that we have to collect 12 codes to open it. Some we have, and some, I'm sure, we still need.
4 Locations - As per the crumpled note that accompanied the latest C&C issue, and was referenced in the article that related the death of Christopher Bachman. Which are the four locations? Those mentioned in the Socialite articles, or those listed as part of the Mysterious Travel column?
That should keep us going for a bit. Ready, Set, Solve!
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 12 months ago
Don't forget that there's still that mysterious bridge letter that still avoids solution.
Kevin C. Johnson
Posted 12 months ago
I've got the horoscopes just about wrapped up! And I think I've had a breakthrough on one set of images. I'm also in the middle of revamping the Wikia page, so bear with me...
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 12 months ago
Drop me an email on the images. We should compare notes to see if we're on the right path. Thanks for taking up the responsibilities with the wikia page. This stuff almost becomes a full time job, doesn't it? I'm in the middle of typing us my assessments, notes and theories on Chapters 1 through 4 as we speak. This has become such a glorious obsession.
Kevin C. Johnson
Posted 12 months ago
Feeling stymied by other mysteries, I decided to take a look back at other loose ends from the previous issues, and noticed something interesting. The names of the issues have always bothered me for some reason, as though they were concealing something. This was when I finally noticed that the newest issue, The Venerable Store of Nell, seems to correspond to a story by the same author responsible for the works behind that same issue's horoscopes. Charles Dickens wrote The Old Curiosity Shop, and one of the main characters in that is named Nell.
I have yet to make the same system work with the other issues, but it may just be early in the day for such mental exercises. Bernard, I don't suppose you have the ability to make a nice cup of Turkish Coffee? It would be just the thing...
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
I have been working on a similar hunch... I cannot say anything with certainty until further investigation, but as 'The Venerable Store of Nell' clearly alludes to the writings of Dickens, as referenced in the Horoscopes cited above, one might suspect that as in the previous issue the Horoscopes describe the chapters of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' suggesting that 'The Feline Nemesis' may well be none other than Alice's recurring bugbear, the Cheshire Cat. The significance of the potential association, whether animal, geographical, or philosophical... well, that remains to be seen
Mme. Orijen
Posted 9 months ago
The secret title of the quarterly is one word that they all have in common. I can give you a nudge if you like.
Kevin C. Johnson
Posted 9 months ago
Important Question: With our copies of Ye Martian Weyfarere, we all got one of three cards with images on one side, and riddles on the other that alluded to texts, and possibly a movie. One card had the image of the King in Yellow sigil, and the other a clock face.
Does anyone have the third card handy? And does it happen to have, in fact, the image of a Man Bound to a chair?
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
I've been wondering about those cards as well. It bothers me that we don't have the compete set. Also, thesecret name of the quarterly, I suspect, has something to do with literature or perhaps a common ground between the authors.
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
As I re-read my last entry, I thought of something I had not considered before. The horoscopes, we can agree, end up corresponding with written works. The clue in the crossword from Ye Martian Weyfarere states that the vault requires the names of four writers. The only problem with this theory is that there are more than four issues of the C&C.
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
I have wondered about that, as well. I suspect that the prologue does not count, in terms of picture commonalities and authors. Probably.
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
I, too, have wondered about how relevant the information from the Prologue actually is.
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
I would still be curious to see a copy of that missing third card, but the mystery may have been solved without it. To get the secrets out of a bound man, one does need a Luke, just not the type with a chilly handshake.
Chelsea, M.C.
Posted 9 months ago
Thanks for the tip!
'Mouse' -DeathofaLemon
Posted 9 months ago
Possibly relevant to the Bridge Letter. . . It would seem the POWER picture is a mill, specifically King's Mill. We already know that the MONUMENT is the Queen Elizabeth Way Monument and, of course the bridge. Charting the course of the river between them reveals thesnake. This gets me no closer to a solution but perhaps for someone else. . . curios-and-conundrums.wikia.com/wiki/Special:NewFiles?file=Snake.jpg`
Ringmaster
Posted 9 months ago
Oops, I meant to redact that link. Possible spoiler warning.
Ringmaster
Posted 9 months ago