Basecamp 34 Update: 3/17/20

The Age of Magiq Dispatches from Lion's Heart
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One reason I’m excited about this idea is that it goes back to the “Cosmos” section and tying up some loose ends there, which seems to be what the Book of Briars is trying to do, piece by piece. Port’s involvement could point in that direction also.

Gaaaah, and it’s worth pointing out that those cities led to a “Future Works” picture of a chronocompass, and some Roman numerals. Were those ever solved? If not, maybe the “Future Work” is now? Or perhaps I just need to finish reading the whole topic … :rofl:

(Edited to add a post from @Robert that pulls together all of the Roman numeral riddles.)

(Edited again to add a guess: The sequence 1324-1654 refers to eight words in those numbered positions in the Guide. There isn’t a version with numbered words, is there? :rofl:. That’s way more than enough out of me for tonight!)

(Edited one more time to add: CAN YOU TELL I’M EXCITED?! Okay. Fine. Time to stop.)

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Did I miss something??

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Third Assessment refers to the 3rd Magimystic Assessment of The Monarch Papers. Back during part…3 i think.

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Thank you @grimangel53, I thought this was something I was disconnecting on.

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i was going to suggest lisbon, portugal, just due to the spanish, but yeah portugese is a thing that exists.

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OK. Go with me here. (Edited from the future: … even though it appears to lead nowhere. :rofl: )

Port is sensing people. Could be all in one place, could be in different places.

If in different places (and that’s an important assumption), there’s a pretty solid argument—thanks @Ashburn!—that they relate to the solution from Fragment Twelve/Third Assessment, which gave us four cities: Paris, St. Petersburg, Mexico City, and Montréal.

In turn, those four cities gave us a “Future Work” section, a Chronocompass, and a set of Roman numerals.

Those Roman numerals, taken all together, gave us the “two worlds rebound” riddle.

And in particular, the set of Roman numerals our attention is being drawn back to (1324-1654) gives us the word “rebound,” based on @Deyavi’s counting here. Or perhaps “reboundi” since there are eight numbers.

But @Eaves needs a place, not a word. So maybe “rebound” is no help, but the four cities are. Right now, that’s my best guess for the answer for Port.

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Thank you for that really succinct post @Lexington, it’s super helpful to have that in one place.

I really lean toward Port sensing multiple places; I think the different things she is hearing are just too distinct to be able to overlap enough without some significant hoop-jumping.

If BOB really is bringing the other books back together, it makes total sense that we need to solve the remaining threads before the Book can be complete. We need to remember the tapestry theme that is also in play. Anyone who knows anything about weaving/embroidery knows that you need to at least tie off or anchor the strings if you can’t outright finish the section with what you have.

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Okay, this may be the equivalent of that meme with the guy gesturing manically at the wall with all the notes and string, but bear with me. Tin foil on? Good.
:tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:

I really liked the idea of going back to the locations from Cosmos, and dug out the links to the spreadsheet and maps that we used when we were trying to suss out the clues. Figured since we haven’t heard from BoB yet, that maybe it’s specific clue locations within the four cities.

Which, of course, isn’t super helpful, since we were turning up multiple viable options for some clues and grasping at straws for others. :sweat_smile:

Towards the top of our spreadsheet, we had one of the Definitely Russian clues, so I checked that part of the map to see if any of the possible points we’d plotted were close to water. That particular clue caught my attention because it could have pointed to an obelisk.

If you’re wondering, yes, I did follow that up with checking for other obelisks/etc. that were/were near pin points in the other three cities.

The tin foil is, of course, because obelisks and the like were the theme of the day for dismantling Lauren’s leylines, and doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with this.

[spoiler]Ones that I feel really good about
Russian: Rumyantsev Obelisk - Wikipedia, for clue “Rumyantsev,” for obvious reasons
French: Luxor Obelisks - Wikipedia, for clue “Harmony’s Discourse,” which we were pretty set on pointing to Place de la Concorde
Ones that have a couple of options
Spanish: Parque de la Bombilla (Mexico City) - Wikipedia, fits the clue “Obregón’s Requiem”
Angel of Independence - Wikipedia, fits the look and isn’t too far from one of the possible clue locations we couldn’t quite pin down for “Legorreta’s Interior”
French/English: George-Étienne Cartier Monument - Wikipedia, is in a park that I recall being on my radar for “The Royal Hoop”
Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal) - Wikipedia, was not initially found during our searching (that I’m aware of), but feels like it could fit “Vieux Haven” in hindsight
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I also wonder if we’ll have to wait for Port to connect to the specific individuals more before we’ll hear from the BoB? With the obelisks/pillars we had Catherine going around finding artifacts so I think it would make sense for us to be waiting for Port to do something similar based on these locations (except using her magiqal abilities instead of physically traveling there). Eaves did say that we were helping Port focus on them better, so I’m thinking we might get more substance after she really hones in on this/these individual(s).

Also, is this person/are these people just random? Is she sensing them simply because they happen to be in this location(s), or are they individually important? I suppose it’s possible that these locations are amplifying whatever “signal” these people are giving off if they were important to the Book previously, but then I also wonder why those specific individuals are being sensed over everyone else there.

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oh jesus, this is getting a little complicated for me. Ehhhhh? erm- uh… mind giving the run down on this to me, in slightly more laymans terms?

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Port and Yuri are practicing their abilities, Port saw some folks in various locations that we are trying to suss out from what she sensed.

I took several rolls of foil and tried tying what Port sensed to the locations that unlocked the Fletcher Dawson site during the third assessment, and then to specific places in those cities. All of which may or may not be accurate/useful, but it sounds good. :sweat_smile:

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Perhaps those specific locations may match up with some of the leylines we’ve already mapped from the locations we’ve already been given by the book?

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Of course it’s the four cities! The Book of Briars is tying up loose ends, and those cities are some of the wiggliest ends we experienced!

It’s been A DAY, but I will relay this info to Port and Yuri and follow up on Monday. This could possibly help her separate out the senses into distinct futures/people, which would be awesome. In the meantime, I have more “senses” from Port, and she’s now seeing one or several “secret places” among them.

  • Someone will feel thirsty and buy something sweet and bubbly to drink on their way somewhere secret and dark.
  • Also, someone else will get goosebumps that relate to some sort of spiritual place or practice.
  • Someone will see “the painter lady with the monobrow” when they leave a hidden place, which we all laughed about Port’s description and assumed was Frida Kahlo.
  • Someone will take a moment to contemplate their reflection in a long body of water with stone on either side, before also visiting a secret place hidden away behind a painting or mosaic.

Your work on this could be a huge help. Thanks, Mounties.

It’s after 2am here, so I need to sleep, but I’ll head back to Lion’s Heart in the morning, and hope to be back by Monday, Tuesday at the latest.

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Has to be Frida Kahlo! :deirdrexd:

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The Washington DC Reflecting Pool?

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And even better: most all of her belongings were locked away in a secret room in the Casa Azul in Coyoacán, outside Mexico City.

I believe we’re looking for actual secret hiding places relating to each of those four cities now.

Edited to add: It looks like Montréal has a lot of speakeasy bars where one could get something to drink—but “sweet and bubbly” sounds more like a cola at a tourist park than a trendy speakeasy.

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I’m thinking the “sweet and bubbly” could be champagne, on the way to the Paris catacombs? Not necessarily a huge secret but definitely dark, and I’m sure there are secrets hidden within the catacombs.

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Maybe the first one could refer to Secret Caverns in New York? It’s “secret” and certainly dark. Plus it likely has a snack bar. OR, the sweet and bubbly could refer to the cave formation “soda straws.”

The pool with mosaics and secrets could be the pool at Villa Casa Casuarina - it is rumored to have a secret tunnel running beneath it and there’s a mosaic puzzle key that is supposed to lead to it. The Villa used to belong to Versace - maybe he had a Frida Kahlo portrait?

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Montréal’s World Trade Center has a black granite reflecting pool flanked by large stone staircases and a statute of Amphitrite. Right below is an entrance to the Underground City marked by a huge mural.

It’s not quite two stones and not quite a mosaic or painting, but it fits fairly credibly with the last clue.

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The first two clues are really broad, without nearly as many identifying details as the second pair. The Paris Catacombs fit the first (I may not think of champagne as “sweet,” but I could see how one could), but it could be almost any tour through a “secret” location near a snack bar. For the “spiritual place or practice,” any of those could give one goosebumps, so the only real substantive help is that it’s somehow secret or hidden. Yikes.

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There isnt anymore (to my knowledge…), but there used to be a whole entertainment complex complete with bar, snacks, and a theater hidden in the Catacombs. I did think at first that champagne might not be sweet per se, but when I googled the words “sweet and bubbly” I’m getting mostly just results about sparkling wine, which is strange because I assumed it would be more soda-oriented.

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