A terminus is also the end of the line for a train or subway route.
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Yes! Wow i don’t know how i didn’t make the connection to how Brandon “died” on my own
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Do you know if each symbol matches up with a story or a part of a story? After I saw the circus symbol along with the mentioning of “Fleagreen’s circus”, I figured so. I didn’t dig too much into those just yet, however.
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That’s a good idea Bells, I’ll look into that once I download all the files, if someone else doesn’t get to it first. I don’t think I’ll get much farther with my Alchemy idea anyway.
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Wow, I step away for an afternoon and look what happens!
So. Much. Information.
So, my initial thoughts. I’ve downloaded everything but haven’t had a chance to start putting things together. For those of you who have never played D&D or any other RPGs before, the majority of these docs look like the materials a DM has when running a campaign. So I think part of the solution will be to put the graph paper map/legend together with the appropriate symbols and descriptions. @TheBellsAreRinging, I think you’re spot on with the “Fleagreen Circus” and the circus symbol. This is often how a DM will keep track of what is what.
Brandon also mentions the discs in one of the audio segments, so those must be important in some way.
I have other thoughts but want to sift through everything for a bit first just to wrap my head around everything. I’ll post more when/if I come up with something.
We’ve got a lot a work ahead of us.
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So I believe we are supposed to put together some of these character’s pictures with their backstories as per the Lady Barleywade example provided. I’ll post the ones I did in my next post.
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I think these character drawings and backstories go together: http://imgur.com/gallery/jfELo
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Wow, so much more - been lurking some days.
I tried to arrange the text fragments and some of the icons - but its just a first attempt. Hope its helpful for anyone. And if I should have missed some text fragments maybe you could tell me 
There seem to be more Icons than locations or story fragments. Also there are some text fragments that don´t seem to fit the general story.
Here´s the first attempt pdf:
https://storage.driveonweb.de/dowdoc/e32cabc9cbd595861ad1b69dfa416601165ed4157a14e62d.pdf
I also tried to match the location texts with the map…but its not working yet. I rotated the map so that the tents on the main square are facing in the right direction but than the water is in the south and not in the north like described…I´m confused.
Some other random things that I noticed:
The Junk Troll - „adds people to his collection“ - reminds me of KR!
The Junk Troll uncovered „the travellers disc“ - its a teleporter! The location of it can be tracked by activating four „Neogic tracking beacons“ → which maybe are connected to the four images with numbers we have in the fragments… seems to be the device Brandon used to change from one world to another?
“A six legged king pointed arms crossed defiantly, snapped at me”
King Ant? The ant and the caterpillar…? so much loose ends!
So far…back to work!
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Do we know what to do with the page that says “Insert plaques here”? I figured the 4 (I think it was) pieces with a symbol and a number, were supposed to lay on top of one another. They have a few little marks on top of them, which is why I thought so. But even if they were supposed to, how are we going to “roll”? Or maybe, they need to be put in an order and the number combo gives us something? Anyone know?
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Crytter, I think this is incredible and now that I reread the opening post, is exactly what we’re supposed to be doing.
“Your help is needed…”
“We must reassemble his final weeks, align ouorselves to him, fill in the spaces that are missing. Complete the work.”
It reall makes sense that the goal of this would be to reassemble his story and characters and recreate the adventure he was building as a blueprint for his escape. I think we need to fit as much of the documents as we can into one coherent narrative.
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@TheBellsAreRinging - I tried to lay the 4 parts over each other to look if the marks form a word or so, but i cant find anything in this…
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Neither can I. Maybe it is nothing. Still, there’s gotta be something to do with them on that page.
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What is the network mean? Is that the subway or something?
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@H3RM3S I’m not sure. It may very well mean the subway.
Has anyone contacted the email address yet? We very likely need someone to start the ball rolling with them and I don’t want to be a communication hog for the group since I talked to CRSumner a lot.
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I sent a few emails with questions, no response
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That might just be the way we send them the put together story. I don’t know if they are going to talk to us before we complete what they asked us to.
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You have a point. I don’t think they tell us anything yet. They might not ever even talk to us unless it’s necessary.
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Possibly, but never know what you get until you ask.
So, here’s my summary to date. Yes, this is probably obvious to most people, but I like to start small.
So, the story tells of Beyell’s journey to escape Junk Town. This is a parallel to Brandon own’s journey to escape our world, and New York City in particular.
Beyell has to find and solve 4 beacons in order to find the way out.
The devoted believe Brandon had to do several things in the weeks leading up to his escape.
If these stories are parallel, then Brandon believed he had to find 4 beacons, in New York City, before he could find the way out.
We need to find these 4 beacons Brandon wanted to ‘activate’.
The first beacon is fortunately also the best described.
It’s described a statue of a bearded gentleman surrounded by four jets of water running over 4 smaller statues surrounding it. Each of the smaller statues has a plaque, which is likely represented by the 4 plaques found in the documents.
I’m guessing we need to find this parallel in our world to solve the first beacon.
Should we maybe start splitting this thread into smaller topics devoted to the story, the beacons, and general questions? This one’s getting pretty big.
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All good ideas @Robert. There is a lot to do, it would probably be best to divide and conquer.
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