Fragment 14: OBSCURIOTEMPUS FOUND

Definitely getting Minnying vibes! “The mourning glade” was the plot of that particular poem.

Also posting this in text form, because it seems important:
The acoded note Owl brought to Toad:
1 – WITEBKINGIGREDIENT
10 – NHNNONRTHNINENSION
14# – THRONEYTHRAIDTHRORTHRTHRERVICE
15# – WNEHREPEATEDACMLAINGERPXESSION
18 – ROUSONFOUACOUDSOUAT
20 – THEILETTERIIAFTERIIIRIVANDVALSOVIBEFOREVIITVIII
28 – EANTSEFTEREEOLIDAYEEAL
32 – HETOUNDTTORSETAKEST

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15 Calming? Shh maybe

32 Could be… The Sound A horse makes?

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I think you’re on to something there, @Robert, on #15. To me, it looks it could be the words “When repeated a calming expression,” with some scrambling about.

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14 replace thr with a letter. Money paid for a service

Fee?

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28 - looks like there are E’s in place of the first letter in each word: “PANTS AFTER A HOLIDAY MEAL”?
Also, any guesses as to why only two have pound signs?

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So we have - possibly:
1- White baking ingredient
Answer: Flour
10 - The fourth dimension
Answer: Time
14# - Money paid for a service
Answer: Fee
15# - When repeated a calming expression
Answer: Shhh
18 - Reason for a cold sweat
Answer: Fear
20 - The letter after R and before T
Answer: S
28 - PANTS AFTER A HOLIDAY MEAL
Answer: Tight
32 - The Sound A horse makes?
Answer: Neigh

18 – ROUSONFOUACOUDSOUAT
I dunno if this means anything but…FOUACOUD kinda looks similar to Rochefoucauld to me? Probably not the right track, but thought I’d mention it.

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I think @Viviane is to right on 28 too.

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As @Sellalellen stated earlier, 20 is “The letter after R and before T”, which would be “S.”

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Whoops, I totally missed that one! It’s added now. Thanks guys! :slightly_smiling_face:

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18… Our son of

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Since it looks like there are multiple things going on here, I just want to make a list of all the things used to unravel this in case they become important somehow:
Each line has a number label, two with pound signs (or hashtags for the Internet generations.)
Each line has a clue that seems to suggest a specific word: “flour,” “fee,” etc.
Each line has a particular method of making the clue somewhat illegible: in 1 the second letter in each word is removed, in 20 they’re separated by Roman numerals.

Maybe most of this is unimportant, but I like record keeping. :sweat_smile:

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10 seems to have n as a placeholder. And 18 looks like it’s jumbled?

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New theory on 18: replacing “OU” with two other letters could give “Reason For A C_ d S _at”?

Edit: Or replacing O or U, but not both?

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18 has a lot of ‘ou’. That could be the word divider

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Hmmmm. Lots of single letters or pairs of consonants.

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After a holiday meal… I’m guessing it would be some kind of loose pants, maybe joggers? Pleats?

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10 the fourth dimrnsion… if you kinda squint

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With 32, could the line “Barring Fours from thirty-two” be important…I’m working on this right now.

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That makes perfect sense

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  1. Run son for a cold sweat :joy: I’m not convinced that’s correct
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