Treasure Clue, can you help?

[treasuretrapper]

Wow good job!! I dont know if I would have the patience to do that much tracing!

There has to be a reason for the faces on the outside of the picture of Ana's cage, but what? And in the book Ana is staring at him and talking to him not with her eyes closed and her head down...............could this be significant?

i noticed that in all the other pictures Zac's and Ana's eyes are closed, though, in this picture, her head is pointed down......

Comments Anyone??

~Sara

 

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[omnicognic]

Isn't Anna in that part of the story trying to talk to Zac with telepathy?

 

[treasuretrapper]

I thought that she was yelling back to him that she couldnt do it so let me check...................no is says that she was pulling at the cage of the willow branches and telling Rusful that her huband doesnt know where the jewels are......then he tells her that he knows that she can "mind speak" and tell her husband where they are.....then she says that he cant hear her that she can only hear him....then he throwes the dust at the base of the tree and tells her(like in the captian) "Within a fortnight that tree that holds you will turn to stone. And so, my dear, will you."
he doesnt talk to her after that..

and still the Question ? what about the outside of anas cage.(the faces)
and the closed eyes and the head down..........?

Am i totally bringing this out of preportion and blowing it so smithereens? :P

~Sara





P.S. notice that MS didnt sign the pic on pg 80 or 79...................................or did he and i am just a nut?

 

[rghsea]

Pikehunter, I am from Mobile and was thinking along the same lines. Unfortunately I haven't had much luck. Have scoured the "overlook park" near a wildlife sanctuary and have actually gone through every nook and cranny in two palms, 30 hardwoods, two dozen pines. three stumps, looked under several picnic tables.

My reward is that I think the local police may now be watching out for a six foot tall crazy man with a tree fetish. By the way, thanks for the great posts, I personally think the interestate one is great, but I think I-10 is the road and the overlook park is off of I-10.

 

[CMSCHUT]

Sara, i think on pg 80 ms put his name in the top of the picture. i found about half of the letters in his name at the top. you can see the T on top pretty good and to the side behind rusfuls back is an s sideways. follow the up from the ?S to the top a little bit and you'll see the missing sock the fairy got tired of playing with and put into the crevasse. also to rusfuls back there is a darjer area in that almost blackness is a snail. the snail is turned sideways.go back to the bottom where the arrow points to the cauldron pots. on the little pot is a handle with an arrow on it ?which points you across to the other side to the next pot. look below that pot on the ground is another broken glasswith a point on it pointing down. to me i see a ?W ?outlined in the red rocks at the bootom. sorry but this is as far as i could get.

on pg 46 i started tracing the backgrounds to bring maybe something hidden out. at the bottom right below the picture the leaves and vines above the words in the poem . by tracing the red in between the vines and leaves i came up with ?an S, E, R. at the top of the page by the firefly and the acorn look at the red background. it's an R and a T ?right before that . what i'm thinking is this the letters from the backgrounds ( i believe the ones at the bottom are ms name stadther ) and the letters on the sides that aren't in the poem , the extra letters thrown around the borders can be put together . again i stoppped on this when i found something else on another page . i know i have more for you , but just lost it all. i'll get back with you . carol

 

[CMSCHUT]

The whole reason i came on here was to show you all what i found . i started reading the latest post and wanted to reply to sara. ok now i been workin. this time i thought i'd trace those moss clumps to see if they spelled something . wouldn't you know i found a hidden butterfly . why i keep finding these things i don't know , but here you go . this guy is at the bottom left corner of pg 83 where the poem starts . the blade of grass coming into the picture is part of the butterfly. let me know

 

[CMSCHUT]

Sorry again . i just don't want to run all these things together . i had a thought that what if all this pointing these fairies are doing is actually telling us HOW he hid them . i think we can and have come up with locations for where a token might be , but it won't help us when we get there if we don't know how he concealed . now i've thought hard on this and it makes sense that the fairies are telling us where to look or in what once we find a location. hope this makes sense cause i'm watching all this fairy pointing and i ai'nt seeing squat. let me know what your thoughts are i'm open to all critisms . carol

 

[noxoc]

CMSCHUT,
Since you have been working with page 83, I thought I would ask...(assuming these are darklings surrounding Ana)...have you noticed that the darkiling in the upper right hand corner, under the "ole" in the "whole" has a nose that looks like an arrow pointing into the picture? I have tried aligning up with both eyes and its nose, but can't figure out what it is pointing to except the part of the tree trunk that has the holes in it (which also looks like a faceif you turn the piture upside down). Just thought I would point it out even though I'm sure you have already seen it.
bj

 

[CMSCHUT]

Noxoc, yes that was me that posted about the nose and all the eyes looking at something . i did the same thing as you did .i got out the rulers just to see where each meet up at and all i got was zip. i do better looking for hidden creatures . i don't even try finding them they just come out when i'm looking for something else . Zuse gave us some great ideas on the eye angle . i think we should try and figure it out with her maybe then we'll know what all they are looking at .

 

[pikeshunter]

rghsea
-well its good to know now that at least someone besides myself has had this idea and at least now it can put that idea to rest. If you do ever stumble upon anything in mobile though just let me know because to know that my idea had truth to it would be good even without the treasure being mine.

 

[noxoc]

I know there has been quite a bit of discussion about the dandelions and seeds that are blowing away on some pages. This is a "setty prilly" (pretty silly) idea, but what if the seeds indicated the number of clues that we could find on that page that related to the search? Such as on the tool page (p 18), there ae 4 individual seeds...maybe there are four things on that page we should be finding. Like I said it's a prilly setty (sorry been reading the book Runny Babbit to my kids). Just brainstorming out loud!

 

[rghsea]

Well Pikeshunter, why I did search the overlook park, we still have an overlook road here in Mobile, which runs near another park. I guess I'll have to check that park next, the only problem being is that a couple of years back they arrested some men for soliciting male police officers. Guess I am going to have to take my book and secret morse code decoder with me to prove I am there for other reasons.

lol, good luck to all and good night.

 

[CMSCHUT]

Noxoc, that is a great idea. it would explain all those seedlins on pg 77. but what about the dandelion. i don't think it was put there just because it would explain the presence of the seedlings. i like your idea,but what about say how many layers to the clue . just a thought . now i gotta go count sedlings, thanks . carol

 

[noxoc]

Carol,
I went through and wrote down the number of seeds floating and the number of stems visible on the dandelion for each one I found within the story. This is what I got (in this format: seeds/stems)-- 4/7 5/7 4/7 1/6 4/6 4/6.
There may be more that I overlooked as I skimmed through. I tried to look for things like the 7th word, 4th letter in the captions under the pictures, but I didn't come up with anything usable. There has got to be some sort of cipher being used to solve a clue. I don't know if the dandelions are it, but I know there is one being used (now if I can only find it!). I still wonder about page 77 with all those seedlings. I just can't get past thinking that it has got to work someway like the puzzle on the ATT website where you overlay the branches. Speaking of overlaying, at this point I have so many theories crashing in my brain that I can't remember if anyone has ever brought up trying to overlay the blades of grass throughout the book. Guess I should sign off on this post before I get too many things jumbled up.
bj

"I just know...it's right there in from of me!"

 

[CMSCHUT]

Noxoc, after you posted last night i went digging through old papers and found this . it's an old post from another forum and i kept it just in case . this is maybe another idea that others have thought of but since it hasn't helped out yet, maybe we need to look into other ideas for these dandelions such as yours . i agree they are an important piece of the puzzle and we need to mull it over . let me know what you think. i know i was going to keep all pics in a different page but because we are discussing this i felt it would be easier to keep it in one area . let me know what ideas anyone has on this and by the way on the butterfly pic , the butterfly is upside down. carol

 

[CMSCHUT]

OOOPS forgot the pic, sorry.

 

[kstreasurehunter]

I saw this on another board.. thought you might find it interesting..

Was doing some reading about how dandelion clocks tell fairy time. I stumbled across the fact that the genus of dandelions is 'taraxacum'. It is not Latin, it is Greek. The meaning made me raise an eyebrow. It means "I cause [pain/disorder/vexation]".

Is this "I cause your puzzling"

 

[LitDoc]

WoW! On which board did you find that?

 

[CMSCHUT]

KSTREASUREHUNTER, big WOW . when you posted this it took me to pg 36 . the fairy behind the dandelion always looked hazy or distorted. never could figure out why . now i think maybe this could be why. check it out let me know what you think . thanl\ks for bringing us the info. i really think we need to look into the dandelions some more, now with better insight and fresher ideas on the subject.

 

[kstreasurehunter]

through my own searching I have not been able to come up with the same "definition" that the author of that post came up with..

The genus name Taraxacum is derived from the Greek word "taraxos", meaning "disorder" and "akos" meaning "remedy".

to me these words are somewhat synonymous, if just a conincidence.. although there must be some reason for those darn things. I just can't seem to figure it out..