Treasure Clue, can you help?

[ronimay]

Just wanted to let you all know --MS is going to be across the street from me at Border's bookstore tomorrow. Can't wait to meet him-going to listen very carefully and see if I can pick up any clues from his visit. I enjoy reading the thoughts you guys put forth; this is the first time I have posted anything.
Will let you know if I hear anything. Don't think the jewels will be there, though.

 

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[bamacherf]

Finding a difference between the book and CD is interesting. MS stated that he found locations for the tokens, wrote the book and then placed the tokens. He also stated that when he went to place one of the tokens, he could not because there was always too many people to allow him to place it unnoticed. So, he changed the location, and also had to change part of the book to match the new location. He didn't say whether he changed the text or illustrations. I think it was the text. The correct text has to be in the book since the book is all you need to solve the puzzle. The audio was probably recorded before the change.

 

[Volcom]

Hey guys. I've been readin' your postings for a while. I've read the book a couple times and haven't found anything just yet. I was puttin a post up because I always see people talking about ASCII code, binary, and Ciphers. I think that thats taking it too far. I admit I got into that too, but nothing panned out, I didn't find anything. I think we should take a step back and not try to delve that deep. Here's a quote that backs me up, its straight from www.atreasurestrove.com

"Stadther emphasizes that the clues leading to the jewels do not require special knowledge to be deciphered. ?Anyone who can read can discover the exact location of each treasure ? just the way one of the characters does in the story.?"

Note that part that says "do not require special knowledge" and "anyone who can read." Just my thouhgts, looking forward for that Lucidious guy to come back from his hunt, that sounds exciting.

 

[Black-Beard]

Argh...

THE SOLUTION IS OUT TO THE SECOND CLUE ON ATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[freerider]

first post, been reading awhile, interesting on the answer to the second clue.

i am frustrated right now, i believe i have an exact location, problem is i don't have the state or city but once i have the state and city, i'll know exactly where to go. oye this is tough.

 

[jewels1301]

Well, the solution to the second clue is exactly as we all determined it to be within a day of it's posting. I think there is still at least one underlying hint or aspect to this clue that has not been posted on the website although I don't know exactly what it might be.

Jewels

 

[CMSCHUT]

I agree with you Jewels . I tried working out what gemini had started on , but have not had much luck on it .
Jewels glad to see you post again .

Freerider , WELCOME !

 

[zuse]

Hey guys! Why are we now on page 19 - just the other day we were on page 39. Has this thread been "cleaned up" - maybe due to lack of space? Zuse

 

[cegodsey]

Ah ha!? I thought I was just going nuts.? Yeah, something changed, and now this page 19 is REALLY LONG.? I'm glad I'm broadband!

And yes, Hex and Binary are probably a stretch.? Just had to get it off my chest.

As to the long solved mystery of what is not half, and knothole, I asked my daughter.? She said 2%.? Not acidophilus!? Not light cream either.

Has anyone tried aplying the 15 numbers at the beginning of the book to anything else in the book?? On a whim, I broke the "moon like" dream into syllables (there are 15), then rearranged using the numbers in the front.? It didn't make any sense to me.? Can somebody point me to the anagram to the "moon like" dream?? I can't find it and didn't write it down.

TIA!
Ern.

 

[Rusty #2]

Maybe we should try to narrow down the states and work from there.
In the illustration for chapter 1: OZ = state Kansas
On page 16 there are backward letters in the branches. On the right side, reading from bottom to top, I can make out K A _ Y. Anyone else see these letters?

 

[Rusty #2]

Regarding the second clue: the yellow letters anagrams to: E. P. hit song (Viva Las Vegas?)

 

[Rusty #2]

On the stair railings in the middle of the illustration I see backward letters: K I T

 

[Rusty #2]

The state I got for chapter 2 is South Dakota. On page 20 "most of the trees gleamed black" would be the Black Hills of South Dakota. When I read "black boiling cloulds...no rain ever fell from these dark clouds..." I thought of bats. In the Black Hills bats represent about 17% of all mammal species. At the Jewel Cave National Monument site I found out that HOARY bats are the largest of the local bats. HOARY is an anagram of YORAH.

 

[Rusty #2]

Someone said that on page 26 "like many fearless leaders, Dragonfly like to make long speeches" reminded them of a president making speeches. I agree - Preseidents make STUMP speeches. On another forum I read the name of the hook on page 55 is a KINDERHOOK. Looking up information about presidents I found out that The LINDENwald Estate was President Martin Van Buren's home for the final 21 years of his life. It is located in KINDERHOOK, New York. By the way, as someone pointed out to double check everything, I could not find any information on kinderhook as a type of hook other than what was posted at another site.

 

[luckypony]

Has anyone checked around the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Virginia. There is a garden in back that inspired the poem To Helen.

 

[CMSCHUT]

Rusty2 , you are great at seeing those letters . I see them and everyone probably figured i would . Anyway i think that's an E below the K on the staircase . I found the word WITH on the rightside in the branches also . I enjoyed the posts keep those graet thoughts coming . WOW where have you been .

Luckypony , glad you are bringing back the TO HELEN poem back to the forum. Nolemiester posted the whole thing awhile back , but don't know now if it is still here because of the pgae shortening . I Think it is very interesting that you brought the idea up , thanks .

 

[cegodsey]

Carol, have you traced the lines in the brown background of the "T" on page 55? It looks almost as if it is one of those pictures that you can hold at an angle to your eye in order to see the letters. You know, where the letters are stretched vertically... The brown coloring is camouflaging the letters, if there are any there.

Also - the leaf to the left of the fairy on that same page - where he is pointing - are the letters W V. West Virginia?

Rusty, I just don't see what you see. And Carol, I don't see the "with". Can you guys elaborate?

Ern.

 

[cegodsey]

Carol, I see the "with".? Just found your tracing of it on your pictures topic.

I'm getting dizzy looking at these pictures - I've tried numerous times to cross my eyes enough to see something on the book cover of "Ye Nomenclature..."? I also scanned the cover of that book into photoshop and tried applying colored filters to the top of it - like when you get one of those pictures that just looks like blobs until you view it through a piece of red plastic film, and see the hidden message.? Nada.? Nothing.? Zip.

I may try to take the drop cap on pg.28 and fold it in half in photoshop, and see if the combination of leaves gives us anything.

I don't know about you guys, but after I stare at this stuff for a while I forget what letters are supposed to look like!

Well, I have a lab final that I have to grade, and students waiting for those grades, so I better get back to that.

Cya later,
Ern.

 

[CMSCHUT]

Cegodsey , Let us know if you find anything. I've tried with that picture trying to get something out of it and would like to see if you can find something in it . Look at the face of the tree in that drop cap box. I think it looks like the heart . Also wanted to say i think the background behind the leaves was maybe something , but have yet to find anything. I gotta say that the letters KIT in the staircase was great . I can't believe how many times i've looked at that tree trying to figure out the letters in it . I know the tree is talking because ZAC says so in the story and YORAH is always talking also , but the letters seemed to be layered in the limbs .

 

[freerider]

carol, which page are you talking about, also, whats a drop cap box? i'm sure i know what it is, just not the term you're all using for it.