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Hello, CodeHunters!
Discord user Lizardson came to the rescue this morning, heading over to the North Carolina Museum of Art to search for our clue!
Lizardson’s periscope streams:
https://www.periscope.tv/lizzardson/1OyKAQkjVLOKb
https://www.periscope.tv/lizzardson/1DXxyYMmgDYxM
Under the pig playground, they found a bag containing a notecard, with “The pig stares at the weeping mother” written on it. This in turn lead to another bag at the same location, this one with the full clue!
It reads, using columnar transposition with keyword “death”:
What is a ghosts favorite ice cream flavor?
The answer to this, as everyone knows, is Booberry!
This, combined with the gravestone aesthetic and the years 1992-1993, lead hunters to believe that the next clue was located at the Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Flavour Graveyard in Vermont, by the grave for Wild Maine Blueberry!
Once again, no hunters were able to reach the clue, so Fait set out on their own to find it for us!
Upon investigating the Blueberry headstone, they found a false rock containing a rolled up piece of paper!
The A1Z26 at the bottom translate to: “the negative space holds the clue”
The 21=>23 in the top right led hunters to believe that they must solve this puzzle using the numbers like grid coordinates (across 2 and down 1, leading to the square marked 23). However, by doing that, the resulting A1Z26 code is: “WHOOPSTRYONCEMORELOL”
When checking for blacklight, Fait discovered that the column of numbers were also written in reverse (12 for 21, etc).
When doing the puzzle this way, hunters instead got: “TRYONEMORETIMENEERDS”
After that, our intrepid CodeHunters thought to do both patterns and mark out their respective boxes, and then translate the A1Z26 using only the boxes left over.
By doing so, hunters were left with:
“John Lister studied gravity vortex. Locals thought he had a few screws loose.”
Upon googling “John Lister,” hunters were presented with an article on the Oregon Vortex, a so-called gravity anomaly that Physicist John Lister spent forty years studying. This has lead our hunters to believe that the next clue is located at the Oregon Vortex, potentially in a screw capsule like the one at the Mystery Spot.
Until tomorrow!
Happy Hunting! x
Codemageddon 