LOST Experience: Speaker Clue Leads to Glyph 17
Recap built off of information from a post in the comments on TLEC by “noiq”.
On July 28th, Glyph 17 with the code “ZY6C” was found when the Speaker, in his weekly “Reader Mail” entry, posted the following clue:
“Eighth moon of the Monkey thrice before.
A voice from the Middle knows much more.”
This puzzled gamers for a while (Why is it that all the good updates happen when I’m at work!), before an intrepid gamer figured out that “Voice from the Middle” refers to Javi Grill-Marxuach, one of the original writers of Lost and the creator of the comic book “Middleman”. This led to his blog, “Javi Speaks” where a blog entry from 15 Aug 1980 (the eighth month of the third previous Year of the Monkey) was found at http://tinyurl.com/zk62v.
This blog entry provides gamers with the next clue, “The numbers will help you. Do you have the time?”, along with a link to, http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/thefuselage.com.
The time of Javi’s post was 8:15, which leads to thread #815 on thefuselage.com, where gamers found a post from the Speakerwith the message, “You’ve come this far, don’t give up now, Solve this anagram and you won’t drown“.
Gamers soon figured out that the anagram “JIM VOMITS IN A CONDO” translates into “JAVI MINIONS DOT COM”
Gamers then found some hidden text at the bottom of the page which read, “In Round-Up number three, click what’s STILL a mystery.”
“Round-up number three” led gamers to the Speaker’s Week Three Recap which, among other things, included the “Hole 2″ clue (”click what’s STILL a mystery”).
After thinking about it for a bit, I figured out that the beginning of the clue, “Eighth moon of the monkey”, could also refer to the “Simian Veterinarian” job post on Hanso Careers which was also released in week three and as such included in the Week Three Recap. Although I think that this would be a VERY obscurereference, and I doubt that someone could have used that to find the glyph.
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