Post by cornchak on Oct 19, 2013 18:22:16 GMT
The poem solution:
1. In place of a lost boy who hoped for the spring
2. Our fair maidens stand in a ring
3. Find the lost girl and follow her north
4. to where her father carried her forth.
5. Mind her corner and through that hole go.
6. Her first name follows news you must know.
7. That marked with the eleventh breath tells a tale.
8. Where the train took the son is the end of the trail
9. When you get there look out at the words set in stone.
10. The door will open to the third that is shown.
Line 1: Our lost boy is Ponce de Leon, and his place is Ponce de Leon hotel (now Flagler College) in St. Augustine, FL.
Line 2: The ceiling of the main room in the hotel has a mural of 8 women. The standing women represent the elements and are our maidens.
Line 3: The linings of certain Alchemy Starter Sets contained the letters LOSTGIRL on the ridge between water and earth. On the Ponce de Leon hotel ceiling, the sitting maiden in between the Water and Earth Maidens represented Civilization. M quickly corrected us and told us to follow Discovery, instead. Discovery is our lost girl.
Line 4: We followed her north to the Library of Congress, where her father, George W. Maynard, painted her, after painting her on the ceiling of Ponce de Leon hotel.
Line 5: Her corner is SW. This is because she is painted in the Southwest Pavilion in the Library of Congress. Through that hole go references the medallions that were sent out with the kickstarter alchemy kits which, when oriented properly on the compass side, have a hole in the SW quadrant. We lined up the first two holes with PDL hotel and LoC and that left the third SW hole. We went through it and ended up in Kansas City, MO.
Line 6: Her first name, Solis, is from the Discovery mural in the LoC. Solis is the first name listed. Solis means Sun. It follows through the hole and we get Kansas City Sun, a newspaper from the early 1900s.
Line 7: That marked with the 11th breath is the date on the Air Vial in Alchemy Kit A011. That date is 4/24. The Kansas City Sun has archived issues on the LoC website. One of those archived issues was from April 24th. On the second page there is a story called Dealing with Elementals (link)
Line 8: The story concerns itself with a spirit medium and a con man. The spirit medium contacts the son who tells them he passed away on a train and ended up in summerland.
Line 9: There is a small town called Summerland, CA and its main feature is Lookout Park. Lookout Park has a large stone monument with a plaque. (link)
Line 10: The door opened to west, the third word on the plaque.