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Dunneh · Casual Observer Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 51

Well, we're digressing. However Cassie feels about us or Bree-- Moppet works until someone comes up with better probably, if someone wants to try, (and if there is better).

Four is the tricky part. Nothing is clicking together for me like last time.
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Mordrack · Lonely Fan Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 186

Yes, I played D&D... and many, many other P&P RPG, too...

mobilesskwrking · Suspiciously Absent Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 14

here's another possiblity for the fourth line, and it rhymes with the third line's "commenced":

"A corpse does sit foil incensed"

sunbean · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

At least I don't feel so bad now...working this all day yesterday and couldn't solve 2/3/4...and we're still stuck at the same point. Makes me think that maybe cassie messed up her morse or something. Especially since she gave us a new poem already.

Also, fences won't work unless commenced is wrong. If it's correct, it's probably fenced.

Kasdeja · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:54 am Post subject:

I'm not having much luck with line four. I can get the words "defend possesion trio" "definite donor possess" etc...but the remaining letters in the line don't add up...

murph25 · Suspiciously Absent Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

Another take on line 4:
CEDE IF NIL NOS / A CEDE RIPOSTS SO
=
So parse its code in soil fenced
OR
So parse its code in solid fence

I don't think that's right, but I think we should at least consider both endings "in soil fenced" and "in solid fence". Depending how you split the line, it could also be "in a solid fence". I think the rhyme works well enough without the "d", and the meter looks OK.

I agree that the "lion is fenced" translation didn't seem to fit the context of the poem, but I'm not sure we can reject it yet, seeing how nothing else seems to fit much better. It is possible that the lion represents some sort of landmark to indicate "where".

At any rate, some form of the word "fence" seems likely, since it specifies a location, and we already have a "gate" in the first line, and "garden" in the fifth. If we did something like "licensed" or "silenced", it would never work with the rhythm of the poem, anyway, so I think that would be a dead-end. But, I've been working on line 4 for a while and feel like I'm getting nowhere on it.

glennhenno · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: CODES TO SERAPIS

4th line, first half:

A CEDE RIPOSTS SO= codes to serapis

Given the modus operandi of cassie keeping clues up til solved, I believe CODES INTO SERAPIS has never been properly anagrammed, and when it is it will look similar to this line.
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Mordrack · Lonely Fan Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 186

I think that CODES INTO SERAPIS means that the following text is an anagram

unrepentant · Casual Observer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 33

The original time she posted codes into serapis it with was an anagram that had the line "but cassie does not rest in peace" - I think we can bet we got that right, and now she posts it every time to remind us it's an anagram.

It's interesting that that line is the same as codes into serapis though... I'm going to look at it.

Farva · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:02 am Post subject:

I'm also not quite ready to abandon my thoughts on the book by Serapis Bey. But I don't have any access to said book in the next nine days.
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glennhenno · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:04 am Post subject:

I heartily disagree, and have been bothered by the perisitence of that text on her profile, even when there was no morse code beneath it.

I really think we're missing an important part here, and the 4th line hinges on it.

EDIT: We don't need reminding that it's an anagram.
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Mordrack · Lonely Fan Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 186

It's not the same. IN is missing, so I think it's just coincidence

unrepentant · Casual Observer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 33

yeah you can't make both Cassie and RIP, or Cassie and Does Not, so I think we can assume it's not related.