IC: Ch 5a: Back to the Woods

[DrVendetta]

"Where is the pattern at in the pictures?" ask Richard

[BenTheRat]

ooc,to clarify it is in almost every painting you see, not just the Howard Smith ones.

[DrVendetta]

ooc,just for clarification is it in the sky in the paintings? Or is it hidden somewhere in the painting? If hidden where is it hidden at? The paintings are all daytime paintings arent they?

[BenTheRat]

As all of you start to check out the paintings, Allysa and Aunt Loosa can point out the points.

Most of the paintings are daytime, but some are night time. The pattern of dots is easiest to see in the night time scenes, and are usually displayed as stars.

As you go through the paintings once you see the pattern of dots, you see them in every painting. But not all of them are in the sky.

[DrVendetta]

Richard starts looking to see where else in the paintings the dots are showing up at.

[BenTheRat]

Richard,make a spot hidden

[DrVendetta]

Ben,spot hidden chance = 45% [dice]0[/dice] so a failure

[Mr. Handy]

"Huh," says Eddie, studying the painting. "I never even noticed that before. Too bad I don't know anything about astronomy. I have no idea what constellation that's supposed to be, if it's even a real one."

[jbibblesworth]

Scott follows along as Loosa and Alyssa point out the loose formation of dots in the paintings.

Spoiler:

SPOT HIDDEN - 45%
[dice]0[/dice]

Despite doing his best to discern some sort of pattern or meaning, he finds the points utterly incomprehensible.

[Medri]

Charles walks down the stairs to find the otheres. He understands that they have been cought up with the star pattern and tries to see what he might have missed before.

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[DrVendetta]

Richard continues to stare at the painting baffled that he cannot make out what everyone is trying to point out.

[BenTheRat]

Richard,you see the pattern, you just didn't see anything special about it.

Charles,In one odd painting you notice the dots are on a map that men are looking at. The map is showing a coast line as well.

[DrVendetta]

Richard says "What makes you think that these dots are a constallation?"

[Medri]

Charles points to the dots on the map. "Look, it seems to be some kind of map! Maybe we should try to check the archive for that instead of going to astronomy? It might be stars, it might not be, but either way it might also be easier to understand and find if we look for it as a map instead since it looks like you can see it that way as well."

[Papa Gateau]

Aunt Loosa turns to Richard When I first noticed the pattern, they were depicted as stars and in the subsequent paintings we looked at they were all celestial - it's only recently that we have seen the pattern elsewhere - not just in the sky.

[jbibblesworth]

Scott frowns as he stares at the painting unimpressed.

"No offense Loosa, but what leads you to believe this pattern is meaningful in any way?" he asks.

[Papa Gateau]

No offense young man she smiles it seemed more than coincidental that this pattern appeared in all these paintings - sometimes obvious and sometimes less so. And now that we have seen that it is not just a pattern of stars in the sky but depicted or shown differently - if you know what to look for.

Does that not strike you as strange?

[jbibblesworth]

Scott offers a curt nod.

"It does seem odd I suppose." he glances over his shoulder furtively. "But then, a lot of things seem odd about this place. I'm just having trouble seeing how this repeating pattern is going to help us locate you-know-who."

[Papa Gateau]

I don't know that it will.

It may offer an insight as to why he is here though?

And if we can understand his motives a little more then perhaps that will help us track him down?

[Silver Priest]

"It's worth doing some research and seeing what turns up," Norman offers, having found nothing in the paintings he had taken a cursory glance at. "But... hmm. Excuse me for a moment. I would like to ask, uh, Ms. Angela a question about the local surroundings." He goes off in search of her.

"Ah, Ms. Angela! The food smells lovely. It has been too long since a lonely bachelor such as myself has had a home cooked meal." he awkwardly adjusts his glasses. "My friends and I were doing some sightseeing, and we heard mention of some cyclops. Are there any statues around of this mythological creature? Anything that might even look like a cyclops in the right light?"