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Welcome to the community wiki! This site is a reference intended to track all the information about "Find the Starlight" - a mysterious ongoing story slowly being revealed by "M" through hidden packages and cryptic communications which began in October of 2012.

Catch up by reading the summary to the right, or perusing the Story So Far. Then visit Findthestarlight.com - the Tumblr blog where it's all happening.

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Spotlight

• The story so far - Get started here!
• Prologue: Black and White
• Chapter 1: Spark and Smoke
• Kickstarter: Chapter 1, Spark and Smoke - Successfully funded!
• Kickstarter packages from Professor Mercury's Mercuriosities have begun to arrive. Thus far they each contain a canvas bag stamped with an owl. The bags contain a key with an attached tag, and each tag has a different word on it. They also include a black velvet pouch that contains a bronze medallion.
• The Blue Key July 22 Emoji Message is currently undeciphered.
• See the discussion page.
• first draft transcription of the symbols on the medallion has been posted in cipher.

Web Reference

• Findthestarlight.com --^

Characters

note that each of the story entries has a list of characters in that piece of the story.

• Professor Mercury a.k.a. "M" (and some notable Tumblr entries)
• Tina (11:56am, 12:42pm)
• Eleanor/Ellie (12:42pm)
• Simon (5:12pm)
• Mickey (5:12pm)
• Miss Alice (5:12pm)
• Mr. Black (5:12pm)

Prologue: Black and White

Prologue Puzzle Images

The Prologue: Black and White was told through a series of images placed on findthestarlight over the span of a few months.

"Find the Starlight is a story that began a long time ago, but the telling of this story began on findthestarlight. Start there and scroll down. The updates are in chronological order."
- Professor Mercury

The Prologue ended when the Blue Key was sent to sfmola, as a reward for solving the riddle.

Chapter 1: Spark and Smoke

A story

Scenes in order of appearance (dates unknown):

• 11:56am, 12:55pm, 4:32pm, 1:22am, 12:42pm, 5:12pm

Boxes (Alchemy Starter Sets)

Front of Second Series Alchemy Kit

Corks from Alchemy Set 18

The Alchemy kits have come to people through two means: people discover the kits buried or hidden in public places following clues posted by M, or they have been sent directly to people as rewards for demonstrating interest in the story. The first and second series kits have included a wooden box with a label. A bible page is taped to the inside lid of the box, and a playing card from a matched deck is included. The kits also include four corked vials. The corks have numbers written on top, in the form of #/#. The third series kits are contained within a metal tin. They contain small glass vials that have a printed label with a triangle-based symbol, and a folded bible page.

The following are general characteristics of the vials:

• One vial contains wood and is characterized as fire.
• One vial contains a liquid and is characterized as water.
• One vial contains air and is characterized as air.
• One vial contains dirt and is characterized as earth.
• It appears some kits (such as A006) may not include all four elements in the four vials? Need additional confirmation/update on Boxes page.
• The symbols on the third series kits make it clear that the vials represent fire, water, air, and earth (versus oil/wood/dirt terminology that had been explored earlier).

Found/Unrecovered Alchemy Kits

Third Series Alchemy Kit

Found:

• A005, A006, A008, A009, A010, A011

Second Series:

• 0000018, 0000021, 0000023, 0000024, 0000025, 0000028, 0000035

Third Series (in metal tins, with key):

• A048, A075, A082, A087, A119, A170, A198

Unrecovered:

• A007, A012, A013, A014

A001-A004:

• When questioned on the whereabouts of A001-A004, M posted, "One belongs to someone close to me. One belongs to his daughter. One belongs to his son. And one belongs to nobody. -M" [1]

Notable Locations

Notable locations where Alchemy Kits have been found include:

• Ghost Town Road, Barstow, CA. Near the Ghost Town of Calico, which was established in 1881 as a silver mining town. A010
• Griffith Park/Observatory, Los Angles, CA A011
• "Beneath the clock near the Center of the Universe," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 0000024
• Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 0000035

Notable locations where Alchemy Kits have been left by M and their whereabouts are unknown:

• top of a penny flattening machine, Roswell, NM
• The Beat coffee shop in Las Vegas, NV

Blue Key

The Blue Key is an ipod in the possession of sfmola. M sends text messages to the Blue Key. See Puzzles.

• Message 1: A card was enclosed with the Blue Key that said, "Search the Problem." When the iPod was connected to the network, a text arrived that said, "Did this arrive safely?" [2]
• Message 2: A photo of a worn blue book, with no words. [3]
• Message 3: An emoji text message sent to the Blue Key that is currently undeciphered. [4]

Kickstarter Rewards

Envelopes mailed out on August 6th started to arrive August 9, 2013. The packages thus far all contain a canvas bag that has a screenprinted owl on one side and "from the collection of Professor Mercury's MERCURIOSITIES" on the other. The bags contained a single key attached to a tag that has a handwritten word or two. The words appear to be places. Also included was a black velvet pouch containing a heavy bronze medallion.

Keys

The words from the key tags are:

First Round of Keys

This round of keys was sent with just a key and medallion.

1. Alpine
2. Belk
3. Blairsburg
4. Cuba
5. Galena
6. Galloway (sent in the same package as Vickland)
7. Haines
8. Jayhawk
9. Juddville
10. Nora
11. Riceville
12. Rosanky
13. Rose Hill
14. Sartwell
15. Tonet: Given that the only result for Tonet is this one small town, with a church constructed to replace a church that burned in an 1877 fire, it is hypothesized that the St. Martin's Church in Tonet, WI is part of the story.
16. Unity
17. Vickland
18. Wilmore.

Second Round of Keys

This round of keys was sent with a third series alchemy set (in the tins):

1. Effort (please confirm that is right) (with A048)
2. Greenleaf (with A075)
3. Mana (with A082)
4. Symerton (with A087)

Medallions

Mercuriosity Medallion Back

The medallions are weighty, cast coins. The following are features of the medallions:

• The front includes:
  • the winged hat of Mercury symbol
  • Est. 1876
  • "Professor Mercury's Mercuriosities, Artifacts and Wonders of the World and Beyond."

• There are Three punched holes
  • On the front (hat side), the rims of the punched holes have small pin hole dots. Going clockwise from the hole at the top (with the coin right side up), the top hole has one pinhole, the second hole has two pinholes, and the third has three pinholes. (needs confirmation form all medallion holders)
  • On the back, the rims of the punched holes also have small pin holes, but appear to vary between medallions. It is currently unknown if these variations are intentional or simply due to variations in the casting process. Thus far there have been reports of:
    • One pin hole in each rim
    • One pin hole in the rim intersecting the compass and two pin holes in the other rims
    • Two pin holes in the rim on the "East" side of the compass (if held so hat on opposite side is upright), one pin hole in the other rims (as in picture above)
• The back includes:
  • a compass symbol
  • the letter "I" in the center of the compass
  • 33 characters (some repeating), which may be a cipher or alchemy symbols.

Chapter 2

The story is currently in Chapter 1.

Orange Key

The Orange Key is an iPad. It was announced by M on May 28, 2013. "The Orange Key waits for its owner at the end of Chapter One." [5]

Out of game links

Communities

• Tumblr: findthestarlight
• Branch: Find The Starlight
• Facebook: Find The Starlight page
• Unfiction discussion forum
• IRC: #findthestarlight on irc.esper.net
• Flickr: findthestarlight

Helpful links and tools

• Wikibruce tool guide

Media coverage

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