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Welcome to the Find the Starlight community wiki! This site is a reference intended to track all the information about Find the Starlight.
In October of 2012, Professor M started telling a new type of story, one revealed in many different ways:
- cryptic posts on a Tumblr site
- packages being mailed out, left on tables in coffee shops, and buried underground
- writings describing a cast of mysterious characters
- puzzles that weaved together digital, physical, and literary components
- a community that formed around the gathering chaos, working together to pull strands of meaning out of the ether
Join us now, as we work to continue unraveling M's enigmatic tale, and help to Find the Starlight.
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Spotlight
- Timeline - A list of all the major events that have happened in Find the Starlight
- Prologue: Black and White - Back at the beginning (October 2012 - December 2012)
- Chapter 1: Spark and Smoke - We meet Ellie, Simon, Tina, and others. We enter the Garden and cause trouble. We start down the path and get stuck in the Library of Congress. M disappears and then returns as the door opens - (December 2012 - March 2014)
- Hiatus 1 - Nothing much happens, but that which did, is recorded here. (March 2014 - September 2015)
- Chapter 2: Near and Far - Doug drops his pennies. Currently in hiatus. (September 2015 - Present)
- Important Items - A list of all of the noteworthy things that have been received, written about, or lost
- Important Places - A list of all of the real and imagined places in this story
- Important People - All of the characters we've read about and chatted with
- See the discussion page.
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:
Second Series:
- 0000018, 0000021, 0000023, 0000024, 0000025, 0000028, 0000031, 0000033, 0000034, 0000035, A0000038
Third Series (in metal tins, with key):
- A048, A075, A082, A084, A087, A119, A126, A130, A146, A147, A148, A161, A163, A164, A165, A170, A173, A175, A177, A182, A184, A185, A192, A198
Unrecovered:
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
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.
The words from the key tags are:
This round of keys was sent with just a key and medallion.
- Alpine
- Belk
- Belk Corner
- Blairsburg
- Camas
- Cuba
- Eldon
- Galena
- Galloway (sent in the same package as Vickland)
- Haines
- Jayhawk
- Juddville
- Nora
- Riceville
- Rosanky
- Rose Hill
- Sartwell
- Spencerville
- 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.
- Unity
- Vickland
- Wilmore.
This round of keys was sent with a third series alchemy set (in the tins):
- Effort (please confirm that is right) (with A048)
- Greenleaf (with A075)
- Mana (with A082)
- Symerton (with A087)
 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.
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." [2]
Cornchak has won the Orange Key, but has yet to receive it.
The story is currently in need of an update on here.
Out of game links
(Should this be combined/added to a static link in left column? "Community" or retitled?)
instagram tags, freeforums, twitter tags? updated irc chat room?
Helpful links and tools
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