Maybe it changes with every city?

OK,correct me if I'm wrong:

TWEETS FROM MARCH 6TH:

@EchoBazaar Who trusts the Clay Men? Would you trust anything so like and so unlike yourself? Trust the Bazaar, dearests. We are nothing at all like you

@EchoBazaar Yes, Clathermont, you will find her. You may regret it. If you keep her from me, you may regret it more.

@EchoBazaar Beneath the Stolen River, hats lie forgotten. Only their eyes betray them.

TWEETS FROM MARCH 7TH:

@EchoBazaar There is a place across the Unterzee where everything is forgiven. Perhaps you will pillage it for us? That would be charming.

@EchoBazaar In this matter as so many others, one must seek outside the box.


One from each group should be a clue. Of course, it is entirely possible that today's clue is actually yet to be revealed, the day having not ended yet. seeing them this way, I'd say my personal bet would be to combine the "Outside of the Box" tweet with the "Beneath the Stolen River" one, pointing to Flute Street of the Beneath the Neath ride, but it's just a wild guess.

Possibilities for the place across the Unterzee where everything is forgiven:

- Mutton Island: If anything, Mutton Island is a place where old and terrible grudges are nursed.
- The Iron Republic: I don't think this is a place of anything of constancy, never mind forgiveness.
- Bullbone Island: It's devoid of human life. Probably not here.
- Corpsecage Island: Ditto.
- Grunting Fen: Ditto.
- Grunting Fen: Ditto.
- Hunter's Keep, the Sea of Voices, Polythreme: These are at least within the realm of possibility. I don't think any of them are specifically forgiving, but they're not obviously a bad fit either. Polythreme would fit with the mention of Clay Men yesterday, too.
- The Tomb-Colonies: I think this is the most likely possibility. You don't get to them via your own ship, but one possible way of getting yourself exiled makes reference to you getting on board a ship to go there. A rare opportunity card there, or one with specific requirements to show up, would stay hidden for quite a while (especially with everyone trying to stay away during the Feast to pick up Masquing).

Dawson wrote:

I'm not inclined to ask for hints, however I do feel it fair to pose this one question to Mr Kennedy: is the box in any sense locked off by fate-only content? either directly (paying for it) or indirectly (location, for example flute street)?



No.

Wait...I just had a ridiculous thought...

Think about it: What's the only boat that goes nowhere?

I, alas, cannot PM from my telephone - but were I you, Ms Navane, I should find myself infinitely intellectually enriched by discovering Charles Dickens' full name on Wikipedia :]

But the clay man tweet was tweeted yesterday... It's today that Alexis is going to drop the clue! Unless he's messing with us. He wouldn't mess with us.... would he?

First up, am I mistaken, or can we take this to be an unconventional family portrait of a very unconventional family?



Does this offer any insight into the nature of an Illumination? (That said, Ms Lilac appears to have, well, lilac-coloured eyes, not the blue suggested to be necessary for a tattooist... but, the previous icon used for Mrs Clathermont had green eyes, so, who can say?)

Lettice, the Deviless and the Costermonger are all established characters, and it's strongly hinted that the Educated Gentleman and the Irresistible Lady are as well... how about the others? Is the Tragedian a known Surface writer? (Given we've recently had hints to the fates of Dickens and Wilde...) Does the Presbyterate Diplomat offer any hints to the location of the Elder Continent?

As for the revelations of the sunlight, and the Fallen Cities... hunger? Remaking? The heart of the sun? Sounds like the consequence of a ill-thought-out Correspondence experiment...

Mr Iron growls in his sleep! What dreams have come to him?

Spacemarine9 wrote:

honestly that'd probably just result in scores of readers maiming themselves to get a hint at a clue at a guess at seven down

Mind you, I am learning how to do cryptic crosswords and sometimes trying to finish one is about as much fun as stabbing myself in the eye with a rusty fork, so I don't know what that says about me.

streetfelineblue wrote:

@EchoBazaar:One of the things we said today was a clue: assistance in the matter of finding Mirrorcatch Boxes. So will another tomorrow.

Well, considering there won't be any more relevant Tweets for tonight, I'm still quite convinced that the tweet mentioning Clathermont was the right one. Either that or the one mentioning the Clay Men - incidentally, they both could point to Wilmot's End.

Which is why I'm inclined to believe that neither is right, and it's the one about hats. We're expecting to see Clathermont, because of his appearance at the Feast: dropping his name would be the most likely to direct us down an obfuscated cul-de-sac.

I said before I was going to repost Space Marine's spoiler. Richard's is nearly as big a spoiler, but not quite, so I'm just going to say find his link and click on it.

There comes a time when all men of good standing must admit when they are defeated. They must sweep off their hat, graciously now and proclaim acknowledgement of the fact that they have been outplayed by a superior intellect.

Today is not that day. As soon as I am able, I intend to stab one of you in the face and take yours. I have made notes.

Good Day!

Spacemarine9 wrote:

I know at least one of them does.

Which one?

Alexis Kennedy wrote:

So is the Masters' sigil in fact a hat? Well, in Twin Peaks, Audrey Horne puts a tune on the jukebox in the Double-R Diner. "I love this tune", she says. "It's so dreamy." It's her leitmotif, actually, and if you look at the Twin Peaks soundtrack, it's just called 'Audrey's Theme'. So if you'd been able to look at the jukebox track listing, what would it have said? That always fucked with my head.

Funnily enough, Twin Peaks, and the scene of Bobby listening to the car radio, is my go-to example when discussing the digetic and fuckery with same.