Break Through
So I was stuck here for quite a while. The two spirals do seem to focus in on the Eastern Seaboard, but I had (and have) no insight on how to use the eclipse and intersecting point information to lace the spirals together, or to construct another figure between them. I do wonder if plotting the star points is too 'straightforward' and 'easy' of a resolution, that there might be a coded message in the number fields.
I did start guessing at cities being encircled by the end spirals. Baltimore? Philadelphia? Washington? I did type in a lot of names, but nothing clarified. And each new try means you had to go through 12 mouse actions to get set up for the next guess.
So I started cracking into Hypercard. I'm not proud.
And when you crack into Hypercard, this is the ONE advanced answer that does come out! The answer is EXACTLY
washington D.C.
When you check the Chicago Manual of Style for address preference, they recommend "Washington, D.C." The other authoritative source is the Post Office - THEY want "Washington DC". Nobody recommends the precise formulation that Roger insists on. Infuriating!
I guess this is the Roger Allen synthesis of conventions, what makes the most sense to him ...
But we can move on, for now. STILL intrigued and poking at that wretched pile of clues. And we have so far to go!
A word about hacking the game - I have broken into the script that binds the "cards" in Hypercard together, but there is a whole other level beneath that, where each card has an intricate button definition and hookup that I can't see from my level. Not to mention a segment of the script that looks encoded ...
I also needed to gently crack into the game to get the screenshots I have been using throughout this exposition to illustrate progress through the game. The Mac screenshot mechanism is normally wonderfully easy, but Roger blocked it as part of the game setup. I have not seen any other graphics on the internet - ever - to indicate that I am not the first one here. Strange!
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