The two-pronged attack, magic and Google, proved the most fertile.
Meister's attachment to the iPod, combined with some creativity of theft on Alice's part, was able to track him to within approximately 75 square miles of rural Ethiopia. Not ideal, but closer than they were. It was notable that the tracking was so vague...for such an important item, it should have been sharper.
The symbol present on the cultists' jewelry was more elusive, but 'search by image' pulled through once it was turned to the right angle. It tracked back to a news story from several years ago, where the symbol was captured by a security camera during a theft of a set of clay tablets containing a Hurrian hymn to the goddess Nikkal--believed to be the oldest known written music, written in cuneiform. The tablets had only begun to be deciphered and even the scant information gleaned by various archeologists was hotly contested. They were never recovered.
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Date: 2013-05-23 04:47 pm (UTC)Meister's attachment to the iPod, combined with some creativity of theft on Alice's part, was able to track him to within approximately 75 square miles of rural Ethiopia. Not ideal, but closer than they were. It was notable that the tracking was so vague...for such an important item, it should have been sharper.
The symbol present on the cultists' jewelry was more elusive, but 'search by image' pulled through once it was turned to the right angle. It tracked back to a news story from several years ago, where the symbol was captured by a security camera during a theft of a set of clay tablets containing a Hurrian hymn to the goddess Nikkal--believed to be the oldest known written music, written in cuneiform. The tablets had only begun to be deciphered and even the scant information gleaned by various archeologists was hotly contested. They were never recovered.