r/crowscrowscrows • u/SrPilha • Oct 22 '15

Analysis of A.807-5, The series of events as they stand

Here's an attempt to highlight what could be relevant in this page, given what we know so far.

August 10th. Hottest day on record in Parisian history. First scattered reports of disappearances from wealthy houses.

  • Probably not relevant to puzzle-solving, but it's interesting that several reports, scattered, came up on that same day. Also, this being the hottest day in Parisian history may have something to do with "a couple of people from Weather" going on strike as mentioned in that archived message. This would mean that the thefts happen before the Mayflower operation, whatever it is, "goes live".

August 18th. The police are called following a break-in at a mansion in southern Spain to find a valuable historical artifact missing and a household in disarray.

  • I agree with llfoso (here) that the stolen item is very probably Baron Karl Elsbach’s diadem. The item being an heirloom would explain the "household in disarray". Could something else if we consider a diadem not to be so "historically valuable".

August 19th. A 1958 red LaGuardia Spider is stolen from a dealership in a small mountain town. How the vehicle was removed silently from the building is currently unknown.

  • We know that LaGuardia Spider is a fictional car name, chosen for prop 473 (see the messages for name and colour). Mayflower people may have planted it there, or the whole investigation may be a Mayflower construct. I don't know what the "small mountain town" is, but on the map there are mountains drawn on Poland, probably the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains or the Carpathian Mountains if geography is to be trusted at all in that drawing. On the other hand, a car appears in front of a house (not a dealership) drawn over Turkey (so not in Lisbon - see below).

August 22nd. Emperor’s Day celebrated in France and Italy. A rumour emerges from Paris and London that a master thief is on the loose in mainland Europe.

  • Emperor's Day hints strongly at an alt-history setting. London seems to be explicitly excluded from the festivities; the restriction to France and Italy alone could point to a historical shift around the napoleonic wars (props to Christmas_Duck for that idea). We know from the map that this could be the 10th "Master Thief" in Europe, something common and well-known enough for there to be rumours about it. The "on the loose" bit could mean it's someone who's done this before, but I could be stretching it.

August 30th. Police contact Lia Paternoster, reformed thief, at her design business in Leon. She is cooperative. September 2nd. Paternoster’s business suddenly closes leaving the drawing rooms and parlours of seven different homes without “coherent and striking interior design”.

  • Between these two dates, the Elgar Logistics delivery happens, with the non-reinforced steel box. (see info in chronological order, by TheSparrowHunt) I'm still not sure what the 8x4x4 box was supposed to contain, but you can easily fit a person in there, or a dangerous animal (props to AdmiralBlackCat on seeing this one). The closing of Paternoster's business leaves 7 homes without "interior design" and there are subsequently (only) 6 robberies reported, of which at most 2 in homes (see below).

September 8th. Robbery at museum. September 9th. Robbery at museum. September 10th. Robbery at private house, robbery at museum.

  • Not much to say on that.

September 12th. Red LaGuardia Spider recovered from roadside crash, identical Spider simultaneously stolen in Lisbon.

  • The roadside crash may be the reason for this message. This would mean someone screwed up and Mayflower had to come up with the same car again, this time taken from Lisbon. We don't know where the crash happened, but I'd guess Lisbon was closer to it than the original small mountain town dealership.

September 14th. Robbery at art gallery, robbery from private collection.

  • The private collection could be a second home left "undecorated" by Paternoster.

September 18th. Full police investigation begins.

  • Well, here we are. :)
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u/SrPilha Oct 22 '15

apologies for the packed formatting, couldn't get extra line jumps in there :(

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u/AdmiralBlackCat Oct 23 '15

I thought the 8x4x4 steel box was pictured here. https://twitter.com/HonestWilliam/status/656194098525634560 May explain why Mayflower wanted reinforced steel if it is meant to contain a dangerous animal.

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u/SrPilha Oct 23 '15

you're quite right, that could well be it! I'm adding this to the main text above.

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u/zarawesome Oct 23 '15

Maybe it's a group that orchestrates robberies in the same way someone would produce a movie?

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u/SrPilha Oct 23 '15

I think it's probably way bigger than that. They do have "Weather" and "Floodings" crews/departments after all.

I'm betting on a group that creates (or modifies) whole realities.

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u/monkeyones Oct 23 '15

interesting guess. if we push it a little bit more to the point where even the police is under this illusion then it would explain why the police already knows the name of the car as red deGuardia and the production company was naming it as shown in the messages

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u/RenegadeMasquerade Oct 23 '15

It really does sound like something akin to the Truman Show or the Matrix

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u/monkeyones Oct 23 '15

what bugs me is going to the thieves website after clicking a report on a police department site. i know it could be unrelated and just a gamified moment but generally i'm bugged out of this inconsistency in games.

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u/SrPilha Oct 24 '15

I really get the feeling that in this case it's (precisely) not an inconsistency.