Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:56 pm
I was thinking about the directions provided in the picture of the compass in map, and what Tach might have meant by including them. Something OpA said to me in an email (posted elsewhere in full) stood out:
After all, if you'd just defected from a highly secretive organization with valuable information you'd stolen, would you leave easy-to-follow directions to your destination or your headquarters?
If Tach left the items Noa found in the park on purpose, as this message seems to suggest, expecting a courier to pick them up, she might have left the directions for them. In that case, the clues in the picture leading us NNE could either point us in the direction Tach went, or towards the place he/she expected the courier to take the items that were stolen. If we follow the directions, we might find one or the other (Tach, or the place the courier was meant to go), but it's unlikely we'll find both.We spent some time with it before realizing it could very well be a hint for the people she originally intended to retrieve her package.
After all, if you'd just defected from a highly secretive organization with valuable information you'd stolen, would you leave easy-to-follow directions to your destination or your headquarters?