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Bree Phone Home puzzle

2006-12-24T05:59:03Z

Supasamurai: /* Solution */

In [[Bree Phone Home]], [[Bree]] calls several of her relatives in hopes of finding out what could have happened to her parents. When she dials great uncle [[Franklin]] from San Francisco, her call is picked up by an answering machine for Powell's Dry Cleaners.

==Powell's Dry Cleaners Message==
[[Bree]] said the phone number aloud as she dialed it: 287-0211. Since she mentioned Franklin was in San Francisco, one of the possible area codes was (415). Calling 415-287-0211 allows you to listen to the same message heard by Bree.

::''Hello and thank you for calling Powell's Dry Cleaners. We are open 7 days a week from 9 am until 5 pm. Our current specials are as follows: Dress shirts 3 for $5 with an 8-9 day turn around time. We also offer wash service at a rate of 3 shirts for $12. Please leave a message after the tone and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.''

===Solution===
The numbers of shirts and days that it will take to clean them are the real message. The message below has the numbers in bold.

::''Hello and thank you for calling Powell's Dry Cleaners. We are open '''7''' days a week from '''9''' am until '''5''' pm. Our current specials are as follows: Dress shirts '''3''' for $'''5''' with an '''8'''-'''9''' day turn around time. We also offer rush service at a rate of '''3''' shirts for $'''12'''. Please leave a message after the tone and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.''

The numbers are '''7953589312'''. This is not a phone number. However, when reversed, it yields (213)-985-3597, which is indeed a phone number. When this number is dialed, a voice message plays. It is from [[Bree's father]], or someone pretending to be him.

==Bree's father's message==
This is the message heard after dialing (213)-985-3597.

::''Bree, it's your father. If you are listening to this message, you managed to crack my code. Your mother and I are safe but I need to talk to you alone. Confirm that you got this by sending me a secret message back. I'll meet you one week after that at the place where we used to talk about Feynman and Jared Diamond. I know you're confused right now. But all will make sense after we talk. I'll see you soon sweetie.''

===Solution===
Still in progress.

[[Richard Feynman]] is a famous physicist for whom [[Bree]] has great admiration. She quoted him in her blog [[Daniel Returns, and More Interesting Factoids (Yay!)]], in which she tells a story from his book ''Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman''.

Bree also quotes Jared Diamond' ''Guns, Germs and Steel'' in the [[The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel)]].

Since [[Bree]] is homeschooled and these readings have been assumed to be part of her coursework, it's possible that her dad is referring to some place where they used to go to work on her studies. It is still unclear what kind of secret message he wants her to send back.

Some have compared the sound of [[Bree's father]]'s voice to that of [[Brother]] from the [[OpAphid]] and [[Tachyon]] ARG. This might be an attempt from [[Tachyon]] to get in touch with her. [[Tachyon]]'s travels have taken her to San Francisco, where great uncle Franklin was supposed to be.

Another possibility is that this could be another trap from [[OpAphid]].

==Bree's response==
When [[Bree]] hears the answering machine's message for Powell's Dry Cleaners, she seems disillusioned and says she's run out of leads. She either has not yet realized there is a puzzle behind the message, or she was acting as if she didn't notice.
In her video [[Mystery Movies]], [[Bree]] names the movies she watched that day and mentions
*'''C'''''itizen Kane''
*'''U'''''sual Suspects''
*'''S'''''neakers''
*'''O'''''ut of Sight''
*'''O'''''cean's Eleven''
*'''N'''''ever Say Never Again''
The first letter of the titles of these movies spell out "CUSOON", as in "See you soon." Bree must have indeed figured out the puzzle and this is her response to his message. Although even in this video she acts like she can't figure out the puzzle, presumably she's putting on that act because her father wanted it to be a secret message.
Since her father had requested that she meet him a week after receiving the message, Bree should be meeting him on Saturday, December 30th, 2006.
Bree's frequent mention of movies and how she used to go watch them with her dad might be another clue as to the location of the meeting place.

==External links==
*[http://www.acidfingers.com/music/bree_dad.mp3 Listen to the message from Bree's father.]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond Wikipedia article on Jared Diamond]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman Wikipedia article on Richard Feynman]

Talk:Character Registry

2006-12-12T01:48:23Z

Supasamurai:

My aim here is to put paint a picture of every character, cross website references, and list all relations, including actual and speculation. Am I doing something redundant currently? yes, because I just started watching. I need you all to fill in the gaps. Thanks[[User:Supasamurai|Supasamurai]] 02:10, 11 December 2006 (CST)

:It's good that you're trying to organize the content better, but I do think a lot of this information can probably be found off the page [[Canon]] which lists official, possibly official, and officially disavowed characters. Perhaps it would save you some work if you just added the links and website references to the [[Canon]] page... I'm not clear on what you had in mind, depending on how involved it was you might want to consider working on [[Canon]] instead. Hope that helps. [[User:OwenIsCool|OwenIsCool]] 09:42, 11 December 2006 (CST)

::How come a:) when I asked if there was a list of all the characters with descriptions and such and maybe a picture, everyone thought that I should just be able to get it from the main page and not to worry about it, and b.) how come this stuff isn't listed on the main page, it would have been mighty helpful to me before. [[User:Supasamurai|Supasamurai]] 12:46, 11 December 2006 (CST)

:::That's just the thing Supasamurai, this information is listed on the [[Main Page]], in the form of a character list with links to detailed background pages for each. Please check the left column on the [[Main Page]]. I'm sorry this wasn't clear before. --[[User:Treefunk|Treefunk]] 13:04, 11 December 2006 (CST)

:::: Compare [[Canon]] and the main page and tell me that they both do the job of listing all the characters with some blurb info and a little relational info. You can't, because one is a main page that shouldn't have info like that on it. It should have links to info like the cannon page that make figuring out the story easier for people just start out. Imagine if Wikipedia's main page was just a huge list of all the articles. Would it really be a good idea to start at lgpedia's main page to try to decipher the story? No, it wouldn't, because the stuff listed on the main page needs to be ordered into categories where the information can be made sense of. [[User:Supasamurai|Supasamurai]] 19:48, 11 December 2006 (CST)

Talk:Character Registry

2006-12-11T18:46:24Z

Supasamurai:

Talk:Character Registry

2006-12-11T08:10:23Z

Supasamurai:

User talk:Supasamurai

2006-12-11T08:07:39Z

Supasamurai:

Hey Supasamurai, nice to see you contributing at LGPedia. Just to give you a heads up, much of the work you are currently doing on the [[Character Registry]] reproduces material already contained in the character links off the main page. --[[User:Treefunk|Treefunk]] 01:53, 11 December 2006 (CST)
Yeah, well I'm not done yet. The main page had no actual info about the characters, just a list. I'm trying to provide a useful list of characters so that people like me can figure exactly who is who without having to click on a million different pages to get the same info. Also, is this where I respond or do I put it somewhere else?[[User:Supasamurai|Supasamurai]] 02:07, 11 December 2006 (CST)

User talk:Supasamurai

2006-12-11T08:02:05Z

Supasamurai:

User:Supasamurai

2006-12-11T07:13:17Z

Supasamurai:

Hi.

I'm sam, my webpage is:

samjoyce.com[http://www.samjoyce.com]

I'm new to the lg15 stuff, so bear with me.