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CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


joshtothemaxx posted:

I'm going to be in Houston in a week. Then I'll be living there in two months. Spade in the ground before winter.
That's no way to talk about the locals :mad:

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
You're all losers and there's nothing left to find. It's all been chucked into a dumpster by some confused parks department employee you idiots.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
Nuh-unh. I'm gonna dig up a casque and be showered in jewels and money and adulation. Women will throw themselves at me, men will want to be me. Small children will wonder what type of smartphone I use.

Long Live Hedgehog Rex, Imperial Casque-Finder!

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

i want to follow urban smurf around for a day and watch them da vinci code their way through a city

Urban Smurf
Jun 12, 2013

Take this avatar, rotate it 180 degrees, mirror it, mark a point from the tip of the dogs noses and you will see it will line up to this image of the centaurs tail "exactly."

treasure bear posted:

i want to follow urban smurf around for a day and watch them da vinci code their way through a city

Back in 2011 we would've had a lot of fun. I was interpreting a treasure map that led me to a statue that pointed in a particular direction of a mile high lake that I investigated by kayak to search for a clue carved in the underside of a picnic table.

.random
May 7, 2007

Urban Smurf posted:

Back in 2011 we would've had a lot of fun. I was interpreting a treasure map that led me to a statue that pointed in a particular direction of a mile high lake that I investigated by kayak to search for a clue carved in the underside of a picnic table.

"Peace on earth" was all it said :3:

Spacman
Mar 18, 2014
More like Purity of Essence

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

Urban Smurf posted:

Back in 2011 we would've had a lot of fun. I was interpreting a treasure map that led me to a statue that pointed in a particular direction of a mile high lake that I investigated by kayak to search for a clue carved in the underside of a picnic table.

this sounds wonderful

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.
I was just directed to this thread. I'm working my way through it now, but the short version is I have access to Charleston SC intermittently. If there's a location folks want me to test there...

TheChaosPath
Jul 22, 2005

Discendo Vox posted:

I was just directed to this thread. I'm working my way through it now, but the short version is I have access to Charleston SC intermittently. If there's a location folks want me to test there...

Tell us a little bit about your handjob game

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
Holy poo poo, I've been following this thread off and on for like 10 years or whatever and goddamn.

Look:
I am an unemployed student right now. I live in Houston right now at this very second. I already have a record so I don't give a flat gently caress about permits or anything. It takes a lot to break my wrists. Someone PM me a summary on the Houston one and I'll go dig it up just so this thread can loving progress for once. I got afternoons and fri - sun off class. I can hit this poo poo pretty quick.

e: preferably a real summary and not the crazy ramblings of that one idiot.

ee: im fuckin serious. someone pm me because I'll probably be too busy not checking this thread/being on probation.

Iron Prince fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jun 27, 2016

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Iron Prince posted:

Holy poo poo, I've been following this thread off and on for like 10 years or whatever and goddamn.

Look:
I am an unemployed student right now. I live in Houston right now at this very second. I already have a record so I don't give a flat gently caress about permits or anything. It takes a lot to break my wrists. Someone PM me a summary on the Houston one and I'll go dig it up just so this thread can loving progress for once. I got afternoons and fri - sun off class. I can hit this poo poo pretty quick.

e: preferably a real summary and not the crazy ramblings of that one idiot.

ee: im fuckin serious. someone pm me because I'll probably be too busy not checking this thread/being on probation.

God bless you, that dipshit xie set this thread back years, we need someone who doesn't give a poo poo.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

TheChaosPath posted:

Tell us a little bit about your handjob game

Shockingly poor. What is the handjob joke in reference to?

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

OctoberBlues posted:

God bless you, that dipshit xie set this thread back years, we need someone who doesn't give a poo poo.

like I flat don't give a gently caress. If I go there and find it I'll do the thread a courtesy of taking pics and recording an "unboxing" vid then I'm taking that poo poo straight to whoever will give me the most money for it

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
then I'm gonna buy a carton of smokes and take the rest to the casino and putting it on red

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
Maybe set aside 300ish for some primo ladyboys

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I feel like you might be drunk right now and will regret this in the morning, but god bless you anyway.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
I am. My campaign promise is to be drunk now, when scouting the location, when digging and when unboxing.

Fat Shat Sings
Jan 24, 2016

Iron Prince posted:

I am. My campaign promise is to be drunk now, when scouting the location, when digging and when unboxing.

Don't do a gofundme for your legal bills.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
gently caress a legal bill. This poo poo is a 100% pure solo effort.

E: in terms of expenses sorry. I provide my own shovel (graciously donated by an unnamed forum user) and case of lone star (private stock) in this scenario

Iron Prince fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jun 27, 2016

Fat Shat Sings
Jan 24, 2016

Iron Prince posted:

gently caress a legal bill. This poo poo is a 100% pure solo effort.

E: in terms of expenses sorry. I provide my own shovel (graciously donated by an unnamed forum user) and case of lone star (private stock) in this scenario

Probably want to dig at night whenever someone gives you Xie's ultra secret 100% Solution

(99% chance you won't find anything but at least it will be better than Xie being a bitchmade little baby)

Jubs
Jul 11, 2006

Boy, I think it's about time I tell you the difference between a man and a woman. A woman isn't a woman unless she's pretty. And a man isn't a man unless he's ugly.

Discendo Vox posted:

Shockingly poor. What is the handjob joke in reference to?

Your wrists are too brittle.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

Fat Shat Sings posted:

(99% chance you won't find anything but at least it will be better than Xie being a bitchmade little baby)

Someone's gonna have to fill the big rear end hole I leave and anything bringing jobs back to Houston is ok in my book.

Chillbro Baggins
Oct 8, 2004
Bad Angus! Bad!

Discendo Vox posted:

Shockingly poor. What is the handjob joke in reference to?
Xie ttly knew where to dig, and had it set up with the city to do it all legal-like as soon as Boston wasn't under twelve feet of snow, and when the mud melted, went hiking with his friends instead of the promised dig, and then somehow broke his wrist the next weekend "planting bulbs in his garden" or some poo poo. Obviously it was actually from overenthusiastic handjobs on the "hike" with "classmates". Or something like that.

Iron Prince: I'll chip in for your bail (or at least get my friends in Houston to visit you in jail) if it goes badly. Sadly the Houston one is probably the least likely to still exist, they massively reworked the park it's probably in in the '90s, so the directions given are hosed and the prize probably got found and crushed by a bulldozer blade. Most of the ones we have good-ish locations for are in state/national parks now, hence why they probably haven't been disturbed and also why it's a felony to try to dig them up. But hey, tweet a selfie of a shovel in the ground with the HPD running up behind you, and you'll be closer than most of the people in this thread who promised to dig one up.

Urban Smurf
Jun 12, 2013

Take this avatar, rotate it 180 degrees, mirror it, mark a point from the tip of the dogs noses and you will see it will line up to this image of the centaurs tail "exactly."
I dont think Houston's casque is recoverable either.

I've made a new discovery about the New Orleans location if anyone near the area is up for planning a dig, I'll share the details.

Masturbasturd
Sep 1, 2014
It's a trinket used to redeem for an already embezzelled gem stored at a defunct bank, in a ceramic crock, inside a 35 year old Tupperware box, long since crushed by erosion and gravity under the soil.
I have the precise GPS coordinates around here somewhere.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

Urban Smurf posted:

I dont think Houston's casque is recoverable either.

*slams another tall boy of lone star*

watch me, bitch.

Viruswithshoes
Mar 26, 2007

Iron Prince posted:

*slams another tall boy of lone star*

watch me, bitch.

You're the hero this thread needed. Godspeed, sweet prince

Fat Shat Sings
Jan 24, 2016

Iron Prince posted:

*slams another tall boy of lone star*

watch me, bitch.

Xie parachute account spotted.

How long before you need to wait for "winter to be over" then "Get too busy" during spring then break your bitchwrists in summer then need to "wait for winter to be over" again before disappearing entirely

Tony Homo
Oct 30, 2014

by zen death robot
And all the goons were giving me a hard time for slamming Xie for being an idiot. Go figure.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
Someone should start a Kickstarter to make a documentary about this. Plus it would make people actually do the digging - don't want to look silly on camera!

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


Tony Homo posted:

And all the goons were giving me a hard time for slamming Xie for being an idiot. Go figure.

beginning to think all we really want is an endless stream of idiots to taunt

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

Delivery McGee posted:

Xie ttly knew where to dig, and had it set up with the city to do it all legal-like as soon as Boston wasn't under twelve feet of snow, and when the mud melted, went hiking with his friends instead of the promised dig, and then somehow broke his wrist the next weekend "planting bulbs in his garden" or some poo poo. Obviously it was actually from overenthusiastic handjobs on the "hike" with "classmates". Or something like that.

Iron Prince: I'll chip in for your bail (or at least get my friends in Houston to visit you in jail) if it goes badly. Sadly the Houston one is probably the least likely to still exist, they massively reworked the park it's probably in in the '90s, so the directions given are hosed and the prize probably got found and crushed by a bulldozer blade. Most of the ones we have good-ish locations for are in state/national parks now, hence why they probably haven't been disturbed and also why it's a felony to try to dig them up. But hey, tweet a selfie of a shovel in the ground with the HPD running up behind you, and you'll be closer than most of the people in this thread who promised to dig one up.

By "test" here I mean I'll start by going to the place and seeing if it's remotely plausible, followed by looking into the price of a low-quality used GPR, and contacting the appropriate authorities about running it ove the proposed spot. I'm not gonna sneak into a well-guarded park in downtown Charleston in the middle of the night-people would assume I was a white supremacist defacing the monuments.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 28, 2016

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


Discendo Vox posted:

By "test" here I mean I'll start by going to the place and seeing if it's remotely plausible, followed by looking into the price of a low-quality used GPR, and contacting the appropriate authorities about running it ove the proposed spot. I'm not gonna sneak into a well-guarded park in downtown Charleston in the middle of the night.
Be more like Iron Prince, just get drunk and do it. As soon as going to authorities enters into it people seem to inevitably welch

Danger
Jan 4, 2004

all desire - the thirst for oil, war, religious salvation - needs to be understood according to what he calls 'the demonogrammatical decoding of the Earth's body'
So St. Louis is definitely one of the places right?

Tony Homo
Oct 30, 2014

by zen death robot
Is it possible to put a picnic blanket down and sit down and occasionally ram a metal stake into the ground that is maybe 2 feet long and see if it contacts someone? People don't relax in parks nowadays?

CrashCat
Jan 10, 2003

another shit post


Tony Homo posted:

Is it possible to put a picnic blanket down and sit down and occasionally ram a metal stake into the ground that is maybe 2 feet long and see if it contacts someone? People don't relax in parks nowadays?
all fun and games until you ram that stake through a pipe or cable or some poo poo

twit666
Nov 16, 2006

Soiled Meat

Danger posted:

So St. Louis is definitely one of the places right?

If this is the case I have tons of hole digging implements and right now neither of my wrists are broken.

Urban Smurf
Jun 12, 2013

Take this avatar, rotate it 180 degrees, mirror it, mark a point from the tip of the dogs noses and you will see it will line up to this image of the centaurs tail "exactly."
St. Louis (the city) is NOT definite. Byron Preiss responded in email to johann of the Quest4treasure,

"Very impressive work esp since the book is 20 years old. I think you deserve to know that you are correct about st. Louid,but not correct about the location.thanks for all your excellent work."

johann was actively searching the city of St. Louis area. AFAAK, nobody has produced evidence of exactly which Image and Verse johann was working on that garnered the response from Preiss. Doing a little detective work, I see approx 70 of his 377 posts were focused solely on Image 9. A lot of his work was of course related to Image 4 and then he posted a little about several others including Image 7 as he gained more confidence in the game. Apparently he had some thoughts that related Image 7 to the city of St. Louis,

quote:

Here's a wild, contrary idea for what it's worth.
St. Louis has the largest Mardi Gras outside of New Orleans. It happens in Soulard, originally the French neighborhood and the oldest neighborhood in St. Louis (SE side, near the river). It even has its own "Preservation Hall." The Mardi Gras features the Mystic Crewe of Barkus parade in which people dress up their dogs. (There is the barking dog/wolf in the pic.) Far away from the vicinity is Fairview Park on N Grand Blvd where horse-racing formerly happened until outlawed. (There is the jockey on the clock face.
Yet, I explored Soulard and Fairview Park today and found nothing special in relation to any details of the pic.
I am now skeptical about my idea. Yet, I posted this so that all possibilities are considered. Who is near New Orleans? Anyone?
--Johann

When we seriously consider all the evidence, we can't be certain that "st. Louid" is specifically referring to the city. It's quite possible he was referring to some historic context about King Louis IX of France, but nobody seems to care enough to figure out why "Saint Louis" is important.

Urban Smurf fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jun 29, 2016

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a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
Ok guys I am doing it....I'm doing it. Digging in the park, treasure location. Digging tonight. Pictures to come! :eyepop: :siren: Let's do this! #thisishappening #dig

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