Isaac Case 006: The Hunt For Isaac

Celest St. Claire's Notes

Hey,

As I mentioned in my note, I’m sure that my conclusions will match Sullivan’s. That being the case, if you’ve already asked him about these clues, you probably won’t learn anything new here.

This case is unusual since it’s broken up into 2 parts. I’ve included instructions below on how to work through each part.

Part 1

For Part 1, you’ll need to email Sullivan about the case’s Solution once you’ve figured out where Isaac plans to kill Dawn.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan yet, you can visit SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006 to send him your first email. When you want to tell him where Isaac plans to kill Dawn, just include the word Solution in the body of your email.

If you want to see my thoughts on any of the clues in your case file, just click the corresponding button below.

If I’m reading the “Forgot Your Password” section of the website correctly, I think we need to figure out which letter is missing from the seven misspelled words. After we’ve listed each of the missing letters, we should be able to rearrange them to spell the password.

In case you haven’t found all seven misspelled words, they are: usernme, acess, retriee, remembr, nformation, sred, scure.

The missing letters from each of the misspelled words are:

A, C, V, E, I, H, E

It took me a little while, but I finally figured out that the only word those letters can be rearranged to spell is “achieve.”

If you visit www.DaytonCitizensCoalition.com/ACooper, and use “achieve” (all lowercase) as the password, you should be able to access Amanda Cooper’s information. Once you’ve had a chance to read it, you’ll want to take a look at the Room Criteria guide that Sullivan gave you to see how it can help you begin to narrow things down.

In Amanda Cooper’s notes on the DCC’s website, she mentioned that the DCC’s nickname for Dayton is “Gem City.”

With that in mind, I’ve been able to put a few of the pieces of paper together. Here’s what I have so far:

One more thing. Call it intuition, but since “Gem” is written horizontally, I think “City” is going to be written vertically.

Once you’ve finished arranging all of the papers, remember that you’ll want to read the correctly-oriented word on each paper in order to find the real message Isaac left himself.

That’s OK. Here’s what the papers look like when they’re all arranged correctly:

The correctly-oriented words give us the message:

“To read notes, swap  nickname letters  for red  letters here.”

My best guess is that the “red letters” mentioned here are the red letters written on several of the small pieces of paper. If we can figure out what this message means by “swapping” them with the nickname letters, we should be able to make sense out of Isaac’s note that Sullivan labeled as CIue 3.

The papers that Sullivan labeled as Clue 2  said that we need to swap the letters in “Gem City” for the red letters closest to them, right? To do that with this note, we’ll have to change each of the below letters in the message:

J becomes G

Q becomes E

U becomes M

W becomes C

X becomes I

Y becomes T

Z becomes Y

When we’re done exchanging the letters, we should finally be able to make sense out of Isaac’s note.

Here’s what Isaac’s note says once you swap each of the letters that I mentioned before:

“Red dots mark cameras. Find someplace not connected to or facing  bathrooms or visitor centers.”

Believe it or not, between this note and Amanda Cooper’s information on the DCC website, we should have all of the information we need in order to figure out where Sullivan will be able to find Isaac. I know you and Sullivan have been investigating this for a long, long time, so I’m really glad that everything is coming together for you both.

Why don’t you take a look at everything we’ve learned so far and compare it to the Room Criteria guide that Sullivan provided in your case file. First, you’ll want to figure out which venue to focus on, then work on narrowing down the room from there.

Amanda Cooper’s notes on the DCC website said that Flyer High’s event is expected to be the least attended, which means that’s the venue we’ll want to focus on.

I believe I read something about where the security team will be positioned, too, but you might want to reread the “Flyer High” section of Amanda’s notes to get it all firsthand. Once you’ve had a chance to read about the security team, it should help you narrow down the room Isaac intends to use.

In addition to Amanda’s notes, make sure you don’t forget about Isaac’s note – which Sullivan labeled as Clue 3. That should give us the rest of the information we need to use the Room Criteria guide and pinpoint where Isaac will be.

Once you think you know where Isaac intends to go through with his plan, send Sullivan an email to let him know. If you haven’t emailed him yet, you can send him your first email at www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006. When you do, be sure to include the word “Solution” in the body of your email so that Sullivan knows what you’re talking about when you give him the room he needs to check.

I still haven’t been able to pinpoint the room Isaac intends to use yet, but I’ve made a little more progress.

Amanda Cooper’s notes on the DCC website said that the event at Flyer High will be the least attended, which means it’s the venue we want to focus on. In addition, it also said that the security team will be focused near the welcome desk and auditorium entrances, as well as the section of the blueprints labeled “Hallway.” There will be another guard on patrol outside, but that shouldn’t matter for Isaac.

Isaac’s note – labeled as Clue 3 – also said that the red dots on the blueprints indicate where cameras are located, which means that none of those rooms meet the criteria Sullivan laid out.

Finally, Isaac’s note also told us that he’ll only choose a room that’s not connected to or facing bathrooms or a visitor center because the rooms are too visible.

I’m going to take another look at the Flyer High blueprints, as well as the Room Criteria guide, and do my best to keep all of this stuff in mind. Once I’ve been able to narrow Isaac’s choices down to a single room, I’ll update this website.

Of course, if you beat me to it and figure out where Isaac intends to go through with his plan, you can send Sullivan an email to let him know. If you haven’t emailed him yet, you can send him your first email at www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006. When you do, be sure to include the word “Solution” in the body of your email so that Sullivan knows what you’re talking about when you give him the room he needs to check.

Part 2

For Part 2, you’ll need to email Sullivan about the case’s Solution once you’ve figured out where Rosco’s evidence is hidden.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan yet, you can visit SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him your first email. When you want to tell him where Rosco’s evidence is hidden, just include the word Solution in the body of your email.

You’ll also need to let Sullivan know what each clue is telling you so that he and Isaac can try to match the information to a location in Dayton. When you want to email Sullivan the information, you can include the word Search in the body of your email.

Finally, if you need help decoding the symbols after you’ve helped Sullivan and Isaac find all four locations, you can email Sullivan about that, too. When you do, you can include the word Symbols in the body of your email, and I’m sure Sullivan will tell you anything he can to help.

If you want to see my thoughts on any of the clues in your case file, just click the corresponding button below.

I’m still working on figuring out what word the coaster spells but, whatever it is, I’m pretty sure it starts with the letter “B.”

One other thing that I want to remind you of is that, in the Clue Analysis, Sullivan said that he thinks the two unknown letters are the same. After looking at this for a while, I’m pretty sure he’s right.

Once you know what word the coaster is spelling, send Sullivan an email to let him know what it is. When you do, he and Isaac will try to match it to a specific location in Dayton.

If you haven’t sent Sullivan your first email to begin the second part of the case yet, visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to do so. When you think you’ve figured out what word the coaster is spelling, make sure you include the word Search in the body of your email so that Sullivan knows what you’re talking about.

Good news – I finally figured out what word the coaster is spelling.

Given the letters “othe” in the word, there aren’t many possibilities. The only one that makes sense, in fact, is “brothers.”

Unfortunately, I’m not quite sure how the word “brothers” is going to help us. Maybe if you let Sullivan know what the coaster says, he and Isaac will be able to come up with some connection it has to Dayton.

When you send Sullivan a message, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email. You can also include the word “brothers” so that he knows what we’ve found so far. With any luck, he and Isaac will be able to take things from there.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

I think I know how we’re supposed to align the coaster.

Each circle of letters makes a word that starts from the same place. The circle closest to the coaster is “censored.” From there, expanding outward, the words are “treasure,” “teamaker,” and “weaseled.”

If we align the “B” on the coaster with the first letter of the other words, it should make a kind of decoder wheel.

There’s one other thing: I’m pretty sure that each of the keywords (“censored,” etc.) will only correspond to one of the coded words in the center. The trick we’ll need to figure out is which keyword and coded word are paired together.

Once you’ve figured out what the coded message is telling us, send Sullivan an email to let him know what it says so he and Isaac can try to match it to a location in Dayton. When you send Sullivan your message, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email so he knows what you’re talking about.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

I was right – using the coaster as a decoder wheel helps us make sense out of the coded words in the middle. The trick is that you have to work from the inside out (starting with “censored”) in order to decode the words in the middle from top to bottom.

In other words, “TRBHOS” is paired with “censored,” “SHREEH” is paired with “treasure,” etc.

In case it helps to see an example, here’s what I mean:

C = B

E = R

N = O

S = T

O = H

R = E

E = R

D = S

When we apply that to “TRBHOS,” we get “SECOND.”

If we follow that pattern for each of the words, we get: “Second Street Market Wall.”

I’m not sure what that means myself but, if you let Sullivan know what the message is, he and Isaac should be able to figure out what connection it has to Dayton.

When you send Sullivan your email, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email. You can also include the words “Second Street Market Wall,” so that he knows what we’ve found so far. With any luck, he and Isaac will be able to take things from there.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

This one is giving me a little more trouble than I anticipated. So far, all I’ve been able to figure out is that the colors are important, and each word is pointing us to a specific letter. Unfortunately, I still haven’t figured out what any of those letters are yet.

Remember, Sullivan and his dad are trying to make sense out of the “BB2” scribbled below the words, so you don’t need to worry about trying to make sense out of that part.

Once you’ve figured out what the colored words are telling us, send Sullivan an email to let him know what they say so he and Isaac can try to match it to a location in Dayton. When you send Sullivan your message, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email so he knows what you’re talking about.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

I finally cracked it. Like Sullivan mentioned in the Clue Analysis, each of the colored words on the back of the photo match pictures that are on clues 1, 2, and 4.  

In addition, the color of the words on the back of the photo also match the colors of specific letters on each of the other clues. When you get down to it, each word in Clue 3 is telling us which document to look at, and the color of the word is telling us which letter on the document to use.

When you exchange all of the colored words for the appropriate letters, you get the word “Schuster.”

That’s a theater downtown but, without more information, searching it for whatever message Rosco left will be like looking for a needle in a haystack – or worse. If you let Sullivan know what we’ve found, though, maybe he and Isaac have an idea about where to search there.

When you send Sullivan your email, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email. You can also include the word “Schuster,” so that he knows what we’ve found so far. With any luck, he and Isaac will be able to take things from there.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

So far, I’ve figured out that the message starts in the top-right corner and moves left. Once you get to the end of the top line, you start on the next line below at the left and read to the right, then repeat. If you follow that pattern, you get:

“Ignoiring Cenrtain…”

I’m sure you noticed, but there are a few extra letters here. If we remove the second “I” from the first word, and the first “N” from the second, it says “Ignoring certain.”

Judging from that, it looks like we’ll not only have to read the message according to the pattern, but we’ll also have to remove the extra letters. Somehow, I doubt that’s all there is to this, though. I think that, after we’ve read the full message, it will give us some direction about what we actually need to do in order to figure out what it’s really trying to tell us.

By the time it’s all said and done, I think we’re going to end up with a single word for Sullivan and Isaac to use.

Once you’ve figured out what word the message is giving us, send Sullivan an email to let him know what it is so that he and Isaac can try to match it to a location in Dayton. When you send Sullivan your message, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email so he knows what you’re talking about.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

When you remove all of the extra letters and follow the pattern I mentioned before, the message says:

“Ignoring certain elements can undoubtedly bring errors swiftly.”

It’s just like I thought – the message itself wasn’t what we were looking for. Instead, it’s telling us to look at the one thing we were ignoring: the letters we removed in order to make the message coherent. If you look at those letters, they spell out the word “Inventors.”

I feel like there’s some kind of walkway or something dedicated to inventors downtown, but I’m not really sure. If you let Sullivan know what we’ve found, though, he and Isaac might have a better idea about where they should look.

When you send Sullivan your email, make sure that you include the word Search in the body of your email. You can also include the word “Inventors,” so that he knows what we’ve found so far. With any luck, he and Isaac will be able to take things from there.

If you haven’t emailed Sullivan to start the second part of the case yet, you can visit www.SleuthKings.com/Isaac-006B to send him an email to get started.

Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be much help when it comes to trying to decode the symbols on the keychain. I think Rosco has probably left more symbols at each location that the clues are pointing us toward. You’ll want to work with Sullivan and Isaac to get all of those in order to figure out where Rosco hid his evidence.

When you think you know where Rosco’s evidence is, you can send Sullivan an email. When you do, be sure to include the word Solution in the body of your email.

Of course, if you need help decoding the symbols after you’ve helped Sullivan and Isaac find all four locations, you can email Sullivan about that, too. When you do, you can include the word Symbols in the body of your email, and I’m sure Sullivan will tell you anything he can to help.

Good luck!