Month of the Greats - Ithi & Rhea's Excellent Adventure

[Niniel]

I´m so bad at this. :(

[Nishfa Aishath]

i keep getting Ab. Lincoln....

 

I don't knw, didn't we just leave USA...?  

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

hang on, waking up, I'll think

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

well that's the gettysburgh address and he was shot in fords theater, are you looking for the Lincoln memorial?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

oh dear, back across the pond and into heavy traffic?

 

we going to dc?

[Nishfa Aishath]

Lol....

Talk about roundabout trips :p

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

pending confirmation tho. 

 

did lincoln ever do a tax exile in costa rica?

[Ithillian Turambar]

Sorry. Weekends in the day is spent with small people :)

 

I'm just starting to poke about now - I do think we are zig zagging our way back to the states though

 

Won't be long

[Turin Turambar]

Just think of the frequent flier miles

[Ithillian Turambar]

Apart from Cindy ain't getting on no plane.

 

Here, try this saucer of milk instead

 

 

*watches as Cindy drinks the milk and falls asleep. They quickly scramble a new fancypants jet plane and fly back over the the states - and more specifically Washington DC*

 

Now we just need to find that Statue. I've heard it's quite famous so shouldn't be too difficult to find :)

[Ithillian Turambar]

*Ithi passes the map around, as being geographically challenged she would have no chance of finding a gigantic statue in a giant temple like building.

 

Eventually Turin takes charge and leads them straight to it. *

 

Ah haaa! I knew you were useful to have about :)

 

*click*

 

 

The screen went dark and the following words appeared

 

Abraham Lincoln was a Bearer of Excalibur

 

The screen went black again before the next clue appeared

 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

 

 

Do we all get to wear top hats and fake beards now? I've seen Kindergarten Cop.

 

[Turin Turambar]

I love it when a plan comes together.

 

*ditches Bugatti for A team van*

 

Where to now?

[Crimson_Ayla]

Oh, oh, I want a fake moustache!

 

And Florence Nightingale perhaps? But I dunno where...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

moar spiked milk plz...

 

? The Florence Nightingale Museum... London, England?

 

you can tell by the caps I'm a naughty copy and paster

[Nishfa Aishath]

Me with the slow wits here.....

 

How did you figure out Florence Nightingale 

[Crimson_Ayla]

The bold letters in the clue spell out crimean nurse voice :)

[Rhea]

Wow! I didn't even see the difference! Good job....but where does that lead us?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

not to her museum then?

[Elaevia]

If its her voice, the lovely folks over at wikepedia tell us that there is a recording of her at the British Library Sound Archive, that is also online?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/voiceshist/flonight/

 

lol, thanks :)

 

always wondered what balaclava was

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

this is interesting too

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/florrie.html

[Ithillian Turambar]

[Ithillian Turambar]

You know, I think we are getting awful good at this. And we didn't even have to go anywhere this time

 

*Ithi listens as the voice from the past is heard*

 

 

 

Now that is quite eerie and thought provoking, don't you think?

 

The screen goes dark before the following words appear

 

Florence Nightingale was a Bearer of Excalibur

 

 

And then a few moments later the next clue appears

 

My life was my message. My death shows the path.

 

Onwards explorers!

[Ithillian Turambar]

I'm sorry to be so absent. My time at the weekend was very limited. Should be back to normalish now though

[Ithillian Turambar]

Are we stuck?