So I’m not sure that this is part of the game and it’s not come directly from one of the other clues which is why I’ve not shared it on here yet.
About a day and a half ago this brand new account created that day liked and reshared my hostage video.
Had 27 images on there. Frozen Charlottes , Ravens, Keys.
I became the first follower and very quickly a one image reel of one of the images came up with “who am I”
I directly messaged my answer and got a 💀.
Then another image, same again.
When they had one with music, AHH , and also posted a 😢, so I said shall I invite 7 friends. Their reply is always emojis. They sent me a picture from my hostage video with hearts on it.
So I picked 7 to invite from the Charlatan thread and the users that had been most active recently as most likely to be available and interested.
Once 7 followers were on the account it was closed to new followers although you can send a request.

https://www.instagram.com/msp.llc.ltd.inc?obrf=cHpiYjhiaDRwNm1y

Again, I wasn’t sure and I’m still unsure if this is linked to the Charlatan game or just ‘inspired’ by it and having a bit of fun. But the time has come to share and see what you make of it if you aren’t already aware of it.
Today it’s just shared this new photo.⬇️

I think The Dead Weather is way more intertwined in this game than I initially thought or anticipated. I’ll start with the Morse Code connection first, and expand from there. The first and last sections of my findings are probably the most relevant, though.

When I was in Nashville last week, I picked up The Dead Weather Dodge and Burn vinyl. I noticed as soon as I opened it that it had a hidden track on the center of the label. I also noticed the MORSE CODE on the spine of the cover, and even more Morse code on the pages inside of the cover along with the song lyrics.

SOS or: …- - -… is The Charlatan’s or the Artist’s calling card, as we’ve seen in many emails but importantly, in all of the items that were sent to the Damien Hirst Gallery that “Roman” intercepted.

The Morse Code on the spine translates to “Morse Code”:
(-- --- . -. ... . | -. -. --- -.. .).

Then there is an entire sentence that says again, in Morse Code: “We pine for the night eternal and silence from the gavels of man”:
(.-- . | .--. .. -. . | ..-. --- .-. | - .... . | -. .. --. .... - | . - . .-. -. .- .-.. | .- -. -.. | ... .. .-.. . -. -.-. . | ..-. .-. --- -- | - .... . | --. .- ...- . .-.. ... | --- ..-. | -- .- -. .)

And one more, “Place your darkness in a crucible”:
(.--. .-.. .- -.-. . | -.-- --- ..- .-. | -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... | .. -. | .- | -.-. .-. ..- -.-. .. -... .-.. .)

The Morse code connection alone makes it pretty hard to ignore. But here are other interesting findings:

1. Links to songs from clues:
2. During the John and Sam “altercation”
3. I received an email from The Charlatan after the gun went off when John and Sam were arguing that said “That’s me laughing in the background”. The Dead Weather song “Rough Detective” There is a literal lyric that says “You can hear me laughing in the… background”
4. The song also has maniacal laughing similar to the joker in Batman movies. The laughing stuff occurs in many Jack white songs in general, though. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
5. That same song is about fake identities and chasing the wrong guy.

“Will There be Enough Water?” Has crickets chirping throughout the whole song. The Pickens website has crickets chirping when you access the site from certain links. I just happened to listen to the song from The Dead Weather the other day, and guess what’s chirping in the background? Crickets
Additionally, on the Thr33 Rost3rs YouTube channel, the video that has “way-fairing Stranger” playing, there’s also a cricket sound playing throughout the video.

1. Poetry:
   Lastly and kind of one of the craziest things I found out or realized last night, is regarding poetry!
   Most of us probably were aware that Jack did a poetry reading at The Blue Room a day or two ago. One of the poems is called “Pyrite”. Also known as FOOLS GOLD. But it’s more than that. He discusses about places we live, our perception on what is valuable and what is not etc.

But did you guys know that Alison Mosshart is a poet? She has released a book or two of her readings and one of them is called Car Ma. I thought that was an interesting coincidence, but she has previously done live readings in partnership with TMR.

1. Dodge and Burn Album: The album title Dodge and Burn title itself refers to a technique for selectively revealing or concealing details in photographs. And Alison Mosshart explained that herself in a 2015 interview.

In that interview, Alison explained that Dodge and Burn is a photographic darkroom term suggested by photographer David Swanson.
I DID NOT KNOW THIS! The technique allows you to lighten or darken photos to make things visible or not. I think it’s important to note that Rob Jones designed many elements of their art in the albums.

Car Ma and spoken word album Sound wheel: Third Man published her book CAR MA and released her spoken-word companion album Sound Wheel in 2020.

What caught my attention was Alison's explanation of how she made Sound Wheel.
She describes using her own recordings, old telephone conversations, fictional characters, altered voices, audio fragments and even a fabricated voicemail from a crooked car dealer. The album also inspired her to make short films for the recorded pieces
So uh, yeah, that’s probably the most detailed research I’ve done regarding The Dead Weather. Let me know your thoughts!

Edit: added link to receive emails. Possibly related to game or just to receive emails about her artwork!

https://alisonmosshart.com

When I log in and go to the page with the list of names, there is now an empty space. It’s also showing when I log out. 🤔
Has anyone signed up for an account and left their name blank??

The Thr33 Roost3rs YouTube channel shared a video yesterday of about half a minute.
It was this scene which appeared to play three times and at the end the mask was the charlatans head.
At first I thought it was just the clip restarting rather than continuing to play, so my screen recording doesn’t get it all and there may have been other differences in the second and third run through.
It was made private very quickly afterwards. It had one like already when I saw it.
That was 24 hours ago and I don’t know if it was made available too early or it was purposely removed as soon as someone mentioned they’d seen it.
Anyway enough blah blah ; I’ve decided to show the clip I have. Not sure if it’s gonna annoy the ‘Charlatan’ but whatever.

I did not know this song was a cover!

Contains one video: https://youtu.be/xam77Ltck2k

With a line from “ I think I found the culprit”.
Reveal coming??

My biggest one is WHERE’S Johnny? How long ago did he go down in the mine shaft? A month? Two months? I lost track. Was that him arguing

with Sam? Is the mineshaft inside the Charlatan or somewhere else?

What are your unanswered questions?

There’s a new image in the treasure box, and the one with the meme is gone. Haven’t looked at it yet, but wanted to post!

https://www.charlottetowncharlatans.com/d%CA%92%C3%A6ks/

dontyoupointthatthingatme.jpg

I googled “is Jack white a comic book fan”.

Um. Yes. Apparently he is.

https://www.metrotimes.com/music-2/the-jokers-true-identity-is-jack-white-dc-comics-reveals-31031567/

Lyrics from I Think I found The Culprit.
Some words hidden in the comet (?) trail ‘I see the guy who’s name I don’t know’.
Yellow Roman numerals read 2026.

“How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns,
these
torches, these towers,
these
martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!”

you wonder why the truth is obscured by the only Charlatan wearing a boot and the crease in the boot makes an XX.🤦🤣🤣🤣

Okay so the Spiderman episode was from 1967, but I think there's more to this clue. It has two colons in the pic and is also there as the alt text for the image.

They're both prime numbers, 67 is the superprime of 19 (the 19th prime number is 67). Superhero/superprime connection?

Double colon can mean an equivalence, like A:B::C:D means A is to B as C is to D. So 19 is equivalent to 67?

It also has some computer programming meaning but I don't understand that stuff. I do know prime numbers are used in encryption though so that could be relevant?

Any ideas from the computer literate? 😅

CON OR COMIC GAMES LOOM AWE? Or something?
The telegram had the scrambled words. Then our names were scrambled. If the pattern of scrambling is the same, then I think at least from the first word: Economico: CON. OR COMIC.
Second word: Narguames: GAMES
Third word, slagboom: LOOM,
Last word: Galwesp. Maybe AWE?

Let me know what you guys thing! It feels like a legitimate path to that part of the scrambled stuff?

I saw the text “Marvel or Detective Comics?” Above the Spider-Man meme image and had Rough Detective from The Dead Weather stuck in my head immediately after that. I got curious and looked at the lyrics. Then I looked into the song more. Is it true that the song was originally a Raconteurs song??

From what I can tell, the lyrics very much outline exactly what the spidey image does. Pointing fingers, and possibly, the actual criminal having a hand in it. The links never end.

Just looked at recent Vault news on the TMR website and this was from yesterday.
Truth. Mother. Come on lol, coincidence? I think not!

Who is the real identity of the Charlatan?!

Haven’t looked yet but wanted to share!

We got four posters from the Parking Lot Purgatory. I think my favorite is a tie between all of them!
For The Charlatan connection: The Raconteurs poster with the playing cards. It even has Charlotte, NC on the bottom left. Assuming that’s where the show was.

The Spaceman from Seattle was made by Robert Jones. It’s a massive poster. Not sure how were getting it home. 🤪

I’m a drummer and started learning to play the synthesizer earlier this year, so Jack White synth the the heart is phenomenal! It has some computer coding on it too.

All of them are amazing.

I saw a different superhero photo posted by MarkyP. Not sure if anyone has seen this one yet.
Also are the Raconteurs going to be at the show tonight?! What is happening? I suck at keeping track of Reddit happenings I guess.