Wax Cylinders
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Wax Cylinders
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As Grayson Ozias IV traveled, he recorded his adventures on wax cylinders, which also contain clues about where players in 2009 might find his artifacts.
Intro video
On levis.com/goforth there is a video featuring (presumably) members of Levi's staff embarking on a journey of their own, locating the buried Ozias fortune, documenting it and re-burying it. The vocal track on the video is a letter from Grayson Ozias IV explaining his desire to explore America (see: Travel Diaries, Intro Video)
Clue 1
The wax cylinder recording describes G.O.IV's decision to depart (see: Travel Diaries, Cylinder 1).
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Clue 1 was collected by Kristin G. It was the postcard mentioned in the diary, with an engraving of the Liberty Torch on one side, and a $100 giftcard to the NY Trapeze School.
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Clue 2
G.O. IV informs his father and friends he will be leaving, and says his goodbyes. (see: Travel Diaries, Cylinder 2).
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Clue 2 was collected by Kristin G. It was 'Leaves of Grass', a collection of Whitman poems, and a letter from Nathan Strauss.
Kristin said: "The hat was brown. No red hat sorry. Guy holding newspaper and wearing a brown hat walked with crowd toward the entrance. I nabbed him before he got as far as the entrance. Then he walked straight off."
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Clue 3
G.O. IV's boat docks, and he speaks to a man on shore, learning of a shipwreck 30 years before. (see: Travel Diaries, Cylinder 3).
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Clue 3 was collected by Kyle, who drove four hours from Atlanta, Georgia. He received a black box with two sheets of paper, one of which bore a cipher.
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The Letter Reads: Mysterious campfire on the shore. And then another, later, peering at me through the trees. As seen from the sea, they seem like beacons coming not against shore or hazard but another signaling a secret kinship for though I know nothing of those who gather at these fires or their circumstances, I confess their lights give me some strange measure of comfort. I do not understand at this early stage what my leaving is about. I recognize that it may well be a kind of young man’s folly. It feels as if a spell has been cast over me, and I operate as another with whom I am barely acquainted. And then fear strikes, and a sharp pang of loss. And the asking- when will I see again these I leave behind? But the fear subsides, as it has before. And in this air and openness, I am again content. And that contentment is enough for me. It feels suddenly odd even to write words, like they have no place in this night. Enough then.
Clue 4
G.O. IV travels west, passing through Alabama. He makes money by playing his violin with a group of fiddlers. (see: Travel Diaries, Cylinder 4).
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Clue 5
G.O. IV heads up the Mississippi to Davenport with the brass band and travels to a city by the water, where he gets a shave and has a night out in a hotel with a young woman. (see: Travel Diaries, Cylinder 5).
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