Iconage again...

[rochvelleth]

Um, I couldn't stop myself making another icon. Sorry. It's another Emmerdale icon, too. But, you see, Matthew hasn't been in it for a couple of weeks, and now he's back, and I was glad, so I made another icon

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[fakeweestephen]

Hurrah, Emmerdale! Um. Hello. We don't know each other at all, but I'm making a treasure hunt riddle sort of thing. May I post a clue here? I'm not really Stephen McGann and I've never been on Emmerdale. I'm fake. But I like Stephen McGann. Yes. And when I'm not playing a fake person who posts riddles, I'm usually a normal person.

[fakeweestephen]

Oh, but don't post in my journal and don't friend me, at least not yet. I don't want to make it easy for people to track you down. But you certainly may visit my journal!

You see, my journal is actually a riddle thingy, where I post a riddle and the answer is the password to my journal. So each time a new person solves a riddle, they enter the password and become the new me! Many people have been me. I've been me just for a few days and it's rather overwhelming, actually.

But instead of a riddle, I could make a path with clues that lead to you, to this entry right here. And then just post the password here. You could even choose the password. What do you say?

And don't worry. My friends (who are sometimes me) are very nice non-stalkerish people. Some of them even share similar interests with you. Your interests are varied and intelligent. ;D

[fakeweestephen]

Some of them even share similar interests with you.

Like Sharpe and ancient things and Doctor Who.

[fakeweestephen]

I hope you won't delete this final message from the scary weird stalkerish Me! I'm always an impatient FakeWee so I've already chosen a password.

thank-you

To see the original puzzle:
http://fakeweestephen.livejournal.com/4223.html

Cheers!

[txorakeriak]

Just so you know I got here. :)

[grace_poppy]

Hi again, rochvelleth. I was fakeweestephen up there. Someone's solved the puzzle so we won't be tramping through your journal any more. I really hope we didn't freak you out! But you seem like a very cool person, so hopefully you won't be too upset when you return to your journal and see these messages from strangers.

Are you an archeologist? Your recent Mycaenean post just happened to catch my eye! I love archeology and ancient history. I'm a conservator.

Anyway, thanks again (even though you weren't actually here to give or deny permission for our bizarre behaviour.) Do come visit, if you like!

-Grace

[rochvelleth]

Hello! Not freaked out at all - it seemed quite exciting. As soon as I've finished my thesis, I think I'll check it out properly!

I'm really a Mycenaean linguist, but so much of what I'm doing atm is archaeology that I might as well be one! What sort of conservation do you do? It sounds fascinating.

[grace_poppy]

Hooray! I'm so relieved you're not freaked out or upset. I wasn't sure just how terribly rude fakeweestephen might be on the LJ scale. (He does get a bit wild at times).

Wow, Mycenaean linguistics - ignorant question, but is that just the ancient Mycenaean language? Or is there a modern Mycenaean language too? I love languages and linguistics, but I don't know much about ancient languages. What archeological-ish work are you doing right now?

I'm a paper conservator, so I treat artworks, documents, maps, manuscripts and anything else on paper or paper-like materials. But working with paper, I never get to work on actually ancient things, alas.

[rochvelleth]

Well Mycenaean is the earliest attested form of Greek (when it was deciphered in the 50s, it pushed back the earliest attestation by more than 500 years) - all we have are random administrative documents written in an obscure syllabic script. It's a lot of fun!

The archaeology I'm doing atm ties in with general relations between different Mycenaean sites - lots of pots and mortuary stuff, though I'm not doing much that's hands on (they have lots of Mycenaean pottery in the classics faculty, but I'm mostly just reading about it!).

I've always thought that sort of conservation sounds fun - I used to go to events at the Conservation Centre in Liverpool sometimes, and it was fascinating to see how the conservators handled things. So how old is the stuff you work with then?