I am thinking of a Town. What town is it?

[Animal]

you are getting warmer.

[CHEEZY17]

El Dorado Kansas.

[Animal]

El Dorado Kansas.

nope

[Animal]

The great global misevent, an economic collapse that had shifted the world’s priorities, had left her generation with a deep, collective ache for things that felt truly real.

Her latest creation was a large, intricate artwork made from salvaged circuit boards and wires.

It was a piece she had been working on since she was sixteen, a complex mosaic of forgotten tech.

"It's so... slow," he said, his words delivered with a vocal threep—a common verbal tic of their generation.

Jax, like most of their peers, was completely conditioned by the instant gratification of the data stream.

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The five clues are in these five sentences. in order.

One clue in each sentence.

[CHEEZY17]

El Dorado Kansas.

nope

It was a long shot. Population is 12k.
Known for an oil boom and has an oil and art museum

[Animal]

nope. you are focusing on the story. focus on the words and read back up a few posts.

[Animal]

The great global misevent, an economic collapse that had shifted the world’s priorities, had left her generation with a deep, collective ache for things that felt truly real.

Her latest creation was a large, intricate artwork made from salvaged circuit boards and wires.

It was a piece she had been working on since she was sixteen, a complex mosaic of forgotten tech.

"It's so... slow," he said, his words delivered with a vocal threep—a common verbal tic of their generation.

Jax, like most of their peers, was completely conditioned by the instant gratification of the data stream.

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The five clues are in these five sentences. In order. One clue in each sentence.

[disco.moon]

Global misevent Y2K? Economic collapse housing bubble of 2008/2009 = 16 years ago. Data stream = algorithm?

No. Don't focus on the story. The clues are in the words in the story. 5 clues that will locate a small town.

[disco.moon]

Her generation would be Gen Z?

[Animal]

Global misevent Y2K? Economic collapse housing bubble of 2008/2009 = 16 years ago. Data stream = algorithm?

No. Don't focus on the story. The clues are in the words in the story. 5 clues that will locate a small town.

that is sound logic, however. don't focus on the story itself. focus only on the words. the clues are in the words. 5 clues that when combined in order will locate a small town in the united states. a few posts up i posted the 5 sentences that each contain one clue.

[disco.moon]

latitude / longitude? I enjoy riddles. I've been thinking about this for a couple days.

[Animal]

latitude / longitude? I enjoy riddles. I've been thinking about this for a couple days.

that would definitely be a way to locate a small town. but this is a much easier way.

[Animal]

artificial intelligence can't get here soon enough.

[Who]

artificial intelligence can't get here soon enough.

Sure that’s the answer

[disco.moon]

well my AI says this

https://g.co/gemini/share/ad013c299461

i only have limited amount of time at the crazy house to use internet.

[Animal]

well my AI says this

https://g.co/gemini/share/ad013c299461

i only have limited amount of time at the crazy house to use internet.

lol. that is interesting. it is weird watching it try to solve it. but as with several others it immediately went down the wrong path and just never recovered. When I first started reading it I thought it would figure it out.

now, get back on track and solve this. yall were getting warm earlier.

[Animal]

no one clue is more important than any of the other five, but without all five in the order they appear in the story, you will never locate the town. Once you have all five clues, you will have to google them to find the town. Its really that simple.

ai should be able to solve this.

[QillerDaemon]

That none of us has solved this mystery puzzle is all the evidence you need that we're just too dumb to solve it.

[Homebrew]

That none of us has solved this mystery puzzle is all the evidence you need that we're just here to look at tits and ass.

FTFY.

[Biker]

So what’s the town?

[CHEEZY17]

Kitty Hawk NC

[Antknot]

Animal doesn’t know, or he would have posted the answer by now

[Animal]

I will say that the clue that gives this puzzle away is a zip code. the numbers are spelled out. 5 numbers. one in each of the sentences that i posted. Read that carefully, "one number spelled out in each of the five sentences that I posted".

[Animal]

The great global misevent, an economic collapse that had shifted the world’s priorities, had left her generation with a deep, collective ache for things that felt truly real.

Her latest creation was a large, intricate artwork made from salvaged circuit boards and wires.

It was a piece she had been working on since she was sixteen, a complex mosaic of forgotten tech.

"It's so... slow," he said, his words delivered with a vocal threep—a common verbal tic of their generation.

Jax, like most of their peers, was completely conditioned by the instant gratification of the data stream.

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The five clues are in these five sentences. Taken out of the story in order.

[Biker]

Harts Location, NH