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Yes, that's me!

I really don't know my way around this Ning thing, so if you don't mind I think I'd rather do it over email or IM.  I have google chat, yahoo chat (draconia_chan), and AIM (MoonriseShadows), and if you prefer email I'm e.e.mcmullin@gmail.

I think I've got most of the story pretty well plotted, but the gaps are huge gaping important gaps that kind of make the story, you know?  The problem is that I don't know how to take John from the abandoned building on Montague Street (the equivalent to the abandoned minimall from PT, and he gets there in essentially the same way--poster, album, song, poem, doors, address) to the place where Sherlock actually IS.  (I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in Norway, but I haven't decided for sure yet.  I just like the little nod to Empty House canon.)  So the way Q gets to Margo is because of the "YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNS AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK" graffiti, and he misunderstands 'paper towns' to be 'pseudovisions,' and it's not until he sees her comment on the Algoe talk page that he realizes that's where she is.

I actually considered putting Sherlock in Algoe, New York, but the same clues still won't work, because Sherlock (unlike Margo) is deep undercover.  He can't leave a casual comment saying "here I am!" because someone--Moran or Mycroft or someone--is sure to find it, and realize he's not dead, and then he and John and Mrs Hudson and Lestrade are all in immediate danger again.

So whatever that final clue is, it has to be something that only John would understand, and something that John would find, while also being something that Sherlock doesn't expect to find.  And the graffiti clue needs to be something that can be misinterpreted but when combined with the final clue is much more clear.

I don't know if I'm making sense. ^-^;; If you're interested, I'll email you a copy of my outline so far.

Thanks for offering to help!

~Ottter

Can't beat that.