DAVID SILVESTER

Harry Hardiner disappeared in December 1999.

​A helluva lot has happened since then.

Sealing the Wall

Wallreaders, we're well past June, and that means it's time for all good contests to come to an end. Our Wallreaders coupons will continue to function well into autumn, but there will be no new codes to break, no more spiffy graphics from this year's Pinkum Press intern (thank you, Brian, and go get some booklearning!), and yes, no more codes from Dr Rex Patch.

In his honor, I have decided to let Brian off the hook creating "new drafts" of the Wallreaders graphics—after all, these were some of the last images that Rex ever saw. Sorry about that, Dr Patch. ...Sorry, Brian. They really are spiffy.

Level three was a bit tricky for Dr Patch, but he cracked it! Can you?

Level three was a bit tricky for Dr Patch, but he cracked it! Can you?

And level four was at his bedside at the very end. He solved the puzzle and started writing his own notes in this invented writing system, which he started to refine for his own purposes! 

And level four was at his bedside at the very end. He solved the puzzle and started writing his own notes in this invented writing system, which he started to refine for his own purposes! 

Readers may be particularly grateful to Dr Patch for his notes on the final puzzle—the first draft used particularly arcane clues occulted away in the darkest folds of Blue and White, which, containing some pretty juvenile efforts, is rather like reading through a high school yearbook, bad hair and all. His suggestion was to use a list familiar to Rosewire readers old and new alike—a list that's already up on this website, in fact.

Readers may also be particularly grateful that Dr Patch referred to the third Wallreaders puzzle as a "transcriptease". I miss that man.

We're going to miss you too, Brian! Have a good last first semester, and get out in one piece!