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[https://web.archive.org/web/20120316064453/http://blog.failbettergames.com/post/You-asked-we-answer-part-1.aspx This blog post] mentions that Mr Apples is actually already in the game, it's just not apparent that it's him. Dr Schlomo is surprisingly knowledgeable about the deepest secrets of the Neath: the Correspondence and the recurring dreams. How could a mere human know so much? The answer: he isn't. He's a Master of the Bazaar who's taken up a human guise. For what purpose is uncertain, but he seems to be fairly benevolent.

Possibly connected to the above. One of the sidebars talks about the story of a man who cooked a pan of Neath-snow, being told that he would get white glim for his trouble. Instead, he got strange white goo. His cats tasted it when he left it unattended. One of them died outright, and it does not say what happened to the other one -- only that something so terrible happened to it that the man locked it in his cellar and says he does not imagine he will let it out, ever. While saying that that cat is ''the'' Starveling Cat may be a bit of a stretch, perhaps it's a roundabout way of showing that a similar fate befell it? Perhaps the reason the cat had to be locked up was because it [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|went mad from the revelation]].

* Care for spoilers, then? During the Number portion of Seeking Mr Eaten's name, {{spoiler|it's implied that Mr Eaten was repeatedly stabbed and then drowned in a well.}} On Mutton Island there's {{spoiler|a well sacred to the natives and if you're Seeking Mr Eaten's Name, you'll hear the children sing around it. ''This well is not The Well, but perhaps… Perhaps there is something in all wells that even these innocents can grasp.''}} So I don't think the well in Big King Square is the resting place of Mr Eaten -- perhaps that's NORTH -- but it contains some resonance with The Well that whispers terrible things and drives you mad if you look into it. An echo, if you will.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120316064453/http://blog.failbettergames.com/post/You-asked-we-answer-part-1.aspx This blog post] mentions that the answer to the mystery of Jack is coming soon. What else is coming soon? New Watchful content that will continue the Scholar of the Correspondence storyline. There has already been an interesting opportunity card about Dr Schlomo that reveals the good doctor believes the Correspondence to be a [[Language of Magic]] that turns the speaker into a [[Reality Warper]]. These two things happening so closely together are unlikely to be a coincidence.