Scavenger Hunt #2

Follow the clues, in order, around the world wide web. Every clue leads to the next online destination.

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Clue #1 led you to "poisonous mushrooms" allegedly connecting these three historical figures (perhaps amongst other possiblities?!) and Clue #2 told you it was a list. On the Wiki list under "suspicious" mushrooms (a designation I find hilarious for some reason), there was only one "kiwi" a.k.a. New Zealand species on the list: Amanita nehuta.

Digging in to the location where the species was originally described (and "not leaving just yet," so staying on Wikipedia) -- Wellington -- many of you eventually keyed on a "See also" page about "Pigeon statues in Wellington" (the use of the word "fanciest" in Clue #4 was a subtle nod as well, as "pigeon fanciers" are some of the most noted "fanciers" of all! From the reference link on this page, you saw a "MISSING" poster for Pepperoni the Pigeon, including a contact email: hello@eightyone.co.nz. Many of you made it here, and emailed Nails for the W3W hint: ///full.courier.birds (a.k.a. pigeons?! come on!).

With a W3W location in the heart of Fargo, ND, there was only one place on IMDb to go. Well, two, really (with the TV series in the mix)... but the tracing of one partnership (the Coen Bros.) or the other (longtime married couple Joel Coen and Frances McDormand) back to its origin all led back to one place: "Blood Simple" -- the first film for all of them! If you hadn't seen this movie, or not recently, you might've located the script and started CTRL+Fing like crazy! If you did, you likely found that Julian Marty had a key item on his to-do list at one point in the film: go fishing in Corpus Christi, and get yourself noticed there.

The official Corpus Christi Visitor's Center website has plenty of guides available as you plan your next trip there, fishing or otherwise. But it was the Fishing Guide we were after. On page 10, the tackle box has the abbreviation CCTX, which turns the cipher into: GO TO EIGHT. Using the map on pages 16-17, this took you to Padre Island National Seashore. On the official NPS site for PINS, several of you located the ol' artifact labeled PAIS 3792. I made pretty well sure this label was not readily searchable otherwise, and I think I succeeded!

From here, the technical components of the search were essentially over, and you had to follow my last inference: that the pictured artifact, a bottle of Dr. W. B. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, was somewhat akin to an old bottle of "Pepsi" (and yes, I realize that the original Pepsi formulation did not contain this form of pepsin, but essentially both products were intended to combat dyspepsia, or indigestion, and marketed as such). On Pepsi's Wikipedia page (when in doubt, always go back to The Source!), keen eyes noticed the bricks in question, which reside directly under an old Pepsi-Cola advertising mural in Toppenish, Washington, a small town whose current mayor is none other than Elpidia Saavedra.