I'm completely stumped, so I'll start contributing what I have starting with what I assert are all the truths/lies.
The lie for this round is the third one. We know that the
is important because it is clued by Herricksfourthend; it's at the end of the fourth line of the Herrick poem. The Herricksfourthend clue doesn't direct us to the poem itself, it points us to the
in the To Anthea poem which we should have already found.
Therefore 1 and C are the previous lies, so:
The theme is not Star Trek and Spock is a clue for his planet/race of Vulcan.
What makes H's poem special is apparent on the "face"
of it and it does not require additional sources.
It took the longest to find a photo of a red and white rose together to fit the general theme. I bet it's an abstraction of the tryst between Aphrodite and Ares (and that is the theme?).
Purple is Samantha's favorite color. It might be one of the three colors that we need to "win the game".
There are no book ciphers in the puzzle. This explains why that idea hasn't been working out.
Samantha has never been to Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, or their suburbs. Maybe this is meant to rule out locations similar to the one we are looking for.
It’s not fine to use a modern typeset version of the Herrick poem. This is because most modern versions remove the
.
No mathematical calculations are needed anywhere.
When you determine the three colors, and there is more than one method to do so, the city should be obvious.
The
in Herrick's poem is worth the Fuss and we should get all Fired up over it. I am puzzled by the
. Perhaps Fire = Vulcan and then Fuss = Aphrodite, Mars, Cupid, or Eros?
You need to go BOTG in the correct city and retrieve the proxy, which contains the final clue, to win. The final clue just sounds like a password to verify that the proxy has been found.
is important because it is clued by Herricksfourthend; it's at the end of the fourth line of the Herrick poem. The Herricksfourthend clue doesn't direct us to the poem itself, it points us to the