Cycle of Learning - Migratory Patterns - Card Two

 We continue with the second of the Migratory patterns. The second card's theme is the raven, and the color scheme is very Halloween. The front has a raven with rotated letters, if you 'un' rotate them, and count back the number of letters, like a Caesar, you get the correct letter. Under the raven spells Corvus, the genus for ravens, and beneath that is more text. My partner delves into that while I poke at the back.

The back has a typed message from our colleague 'Audubon', a stamp with an eye on it, cancelled in the UK on March 14th, with an X and a check next to it. On the right we have an odd message - spotted flying high above the capital a rare golden eagle - in halloweeny colors. Another message has stored at the station commonly called central in the architect's old office. Between lines there are what could be railroad tracks, or a way to connect letters between words. 

Once rotated, the front text reads "Located the Amber Room". We'd never heard of it, but it was actually a thing. Apparently stolen by Nazis. Possibly in a shipwreck, now. Wild. 

Meanwhile I'm making no progress on the back. My partner thinks the eye may just be showing us which way to rotate the letters. I'm convinced there's another set of cryptic-crossword/invisible idiots style clues in the long form text. Driving me insane. 

While I'm banging my head, my partner figures out the rare golden eagle comment - the colors represent the flag of Germany, which also has an eagle on it. That would fit with the stolen-by-Nazis theme. The capital would then be Berlin.

If we assume we're sticking with Germany, the central station would be the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and the architect is listed as Meinhard von Gerkan. Not sure where to go from there, though. 

I'm going nuts on the long form, so we get a clue. We were wrong about the stamps. Fran Wagner will be our contact. Still stumped on the architect thing, we look at the clue, and realize we had it. It's just stored at von Gerkan's office. Nothing tricky with the lines, no secondary puzzle. 

Our contact, Fran Wagner, will help us recover the Amber Room (its panels, presumably), all 13,000 lbs of which are apparently stored at the offices of Meinhard von Gerkan in Berlin. 

And that is the second card in Migratory Patterns from The Enigma Emporium. Not as satisfying, but done all the same.