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Annabel Child

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==General==
*A potter residing in the [[Artist's Quarter]]

*Was present at the sentencing of [[Malcolm and Spencer Kaplan]].
**Had this to say: "Ever since the attacks began, I've been terrified to walk the streets at night. Now any would-be thug is going to think they can do what they like and get away with it. Where's the justice we were promised?"

==Refernces==
*Perplex City Sentinel
**article, 13-JUL-06 "[[Malcolm and Spencer Kaplan|Kaplan]] Verdict Issued" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/kaplan_trial_co.html}}

Nathan Earlywine

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{{Infobox Perplexian
|name=Nathan Earlywine
|image=[[Image:Nathan earlywine.jpg]]
|occupation=[[City Council]] Leader
|associations=[[City Council]], ran against [[Camryn Scott]], [[Douglass Finlay]]
}}

==General==
*[[Perplex City Council]] Leader

{{quote}}
'''[[Silburn-Griggs|Silver Mine]] Reopened'''

City officials today officially reopened one of the city's historic silver mines as a low-yield educational facility. "The mine will produce precious little silver at this point," said city council member Nathan Earlywine. "What we have built here is practically a museum, and will enable schoolchildren to experience what it was like for our forebears in the early days of Perplex City."

-- The Sentinel, 05-JUL-05
|}

==Political Stance==
*Believes defense budget "provides more than municipal defence"
*In favor of expensive upgrades to [[Ng General Hospital]]
*Entered the mayoral race against [[Camryn Scott]] and won on 18 OCT, 2006
*His campaign has had a very hands-on nature, touring schools, teaching civics lectures, and urging the students to give solutions to city problems.
*Encouraged opening the Old Silver Mines as historic educational centers
**Stated the mines will not produce large volumes of silver again, but are good for students to see the process
*In favour of open-air discussions (especially when they benefit him politically), and delivering tax breaks to "early-life renters"
*Largely filled with anti-Earth sentiments.

{{quote}}
Earlywine said that Earth was screwed up enough without us giving them extra ways to blow each other up." I gulped down some wine. 
"Bloody Earlywine," murmured [[Violet]], studying two books.
--[[Kurt]], [http://www.pathofleasttime.com/archives/2007/02/three_years.html 19-FEB-07]
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*In favour of a [[Public Resources Allocation Scheme]], which would upgrade and integrate all government offices in the Greater Perplex City region into a single centralised system.
**This plan has been met with some favor, but largely opposition based on fears of decreased representation and excess spending.
**Among those who oppose the plan are [[Citizens Watching Government]], led by [[Katya Yarrow]].

==Timeline==
===Election Trail===
*25-MAY-05 - Earlywine announces he will be running for Council Leader.
*20-OCT-05 - Earlywine's run for the Leader position is suddenly stymied by [[Douglass Finlay]].
*17-JUL-06 - First of many City Council Electoral Debates
**Earlywine made a proposal to significantly reduce the array of instruments included onboard the [[AQSYS]] aircraft over a period of years.
*25-AUG-06 - [[Finlay]] arrested; Earlywine expressed disgust, saying "Those who would seek a council seat should hold themselves to only the highest moral and intellectual standards."
*28-AUG-06 - took the opportunity of a massive power outage to point fingers at the Academy, who truly had nothing to do with the blackout.
**This was largely in response to [http://pxcacademy.com/office3.html an explanation] from Academy Master [[Sente Kiteway]].
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'''Scott, Earlywine Even in Polls'''

Recent polls indicate that sitting Council Leader [[Camryn Scott]] and Council Member [[Nathan Earlywine]], both candidates for the Council Leader post, are now running neck-and-neck in public opinion following popular candidate [[Douglass Finlay]]'s exit from the race. The poll also shows fellow candidate [[Shannon Powell]] trailing with a scant 2% of the vote, and a full 18% of those polled remained undecided.

[[Sentinel]], news in brief, 11-SEP-06
|}
*14-SEP-06 - Once again made a direct assault on [[Camryn Scott]] in one of his standard get-to-know-the-masses open air propaganda machines. Nothing new was stated. Hot button rhetoric in a three ring circus. The crowd seemed to like it, anyway.
*07/08-OCT-06 - Held a string of media appearances, including one at the [[Silent Heralds Club]], denouncing what he describes as a 'Culture of Earth Admiration'.
**It was observed that Earlywine was lagging behind in polls, and this slate of motivation may be just the thing to push the election one way or another.
*16-OCT-06 - [[The Sentinel]] reports on the goings on at [[Lancewood]] and [[Viendenbourg]], citing the experiments conducted on [[Jake Maine]] and numerous canines.
**[[City Council]] was called into immediate emergency session all day to discuss the matter.
*17-OCT-06 - After a vote of no confidence in Scott, it was announced that the City Council election is to be moved up to the 18th, just 1 day away.
**It was also mentioned Camryn Scott and [[Academy]] Master [[Sente Kiteway]] may face criminal proceedings for their deeds.
*18-OCT-06 - Earlywine wins the position by a 3% margin

===In Office===
*20-OCT-06 - Earlywine passes executive order NE-3309, which required the immediate lock-down of the Earth/Perplex City link.

*03-NOV-06 - Announced plans to Appoint an [[Academy Oversight Committee]]

*16-NOV-06 - [[Academy Oversight Committee]] Members Appointed

*01-DEC-06 - Not surprisingly, [[Sente Kiteway]] and the [[Academy Oversight Committee|Committee]] are showing signs of butting heads.

*05-JAN-07 - Was briefed on the discovery of the Earth Link Infiltration, and was quoted as saying that he found the matter "very disturbing."
**Planned an all-day session with his predecessor, Council Member Camryn Scott, to discuss the matter, suggesting that he may be open to a change in policy on the handling of the data link and interworld relations.

*15-JAN-07 - Earth link was reopened, since the firewall had been hacked anyway.
**[[Kurt]] was held responsible for the hacking, and was summarily suspended.
**Also, Earlywine's public opinion seems to be flailing.

*09-FEB-07 - commended those in the city, especially [[Helena Frye]], for her marvelous work at raiding and crippling [[The Third Power]] in the city.

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It has become clear to the City Council that the Third Power was an extremely dangerous group, and we authorised the [[police]] to spare no expense nor leave any stone unturned in their work to protect us all. ... Now that this danger has passed, we can strive to put this divisive and frightening time behind us and return to the work of building a better [[Perplex City]].
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*13-FEB-07 - Nathan Earlywine attends celebration ball alongside [[Camryn Scott]] but refuses to talk to anyone.

*01-MAY-07 - His [[PRAS]] was unanimously rejected by city council. A definite sign that power is waning.

==References==
*'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
**article, 12-APR-05 "Defence Budget Debated" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/defence_budget.html}}
**25-MAY-05, More Headlines "Earlywine Casts Hat in Ring"
**article, 31-MAY-05 "Hospital Begins Renovation" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/hospital_begins.html}}
**article, 06-JUN-05 "[[Nathan Earlywine|Earlywine]] Visits Schools" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/earlywine_visit.html}}
**news in brief, 05-JUL-05 "[[Silburn-Griggs|Silver Mine]] Reopened"
**article, 27-JUL-05 "Youth March Protests City Housing Policies" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/youth_march_on_1.html}}
**article, 20-OCT-05 "[[Douglass Finlay|Finlay]] Quits Consumer Giant in Run for Office" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/10/finlay_quits_co_1.html}}
**article, 17-JUL-06 "[[AQSYS]] Program Too Bloated, Needs Cutting, Says [[Nathan Earlywine|Earlywine]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_program_t.html}}
**article, 20-JUL-06 "[[Earlywine]] Presses Advantage in Debate" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/earlywine_press.html}}
**article, 25-AUG-06 "[[Finlay]] Arrested, Charged" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_arrested.html}}
**article, 28-AUG-06 "[[Academy]] Issues Denial of Involvement with [[The San Francisco Connection|Portal, Blackout]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/academy_issues.html}}
**news in brief, 11-SEP-06 "Scott, Earlywine Even in Polls"
**article, 14-SEP-06 "[[Earlywine]] Blasts [[Camryn Scott|Scott]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/09/earlywine_blast.html}}
**article, 28-SEP-06 "[[Camryn Scott|Scott]] Not Sweating Election, Insiders Say" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/09/scott_not_sweat.html}}
**article, 02-OCT-06 "[[Mind Candy]] Releases Stones Game on Earth" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/mind_candy_rele.html}}
**article, 05-OCT-06 "View from Earth: [[Earlywine]] in Disfavour" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/view_from_earth_52.html}}
**article, 09-OCT-06 "[[Earlywine]] Denounces 'Culture of Earth Admiration'" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/earlywine_denou.html}}
**article, 16-OCT-06 "[[Academy]], [[Camryn Scott|Scott]] [[VHC_tempfile|Implicated in Human Trials]] of [[War|Wartime]] Tech" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/academy_scott_i.html}}
**article, 17-OCT-06 "[[Camryn Scott|Scott]] Fails Vote of Confidence, Election Moved Up" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/scott_fails_vot.html}}
**article, 19-OCT-06 "[[Earlywine]] Wins Leader Post, [[Scott]] Retains Seat on [[Perplex City Council|Council]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/earlywine_wins.html}}
**article, 20-OCT-06 "Earth Link Locked Down by Executive Order" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/earth_link_lock.html}}
**article, 03-NOV-06 "[[Earlywine]] Planning to Appoint [[Academy Oversight Committee]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/11/earlywine_plann.html}}
**article, 01-DEC-06, "[[Kiteway]], [[Academy Oversight Committee|Committee]] Butting Heads" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/12/kiteway_committ.html}}
**article, 05-JAN-07 "Earth Link Infiltrated, Academy Says" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/01/earth_link_infi.html}}
**article, 15-JAN-07 "[[Earlywine]] Reversal: Earth Data Link Opened by [[City Council]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/01/earlywine_rever.html}}
**article, 09-FEB-07 "[[Council]] Speaks on [[Cube]], [[Third Power]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/02/council_speaks.html}}
**article, 19-FEB-07 "[[Violet|Pair]] [[Kurt|to]] Receive [[Leitmark|Award]] for Foiling [[Third Power]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/02/pair_to_receive_1.html}}
**article, 01-MAY-07 "[[Earlywine]] [[PRAS Initiative]] Rejected by [[City Council]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/05/earlywine_suffers.html}}

*'''The Path of Least Time'''
**blog, 19-JUL-06 "AQSYS" {{WaybackS1|www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys.html}}
**blog, 20-OCT-06 "Severed" {{WaybackS1|www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/10/severed.html}}
**blog, 19-FEB-07 "Three Years" {{WaybackS1|www.pathofleasttime.com/archives/2007/02/three_years.html}}

*'''The Ooze Zone'''
**blog, 20-OCT-06 "A Song for The Deaf" {{WaybackS1|www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/10/a_song_for_the.html}}

*'''Quirky Acuity'''
**blog, 20-OCT-06 "The End" {{WaybackS1|www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/10/the_end.html}}
**entry, 15-JAN-07 "Resumption of service" {{WaybackS1|www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2007/01/resumption_of_s.html}}

*Humour (mostly): [[Nathan Earlywine is Guided by Dark Forces]]
**Though really, the case against him is increasing exponentially, in the eyes of many on Earth and in the city.

{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Council|Council Leader]] |
predecessor = [[Camryn Scott]] |
successor = '''''incumbent'''''
}}
{{PXCC}}

Georges Perec

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{{Season1}}

===General===
*An Earth resident during the 20th century, in the country France
*March 7, 1936 - March 3, 1982
*A novelist, filmmaker and essayist, a member of the Oulipo group and considered by many to be one of the most important post-World War II authors
*In 1969, Perec composed a 500 word palindrome in French, or more specifically, a "twin palindrome", two 500-word-long pieces of text, each of which is a reversal of the other
*The full text of ''Le Grand Palindrome de Georges Perec'' may be found [http://homepage.urbanet.ch/cruci.com/lexique/palindrome.htm here]
*Perplexian, member of the [[Cube Retrieval Project]] and palindrome fan [[Anna Heath]] admires Perec

Perplexicon

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==0-9==

; 13th Labour : Nasty encrypted card. Will probably end up with a key of "elephant" and a plaintext containing ASCII art of Kurt naked. See also: ''Hideaway, Sekrit''.

; 333 : The hallowed group of elite players who have since mostly vanished from the game, having taken to either curtain masking employment, or to joining the ''3P'' and ruling Perplex city in an Illuminati-style fashion. fnord

; 3P, (Teh) schneeky : Helicopter-loving sekrit group with a penchant for universe-spanning conspiracies and vicious murders - who are all quite nice, really. You just have to get to know them, y'know?

==A==

; Asplode (v): To scatter oneself over a large radius. See also: ''Skenmy; Unasplode''.

==B==

; Ba-na-na (n): Sometimes, a kloo is not a kloo. It is, in fact, a ba-na-na. Ba-na-na is not a dismissive term, nor an insulting one, just used to imply that in Perplex City, as in life, things are often all that they seem and nothing more.

; BFC : You probably qualify in one way or another.

; Billion To One : Card requiring the player to track down a man who was probably happily minding his own business before some puzzle architect took his photo and stuck it on thousands of cards. Billion To One is part of the Will You Guys Please Stop Bothering Me set of cards. Perplexians are currently hunting for him. See also ''Satoshi'', ''13th Labour'', ''Shuffled'', and ''Riemann''.

==C==

; Cube, The (n) : The Receda Cube. Something which you should probably not sleep in the same room as for longer than a month. See Also: ''Guy''

==D==

; Dead, Kurt is : Insinuates the non-alive status of Kurt McAllister. Often results in other characters dying and/or shamefully bad limericks.
; Do Eet! : See also: ''Do It. DO EET!''
; Do It! : See also: ''Do It!, Don't.''
; Do It!, Don't : See also: ''Do It!'' ''or'' See also: ''Do Eet!''

==E==

; Elephant (n) : It's not a bloody elephant!

==F==

; Fip (v) : 1. "Totally fipped out" - became angry. 2. "Fipped off" - treated in a derogatory fashion.
; Fipper (n) : Derogatory term for an annoying individual.

==G==

; GuiN (v) : Marketing guru behind [[13th Labour]] and suspected solver of [[Shuffled]]. Was responsible for putting the snakes on the mother-fipping plane. He has already found the cube.
; Guy (n) : See also: ''Hair, Floppy''. He's a guy, who's called Guy. Isn't that hilarious?

==H==

; Hair, Floppy (n) : See also: ''Guy''.
; Helicopter : ''Highly Enigmatic Lifting and Ingenious Conveyance Of Particularly Thneekily Enigmatic Robots.'' Honest.
; Hideaway, Sekrit : Where GuiN, macmonkey, Chimera, and mj will head once the [[13th Labour]] client reaches 100%.

==I==

;IG (abb) : In Game. Inside the mindset of the truly hardcore ''TINAG'' player, a place without rules, laws of physics or puppetmasters.

==J==

; Jeb: Major Earth reality TV celebrity. After a stint in Beauty and the Greek (focusing on beautiful women in the classical literature), he went on to I'm A Celebrity: Get Me A Beer before marrying Jade Goody and starting a line of snailcare produce.

; Jem, To do a: You have to buy him a few drinks, first.

; Jem: is truly, truly outrageous.

; Jeremy?, Who is: A mole, he is. But who the eff is he?

; Jo's Rack: Is very impressive. Check it out for yourself! http://www.flickr.com/photos/74636791@N00/212082243/

==K==

; Kloo : Could be a typo, could be a clue; sometimes very shiny. See also: RSM.

; K00b, The : Like the Cube, but shinier and less likely to asplode.

==L==

; Leitmark (n) : A badge of honour in Perplex City, a badge of geekdom on Earth. Often seen worn by pavements across the world, due to shoddy pin back design. Available in a range of colours.

; Limerick : A highly crafted poem of mourning. See also: ''Dead, Kurt is''

; Loop, Recursive : See: ''Recursive Loop''

==M==

; Mind Candy : Similar to brainfuzz, but more sneeky.
; Mines, (In the, O in the) : To be underground and/or at risk of flooding/death. See also: ''Dead, Kurt is.''
; Mole, A : See also: ''Helicopter''.

==N==

; Naked, Kurt: Shut the hell up. That's not very funny. See also: ''Guy''.

; Neek : What sound would a tretretretre make, if a tretretretre could make a sound?

; Ninjas : Better than ''Pirates''

; Noes! : Well this is all a bit of a pickle, isn't it? See also: ''Yays''.

==O==

; [[OK13DTFC]] : Sneeky group; a bit like the 3P, but with fewer helicopters and more cravats.
; Onionring, To eat an : Oh my!
; OoG (abb) : Out Of Game. Outside of the joyous world we know and love as PerplexCity. See also ''TIAG''

==P==

; Perplexor, The : Stole all the children of Perplex City and sent them to Earth. See also: ''Season 2.''

; Pirates : Better than ''Ninjas''

; Project Syzygy : See also ''Season 0''. Life before cards?!

; PWN 4 : Ultimate ownage. Being PWN 4'd is akin to being set on fire, told the entire collection of 'Is Kurt Dead' limericks, forced to go on an adventure with Scarlett Kiteway and then operated on by the Third Power (who, coincidentally, are trying to work out the biological differences between people from Earth and people from Perplex City). See also: ''Anna''.

==R==

; Real life: See also: ''Don't do it!''

; Recursive Loop : See: ''Loop, Recursive''

; Rectabgle : Almost a rectangle, but not quite.

; Reimann : Card requiring the solution of a surprisingly hard problem regarding the distribution of tricycles over a front lawn. Obtaining a suitable number of tricycles would be impossible, and the consequences of placing them all on a front lawn would be catastrophic. Reimann is part of the Please Please Please Give Us The Answer set of cards. See also: Satoshi, Shuffled, and 13th Labour.

; [[RSM]] (abb) : The [[Random Speculation Monster]]. Lurks around various forums, preying on the open-minded and inducing them to get over-excited. Feeds on speculation, doesn't like to get hungry. You wouldn't like it when it gets hungry.

==S==

; Satoshi : Photograph on Billion To One which, once seen, will fatally confuse the owner after seven days.

; Season 0 : This season didn't happen. Got that? Good.

; Season 1 : Comes right before Season 2. See also: ''Season 2''.

; Season 2 : Comes right after Season 1. Probably has extra helicopters. See also: ''Season 1''.

; Season 3 : Comes right after Season 2 and a Season-and-a-bit after Season 1. Will probably involve tricycles after Season 2 spends the rest of the budget on helicopters. See also: ''Season 1'' and ''Season 2''.

; Sekrit : It's a sekrit!

; Shuffled : Designed by the Tricycle Playing Card Company and included in an effort to obtain sponsorship for Season 3.

; Squee! : Extreme delight! See also: ''OK13DTFC''.

==T==

; Tally, To do a : To type a line that was meant to be in one channel into another, with confusing and often hilarious consequences. [http://www.pxcbash.com See the quotes database].

; Thunderclap : A player with an unfortunate name; see: [[Puzzle Card Symbols]]. As a result, often combed.

; TIAG (abb) : This Is A Game. A game you say? I don't know what you are talking about...

; TINAG (abb) : This Is Not A Game. see ''TIAG''.

; TOS (abb): Tears Of Sadness. These usually appear when Guy is late with the newest Ask Mind Candy.

; TOA (abb): Tears of Anger. These follow shortly after Tears of Sadness and shortly before a torch-and-pitchfork bearing mob descends on Mind Candy Towers.

; Tretretretre (n) : A Perplexian creature prone to escaping from Polygon Park zoo. Extinct on Earth since a plague of diarrhoea wiped out the remaining breeding colonies. Care, and toilet roll, advised before approaching. See also : ''Neek''

==U==

; Unasplode (v) : To unscatter oneself around a large radius. See also: ''Asplode''.

==W==

; Wave 0.5 (n) : Some of the first print runs of Waves 1 (and 2?) were printed as "Wave 0.5". Sometimes used in verb form as the act of putting one's hands in the air, and not putting them down.

; Wave 1, 2, 3, 4 (n) : The four releases of cards in Season 1.

; Wave Fox (n) : Unofficial title of Wave Four. Named for Lord of the Freelancers Michael Fox, responsible for approximately 94% of said cards; ie, direct your complaints to idlemichael@gmail.com

; Wibbies : Affectionate disabbreviation of WB = Welcome Back. Can be given as a present or done as an action. The appropriate counter response is to ''Wibble''


 
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{{Humor}}

Talk:Cyrus Quinton

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I wonder if it's possible to set up the trail stuff in a different file? I was thinking about this earlier today, so it's been on my mind. I'd like to eventually set up some kind of timeline/trails walkthrough guide, so that all of that info would be on one page (but linking to the other specific trail pages). It's just getting crazily difficult to sort through the tons of information. ~Lhall

yeah! actually, i was thinking we have that [[Timeline]] page which is way way way way way out of date. I was thinking that should be -- well fFirst it should be re-written so it fFlows donw, not across -- Then it should be simplified to state specific events and points in time. Ideally, it would look something like the quite inclusive [[In-game Timeline]] page. I was thinking of the best way to orchestrate that, myself, today. Like I think it's not necesarry to plot out every event that ever happens on a single page. but it would be very very nice to list events. [[User:Scott|Scott]]

Definitely agree. I like Scarlett's timeline page, for example, but since there's no 3P timeline yet, it's really hard for me to find any of the info I've been looking for. I'll start taking a look at the old timeline pages and trying to figure out what we need, source-, timeline- and trail-wise, and where we can begin. ~Lhall

Gatehouse 12

2009-01-05T01:13:53Z

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{{Season0}}

*Gatehouse 12 is described on the back of the [[Perplex City Postcard]].

*It is the visitor's entrance into [[Perplex City Academy]] for the [[Academy Tours]].

==References==

*[[Perplex City Postcard]]
*Perplex city Academy Visitor {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcityacademy.com/visitors.html}}

Lyssa Ling

2009-01-05T01:13:37Z

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===General===
*27 years old
*Academy reality researcher
*Sister of [[S Ling]]
*"In love with" Earth style; present at opening of [[Earthworks]]
*Possibly friends with [[Violet Kiteway]]

===References===

'''Errorlog cache files'''
*Shoes Conversation (Part 1)
:[[Perplex City Errorlogs#2470936999.cache]]
*Shoes Conversation (Part 2)
:[[Perplex City Errorlogs#2662497757.cache]]
*Shoes Conversation (Part 3)
:[[Perplex City Errorlogs#5957496696.cache]]

*Talking to [[S Ling]] at [[Gatehouse 24]]
:[[Perplex City Errorlogs#6290435729.cache]]

*Mentioned in [[Sarah Covington]]'s email to [[Henrik Tanner]]
:[[Perplex City Errorlogs#9457138217.cache]]

'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
*article, "[[Earthworks]] Store Opens on [[Dalia Way]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/earthworks_open.html}}

'''Quirky Acuity''', [[Violet Kiteway]]'s blog
* possible mention (first name only), 27.05.05, "I'm in!" {{WaybackS1|www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/im_in.html}}

{{Gatehouse}}

2009-01-05T01:13:17Z

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[[Image:frontpage.gif]]

''This page lists advertisements, as seen in the [[Perplex City Sentinel]].''

==Perplex City Publications==
An effective mini banner, pointing readers at [http://www.perplexcity.com The Perplex City Website].

[[Image:Ad pxcpublications.gif]]

==[[Seaside Press]]==
[[Image:Ad-SSP.gif]]

==[[Gates, Franklin]]==
[[Image:GF-ad.png]]

==[[Earthworks]]==
[[Image:EW-ad.png]]

==[[Soupery]]==
[[Image:S-ad.png]]

[[Image:S2-ad.png]][[Image:S3-ad.png]]

==[[FractionMedia]]==
[[Image:FM-ad.png]]

==[[PCBC]]==
[[Image:ad-pcbc1.gif]]

[[Image:ad-pcbc2.gif]]

[[Image:ad-pcbc3.gif]]

{|
|[[Image:ad-pcbc4.gif]]
|[[Image:ad-pcbc5.gif]]
|[[Image:ad-pcbc6.gif]]
|}

==[[Ceretin]]==
[[Image:ad-ceretin.gif]]

[[Image:ad-ceretin2.gif]]
[[Image:ad-ceretin3.gif]]

==BBC Mind Games==
This is the only advertisement on the site which is for any non-perplexian product or service. Clicking on the ad in the sentinel takes the user to: http://www.bbcmindgames.com/

[[Image:Ad-bbcmindgames.gif]]

==[[Precious Stones]]==
Ostensibly, an ad for some sort of stone dealer, such as a jeweler. However this is something of a misdirection, as it is more realistically a potential rabbithole for the [http://www.perplexcityboardgame.com/ Perplex City Board Game Trail].

[[Image:Ad preciousStones.jpg]]

==[[The Academy]]==
[[Image:Banner-academy.jpg]] [[Image:Banner-cube.jpg]]

''See: [[Sente Kiteway]], [[Vaughn Mukherjee]], [[Cassia Temple]], [[The Receda Cube]]''

==The [[PCAG]]==
[[Image:Banner-pcag.gif]]
''"Sapere Alude" has been translated to ""''

==[[Synapse]]==
[[Image:Banner-synapse.jpg]]

22-OCT-05

2008-11-15T15:14:15Z

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{{Season1}}

==General==
After following [[The Receda Trail]], PXC players realized that they must gather together to intercept a secret [[Third Power]] rendezvous. So on October 22, 30-40 people gathered in Clapham Common - from forum regulars to people whose interest had been roused by an ad in the Oct. 20 Metro:

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
Secret Agents Required

Location: Zcxhixd Zfddfe

Date: Lxmpksxv 22es Fzmfyok

Time 2hd mf 5hd

Doom xm mio zfkeok fa Cfer Kfxs

xes Zcxhixd Zfddfe Lfpmi LNso.

N'd mkxzbner sfte x lozkom

fkrxenlxmnfe, xes N eoos vfpk ioch.

Na vfp'ko rffs tnmi hpwwcol xes ixqo

x loelo fa ndxrnexmnfe, mioe vfp'cc

sf tocc. Toxk Ifdominer hpkhco

ttt.toeoosmfanesmioe.zfd
|}

A simple cipher reveals the message to be:

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
Secret Agents Required

Location: Clapham Common

Date: Saturday 22nd October

Time 2pm to 5pm

Meet at the corner of Long Road

and Clapham Common South SIde. ''[sic]''

I'm tracking down a secret

organisation, and I need your help.

If you're good with puzzles and have

a sense of imagination, then you'll

do well. Wear Homething purple ''[sic]''

www.weneedtofindthen.com ''[sic]''
|}

==The puzzles==
[[Image:I need your help 126.jpg|thumb|Map Back Text]]

Armed with maps from [http://weneedtofindthem.com our anonymous friend] and organized by [http://www.fneh.net/guy/thelastkeyword/ GuyP], players arrived in Clapham Common wearing the requisite purple.

After groups began to congregate, a motorbike dropped off a package containing folders with maps and instructions, and the basic treasure trail, with five tasks in five locations (plus one virtual).

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
The Third Power will be holding a rendezvous today, not long from now, less than a mile away from here. I wasn't able to find out exactly where, but I do know how you can figure it out. They've set up five puzzles in order to tell their agent the rendezvous location. I've marked where these tests are on the map on the back of this sheet.

Between them, these puzzles will give you a codebook and four keywords. You can use them together to figure out a password. There's also some kind of online puzzle that will reveal a page where you can type in this password. Once you've done that, it should give you the final pieces of information you need to get to the rendezvous.
|}

So, the PXC players divided themselves into five groups, and commenced solving.

===Online: 3P.html, the rapidly winding trail===
''The reader should understand how crazy this all was! Every 5 minutes, new pages were cropping up all over! -Scott''

Our trail of the day began at:
*http://secure.recedaresorts.com/3p.html

''3p.html'' kept a running update of changes. Immediately, this was noted:
*''Updated Receda Approach is now active and ready''
Which led us to look at this page:
*http://www.therecedaapproach.com/interview.html

This immediately made the astute think of other sites:
*http://www.therecedasign.com/stills.html

Carefully, it was noted the logical connection would be the song, mentioned in the "approach" interview.
*http://www.therecedasign.com/sculptor/

Once again, wise hands referred to past trail efforts, and dialed up the somnatherapy line. The sculptor page had a series of numbers, which gave clues about what to dial in what order.

The ''3p.html'' page was once again updated to say:
*'' /mirror music puzzle confirmed to lead on to private dir on Receda's Revenge''
This led us to look here:
*http://www.recedaschoolofmusic.com/mirror/

However, the song being played is ''The Moonlight Sonata''
*http://www.re-cedasrevenge.com/moonlightsonata/

The long and very interesting path you are led on leads you here:
*http://www.re-cedasrevenge.com/moonlightsonata/jakldf.html

Carrying on from above we got:
*http://www.recedaresorts.com/luminary/

Caps on the page give you bookitnow:
*http://www.recedaresorts.com/bookitnow

Which redirects to:
*'''http://secure.recedaresorts.com/trackaccess/'''

'''On IRC, we've broken up into 4 channels.....'''

===The Coordinates===
*The starting point appears to be up around '''5z'''
*X7 - Cast Adrift ''(boats & islands)''
*T11 - Radio Play ''(photos)''
*M12 - Buried Secrets ''(briefcase braille)''
*S18 - Boxed Delight ''(sudoku)''
*AA2 - Journey's End ''(codebook)''

===Cast Adrift===
''courtesy brat-sampson on UF''
Coordinates: X7

Upon reaching the small lake marked on the map, the group discovered three objects floating around in it. After much discussion and debating over how to retrieve them, including some poor souls almost willing to sacrifice their dryness for the cause, an individual pointed out handy strings which could be used to withdraw the objects from the water.

Inside were square pieces of paper each devided into a 3x3 grid. There were 18 pieces altogether, 2 identical sets of nine. These were all maps of a wide expanse of water with named islands and boats in certain squares. The boats all had directions underneath to denote the paths they travelled from island to island (e.g. N SE W E S) with the goal being to use this info to arrange the grid correctly and find out which island was visited by all boats (assuming that the boat continues in said direction until an island is reached before changing direction to the next one, etc without going off the side) This puzzle got very close to being solved in the time limit but unfortunately the final answer was not deduced in the given time. Looks like it would've been GREEN though. CORRECTION: Actual answer to solved puzzle was GAUGE island.

*<uneasyjd> just spoke to guy (lake team)
*<uneasyjd> they found 9 map pieces (simple grid system) - boats and islands on the map
*<uneasyjd> need to assemble complete map based on instructions on each of the boats
*<badger_burrow2005> my brother and his mate have retrieved a map
*<badger_burrow2005> and a clue saying "the boats weigh anchor and move from island to island. Which islands do the boats dock in?"

*<uneasyjd> ok - i've got detailed descriptions from guy
*<uneasyjd> 9 map pieces - each a 3x3 grid
*<uneasyjd> 1 - top row center - 'WEIGH ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> 2 - top row left - 'GREEN ISLAND', middle row center - boat 'GILLIGAN'S FOLLY'
*<uneasyjd> 3 - top row center - 'TIME ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> 4 - middle row center - boat 'CLOUDMAKER', middle row right 'BENCH ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> 5 - middle row center - 'RIGHT ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> 6 - top row center - boat 'BLACK PEARL', middle row left 'OLIVE ISLAND', middle row center 'GAGE ISLANDS'
*<uneasyjd> 7 - bottom row left - 'POWER ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> 8 - top row rightt - 'LEVEL ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> 9 - middle row right - 'NEVER ISLAND', bottom row left - 'TOOTH ISLAND'
*<uneasyjd> each number represents a different map piece
*<uneasyjd> ok - each boat has a list of directions - the travels from it's starting point in the 1st given direction until it hits an island, then turns in the 2nd direction until it hits another island, etc.
*<uneasyjd> GILLIGANS FOLLY - s-se-n-n-s-w-w
*<uneasyjd> CLOUDMAKER - nw-e-sw-n-n
*<uneasyjd> BLACK PEARL - n-e-s-e-nw-w-s
*<uneasyjd> there is only one island that all 3 boats will visit, and that's the answer
*<uneasyjd> we've just got to assemble the map and sort it all out

[[Image:T boat puzz 142.jpg|thumb]]
*This puzzle was later [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=198279#198279 solved in the unforums] by [[User:sixsidedsquare]].
*Photos of the puzzle solvers are here: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/77797544@N00/sets/1203383/ flickr.com]

===Buried Secrets===
====Summary====
The team that headed out here was included brat-sampson, and Jeb, who was in contact with Jakeo by phone. Upon arriving at a patch of gravel, they discovered 3 aluminium suitcases, two of which were padlocked.

====First briefcase====
The first contained two jigsaw puzzles that appeared to have braille on it in the form of orange and purple fish. Referencing the braille page on wikipedia ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille]) The page as translated into a sequence of numbers:

*<Scott> talk to me jakeo
*<Jakeo> was on phone
*<Jakeo> ok
*<Jakeo> I'll convert each number given to me into a 6 digit binary
*<Jakeo> 12
*<Jakeo> 34
*<Jakeo> 56
*<Jakeo> does that make sense?
*<Scott> thats fFine
*<Jakeo> 110000
*<Jakeo> 110100
*<Jakeo> 100100
*<Jakeo> 100100
*<Jakeo> 101100
*<Jakeo> 011000
*<Jakeo> 100000
*<Jakeo> 110100
*<Jakeo> 110100
*<Jakeo> 101000
*<Jakeo> 110000
*<Jakeo> 110000
*<Scott> 345589144833
*<Scott> i'm rechecking it now.
*<step> new on the secure page | · Braille number puzzle was confirmed to be in locked briefcases prior to start
*<step> in green text
*<Jakeo> they broke it open
*<Jakeo> :)
*<Scott> heh
*<Scott> well
*<Scott> ok
*<Scott> 345589144233 is right .. so you know. :)

345589144233

The team on the ground solved this sequence to be:

34+55=89
89+144=233
144+233=377

377 was the combination to the padlocked suitcase.

====Second briefcase====
This case was initially opened by brute force methods, but the combination was 377. Inside the padlocked suitcase was another two jigsaw puzzles with coconuts and palm trees spelling out the number sequence 641 643 647 653. This is a prime number sequence, with the next being 659. This was the combination the the third suitcase.

====Third briefcase====
The third case (rumoured on irc to contain sudoku, see Boxes of Delight) contained another two jigsaw puzzles.

{|
|[[Image:jigsaw3i.jpg|thumb|Maple Leaves]]
|[[Image:jigsaw3ii.jpg|thumb|Maple Leaves]]
|}

This has maple brown and orange maple leaves which spell out MATCH 1 5 7 13 23. Match is presumed to be the keyword, the number sequence remains a mystery.

'''Comedy Moment'''
While on the phone with Jakeo describing the puzzle Jeb says 'Oh, okay. We've just smashed open one of the suitcases and are working on the next puzzle'

===Boxes of Delight===

There was a fifth group on the ground who went to the location marked on the map by 'Boxes of Delight' but came past the 'Buried Secrets' group saying that they couldn't find anything (hence the confusion online as to where the sudokus came from - they were not in a 'Buried Secrets' briefcase). Fortunately a member of the group went and found sudokus in plastic cases attached to the trees. One box was ringed in red on each puzzle, and there were musical notes on the back of each. It was theorised that putting each puzzle in order of the length of the note on the back would have lead to a 33 digit number that could be used to find the keyword, but there was not enough time to solve all of them and the puzzle remains unsolved.

===Journey's end===
*<Jakeo> sken has found the code book

*<buzman> apparently this one was the codebook
*<buzman> which has been found
*<buzman> but not heard anything from them

===Radio Play===

[[Image:Map 425.jpg|thumb|Map]]

The handouts specified a telephone number, which instructed people to go to:
*http://secure.recedaresorts.com/radiofeed.html

The radio play team had to ring in the radio show, take pictures of themselves doing specific things:

*Two goals in one
*King of the Hill
*Stand and Deliver
*Banned Bands
*Railing Against Nature
*West Side Massive
*Parliament of Trees
*Windmill

Then send them to the 'online team', who put them up for us to see as a link off the [http://secure.recedaresorts.com/radiofeed.html radiofeed]. When they'd done them all it gave us the codeword '''ether''' which then let us get through the authenticate page.

==They took pity on us...==
The goal, at length, was to get 4 keywords, which was then fed to a codebook, and placed in a webpage:

http://secure.recedaresorts.com/trackaccess/index.php

However as the last minutes ticked down, we only needed one keyword. The security protocols had changed.

'''http://secure.recedaresorts.com/locationtracker.html'''

This led us (them, really) on a wild and crazy run around london!!

*<MasterCheese> get to jedburgh street people!
*<MasterCheese> NOW

What took place then was a string of wild chases, running through the streets of London!! To cut through the enthusiasm a bit, when Chippy finally reached the end of the run, the ''3p.html'' page was reporting all sorts of cataclysm!

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
[http://secure.recedaresorts.com/monitoring/index.html · Report from 08: Have arrived, are evaluating last puzzle. Further UEN activity information on route.]

· Operative 8 is compromised. Abort mission. Evacuate now.

· ALPHA SHUTDOWN. Don't try to follow us.
|}

==Or did they have us in a large complex snare all along?==

'''http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414503@N00/55298438/'''

We'll let Brat-sampson fill in what happened next:

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"
| At this point it becomes a tad confusing as the next step consisted of a rather long walk/run following directions given to Ollie via the online people. This eventually terminated in an alley next to a heliport where there were a series of posters in around 4 different designs with bizzarre symbols on them and writing telling us to remain where we were and stay vigilant.

Somebody standing on a bench then spotted that some people were walking out of the center towards the main doors and by the time I got back around to the main gates I was informed that two shady looking men had escorted one of us (or so i thought) onto the helicopter. After realising that he was in fact the mole sent by the 3P to keep tabs on our progress there was much booing, jeering and unspeakable hand gesturing towards him as he escaped in his shiney black helicopter (Yes it was really cool, despite being mildly irritating that the guy we'd spent the day with had played us all for fools)

As a finale it was discovered that the mole had left behind his backpack, which he'd been carrying around all day and which contained many many packs of cards, [[leitmark]]s for all and a 'thanks for coming along' notice from MC along with a promise that the first round of drinks was on them.
|}

[[Image:Watch.jpg]]

''The note dropped by O8, which reads "From O1: Watch"''

At that moment, the ''3p.html'' page was updated to link to:
*http://secure.recedaresorts.com/monitoring/index.html

It suddenly became apparent: The unidentified person beckoning us to help them was in fact an operative with [[The Third Power]]. The whole trail had been a lengthy drawn out procecss to see how tenacious we really were.

All was not lost. a discussion between 08 and 01 was observed, and linked to here:
*'''http://therecedaapproach.com/remembrance/'''

In 48 hours, the trail picked up here; See: [[3PGroupwareManager]]

==References==

* http://recedaresorts.com/accessmainframe/
* http://www.weneedtofindthem.com/
* http://www.fneh.net/guy/thelastkeyword/

* http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414503@N00/ - kirjava's flikr, which captures some terrific moments in the day

{{Receda}}

{{3P}}

Meta:Spam Blacklist

2008-08-07T17:31:54Z

Edgemaster:

# <pre>
#
# In simple terms:
# * Everything from a "#" character to the end of the line is a comment
# * Every non-blank line is a regex fragment which will only match inside URLs
#
# Internally, a regex is formed which looks like this:
#
# !http://[a-z0-9\-.]*(line 1|line 2|line 3|....)!Si
#
# A few notes about this format. It's not necessary to add www to the start of
# hostnames, the regex is designed to match any subdomain. Don't add patterns
# to your file which may run off the end of the URL, e.g. anything containing
# ".*". Unlike in some similar systems, the line-end metacharacter "$" will not
# assert the end of the hostname, it'll assert the end of the page.
#

# Test blacklist
example\.com

# Spammer URL partials added 2006-10-16
casino-games
adipex
tramadol

# Spammer URL partials added 2006-12-22 because of User 1166728278
dgo5d.info
ringtone

# More spam terms, added 2007-06-10
diazepam
xenical
ringtones
wellbutrin
ativan
viagra
lorazepam
vicodin

# Pages that have been hacked (the spam keywords aren't in the URL, so blacklist isn't effective against the link)
stanford.edu/seminar
sunysb.edu
bc.edu
sc.edu
ku.edu
usc.edu
msoe.edu

# More spammy URLs from 2007-08-17
helmed.info
nobinters.org
davte.info
amohseni.info
psisemiya.com
ashythro.info
kinuia.cn

# More on 2007-08-19
ifrance.com

# 2007-08-22
rigour.info
110mb.com

#2007-08-30
sneck.info
primonona.info
funkall.us
veggis.org
klohy.info
budget7i.info
svike.info
manoke.cn
xionny.cn
wedner.info
soler.net.cn
polex.com.cn

#2008-08-07
chaosantiques.com
travelchinaplanner.com
hkcbn.org
16885.com

#</pre>

Tretretretre

2007-10-17T17:01:10Z

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==Tretretretre on Earth==

[[Image:Tretretretre.gif]]

===General===
*The tretretretre is a ledgendary half man/half lemur on the island of Madagascar. It was also said to be a dog/human/monkey-faced lemur with monkey paws, and was the size of a 2 year old calf.
*It is often believed that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy Malagasy] legends of the tretretretre refer to the Megaladapis (an extinct giant lemur), but the details of these tales, notably the "human-like" face of the animal, match the related [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeopropithecus_ingens Palaeopropithecus] (extinct) much better
*Perplex City has tretretretres in their zoo, leading to the tretretretre developing a large following among Earth-based Cube hunters
*[[Kurt McAllister|Kurt]] has also stated that his favorite animal is the tretretretre ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/oistin_and_von.html link])

===Encyclopaedic entry===
*Sub-class: Placentalia
*Order: Primates
*Family: Lemuridae (Lemurs)
*Species: Megaladapis edwardsi
**Megaladapis is the genus of three extinct species of primates that once inhabited the island of Madagascar ([http://www.primates.com/primate/megaladapidae.html link])
*Learn more about lemurs of Madagascar! ([http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/bio/f/lemurs.20060401/essays/82_2.php link])

[[Image:Tretretretre2.JPG|center|The lovely tretretretre]]

<blockquote>
The giant lemur Megaladapis edwardsi was one of the largest of the so-called subfossil lemurs. It weighed between 100 and 200 pounds and was the size of a small adult human. Among its most distinctive features was its muzzle: long and extremely robust, it evidently supported a large, fleshy nose or proboscis (a lemur with a trunk, perhaps?). This and related species of Megaladapis are common in subfossil sites along the western shore of Madagascar, as well as the interior. Recent radiocarbon dates establish that this lemur was still living around the time of European discovery of Madagascar (AD 1504). The lemur's common name, if correctly attributed, relates to a Malagasy oral tradition of the "tretretretre," an animal the size of a calf with a humanoid face. 
 
"The tretretretre is a large animal, like a calf of two years, with a round head and the face of a man. The forefeet are like those of an ape, as are the hindfeet. It has curly hair, a short tail, and ears like a man's...It is a very solitary animal; the people of the country hold it in great fear and flee from it, as it does from them." 
 
(From observations on the natural history of Madagascar recorded by the French explorer Etienne Flacourt in 1661.)
</blockquote>

==Tretretretre in Perplex City==

===General===

It was revealed during [[Receda's Revenge|Receda's Revenge 2]] that Tretretretre are not the same animals as we know of them on Earth. They are, in fact, more elephant-like in appearance. Tretretretre are known to live in a pen at the [[Perplex City Zoo]], right next to an animal that looks like the Tretretretre from Earth (See above). As an aside, The Missing Piece bar has a tretretretre head on the wall.

[[Image:Tretretretre outline.JPG]]

{{quote}}
The [[Sentinel]] - 01/05/270 - '''Biology Find'''

Biologists from [[Besley-Mazy College]] say they have deciphered the mechanism that causes some breeds of tretretretre to develop varying hues and amounts of pigment in their fur, a find some fear may lead to the development of vanity strains of tretretretre.
|}

==Wordplay==
*The word "tretretretre" contains repetitive [http://www.sanjeev.net/wordplay/Repetitive-identically-spelled-syllables.html identically spelled syllables] and is often cited in lists of these "repeaters" ([http://unholyhours.blogspot.com/2006/05/cadang-cadang.html link])

==References==

*[[Receda's Revenge|Receda's Revenge 2]]

*Perplex City Map
**Perplex City Zoo ([http://perplexcitymap.com/?location=82 link])

*[[Oistin Meade]]'s survey
**[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=233320&sid=8f80b88d3baa5920c19c597ac3b1cce8#233320 link]

*[http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/03/the_great_polic.html Perplex City Police incident report]
**[18:54] MB: Vehicle crashed into wall of zoo, multiple tretretretres escaped
**[19:28] RLW: Tretretretre spotted in Taversen Square

*[[Kurt]]'s blog, The Path of Least Time
**25-APR-06, "[[Oistin]] and [[Von]]" ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/oistin_and_von.html link])

*The Perplex City Sentinel
**more headlines, 22-JUN-06 "New Tretretretre Fashions"

*[[Violet]]'s blog, Quirky Acuity
**16-JAN-07 "Cursed" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2007/01/cursed.html link])

List of gold card holders

2007-09-03T23:25:51Z

Edgemaster:

{{Season1}}

This is a list of who owns which gold card.
If anyone could add to this, it would be appreciated.
Note: Bolded names are not the final owner, i.e., the card indicated has been established as a prize in a competition, or is for sale on eBay.

{| cellpadding=5 border=1
|-
| '''Number'''
| '''Owner'''
| '''Signed?'''
| '''How They Got It'''
| '''Link'''

|-
| #021
| xxsammisamxx
| Yes
| Card Pack
|
|-
| #025
| '''PremierGames'''
| Yes
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #029
| cthrag yaska
| Yes (x7)
| eBay
|

|-
| #033
| MikeyJ
| Yes
| ebay
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110040255852 EBAY LINK]

|-
| #043
| '''PremierGames'''
| Yes
| Card Pack
|
|-
| #048
| Albion01
| Yes
| eBay
|
|-
| #062
| mgoosea1
| Yes
| eBay
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/257-The-Cube-GOLD-PERPLEX-CITY-Wave-4-perplexcity-RARE_W0QQitemZ110039237015QQihZ001QQcategoryZ219QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #063
| '''dragonscales'''
| Yes
| Extreme Puzzling Comp
| 2007-08-24: [http://cgi.ebay.com/Perplex-City-Gold-Card-257-The-Cube-VERY-rare_W0QQitemZ260152926798QQihZ016QQcategoryZ141174QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem Now for sale on eBay]
|-
| #069
| Jaikaiman
| Yes (Personally signed by Divinia and Adrian)
| Gift from Mind Candy for outstanding contributions to the community
| [http://www.perplexme.co.uk]

|-
| #073
| GIIRyudo
|
| Scarlett Code
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=268016 UF link]

|-
| #075
| GIIRyudo
|
| Scarlett Code
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=268016 UF link]

|-
| #078
| sjbuknewc
| Yes (personalised message added by Michael Smith)
| From Mind Candy
|

|-
| #080
| hickmott55
| No
| eBay-?
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PERPLEX-CITY-LIMITED-EDITION-GOLD-257-THE-CUBE-80-333_W0QQitemZ190030407935QQihZ009QQcategoryZ219QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #083
| daveowen82
| No
| Ebay
|

|-
| #085
| '''Undecided'''
| No
| Ebay
|[http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110039503824 ebay link]

|-
| #088
| '''SteveC'''
| No
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
|

|-
| #089
| Kel in London
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #090
| Ixalon
| No
| Card pack
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PerplexCity-Gold-257-090-333-The-Cube-Perplex-City_W0QQitemZ130022590441QQihZ003QQcategoryZ219QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #093
| manleym
|
|
|

|-
| #095
| Unrealt87
| Not originally, has had signatures added by MC staff at PXC events.
| Boardgame Testing
| IRC

|-
| #097
| '''undecided'''
| No
| eBay-?
| [http://cgi.ebay.com/PERPLEX-CITY-NEW-WAVE-4-GOLD-257-THE-CUBE-PERPLEXCITY_W0QQitemZ170025499436QQihZ007QQcategoryZ219QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #100
| Methos(pedia)
| No
| eBay
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110039503824 ebay link]

|-
| #101
| Kradlum
|
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16224&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 UF link]

|-
| #114
| Amadeus
| Yes (on day)
| CubeFest 06 Prize
|

|-
| #115
| MikeJ
| No
| Extreme Puzzling Prize
|

|-
| #141
| Gigabyte
| No
| 1st Prize Season 1 Party Cubed
|

|-
| #142
| duckiemonster
| No
| No idea (gift)
|

|-
| #152
| Ficklepickle
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #159
| number9dream
| No
|
|

|-
| #161
| SAINTSPI
| No
| eBay
|

|-
| #163
| FairmontKing
| No
| Trade
|

|-
| #168
| Sophiecat
|
| Card Pack
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16224&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 UF link]

|-
| #177
| ChildOfSai
| No
| eBay
|

|-
| #185
| Ixalon
| No (Signed on day)
| Cubefest 06 Prize
|

|-
| #189
| Lauria
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #197
| Afgncaap5
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #217
| gmsmigun
| No
| eBay-Card pack
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Perplex-City-GOLD-card-The-Cube-257-Wave-4-perplexcity_W0QQitemZ230023070550QQihZ013QQcategoryZ2535QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #228
| mikej
| No
| Theme Song Comp
|

|-
| #237
| simonw2000
|
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16224&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 UF link]

|-
| #242
| doublecross
| No
| Wave 4 Launch Comp
|

|-
| #248
| rgmward
| No
| Card Pack
| [http://www.perplexcity.com/profile/view.qbuild?player=rgmward Perplexcity Profile]

|-
| #250
| Tally
| No
| Extreme Puzzling Comp
|

|-
| #255
| _izzy_
| No (but signed by Michael and Adrian at End of S1 Party)
| Extreme Puzzling Comp
|

|-
| #257
| '''Chutzy'''
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #258
| '''Undecided'''
| No
| Ebay
|

|-
| #264
| Mima
| No
| eBay
|

|-
| #276
| '''PremierGames'''
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #278
| doctorclark
| No
| Trade
| [http://perplexcity.com/player/doctorclark/ Perplexcity Profile]

|-
| #280
| ben9000uk
| No
| Card pack
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLD-Perplex-City-Card-257-The-Cube-LIMITED-EDITION_W0QQitemZ230029746676QQihZ013QQcategoryZ141174QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #284
| Patrol
| No
|
|

|-
| #286
| Gauntlet
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #290
| NetArranger
| No
| Ebay
| [http://perplexcity.com/player/netarranger/ Perplexcity Profile]

|-
| #292
| MasterCheese
| No
| Extreme Puzzling Comp
|

|-
| #299
| Flabyo
| No
| Cubefest 06 prize
|

|-
| #306
| Maurize
| No
| Card Pack
|

|-
| #324
| jojojojo
| Yes
| Video Comp
|

|-
| #325
| Seej
|
| Video Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15644&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 UF link]

|-
| #326
| ksjackson
| Yes
| eBay-Video Comp
| [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Perplex-City-GOLD-Card-257-The-Cube-perplexcity-RARE_W0QQitemZ280015656523QQihZ018QQcategoryZ2535QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ebay link]

|-
| #330
| Unknown
| Yes (by Divinia, Michael and Adrian)
| Originally prize for perplexme.co.uk compo, sold off when site closed.
| [http://www.perplexme.co.uk]

|-
|
| randomkevlar
| Yes
| Video Comp
| [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15644&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 UF link]

|-
|
| '''Jaffasworld'''
| Yes
| Jaffasworld-Card Pack
| [http://jaffasworld.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=47_178 jaffa's world link]
|}

Meta:Spam Blacklist

2007-08-27T19:37:35Z

Edgemaster:

Meta:Spam Blacklist

2007-08-22T11:29:30Z

Edgemaster: Protected "Meta:Spam Blacklist": its a critical page, only admins add to it [edit=sysop:move=sysop]

Meta:Spam Blacklist

2007-08-22T11:28:10Z

Edgemaster:

Main Page

2007-07-30T23:17:03Z

Edgemaster:

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'''Perplex City, Season 2: Cancelled indefinitely.'''

I'm overwhelmingly sad about all this. Absolutely calamitous.

I was just about to edit [[Template:Season2]], which says "A million stories, yet to be told." I was going to sadly change it to something like "A million stories, we'll never know," or "A million stories, hung out to dry." Those seemed sort of bitter. "A million stories, secreted away" sort of romanticizes it too much, and "A million stories, a million tears" seemed downright lame.

So I was thinking, then, on conversations I'd had with Andrea earlier. She was telling me about the last updates, and how she was sort of sad about having to make a new archive page, just to fFill it with all these sad things. Someone suggested she just slap it up and call it done, but she decided, no. Love Perplex City, right to the bitter end. It deserves better than any kind of maltreatment. And she's right. To piss all over it now would be an utter and complete dis-service to everyone and everything.

Here's my point. The wiki will stay up indefinitely. And as the rest of the puzzle cards come out, we will endeavor to scrutinize and calculate the subtle intricacies which have gone into them, just as we always have. We will do no such thing as markup pages with gloomy messages or portents of tragedy. The city is not dead. The city lives on in all of us. We, the players, you and I, made it what it is. Really. It is our job, our duty, to preserve and catalog the honor and history of Perplex City.

::-- [[User:Scott|Scott]] 01:58, 3 June 2007 (PDT)
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===Game Overview===

'''Season 1:''' [[The Receda Cube]] was stolen from the [[Academy]] [[Museum]] in a daring heist. Through clever use of [[Puzzle Cards]] sent to Earth by [[Sente Kiteway]], as well as deucedly clever gumshoeing by everyone involved, we discovered [[Violet Kiteway]], Sente's daughter, stole the cube to protect it from [[The Third Power]].

'''Season 2:''' After foiling [[V]] at the [[Radio 1 Big Weekend]], [[Mind Candy]] announced a premature end to what promised to be a good set of stories.

===Hot Topics===
*'''The Season 1 card [[Shuffled]] ({{Card|243|Shuffled}}) has finally been solved!'''

[[Image:Apolyton-header.jpg|150px|right]]
* [[Apolyton Institute]] has been researching some highly suspect designs. New Puzzle Scribe [[Cassia Temple]] used to work there, and supplied [[Violet]] with some boggling plans
[[Image:Shovel.jpg|150px|right]]
* [[Silburn-Griggs]] Mining Company appears the latest front for the nefarious [[Third Power]]. See [http://www.silburngriggsmining.com/ their new site] for the hidden front door to their big plan.
* [[Paul Denchfield]] has a [http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/ blog] in which he is working to expose [[Cyrus Quinton]] as a villain to be dealt with. Let's just hope he doesn't get himself killed to death!
* [[Frozen Indigo Angel]] was an elaborate mind control scheme, set to launch at BBC [[Radio 1 Big Weekend]], and was foiled by dedicated agents like you!



===Information Archive===

[[Image:French.gif|left|34px]]
* Looking for the French Puzzle Card translation project? See: [[Perplexe Cité]]
* A la recherche de Perplexe Cité ? Suivez [[Perplexe Cité|le guide]]!

*'''[[Links list]]''' - Everything linking to Perplex City, everyone, every company, every blog, every site maintained by people in the city; it's all found here.

*'''[[Site services]]''' - The ARGing community is absolutely rich with links to, from, and about Perplex City! From IRC logs to Google-style maps, you'll find it all here. All the important stuff, all in one easy to locate resource.

*'''[[Puzzletools]]''' - ARGers old and new may find use for these crypto and organizational tools.

*'''[[Unsolved mysteries]]''' - Many questions. There are secrets in every corner of this city. We attempt to collect the most pertinent ones here.

*'''[[Trails]]''' - Cataloging major events in the city is something of a concerted effort. This page collects pages which chronicle events big and small, past and present. A page pointing to other pages. A meta-page, if you will.

*'''[[Main Characters]]''' - The city is populated by 5 million people. most of them are none of our business. Some of them, however, are especially interesting.

*'''[[Site Mirrors]]''' - Care to see what has come before? Read it all at length here.

*'''[[Misc Documents]]''' - With great questions come great answers. sometimes, in the form of paper. sometimes in the form of more questions.

*'''[[Perplex City Humour]]''' - . . . Let's lighten up a bit.

===Unsolved Cards===
Four [[puzzle cards]] remain unsolved.
*[[The Thirteenth Labour]] ({{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}}) - Come join the concerted effort to solve this puzzle, download the client and follow progress at the [http://www.13thlabour.tk Assault on 13th Labour] site.
*[[Billion to One]] ({{Card|256|Billion to One}}) - A person must be located by just a photo; the card is meant to test the "six degrees of separation" concept by having us send emails around the world. Websites dedicated to the card are [http://www.billion2one.org/ billion2one], [http://haveyouseenhim.info/ haveyouseenhim], and [http://www.findsatoshi.com/ findsatoshi].
*[[Riemann]] ({{Card|238|Reimann}})- It's not really meant to be solved.

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===Getting Started===
''Look Here First!''

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_Game What Is An ARG?] A comprehensive wikipedia article
* [http://www.unfiction.com/gs.html Getting Started In ARGs] An intro to the ARG genre

* Forums:
** [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=187 UnFiction Forums]
** [http://www.perplexorum.com Perplexorum discussion Forums]
** [http://forums.perplexcity.com/ Perplexcity.com Forums]

* IRC:
** #syzygy @ irc.chat-solutions.org:6667
** #perplexorum @ irc.appliedirc.com:6667
** [http://appliedirc.com/logs/perplexorum/ #perplexorum Full Logs] - Full IRC logs of #perplexorum

* [[FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]
* Check the [[Perplex_City_Wiki:Discussion|Perplex City Wiki Discussion]] for wiki changes and administrata

===Season 2, getting up to speed===
* Since the Cube's return, Violet has become something of a sleuthing celebrity. Read her blog at a new address: http://www.violetunderground.com/
* [[The Sentinel]], Perplex City's prominent news-source, has a sharp new look (with new advertisers). The address is the same, however: http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/
* New for Season Two, the Perplex City main page has all new scoring, a new address, a new layout, and a new angle. FUN!! http://www.welovepuzzles.com/
* As welovepuzzles.com is to the cards, perplexcitystories.com is to the ARG. The two are not mutually exclusively, but you may expect to see more interactive and sneaky things going on over here: http://www.perplexcitystories.com/
* And, for the curiouser, a developer's blog: http://blog.perplexcitystories.com/

===Frequently Used Tools===

* [http://stackoverflow.org/tools/highlight.php IRC Log Colourizer] - Makes IRC/IM logs easier to read.
* [http://www.pxcbash.com Perplex Bash] - The best in channel and forum quotes
* [http://perplexcitywiki.com/gallery/ Perplex City Players Gallery] - No [[The Third Power|3P]] Ops allowed!

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===Did You Know...===

*The Cubehunters on Earth were prompted [[Violet Kiteway]] to produce a book. The hows and whys are a bit complicated, but the result was pretty impressive!
*You can read the book, and some parts which didn't make it in, here: [[Tales From Earth]]
*You are strongly encouraged to [http://www.lulu.com/content/225745 buy the book from Lulu.com], with all profits going to unFiction.

*Sad you missed it out on contributing to the book? Great news then, because MasterCheese has called for a second book!
*See his thread at uF, here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18894


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Talk:Shuffled

2007-07-30T23:13:26Z

Edgemaster: /* Solved */

{{COTW}}

Really top-dollar stuff, people! And there I was still assuming we'd need all the playing symbol cards to solve it.,, --[[User:GuyP|GuyP]] 18:01, 18 March 2006 (EST)

''[[User:Jakeo|Jakeo]] : I've been creating this page by working through the forum posts. I'm currenly at page: 43. (Hopefully I'm finished, it took 4 hours, and I've read it before!)''

''Where there is a obvious first post of a new idea I have attempted to credit the author. I may have missed a couple, and its open to interpretation. I do make reference to some of my own posts, but hopefully under the described circumstances. Also, because so much of the information has been duplicated, I have also attempted to keep external information references down to the single, most comprehensive source.''

== Brute forcing Solitaire ==

If you want to brute-force solve Solitaire, I'd be surprised if my C implementation wasn't the fastest:

:http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/

since it performs both copies in a single step. [[User:Ciphergoth|Ciphergoth]] 05:40, 3 June 2006 (PDT)

== Solved ==

Now that this card has been solved, should this page be deleted? [[User:UKver2.0|UKver2.0]] 12:48, 28 July 2007 (CST)
:No, it is a major part of PXC, the article should be tidied and the final solution and workings laid out clearly here. I do not have the knowledge required to do this yet - catching up after a holiday. --[[User:Edgemaster|Edgemaster]] 16:13, 30 July 2007 (PDT)

User talk:TtnDjn

2007-07-15T18:46:56Z

Edgemaster: New page: Please confirm you are not a bot. If this is not replied to you '''will''' be blocked.

Please confirm you are not a bot. If this is not replied to you '''will''' be blocked.

Timeline:History

2007-07-15T18:44:53Z

Edgemaster: Reverted edits by Ig0Zg9 (Talk); changed back to last version by Edgemaster

==General==

{{Shortcut|T:H}}

2006 on Earth corresponds to 269AC in Perplex City. Perplex City years are the same length as Earth years, with the same months and dates. The years are designated with "BC" and "AC". See [[Calendar]] for more on this topic.

Also note, we know of a number of periods of time which have been referred to, though we dont have a good sense of when these happened. These include:
*[[Pre-Hausam]] period - seems to be about two to three thousand years ago, during the early settlement period of the region.
*[[The War]] - took place just before the Modern Era.
*[[Parencycle period]] of architecture - took place around the early 100s, and includes the [[Milamont Theatres]]
*[[Resurgence]] period - seems to be about one to two hundred years ago. Probably this was the period of reconstruction after the War ravaged the city.

{|
|-
| '''[[Perplex City|PERPLEX CITY]]'''
| '''EARTH'''
| '''EVENT'''
|-
|colspan=3|
==Early History Of The Perplex City Region==
|-
| 3500 BC
| 18th Century BCE
| [[Perplex City]] history begins
|-
| 3000 BC
| 13th Century BCE
| Loose settlements become stable
|-
| 2000 BC
| 3rd Century BCE
| Evidence of great technical advancements
|-
| 1250 BC
| 487
| Slow but steady progress in the city's development
|-
| 700 BC
| 1037
| City went through a period of modest expansion
|-
| 573 BC
| 1164
| [[Academy]] Founded
|-
| 571 BC
| 1166
| Group of scholars take residence in the city
|-
| 452 BC
| 1285
| Academy's first significant expansion
|-
| 443 BC
| 1294
| [[Aetiant Taversen]] becomes the first Academy 'Master'
|-
| 325 BC
| 1412
| Academy introduces its own league in several games, setting up the premise of the [[PCAG]]
|-
| 250 BC
| 1487
| [[Ellen Poor]] studies at academy
|-
| 246 BC
| 1491
| [[Ellen Poor]] leaves academy to open a tea house
|-
| 245 BC
| 1492
| [[Helios Noi]] returns to the City
|-
| 243 BC
| 1494
| [[Helios Noi]] offered Academy Mastership - Declines
|-
| 226 BC
| 1511
| Death of [[Helios Noi]]
|-
| 190? BC
| 1547?
| White square dropped from the game of Twin-wheel
|-
| 179 BC
| 1558
| Unknown quote from Sente's first letter
|-
| 172 BC
| 1565
| Academy [[Museum]] founded
|-
| 170 BC
| 1567
| Judiciary Pogroms. [[Faith Giordana]]: criminal mastermind.
|-
| 70 BC - 0 BC
| 1667
| [[The War]], in various forms.
|-
| 47 BC
| 1690
| Academy sinks into temporary academic despond
|-
| 35 BC
| 1702
| Stories of [[Ilja and Anja]], the ghost children, begin; see: [[The War]].
|-
| 23 BC
| 1714
| Death of Master [[Victor Mardian]]
|-
| 22 BC
| 1715
| [[Vianne Adamek]] elected Academy Master
|-
| 17 BC
| 1720
| [[Vianne Adamek]] suggests an "overall champion" of [[PCAG]]

|-
|colspan=3|

==The Height of The War==
|- style="background: #e8e3f3"
| '''5 BC'''
| '''1732'''
| '''Cycling Research Efforts'''
|-
|colspan=2|
February
| [[Lancewood Labs]] open, on [[Hobbs Island]], [[Lancewood Archipelago]], [[Vianne Adamek]] present.
|-
|colspan=2|
March 4th
| First sample arrives PR1 [[Lancewood]] Labs. Intense optical and magnetic observation, using resonance imaging.
|-
|colspan=2|
March 4th
| Label in PRI ([[Lancewood]] Labs) "Specimens" shipment, from [[Viendenbourg]], to [[Lancewood]]. Test materials, one assumes.
|-
|colspan=2|
March 10th
| [[Lancewood]] Labs achieve max coherence 0.17s. "Must increase - exponential effects."
|-
|colspan=2|
March 12th
| [[Lancewood]] Labs achieve max coherence 0.2s.
|-
|colspan=2|
June 2nd
| [[Lancewood]] Labs achieve max coherence 1.3s "but power spikes. Change silicon doping?"
|-
|colspan=2|
July
| [[Lancewood]] Labs - "Doping began last month .... increases coherence time, easier control."
|-
|colspan=2|
November
| [[Lancewood]] Labs - "Breakthrough! Molecular processors. Must interface with own systems to dampen loops. Coherence at 9s."
|-
|colspan=2|
''late in the year''
| Memo from [[Edwina Mountling]] Head of Lancewood to [[Vianne Adamek]]. [[Lancewood]] Labs achieve 10s coherence by doping with other compounds. More programmers requested from the [[Perplex City Academy]].
|-
|colspan=2|
''year end''
| [[Lancewood]] Labs - Material Research and Control Project receive present from Academy Computer Science Division.

|- style="background: #e8e3f3"
| '''4 BC'''
| '''1733'''
|
|-
|colspan=2|
April
| "Site survey and inspection. By [[Dr. Malcolm Kennard]], Academy Exploratory Research Scientist and Military Liaison," of [[Lancewood]] Lab.
|-
|colspan=2|
June
| [[Lancewood]] level 3 excavated.
|-
|colspan=2|
October
| Parts for "anti-air battery" arrive at [[Lancewood]].

|- style="background: #e8e3f3"
| '''2 BC'''
| '''1735'''
|
|-
|colspan=2|
June
| [[Lancewood]] Labs become "self-sufficient" in power.
|-
|colspan=2|
November
| [[Lancewood]] Labs - More material required. Beginning to reach physical limits. "Received proposal for combining material with facsimile thought. Even optical connects are too slow - material needs embedded reflexive controller."
|-
|colspan=2|
December
| [[Anthony Granier]] proposes "Northern Expedition" to [[Vianne Adamek]]. "Must discover method to mine and safely transport more material". Requests political support.

|- style="background: #e8e3f3"
| '''1 BC'''
| '''1736'''
| '''GRANIER & WAR CREST'''
|-
|colspan=2|
March 10th
| [[Anthony Granier]] & [[Edwina Mountling]] embark on "Northern expedition" belived to be to [[Viendenbourg]].
|-
|colspan=2|
March 17th
| [[Granier]] diary - everyone within a 12 mile radius of the experiment will be affected.
|-
|colspan=2|
March 19th
| [[Granier]] visits mine, enough material has been extracted, it may prove the salvation of the City.
|-
|colspan=2|
end March
| [[Granier]] diary - rain has been stopping mining. Thinks [[Cubism|Cube worship]] is old fashioned.
|-
|colspan=2|
April
| "Problems" with [[Viehattle]]. Causes rumbles along border, but ceasefire holds.
|-
|colspan=2|
April 7th
| [[Granier]] and [[Mountling]] pick 2 male subjects who will die as a result of the experiment.
|-
|colspan=2|
April 8th
| [[Granier]] diary - experiment conducted, awful spectacle.
|-
|colspan=2|
April 13th
| [[Granier]] diary - [[Mountling]] concludes from readings taken during the experiment that the "entire place will be destroyed".
|-
|colspan=2|
April 21st
| [[Granier]] and [[Mountling]] have become involved.
|-
|colspan=2|
April 29th
| [[Mountling]] confesses to [[Granier]] that "Your master I believe does not wish that our experiments here should benefit only the city. To be blunt, my lord, I have been sent here to ensure that certain matters, certain elements of knowledge should be kept only for her, and for the group of loyal scholars she has formed. She wishes the power for herself. To do what, I know not."
|-
|colspan=2|
June
| [[Lancewood]] Labs - Targeting range and precision improved, but horizon is still unstable, and functioning is highly susceptible to electromagnetic? fields. Engineers state that 'facsimile thought processors are so small they can be overwhelmed by the material's functions'.
|-
|colspan=2|
September
| First mass material shipment, from [[Viendenbourg]], to [[Lancewood]].
|-
|colspan=2|
December
| [[Dr Kennard]] and [[Dr Cook]] die in an accident. Other safety lapses are reported. [[Vianne Adamek]] assigns [[Anthony Granier]] to replace Kennard, with "full adinistrative authority", reporting directly to Adamek. The 'General Purpose Self-Contained Material System (Cubic)' project requires massive resources and involves many people outside [[Lancewood]]. [[Edwina Mountling]] to retain authority over scientific areas.
|-
|colspan=2|
December
| A group of [[Viehattle]] spies discovered at [[Lancewood]] Labs. [[Jonathan Sikander]] leaks information and is sentenced to execution on Granier's orders. [[Mary and David Ward]] confined and "aggressively questioned". [[Viehattle]] ends the cease-fire, joins with [[Anjsbourg]], and declares [[war]] on [[Perplex City]]. Military intelligence at the time suggests this is connected to the leaked info on [[Lancewood]]'s materials research.
|-
|colspan=2|
December 21
| Solstice of the Cube. [[Sikander]] is executed by firing squad. The Wards are confined.
|-

|- style="background: #e8e3f3"
| 0 AC
| 1737
| WAR END
|-
|colspan=2|
January
| [[Anthony Granier]] arrives at [[Lancewood]], and becomes Government Liaison for the Lancewood Labs.
|-
|colspan=2|
February
| Construction of GP-SCMS (the General Purpose Self-Contained Material System [Cubic]) begins. Some scientists call it the '[[Cube]]'. [[Mountling]] states that "Our last attempt at compensating for EM interference failed, so I had no choice but to authorise construction of the Quiet Room. [[Woad]] will not be happy, but Adamek assures me she can deal with her."
|-
|colspan=2|
March
| [[Vianne Adamek]] visits the Quiet Room. She and [[Mountling]] discuss the [[Cube]]'s capability for thought.
|-
|colspan=2|
May 1st
| Reports from spies in [[Viehattle]] indicate that the enemy has "set objects in the firmament. These weapons defy all natural law. We must now live in constant fear of what may drop upon us from the very skies."
|-
|colspan=2|
July 13th
| [[Granier]] announces "a triumph worthy of all we have dreamed!" He makes plans to leave [[Lancewood]] with some of his colleagues (sans [[Edwina Mountling]]) and go to 'the City'.
|-
|colspan=2|
August
| [[Viendenbourg]] falls to [[Viehattle]] after fierce fighting, according to the [[Vanguard]] newspaper.
|-
|colspan=2|
''Date unknown''
| [[Catbite Gorge]] created, devasting a huge section of the city.
|-
|colspan=2|
''Date unknown''
| End of [[The War]]; Beginning of the "modern" era.

|-
|colspan=3|

==The Modern Era==
|-
| 0 - 22
| 1737 - 1759
| Hiatus of celebration of the midwinter festivals and games
|-
| 7 AC
| 1744
| [[Receda Cube]] "Discovered"
|-
| 37 AC
| 1774
| [[Games Plaza]] built by [[William Henderson]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Perplex City Museum]] Opens
|-
| 75 AC
| 1812
| [[Perplex City Zoo]] opens, after the closure of [[The Old Town Zoo]]
|-
| 81 AC
| 1818
| [[Tanhill Botanic Gardens]] built
|-
| 89 AC
| 1826
| [[Sentinel]] founded
|-
| 107 AC
| 1844
| [[Sentinel]] and [[Vanguard]] merge
|-
| 115 AC
| 1852
| Death of [[Redward Innes]]
|-
| 137 AC
| 1874
| [[Sentinel]] purchased by the [[Heathcote Group]]
|-
| 138 AC
| 1875
| [[Emmi Hartlin]] begins editing the [[Sentinel]]
|-
| 148 AC
| 1885
| [[S. Marchant]] quote from City Archives
|-
| 156 AC
| 1893
| [[Emmi Hartlin]] retires
|-
| 167 AC
| 1904
| "Great Political Scandals"
|-
| 173 AC
| 1910
| 700th anniversary of the [[Academy]]'s founding
|-
| 174 AC
| 1911
| [[Sentinel]]'s investigative work leads to resignation of [[Perplex City Council]] and seven deputies
|-
| 175 AC
| 1912
| Last criminal case to be declared a mistrial
|-
| 187 AC
| 1924
| A political scandal known as the [[Rose Crescent Affair]]
|-
| 188 AC
| 1925
| Landmark statue at [[Scott Young Memorial Plaza]] built
|-
| 200 AC
| 1937
| [[The Second Archway]] Built
|-
| 223 AC
| 1960
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] has a series of wins at the [[PCAG]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Sente Kiteway]] joins Academy cryptology department
|-
| 228 AC
| 1965
| [[Receda Cube]] goes on public display in Academy [[museum]]
|-
| 229 AC
| 1966
| [[Sente]] works as a Junior Fellow at the [[Academy]]
|-
| 230 AC
| 1967
| [[Sente]] published seminal work on cryptological mathematics
|-
| 234 AC
| 1971
| [[Ruth Coralhouse]] & [[Horatio]] Flynn win [[Ikonnikov Prize]]
|-
| 235 AC
| 1972
| [[Adamek]] publishes book - "Intricate Design"
|-
| "
| "
| Last serious attempt at [[Cube]] theft
|-
| 237 AC
| 1974
| [[Alyce Turnbull]] creates the [[Inventus Puzzle]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Sente]] takes up a senior position at [[Centrifuge]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Centric Artificial Rainforest]] built from inflatable modular sections
|-
| 239 AC
| 1976
| [[Ruth Coralhouse]] & [[Horatio Flynn]] win [[Ikonnikov Prize]]. Again.
|-
| "
| "
| [[East Dalia Way]] becomes pedestrian-only
|-
| 240 AC
| 1977
| Professor [[Estelle Sedgewick]] becomes Senior Fellow of Languages
|-
| 241 AC
| 1978
| [[Hunan Mansoor]]'s company MPG becomes part of [[Key Surety]]
|-
| 242 AC
| 1979
| [[Violet Kiteway]] Born
|-
| "
| "
| [[Whipsmart ice cream]] established
|-
| 243 AC
| 1980
| [[Jonathan Smart]] becomes member of [[PCBC]] board
|-
| 246 AC
| 1983
| [[Hunan Mansoor]] wins Academy's Cryptological prize
|-
| 248 AC
| 1985
| [[Astrid Lindstrom]] wins [[PCAG]] championship
|-
| "
| "
| Public foreign-language debate over the environmental policies of the Council
|-
| "
| "
| [[Scarlett Kiteway]] Born
|-
| 250 AC
| 1987
| [[Ruth Coralhouse]] retires from [[Academy]]
|-
| 252 AC
| 1989
| Professor [[Adamek]] becomes Senior Fellow of Arts
|-
| "
| "
| [[Sente]] returns to the [[Academy]]
|-
| 253 AC
| 1990
| [[Astrid Lindstrom]] wins [[Allanson Prize]]
|-
| 255 AC
| 1992
| Development of the first generation of [[Ceretin]] begins
|-
| 256 AC
| 1993
| [[Robert Solitano]] wins [[PCAG]] languages section
|-
| 258 AC
| 1995
| [[Ahuva Qui]] becomes a commentator for the Political News
|-
| "
| "
| [[Jonathan Smart]] becomes CEO of [[PCBC]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Margaret Wildwood]] wins [[Raschid Prize]]
|-
| 260 AC
| 1997
| [[Inari Ekeba]] becomes [[PCAG]]'s resident astronomical puzzle setter
|-
| "
| "
| First Generation of [[Ceretin]] ("Ceretin G1") is released to the public
|-
| 261 AC
| 1998
| [[Ahuva Qui]] wins [[Borek prize]]
|-
| "
| "
| Professor [[Inari Ekeba]] becomes Senior Fellow of Natural Sciences
|-
| "
| "
| [[Robert Solitano]] wins [[Sperka prize]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Sente]] becomes Chairman of the [[Carrick Foundation]]
|-
| 262 AC
| 1999
| [[Armand Levi]] moves from journalism to politics
|-
| "
| "
| Professor [[Margaret Wildwood]] becomes Senior Fellow of Social Sciences
|-
| 263 AC
| 2000
| [[Carrick Foundation]] names [[Sedgewick Travel Bursary]] in honour of [[Estelle Sedgewick]]
|-
| "
| "
| Professor [[Hunan Mansoor]] becomes Senior Fellow of Cryptology
|-
| "
| "
| [[Sente]] becomes Master of the [[Academy]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Mobius Strip]] "Figure of Eight" completed.
|-
| 264 AC
| 2001
| [[Rebecca Croft]] wins the Alexander Prize in music.
|-
| "
| "
| [[Centre for Reality Research]] opens.
|-
| 265 AC
| 2002
| [[Skip Applebaum]] recieves [[The Mintz Award]] for a series of public-domain columns he has written.
|-
| 266 AC
| 2003
| [[Janna Gold]] selected as the Rejian Fellow
|-
| "
| "
| Professor [[Astrid Lindstrom]] becomes Senior Fellow of [[Mathematics and Logic]]
|-
| 267 AC
| 2004
| [[Receda Cube]] Stolen from The [[Academy]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Ryan Cahill]] wins [[PCAG]] Championship
|-
| "
| "
| Security analysis reports from [[Academy Museum]] leaked.
|-
| "
| "
| Surprise virus named [[Djinn]] sweeps the City
|-
| 268 AC
| 2005
| [[Nachman Assaf]] solves the [[Inventus Puzzle]]
|-
| "
| "
| [[Serena Duncan]] wins [[PCAG]] championship.
|-
| "
| "
| [[Joya]]'s daughter, [[Allegra Melody]] born
|-
| "
| "
| [[Roll For Damage]]'s eighth album, ''Take Initiative'' released.
|-
| 269 AC
| 2006
| 20 Feb - 26 Sep. Known dates of cube material experiments upon dogs and humans at [[Viendenbourg]]. See [[VHC tempfile]] and [[Lab reports]].
|-
| "
| "
| [[Ryan Cahill]] wins [[PCAG]] championship.
|-
| "
| "
| 18-OCT-06 - [[Nathan Earlywine]] elected to office of [[City Council]] leader.
|-
| "
| "
| 20-OCT-06 - Executive Order NE-3309 takes effect, shutting down the link to Earth, until it is repealed 15-JAN-07.
|-
| 270 AC
| 2007
| Present Day
|-
| "
| "
| [[Myra Champaign]] wins [[PCAG]] championship.
|}

Timeline:Meta

2007-07-15T18:44:40Z

Edgemaster: Reverted edits by NslD5u (Talk); changed back to last version by ScottBot

{{Shortcut|T:M}}
This is a work in progress.

==Pre-Game==
===Syzygy and Gatehouse 24===
* 16-JAN-04 - Though we don't know it yet (nor will we for some long while), the cube is stolen!
* 24-Feb-04 - [[Projectsyzygy.com]] Initial Announcement
* 08-Oct-04 - [[Perplexcity.com]] Website Update
* 14-Oct-04 - "Project Syzygy Is Complete"; New cache file added "0595630738.cache"; Link on Firebox to "The Cube" found in catalog. Description of item on website follows to UnForums!
* 18-Oct-04 - The [[Perplexcity.com]] website was being explored and trawled over by many people. Among the discoveries: talk of [[Shoes]], [[Gatehouse 24]], and some [[Perplex City Errorlogs]].

===The Newspaper Text===
*[[Perplex City Postcard]]s were spotted in random places around the world.
* 16-Feb-05 - [[Perplex City Video]] was spotted on the [[Perplexcity.com]] website. It would be updated periodically over the next few weeks. All of the cumulative bits would combine to become the [[Newspaper Text]].
** 17-Feb-05 - [[USA Today 17.02.05]] Also the first actual contact: [[Sente Emails]]
** 23-Feb-05 - [[NY Sun 22.02.05]]
** 23-Feb-05 - [[The Times 23.02.05]]
** 28-Feb-05 - [[Daily Telegraph 28.02.05]]
** 02-Mar-05 - [[La Presse 02.03.05]]; learned Sente's full name is [[Sente Kiteway]]
** 05-Mar-05 - [[Toronto Globe & Mail 05.03.05]]
** 08-Mar-05 - [[LA Times 08.03.05]]
** 11-Mar-05 - [[SE Fifth and 40th]]
** 14-Mar-05 - [[South China Morning Post 14.03.05]]
** 19-Mar-05 - [[Abbey Road]] Live Event
** 21-Mar-05 - [[The Guardian 21.03.05]]

==Grand Opening==
* 21-MAR-05 - The [[Newspaper Text]] was completed; [[The Perplex City Sentinel]] discovered.
**Updates would occur weekly.
**Updates to the Sentinel continue to this day, though the schedule has changed over time.

* 02-APR-05 - [[Scarlett Kiteway]], Sente's daughter, writes a letter to the Sentinel. In it, she embeds a clue to her own website: The Scarlett Kite. This site, too, has been updated continuously ever since then.

* 06-APR-05 - "Recon Eight Released from Police Custody"; we are introduced to the Reconstructionists as a radical group of religious zealots.

* 22-APR-05 - [[22.04.05 Update|Sente sent us some mail]] promising a package. We were sent to http://www.perplexcity.com/email/ (which is now defunct). This simple action allowed people to get entered into the system to recieve their "[[Parcels|333 packages]]". This appears to be the only time the 333 [[Leitmarks]] are ever to be given out.

* 24-APR-05 - The Sentinel announces a desire to run articles written by people on Earth. This would be known as "View From Earth". This feature continues to this day. Starting in early 2006, points on the [[Leaderboard]] were awarded for published articles.

* 24-APR-05 - [[Bernardo Holyoke]] is murdered. We don't find out about it for some while.

* 26-APR-05 - "[[Five of Cups]] Owner Found Dead" article published. It is the tip of the ice-berg, for us. From here we can go forward in time to [[Pietro Salk]]'s death, which lead to the [[Salklogs.doc]], which led to us talking to [[Monica Grand]], which led to the [[Receda Trail]], which led us to ask about [[The Third Power]], and on, and on, and on.

* 09-MAY-05 - the first "View from Earth" article is published. It is by Hannah Saks. it is excellent. :)

* 11-MAY-05 - "Holyoke Housed Stolen Academy Equipment" article published. Followup item. It seems aimed at misdirecting us from what's really going on. Though they aren't mentioned, the "equipment" mentioned is the first appearance of [[Reynolds Ionizers]] and [[Klebold Plates]].

* 23-MAY-05 - We first learn of [[Joya]]'s pregnancy, at least speculatively. It has little impact on the story proper, a this time.

* 24-MAY-05 - [[Jessica Holyoke]] is located, amongst the [[Reconstructionists]].

Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-07-15T18:44:23Z

Edgemaster: /* External Links */

{{Season2}}
[[Image:Radio 1's Big Weekend Logo.PNG]]
At [[BBC]] '''Radio 1's Big Weekend''', players found and matched symbols to try and stop [[Cyrus Quinton]] of the [[Third Power]] from launching the [[Neural Override device]].

==Symbols==
[[Image:Cork symbol.jpg|thumb]]
[[Cyrus Quinton]] placed symbols around the event to aid [[3P]] agents with the placement of the [[Neural Override device]] transmitters.

The symbols are actually cards in a large game of [[w:Set (game)|Set]], matching them and entering the code-words into the Silburn-Griggs website would provide a map piece, depending on the type of set made.

''For a complete list of the symbols, see [[List of Big Weekend Symbols]].''

==Map==
[[Image:Radio 1 Big Weeked Merged Map.jpg]]

Morbus discovered that the dots (based on Paul's [http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/paul_denchfield/2007/05/chasing_dots.html 'Chasing Dots'] blog post) create nearly perfect triangles. MasterCheese noticed that the dots are only used once in each triangle. Davermouse put together the following:

[[Image:Bigsmallve5.jpg|400px]]

===Individual Map Pieces===
''Note: Complete listings of sets moved to map image pages''

<gallery caption="Map Pieces Found" widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="6">
Image:Lamb yoyo rice.png|Set #1 Match colour and shape
Image:Rice cork wine.png|Set #2 Match number, shape and fill
Image:Cave tank cork.png|Set #3 Match colour and fill
Image:Nail four hall.png|Set #4 Match colour
Image:Book pawn nail.png|Set #5 Match number and fill
Image:Moth lynx book.png|Set #6 Match colour, shape and fill
Image:Tree four junk.png|Set #7 No matching features
Image:Junk moth yoyo.png|Set #8 Match number and shape
Image:Lynx four wife.png|Set #9 Match number
Image:Flag fish junk.png|Set #10 Match number and colour
Image:Cork junk tick.png|Set #11 Match shape and fill
Image:Frog nail wife.png|Set #12 Match shape
Image:Fish lynx nail.png|Set #13 Match fill
Image:Tree book goal.png|Set #14 Match number, colour and fill
Image:Jack_lamb_tick.png|Set #15 Match number, colour and shape
</gallery>

== External Links ==
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/ Official Website]
*[http://www.silburngriggsmining.com/projectfia/symbols/ Symbol Entry Page]
*[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK%27s_Radio_1_%22Big_Weekend%22_closes%2C_sinister_plot_game_continues Wikimedia News Item]
*[http://silentlybroken.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/frozen-indigo-angel-and-big-weekend-part-1/ _SilentlyBroken's day 1 event writeup]

== References ==
* All 19-MAY-2007 entries on Paul Denchfield's blog
* Violet Underground blog entry: [http://www.violetunderground.com/archives/2007/05/angel.html Angel Hunting]

{{S2HotWater}}

[[Category:Live Events]]

Radio 1 Big Weekend

2007-07-15T18:43:53Z

Edgemaster: /* External Links */ update wikinews link

{{Season2}}
[[Image:Radio 1's Big Weekend Logo.PNG]]
At [[BBC]] '''Radio 1's Big Weekend''', players found and matched symbols to try and stop [[Cyrus Quinton]] of the [[Third Power]] from launching the [[Neural Override device]].

==Symbols==
[[Image:Cork symbol.jpg|thumb]]
[[Cyrus Quinton]] placed symbols around the event to aid [[3P]] agents with the placement of the [[Neural Override device]] transmitters.

The symbols are actually cards in a large game of [[w:Set (game)|Set]], matching them and entering the code-words into the Silburn-Griggs website would provide a map piece, depending on the type of set made.

''For a complete list of the symbols, see [[List of Big Weekend Symbols]].''

==Map==
[[Image:Radio 1 Big Weeked Merged Map.jpg]]

Morbus discovered that the dots (based on Paul's [http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/paul_denchfield/2007/05/chasing_dots.html 'Chasing Dots'] blog post) create nearly perfect triangles. MasterCheese noticed that the dots are only used once in each triangle. Davermouse put together the following:

[[Image:Bigsmallve5.jpg|400px]]

===Individual Map Pieces===
''Note: Complete listings of sets moved to map image pages''

<gallery caption="Map Pieces Found" widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="6">
Image:Lamb yoyo rice.png|Set #1 Match colour and shape
Image:Rice cork wine.png|Set #2 Match number, shape and fill
Image:Cave tank cork.png|Set #3 Match colour and fill
Image:Nail four hall.png|Set #4 Match colour
Image:Book pawn nail.png|Set #5 Match number and fill
Image:Moth lynx book.png|Set #6 Match colour, shape and fill
Image:Tree four junk.png|Set #7 No matching features
Image:Junk moth yoyo.png|Set #8 Match number and shape
Image:Lynx four wife.png|Set #9 Match number
Image:Flag fish junk.png|Set #10 Match number and colour
Image:Cork junk tick.png|Set #11 Match shape and fill
Image:Frog nail wife.png|Set #12 Match shape
Image:Fish lynx nail.png|Set #13 Match fill
Image:Tree book goal.png|Set #14 Match number, colour and fill
Image:Jack_lamb_tick.png|Set #15 Match number, colour and shape
</gallery>

== External Links ==
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/ Official Website]
*[http://www.silburngriggsmining.com/projectfia/symbols/ Symbol Entry Page]
*[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK's_Radio_1_"Big_Weekend"_closes,_sinister_plot_game_continues Wikimedia News Item]
*[http://silentlybroken.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/frozen-indigo-angel-and-big-weekend-part-1/ _SilentlyBroken's day 1 event writeup]

== References ==
* All 19-MAY-2007 entries on Paul Denchfield's blog
* Violet Underground blog entry: [http://www.violetunderground.com/archives/2007/05/angel.html Angel Hunting]

{{S2HotWater}}

[[Category:Live Events]]

Perplex City Errorlogs

2007-07-14T14:40:59Z

Edgemaster: Reverted edits by NuzKb7 (Talk); changed back to last version by Scott

{{Season0}}

==General==

Long ago, in 2004, long before the [[Puzzle Cards]] were introduced, the Perplex City website looked quite a bit different. At one point in the site, it appeared there was nothing more to see aside from amessage from [[S Marchant]] (who we would later discover to be [[Susan Marchant]]). However after printing the [[:image:marchant148.gif|quote]] from [[S Marchant]] a page containing errorlogs was discovered.

This page originally contained 10 error messages, but was later updated with an 11th item.
The original 10 were titled:

*1817413596.cache
*2470936999.cache
*2662497757.cache
*4274663919.cache
*4590452353.cache
*5957496696.cache
*6290435729.cache
*6303535475.cache
*8525166427.cache
*9457138217.cache

These are all sequences from the number e, as was the title of the final errorlog, which was added on the 14th of October and entitled 0595630738. All the security logs from [[Gatehouse 24]] give a security code to each individual:

* 995ae - S Ling
* 640ea - Lyssa Ling
* 489ae - Fran Mendling
* 529ea - Henrik Tanner

S Ling and Fran Mendling open the gate on each occasion. This indicates that the "ae" represents a higher level of security clearance, either due to rank, or more likely a specific role as a gatekeeper.

==Gatehouse Discource==
===1817413596.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

: :: start 074302 +000000
: :: start 074412 +000000
: :: archive location { dev 4 }
: :: index { no }
: :: retention { 1 }
: :: processing time { 0.45 }
: ::

: A
:: // labeled A;
:: // triangulated location mapped;
:: // passive badge { present }
:: // badge query { mendling, f {489ae} }

:: Mornin[g], Sir [.] Name and badge [,] please

::: // not yet reviewed

: B
:: // labeled B;
:: // triangulated location mapped;
:: // passive badge { present }
:: // badge query { tanner, h {529ea} }

:: Morning, [[Fran Mendling|Fran]]. [[Henrik Tanner|Tanner, Henrik]].

::: // not yet reviewed
::: // 89% positive emotional state
::: // cross reference surveillance footage

::: { extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

::: { gatekeeper system 24;
::: active badge interrogated, passed }

: [[Fran Mendling|MENDLING, F]]

:: Please place your hand on the scanner [.]

::: // not yet reviewed

::: { gatekeeper system 24;
::: biometrics interrogated, passed }

:: Good morning [[Henrik Tanner|Henrik]] [,] please pass through the gate.

::: // not yet reviewed

: [ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
|}

===6290435729.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

: :: start 184302 +000000
: :: start 185212 +000000
: :: archive location { dev 4 }
: :: index { no }
: :: retention { 1 }
: :: processing time { 0.48 }
: ::

: A
:: // labeled A;
:: // triangulated location mapped;
:: // passive badge { present }
:: // badge query { ling, s {995ae} }

:: Waiting long [,] sis [?]

::: // not yet reviewed

: B
:: // labeled B;
:: // triangulated location mapped;
:: // passive badge { present }
:: // badge query { ling, l {640ea} }

:: Oh [!] You surprised me.

::: // not yet reviewed
::: // 15% positive emotional state
::: // cross reference surveillance footage

::: { extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

::: { gatekeeper system 24;
::: active badge interrogated, passed }

:
: [[S Ling|LING, S]]
:: Are you mooning on about James again [?]

::: // not yet reviewed

: [[Lyssa Ling|LING, L]]
:: I was thinking about [.] You know [,] them [.]

::: // not yet reviewed

: [[S Ling|LING, S]]
:: Yeah [?]

: // not yet reviewed

: [ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
|}

==Shoes!==

There are then some snippets of a conversation between [[Elizabeth Lee]], [[Sarah Covington]], [[Lyssa Ling]] and [[Juliane Pero]]. It seems like they're discussing shoe designs they've unearthed while researching contemporary Earth culture, and are joking about getting them made. In the correct order, they read:

===2662497757.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Elizabeth Lee]] 
To: [[Sarah Covington]], [[Lyssa Ling]], [[Juliane Pero]] 
Subject: Shoes! 
Date: xxxxxxxx 

Have you *seen* these?

So cute! Especially the green.

Okay, I *know* this would be a gross misuse of project resources, but do you 
think we could try to get, I don't know, patterns for them or whatever? They 
must be out there somewhere.

(Anyone know a good shoemaker in the [[Old Town]]?)

Liz
|}

===2470936999.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Juliane Pero]] 
To: [[Sarah Covington]], [[Elizabeth Lee]], [[Lyssa Ling]] 
Subject: Re: Shoes! 
Date: xxxxxxxx 

Lizzie, you are too much!!!

I think I'd break my neck in those, but imagine the fashionista points we'd win. 
'Who designed those fabulous shoes?' 'Oh, no-one *you'd* have heard of.' Hah!
|}

===5957496696.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Sarah Covington]] 
To: [[Elizabeth Lee]], [[Lyssa Ling]], [[Juliane Pero]] 
Subject: Re: Shoes! 
Date: xxxxxxxx 

I'd say we could even expense it -- just need to form an anthro research team 
looking into that consumer habit of theirs :) "Subject: Civilisation and Late 
Stage Urbanisation, A Phase 2 Consumer Transition" must be in the offing :) 

Sarah
|}

==Dinner?==
===4274663919.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Amy Tanner]] 
To: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
Subject: (no subject) 
Date: xxxxxxxx

Are you home for dinner tonight?

A.
|}

==[[Hesketh Zeller]]==
===4590452353.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
Hesketh Zeller

b. xxxxxxxx
d. xxxxxxxx

Brief Biography
Most schoolchildren know the story of Hesketh Zeller, if not for the vast 
strides he made in the pursuit of Cube knowledge then at the very least for the 
circumstances surrounding his noble death. 

Born into one of the City's more respected families, upon entry into the 
Academy, Hesketh displayed what is arguably an unrivaled appetite for research 
that at times (and ultimately) verged on the lethal.
|}

==Job Strife==
===6303535475.cache===
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
To: [[Sarah Covington]] 
Subject: Access data 
Date: xxxxxxxx

Sarah, I just looked over the logs for so far this month, and I've found three 
distinct instances where the equipment wasn't shut down properly. Is there a 
maintenance problem we need to look into, or are you force-quitting to shut down 
at night again?

I understand you can be in a hurry on your way out, and it's been long days for 
everyone. You aren't the only one who's got a family to get home to, and you 
certainly aren't the first person whose work has made a huge impact on their 
personal life.

I've got S breathing down my neck, and this really isn't something that I want 
to have to be dealing with.

Please sort this out. I don't want to have to drop you another line about this.

Henrik.
|}

===9457138217.cache===

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Sarah Covington]] 
To: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
Subject: Re: Access data 
Date: xxxxxxxx 

Look, first it was making sure that the shipment manifests had the correct 
"cover sheets", and now you're railing on at me about shutting down the test 
equipment "properly". You might have S breathing down your back, but that 
doesn't mean I need you breathing down mine. 

How carefully did you check the logs? I wasn't the only one running tests at the 
time, are you sure it wasn't Lyssa? Stop jumping to conclusions and pointing the 
finger at me all the time. 

If it was me, I apologise. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. 

Sarah
|}

===8525166427.cache===
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
To: [[Sarah Covington]] 
Subject: Re: Access data 
Date: xxxxxxxx 

Look, I'm sorry about earlier this morning. Come by when you get in tomorrow 
morning and we can talk about it. I'm a little stressed out at the moment.

Sorry.

Henrik.
|}

==BONUS!==
An extra 11th errorlog appeared a short while later.

===0595630738.cache===
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
From: Sandbox Mail Transport Daemon (build 19650602) 
To: xxxxxxxx 
Date: xxxxxxxx 
Subject: Message Undelivered: Project Syzygy Completed

Hello,

This is the mailer daemon at incoming.sandbox.academy. I'm sorry, but I have 
been unable to deliver your message (subject: Project Syzygy Completed) for the 
last 24 hours. I shall keep trying every hour for the next 7 days. If you don't 
hear from me again, you may assume your message has been delivered.

The reason why your message hasn't been delivered so far is that data integrity 
transport checksums have failed on all transport attempts. Preliminary diagnostic 
information available to me indicates that there has been a failure in Sandbox 
Mail Transport Daemon (daemon subprocess 3ea5).

Should you wish further information on this error, please access your designated 
support resource. Unfortunately, the security context for this instance dictates 
I may not disclose your designated support resource.

--- Your original message follows:

Received: (Sandbox Mail Transport Daemon 4928 remote invocation); xxxxxxx
Received: from xxxxxxxx (HELO xxxxxxxx) 
Date: xxxxxxxx 
Subject: Project Syzygy Completed 
To: xxxxxxxx 
From: xxxxxxxx 

[[Sente]],

I am pleased to inform you that milestone 24 ([[Project Syzygy]]) has concluded 
successfully. The team over here has now been assembled and you'll get a chance 
to speak to everyone over the next week or so. We're all very excited to be 
working with the [[Academy]] on this.

Yours,

xxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxx)
|}

This addition coincided with the addition of the [[:image:Psyzygynomore2.jpg|Project Syzygy Complete]] image to the Project Syzygy page.

{{Gatehouse}}

Shuffled

2007-07-14T14:40:46Z

Edgemaster: Reverted edits by VbcLhi (Talk); changed back to last version by BrianEnigma

{{Season1}}

'''WARNING: THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS.'''

= Key Details =

This page summarises the information currently contained in the unfiction Thread here: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11528]

It is likely that this page may be quite large. When considering whether or not to read it prior to posting on a forum, consider that the alternative is to read all 43 pages of forum thread.

== Card Details ==

* Details of this card have been taken from the Perplex City Card Catalog [http://www.perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=243] <strike>'''N.B. There is an error on this page. the code that reads XAWHU should read XAWJU'''</strike> The card catalog typo has since been fixed.

* Card Author: [[Garnet]]

=== {{Card|243|Shuffled}} ===

[[Image:Shuffled.png]]

=== Card Text ===

Last year, someone found a weakness in the Academy's computer security systems and accessed several files using a program called the Djinn Worm. I helped the Perplex City Police to plug the leak but we still didn't know who was responsible and all our leads had gone cold. Then I received an anonymous note suggesting I should be at the Five of Cups bar one night.

I was waiting for something to happen while playing poker, when one of the players at my table cashed out and he subtly indicated he wanted to talk to me. At a convenient pause in the game, I walked over to meet him at the bar, where he quickly pressed a pack of cards into my hand and whispered, "If entropy wins, outward looks should leave you cold." He then promptly walked out.

When I returned home, I spread the cards out on my table and looked for any marks or signs, but they were all new and untouched, apart from one joker which had a star on it. It took me some time to figure out what he was trying to tell me - can you decode the message and find out who created the Worm?

Side of the pack has the letters below. The bolded characters disappear under heat [[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=179872#179872]].

<tt>
EODMF XRUTH WBBMC HGFIB LXCQY WEZFL ITHPJ LFHWY ETKWY LJOTY YNGYJ BIOGI FUVMR 
XIHGU RAGXH NQHRS XAWJU FJTAM SMMOS MVBAA KPGVV WXOVM YKZPL LUL FHURG IFULP
</tt>

An interesting anagram of the bolded letters: FLUXED FROM TURF HIGH UP.

=== Card Back ===

Cognivia

Cognivia's main research and development division is based at their campus on the south side of Polygon Park. Security is exceptionally tight to prevent industrial espionage, and the campus and buildings are said to be state of the art; rumours persist that Cognivia even has its own private subway station. Cognivia maintains strong links with the Academy and University, hence their selection of a site close to both. The corporate headquarters of Cognivia is based in Ascendancy Point.

=== Other Pertinent Card Information ===

==== Von's Hint ====

''Examine the card more closely. If you're feeling cold, you're overly sensitive, as for the code, everything you need is there''

==== Card Back/Box ====

The cards are 'Motor Brand Casino Quality playing cards' [http://www.secretsofholdem.com/item.cfm?item_id=20370]

There was a '''great''' deal of discussion on this topic, largely centering around discovering the make of the bike. The discovery of the 'correct' card manufacturer has discredited this line of investigation. Particular credit should go to modern_hero for spotting this after 33! pages of discussion [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=223136#223136]

==== Other Information ====

* The side of the box contains the text "Made in China"
* As noted first by oliverkeers13 ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=182591#182591 one] and [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=204777#204777 two]), there appear to be tiny suit symbols in the grey title bar at the top of the card ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=204790&highlight=ignored#204790 see picture here]), apparently in the order Hearts, Clubs, Spades, Diamonds. (Although as they wrap around, CSDH, SDHC and DHCS may also be applicable.) Is this relevant to some starting deck order?

= Key Words and their Definitions =

A number of significant words occur in the text. The generally agreed meaning for each is displayed (where links, if available)

; entropy : As defined here: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=173471#173471]
:# Symbol S For a closed thermodynamic system, a quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work.
:# A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system.
:# A measure of the loss of information in a transmitted message.
:# The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.
:# Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.

: As it pertains to cards:
:# to shuffle (see also here: [http://webs.morningside.edu/slaven/Physics/entropy/entropy2.html])

: Entropy Coding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_coding]

: In information Theory [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory]]

; Djinn
: Genie
: As defined here: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=212186#212186]
:# Djinn is derived from a Genie (Jini) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn)
:# Jini is a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JINI)
:# Jini defines a lookup service that is a fundamental part of the federation infrastructure for a djinn, the group of devices, resources, and users that are joined by the Jini technology infrastructure (http://java.sun.com/products/jini/)
:# Jini uses PKI encryption

; Five of Cups : Well known bar in PXC [[Five of Cups|See here]]

= Solution Ideas =

== Code Analysis ==
This section covers analysis of the letters appearing on the side of the box

=== Statistics ===

* 128 Characters
* 20 Disappearing characters
* 108 Plain Characters

==== Letter Frequency ====

'''Including the disappearing text:'''

1-D, 2-CQZ, 3-EKS, 4-JP, 5-ABORTV, 6-IWX, 7-GUY, 8-FLM, 9-H

'''Only the standard characters:'''

0-D, 2-CENQZ, 3-KPRS, 4-JOTU, 5-ABFIVX, 6-GW, 7-HLMY

'''Observations'''

* The distributions do not match the standard character distribution for English [http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/frequencyanalysis.html]
* The distribution does not seem random [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=213375#213375]
* However, a G-test [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-test] on the distributions show that there is no evidence that all characters are not equally likely.

==== Digraph Frequency ====

<tt>
</tt>

=== Code Interpretations ===

108 Characters as encoded deck

54 Letter pairs allows for one letter pair for each of the 54 playing cards. The problem arises in that there is no logical pairing of the characters that creates 54 unique pairs. This would provide an encoded deck for the Solitaire Cipher.

Two Messages encoded with the same key [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=202939#202939]

== Secret Message Interpretations ==

The message passed to Garnet was: "If entropy wins, outward looks should leave you cold"

* This could could simply be a reference to the heat disappearing letters.

* This could make reference to the outward facing cards: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=174255#174255]
** Jack of Hearts
** Jack of Spades
** King of Diamonds

* It has been suggested that the odd word usage may indicate something else, such as an anagram or a mnemonics.

* "If entropy wins, outward looks should leave you cold" is an anagram of "Look close and you will find out the password, voyeur"

== Solitaire Cipher ==

The Solitaire Cipher was designed by Bruce Schneier for the book 'The Cryptonomicon'. Details of the cipher can be found at Bruce Schneier's site, here: [http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html]

This was initially proposed due to the existence of the starred joker, as per the ciphers description in the above book.

* Mr. Schneier responds to an email: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=250696#250696]
<pre>
Various Solitaire implentations are available here:

http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html

However, it's your job to figure out how the key is buried in the phrase.

Good luck,
Bruce
</pre>

=== Brute Force ===

The possibility of brute forcing has been mentioned at various points. The potential for this attack to be successful depends on whether or not you believe that the card sequence is the Prime numbered playing cards ([[Playing card symbols]]).

The nature of a solitaire cipher is that it generates a string of random characters which are then added to the plain text to produce the cipher text (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Cipher Wikipedia:Stream Cipher])

Because of this, a cipher text of XDFGW RESDF could translate to both SENTE ROCKS and SENTE SUCKS. This broadly implys that every possible 108 character string can be produced from the cipher text, and hence brute forcing is not possible.

If you assume that the prime numbered cards are part of the solution, then while this narrows the number of possible strings down, it is still possible to produce a number of strings that are a 'legitimate' solution.

=== Solitaire Solvers ===

* Online: [http://cif.rochester.edu/~la002k/solitaire.htm]
* Authored by Brian Enigma (Brute Forcer): [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=182560#182560]
* Authored by Danives (Dictionary Attacker): [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=215377#215377]
* Changes to Perl code by Sh1ft (Deck Order Preset): [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=251226#251226]

=== Sources for the initial deck encoding ===

* Encoded from the 108 non-disappearing characters
* Standard Deck ordering of A-K, C,D,H,S (discussed here: [http://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html])
* Order of cards as they come out of the box as viewed face up: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=223529#223529]
<tt>
Joker - Colour 
Joker - Black and White 
Diamonds - A T T F F S S E N T J Q K 
Clubs - A T T F F S S E N T J Q K 
Hearts - A T T F F S S E N T J Q K 
Spades - A T T F F S S E N T J Q K 
</tt>
* Order of cards as used in the [http://schneier.com/solitaire.html Solitaire algorithm]: each card is converted into a number from 1..52 using the following method:
<tt>
Clubs: A T T F F S S E N T J Q K - (1..13) 
Diamonds: A T T F F S S E N T J Q K - (14..26) 
Hearts: A T T F F S S E N T J Q K - (27..39) 
Spades: A T T F F S S E N T J Q K - (40..52) 
</tt>

* From the prime numbered puzzle cards [[Playing card symbols]] [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Playing_card_symbols]
: This idea has been reasonably discredited: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=213386#213386]
<pre>
Hello Dan,

Thanks for your email.

You do not need any other puzzle cards in order to solve card 243-
shuffled.

Regards,

Perplex City Customer Services
</pre>

=== Sources for the Cipher Text ===

* The 108 standard characters
* The 20 disappearing characters
* The phrase 'If entropy wins, outward looks should leave you cold' [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=223400#223400]
* The Motor Deck of Cards (from the side of the box)
* Motor Brand High Quality Playing Cards
* Thoth Tarot Deck [http://forums.unfiction.com/viewtopic.php?t=14301&postdays=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=510]

== Two messages encoded with the same code ==

A description of this first arose here [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=202939#202939] but subsequently received very little attention, recently the theory has received new attention, and a good description of how to do it can be found in this post [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=225934#225934]

== Mirdek Cipher ==

Details of the Mirdek cipher can be found here: [http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/mirdek/description.html]

This is another Card based cipher designed to handle the errors found in solitaire. It hasn't been widely investigated at this point.

== Possible Creators of the [[Djinn]] Worm ==
* Claire Castille {{WaybackS1|www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/03/coming_home.html}}
* Sente Kiteway [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=217054#217054]
* Ruth Coralhouse [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=175506#175506]
<pre>
Hello -

You're quite right, Professor Kiteway was involved.
If you can tell me what the message you deciphered was, I can shed some light on the mystery for you.

Best Wishes,
Garnet.
</pre>

{{CardCat}}

Leaked E-mails

2007-07-14T14:40:29Z

Edgemaster: Reverted edits by Jo1Pku (Talk); changed back to last version by Scott

__NOTOC__

On Wednesday 16th November 2005, Perplex City players who had completed the set of four blue hex cards were sent an e-mail congratulating them from the Academy.

However, it seems that the Academy's e-mail system managed to ''leak'' some internal e-mails at the bottom of these e-mails sent out to players. Each player so far has received a different e-mail fragment. They are arranged below in date order.

The top portion of the e-mail reads:

<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">"Dear [player name],

Congratulations, you've solved a set of four Perplex City cards. We've rewarded you by [[Leaderboard|doubling your points]] for each of the cards in the set.

Your Perplex Point total is now ''[total]''. You have solved ''[x]'' cards.
We in Perplex City would like to thank you for your continued dedication to our cause. With your help, we are certain that the Receda Cube will be found and returned safely.

Sincerely, 
The Puzzle Scribe Team 
Perplex City Academy"</div>

Then follows an error code:

<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">
"f8080:xx95034 
internal error academail 
criticalerror 420 
error-authconflict 
error-redirect 
error-handover 
error-output 
fatal-close"</div>

From 20th December 2005 it appears as if some of these emails have been sent again, although at this time they don't appear to be related to the actual solving of a set (i.e. although the email refers to solving a set, no card was solved at the time the email was sent). The resent email has an additional header at the start of the mail as follows.

<div style'"background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">
Failure in Centre for Reality Research Sandbox Mail Transport Daemon (daemon 
subprocess 3ea5). Mind Candy unavailable. Final resend attempt follows. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>

Wave 4 cards appear to have new e-mails associated with solving a set of cards. These e-mails start with an error message like the following.

<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">f90fmvvc9m239v-2;23f-000112academail 
criticalerror1037 
error502-authconflict 
error503-redirect 
f098431290fdhandovermcd</div>

This page has become very ''very'' long. To help curb that, we are now sorting by year. Please see the appropriate page, linked below for older emails. This page will contain only emails from the current year. It would appear newer emails are being recieved in progression with waves of cards and major events, so (in theory) the newest emails should be chronologically sorted, to the bottom of this page.

{{Leaked E-mails}}

Some of these messages have become extremely important. Those should be listed below......

----------

Violet told us a story, after sherevealed she stole the cube, about her visiting the [[Five of Cups]] bar, and being approached by [[Q]]. Here is [[Q]] apologizing to his boss:

{{quote}}
'''8 Jan. 2004 2.28am'''

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 8 Jan. 2004 2.28am

It's not my fault. I simply mistook the contact. The contact gave the
appropriate response to the feeder line and correctly completed the
third element. I barely gave anything away before realising the error. She
didn't appear suspicious. Contact correctly identified within two
hours. I don't think this need go further up the line. Please do not refer
to [[V]].
|}

----------

After being led to suspicions of ill-will, Violet thought maybe it would be best to camp out in the Museum and see what happens. This meant sneaking in, which meant having a reason not to be at the ball:

{{quote}}
'''15 Jan. 2004 3.28pm'''

From: [[Violet Kiteway]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Party arrangements 
Date: 15 Jan. 2004 3.28pm

Hiya - sorry, you know I said I was coming down with something? Well, it's
turned into definite flu: headache, achey joints etc. I don't think I can make
it tonight. Scarlett's coming, though, isn't she? I'm sure it'll be a great
success as usual.

[[Violet Kiteway|V]].
|}

----------

After stealing the Cube, Violet was left holding the bag. Literally. An embroidered "I <3 NY" bag, a shovel, and a jacket were the only physical evidence Violet had ever been to Earth. And Scarlett managed to make a mess of the bag.

{{quote}}
'''3 April 2005 12.17pm'''

From: [[Scarlett Kiteway]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Favour.... 
Date: 3 April 2005 12.17pm

[[Sente Kiteway|Dad]].... would you let [[Violet Kiteway|Violet]] know that I borrowed her embroidered bag and, well, kind of spilled juice on it.... I promise I'll get her a new one, honest, but I know she'll be cross and it'd be so better coming from you... Pleeease?

xxx
[[Scarlett Kiteway|Lettie]]
|}

----------

[[Q]] (Bernardo Holyoke) got a bit full of himself. He hid some stolen academy [[parts]], which were later discovered by police (after a tip from [[Pietro Salk]], who got a tip from [[Monica Grand]]). Holyoke's penalty for disobedience was swift execution.

{{quote}}
'''27 April 2005 8.54am'''

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 27 Apr. 2005 8.54am 

And Q? Do we wish to take any other retributive measures? As a message to anyone else who might be tempted to try to steal from us? 

[[V]].
|}

{{quote}}
'''27 April 2005 8.55am'''

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 27 Apr. 2005 8.55am 

I think not. We always knew that we might have to eliminate members of your team. Q was foolish in trying to keep some of these items from us, and he has paid the price. I think the matter ends here.
|}

{{quote}}
'''27 Apr. 2005 8.56am'''

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 27 Apr. 2005 8.56am

Very well. I shall continue to monitor the other members of the team, as agreed.

[[V]].
|}

----------

In the middle of endless confusion, it was revealed that [[Aiko]] was a reconstructionist. She had already come under suspicion for her involvement in the Academy ball, but not discernible connection could be made. [[Violet]]'s discovery at the recon compound, and a certain [[Recon Encryption Puzzle]] put all eyes on her.

{{quote}}
'''14 June 2005 4.38pm'''

From: [[Anna Heath]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Confidential matter 
Date: 14 June 2005 4.38pm

[[Aiko Entrescore|Aiko's]] personnel file is attached. As you can see we've always been aware that
she was strongly religious. I do not see that this has the slightest implication
for her work.
|}

{{quote}}
'''14 June 2005 4.39pm'''

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Anna Heath]] 
Subject: Confidential matter 
Date: 14 June 2005 4.39pm

I disagree. This information is certainly evidence in the theft of the Cube. I'm turning it over to the proper authorities now.
|}

----------

[[Caine]] is a man of many hidden secrets. Most of them quite incriminating.

{{quote}}
'''9 Sept. 2005 10.15am'''

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Caine Johansson]] 
Subject: Morning after 
Date: 9 Sept. 2005 10.15am

Remember, I've been trained to withstand torture. You have no need to fear. Your secret is safe with me, Tristan....
|}

{{quote}}
|}

{{quote}}
'''23 Sept. 2005 9.40am'''

From: [[Aiko Entrescore]] 
To: [[Caine Johansson]] 
Subject: I would say 
Date: 23 Sept. 2005 9.40am

That today would be a good day to go back home and call in sick a bit later.
Fortunately for you, only Von and I are in the office so far to see your
telltale fingernails. My advice is, cut them as short as you can and use
McWhirter's Reliable Remover. Old fashioned but it works. It was a nice piece of performance theatre, though.
|}

{{quote}}
'''3 Oct. 2005 1.59pm'''

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: [[Anna Heath]], [[Garnet Reed]], [[Kurt McAllister]], [[Caine Johansson]], [[Von Lubik]], [[Aiko Entrescore]] 
Subject: Stapler 
Date: 3 Oct. 2005 1.59pm

For the last time, PLEASE will you ALL stop taking my stapler!
|}

----------

[[Lara Feldenbrandt]], manager of [[Viendenbourg]] mining operations, reported directly to Sente. You see, Sente was secretly building a new Cube. This required a great deal of unstable materials, and experimental technological procedures. [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] would stumble upon these things later.

{{quote}}
'''12 May 2006 3.22pm'''

From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Mining Operations 
Date: 12 May 2006 3.22pm 

Good news to report, sir. We've finally achieved a good accretion rate for the material, and we should be able to amass the desired concentration by sometime toward the end of the month. If all goes well, this means we should be able to begin trials of the device by mid-June. Provided, of course, that we get those last bits of gear you keep promising. 
|}

----------

Violet & Kurt snuck bits and bobs onto [[Puzzle Cards]]. This was their big plan. And neither Mind Candy nor the Academy were aware of it until the cards were in the wild.

{{quote}}
'''20 July 2006 10.38am'''

From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 20 July 2006 10.38am 

We've been doing a QA assessment of the Wave 4 cards now that they're printed, and we've noticed a lot of unusual markings on them. They don't seem to be integrated into the card designs, and now we're wondering if there was a problem on your end, or is this intentional?
|}

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...And then the blame starts.

{{quote}}
'''21 July 2006 5.47pm'''

From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
To: [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]], [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: The Mighty S 
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.47pm 

Can you believe this? They pretty obviously screwed up something fierce somewhere on their side and when we pointed out it couldn't be production problems and our fault, they go radio silent. Typical. They're always on about how very superior and intellectual they are, but you know S wouldn't last a week at Cambridge or Oxford.

And at least we don't celebrate holidays based on the mystical properties of the divine right angle. 
|}

{{quote}}
'''21 July 2006 5.47pm'''

From: [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]] 
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]], [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: The Mighty S 
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.47pm 

You sure know how to make friends, Adrian. Don't worry, I'll help you clear your desk out... 
|}

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In the days before the [[SFConn]], [[the Third Power]] were also making plans. They intended to hijack the signal, and send a dozen agents to Earth.

{{quote}}
'''23 July 2006 9.49pm'''

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 23 July 2006 9.49pm 

Don't worry, it's under control. There's no way we'll miss our big date. 
|}

----------

We on Earth are very very stupid sometimes. Sometimes, it takes a lot for us to notice anything at all.

{{quote}}
'''17 August 2006 06.54pm'''

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm 
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.
|}

----------

One girl's utter embarrassment is another boy's coming of age.

{{quote}}
'''11 September 2006 08.57am'''

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: [[CRT]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 08.57am 
So.... guess who gave Master's daughter Violet Kiteway a very special birthday present over the weekend? She certainly seemed to enjoy it....
|}

{{quote}}
'''11 September 2006 09.26am'''

From: [[Von Lubik]] 
To: [[CRT]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.26am 
Look, it was me, OK? It's not a big deal. Can we get on with some work now?
|}

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The 3P in the city may have been hampered -- but on Earth, they're going strong. possibly stronger, since everyone in the city was raided and rounded up. But what are they working on?

{{quote}}
'''11 September 2006, 12.57pm'''

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld, name withheld 
Subject: Operation Visor 
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.57pm 
Point taken. But your guys over here aren't helping any. Keep poking their noses in, causing things to spontaneously combust. Can you have a word? 

[[3PDossier|O2]]
|}

Paul Denchfield

2007-07-12T13:46:47Z

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{{season2}}
[[Image:Paul-screenie2.JPG]]
:'''Email:''' pauldenchfield at yahoo dot co dot uk
::(Original in-game address was paul at pauldenchfield dot com)
:'''SMS:''' 07624 807820

==General==
*(Former) producer of the BBC Radio 1's vodcasts
*Fired when he discovered the words "[[Frozen Indigo Angel]]" inserted into Radio 1 media.
*Has since been on a quest to determine the meaning of the words, and why there's a coverup.

*Birthdate: 14-MAY
*Sister: Belinda
*Girlfriend: ''(name unknown)''
*Sacked by: Hugh Garry

[[Image:Paul-screenie.JPG|thumb|A slightly younger Paul, on the go]]

==External Links==
* Paul Denchfield's links:
** Blog - http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/
** YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0A7BC4F75836EB76
** Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/
** Twitter - http://twitter.com/pauldenchfield
** Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=10080&id=551747162
** CV - http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/PD_CV_2007.doc
** MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/pauldenchfield

{{S2HotWater}}
[[Category:Earth residents]]

Paul Denchfield

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{{season2}}
[[Image:Paul-screenie2.JPG]]
:'''Email:''' pauldenchfield at yahoo dot co dot uk (Original in-game address was paul at pauldenchfield dot com)
:'''SMS:''' 07624 807820

==General==
*(Former) producer of the BBC Radio 1's vodcasts
*Fired when he discovered the words "[[Frozen Indigo Angel]]" inserted into Radio 1 media.
*Has since been on a quest to determine the meaning of the words, and why there's a coverup.

*Birthdate: 14-MAY
*Sister: Belinda
*Girlfriend: ''(name unknown)''
*Sacked by: Hugh Garry

[[Image:Paul-screenie.JPG|thumb|A slightly younger Paul, on the go]]

==External Links==
* Paul Denchfield's links:
** Blog - http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/
** YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0A7BC4F75836EB76
** Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/pauldenchfield/
** Twitter - http://twitter.com/pauldenchfield
** Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=10080&id=551747162
** CV - http://pauldenchfield.typepad.com/PD_CV_2007.doc
** MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/pauldenchfield

{{S2HotWater}}
[[Category:Earth residents]]

Wiki editing

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{{WikiProject}}
 
Interested in editing the Perplex City wiki? It's easy, available to everyone, and free.

What is a wiki? According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikipedia]: ''A wiki (wee-kee or wick-ey) is a type of website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily. . .This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing.''

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==Getting started==

The [[Perplex City]] wiki invites all [[Cubehunters]] to register for an account and edit the wiki, whether you've just solved your first [[Puzzle Cards|Puzzle Card]] today, or have been around since the [[Project Syzygy]] days. Here's how to get started:

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The Mad Rants Of Tanner

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{{Season0}}

Note, this is not the IN-GAME [[Tanner]], but that friendly (if a little crazy) bloke from IRC.

== Tanner vs. Zeller / Illuminati ==

<pre>
[16:57] <Nik_Doof> ok, what mad spec have we got at the moment and ill edit my spec page
[16:58] <Sep7imus> hmm...may have to jump ship... noon on Friday is ilb new puzzle time!
[16:59] * Jo_not_here is now known as Jo
[16:59] <Jo> well that was dull
[16:59] <tanner_corsair> zeller is alive and well and living in a tibetan monestry
[16:59] <Nik_Doof> lol
[17:00] <tanner_corsair> along with the 7 sages who are gonna rule the world
[17:00] <Jo> from the comfort of their cube armchair?
[17:01] <tanner_corsair> and i know "for a fact" that they killed john lennon :)
[17:01] <Jo> and they killed JR
[17:02] <Jo> and framed that other dude
[17:02] <tanner_corsair> and every other famous assassination --- and they are really knight templers and freemasons
[17:02] <Jo> and part of the illuminati
[17:02] <tanner_corsair> absolutly
[17:02] * Sep7imus has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)
[17:02] <Jo> i bet they are the reason i am watching blue peter
[17:03] <tanner_corsair> they now take there orders from hitler who was reincarnated as a martian
[17:03] * A9Master has joined #syzygy
[17:03] <Jo> hail martian hitler
[17:03] <Jo> ler
[17:03] <tanner_corsair> his agent crashed at roswell
[17:04] * Jo apologises for the allo allo joke
[17:04] <Rhiannon> Also clearly responsible for global warming
[17:04] <Jo> so THATS why they covered roswell up....
[17:04] <Jo> here was me thinking it was because it was elvis comming back from 2050 to kill himself
[17:04] * SilentAvenger has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)
[17:04] <Rhiannon> And the worldwide plague known as "reality television"
[17:05] <Jo> reality tv rules....its so....life like :/
[17:05] <tanner_corsair> of course its competly obvious now --- cos thatcher was a martian too
[17:06] <Jo> wow and i bet milk was her only weakness a la wicked witch and water
[17:06] <tanner_corsair> lol
[17:06] <tanner_corsair> yeah (adds to his list)
[17:07] <Jo> i think blue peter is ran by the illuminati
[17:08] <tanner_corsair> brainwashing kids eh
[17:08] <tanner_corsair> typical
[17:09] <tanner_corsair> the blue peter badge is the passive badge they talk about
[17:09] <Nik_Doof> lol
[17:09] * medication has quit IRC (Quit: )
[17:09] <tanner_corsair> its all so clear now

... Several minutes later

[17:14] <tanner_corsair> it all makes so much sense i think i need a pint :)
</pre>

== Tanner & The Cube Magnets ==

<pre>
[21:39] <tanner_corsair> everyones buying bloody magnets lol
[21:40] <da5id> maybe syz is just a ploy to sell magnets ;)
[21:41] <tanner_corsair> i've still got a hexagonal fridge magnet from redkore --- rofl
[21:41] <tanner_corsair> it never did teleport me anywhere :)
</pre>

== Random Quotes ==

<pre>
[20:40] <tanner_corsair> i always take llamas seriously :)
</pre>

<pre>
[19:52] <tanner_corsair> i wanna know who stole all my underpants
</pre>

== The solution to the Postcard Code ==

<pre>
[00:50:36] <tanner-corsair> anyway -- has anyone taken adrians poem and taker every other word reversed them
-- rotted and the made them into morse printed the resulting letters --
cut them up and thrown them into the air and studied the result using an
electron microscope yet?
[00:50:46] <SilentAvenger> tanner-corsair, I have.
[00:51:06] <SilentAvenger> I came up with this:
[00:51:27] <SilentAvenger> 221545484848465100503215
</pre>

Sanjean Adamek

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{{PCAGChamp|223AC}}

[[Image:Adamek.jpg]]

==Career==

*Became Senior Fellow of Arts in 252AC
*Had a series of wins in the [[PCAG]] in 223
*Became a Junior Fellow when he was only 26
*His contributions to the Academy's visual puzzles have been of an extraordinary standard, six times winning the Taversen Award
*Book Intricate Design, published in 235, is a classic in the field
*Has won the Rincente Prize, and is currently the holder of a Special Fellowship in Graphical Coding
*Is a painter of some renown in his own right, and his works have been exhibited at the prestigious Restructure Gallery
*Lives in the [[Old Town]], in [[Granier House|a house]] built by [[Anthony Granier]].

==Family Life==

*Descendant of the original Master [[Vianne Adamek]]
*Professor Adamek and his wife [[Annaliese Adamek|Annaliese]] are the parents of four children and have six grandchildren.

* Neices: [[Violet Kiteway]] & [[Scarlett Kiteway]]
* Is the Kiteway mother's older brother (and thus [[Sente Kiteway]]'s brother-in-law).

==References==

*'''The Perplex City Academy'''
**[http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcityacademy.com/29.04.05/departments.html Arts Department]

*'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
**article, 04-MAY-05 "Historic Notes Surface" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/historic_notes.html}}
**article, 29-AUG-05 "Archaelogy Breakthrough: Buried Land Art Found" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/archaelogy_brea.html}}

*'''Quirky Acuity'''
**blog, 22-NOV-05 "My visit to Uncle Sanjean" {{WaybackS1|www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html}}

*'''The Scarlett Kite'''
**blog, 17-AUG-06 "Sulk" {{WaybackS1|www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/08/sulk.html}}
**blog, 21-AUG-06 "Unsulk" {{WaybackS1|www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/08/unsulk.html}}
**blog, 30-AUG-06 "Exploration" {{WaybackS1|www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/08/exploration.html}}
**blog, 1-SEP-06 "Perhaps a puzzle" {{WaybackS1|www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html}}

Shuffled

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Perplex City Wiki:Community Portal

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==Community Links==

The place to find all the chatter about Project Syzygy

*[http://perplexorum.com/ Perplexorum Forums]
*[irc://irc.appliedirc.com/perplexorum Perplexorum IRC] | [http://appliedirc.com/?webchat&chan=perplexorum IRC Chat Client] | [http://appliedirc.com/logs/perplexorum/ IRC Logs]

*[http://forums.unfiction.com/ UnFiction Forums]
*[http://www.unfiction.com/chat/ UnFiction IRC] - [http://shish.is-a-geek.net/irc/syzygy/ IRC log and stats]

==Media==
*CreativeEmbassy's ARG radio show is a must-listen!
**It's every other Friday, 5-7 EST, 2-4 PST, 10-12 GMT
**Any player that can handle shoutcast streaming audio can listen (includes Winamp, iTunes)
**Connect through [http://radio.lhup.edu:8000 LHU Toxic Radio]
**Call-in number: (570) 893-2212

==Player Links / Blogs==
: ''Add yours to this list as you wish.''

*[http://www.glimpsemymind.blogspot.com/ DarkBlaze's Blog]
*[http://www.cjtonline.net/booted Seej's Blog]
*[http://sheweevil.blogspot.com/ The Life and Love's of a She Weevil]
*[http://perplexcity.cityscapesolutions.net/ Ayanami Rei's Journal]
*[http://noxiousideas.blogspot.com/ Enigmaster's Blog]
*[http://skenmy.com/ Skenmy's Blog]
*[http://www.andthenhesaid.com/cube/ Rand0m's "How The Cube Was Found" microsite]

The Thirteenth Labour

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{{Season1}}

=={{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}}==
[[Image:Thirteenthlabour.JPG]]

==Card text==

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"
|
64/12/8

69 A9 3A FD C5 AD 43 8F 48 53 56 0F

1D 35 3A 8C 5C 44 A6 90 1B 76 46 C7

65 53 C8 A1 E4 B0 40 41 85 2B B7 81

59 E0 D2 39 35 A3 27 3B C3 AF 2E 2E

2F 3B 3B 0B 01 FE 67 51 FE 73 A8 E9

36 0A 93 85 55 2E 9A 4A AE C9 84 CF

18 F8 AB 4D B5 6D 45 07 4E 17 23 A5

7C F1 E8 BD A5 8A BD C8 FE FC DA 2B

6B 71 76 88 1F C0 D1 95 61 8D DB DC

D8 17 2E D7 1D D5 F7 AB AD AB 3E 52

2A 9A 9B BA 37 FE 80 FB 53 95 C9 1D

A2 22 AE 72 85 4A 43 1F 7C 2A BF 2A

79 3A 15 03 8D F2 5B 43 98 90 6D CC

A0 BB E2 A9 6A 52 D1 CB 2B 83 DE D8

BF EC 20 11 70 71 AA 22

[[Image:Cowhead.gif]] [[Image:Cowhead.gif]] [[Image:Cowhead.gif]] [[Image:Cowhead.gif]] [[Image:Cowhead.gif]]
|}

==The absolute basics==
*We assume a block of text has been scrambled (encrypted) so that we cannot read it
*the RC5.64 standard refers to how it has been scrambled
*This scrambling requires a 'Key' to unlock it - we are searching for that key.
*So there are two camps
**one camp is supplying thousands of words randomly as keys to see if that produces anything reasonable
**The other camp is trying to figure out the appropriate word (perhaps using the Labours of Hercules as a clue) then trying that word
**http://www.connected.ltd.uk/pxc/

*Of course, if we are wrong about the encryption standard, then we are fairly fubarred, but it would appear that all roads point to it.

*Of course, there was some speculation that the 12 referred to the fact that there were 12 tasks of Hercules, and 12 RC5 challenges posted by RSA security
** This was therefore the '13th Challenge'
** Also, if this does need a brute force or grid computing attack - this would be a 'Herculean Challenge'

The distributed assault is currently underway, see below and at the [http://www.13thlabour.tk Assault on 13th Labour] site.

==Cowheads and 64/12/8==
*The cows represent the symbol of [http://www.distributed.net distributed.net], who first cracked the RC5.64 protocol, possibly indicating that this card requires a simple RC5.64 crack as well

*However, the card doesn't say RC5.64, it says 64/12/8. The assumption is that:
**the 5 cow heads is a pointer to the RC5 standards, as worked on by the folks at www.distributed.net
**The 64 would therefore be the encryption standard (RC5.64)
**The 12 is supposedly the number of rounds, and the key is 8 characters long
**That is why the brute force using 8 character words and phrases

==Distributed Effort==
Recently, work has been done by [[User:chimera245|chimera245]] to set up a coordinated Grid Computing solve on this Card. There is more information on this [http://www.13thlabour.tk here] kindly maintained by [[User:GuiN|GuiN]]. The Grid Client is running nicely and is available [http://www.e-wire.net.au/~eb_oakla/pxc/13labour_1_3_1.zip here].

Earlier efforts included some work by [[User:Scott|Scott]] who did some math, and observed how long it would take to work out an answer here. See: [[Rccrypt Work Unit checkout]] for the original proposal for a combined effort.

Update:

As of 23-SEP-06, the client has tried every single combination of letters and numbers. That is, every single 8 character combination of the characters: ''abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789''. Nothing has come of this. Basically, this means that the key to unlocking the code HAS to contain at least one symbol. [[User:chimera245|Chimera245]] has updated the program, adding 5 more characters to test - ''<space>'' ''.'' '','' ''?'' and ''!'' - This will double the size of the possible keyspace.

{{CardCat}}

Library of Babel

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{{Season1}}

'''<BIG>For information related to the person(s) known only as "Combed Thunderclap", the author of these pages, see: [[Combed Thunderclap]]</BIG>'''

==Discovery==
One of the [[Leaked E-mails#Internal_Security|Leaked E-mails]] hinted at a "library" subdirectory:

{{quote}}
From: Garnet Reed 
To: Henrik Tanner 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm

Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.
|}

== Message 1: Waking ==
This led to a hidden page:

http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/

The page has an animated Flash file with an id of "Thunderclap". ("A Combed Thunderclap" is a reference to the [[Jorge Luis Borges]] story, "Library of Babel". For more information, see "[[Puzzle Card Symbols]]".)

An eye opens, and text slowly appears. A transcript follows. The strikethroughs indicate words that are erased in the animation.

===Text===
{{quote}}
Waking. It was like waking into a new world
from a dream of all the old.
Or. No. Like opening my eyes
although I knew they were already open.

For a moment I thought I could see…
everything.

---

This is <s>not</s> important: I did not kill anyone.
I have not killed anyone.
Unless <s>by my silence</s> by remaining silent too long.
But I can’t.
I can’t.

---

I must continue in silence
because what would I say,
how would I convince anyone of what I tell you now?

That I did not kill anyone.

---

But someone did.

---

There are so many possibilities, numberless scenarios
and how do I know? How can I know which one is the
truth? Like the books in the Library of Babel, each
permutation may be the correct one, but is infinitely
more likely to be deceptive. A phantom. A dream.

---

I thought it was a dream. Or a beautiful simulation of a place I have
seen so many times before in photographs or video. I knew it at
once: the yellow cars driven along the streets, the steam rising up
from the sidewalk gratings. I thought: how marvellous. How real.
I stumbled and fell. I grazed my hand and the blood was real and
the pain was real and I began to understand.

---

I didn’t kill anyone. But someone did. And they’ll be looking for me.
|}

===Image Analysis===
The two paragraphs before the last have some letters that display before the others. This may be simply a visual effect or it may be a clue.

[[:Image:Paragraph1.PNG|Image of first appearing paragraph]]

[[:Image:Paragraph2.PNG|Image of second appearing paragraph]]

There are also strange images above the eye, at first they were thought to be kanji. Later arkai discovered that they are just letters turned sideways. These letters seem to spell "Waking" (just like the first word of the animation).

[[:Image:Weirdeye.jpg|Image of the eye, negatived.]]

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, various pieces of what appear to be 3P messages started cropping up in some of the LoB animations. In Waking, we have:

{{quote}}
08012070645 -
To all operatives: Project Visor status report. Have encountered radical diffculties.
|}

and:

{{quote}}
Hypothesise that these are caused by unpredictable meteorological differences. Several thousand readings have been taken of which:
|}

(For an collected, ordered set of messages, see [[Library of Babel: Project Visor Leaks]])

==Message 2: Realise==
On 01-SEP-06, the babel page was updated to show a series of book-ish images, in various forms of hiding. Clikcing the opened book image below the message section takes us to the old message section.

Firstly, the page showed a slew of leaves. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-1.JPG]]

Once cleared, text is plainly visible. There does not appear to be anything else of note at this point. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-2.JPG]]

Then comes the interesting part. After a certain amount of time (about a minute?) the leaves blow away, and the page turns blank. Moving the mouse over the page reveals a new much more hidden message. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-3.JPG]]

Finally, clicking in the upper left corner of the page reveals yet another message. Sometimes, this one is initially slightly obscured by leaves, but is plainly visible. 
[[:Image:Hidden-babel-4.JPG]]

===Text===
{{quote}}
I realise I should tell you what happened. So that you'll understand. Because I'm going to need your help. I only hope that you find this first. I know that there are others looking, that they may find what I have hidden. So, help?
|}

{{quote}}
This is how it was, then. I stumbled onto it. I never intended to steal anything. In fact, it was more that it stole me. I touched it and we were gone. I didn't know that could happen. I didn't know anything. But I'm starting from the wrong place again. You'll have to excuse me. It's been a long time and I haven't known who I could tell, or if I could tell anyone.
|}

{{quote}}
Begin at the beginning, then. I am a person, a real
person, a single individual in Perplex City. I buried the
Cube on Earth. And I will try to tell you how, but the hows
are less apparent than the whys, and even they
are obscure. Remember this: don't look for me, I know
you're already trying. Because those other people?
They're looking for me too. And if you find me, I don't
know who will travel with you.

Fellow-travellers can be dangerous: I should know.
|}

===Extra Text===

On the 19th of Jan 2007 the following message appeared in very small print on one of the leaves:
{{quote}}
19012701215

To Earth operatives: Package onboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.
|}

== Message 3: Dissolution. Dissipating. Everything. ==
On 18-SEP-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once again, this time with a much more exciting, dramatic, and artistic animation.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Sometimes I asked myself if I planned it all. Of course I planned it 

I planned what had to be done, I planned how to do it. 

But I didn’t plan the end, only the beginning. The beginning is easy to explain, but dangerous. The end is harder, but safer. 

I’ll start with safe. 
|}

{{quote}}
There was no flash or bang or choir of angels.

---

There was a sense of dissolution, of dissipating, a sense of everything.

---

And then there was hard stone under my feet and steam and yellow cars and an intense cold. And a sound of ringing in my ears.

---

I stood up.

---

Blood on my hand, but that was not important.

---

People walking, uninterested, barely looked in my direction. I thought: people. Just like us. No different at all, after everything that’s been said.

---

There was ringing again.

---

I looked around. There was me, and the Cube, and the planet Earth. So far away from home it can’t be counted. And where should I go, and what should I do? Shelter first. There were buildings all around. I knew enough, I’d done enough research. And you’re not so different. Somewhere there would be a hotel or a library, somewhere warm I could sit and think. 

I began to walk. There was the sound of ringing again.

|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
I looked around. A small cubicle, a device with a keypad and handle was ringing. Something my research had not prepared me for?

I walked past it.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
After a minute or two, another such device, ringing.

I walked on.
|}

[ringing sound]

{{quote}}
At the third ringing cubicle I wondered if I should do something. Was the ringing a warning? An elderly woman, smothered in a thick overcoat walked past without stopping and said:

---

Are you going to answer it?

---

I realised the meaning of the device.

---

I picked up the handset and put it to my ear.

---

On the other end a voice spoke.

---

It spoke my name.
|}

== Message 4: The arrangements have been made. ==
On 11-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again, this time with a 45x15 box of scrolling characters, sections of which formed themselves into words to form the below messages. The final message is left slowly fading in and out of focus. The background has the words "Receda's Revenge" upon it, very faintly - this update coincided with the updating of the [[Receda's Revenge]] site.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

WHAT?

I SAID

THE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

I THOUGHT AGAIN OF THE INFINITE LIBRARY, OF THE WORDS ON WORDS ARRANGED ON OTHER WORDS.

OF THE WAY THAT WORDS PILE ON ONE ANOTHER, CREATING AND UNDWINDING MEANING.

OF THE PRECISE PATH LEADING FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE OPENED BY THE MEANINGS WE INFER.

---

"YOUR TICKETS," THE VOICE SAID, "HAVE BEEN BOOKED."

"YOUR ROOM HAS BEEN RESERVED."

"THE CAR WILL PICK YOU UP."

"YOUR ITEMS HAVE BEEN ORDERED."

"HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY."

"YES," I SAID, "OF COURSE, CERTAINLY."

---

NOTHING CAN DO THIS,
NOTHING AT ALL.
NOTHING CAN DO EVERYTHING,
NOTHING CAN BE EVERYWHERE.

I THOUGHT: I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED.
I THOUGHT: I AM AN INSTRUMENT.

---

"PLEASE WAIT WHERE YOU ARE, THE CAR WILL FOR YOU ARRIVE SHORTLY"

---

I STOOD ON THE CORNER, DIRTY-GREY SNOW
SLOPPING AT MY FEET, OBSERVING THE TIDEMARKS
OF SALT ON THE PAVING STONES.

I WAS COLD, I REALISED, VERY COLD.

I NEEDED A COAT. COULD I PURCHASE ONE?

WITH WHAT?

A THOUGHT OCCURRED.

I HAD BROUGHT ONE OR TWO ITEMS WITH ME -
NOTHING USEFUL, NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE.

COULD I SELL SOMETHING? FOR MONEY?

---

A CAR PULLED UP AT THE CORNER OF THE
STREET, HONKED ITS HORN ONCE.

THE BLACK WINDOW PEELED DOWN.

INSIDE, THE DRIVER SPOKE MY NAME.
THIS COULD NOT BE NORMAL.
EVEN HERE. NOT USUAL.

I NODDED ASSENT. THE BACK DOOR OF THE CAR
OPENED. I STEPPED INSIDE.

WAITING FOR ME ON THE SEAT WAS A COAT.
IN MY SIZE.

---

FLYING 

FLYING 

LIKE A BIRD 

ON THE WING 

ON THE WING 

AMAZING 

FLYING 
ON 
THE 
WING 
|}

===Extra Text===
The following text is split up and "corrupted" across various places in the animation:

{{quote}}
66% have a margin of error of more than 1000 miles; 14% fail entirely; 12% give a non-Earth location; 7.3% produce internally inconsistent data; 0.7% give a precise location.

However there has been no repetition in the locations thus produced.
|}

== Message 5: To Begin. ==
On 30-OCT-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated once more. On this occasion, the screen is filled with seemingly random grey letters, which move together and turn white to form words, then separate and fade back to grey. Certain phrases remain on screen, these are marked in bold in the following transcript.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
Things are over here, 
Over and ended except that, 
As you can see, 
Not quite over for me. 
Or for you. 

I wanted to do this slowly, 
Quietly, 

But when no 
One else 
Is speaking 
A pin-drop 
Is as 
Loud as cymbals 

When no one else is moving, creeping is running 

I think of books, 
Books within books, 
Words within words. 
A play within a play. 

-----

'''Hamlet, William Shakespeare''' 

-----

The play’s the thing, it seems. 

So again. I have things to tell you. 
Things you’ll need to know 
And I know that you’re running in circles, 
Around and around and around and 
When you’re in a circle 
You need to know 
Where it 
Starts. 

Unlike black, I do not despise the circle. 

-----

'''The wonderful O, James Thurber'''. 

-----

It starts where it ends, and where it 
Starts is by finding the secret location. 

[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]] is one place to begin. 

-----

'''The library of babel, Jorge Luis Borges'''. 

-----

The letters which are arranged and rearranged, 
in mathematical certainty, 
in search of meaning. 
Think of the names of the books: 

The plaster cramp, axaxaxas mlo. 

Of course, the books in that library have no author. 
But authorship is critical. 
Think of Pierre Menard or 
Of Johannes Valentinus Andrea, or 
Of Gunnar Erjfjord. 
Authors creare worlds, 
and worlds seep one to another. 

-----

'''History of the land called Uqbar, Silas Haslam'''. 

-----

Things have been closed here, closed up tightly, with 
No gaps, no room to breathe. We are all imprisoned, 
But our minds are free. '''Papillon, Henri Charriere''' 
And yet. It all begins with the arrangement of things, 
With asking a question and answering it. 

I’ve given you 
all you need to begin. Be simple. 
Start by answering the obvious questions. 

Everything leads on from the answers 
you already have. 

I don’t know how much I’ll be able to help you, 
But I’ll help you where I can. 

-----

'''Oh whistle and I’ll come to you my lad.''' 
'''Montague Rhodes James'''. 
|}

With the message done, the book titles and authors left behind form up into a grid, and a set of numbers appears. Dragging a letter in the message with the mouse reveals it's number.

hamletwilliamshakespearethew 
onderfulojamesthurberthelibr 
aryofbabeljorgeluisborgeshis 
toryofthelandcalleduqbarsila 
shaslampapillonhenricharrier 
eohwhistleandillcometoyoumy 
ladmontaguerhodesjames 

127 77 28 64 160 176 11 30

===Solution===
The mention of a secret location is a reference to {{Card|223|Secret Location}}, or more specifically the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|meta information on that card]]. Using the information given here by Combed Thunderclap, the hidden message on the card has been [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]].

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, the following text was hidden in the animation:
{{quote}}
Recommendations:
1) We are continuing to refine and refocus our systems. We believe we may be getting closer. 2) Imperative that investigations continue in the city. Someone knows
|}

== Message 6: Time Ticks On ==
On 11-NOV-06, the main Library of Babel page was updated yet again. This new animation was much more graphically advanced than the other three, and, rather than simply have text on the screen, the narration was red by two narrators at the same time. The message spoke more of CTs journey on earth with the cube, and contained some cryptic puzzles.

=== Text and Narration ===
At the bottom of the screen:
be patient, this may take a while

In the animation:
the time has come.
click.

{{quote}}
Time ticks on and on and on. The days have bled together and I am a different person now, quite different, to the one I was. It's been almost three years. 1,095 days. 26,297 hours. 1,577,846 minutes. And there are the deaths. Days not lived and hours not perceived. I wish this had been different.
|}

{{quote}}
There was a clock in the hotel lobby. The car dropped me off at the door. I wrapped the cube in the coat because I did not fully understand that no one here would know it, that no one would shout "stop! thief!" 

I spoke my name to the clerk behind the desk whose red nails clicked on the marble surface as the hands of the clock ticked round and round and I thought now. Certainly now I will be discovered. 

The red-nailed woman said: 

"Yes, the suite is booked for you, yes, the charges have been taken care of." She smiled as she said this. 

She said: 

"And your travel documents."
|}

{{quote}}
She handed me an envelope. I tipped the contents into my hand. There were tickets, there was a device the size of a deck of cards with a screen and a keypad, there was a small turquoise book with blank pages. On the front it said: Laissez Passer, Nations Unies. In the back of the book was a picture of me. I recognised the picture. It is a serious picture, I am in a business suit. It was taken in Perplex City. 

In my hotel room, the video-screen welcomed me by name, and the music playing on the sound system was my favourite Earth composer. I took little notice of any of this, lay on the bed and fell into a sleep as deep as the world.
|}

{{quote}}
In my dreams, I wandered the streets of Perplex City. There was meaning in every street, in every turn, in every paving stone. I saw these numbers laid out before me: 

'''(7,8) + (6,6) + (7,8) - (6,6) - (-5,5) - (-5,5) + (7,5) + (6,5) - (6,5) + (7,5) - (6,4) - (6,4) + (8,4) + (8,4) - (8,3) - (-5,-2) - (8,3) + (6,-4) - (-5,-2) + (6,-4) + (7,-4) - (7,-4) + (8,-4) + (-4,-6) + (8,-4) - (6,-5) + (-4,-6) - (8,-5) + (6,-5) - (6,-2) + (8,-5) - (-4,-8) - (-4,-8) + (-2,-7) - (-3,-8) - (-3,-8) + (6,-7) - (6,-2) - (-2,-7) + (6,-7) + (7,-7) + (7,-7) - ''' 

and then I dreamed no more.
|}
When plotted, the sequence creates this [http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r112/gulrad/ticks.jpg Pattern].

===Solution===
The code at the end was finally decoded by ilikepucks to reveal the proper order of the [[Puzzle_card_symbols#Wave_4_Meta_Information|Wave 4 number strings]]. [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17532]

== Message 7: A journey. ==

On December 11, 2006, the page was updated again. In this one, a set of 16 glowing blue keys spin and swirl seemingly at random around the black screen. One of the keys is a hotlink: a small two-toothed key with a perfectly round handle. When this key is clicked, the others fall away, and the message begins. This key begins in the middle of the bottom of the animation when it begins.

=== Text and lines ===

The round-handled key settles in the middle of the screen.

a journey, it transpires.

the whole thing has been about a journey

Four small four-pointed stars form a square around the key in the order upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left. The key moves to the lower right corner of the animation:

And the thing itself,

A line is drawn from the upper left star, one unit at a time: west, west, south, south, west.

The key moves to the lower left:

a maker of journeys,

A new line from the upper right star: east, north, north, east, east, east, north, west.

The key moves to the upper left:

a joiner of points.

A third line from the lower right star: east, south, south, south, east, south, west.

The key moves to the upper right:

Travel, solidified.

The last star gets a line: west nine times, southwest

The stars are then labelled in the reverse order, lower left, S; lower right, D; upper right, R; and upper left, L. The animation screen splashes to white in a flurry of percent signs and monarch butterflies.

Motion, held fast.

A large, central, rectangular area of this last screen seems to be a link or hot spot, but it does nothing obvious when clicked on.

===Extra Text===

On 2007-01-12, an extra key appeared at the start of the animation. This key contains the following text:

{{quote}}
12012700533
To all operatives

Project Visor recommendation 2. We believe we are close to a breakthrough
Continue work on Visor. We shall keep you appraised
|}

== Message 8: Flying ==
Another update occured again, on the 3rd of January. This time it is split in three;
* The first section looks like rotation on a combination lock (no punctuation or capitals), with a percent sign rearranging itself to the letters "Mod", four dots and a Clavus key;
* the second has letters and puntuation marks in groups of three in a spiral shape;
* The third has words on a clock-face.
* The conclusion shows the last 3 words, alone in bolder, stark contrast.

=== Text ===
{{quote}}
and flying 
it was not 
as i expected 
i thought there 
would be wind 
a sense of motion 
exhilaration 
it was a box with 
blinking lights 
and plastic sealed food 
this is the moral 
i suppose 
if you travel 
fast enough 
it feels the same 
as standing still 
but nonetheless 
there were fluffy 
clouds like 
whipped dessert 
outside the 
window 
i wondered what 
it would be like 
to touch them 
-----
i had put the cube in the bag before my journey. 
a bag of the correct size was waiting for me in the hotel room, of course.. 
at the airport all bags had to be passed through a machine to examine the contents. 
i felt suddenly afraid, with that same fear. 
someone will see it, someone will know, someone will say 'the cube! stop thief!' 
i placed the bag on to the conveyor belt. 
there was no shout, no attack. 
i glimpsed the screen showing an image of my bag. 
it showed an assortment of objects within, just like everyone else's. 
-----
in a distant place i was met by another car 
the driver holding a board with my name written on it 
on the back seat there was an envelope with my name on
-----
     and 
    a 
   shovel.
|}

===Extra Text===
On 2007-01-18, a message appeared on this page:

{{quote}}
18012700448

To Earth operatives: We have gained access. A genuine non-repro Earth artefact dating from the time of the original theft has been discovered, confirming our initial hypothesis. Our contact will schedule package pickup tomorrow. Earth teams on standby - anticipate successful completion imminently.
|}

==Index File==
===Extra Text===

Inserted 2007-01-12:
{{quote}}
05012072313

With immediate effect, operatives are to cease utilising previous communications method. Security has been breached. This channel to be reserved for essential communication only. Message ends.
|}

Timeline:History

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Leitmarks

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==General==
*Discreet, formal awards for achievement in the [[Perplex City Academy Games]]
*Awarded not solely to winners, but to competitors who have most stretched their personal boundaries over the course of a competition
*Worn on the sleeve as a quiet, humble way of showing pride in self and city
*In ancient times, Leitmarks were awarded for cunning tactics during the heat of combat, battle-winning strategy or, on rare occasions, even for personal valor
*Secret societies and religious groups have produced their own Leitmarks, to recognize one another discreetly in a public forum
*The people of Perplex City seem divided for and against giving Leitmarks to Earth-based Cube hunters.

==Known awards==
*The [[City Star]], presented by the [[Perplex City Council]] to popular rock band [[Roll For Damage]], for their strong public stance to get youth involved in political issues
*The [[Silver Solve]] is the highest honor anyone in the city can possibly be given by the city council; A kind of Congressional Medal of Honor.

At present, there are '''twelve''' leitmarks available on earth, identifiable as:
#333
#TSOL
#Red
#Orange
#Yellow
#Green
#Blue
#Purple
#Black
#Silver
#PCAG
#Mind Candy

*'''333 Leitmark''': Earth residents received a special Leitmark in [[Parcels|parcels]] from [[Sente]] for volunteering to hunt for the Cube.
*'''TSOL Leitmark''': Cube hunters who went to [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/22-OCT-05 Clapham Common] on October 22nd 2005 were rewarded with a white leitmark, bearing the word "TSOL" and "The Cube" in binary. These were left behind - by parties unknown - after the helicopter escape. They were in a rucksack which also contained a large number of packs of Wave 1 puzzle cards, vouchers for drinks at a local public house and controversially, five never before seen (at the time) Wave 2 cards.
*Customers purchasing a starter's packet from the [[Firebox]] catalogue also received the '''TSOL Leitmark'''

*'''Virtual Leitmarks''' are awarded to Earth-based Cube hunters based on total points earned by solving cards
**[[Image:Redleitmark.gif]] Red leitmarks are awarded at 950 points
**[[Image:Orangeleitmark.gif]] Orange at 2,300
**[[Image:Yellowleitmark.gif]] Yellow at 4,500
**[[Image:Greenleitmark.gif]] Green at 5,900
**[[Image:Blueleitmark.gif]] Blue at 7,900
**[[Image:Purpleleitmark.gif]] Purple at 10,000
**[[Image:Blackleitmark.gif]] Black at 13,000
**'''Silver Leitmark''': '100 Silver leitmarks will be awarded at the conclusion of Season One to a select number of elite leaderboard participants' ([http://pxcforums.com/index.php?showtopic=1243&view=findpost&p=11700 link]) and those that have made significant contributions to the community. The silver leitmark was also awarded to Rand0m, the finder of the Receda Cube, who described it as 'blank, solid silver and unpolished, apart from the very shiny little square in the corner' ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18235 link]).
**'''Green Leitmark''': Letters across the green Leitmark read, "And [[Gyvann]] said doubt not that the cube speaks or that its voice is heard"
**'''Blue Leitmark''': A braille puzzle on the blue Leitmark spells, "I CAN SEE YOU"
**See: [[Point Possibilities]] for a staggered list of all possible scores, and known mark awards.
**All Leitmarks earned are posted to individuals, if they have entered their addresses in their Perplex City Player accounts.

*'''PCAG Leitmark''': Participants in the [[London PCAG event]] & [[New York PCAG event]] received Leitmarks bearing the [[PCAG]] logo
*'''Mind Candy Leitmark''': [[Mind Candy]] employees have a special company Leitmark

<gallery>
Image:Earth_leitmark.jpg|333 Leitmark from Sente's [[Parcels|parcels]]
Image:Leitmark_TSOL.jpg|"TSOL" Leitmark from the [[Firebox]] starter's pack
Image:Sente-letter.jpg|Sente's leitmark letter
Image:Leitmark_3d.jpg|Virtual Leitmarks, via the Sentinel
Image:Redleitmark.jpg|Red Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_orange.jpg|Orange Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_yellow.jpg|Yellow Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_green.jpg|Green Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_blue.jpg|Blue Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_purple.jpg|Purple Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_black.jpg|Black Leitmark
Image:Leitmark_PCAG.jpg|[[London PCAG event]] Leitmark
Image:Mindcandyleitmark.jpg|[[Mind Candy]]'s Leitmark
Image:Leitmarksgroupfull.jpg|The first view of a silver Leitmark
</gallery>

[[Image:Leitmark big.jpg]]

==Sente's Letter==
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|

Dear Player,

I am pleased to award you your Leitmark, in recognition of the hard work you have put into helping the people of Perplex City find the Receda Cube. We are very grateful for your assisstance, and hope that this will be the beginning of a long relationship between our two worlds.

Regards,

[signed Sente]

Master of the Perplex City Academy

|}

==References==
*'''The Perplex City Sentinel'''
**article, 02-MAY-05 "[[Sente|Kiteway]] Cheapens Honour of [[Leitmarks]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/kiteway_cheapen.html}}
**article, 13-JUL-05 "[[Roll For Damage|RFD]] Awarded [[City Star]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/rfd_awarded_cit.html}}
**article, 13-FEB-06 "Virtual [[Leitmarks]] Debut on Earth" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/02/virtual_leitmar.html}}
**letters, 23-FEB-06, "Earthly Leitmarks" {{WaybackS1|perplexcitysentinel.com/letters/index.html])
**article, 19-FEB-07 "[[Violet|Pair]] [[Kurt|to]] Receive [[Leitmark|Award]] for Foiling [[Third Power]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/02/pair_to_receive_1.html}}

Quick start

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The alternate reality game [http://www.perplexcity.com Perplex City] (PXC) is a real-life treasure hunt, a collaborative competition and an interactive mystery/conspiracy/adventure story, in the vein of "Alice in Wonderland", William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition", "the Da Vinci Code", 'The Game' starring Michael Douglas, and Kit Williams's "Masquerade".

Perplex City itself is the story of an alternate universe that is actually quite similar to our own. They have a precious artifact known as the Receda Cube, which has been stolen. The role of players is to become familiar with Perplex City culture, which is based on mental agility (whereas Earth would be physical), and eventually find the Cube.

This task is being put forth by the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com Perplex City Academy], run by Sente Kiteway. The Academy contacted Earth-based company [http://www.mindcandydesign.com Mind Candy], who have "sorted through the information provided" to produce puzzle cards for Earth players to solve. It isn't necessary to buy the cards to play the game, but they are a lot of fun.

There's [http://perplexcity.com/leaderboard/leaderboard.qbuild?start=1 a leaderboard on the website] that primarily tracks the points for solving puzzle cards (400000+ cards solved so far, by over 30000 registered players as of June, 2006). The cards have been out in the UK since July of 2005, and they were recently picked up by multiple [http://perplexcity.com/help/buycards/index.qbuild distributors] in the UK and US. Some of these distributors are capable of shipping anywhere in the world. So far, three waves of 66 cards each have been released, with the fourth and final wave (totaling 256 cards) of season one anticipated before the end of 2006.

Puzzle cards are ranked by difficulty, with silver cards representing the most difficult puzzles. Of the cards that have been released, three silver cards remain unsolved, each posing a very difficult and unique problem.

One of the silver cards, [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 "The Thirteenth Labour"], requires unscrambling a block of text that has been encrypted using the RC5.64 standard first cracked by [http://www.distributed.net distributed.net]. To do this, players have [http://www.13thlabour.tk/ banded together] and combined processing power to form a grid computing attack, not unlike the SETI at home program.

Yet another puzzle asks players to band together to devise a proof for the famously difficult [http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Riemann_Hypothesis/ Riemann Hypothesis].

In addition to card solving, Perplex City is a diverse, involved game that combines online activity with offline interaction:

* When a character needed credentials in a library to get access to a rare book, Earth players wrote short stories which were published by a Perplex City company and which is [http://www.lulu.com/content/225745 now available for sale on Earth].

* [http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/The_Receda_Trail Another trail] led from a woman's dying words to a London university, to movie theatres in Canada, to an automated phone system, to a turn-based multi-player online game, to a banner pulled by a plane in the skies of Manchester, to a live meeting where players solved puzzles together.
** After that live event, a mole that had been helping solve puzzles and interacting with players all day fled the scene and escaped in a black helicopter.

* [http://perplexcity.com/events/london/liveevent.html At another recent event], players formed an impromptu 127-person long conga line in London's Trafalgar Square, stuffed themselves into phone booths and went on a treasure hunt in the National Gallery, all while texting trivia answers to a home base and receiving updates via SMS.
** Later that night, while riding the London Eye, players witnessed messages being flashed in Morse code from the banks of the River Thames

Will the Receda cube be found this year? Will you be the lucky one to solve the ultimate puzzle and take home the cash prize? There is only one way to find out.... play on.

==Some helpful websites==
http://www.perplexcity.com

http://www.mindcandydesign.com

'''Interested? Check out our [[getting started]] page!'''

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{{Cube fFound}}

[[The Receda Cube]], a priceless artifact of scientific and spiritual significance to the Perplex City citizens, was stolen from the [[Academy]]. Discovering more about the theft, identifying the culprits and locating the Cube on Earth was our primary objective, until it was discovered on 04-FEB-07.

==The Night Of The Theft==

{{Season1}}

The ball is a grandiose celebration of the Academy, and everything it stands for. The Founder's Ball honours the grand champion of the Perplex City Academy Games as well, and on the night in question that was [[Ryan Cahill]]. Guests arrived via Gatehouse 1 around 7:38 PM. {{Card|229|Ball Night}} informs us of the course of the evening's events. "During the ball, each of the five events occurred in a different place, featured its own speaker, took a different amount of time, and was sponsored by a different Senior Fellow." Here is an event summary.
: First, [[Sente Kiteway]] spoke at [[Carrick Hall]] during the 40 minute cocktail event, sponsored by [[Estelle Sedgewick]].
: Second, [[Robert Zhi-hui]] spoke at [[Kermeen Hall]] during the 30 minute awards event, sponsored by [[Hunan Mansoor]].
: Third, [[Aiko Entrescore]] spoke at the [[museum]] during the 60 minute art exhibit event, sponsored by [[Inari Ekeba]].
: Fourth, [[Anna Heath]] spoke outdoors during the 20 minute fireworks event, sponsored by [[Sanjean Adamek]].
: Fifth, [[Camryn Scott]] spoke in the [[Noi Ballroom]] during the 80 minute dance event, sponsored by [[Margaret Wildwood]].

If all events begin in rapid succession (which is highly unlikely), the schedule would look a bit like:
:[[Sente Kiteway]] - 7:38-8:18
:[[Robert Zhi-hui]] - 8:18-8:48
:[[Aiko Entrescore]] - 8:48-9:48
:[[Anna Heath]] - 9:48-10:08
:[[Camryn Scott]] - 10:08-11:28

[[Newspaper Text|On Ball Night, (Jan 15th, 2004)]] when Academy security is frequently stretched to its limit, the team struck. A note which appears on {{Card|146|You Are Cordially Invited}}, ostensibly exchanged between the conspirators, reads:

Electric splash
BB, 21 to 24
4: C, V, K, Q
20, V to 24

This message was intercepted by [[Helena Frye]], and interpreted to mean The "electric splash" was a sort of distraction, possibly meaning the sculptures by [[Aiko]] (described below).

The Cube was stolen sometime before 2.00 AM. Police Chief [[Eoin Morgan]] recognized that the group would have to have been '''"highly organized and technologically sophisticated"''' in order to pull off the theft. It was recognized immediately by the Academy that portions of the security system had been reprogrammed in order to allow the theft to take place, and that three different systems had, in fact, been disabled without causing alarms to trip. Kurt's friend Leo suggested it would take at least '''two Academy insiders''' to circumvent such a system.

Security guard [[Fran Mendling]] was murdered the same night, apparently because she chanced across the theft (although it remains an outside possibility that she may have been allied to the team, and aided their entry). Fran was murdered with a neuro–suppressant, which appears to have killed her instantly. This could have been a knee–jerk response to the team’s discovery, but use of a neuro–suppressant may have actually been quite deliberate, inasmuch as it effectively masked Fran’s time of death, and thus gave the thieves more cover for their activities. K may have been the killer, given her aptitude with weapons. Fellow members of the security team later discovered Fran’s body at 2 a.m. when she failed to check in for a shift change. By that time, the Cube and the thieves would appear to have been long gone.

Early on in the theft investigation, it was suggested that escape was made by way of the [[Catacombs]], which are known to run much of the length of the City, all the way from the [[Old Town]] (near the [[Five of Cups]] and the [[Brotherhood]] Temple) to the Academy, and further out, towards the harbour/dock regions of the City. It was eventually discovered, however, this was not the case.

There are a couple of other observations to be made about the night. [[Aiko Entrescore]], artist and puzzle-scribe for the [[CRT]], had an exhibit at the Ball that communicated and interfered with the keys of attendees. This was met with some suspicion, but a thorough examination of the exhibit appeared to confirm that it was in no way linked to the theft's security exploits. [[Violet Kiteway]], meanwhile, told her father she was sick with a flu-like illness and did not attend the ball. She declined a visit from a doctor.

==Our Prime Suspects==

Much of our early knowledge about the theft plan came from investigation of [[Pietro Salk]], a.k.a. the [[Salk Logs]], which are definitely worth reading. Information eventually became available after Pietro's death indicating an ancient society known as [[The Third Power]] was operating behind the scenes to coordinate the theft. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. There are four known perpetrators:

* V ''(Vadik)'' - The operational mastermind and leader of the on-the-ground thieves.
**Recruited the other three members.
**Described as a "true believer" in the cause of the theft.
**Reports to a higher boss within [[The Academy]].
**Recognized as [[Cyrus Quinton]], a recording engineer for [[Hesh Records]]; This is one of his many aliases.
**Went on to murder two of the team members, Q & K.
**No record of his DNA on city files.
**Also controlling [[3PGroupwareManager|operations on Earth]].
* Q ''(Quercus)'' - Known to be [[Bernardo Holyoke]], who owned the notoriously dodgy [[Five of Cups]] bar.
**Probably provided underworld contacts and a base of operations.
**High-tech equipment stolen from the Academy was found at the bar.
**Started siphoning off equipment (presumably stolen in relation to the theft) and selling it on the black market - he paid with his life.
* K ''(Kilo)'' - Known to be [[Monica Grand]], a market analyst for [[PCBC]].
**Her specialty was with weaponry.
**Scared by Q's death, she tried to take her story to [[Pietro Salk]] in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
**Both she and Pietro were murdered before this could be completed.
* C ''(Castille)'' - Known to be [[Claire Castille]], computer genius.
**She wrote some circumvention code for the heist.
**She has a deep family history, which apparently was involved in the development of the Cube several hundred years ago, during the war.

After Monica's death, we were led down [[The Receda Trail]], which was an elaborate hoax built by [[The Third Power]] to assess our abilities. We didn't know any of that at the time, mind you. We thought we were perhaps on the trail of finally discovering what the cube was and where it came from. Color us naive.

Due to [[Leaked Emails]], we also know V is not the head of the organization; There is another person higher in the chain of command within the Academy (This may have been [[Roberto Solitano]]). Further, that person probably had superiors in the chain of command as well.

==The Double Heist==

"We never held it, it was already gone" were Monica Grand's last words to [[Sylvia Salk]] [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=189974], who had gone to her apartment to try and get to the bottom of her husband's death. What can this mean? Two prevailing theories were deteremined:

* The 'conspiracy' was a decoy operation - the real thieves got there first and stole the Cube, leaving VQCK to cause a distraction from the real investigation.
* The 'conspiracy' team were beaten to it by another group of thieves working against our prime suspects, and it was already gone.

According to Claire Castille: "Someone else was there. I don't know who and I don't know why. But to do what they did, they must have been a better programmer than me. That's not a large group." This seems to support the idea that they were beaten to it by another group of thieves. While this doesn't explain V's apparently positive nature in post-theft correspondence, it does address the issue at hand.

==[[Combed Thunderclap]]==

The entity known only as [[Combed Thunderclap]] (or ''CT'') managed to leave a number of clues on the [[Puzzle Cards]], which went undetected by the Academy (or Mind Candy) which gave hints to her identity, and where the Cube was hidden. She eventually created a section of webspace under the heading [[Library of Babel]] [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/]. On this page, she claims to describe stealing the cube. In general, the pages seem to describe CT's first arrival on Earth, and transporting of the cube to it's hiding spot.

* From the first animation:
** CT brought the cube to Earth.
** CT landed in a city with "yellow cars" (which isn't very helpful, since yellow is the single most common color for taxis), which is described as an urban area with steam gratings.
**CT insists they killed noone.

* From the second animation:
** CT seems to describe the actual theft, saying if anything the Cube stole them, not the other way round.
** CT then confirms the cube is definitely buried on Earth.

* From the third animation:
** CT explains there was some planning involved in the theft, saying they "did what had to be done," which suggests they knew the Third Power were planning a heist, and so CT had to counter-heist.
** The phone booths where CT landed are physically booths
** The woman speaking in the animation has a british accent, prompting some to say that the city that CT landed in is not New York. However, NYC is an assimilation of many cultures, so this doesn't rule out NY as CT's landing point.

* From the fourth animation:
** This is the clue that lead to Receda's Revenge 2
** This set of text seems to be a bit more oblique.
** CT was greeted by a phone call from parties unknown who knew not only CT's name, but where they were and what they were doing.
** CT was informed a car would arrive to pick them up and take them to someplace, requiring tickets and a hotel.
** The car arrived and had a coat (in CT's size).

* From the fifth animation:
** We were shown a correct way to solve {{card|223|Secret Location}}, which led us to [[Secret Location Meta Information Solution]].
** CT indicates that they are currently back in the city. This is inferred, because CT wants to "be quiet", but due to the network lockdown, any noise at all is very very noticeable. Therefore, for CT to be worried about such things, means CT must now be in the City.

==The Evidence==

* We know the Ball started at 7.38 from {{Card|146|You Are Cordially Invited}}. It also featured the "conspiracy note" in UV ink:

Electric splash
BB, 21 to 24
4: C, V, K, Q
20, V to 24

* [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2004/01/cube_stolen_i.html This Sentinel article] tells us the theft was discovered at 2.00 AM, that Fran Mendling was murdered with a neurosuppressant, and that three different security systems were disarmed.

* The [[Salklogs.doc|Pietro Salk vs. Monica Grand]] files provided a wealth of information. We learnt of the four key figures in the theft team, and also that the [[Third Power]] orchestrated the theft.

* Sylvia Salk's account of finding a dying Monica Grand provided us with the "We never held it" comment. ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=189974])

* [[Claire Castille]]'s talk with [[Scarlett]], about what happened when the theft team got there. {{WaybackS1|www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/03/coming_home.html}}

* The [[3PGroupwareManager|Third Power emails]] indicate that while things may not be progressing terribly smoothly, V is still actively involved in the operation as of October 15th 2005. He also confirms Bernardo and Monica were definitely involved, and now definitely dead.

* We know [[Violet]] claimed to be sick on the night of the Ball from the [[Leaked_E-mails#Sick_Kiteway_on_Ball-Night|leaked Academy emails]].

* We read about [[Aiko]]'s technologically neat-o sculpture from her [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/iona_interviews.html Sentinel interview].

* [[Combed Thunderclap]] has (apparently) given us a couple very subtle clues. More is yet to come, we can assume.
** CT managed to embed some information on a puzzle card, which gave us [[Secret Location Meta Information Solution]]

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::''An older copy of this page is available here: [[Theft-Archive]]''

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Site Mirrors

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At present, there exists only one place to gaze through old Perplex City stuff. That is at The Official Perplex City Wayback Machine.

<big>'''http://wayback.perplexcitystories.com/'''</big>

And, by the way, if you want to link to any sentinel articles pertaining to season 1, you will need to prepend the link with:

http://wayback.perplexcitystories.com?season=1&url=

Other past mirrors have existed. You may still spot links to them around the wiki. You will quickly notice those links don't work, and you should probably make an attempt to correct them when noticed.

* http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/ - Incognitus Site Mirror, setup by Nik Doof.
* http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/ - Netninja Site Mirror, setup by Brian Enigma.

The Mad Rants Of Tanner

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Grand Frederik's Station

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*This is the main station for [[Perplex City]]

*This station is the main interchange for the [[Perplex City Rail System]] as well as the [[Perplex City Subway]] and connects to the following lines:
**[[Viridian Line|Viridian]]
**[[Carmine Line|Carmine]]
**[[Amber Line|Amber]]
**[[Cerulean Line|Cerulean]]
**Rail Route 1
**Rail Route 2

*Sits alongside Aurora Lane and opposite Hilbert Industries.

*From the air, the station has a wasp like shape with a black climate-controlled semipermeable roof and two transparent retractable wings for shelter against weather.
*It is uncertain who the namesake of the station is.

[[Image:City_02.jpg]]

[[Category:Subway Stations]]

{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Rail System]] line 1 |
predecessor = '''''Terminus''''' |
successor = [[Drowsington]]
}}
{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Rail System]] line 2 |
predecessor = '''''Terminus''''' |
successor = [[Drowsington]]
}}
{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Subway]], [[Viridian Line]] |
predecessor = '''''Terminus''''' |
successor = [[Cheverly Station|Cheverly]]
}}
{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Subway]], [[Carmine Line]] |
predecessor = [[Key Square Station|Key Square]] |
successor = [[Cheverly Station|Cheverly]]
}}
{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Subway]], [[Amber Line]] |
predecessor = [[Key Square Station|Key Square]] |
successor = [[Magine Corner Station|Magine Corner]]
}}
{{box |
office = [[Perplex City Subway]], [[Cerulean Line]] |
predecessor = [[Feynman Point Station|Feynman Point]] |
successor = [[Upper Mobius Station|Upper Mobius]]
}}

Allegra Melody

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[[Image:Joya baby.jpg]]

==General==
*Born: 22-DEC-05 ''(The Apple-Thief (December 11 - January 10)''
*Mother: [[Joya]]
*Father: possibly [[Alejo Jackson]] or [[Horace Shockley]]
**The child's name, ''Allegra'', is believed to be a reference to her suspected father, Alejo

*Born after a 4 hour labour
*Delivered by [[Dr. Ian Copeland]]

*A track on [[Joya]]'s album ''Deeper'', ''Allegra Melody',, is a lullaby for her

==References==
*Perplex City Sentinel
**article, 23-DEC-05 "[[Joya]] Delivers Healthy [[Allegra Melody|Baby Girl]] at [[Phuah Hospital|Phuah]], Recovering Well" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/joya_delivers_h.html}}
**article, 09-JUN-06 "[[Iona Rodie|Iona]] Interviews... [[Joya]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/iona_interviews_16.html}}
**article, 29-JAN-07 "[[Joya]] Announces New Album in Spring" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2007/01/joya_announces.html}}

Natasha Valliere

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==General==

*Journalist on the [[Perplex City Sentinel]]

==Articles Written==
*article, 21-MAR-05 "[[Crispy Heaven]] Closed" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/03/crispy_heaven_v.html}}
*article, 13-APR-05 "[[Crispy Heaven]] Reopens" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/crispy_heaven_r.html}}
*article, 07-JUN-05 "[[Perplex City Council|Council]] Report: Flooding Harmed Crops" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/flooding_harmed.html}}
*article, 30-JUN-05 "[[The Brotherhood of the Six|Brotherhood]] Supports Urban Renewal" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/brotherhood_sup.html}}
*article, 12-SEP-05 "Lighting in [[Old Town]] Begins Renewal" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/lighting_in_old_2.html}}
*article, 24-JAN-06 "[[Julian Harrowak|Harrowak]] Forced to Offer Resignation" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/harrowak_forced.html}}
*article, 03-MAR-06 "[[Jeanine Lowry-Barton|Mother of Four]] Gains 'Whole New Life' in [[Veritana|Drug Trials]]" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/04/mother_of_four.html}}
*article, 04-MAY-06 "[[Old Town]] Residents Hold Protest Rally" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/05/old_town_reside.html}}
*article, 05-OCT-06 "[[Casino Recor|Casino]] [[Raynor Gladwin|gambler]] flushed with success" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/10/casino_gambler.html}}

{{Sentinel Authors}}

Azad Park

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==General==
*Recreational Park within [[Perplex City]]
*Situated in the centre of a business and residential district
*Contains a small wood and lake
*Football pitches at the north end are used by the nearby [[Borfield School]] during the day but are open to the public on selected evenings
*The park is also popular among runners not quite ready for the trails of [[Polygon Park]]
*Located near [[Azad Park Station]]
*Contains a Tongues Sculpture which is an example of the collaboration between the departments of [[Languages]] and [[Arts]] within [[Perplex City Academy]]
*A new species of beetle was discovered here, by [[Ricardo Curlaway]].

==References==
*Perplex City Sentinel
**article, 08-JUN-05 "Holiday Fun Schedule" [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/holiday_fun_sch.html link]
**News in brief, 21-MAR-05 "[[Randal Tokei|Tokei]] seeks Performace Permit"
**article, 13-OCT-05 "[[Ricardo Curlaway|Student]] Discovers New Beetle Species" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/10/student_discove.html}}
*Perplex City Map
**{{card|167|Circular}}

Salvant Castille

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{{Season1}}

==General==
*Scion of the ancient and proud Castille Family.

*Was 7 years old at the year 0BC. ''(See [[In-game Timeline]])''

*Great Great Great Great GrandSon: [[Allain Castille]]
*Great Great Great GrandDaughter: [[Claire Castille]]
*Great Great GrandSon: [[Henry Castille]]

Wheel

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==Teams==
*Nomads
*Daemons

==Locations==
*[[Triple Wheel Stadium]], in the [[Quadrant Street]] district
*Small pitches in [[Creation Park]], in the [[Artist's Quarter]]

==People==
*[[PWA]] Commissioner [[Nonna Gordon]]
*[[Quadrant Street Association]] President [[Orville Price]]

==Neighborhood Dispute==
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Arsonist Hunted

Authorities are on the hunt for a would-be arsonist who set fire to some equipment in the storage lockers of the Triple Wheel Stadium, then fled the scene. Police believe the culprit may be a resident of the area, unhappy with the ongoing strife between the stadium management and the neighbourhood
|}

==References==
'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
*Article, 27-APR-05 "[[Wheel]] Season to Begin" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/wheel_season_to.html}}
*More Headlines, 18-May-05, "Daemons Lose in Overtime" {{WaybackS1|www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archive/}}
*More news in brief, 28-NOV-05 "Arsonist Hunted"

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