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Shuffled

2006-04-12T11:23:22Z

Maevey:

''[[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.''

'''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] '''N.B. There is an error on this page. the code that reads XAWHU should read XAWJU'''

* 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>

=== 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, hece 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 Text ====

The side of the box contains the text "Made in China"

= 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]

==== 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

== Solitaire Cipher ==

The Solitaire Cipher was designed by Bruce Schneir 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.

=== 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 Wikipedia:Stream Cipher - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 put 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://www.cif.rochester.edu/~la002k/solitaire.htm#fields]
* 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]

=== 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: [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>
* 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

== 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 ==

* Ruth Coralhouse [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=175506#175506]
* Sente Kiteway [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=217054#217054]
<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}}

Shuffled

2006-04-12T11:22:37Z

Maevey:

''[[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.''

'''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] '''N.B. There is an error on this page. the code that reads XAWHU should read XAWJU'''

* 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>

=== 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, hece 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 Text ====

The side of the box contains the text "Made in China"

= 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]

==== 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

== Solitaire Cipher ==

The Solitaire Cipher was designed by Bruce Schneir 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.

=== 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 Wikipedia:Stream Cipher - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 put 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://www.cif.rochester.edu/~la002k/solitaire.htm#fields]
* 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]

=== 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: [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>
* 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

== 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 ==

* Ruth Coralhouse [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=175506#175506]
* Sente Kiteway [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=217054#217054]
<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}}

Catacombs

2006-04-12T11:19:35Z

Maevey:

*Deeper and more extensive than The [[Anaduna Corridors]]

*The [[Perplex City]] catacombs stretch to form a huge sprawling maze under a large part of the city

*They are known to extend as far as the [[Newguard Ruins]] and several entrances were found on the coast during the construction of the [[Mobius Strip]].

*The catacombs are out-of-bounds to students and most of the entrances across the city have been sealed as they are unstable and occasionally prone to collapse.

*Some tours take in the parts of the catacombs directly beneath [[Perplex City Academy]] and fellows have been known to use these tunnels occasionally to take a short cut when running late for lectures.

*Visiting the catacombs without an official guide is strictly forbidden due to the ease of getting lost in the hundreds of miles of twisting passages

*there is an entrance underneath [[Sente]]'s official Academy residence

*there are strange mosaics with symbols on the ceilings

===References===

*[[Perplexcityacademy.com]] [http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcityacademy.com/29.04.05/visitors.html Visitors]
*[[Violet Kiteway]]'s blog, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com Quirky Acuity]
**18 May entry, "Ah... the city" ([http://quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/ah_the_city.html link])

Communications

2006-04-12T11:16:45Z

Maevey:

== Mail and Email ==

* [[Sente Emails]] - Emails from Sente for those on the list.
* [[22.04.05 Update]] - Message from Sente, introducing the [[Parcels]]
* [[Parcel Letter]] - came with the [[Parcels]]
* [[Firebox 100 Letters]] - after the [[Puzzle Cards]] were introduced, Sente sent an email announcing a little something extra.

== Adverts ==

=== Newspapers ===

* [[Guardian Advert]] - Advert in the UK Guardian.
* [[Marketing Weekly]] - Advert in Marketing Weekly.

* Series of newspaper articles making a larger text (See [[Newspaper Text]])
** [[USA Today 17.02.05]] - Lost/Found in USA Today.
** [[NY Sun 22.02.05]] - Advert supposed to be in the NY Sun.
** [[The Times 23.02.05]] - Advert in the The Times.
** [[Daily Telegraph 28.02.05]] - Advert in the The Daily Telegraph, Sydney.
** [[La Presse 02.03.05]] - Advert in La Presse.
** [[Toronto Globe & Mail 05.03.05]] - Advert in the Toronto Globe & Mail.
** [[LA Times 08.03.05]] - Advert in the Los Angeles Times.
** [[South China Morning Post 14.03.05]] - Advert in the South China Morning Post.
** [[The Guardian 21.03.05]] - Advert in the London Guardian.

=== Catalogues ===

* [[Firebox Catalog Entry]] - Entry in the Firebox Catalog for the "Lost Cube".
* [[Firebox Advert 28.04.05]] - New advert for Perplex City Cards.
* http://www.firebox.com/perplexcityexclusive - updated and unveiled ad-site on Firebox

== Locations & Meets ==

* [[SE Fifth and 40th]] - Location mentioned in the [[Perplex City Video]]
* [[Abbey Road]] - Location mentioned also in the [[Perplex City Video]]

The Builder's celebration

2006-04-12T11:16:11Z

Maevey:

==General==

The Builder's Celebration is held at Spring Equinox and is a time to lay new foundations. It is a sort of Spring break.

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
[[Fleming]] and I are taking the children camping for the holiday weekend. Next Tuesday is the Builder's Celebration, and the past few years we've taken the boys to help maintain the park lands south of the city as our spring building.

--[[Anna Heath]]
|}

==References==

*'''[[The Brotherhood of the Six]]'''
**"Way of Life" ([http://www.brotherhoodofthesix.com/wayoflife.html link])

*'''Quirky Acuity'''
**blog, 06-JAN-05 "Granier diaries, installment three" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html link])

*'''Anna Heath's Personal Website'''
**log, 17-MAR-06 "Guilty Conscience" ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/ link])

Main Characters

2006-04-12T11:14:02Z

Maevey:

This page is intended to list people of particular note. It should be modified as new characters are added

==Kiteways==

===[[Sente Kiteway]]===
The great mind of the Academy, and the man behind this whole [[Puzzle Cards|puzzle card]] Idea. Violet and Scarlett's dad.

===[[Violet Kiteway]]===
The older of the two Kiteway daughters, Violet is ever causing mayhem. She [http://www.quirkyacuity.com has a blog], and is usually causing her dad some public trouble. She helped us snitch on Aiko, and no she is NOT dating Kurt. http://www.quirkyacuity.com

===[[Scarlett Kiteway]]===
Scarlett is the younger, more naive of the two kiteway girls. She works at her college newspaper, and hopes to write for the [[Sentinel]]. Her boyfriend was [[Brede]], and her favorite colour is Scarlet. She's been [[T:SA|wandering around the countrside]] a while. http://www.scarlettkite.com

==Salks==
http://www.salkfamily.com

===[[Pietro Salk]]===
Former reporter for the [[Sentinel]], and champion to the masses. He was ever on the cutting edge of whatever cause needed defending. And then he got too close to something too big.

===[[Sylvia Salk]]===
The Widow Salk, she seeks closure with her poor departed husband. She occaissionally updated her website: http://www.salkfamily.com

==The Academy==

===[[Kurt McAllister]]===
Kurt is part of the [[Cube Retrieval Team]] at the Academy. Of course he's also a professor and researcher and all this. Generally he's a really great guy. He is, to be sure, one of the good guys. http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/

===[[Aiko Entrescore]]===
Aiko may not be a good guy. Or maybe she is. Or maybe she's just really quiet. She's also on the [[Cube Retrieval Team]]. But she's a [[Reconstructionist]], which makes some distrust her motives.

===[[Isaac Cymbalisty]]===
Academy Head Librarian. Somebody wanted him dead, but good. And not just for being creepy (Which he was, you know).

===[[Anna Heath]]===
Linguistics specialist at The Academy. Another [[Cube Retrieval Team]] refugee, and a close friend of Cymbalisty. She almost makes the guy sound .. nice. Weird. She seems pretty level headed. Until she stages a massive coup on the [[Police]]. Three children, one husband. http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/

==Cube Theft Suspects==

===[[Bernardo Holyoke]]===
He was killed very early on, before his motives were known (and before he could spill the beans)!

===[[Monica Grand]]===
Pietro's Advisor, she was paid for a job: Help steal the cube. [[V]] killed her messily and brutally.

===[[V]]===
He's dangerous. He's killed before, and he will kill again.

===[[The Third Power]]===
They have [[3PDossier|operatives on Earth]], they have operatives in Perplex City. They're an ancient society, of some sort, but what do they want?

==Castilles==

===[[Henry Castille]]===
The Great Great Grandson of [[Salvant Castille]], he was a Major in the military.

===[[Claire Castille]]===
Henry's Daughter. She is "C" from the theft. She built the security device at [[Viendenbourg]]. She bugged [[Kurt]]'s [[Key]]. She does have a way of getting around, doesnt she?

===[[Allain Castille]]===
Claire's Son. He is a sharp fellow who decides to go find his mother, in [[Anjsbourg]].

==Entertainers==

===[[Joya]]===
Popular Musician who gave birth late last year to [[Allegra Melody]].

===[[Roll For Damage]]===
A most excellent band (So we are told. [[Alejo Jackson]] is a very dedicated musician, while [[Keenan "KT" Thoreau] is a bit more .. colorful. They supposedly have a drummer as well.

===[[Viard]]===
He couldn't sell his record in Perplex City, so what did he do? The only sane thing: Export it to Earth. Those wacky earthlings will [[Track 3.mp3|listen to anything]]!!

=Supporting Characters=

* [[Characters|A short listing of what we'll call "Everyone"]]
* [[Perplex City Council]]
* [[Michiko Clark]] - Sentinel EIC
* [[Cube Retrieval Team]]
* [[Ascendancy Point Residents]]
* [[Hesh Employee Listing]]

Theft-Archive

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Maevey:

==NOTICE!==
'''THIS PAGE IS OUTDATED!!'''

Not that the page itself is full of stuff on nonesense. But when [[Monica Grand]] died, her last words were: "''We never held it, it was already gone.''"

The crew who we had suspected stole [[the Cube]] never got to it. Someone else got there first.

Throws a heckuva wrench into things, doesn't it.

Just let that sink in.

Okay. So. As of this revision, this page is outdated, and works under the assumption V Q K & C stole the cube. Maybe they were hired by others as a distraction. Maybe V was behind it afterall, somehow. Lots of maybes. When Monica died, the community was sent almost back to square one. Except for one little detail: [[The Receda Trail]].

The remainder of this page is kept a reminder of where we've come from. As an editorial note, some enterprising soul could certainly re-edit this page to reflect the current situation. Otherwise, read on, take from it what you will, then go follow [[The Receda Trail]].

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== The Theft - Plot So Far==

As yet we only have a partial picture of how [[The Cube]] was stolen. This page details the '''facts''' we currently know. Please feel free to update this page as necessary, but please also keep it free of speculation.

==The Organisation ==

From remarks made by [[Advisor|The Advisor]] to [[Pietro Salk]], we can deduce that there was a dedicated team engaged in [[the Cube]] theft. This team was apparently four strong, which agrees with a security analysis developed by the head of [[Academy]] Security, [[Henrik Tanner]], who [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/iona_interviews_1.html opined that a four - person team] would have been needed to orchestrate the theft. Although we are aware that each of the four would have brought a differing skill to the team (Tanner’s report mentioned that the theft would have had to require the skills of both a ''‘hardware’'' and a ''‘software’'' expert, for instance), we have only been made aware of one particular specialty – one of the four (code – name C) was ''‘some kind of software genius’''. Given that [[Bernardo Holyoke]] [see below] is, however, associated with the team, and known to have both [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html fenced and jury–rigged stolen items of Academy tech], it may be fair to suppose that he was the ''‘hardware genius’''.

The precise functions of the other two members of the team remain open to speculation. The four – person team were, according to The Advisor, not known to each other before they were assembled, and, in fact, great pains were taken by their sponsors to transfer payment for the theft to them anonymously etc. They addressed one another using code – names: Quercus, Kilo, C and V. Generally all 4 members referred to each other by letter, which is a simple abbreviateion of their codename. C, however is a bit of an exception. She appears not to have a codename (Advisor’s comment – ''‘I think C. was the initial of her real surname’''). The group was masterminded by V, who the Advisor told Salk was a ''‘dangerous…true believer’'', and the only member of the group who knew all the other members before they were recruited.

== The Theft ==

Let’s now consider again the actual night of the Cube theft (our date: Jan. 16th, 2004).

[[Newspaper Text|On Ball Night, when Academy security is frequently stretched to its limit, the team struck]]. Police Chief [[Eoin Morgan]] recognised that the group would have to have been ''‘highly organised and technologically sophisticated’'' in order to pull off the theft. It was recognised 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.

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.

Some have supposed 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]] (Holyoke’s base of operations) to the Academy, and further out, towards the harbour/dock regions of the City.

== The Pietro Salk Logs ==

Pietro’s [[Salk logs|lengthy correspondence]] with The Advisor has gone some considerable way towards deepening our understanding of developments post – theft. The basic pattern of this correspondence has been pieced together, and the association would appear to have run along the following lines:

#The Advisor contacts Pietro anonymously on (our time) 6th May 2005. She appeals to his better nature, by reminding him of the conspicuous record he holds as a champion of the underdog, and his drive to expose corruption within the workings of the City. (''‘I can promise you the biggest scoop of your life’''). The Advisor demands that Pietro secure confidentiality for her, and immunity from prosecution, given that she is prepared to act as whistleblower upon her own team operation. She assumes that, as Pietro has important journalistic contacts with the police, he should be able to engineer this.
#The Advisor throws Pietro a bone in order to demonstrate that she is operating in good faith. She leads him towards investigating Holyoke’s fencing ring, run from the Five of Cups tavern in the Old Town. The police, given Salk’s tip – off, uncover an operation jury – rigging stolen security devices, most of which appear to have come from the Academy. Pietro gains the byline for the story in [[Sentinel|The Sentinel]].
#[[Bernardo Holyoke]] is killed. The investigating officer is [[Helena Frye]], identified as Pietro’s police contact, and Salk again covers the story. [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html According to Frye], it appeared to the police as if the murder had occurred during the course of a ''‘bungled robbery’''. However, it would seem that Holyoke knew his killer (or had at least seen fit to allow them to enter the pub, and remain after closing hours) because his alarm system had not been set up for the night, and there was no evidence of its having been triggered by breaking and entering. It looks as if a ransacking of the establishment had then been undertaken, in search of something. Given that one must assume that the police had already confiscated the jury – rigged goods previously uncovered, one must assume that the burglar was attempting to find something that the police had missed.
#The Advisor’s take on this situation was to imply to Salk that Holyoke had been murdered by an associate (most likely V, or one of V’s supporters), possibly because of her actions in leading Salk to investigate the [[Five of Cups]] in the first instance.
#On the 15th May, 2005, we have the first reference by The Advisor to the effect that she is going to communicate with Salk via a secure channel. They appear to have arranged a meeting via this channel. In actual fact, later correspondence seems to indicate that the pair did not come face to face until as late as mid – June. What, therefore, looks to have been arranged here is some kind of drop – off at a pre – selected location. What may have been dropped off is certain information outlining the links of the theft to the shadowy group that I refer to as ''‘the conspiracy’''. Later, The Advisor will refer to Salk following ''‘a lead’'' she has offered him. The Advisor would seem to have ''‘turned up’'' to this meet, inasmuch as she ‘turned up’ at all, without formally identifying herself to Salk.(''‘You will not recognise me. I will find you.’'')
#For a short time, Salk appears to have looked into [[Reconstructionists|Reconstructionist]] activities in the belief that they were somehow involved in the theft. This may have been partly inspired by his realisation that Holyoke’s wife had converted to Reconstructionism. However, no useful further information is turned up on this trail. The Advisor lays emphasis on the fact that Salk is looking in the wrong direction. Eventually, Salk talks to [[Jessica Holyoke]], and realises she knows nothing about the situation. He is also unable to reconcile the Reconstructionist’s spiritual values with the fact that the team that stole the cube were hired to do so.
#By 20th May, 2005, Pietro appears to have realised that he is getting in deep. He feels unable to talk to his police contacts about his investigations, although this is slightly odd: The Advisor merely asked that she keep her name out of reference to the investigation, not that Pietro should talk to nobody about it (at least, if she meant what she said about offering him a ''‘scoop’'', we must assume that the intention would be to publish the information eventually).
#Pietro then starts to pursue research in the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/students.html Academy Library], hoping to find out more about ''‘the conspiracy’'' from ancient texts. He canvasses the idea on 25th May. We must assume that he then proceeded to do this research at intervals. By 13th June, he mentions, elliptically, what he has found out.
#During this time period, The Advisor is holed up in her apartment in [[Ascendancy Point]], presumably in hiding.
#On June 1st, Helena Frye gives Pietro more information on the continuing investigation into the Five of Cups operation. The police have now discovered [[Letters from Kurt#Tech Talk|several pieces of tech]] that were missed on the earliest sweeps – these are a [[Reynolds ioniser]] and three [[Klebold plates]]. None of these items have a security application. They appear to have been stolen after January 1st, 2005. This would imply that these pieces of tech could not have been involved in the theft effort per se. However, it is a strong likelihood that what the ''‘mysterious assailant’'' who murdered Holyoke was looking for were these pieces of tech, and that, for some reason, it was necessary to any ''‘clean – up’'' operation that these pieces '''not''' be found. It would appear, however, that Holyoke had hidden them away too well, possibly even as insurance should the deal turn sour. Salk’s opinion on these pieces was that Holyoke was unlikely to have obtained them himself; presumably they had been handed over into his care, perhaps with the initial desire that he would alter them, and then fence them on. Attitudes appear to have hardened between January and June as the investigative net tightened.
#June 1st is also the day that Salk realises that The Advisor has been ''‘spying’'' on his domestic arrangements. Aggrieved by this, he appears to have downed contact for several days.
#On 4th June, the correspondence resumes. The Advisor apologises for spying, but claims that she had to be certain that Salk was fully trustworthy.
# On 13th June, Salk finally broaches the notion that the pair should meet.
#By 16th June, this meeting has taken place. It has sometimes been assumed that Salk was unfaithful to his wife during these three days. Perhaps. But it doesn’t necessarily follow that a brief affair developed. Rather, Salk, with his highly developed sense of injustice, appears to be feeling guilty that he is meeting (and thinking about) any woman clandestinely, regardless of why this meeting is taking place.
#On the 16th, The Advisor does not meet with Salk, even though both of them turn up to their ''‘agreed meeting place’''. She gets cold feet, because she is aware of someone else present who looks as if he’s trailing Salk. Salk maintains that this individual is nothing to do with him. The figure is dark – skinned, reads a newspaper, and The Advisor rates him as ''‘another professional’''. Interestingly, he is said to have sat in a leather armchair whilst he observed, which implies that the meet was taking place indoors, rather than outside, although the man is also said to have sat in the shade of a cluster of birch trees (some interior hydroponics?). The Advisor says of this man that he ''‘looked like he could handle himself’'' and later Salk will compare him to a ''‘fitness instructor’''. This implies that he was bulky and well – muscled. The theory that the observer may have been [[Garnet Reed]], a member of the Academy Cube Retrieval Project, on secondment from the Perplexian defence forces, appears to be pretty convincing.
#Later on the 16th, The Advisor goes for a walk. By this point, she is refusing to take her [[key]] with her, for the sake of security.
#On 17th June, Salk returns to his contention that the Reconstructionists may have been involved. By now, this smacks of justifying his theories to himself. However, he may have been confused by the accusations being levelled against [[Aiko Entrescore]] at the time. Interestingly, it was Salk who reported on Aiko’s indicting for the Sentinel.
#On 19th June, Salk determines that he and The Advisor must jointly go to the police with the evidence they possess. This would appear to go against the initial basis of their agreement. The Advisor sidesteps agreement, and asks that they reconvene at Ascendancy Point on Solstice Day (June 21st).
#By 20th June, Salk has been got to, and found comatose. Apparently, this occurred relatively suddenly, and when his wife [[Sylvia Salk|Sylvia]] returned to their apartment, she discovered the door hanging open. The latter fact is probably not significant, although it may indicate that, in haste, the assailant failed to close the door behind them as they fled. Another possibility is that Salk’s condition, which by the 23rd June, is clearly diagnosed as a degenerative neurological one had lain dormant in his system for some little while (how it would have been transferred to him remains a mystery), and that he was being visited by someone he knew (perhaps the Advisor) when he collapsed suddenly, and they fled in dismay. It does not seem to be the case that the door was broken in from the outside.
#Salk proceeded to encode as much information as he could within his key, under cover of a maze - generating programme, when he emerged for a time from his coma, and before death claimed him on the 27th. [[Pietros maze|Pietro's Maze]] is uploaded onto [http://www.salkfamily.com the Salk Family website], and from it we are able to retrieve various phrases which are all sub-directories on the Salk family website, each of which contains part of [[Salk logs|Salk's logs]]. It is at least suggestive that the theft team murdered Fran Mendling via use of a neuro – suppressant, and that Salk, too, was disposed of with a neurological tool.

== 'The Conspiracy' ==

Inasmuch as we know anything about ''‘the Conspiracy’'', we can note that the correspondence between Salk and The Advisor indicates:

*One group taking on a ''‘conspiratorial’'' identity are believed to have ''‘died out decades ago, if they ever existed’''; in Salk’s opinion, they had adopted a name and a [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/maze/3.txt symbol] that were significant, apparently as a deliberate provocation, in memory of something that had gone before. The Advisor appeared to contradict this, suggesting that, rather than such a group having been a ''‘throwback’'', they were a continuation.
*In more general terms, it would seem that the conspiracy as a whole is reputed to have been operating since ancient times. The group to which Salk referred (within living memory) must have been a momentary surfacing of one facet of the (much) longer – lived conspiracy. When Salk talked to The Advisor about the originators of the mysterious symbol, he claimed that they ''‘had been gone so long’'', he found it hard to credit their continued existence. This would appear to have been a reference to the ancient founders of the conspiracy, rather than any more recent recrudescence, unless Salk genuinely felt the passing of ''‘several decades’'' to be equivalent to an extremely ''‘long’'' period of time, in which case he might have been referring to the modern arm of the conspiracy.
*The suggestion that the conspiracy are ''‘ruthless true believers’'' is a recurrent refrain. Salk finds it hard to credit that they would not act spontaneously, but if the conspiracy has been in existence for several hundred, even a thousand, years, then the fact that they are ''‘playing the long game’'' might not actually be difficult to accept.
*The members of the conspiracy are said to be deployed everywhere – this implies that, whatever it is, the conspiracy is a multi – headed hydra and has infiltrated into the ranks of many Perplexian organisations.
*It would appear that V was the theft team liaison with the conspiracy (a ''‘true believer’''). The other members of the team appear to have been freelancers, who did the job for the money. The conspiracy presumably arranged for the theft to take place, with V orchestrating proceedings on their behalf. V may be a minor cog in a much bigger machine, therefore.

== Members of 'The Conspiracy' ==

''Members of the [[:Category:Conspiracy]] (see the [[Salklogs.doc]], and [[Reynolds Ionizer]])''. None of these knew each other until the night of the heist.

====[[Advisor]]====
The advisor has another codename, of course: Kilo. The Advisor only gave herself that name when contacting [[Pietro Salk]]. She was given this name due to her last name, Grand. It is a very strongly held belief The advisor is [[Monica Grand]].

====[[Quercus]]====
It is strongly held to be true that "Q" is short for Quercus -- Quercus being a latin word referring to a tree -- and is the codename of [[Bernardo Holyoke]]. Holyoke's task in the heist was to provide a secure den in which to operate. It's possible he was more or less an innocent bystander who saw a profitable opportunity, and quickly got in way over his head.

====[[Viendenbourg|V?]]====
As [[Scarlett's Adventure Timeline|Scarlett's story unfolds]], we are learning more about [[Viendenbourg]]. Is that the namesake of V? We don't know.

====[[C]]?====
We have only a letter and a job requirement for this person. C. Their codename is the same as their real surname. Their job was to be the technical genius of the group.

== The Dispersal of the Cube Theft Team ==

It is very difficult to be precise about the current situations of members of the Cube theft team.

Holyoke (who was probably Q) is dead, perhaps murdered by V.

The Advisor (K) appears to be carrying on with her life, more or less. If ''‘the conspiracy’'' have become aware of Salk’s activities, then they may have also become aware of those of The Advisor, and thus she is remarkably paranoid. On the other hand, her circumspection throughout proceedings may well have enabled her to remain undetected for the time being.

The identity of C remains unknown. Given that we know she is a female software genius whose surname also begins with C, there have been some sensible guesses as to her identity. One possibility is the PCAG wunderkind, [[Myra Champaign]]. Another is [[Sarah Covington]], who, right at the outset of our investigations, was mentioned in conjunction with the Academy’s [[Perplex City Errorlogs|Gatehouse Error Logs]]. It is perhaps worth recalling the brief excerpts of conversation recorded between [[Lyssa Ling]] and Sarah Covington at this juncture: Covington mentions feeling distracted because she is thinking about a mysterious ''‘them’''.

V also remains unknown. We have no information on what sex they are.

The undated advice contained on Salk’s log ''‘You must find her before it’s too late. You must find out what she knows’'' is ambiguous. It has been plausibly suggested that it could have been advice given to Salk by The Advisor, directing him to locate C before she, too, was murdered. However, it could equally plausibly have been a plea written by Salk himself to those who would decode his logs (namely, us), and asking that we locate The Advisor before it is too late. If the latter is the case, then there is no reason that C may not have been disposed of at any time between the theft and the present, although one wonders if the deaths connected to the case thus far are reactive attempts to cover up when inquiry gets too close, rather than a systematic drive to ''‘clean up’'' in the wake of the theft.

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Characters

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==[[Perplex City]]==
===[[Perplex City Council]]===
*[[Camryn Scott]] - Council Leader
*[[Kyra Anghanda]]
*[[Roy Yolen]]
*[[Ruth Sawyer]]
*[[Aashiyana Skye]]
*[[Nathan Earlywine]]
*[[Kyle McForrester]] - spokesperson for Camryn Scott

===[[Perplex City]] Military===
*[[Isaac Sui]] - Commander

===[[Perplex City]] Police===
*[[Eoin Morgan]] - Police Chief
*[[Richard Awl]] - Police Detective
*[[Gordon Sharp]] - PCPD Lieutenant
*[[Camden Ho]] - Police Lieutenant
*[[Helena Frye]] - Police Detective
*[[Julia Albright]] - Police Detective
*[[Jermaine Horn]] - Police Detective

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==[[Perplex City Academy]]==
===[[Perplex City Academy]] [[Seven Founders]]===
*[[Vianne Adamek]]
*[[Helios Noi]]
*[[Aetiant Taversen]]
*[[Hesketh Zeller]]
*[[Catherine Carrick]]
*[[Boaz Delaney]]
*[[Robart Kermeen]]

===[[Perplex City Academy]] Former Staff/History===
*[[Victor Mardian]]
*[[Cestmir Zafferin]]
*[[Mr Beston]]
*[[Mrs Haarten]]
*[[Ruth Coralhouse]]

===[[Perplex City Academy]] Current Members/Staff===
*[[Sente Kiteway]] - Master of the Academy
*[[Henrik Tanner]] - Director of Security
*[[Patrick Azadian]] - Assistant to the Master

*[[Inari Ekeba]] - Senior Fellow: [[Natural Sciences]]
*[[Sanjean Adamek]] - Senior Fellow: [[Arts]]
*[[Astrid Lindstrom]] - Senior Fellow: [[Mathematics and Logic]]
*[[Bella Egremont]] - Senior Fellow: [[Mathematics and Logic]]
*[[Hunan Mansoor]] - Senior Fellow: [[Cryptology]]
*[[Margaret Wildwood]] - Senior Fellow: [[Social Sciences]]
*[[Estelle Sedgewick]] - Senior Fellow: [[Languages]]

*[[Rebecca Croft]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Arts]]
*[[Antoine Viellev]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Arts]]

*[[Ryan Jaipur]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Natural Sciences]]
*[[Ejnar Kavorkian]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Natural Sciences]]

*[[Janna Gold]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Mathematics and Logic]]
*[[Sekani Medemboshi]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Mathematics and Logic]]

*[[Iolana Dervent]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Cryptology]]
*[[Raiza Czenechovsky]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Cryptology]]

*[[Silas Andoriam]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Social Sciences]]
*[[Ahuva Qui]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Social Sciences]]

*[[Maysam Wan]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Languages]]
*[[Roberto Solitano]] - Adjunct Senior Fellow: [[Languages]]

*[[Anna Heath]] - Fellow: Ancient Languages

*[[Vaughn Mukherjee]] - Junior Fellow: Games Theory

*[[Amy Tanner]]
*[[Elizabeth Lee]]
*[[Fran Mendling]]
*[[Juliane Pero]]
*[[Lyssa Ling]] - Reality Researcher
*[[S Ling]]
*[[Sarah Covington]]
*[[Valerian Reynolds]] - Spokesperson
*[[Shonda Noonan]] - Archaeologist
*[[Lucas Sevig]] - Geologist

*Public Event Speakers
**[[Dr Sithembile Oshosowe]] - biochemistry
**[[Dr Saima Sher]] - astronomy
**[[Agueda Mabus]] - linguistic poet
**[[Dr Vaccaro Cyriak]] - primitive religion
**[[Tom Pottard]] - artist in residence
**[[Dr Cho Yuan]]- cryptology in a military
**[[Hayden Ottolengi]] - The snake in textile design
**[[Abaddon Rule]] - theatre director /writer /actor

====[[Perplex City Academy]] [[Cube]] Retrieval Project====
**[[Anna Heath]], Languages
**[[Caine Johansson]], Mathematics
**[[Tippy Ankron]], multi-disciplinary studies and puzzle mimicry
**[[Garnet Reed]], cryptology
**[[Aiko Entrescore]], visual arts
**[[Von Lubik]], Earthology
**[[Kurt McAllister]], natural sciences, computer science, cryptology and physics

===[[Perplex City Academy]] Students===
*[[Maya Shorer]] - Graduate Student
*[[Juno Smythe]] - Graduate Student
*[[Nachman Assaf]] - Student: Social Sciences
*[[Kelly Robart]] - quoted as opposing the [[Museum]] [[The War|War]] exhibit.

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==[[Perplex City]] Business/Industry==

===Hesh Records===
*[[Helix Hesh]]
*[[Kai Cinelli]] - Spokesperson

===Shops===
*[[Lois Aitkin]] - Aitkin Jewellers (owner)
*[[Lauren Hannigan]] - Hannigans (owner)
*[[Mitchell Alba]] - Earthworks (owner)

===Entertaiment(theatres/bars/restaurants/clubs)===
*[[Bernardo Holyoke]] - Five of Cups bar (owner)
*[[Candace Leibniz]] - Complications Club (owner)
*[[Gwyneth St. Paul]] - spokesperson for [[Crispy Heaven]]

===Banking/Security===
*[[Jonathan Smart]] - [[PCBC]] CEO
*[[Trip Scott]] - [[PCBC]] COO
*[[Walter Cove-Houghton]] - [[PCBC]] CTO
*[[Cory Clary]] - [[PCBC]] Spokesman
*[[Halima Bourne]] - [[Centrifuge]] CEO
*[[Giordana Moore]] - [[PCX]] Senior Managing Director
*[[Thomas Kurima]] - [[Dodgson Finance Corp]], business analyst

===Agriculture===
*[[Raphael Klein]] - spokesperson for [[Perplex City Farm and Agricultural Consortium]]

===[[Perplex City]]Tourist Attractions (Museums/Art Galleries/Theatres)===
====Art====
*[[John Ha]] - Ha Gallery
*[[Randal Tokei]] - Artist

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==[[Perplex City Sentinel]]==
===Staff/Contributors===

*[[Lou Atkin]] - Sales Manager
*[[Wilhelmina Best]] - Writer
*[[Antony Clapham]] - Snr. Sports Editor
*[[Michiko Clark]] - Editor-in-chief
*[[John Cormoran]] - Snr. City Editor
*[[Lauren Grove]] - Publisher
*[[Gunter Howe]] - Managing Editor
*[[Sylvia Hyun]] - Snr. Foreign Affairs Editor
*[[Dr. Stuart Ivanovitch]] - Sentinel medical advisor
*[[Corwin Jones]] - Writer/Contributor
*[[Garima King]] - Writer/Contributor
*[[Amber Mai-Wan]] - Writer/Contributor
*[[Seth Peoples]] - Circulation Director
*[[Edith Price]] - Sales Manager
*[[Iona Rodie]] - Writer
*[[Tanika Rogers]] - ''New'' Advertising Manager
*[[Choudet Rousseau]] - Snr. Science Editor
*[[Hesketh Sheerness]] - Snr. Designer
*[[Ilja Sorkezjy]] - Production Editor
*[[Yulia Thomson]] - Sales Manager
*[[Natasha Valliere]] - Writer/Contributor
*[[Arling Wilson]] - Snr. Entertainment Editor

*[[Authors and Their Articles]] - sorted list of all current articles and who wrote them
*[[Articles By Date]] - sorted list of all current articles and when they were published

*[[Authors and Their Articles#View from Earth|View from Earth]] articles - written by Earthly citizens, published by the Sentinel.

*[[Ryan Klein]] - ''Former'' Advertising Manager (Removed after the [[Recon Encryption Puzzle]] scandal)
*[[Pietro Salk]] - Writer (Deceased)

===[[Perplex City Sentinel]] Letter Writers===
*Ian Shivuto ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/21.03.05/letters/index.html 21.03.05])
*Kylie Sharp ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/21.03.05/letters/index.html 21.03.05])
*Emile Farrow ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/21.03.05/letters/index.html 21.03.05])
*Chasen der WÃ¼rfel ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/28.03.05/letters/index.html 28.03.05])
*Sian Rodgers([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/28.03.05/letters/index.html 28.03.05])
*Julianne Bowman ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/28.03.05/letters/index.html 28.03.05])
*Arrian Hampden, University of Perplex City ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/28.03.05/letters/index.html 28.03.05])
*Pierre Badiola ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/28.03.05/letters/index.html 28.03.05])
*Johan Hart ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/02.04.05/letters/index.html 02.04.05])
*Lana Frankel ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/02.04.05/letters/index.html 02.04.05])
*[[Scarlett Kiteway]] ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/02.04.05/letters/index.html 02.04.05])
*Simon Glen, Earth ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/11.04.05/letters/index.html 11.04.05])
*James Lyon, Earth ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/11.04.05/letters/index.html 11.04.05])
*Aurora Bosch, Earth ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/11.04.05/letters/index.html 11.04.05])
*Cora Howell ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/18.04.05/letters/index.html 18.04.05])
*J. Beloc, Earth ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/18.04.05/letters/index.html 18.04.05])
*Peter Greeley ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcitysentinel.com/18.04.05/letters/index.html 18.04.05])

----------------

==[[PCAG]]==

===Officials===

*[[Robert Zhi-hui]] - Chairman
*[[Paula Ching]] - Director of Substance Compliance
*[[John Kwon]] - Judge

===Athletes===

*[[Ryan Cahill]] - 267 [[PCAG]] champion
*[[Serena Duncan]] - 267 [[PCAG]] favorite
*[[Jackson Nuru]]
*[[Viktor Helm]]
*[[Klaus Johnson]]
*[[Gina Laskey]]
*[[Gabriella Petel]]
*[[Germaine Roe]]
*[[Janice Termigant]]
*[[Ryman Gardner]]

===Puzzle Setters===

*[[Sienna Greenlawn]]

----------------

==Music Artists==

===[[Roll For Damage]]===

*[[Alejo Jackson]] - vocals
*[[Echo West]]
*[[Keenan Thoreau|Keenan "KT" Thoreau]]
**[[Shane Cobalt]] - RFD Publicist
**[[Cheri Lindemann]] - President of RFD Fan Club

===[[Joya]]===

*[[Horace Shockley]] - Joya's producer and fiancee
*[[Skylar Poplin]] - Joya's stylist
*[[Dr. Ian Copeland]] - Joya's personal physician
*[[Naomi Woods]] - Joya Fan Club President

===[[Satine Noir]]===

===[[Ludivan]]===

===[[the PCSO]]===

===[[Jam One]]===

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==Other People==
===Miscellaneous===
*The [[Advisor]]
*[[Ormand Durante]] - Mayor of [[Gladstone]]
*[[James]]
*[[Dinah]]
*[[S Marchant|S. Marchant]]
*[[Scarlett Kiteway]]
*[[Violet Kiteway]]
*[[Damien Gold]] - [[Northside Protection League]]
*[[Mona Rowan]] - Citizens Fighting Crime
*[[Hillary Gilbert]] - [[Northside]] Preserve protestor
*[[Nadia Flores]]
*[[Lloyd Larwood]]
*[[Jessica Holyoke]]
*[[Arman]]
*[[Jane Spelger]] - [[SafeHouse]]
*[[Sayed Ghobi]]
*[[Paula Coldwell]] - political analyst

===[[Michael Corolla murder trial]]===
*Justice [[Alice Zeller]] - Judge
*[[Michael Corolla]] - The Accused
*[[Johann Jacobson]] - Defense
*[[Xavier Marron]] - Prosecution
*[[Karen Chondelle]] - Victim
*[[David Kona ]] - juror

===Suspects?===
''Members of the [[:Category:Conspiracy]] (see the [[Salklogs.doc]])''
*[[Advisor]]
*[[Quercus]]
*[[Viendenbourg]]
*[[C]]?

''Originally list of 6 from the [[Recon Encryption Puzzle]]''
*[[Nadia Anek]]
*[[Aiko Entrescore]]
*[[Demetri Fallon]]
*[[Ryan Klein]]
*[[Keenan Thoreau]]
*[[Gill Yewley]]

Perplex City Museum

2006-04-12T10:49:51Z

Maevey:

==General==

The Museum of Perplex City is one of the city's most distinguished cultural attractions and museums. Founded in 37 AC and constantly expanded since then, the museum documents the social, cultural and economic history of the city from the founding of [[Old Town]] to the present day. The current special exhibition, running until late 268, examines the influence of the [[Academy]] on the city's politics, with contributions from the Academy and [[Council]] Archives.

==References==

*article, 29-AUG-05 "Art Thieves Caught" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/art_thieves_cau.html link])
*article, 29-AUG-05 "Museum Planning Earth Exhibit" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/authenticate/?target=Museum%20Planning%20Earth%20Exhibit link])

Perplex City Museum

2006-04-12T10:49:19Z

Maevey:

==General==

The Museum of Perplex City is one of the city's most distinguished cultural attractions and museums. Founded in 37 AC and constantly expanded since then, the museum documents the social, cultural and economic history of the city from the founding of [[Old Town]] to the present day. The current special exhibition, running until late 268, examines the influence of the [[Academy]] on the city's politics, with contributions from the Academy and [[Council]] Archives.

==References==

*article, 29-AUG-05 "Art Thieves Caught" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/art_thieves_cau.html
link])
*article, 29-AUG-05 "Museum Planning Earth Exhibit" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/authenticate/?target=Museum%20Planning%20Earth%20Exhibit link])

Grand Frederick'S Station

2006-04-12T10:20:40Z

Maevey:

==General==
*Located on Amber Line
*Interchange with Perplex City [[Rail]]

==References==
*Perplex City [[Subway]] Station map

Feynman Point Station

2006-04-12T10:18:58Z

Maevey:

==General==
*Located on Cerulean Line

==References==
*Perplex City [[Subway]] Station map

Meridian Station

2006-04-12T10:18:30Z

Maevey:

==General==
*Located on Cerulean Line

==References==
*Perplex City [[Subway]] Station map

New Hampden Station

2006-04-12T10:16:28Z

Maevey:

==General==
*Located on Sienna Line
*End of the line

==References==
*Perplex City [[Subway]] Station map

Camblin Park Station

2006-04-12T10:15:35Z

Maevey:

==General==
*Located on Bistre Line

==References==
*Perplex City [[Subway]] Station map

22-OCT-05

2006-04-12T10:10:27Z

Maevey:

==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 logcal 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}}

The Builder's celebration

2006-02-15T10:03:05Z

Maevey:

==General==

The Builder's Celebration is held at Spring Equinox and is a time to lay new foundations

==References==

*'''Link:''' http://www.brotherhoodofthesix.com/wayoflife.html
*'''Violet's Blog:''' http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html

The Builder's celebration

2006-02-15T10:02:37Z

Maevey:

==General==

The Builder's Celebration is held at Spring Equinox and is a time to lay new foundations

==References==

'''Link:''' http://www.brotherhoodofthesix.com/wayoflife.html
'''Violet's Blog:''' http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html

Third Power

2006-02-15T09:51:06Z

Maevey:

#REDIRECT [[The Third Power]]

Carrick Foundation

2006-02-15T09:48:25Z

Maevey:

==General==

The Carrick Foundation is a charitable trust providing grants to support technological innovation by small businesses and individuals.

;Chairman:Sente Kiteway

==Grants Awarded==

*Helix Hesh 20,000Lecks for the founding of Hesh Records

In 263, the Carrick Foundation named the Sedgewick Travel Bursary in honour of [[Estelle Sedgewick]], to enable a young Academician to spend a year traveling for the purposes of linguistic research

==References==

File:Leitmark 3d.jpg

2006-02-14T14:37:24Z

Maevey: Virtual Leitmarks

Virtual Leitmarks

File:Redleitmark.gif

2006-02-14T14:36:38Z

Maevey: red leitmark

red leitmark

File:Yellowleitmark.gif

2006-02-14T14:36:23Z

Maevey: yellow leitmark

yellow leitmark

File:Greenleitmark.gif

2006-02-14T14:35:59Z

Maevey: green leitmark

green leitmark

File:Orangeleitmark.gif

2006-02-14T14:35:31Z

Maevey: Orange Leitmark

Orange Leitmark

Perplex City Academy Games

2006-01-11T08:49:40Z

Maevey: /* Schedule */

[[Image:PCAGlogo.png]]

'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/

'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcity.com/events/forthcoming/index.html

==General==
* The Games are Perhaps the most highly watched public sporting event in [[Perplex City]].
* As an extension of the [[Perplex City Academy]], the Academy Games encourage public mental competitions.
* It is a largely student-run organization.
* The organization has a staunch drug-free policy.

===Location===
* The headquarters of the PCAG is at the [[Games Plaza]], which is:
** Close to the harbour.
** Near [[Key Square Station]]
** Across the street from the [[Maitland Museum]]

* Most competitions take place elsewhere in the City, but the final 16 competitions are always held at the Plaza.

* Qualifying events run at least once a day somewhere in the city or the surrounding area.

* The award ceremony takes place on the roof of the building in summer.

==Schedule==
* Exhibition matches take place most days of the year

{|
|-
| Exhibition matches in the Park and Mercator Square
| throughout June and July
|-
| First round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 31st August 2005
|-
| Second round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 30th September 2005
|-
| Third round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 31st October 2005
|-
| Fourth round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 30th November 2005
|-
| One-on-one Matches
| 26th - 31st December 2005
|-
| Multi-player Games
| 1st - 7th January 2006
|-
| All-Player Team Event
| 7th January 2006
|-
| One-on-one Knockout Matches
| 8th - 13th January 2006
|-
| Championship Final
| 14th January 2006
|-
| Victor's Ball
| 15th January 2006
|}

The last 21 days of cempetition are described as "intense and gruelling". 1,000 finalists are narrowed down to a single champion. For more on this, see: http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/takepart_finaldays.html

In brief:
*At the end of the first week, 125 competitors will remain.
*The last day of the second week is generally reserved for a team game in which all the competitors participate.
*The third week is an intensive series of one-on-one games, with half the remaining competitors being knocked out every day.
*The final contest of the games is a day-long set of Clash games played between the two remaining competitors.
*On the day after the final, 15 January, the Academy by tradition holds a ball to celebrate the end of the games and to award the trophy to the champion.

==Prizes==
* PCAG Prizes include:
**Overall Champion
**The Scribe Prize
* Historically, "Weaver’s Guild Board of Excellence in the Game of Piramid" was used to track winners, in the pre-modern era.

==Games Year==
*Essentially, a [[Games Year]] involves spending one extra year at the Academy, taking part in devising and setting puzzles.

*A study by the [[Perplex City Academy]] shows that students who take a [[Games Year]] tend to excel in the work place
**Making 8% more salary at their first jobs
**Making a stunning 22% more after ten years

--------------

==The 268AC Season==
===Exhibition Matches===
*21-MAR-05 - [[Jackson Nuru]] is ejected for using cognitive enhancers
*30-MAY-05 - [[Myra Champaign]] Accepted into league
*01-JUN-05 - [[Summer Holiday]] Exhibition moved to a larger venue to meet demand
*13-JUL-05 - [[Bryce Goran]] is bumped Out by [[Myra Champaign]]

===Championship Matches===
*02-AUG-05 - Championship Season Officially Opens
*06-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Ryan Cahill]] plays his first match, marking the popular Season Opening
**[[Serena Duncan]] impressively beats [[Ryan Cahill]] 5-2.
**[[Myra Champaign]] 4-3 win over [[Franz Lambert]]
**[[Georgi Shepherd]] 4-3 win over [[Lucius Jorgensen]]
**[[Jack Fleury]] surprise 6-1 victory over [[Gabriella Petel]]
*13-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Mikhail Terpening]] vs. [[Kevin Hamlet]]
**[[Ethan Roanoke]] vs. [[Janice Termigant]]
**[[Klaus Johnson]] vs. [[Jeannie Murrow]]
**Terpening, Roanoke and Murrow were favoured to win.
*20-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Alma Finnegan]] defeated [[Oliver Pohele]], for her first win this season
**This exciting match went into overtime, and was marked with excitement all round.
*12-SEP-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Ryan Cahill]] spectacularly defeats [[Myra Champaign]], 6-1
**The match is seen as a classic example of experience over aptitude.
**It was a much needed win for Cahill, who has been performing somewhat poorly all season.
*24-SEP-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Ryan Cahill]] continues his winning streak, defeating [[Ethan Roanoke]]
*15-OCT-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Oliver Pohele]] defeats [[Serena Duncan]]
**This is seen as a huge move for Pohele, and under-dogs everywhere.
**Duncan is still favoured to win the championship, and this one loss will not greatly affect that.
**As the season has gone on, however, this advantage appears a bit less certain.
*The week-2 Team Games:
**[[Serena Duncan]] come out on top, re-discovering her edge
**[[Ryan Cahill]] comes in a very close second, tying up the whole championship.
**Notable people to be removed from competition include: [[Gabriella Petel]], [[Klaus Johnson]], [[Georgi Shepherd]]

===[[PCAG Earth Matches]]===
*In early January 2006, [[Mind Candy]] and [[The Academy]] announced the first ever [[PCAG]] mathes to be held outside of the city.
*'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcity.com/events/forthcoming/index.html

* Event 1
** '''Where:''' New York City, USA
** '''When:''' Wednesday February 15th, 2006
** This event will coincide with [[Mind Candy]] executives appearing at the American International Toy Fair.
** Games will consist of traditional head-to-head matches.

* Event 2
** '''Where:''' London, UK
** '''When:''' ''Saturday in Late February/Early March'', 2006

----------------

==People Involved==
===PCAG Winners===
*223AC - Professor [[Sanjean Adamek]] - Overall Winner
*248AC - Professor [[Astrid Lindstrom]] - Overall Winner
*256AC - [[Roberto Solitano]] - Languages Section Winner
*267AC - [[Ryan Cahill]] - Overall Winner
*268AC - [[Serena Duncan]] - Early favourite and pre-season champion

===PCAG Record Holders===
*Professor [[Estelle Sedgewick]] holds the record in the linguistic category

===PCAG Officials===
*[[Robert Zhi-hui]], Chairman
*[[Paula Ching]], Director of Substance Compliance
*[[Samara Jones]], Official Statistician

===PCAG Puzzle Setters===
*[[Sienna Greenlawn]], currently a puzzle-setter

===Noteworthy Players===
'''An average of 100,000 people enter the Games each year.''' Listed below are those few who make a bit of a splash on the gaming scene.

*[[Serena Duncan]] - "Championship favourite"
*[[Ryan Cahill]] - Last Year's Champion
*[[Myra Champaign]] - 9th youngest player ever admitted
*[[Ryman Gardner]] - Appearing weekly on '[[The Lab]]'
*[[Bryce Goran]] - Failed to qualify for Championship play
*[[Oliver Pohele]] - Defeated [[Serena Duncan]] in a surprise crucial match
*[[Gabriella Petel]] - Described early on as a "Championship favourite"
*[[Janice Termigant]]
*[[Klaus Johnson]]
*[[Franz Lambert]]
*[[Georgi Shepherd]]
*[[Lucius Jorgensen]]
*[[Jack Fleury]]
*[[Mikhail Terpening]]
*[[Kevin Hamlet]]
*[[Ethan Roanoke]]
*[[Jeannie Murrow]]
*[[Alma Finnegan]]

-----------

==References==
'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/findus.html

*'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
**article, 21-MAR-05 "[[PCAG]] Ejects [[Nuru]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/03/nuru_ejected_fr.html link])
**feature, 23-APR-05 "The Perplex City [[Tour Guide]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/tourguide/ link])
**article, 09-MAY-05 "Study Shows [[Games Year]] Aids Careers" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/study_shows_gam.html link])
**article, 31-MAY-05 "[[Myra_Champaign|Champaign]] Accepted into [[PCAG|Competition]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/champaign_accep.html link])
**News in Brief, 01-JUN-05 "[[Summer Holiday|Holiday]] Exhibition moved" ([http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/20050602-000000/perplexcitysentinel.com/index.html link])
**article, 17-JUN-05 "[[Myra_Champaign|Champaign]] Leaves Match in Tears" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/champaign_leave.html link])
**article, 22-JUN-05 "Names of Six '[[The Lab]]' Contestants Leaked" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/six_contestants.html link])
**article, 14-JUL-05 "[[Bryce Goran|Goran]] Out of [[PCAG|Games]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/goran_out_of_ga.html link])
**article, 03-AUG-05 "[[PCAG]] Championship Season Opens" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/pcag_championsh.html link])
**article, 08-AUG-05"[[Serena Duncan|Serena]] Takes Lead in Beginning Rounds of [[PCAG|Championship]] Play" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/serena_takes_ea.html link])
**article, 12-SEP-05 "[[Myra Champaign|Champaign]] Falls, [[Ryan Cahill|Cahill]] Climbs" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/champaign_falls_1.html link])
**article, 18-OCT-05 "[[Serena Duncan|Duncan]] Defeated By Upstart [[Oliver Pohele|Pohele]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/10/duncan_defeated.html link])
**article, 28-NOV-05 "[[Serena Duncan|Duncan]] Determined to Reclaim [[PCAG|Prize]] Despite Defeats" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/11/duncan_determin.html link])
**article, 09-JAN-06 "[[Duncan]] Shines During Week of [[PCAG|Team Play]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/duncan_shines_i.html link])
**article, 09-JAN-06 "[PCAG]], [[Mind Candy]] Plan Earth Events" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/pcag_mind_candy.html link])

*http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/departments.html - Many, if not all, members of the Academy Staff played in the games.

*'''Pietro Salk's Eulogy''' ([http://www.salkfamily.com/eulogy.html link])

Perplex City Academy Games

2006-01-11T08:49:20Z

Maevey: /* Schedule */

[[Image:PCAGlogo.png]]

'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/

'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcity.com/events/forthcoming/index.html

==General==
* The Games are Perhaps the most highly watched public sporting event in [[Perplex City]].
* As an extension of the [[Perplex City Academy]], the Academy Games encourage public mental competitions.
* It is a largely student-run organization.
* The organization has a staunch drug-free policy.

===Location===
* The headquarters of the PCAG is at the [[Games Plaza]], which is:
** Close to the harbour.
** Near [[Key Square Station]]
** Across the street from the [[Maitland Museum]]

* Most competitions take place elsewhere in the City, but the final 16 competitions are always held at the Plaza.

* Qualifying events run at least once a day somewhere in the city or the surrounding area.

* The award ceremony takes place on the roof of the building in summer.

==Schedule==
* Exhibition matches take place most days of the year

{|
|-
| Exhibition matches in the Park and Mercator Square
| throughout June and July
|-
| First round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 31st August 2005
|-
| Second round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 30th September 2005
|-
| Third round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 31st October 2005
|-
| Fourth round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 30th November 2005
|-
|
| One-on-one Matches
| 26th - 31st December 2005
|-
| Multi-player Games
| 1st - 7th January 2006
|-
| All-Player Team Event
| 7th January 2006
|-
| One-on-one Knockout Matches
| 8th - 13th January 2006
|-
| Championship Final
| 14th January 2006
|-
| Victor's Ball
| 15th January 2006
|}

The last 21 days of cempetition are described as "intense and gruelling". 1,000 finalists are narrowed down to a single champion. For more on this, see: http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/takepart_finaldays.html

In brief:
*At the end of the first week, 125 competitors will remain.
*The last day of the second week is generally reserved for a team game in which all the competitors participate.
*The third week is an intensive series of one-on-one games, with half the remaining competitors being knocked out every day.
*The final contest of the games is a day-long set of Clash games played between the two remaining competitors.
*On the day after the final, 15 January, the Academy by tradition holds a ball to celebrate the end of the games and to award the trophy to the champion.

==Prizes==
* PCAG Prizes include:
**Overall Champion
**The Scribe Prize
* Historically, "Weaver’s Guild Board of Excellence in the Game of Piramid" was used to track winners, in the pre-modern era.

==Games Year==
*Essentially, a [[Games Year]] involves spending one extra year at the Academy, taking part in devising and setting puzzles.

*A study by the [[Perplex City Academy]] shows that students who take a [[Games Year]] tend to excel in the work place
**Making 8% more salary at their first jobs
**Making a stunning 22% more after ten years

--------------

==The 268AC Season==
===Exhibition Matches===
*21-MAR-05 - [[Jackson Nuru]] is ejected for using cognitive enhancers
*30-MAY-05 - [[Myra Champaign]] Accepted into league
*01-JUN-05 - [[Summer Holiday]] Exhibition moved to a larger venue to meet demand
*13-JUL-05 - [[Bryce Goran]] is bumped Out by [[Myra Champaign]]

===Championship Matches===
*02-AUG-05 - Championship Season Officially Opens
*06-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Ryan Cahill]] plays his first match, marking the popular Season Opening
**[[Serena Duncan]] impressively beats [[Ryan Cahill]] 5-2.
**[[Myra Champaign]] 4-3 win over [[Franz Lambert]]
**[[Georgi Shepherd]] 4-3 win over [[Lucius Jorgensen]]
**[[Jack Fleury]] surprise 6-1 victory over [[Gabriella Petel]]
*13-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Mikhail Terpening]] vs. [[Kevin Hamlet]]
**[[Ethan Roanoke]] vs. [[Janice Termigant]]
**[[Klaus Johnson]] vs. [[Jeannie Murrow]]
**Terpening, Roanoke and Murrow were favoured to win.
*20-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Alma Finnegan]] defeated [[Oliver Pohele]], for her first win this season
**This exciting match went into overtime, and was marked with excitement all round.
*12-SEP-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Ryan Cahill]] spectacularly defeats [[Myra Champaign]], 6-1
**The match is seen as a classic example of experience over aptitude.
**It was a much needed win for Cahill, who has been performing somewhat poorly all season.
*24-SEP-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Ryan Cahill]] continues his winning streak, defeating [[Ethan Roanoke]]
*15-OCT-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Oliver Pohele]] defeats [[Serena Duncan]]
**This is seen as a huge move for Pohele, and under-dogs everywhere.
**Duncan is still favoured to win the championship, and this one loss will not greatly affect that.
**As the season has gone on, however, this advantage appears a bit less certain.
*The week-2 Team Games:
**[[Serena Duncan]] come out on top, re-discovering her edge
**[[Ryan Cahill]] comes in a very close second, tying up the whole championship.
**Notable people to be removed from competition include: [[Gabriella Petel]], [[Klaus Johnson]], [[Georgi Shepherd]]

===[[PCAG Earth Matches]]===
*In early January 2006, [[Mind Candy]] and [[The Academy]] announced the first ever [[PCAG]] mathes to be held outside of the city.
*'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcity.com/events/forthcoming/index.html

* Event 1
** '''Where:''' New York City, USA
** '''When:''' Wednesday February 15th, 2006
** This event will coincide with [[Mind Candy]] executives appearing at the American International Toy Fair.
** Games will consist of traditional head-to-head matches.

* Event 2
** '''Where:''' London, UK
** '''When:''' ''Saturday in Late February/Early March'', 2006

----------------

==People Involved==
===PCAG Winners===
*223AC - Professor [[Sanjean Adamek]] - Overall Winner
*248AC - Professor [[Astrid Lindstrom]] - Overall Winner
*256AC - [[Roberto Solitano]] - Languages Section Winner
*267AC - [[Ryan Cahill]] - Overall Winner
*268AC - [[Serena Duncan]] - Early favourite and pre-season champion

===PCAG Record Holders===
*Professor [[Estelle Sedgewick]] holds the record in the linguistic category

===PCAG Officials===
*[[Robert Zhi-hui]], Chairman
*[[Paula Ching]], Director of Substance Compliance
*[[Samara Jones]], Official Statistician

===PCAG Puzzle Setters===
*[[Sienna Greenlawn]], currently a puzzle-setter

===Noteworthy Players===
'''An average of 100,000 people enter the Games each year.''' Listed below are those few who make a bit of a splash on the gaming scene.

*[[Serena Duncan]] - "Championship favourite"
*[[Ryan Cahill]] - Last Year's Champion
*[[Myra Champaign]] - 9th youngest player ever admitted
*[[Ryman Gardner]] - Appearing weekly on '[[The Lab]]'
*[[Bryce Goran]] - Failed to qualify for Championship play
*[[Oliver Pohele]] - Defeated [[Serena Duncan]] in a surprise crucial match
*[[Gabriella Petel]] - Described early on as a "Championship favourite"
*[[Janice Termigant]]
*[[Klaus Johnson]]
*[[Franz Lambert]]
*[[Georgi Shepherd]]
*[[Lucius Jorgensen]]
*[[Jack Fleury]]
*[[Mikhail Terpening]]
*[[Kevin Hamlet]]
*[[Ethan Roanoke]]
*[[Jeannie Murrow]]
*[[Alma Finnegan]]

-----------

==References==
'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/findus.html

*'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
**article, 21-MAR-05 "[[PCAG]] Ejects [[Nuru]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/03/nuru_ejected_fr.html link])
**feature, 23-APR-05 "The Perplex City [[Tour Guide]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/tourguide/ link])
**article, 09-MAY-05 "Study Shows [[Games Year]] Aids Careers" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/study_shows_gam.html link])
**article, 31-MAY-05 "[[Myra_Champaign|Champaign]] Accepted into [[PCAG|Competition]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/champaign_accep.html link])
**News in Brief, 01-JUN-05 "[[Summer Holiday|Holiday]] Exhibition moved" ([http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/20050602-000000/perplexcitysentinel.com/index.html link])
**article, 17-JUN-05 "[[Myra_Champaign|Champaign]] Leaves Match in Tears" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/champaign_leave.html link])
**article, 22-JUN-05 "Names of Six '[[The Lab]]' Contestants Leaked" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/six_contestants.html link])
**article, 14-JUL-05 "[[Bryce Goran|Goran]] Out of [[PCAG|Games]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/goran_out_of_ga.html link])
**article, 03-AUG-05 "[[PCAG]] Championship Season Opens" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/pcag_championsh.html link])
**article, 08-AUG-05"[[Serena Duncan|Serena]] Takes Lead in Beginning Rounds of [[PCAG|Championship]] Play" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/serena_takes_ea.html link])
**article, 12-SEP-05 "[[Myra Champaign|Champaign]] Falls, [[Ryan Cahill|Cahill]] Climbs" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/champaign_falls_1.html link])
**article, 18-OCT-05 "[[Serena Duncan|Duncan]] Defeated By Upstart [[Oliver Pohele|Pohele]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/10/duncan_defeated.html link])
**article, 28-NOV-05 "[[Serena Duncan|Duncan]] Determined to Reclaim [[PCAG|Prize]] Despite Defeats" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/11/duncan_determin.html link])
**article, 09-JAN-06 "[[Duncan]] Shines During Week of [[PCAG|Team Play]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/duncan_shines_i.html link])
**article, 09-JAN-06 "[PCAG]], [[Mind Candy]] Plan Earth Events" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/pcag_mind_candy.html link])

*http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/departments.html - Many, if not all, members of the Academy Staff played in the games.

*'''Pietro Salk's Eulogy''' ([http://www.salkfamily.com/eulogy.html link])

Perplex City Academy Games

2006-01-11T08:49:04Z

Maevey: /* Schedule */

[[Image:PCAGlogo.png]]

'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/

'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcity.com/events/forthcoming/index.html

==General==
* The Games are Perhaps the most highly watched public sporting event in [[Perplex City]].
* As an extension of the [[Perplex City Academy]], the Academy Games encourage public mental competitions.
* It is a largely student-run organization.
* The organization has a staunch drug-free policy.

===Location===
* The headquarters of the PCAG is at the [[Games Plaza]], which is:
** Close to the harbour.
** Near [[Key Square Station]]
** Across the street from the [[Maitland Museum]]

* Most competitions take place elsewhere in the City, but the final 16 competitions are always held at the Plaza.

* Qualifying events run at least once a day somewhere in the city or the surrounding area.

* The award ceremony takes place on the roof of the building in summer.

==Schedule==
* Exhibition matches take place most days of the year

{|
|-
| Exhibition matches in the Park and Mercator Square
| throughout June and July
|-
| First round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 31st August 2005
|-
| Second round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 30th September 2005
|-
| Third round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 31st October 2005
|-
| Fourth round of knockout competitions
| 1st - 30th November 2005
|-
|-
| One-on-one Matches
| 26th - 31st December 2005
|-
| Multi-player Games
| 1st - 7th January 2006
|-
| All-Player Team Event
| 7th January 2006
|-
| One-on-one Knockout Matches
| 8th - 13th January 2006
|-
| Championship Final
| 14th January 2006
|-
| Victor's Ball
| 15th January 2006
|}

The last 21 days of cempetition are described as "intense and gruelling". 1,000 finalists are narrowed down to a single champion. For more on this, see: http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/takepart_finaldays.html

In brief:
*At the end of the first week, 125 competitors will remain.
*The last day of the second week is generally reserved for a team game in which all the competitors participate.
*The third week is an intensive series of one-on-one games, with half the remaining competitors being knocked out every day.
*The final contest of the games is a day-long set of Clash games played between the two remaining competitors.
*On the day after the final, 15 January, the Academy by tradition holds a ball to celebrate the end of the games and to award the trophy to the champion.

==Prizes==
* PCAG Prizes include:
**Overall Champion
**The Scribe Prize
* Historically, "Weaver’s Guild Board of Excellence in the Game of Piramid" was used to track winners, in the pre-modern era.

==Games Year==
*Essentially, a [[Games Year]] involves spending one extra year at the Academy, taking part in devising and setting puzzles.

*A study by the [[Perplex City Academy]] shows that students who take a [[Games Year]] tend to excel in the work place
**Making 8% more salary at their first jobs
**Making a stunning 22% more after ten years

--------------

==The 268AC Season==
===Exhibition Matches===
*21-MAR-05 - [[Jackson Nuru]] is ejected for using cognitive enhancers
*30-MAY-05 - [[Myra Champaign]] Accepted into league
*01-JUN-05 - [[Summer Holiday]] Exhibition moved to a larger venue to meet demand
*13-JUL-05 - [[Bryce Goran]] is bumped Out by [[Myra Champaign]]

===Championship Matches===
*02-AUG-05 - Championship Season Officially Opens
*06-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Ryan Cahill]] plays his first match, marking the popular Season Opening
**[[Serena Duncan]] impressively beats [[Ryan Cahill]] 5-2.
**[[Myra Champaign]] 4-3 win over [[Franz Lambert]]
**[[Georgi Shepherd]] 4-3 win over [[Lucius Jorgensen]]
**[[Jack Fleury]] surprise 6-1 victory over [[Gabriella Petel]]
*13-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Mikhail Terpening]] vs. [[Kevin Hamlet]]
**[[Ethan Roanoke]] vs. [[Janice Termigant]]
**[[Klaus Johnson]] vs. [[Jeannie Murrow]]
**Terpening, Roanoke and Murrow were favoured to win.
*20-AUG-05 - Weekend Highlights:
**[[Alma Finnegan]] defeated [[Oliver Pohele]], for her first win this season
**This exciting match went into overtime, and was marked with excitement all round.
*12-SEP-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Ryan Cahill]] spectacularly defeats [[Myra Champaign]], 6-1
**The match is seen as a classic example of experience over aptitude.
**It was a much needed win for Cahill, who has been performing somewhat poorly all season.
*24-SEP-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Ryan Cahill]] continues his winning streak, defeating [[Ethan Roanoke]]
*15-OCT-05 - Weekend Highlights
**[[Oliver Pohele]] defeats [[Serena Duncan]]
**This is seen as a huge move for Pohele, and under-dogs everywhere.
**Duncan is still favoured to win the championship, and this one loss will not greatly affect that.
**As the season has gone on, however, this advantage appears a bit less certain.
*The week-2 Team Games:
**[[Serena Duncan]] come out on top, re-discovering her edge
**[[Ryan Cahill]] comes in a very close second, tying up the whole championship.
**Notable people to be removed from competition include: [[Gabriella Petel]], [[Klaus Johnson]], [[Georgi Shepherd]]

===[[PCAG Earth Matches]]===
*In early January 2006, [[Mind Candy]] and [[The Academy]] announced the first ever [[PCAG]] mathes to be held outside of the city.
*'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcity.com/events/forthcoming/index.html

* Event 1
** '''Where:''' New York City, USA
** '''When:''' Wednesday February 15th, 2006
** This event will coincide with [[Mind Candy]] executives appearing at the American International Toy Fair.
** Games will consist of traditional head-to-head matches.

* Event 2
** '''Where:''' London, UK
** '''When:''' ''Saturday in Late February/Early March'', 2006

----------------

==People Involved==
===PCAG Winners===
*223AC - Professor [[Sanjean Adamek]] - Overall Winner
*248AC - Professor [[Astrid Lindstrom]] - Overall Winner
*256AC - [[Roberto Solitano]] - Languages Section Winner
*267AC - [[Ryan Cahill]] - Overall Winner
*268AC - [[Serena Duncan]] - Early favourite and pre-season champion

===PCAG Record Holders===
*Professor [[Estelle Sedgewick]] holds the record in the linguistic category

===PCAG Officials===
*[[Robert Zhi-hui]], Chairman
*[[Paula Ching]], Director of Substance Compliance
*[[Samara Jones]], Official Statistician

===PCAG Puzzle Setters===
*[[Sienna Greenlawn]], currently a puzzle-setter

===Noteworthy Players===
'''An average of 100,000 people enter the Games each year.''' Listed below are those few who make a bit of a splash on the gaming scene.

*[[Serena Duncan]] - "Championship favourite"
*[[Ryan Cahill]] - Last Year's Champion
*[[Myra Champaign]] - 9th youngest player ever admitted
*[[Ryman Gardner]] - Appearing weekly on '[[The Lab]]'
*[[Bryce Goran]] - Failed to qualify for Championship play
*[[Oliver Pohele]] - Defeated [[Serena Duncan]] in a surprise crucial match
*[[Gabriella Petel]] - Described early on as a "Championship favourite"
*[[Janice Termigant]]
*[[Klaus Johnson]]
*[[Franz Lambert]]
*[[Georgi Shepherd]]
*[[Lucius Jorgensen]]
*[[Jack Fleury]]
*[[Mikhail Terpening]]
*[[Kevin Hamlet]]
*[[Ethan Roanoke]]
*[[Jeannie Murrow]]
*[[Alma Finnegan]]

-----------

==References==
'''Website:''' http://www.perplexcityacademygames.com/findus.html

*'''Perplex City Sentinel'''
**article, 21-MAR-05 "[[PCAG]] Ejects [[Nuru]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/03/nuru_ejected_fr.html link])
**feature, 23-APR-05 "The Perplex City [[Tour Guide]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/tourguide/ link])
**article, 09-MAY-05 "Study Shows [[Games Year]] Aids Careers" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/study_shows_gam.html link])
**article, 31-MAY-05 "[[Myra_Champaign|Champaign]] Accepted into [[PCAG|Competition]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/champaign_accep.html link])
**News in Brief, 01-JUN-05 "[[Summer Holiday|Holiday]] Exhibition moved" ([http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/20050602-000000/perplexcitysentinel.com/index.html link])
**article, 17-JUN-05 "[[Myra_Champaign|Champaign]] Leaves Match in Tears" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/champaign_leave.html link])
**article, 22-JUN-05 "Names of Six '[[The Lab]]' Contestants Leaked" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/six_contestants.html link])
**article, 14-JUL-05 "[[Bryce Goran|Goran]] Out of [[PCAG|Games]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/goran_out_of_ga.html link])
**article, 03-AUG-05 "[[PCAG]] Championship Season Opens" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/pcag_championsh.html link])
**article, 08-AUG-05"[[Serena Duncan|Serena]] Takes Lead in Beginning Rounds of [[PCAG|Championship]] Play" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/serena_takes_ea.html link])
**article, 12-SEP-05 "[[Myra Champaign|Champaign]] Falls, [[Ryan Cahill|Cahill]] Climbs" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/champaign_falls_1.html link])
**article, 18-OCT-05 "[[Serena Duncan|Duncan]] Defeated By Upstart [[Oliver Pohele|Pohele]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/10/duncan_defeated.html link])
**article, 28-NOV-05 "[[Serena Duncan|Duncan]] Determined to Reclaim [[PCAG|Prize]] Despite Defeats" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/11/duncan_determin.html link])
**article, 09-JAN-06 "[[Duncan]] Shines During Week of [[PCAG|Team Play]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/duncan_shines_i.html link])
**article, 09-JAN-06 "[PCAG]], [[Mind Candy]] Plan Earth Events" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/pcag_mind_candy.html link])

*http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/departments.html - Many, if not all, members of the Academy Staff played in the games.

*'''Pietro Salk's Eulogy''' ([http://www.salkfamily.com/eulogy.html link])

Perplex City Academy Games

2006-01-11T08:48:08Z

Maevey: /* Schedule */