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Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-21T05:35:27Z

Rose: /* Individual Puzzle Card Meta Puzzles */

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them. Each prime number card has a playing card symbol and part of a letter on it. Other cards have hidden text written in special ink.

We believe that [[Combed Thunderclap]] has put this data on the cards to help us find the Cube. The first meta puzzle solved, the Prime Number puzzle consisting of card symbols and letters, gave us the message 'I STOLE THE CUBE. HELP ME. COMBED THUNDERCLAP.' The second meta Puzzle solved, found in hidden text written on yellow letters on the Wave 4 card{{Card|223|Secret Location}} says "Five fingers point:half the world; realm; region; feature; last mystery." (Note all punctuation is added.) The solutions to these puzzles follows.

We have several more puzzles to solve.

== Prime Number Cards: Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

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The message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. [[Combed Thunderclap]].'''

This message along with other hints lead us to [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ Library of Babel subdirectory]. [[Combed Thunderclap]] has used that site to communicate with us in a few flash updates.

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion.

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
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|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
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|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
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|Card also contains playing card symbol.
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|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
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|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
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|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
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|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
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|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
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|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
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|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
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|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
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|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
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|2-4111111441-2
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|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
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|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
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|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
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|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
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|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
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|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
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|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
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|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
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|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
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|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
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|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
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|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
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|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
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|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
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|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
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|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
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|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
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=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

==Individual Puzzle Card Meta Puzzles==

* '''{{Card|084|Insights}}''' Wave 3 contains the following number string: "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55"

**The card this is from relates to a few websites. We have been flummoxed by the number .500 included in the number string. People have noted the repeat of the number 55 and the series of numbers 27.55.25.

* '''{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}''' Wave 4 contains the following message in hidden ink:

'''RUBIESDIAMONDS'''EMERALD
S'''TOPAZ'''AMETHYSTS'''SAPPHI'''
'''RESRUBIESDIAMONDS'''EMER
ALDS'''TOPAZ'''AMETHYSTS'''SAP'''
'''PHIRESRUBIESDIAMONDS'''E
MERALDS'''TOPAZ'''AMETHYSTS
'''SAPPHIRESRUBIESDIAMON'''
'''DS'''EMERALDS'''TOPAZ'''AMETHY
STS'''SAPPHIRESRUBIESDIA'''
'''MONDS'''EMERALDS'''TOPAZ'''AME
THYSTS'''SAPPHIRESRUBIES'''

**This may relate to {{Card|030|End of the Line}} which contains the following quotation from [[Gyvann]]:
"Precious are the stones, my children, precious that which is dug from the
earth. Precious are the rubies, the diamonds, the emeralds and the topaz. I
held fast to the amethysts. They mingled them with sapphires, so I threw
them both from me. Only one choice remained and from then nothing was
right. My children I did not despair, as you must not despair. A quadru-
ped appeared before me, its middle leg held proudly forward. I turned my
back to it and strode forward. But after only 20 ammot the light was upon
me. Precious, my children, is the light."

*'''{{Card|146|You are Cordially Invited}}''' which contains the following text visible under black-light:
Electric Splash
BB, 21 to 24
4: C, V, K, Q
20, V to 24

**We think these are the instructions given to the original Cube thieves about the night of the theft.

* '''{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}''' contains the following text printed in tiny writing:
otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29

**Anagrams and other things have been tried not yet successfully. The title of the card might have something to do with this.

*''' {{Card|223|Secret Location}}''' Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 105, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145". 

**This message was [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]] on the 30th of October, 2006. It says:

{{quote}}
Five fingers point 

half the world 
realm 
region 
feature 
last mystery 
|}

*Possible puzzle data '''{{Card|242|Ciphers of History}}''' This data is described as "dim letters on the stem of the R which spell out the chars 2, 10 and 11. From left to right top to bottom, a no7 shape to each repectively."

**When solved in the same method as the card, these characters translate to 464 which stands for ER. Note that in solving the puzzle some of the letters had to be switched it could be ES or DR?

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Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-21T05:29:34Z

Rose: /* Individual Puzzle Card Meta Puzzles */

Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-20T22:29:26Z

Rose: /* Individual Puzzle Card META Puzzles */

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them. Each prime number card has a playing card symbol and part of a letter on it. Other cards have hidden text written in special ink.

We believe that [[Combed Thunderclap]] has put this data on the cards to help us find the Cube. The first meta puzzle solved, the Prime Number puzzle consisting of card symbols and letters, gave us the message 'I STOLE THE CUBE. HELP ME. COMBED THUNDERCLAP.' The second meta Puzzle solved, found in hidden text written on yellow letters on the Wave 4 card{{Card|223|Secret Location}} says "Five fingers point:half the world; realm; region; feature; last mystery." (Note all punctuation is added.) The solutions to these puzzles follows.

We have several more puzzles to solve.

== Prime Number Cards: Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

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|}

The message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. [[Combed Thunderclap]].'''

This message along with other hints lead us to [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ Library of Babel subdirectory]. [[Combed Thunderclap]] has used that site to communicate with us in a few flash updates.

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion.

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
|3-433333334-2
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
|4-143334-3
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are across from each other in one line.
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

==Individual Puzzle Card Meta Puzzles==

* '''{{Card|084|Insights}}''' Wave 3 contains the following number string: "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55"

**The card this is from relates to a few websites. We have been flummoxed by the number .500 included in the number string. People have noted the repeat of the number 55 and the series of numbers 27.55.25.

* '''{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}''' Wave 4 contains the following message in hidden ink:

'''RUBIESDIAMONDS'''EMERALD
S'''TOPAZ'''AMETHYSTS'''SAPPHI'''
'''RESRUBIESDIAMONDS'''EMER
ALDS'''TOPAZ'''AMETHYSTS'''SAP'''
'''PHIRESRUBIESDIAMONDS'''E
MERALDS'''TOPAZ'''AMETHYSTS
'''SAPPHIRESRUBIESDIAMON'''
'''DS'''EMERALDS'''TOPAZ'''AMETHY
STS'''SAPPHIRESRUBIESDIA'''
'''MONDS'''EMERALDS'''TOPAZ'''AME
THYSTS'''SAPPHIRESRUBIES'''

**This may relate to {{Card|030|End of the Line}} which contains the following quotation from [[Gyvann]]:
"Precious are the stones, my children, precious that which is dug from the
earth. Precious are the rubies, the diamonds, the emeralds and the topaz. I
held fast to the amethysts. They mingled them with sapphires, so I threw
them both from me. Only one choice remained and from then nothing was
right. My children I did not despair, as you must not despair. A quadru-
ped appeared before me, its middle leg held proudly forward. I turned my
back to it and strode forward. But after only 20 ammot the light was upon
me. Precious, my children, is the light."

*'''{{Card|146|You are Cordially Invited}}''' which contains the following text visible under black-light:
Electric Splash
BB, 21 to 24
4: C, V, K, Q
20, V to 24

**We think these are the instructions given to the original Cube thieves about the night of the theft.

*''' {{Card|223|Secret Location}}''' Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 105, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145". 

**This message was [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]] on the 30th of October, 2006. It says:

{{quote}}
Five fingers point 

half the world 
realm 
region 
feature 
last mystery 
|}

-----

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-20T21:55:31Z

Rose: /* General */ added a brief summary of the puzzles.

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them. Each prime number card has a playing card symbol and part of a letter on it. Other cards have hidden text written in special ink.

We believe that [[Combed Thunderclap]] has put this data on the cards to help us find the Cube. The first meta puzzle solved, the Prime Number puzzle consisting of card symbols and letters, gave us the message 'I STOLE THE CUBE. HELP ME. COMBED THUNDERCLAP.' The second meta Puzzle solved, found in hidden text written on yellow letters on the Wave 4 card{{Card|223|Secret Location}} says "Five fingers point:half the world; realm; region; feature; last mystery." (Note all punctuation is added.) The solutions to these puzzles follows.

We have several more puzzles to solve.

== Prime Number Cards: Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
|-----
|
| Clubs
|
| Diamonds
|
| Hearts
|
| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
|-----
|
|
| I
|
| S
|
| T
|
|-----
| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
|-----
|
|
| O
|
| L
|
| E
|
|-----
| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=059 059]
|-----
|
|
| T
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
|
|
| C
|
| U
|
| B
|
|-----
| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| P
|
| M
|
|-----
| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| C
|
| O
|
|-----
| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
|
|
| M
|
| B
|
| E
|
|-----
| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
|
|
| D
|
| T
|
| H
|
|-----
| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
|
|
| U
|
| N
|
| D
|
|-----
| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| R
|
| C
|
|-----
| 3
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| A
|
| P
|
|-----
| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
|
|
| -
|
| -
|
| -
|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
|
|
|
|-----
|}

The message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. [[Combed Thunderclap]].'''

This message along with other hints lead us to [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ Library of Babel subdirectory]. [[Combed Thunderclap]] has used that site to communicate with us in a few flash updates.

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion.

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
|3-433333334-2
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
|4-143334-3
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are across from each other in one line.
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

==Individual Puzzle Card META Puzzles==
{{Card|084|Insights}} Unrelated to the others, it says "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55"
-
- {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 105, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145". 
- This message was [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]] on the 30th of October, 2006.

-----

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-20T21:44:22Z

Rose: moving text to individual card sections

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them. Other cards have text written in special ink.

== Prime Number Cards: Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

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The message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. [[Combed Thunderclap]].'''

This message along with other hints lead us to [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ Library of Babel subdirectory]. [[Combed Thunderclap]] has used that site to communicate with us in a few flash updates.

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion.

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|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
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|3-3333334433334-1
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=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

==Individual Puzzle Card META Puzzles==
{{Card|084|Insights}} Unrelated to the others, it says "27.55.25.34.4.43.500.15.18.55.13.1.10.30.56.55.39.21.7.16.27.55.25.69.29.35.62.55"
-
- {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Unrelated to the others, in a hard-to-see yellow text it says "100, 139, 6, 148, 62, 127, 118, 119, 131, 151, 146, 88, 135, 107, 112, 152, 124, 150, 130, 100, 147, 93, 121, 149, 134, 144, 126, 98, 133, 103, 143, 116, 63, 111, 91, 101, 70, 61, 105, 62, 76, 117, 123, 84, 102, 89, 115, 96, 137, 92, 85, 122, 87, 53, 104, 90, 145". 
- This message was [[Secret_Location_Meta_Information_Solution|successfully decoded]] on the 30th of October, 2006.

-----

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-20T21:38:37Z

Rose: /* General */

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them. Other cards have text written in special ink.

== Prime Number Cards: Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
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The message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. [[Combed Thunderclap]].'''

This message along with other hints lead us to [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ Library of Babel subdirectory]. [[Combed Thunderclap]] has used that site to communicate with us in a few flash updates.

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
|3-433333334-2
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
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|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
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|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
|4-143334-3
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are across from each other in one line.
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
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|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
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|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

-----

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-20T21:37:35Z

Rose: /* Playing Cards and Large Letters */

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them.

== Prime Number Cards: Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
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| Clubs
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| Diamonds
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| Hearts
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| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
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| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
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| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
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| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
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| C
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| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
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| H
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| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
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| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
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| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
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| M
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|-----
| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
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| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
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| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
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| 3
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
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| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
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| -
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| -
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|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
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|-----
|}

The message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. [[Combed Thunderclap]].'''

This message along with other hints lead us to [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ Library of Babel subdirectory]. [[Combed Thunderclap]] has used that site to communicate with us in a few flash updates.

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
|3-433333334-2
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
|4-143334-3
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are across from each other in one line.
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

-----

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-11-20T21:04:31Z

Rose: /* Wave 4 Meta Information */ updated to show current stuff, moving individual cards into their own section.

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them.

==Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

:''See: '''[[List of Playing Cards]]''' for a plain list.''

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
|-----
|
| Clubs
|
| Diamonds
|
| Hearts
|
| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
|-----
|
|
| I
|
| S
|
| T
|
|-----
| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
|-----
|
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| L
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| E
|
|-----
| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=059 059]
|-----
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|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
|
|
| C
|
| U
|
| B
|
|-----
| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
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|
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|
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|-----
| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
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| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
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|
|-----
| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
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| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
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|
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|
|-----
| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
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| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
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|
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|
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
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|
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|
|-----
| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
|
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| -
|
| -
|
| -
|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
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This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

== Wave 4 Meta Information ==

Note: Updated as of November 20th and should be current.
Please see '''[http://www.perplexorum.com/showthread.php?t=362 Perplexorum]''' or alternatively http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for more discussion

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
|------
|'''Card'''
|'''Upright Number'''
|'''Reversed Number'''
|'''Shape'''
|'''Risk Char'''
|'''Red Dice'''
|'''Blue Dice'''
|'''Notes'''
|------
|{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}}
|1-14443432.5-3
|3-232.52.51.5-1
|[[Image:029shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Card also contains playing card symbol.
|------
|{{Card|040|Baby On Board}}
|2-11444414412-3
|1-1144144414432.5-4
|[[Image:040.png]]
|2 Infantry
|Red: 5, 4, 3
|Blue: 4, 3
|Attacker wins. Defender loses two armies. Shape is contained within the side of the elephant.
|------
|{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}}
|2-21122214-4
|4-23232.534334-1
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 60 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies.
|------
|{{Card|060|Celebration}}
|1-414141414144144441-1
|4-44444444111111111114-3
|None
|1 Cavalry
|Red: 6, 3, 1
|Blue: 6, 4
|This card and card 58 overlay each other to create one set of red/blue dice and 1 cavalry figure. Defender wins. Attacker loses two armies
|------
|{{Card|063|The Next Generation}}
|3-34-1
|2-414441141-1
|[[Image:063shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|090|Also Known As}}
|4-4444444443.5-1
|3-433333334-2
|None
|3 Infantry
|Red: 4, 4, 3
|Blue: 6, 3
|Attacker and defender lose an army each.
|------
|{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}}
|2-4111111441-2
|1-1114112321-1
|[[Image:094shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|096|Castle in The Sky}}
|1-222233332-4
|3-44411414441444112.5-4
|[[Image:096shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}}
|3-2333234-1
|4-143334-3
|[[Image:136shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|156|Going Dotty}}
|2-111221111112-4
|2-2232-4
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has writing revealed under a black light. See below.
|------
|{{Card|188|Hybridization}}
|4-11122221412234-2
|2-21121111221-4
|[[Image:188shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are across from each other in one line.
|------
|{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}}
|2-11444444444411111111444-2
|1-344411444443-1
|[[Image:191shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|192|Pronunciation}}
|3-3333322333332-4
|1-444444114411112-1
|[[Image:192shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|203|Ecliptic}}
|4-33223333234-4
|3-11144144144443-3
|None
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|218|The World}}
|2-4444433333323-2
|1-44334-3
|[[Image:218shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|222|Instigator}}
|4-1414411122-2
|3-34433333432-4
|[[Image:222shape.jpg]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical.
|------
|{{Card|235|Circuitous}}
|1-4444444434444444444443-4
|4-222233332222.5-1
|[[Image:235shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|236|Swarms}}
|4-4333223323-3
|3-2112223-2
|None
| 
| 
| 
| 
|------
|{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}}
|3-3333334433334-1
|2-1222323-2
|[[Image:237shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|Numbers are vertical. This card has micro-printing on it: "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29".
|------
|{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}}
|4-3322333333333332-1
|1-343-2
|[[Image:250shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
|The number string 1-343-2 is in a bold font.
|------
|{{Card|253|Sightseeing}}
|1-1111211112-4
|2-111114441114114-1
|[[Image:253shape.png]]
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

=== Observations ===
* Numbers range from 1-4, including 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5.
* There are a total of 42 numbers.
* There are 42 territories in Risk.
* There are 11 numbers that start with "1-" and "2-" each, and 10 numbers that start with "3-" and "4-".
* In a 4-player game of Risk, two players start with 11 territories and two start with 10 territories.
* See the [[Number String Analysis]] page for further statistical, uh, analysis.

=== Speculations ===
* The ''Start Numbers'', or those before the first dash character, identify a player.
* The ''Middle Numbers'', or those between the dashes, could represent a path, where 1=South, 2=West, 3=North, 4=East.
* The ''Middle Numbers'' could represent conquests on a Risk map.
* The ''End Numbers'', or those after the second dash, could identify a player who ends up in control of a territory in Risk. There are 9 numbers that end in "2"; there are 9 regions in North America on a Risk board. There are 7 that end in "3"; there are 7 regions in Risk's Europe. There are 12 numbers that end in "4"; there are 12 regions in Risk's Asia. There are 14 that end in "1"; there are 14 regions in Risk's South America, Africa, and Australia continents combined.
=== Further Work ===
PerplexHero put the following shape together by joining the various map pieces together in card order. See the [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=270299#270299 original post] for a zip file containing a hi-res version.

|[[Image:Map1.jpg]]

-----

{{CardCat}}

Leaked E-mails

2006-09-21T08:21:22Z

Rose: /* Fishing */ added email from PPC forum

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

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

The top portion of the e-mail reads:

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

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

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

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

Then follows an error code:

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

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

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

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

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

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

* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2003]]'''
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2004]]'''
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2005]]'''

=This year's E-mails=

Please post your leaked e-mail here, in chronological order. Feel free to add relative links to topics as you see fit.
__TOC__

==Gossip (Tippy's Anguish)==
--------------

===24 Mar. 2006 9.34am===

From: [[Caine Johansson]] 
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.34am

I guess everyone saw yesterday's [[Sentinel]], right? If not, go and look right now.

:::'''''([http://pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/03/serena_helix_se.html link])'''''

===24 Mar. 2006 9.35am===

From: [[Von Lubik]] 
To: [[Caine Johansson]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.35am 

Uh, what are we looking for?

===24 Mar. 2006 9.36am===

From: [[Caine Johansson]] 
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.36am 

You'll know it when you see it.

===24 Mar. 2006 9.45am===

From: [[Von Lubik]] 
To: [[Caine Johansson]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.45am 

OMG! That's awful. She must feel terrible. Do you think we should, you know, go in and talk to her?

===24 Mar. 2006 9.46am===

From: [[Caine Johansson]] 
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.46am 

I don't think that'd be the best idea.

===24 Mar. 2006 9.49am===

From: [[Anna Heath]] 
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Caine Johansson]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.49am

Don't worry, [[Von Lubik|Von]]. I'll talk to her.

===24 Mar. 2006 9.52am===

From: [[Aiko Entrescore]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.52am

Why am I not in the least concerned?

===24 Mar. 2006 9.53am===

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Aiko Entrescore]] 
Subject: Gossip 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.53am

Because you're a bad, evil person, naturally. I'm sure [[Tippy Ankron|Tips]] will be devastated
for at least the next 15 or 20 minutes.

==Confidential (Meanwhile . . .) ==
--------------

===24 Mar. 2006 10.21am===

From: PSB 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.21am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

Psych-bot: Good morning, T5876. How do you feel? 

===24 Mar. 2006 10.22am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: PSB 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.22am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

T5876: Oh, *le sigh* things are difficult.

===24 Mar. 2006 10.23am===

From: PSB 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.23am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

Psych-bot: Why are things difficult?

===24 Mar. 2006 10.25am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: PSB 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.25am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

T5876: Something's gone wrong with this guy I was seeing. Well, no, that's not
it really. I didn't even like him that much. But I think everyone in the office
is laughing at me behind my back. I don't know, people are weird.

===24 Mar. 2006 10.26am===

From: PSB 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.26am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

Psych-bot: Why are people weird?

===24 Mar. 2006 10.28am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: PSB 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.28am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

T5876: Well they don't seem to like me for a start. LOL. No actually, that is the problem. That's the reason they're talking behind my back. They don't like
me.

===24 Mar. 2006 10.29am===

From: PSB 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.29am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

Psych-bot: Why don't they like you?

===24 Mar. 2006 10.30am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: PSB 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.30am

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION
Psych-bot consultation #34770
Patient T5876

T5876: Well, I guess they're jealous of me...

===24 Mar. 2006 10.31am===

From: PSB 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.31am

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

Psych-bot: Why are they jealous of you? 

===24 Mar. 2006 10.33am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: PSB 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.33am

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

T5876: Hmmmm. I mean, I guess I would be, if I were them. I'm beautiful,
brilliant and wealthy - it's enough to make anyone jealous. *giggles* 

===24 Mar. 2006 10.34am===

From: PSB 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.34am

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

Psych-bot: How do you feel? 

===24 Mar. 2006 10.35am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: PSB 
Subject: Confidential 
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.35am 

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION 
Psych-bot consultation #34770 
Patient T5876 

T5876: Much better, actually. Thanks psych-bot. Talk to you tomorrow. 

==Mining Operations (Sente's sneaky plan)==
--------------

===12 May 2006 3.22pm===

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

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

===12 May 2006 3.31pm===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] 
Subject: Re: Mining Operations 
Date: 12 May 2006 3.31pm 

I assume you are observing the proper security protocols throughout the facility? Be sure to keep me posted regarding anything anomalous, even if it appears to check out. And make sure your people give me up-to-the-minute reports when the testing begins. 

===12 May 2006 3.33pm===

From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Mining Operations 
Date: 12 May 2006 3.33pm 

I'll be overseeing the initial tests myself, sir. I'll make sure you're notified of every development immediately. 

===12 May 2006 3.40pm===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] 
Subject: Re: Mining Operations 
Date: 12 May 2006 3.40pm 

Be careful. There's no telling what, precisely, is going to happen. 
 

===12 May 2006 3.46pm===

From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Mining Operations 
Date: 12 May 2006 3.46pm 

I will be, sir, don't worry. Though if ever there were a just cause for risking your life, this would be it. 

==Names (Anna was pregnant?!)==
--------------

===6 June 2006 08.13am===

From: [[Anna Heath]] 
To: [[Fleming Heath]] 
Subject: Names 
Sent: 6 June 2006 08.13am 

What do you think about Ada this time? Or Hannah? Or Robert, so we can use Bob?

===6 June 2006 08.18am===

From: [[Fleming Heath]] 
To: [[Anna Heath]] 
Subject: Re: Names 
Sent: 6 June 2006 08.18am 

I think it's early days yet, and we still have a lot of time to talk it over. :) 

==Wave 4 Cards (Sente vs. Mind Candy)==
--------------

===20 July 2006 10.38am===

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

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

===20 July 2006 10.53am===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 20 July 2006 10.53am 

What do you mean by 'unusual markings'?

===20 July 2006 11.15am===

From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 20 July 2006 11.15am 

I've sent over a few images of the printed cards. It's pretty obvious what I'm talking about.

===20 July 2006 11.58am===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 20 July 2006 11.58am 

This is clearly a problem on your end. Perhaps you should evaluate your production process. 

===20 July 2006 12.0pam===

From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 20 July 2006 12.0pam ''(note strange timestamping error - maybe pxc doesnt understand noon? Take this to mean noon, probably just a typo)'' 

Clearly *not* a problem on my end. We've already looked and the cards are absolutely true to the designs you sent over. If you don't believe me, check your transmissions yourself. 

===20 July 2006 12.05pm===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Anna Heath]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 20 July 2006 12.05pm 

We need to have a meeting. We have reason to suspect the cards have been tampered with, and I want to know who, and how, and why. Be in my office by 2.

===21 July 2006 9.41am===

From: [[Anna Heath]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 21 July 2006 9.41am 

I've been reviewing all of our procedures, and I can't find any red flags at all. You're right, though, this wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. It must have slipped our notice before. I'm gravely concerned about what this could mean.

===21 July 2006 9.48am===

From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 21 July 2006 09.48am 

Well? What's going on?

===21 July 2006 5.38pm===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] 
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards 
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.38pm 

We're checking into this matter. I'll let you know how to proceed once we've decided. 

===21 July 2006 5.47pm===

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

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

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

===21 July 2006 5.47pm===

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

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

===21 July 2006 5.53pm===

From: [[Sente Kiteway]] 
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]], [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]] 
Subject: Re: The Mighty S 
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.53pm 

I'll give you until tomorrow morning to find a way to apologise to me for this. 

==(blank subject) V's Chance==
--------------

===23 July 2006 9.44pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 23 July 2006 9.44pm 

Will everything be ready in time or no? 

V. 

===23 July 2006 9.49pm===

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

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

===23 July 2006 9.57pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 23 July 2006 9.57pm 

I hope your confidence is merited. 

V.

===23 July 2006 10.02pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 23 July 2006 10.02pm 

I've never let you down before, and I'm not going to start now. Remember, we have plenty of time left.

===23 July 2006 10.04pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld 
Subject: 
Date: 23 July 2006 10.04pm 

That may be so, but I dislike cutting it so close. A chance like this may not come again. 

V. 

==Internal Security==
--------------

===17 August 2006 06.52pm===

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.52pm 
I'm finding traces of all manner of unsavoury activity in the Academy's file
system. Very many obviously-truncated logs and poorly hidden traces of
illegitimate access.

Is any of this your doing or just your fault?

===17 August 2006 06.54pm===

From: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Protocol 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm 
You'll have to give me more specific examples than that, Garnet. I won't be baited.

===17 August 2006 06.54pm===

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

===17 August 2006 06.57pm===

From: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Protocol 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.57pm 
I don't see anything apart from Aiko's memorial. Maybe just a flicker
in the system, it does happen sometimes.

===17 August 2006 06.59pm===

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Henrik Tanner]] 
Subject: Internal Security 
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.59pm 
I can't find it again, either. I don't trust that 'flicker' idea of yours, though. The system shouldn't be behaving like this.

I'll be keeping an eye on it.

==Fishing==
--------------

===6 September 2006 7.38am===

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] 
Subject: Fishing 
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.38am 
How's your schedule looking for fishing this weekend?

===6 September 2006 7.41am===
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Fishing 
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.41am 
Not best. S wants me in to correlate some statistics for the security department Saturday morning.

===6 September 2006 7.45am===

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] 
Subject: Fishing 
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.45am 
Want me to have a word with Henrik?

===6 September 2006 7.47am===
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Fishing 
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.47am 
Gyvann, no. Last thing you need is another run-in with him. I'll deal with it - have been looking forward to the trip for weeks now after all.

===8 September 2006 6.12pm===
From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] 
Subject: Fishing 

What a week. Meet me at the office at 7, I'll be late. Can you be sure to pack up an extra line? I forgot to.

===8 September 2006 6.17pm===

From: [[Patrick Azadian]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Fishing 
Sent: 8 September 2006 6.17pm 
Sure. By the way, I got a special surprise for you - you know that great bait that [[Horace Shockley|Horace]] keeps talking about? Bought some, it's in your bag.

==Happy Birthday==
--------------

===11 September 2006 08.57am===

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

===11 September 2006 09.02am===

From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.02am 
Wait, you and Vi didn't finally...?

===11 September 2006 09.04am===

From: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.04am 
Um, no. Really, no. Just. I don't think Vi would want us talking about this, OK? She and Caine, it's a bit messy, and his band-mate was there, and I think she was trying to prove she was completely over him, and she was quite drunk. Nothing really untoward happened, it was just some drunken rebound snogging. They're both adults, and I made sure she got back home OK at the end of the evening. Alone. Just, look, I think we should drop it.

===11 September 2006 09.05am===
From: [[Garnet Reed]] 
To: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.05am 
Bruno?

===11 September 2006 09.06am===

From: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.06am 
Er. No. Seriously. Drop it.

===11 September 2006 09.07am===
From: [[Von Lubik]] 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.07am 
Are you going to?

===11 September 2006 09.13am===

From: [[Von Lubik]] 
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.13am 
What do you want?

===11 September 2006 09.15am===

From: [[Tippy Ankron]] 
To: [[Von Lubik]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.15am 
I'll think of something. Until then, I'm sure Violet will come up with *some way* to comfort you...

===11 September 2006 09.26am===

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

===11 September 2006 09.29am===

From: [[Aiko Entrescore]] 
To: [[Garnet Reed]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.29am 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

===11 September 2006 09.41am===

From: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
To: [[Violet Kiteway]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.41am 
Your secret is out. Tippy harassed Von into telling. Don't blame him -
it really wasn't his fault.

===11 September 2006 11.54am===

From: [[Violet Kiteway]] 
To: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 11.54am 
Oh *$£@£%^*(. Sorry. I just need to go and hyperventilate for a while.
Can we have lunch *off campus* today? I am feeling in need of many many
fried foods. Also, that is the last time we go out dancing with Tippy.

===11 September 2006 11.59am===

From: [[Violet Kiteway]] 
To: [[Kurt McAllister]] 
Subject: Happy birthday 
Sent: 11 September 2006 11.59am 
And !&@£*@ to you too.

==Operation Visor==
--------------------

===11 September 2006, 12.45pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld, name withheld 
Subject: Operation Visor 
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.45pm 
How are matters progressing? I need hardly remind you of the extraordinary significance of this operation.

===11 September 2006, 12.48pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld, name withheld 
Subject: Operation Visor 
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.48pm 
Boss, I am way ahead of you. But the glitches in the system are still too intense. Things don't work here like they do over there. The whole thing has to be rebuilt from the sockets up, and even then I can't guarantee any sort of result. Even reversing the polarity of the neutron flow get me nowhere

[[3PDossier|O2]]

===11 September 2006, 12.54pm===

From: name withheld 
To: name withheld, name withheld 
Subject: Operation Visor 
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.54pm 
I think that kind of latitude is inappropriate. We are running out of options.

[[V]].

===11 September 2006, 12.57pm===

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

[[3PDossier|O2]]

Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-16T04:16:19Z

Rose: /* June */

==2006==
====January====
{| cellpadding="5"
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
|-
| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
|-
| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
|-
| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
|-
| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
|-
| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
|-
| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
|-
| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
|-
| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
|-
| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
|-
| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
|-
| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
|-
| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
|-
| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
|-
| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
|-
|}
====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
|-
| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
|-
| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
|-
| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
|-
| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
|-
|}
====March====
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
|-
| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
|-
| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
|-
| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
|-
| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
|-
| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
|-
| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
|-
|}
====April====
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
|-
| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
|-
| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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|}
====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
|-
| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
|-
| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
|-
| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
|-
| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
|-
| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
|-
| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
|-
| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
|-
| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
|-
| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
|-
| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
|-
| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
|-
| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
|-
| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
|-
| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
|-
| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
|
|-
|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
|-
|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
|-
|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
|}

====June====
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
|-
|4th June '06
|[[Caine]] buys a fabulous drum kit he can't afford.
|-
|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
|-
|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]] [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/06/concatenation_1.html combine their knowledge] and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. After Violet buys him dinner and sets him up with a blog to Earth,[[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
|-
|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death in the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines which sounds like self-defense. He also mentions suggesting [[Caine]] look into the [[Hesh]] intranet. Caine's been having trouble getting into the exclusive Hesh party he found out about - [[Crowley]]'s temper flared when Hesh rejected their demo - his band is on the Hesh blacklist.
|-
|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party as Charlie Specht, the guy we got fired as a result of our last romp around the Hesh site, and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
|-
|22nd June '06
|[[Violet]] sees herself spinning webs to get information and she suspects her father is doing the same thing.
|-
|23rd June '06
|[[Kurt]] tries to contact [[Helena Frye]]. Although the Police tell him she has left the force, he knows she is undercover. He leaves her a few [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/signals.html messages] until her key is turned off.
|-
|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] tells Kurt she has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
|}

====July====
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [[parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_few_seconds.html He summarizes] the story so far of the parts.
|-
|17th July '06
|[[Earlywine]] wants to save money by cutting back on the [[AQSYS]] project.
|-
| 19th July '06
|[[Kurt]] and [[Karen]] discuss using [[AQSYS]] to track the parts after she marks them with an isotope tag. We [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys.html help Kurt] decide which parts to mark. Now, Kurt has to hack the AQSYS system.
|-
| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] "that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well." [[Leaked email]]

[[Kurt]] complains about having to work with Earth technology to set up the San Francisco event. [[Karen]] managed to get isotope tags from someone named Leo at [[Hilbert]] because they make isotopes for medical and military uses. Kurt plans on using our help to track the parts. He can't override the [[AQSYS]] project, he can only use manual controls.
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|24th July '06
| In case you missed anything, [[Kurt]] gives us the whole story one more time. I think he's nervous about trusting us. He sounds just like an anxious parent about to trust a teenager with a new car, still [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/turning_the_tid.html his summary] is excellent and worth reading.
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|26th July '06
| [[Kurt]] gives us the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_activated.html heads up]. The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. As soon as [[Fleming]] gets home to watch the kids, [[Anna]] takes over for Caine. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town near the [[Brotherhood of the Six]] temple. She's missing.

Three of the four parts are accounted for, Kurt is going to figure out which one disappeared.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]] [[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/missing.html gives us the update.]

The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_denied_fo.html reports] that the [[AQSYS]] project experienced significant anomalies on the previous afternoon. An undiagnosed navigation problem caused erroneous clustering, empty patches and other irregularities. That was us.
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|28th July '06
| A frantic search party looks for [[Anna]]. [[Violet]] and [[Caine]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/07/the_dying_of_th.html had been tortured]before she died.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/07/empty.html thinks] of all the people who have died. She wants it to end.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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|15 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html solves the puzzle] for us. It leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]] a place we've never heard of, but [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] are going. A trip over the sea.
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Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-16T03:49:25Z

Rose: /* July */ added some links and corrected an error

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [[parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_few_seconds.html He summarizes] the story so far of the parts.
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|17th July '06
|[[Earlywine]] wants to save money by cutting back on the [[AQSYS]] project.
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| 19th July '06
|[[Kurt]] and [[Karen]] discuss using [[AQSYS]] to track the parts after she marks them with an isotope tag. We [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys.html help Kurt] decide which parts to mark. Now, Kurt has to hack the AQSYS system.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] "that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well." [[Leaked email]]

[[Kurt]] complains about having to work with Earth technology to set up the San Francisco event. [[Karen]] managed to get isotope tags from someone named Leo at [[Hilbert]] because they make isotopes for medical and military uses. Kurt plans on using our help to track the parts. He can't override the [[AQSYS]] project, he can only use manual controls.
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|24th July '06
| In case you missed anything, [[Kurt]] gives us the whole story one more time. I think he's nervous about trusting us. He sounds just like an anxious parent about to trust a teenager with a new car, still [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/turning_the_tid.html his summary] is excellent and worth reading.
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|26th July '06
| [[Kurt]] gives us the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_activated.html heads up]. The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. As soon as [[Fleming]] gets home to watch the kids, [[Anna]] takes over for Caine. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town near the [[Brotherhood of the Six]] temple. She's missing.

Three of the four parts are accounted for, Kurt is going to figure out which one disappeared.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]] [[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/missing.html gives us the update.]

The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_denied_fo.html reports] that the [[AQSYS]] project experienced significant anomalies on the previous afternoon. An undiagnosed navigation problem caused erroneous clustering, empty patches and other irregularities. That was us.
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|28th July '06
| A frantic search party looks for [[Anna]]. [[Violet]] and [[Caine]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/07/the_dying_of_th.html had been tortured]before she died.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/07/empty.html thinks] of all the people who have died. She wants it to end.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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|15 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html solves the puzzle] for us. It leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]] a place we've never heard of, but [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] are going. A trip over the sea.
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Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-16T03:25:03Z

Rose: /* July */

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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====April====
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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====June====
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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====July====
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [[parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_few_seconds.html He summarizes] the story so far of the parts.
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|17th July '06
|[[Earlywine]] wants to save money by cutting back on the [[AQSYS]] project.
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| 19th July '06
|[[Kurt]] and [[Karen]] discuss using [[AQSYS]] to track the parts after she marks them with an isotope tag. We [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys.html help Kurt] decide which parts to mark. Now, Kurt has to hack the AQSYS system.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] "that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well." [[Leaked email]]

[[Kurt]] complains about having to work with Earth technology to set up the San Francisco event. [[Karen]] managed to get isotope tags from someone named Leo at [[Hilbert]] because they make isotopes for medical and military uses. Kurt plans on using our help to track the parts. He can't override the [[AQSYS]] project, he can only use manual controls.
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].

The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_denied_fo.html reports] that the [[AQSYS]] project experienced significant anomalies on the previous afternoon. An undiagnosed navigation problem caused erroneous clustering, empty patches and other irregularities.
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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====August====
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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====September====
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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|15 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html solves the puzzle] for us. It leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]] a place we've never heard of, but [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] are going. A trip over the sea.
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Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-16T03:02:42Z

Rose: /* July */

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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====March====
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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====April====
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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====June====
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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|17th July '06
|[[Earlywine]] wants to save money by cutting back on the [[AQSYS]] project.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].

The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_denied_fo.html reports] that the [[AQSYS]] project experienced significant anomalies on the previous afternoon. An undiagnosed navigation problem caused erroneous clustering, empty patches and other irregularities.
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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====August====
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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|15 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html solves the puzzle] for us. It leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]] a place we've never heard of, but [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] are going. A trip over the sea.
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2006-09-16T03:00:44Z

Rose: /* July */ added some Sentinel references to AQSYS

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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|17th July '06
|[[Earlywine]] wants to save money by cutting back on the [[AQSYS project]].
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].

The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/aqsys_denied_fo.html reports] that the [[AQSYS project]] experienced significant anomalies on the previous afternoon. An undiagnosed navigation problem caused erroneous clustering, empty patches and other irregularities.
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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|15 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html solves the puzzle] for us. It leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]] a place we've never heard of, but [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] are going. A trip over the sea.
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Reconstructionists

2006-09-16T02:43:56Z

Rose: /* Context */ added a bit about the sandbars on the archipelago

==Context==

* A [[Cubism|cubist]] cult in [[Perplex City]]
* Believe [[The Receda Cube]] has mysterious religiously signifigant properties
* Have previously planned to steal [[The Receda Cube]]
* Cult Leaders are populary known as "The Recon Eight"
* Strong believers in self-sufficiency and solidarity
* Their secluded compound includes a Substantive Farm, prayer rooms, living quarters, and some samples of very out-dated technology.
* They have knowledge of the sandbars around [[Lancewood Archipelago]] from living in a retreat there.

===Known Members===
*"The Recon 8"
*[[Kostka]]
*Brother Hans
*Members revealed in the [[Recon Encryption Puzzle]] from [[Violet Kiteway|Violet's]] blog
**Brother Andrius
**Sister Simla
**[[Nadia Anek]]
**[[Aiko Entrescore]] (Member of the [[Cube Retrieval Project]])
**[[Demetri Fallon]]
**[[Ryan Klein]] ([[Perplex City Sentinel]] Advertising Manager)
**[[Keenan Thoreau]] (Member of the band [[Roll For Damage]])
**[[Gill Yewley]]

===Descriptive===

Reconstructionists are one of the off-shoot successors of [[The Brotherhood of the Six]], both of which practice [[Cubism]]. They are one of the smaller, radical splinter cells. The [[The Brotherhood of the Six]] have long been known to have a hostile relationship with the Reconstructionists, since the groups split over theological and cosmological points nearly a hundred years ago.

Cult members are apparently encouraged to take on new names, and absolve themselves of their old life. It is entirely unclear what the process of this involves, but may require signing over all personal assets to the cult. Known to use aggressive recruitment tactics.

It should be noted: Some members are encouraged to ''not'' take on the complete secluded life of the Reconstructionst, and should instead go amongst their daily lives in hopefully prestigious places of note. In this way they may affect a greater good for the Reconstructionist cause.

Reconstructionist scripture includes the statement "(The Cube shall) be delivered from the faithless hands of the Academics." In short, their profound belief is that the cube is a great religious item, and must be liberated.

There exists considerable speculation, both in Perplex City and on Earth, about the legitimacy of the Reconstructionist's intentions, and any possible involvement in the theft of the [[The Receda Cube]]. Although no formal ties can be found, an investigation is under way.

Reconstructionist formal garb includes long robes, worn at such times as lectures. Their daily life involves Meditation, and Farming. Isolation is desired by the Reconstructionists.

===Violet's account===
Violet returned to the Recon compound on 10-JUN-05, and in her journal entry titled "Today's Adventures", here's how she described the place. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html link])
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''The compound's huge - must be at least 500 or 600 people living there. The construction, as you'd expect, is really impressive - stone buildings (dormitories, refectory, library, school) that look like they'd survive for thousands of years. The walls are incredibly thick - must be two or three meters thick, I'd guess. I suppose this sort of construction is what gives outsiders the idea that they're planning for armageddon, but I think they just take their construction really seriously. It has the look of a brand-new ancient rustic village, if you see what I mean. The place is dominated, of course, by the huge temple, with those six enormous spires you can see on the skyline for miles around. There's a sense of order as well - you always hear it described on the news as a "compound including livestock", which makes it sound as though there are sheep wandering the streets. But no, it's all ordered pens and bells ringing to signal feeding time. It's peaceful, actually.''

-- "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html Today's Adventures]"
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==TimeLine==
*16-JAN-04 - [[Cube]] Stolen.
*??-OCT-04 - "Recon 8" arrested for cube theft.
*06-MAR-05 - "Recon 8" released due to insufficient evidence.
*26-APR-05 - "[[Five of Cups]]" owner [[Bernardo Holyoke]] found dead.
*11-MAY-05 - Suspicion rises when Academy equipment is found at "[[Five of Cups]]".
*17-MAY-05 - [[Pietro Salk]] tries to get in the compound; is turned away.
*24-MAY-05 - [[Jessica Holyoke]] is found at compound; name changed to Kostka.
*30-MAY-05 - [[Violet Kiteway]] visits the compound
*10-JUN-05 - [[Violet Kiteway]] returns to the compound with [[Kurt McAllister]]
*14-JUN-05 - [[Aiko Entrescore]] arrested.
*20-JUN-05 - [[Aiko Entrescore]] released due to tenuous connections to crime.
*03-JUL-05 - [[Keenan "KT" Thoreau|KT]] publicly announces his support for [[Ryan Klein]]
*27-JUN-05 - Recons claim media bias; say The Sentinel is being needlessly slanderous against [[Cubism|Cubists]]
*30-JAN-06 - Revealed to be on the [[Nature Trust]] board.

==Puzzles==
A file was recovered from the Reconstructionists (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html Violet's Blog]). She posted it for decryption at [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/reconfile.txt Quirky Acuity]. The solution to this puzzle was discovered by hawk ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=166615#166615 view the Unfiction thread]).

==References==

'''[[Perplex City Sentinel]]'''

*article, 06-APR-05 "[[Reconstructionists|Recon Eight]] Released from Police Custody" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/recon_eight_rel.html link])
*article, 24-MAY-05 "[[Bernardo Holyoke|Holyoke]]'s [[Jessica Holyoke|Wife]] Found" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html link])
*article, 15-JUN-05 "[[Aiko Entrescore|Entrescore]] Arrested for Receda [[Cube]] Theft" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html link])
*article, 20-JUN-05 "[[Aiko Entrescore|Entrescore]] Freed" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_free.html link])
*article, 04-JUL-05 "[[Keenan "KT" Thoreau|KT]] Shocker: 'I'm a [[Reconstructionists|Reconstructionist]]'" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/kt_a_reconstruc.html link])
*More Headlines, 28-JUN-05 "Recons Claim Media Bias" ([http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/20050729-070000/perplexcitysentinel.com/index.html link])
*article, 10-AUG-05 "[[Bernardo Holyoke|Holyoke]] Case Closed" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/police_close_ho.html link])
*article, 08-SEP-05 "View from Earth: [[Cubism|Religious]] Freedom" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/view_from_earth_17.html link])
*article, 30-JAN-06 "[[Northside]] Bombshell: [[Reconstructionists]] Part of [[Nature Trust]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/northside_bombs.html link])
**article, 28-MAR-06, [[Jessica Holyoke|Reconstructionist]] Accuses [[Reconstructionists|Cult]] of stealing Cube" ([http://pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/03/reconstructioni.html link])
**More news in brief, 06-APR-06 "[[Jessica Holyoke|Kostka]] Reliability Questioned" ([http://qube.netninja.com/pxcmirrors/20060409/perplexcitysentinel.com/index.html link])

'''Quirky Acuity''' [[Violet Kiteway]]'s Blog

*blog, 25-MAY-05 "Recons" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/recons.html link])
*blog, 27-MAY-05 "I'm In" ([http://quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/im_in.html link])
*blog, 31-MAY-05 "Yesterday's visit" ([http://quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/yesterdays_visi.html link])
*blog, 02-JUN-05 "A plan" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_plan.html link])
*blog, 07-JUN-05 "Back to the compound" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/back_to_the_com.html link])
*blog, 08-JUN-05 "Plans, plans and further plans" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/plans_plans_and.html link])
*blog, 10-JUN-05 "Today's Adventures" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html link])
*blog, 12-JUN-05 "Adventures (Part II)" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html link])
*blog, 13-JUN-05 "A Mysterious File" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html link])

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-16T02:41:05Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
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| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
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| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
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| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) Link [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Leaked_E-mails#.28blank_subject.29_V_.26_V.27s_boss_re:_Holyoke_murder here].
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| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
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| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
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| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
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| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
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| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
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| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
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| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous." Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed -they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
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| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
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| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
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| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
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| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
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| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
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| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
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| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
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| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
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| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
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| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
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| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
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| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
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| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
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| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
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| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
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| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 19th Sept. '05
| 02 the 3P agent for london checks in with 01. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2]
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 10th Oct. '05
| 3P Agents 02, 05 and 07 talk about [[V]] and his bad mood stemming from his boss at work, which we later find out is [[Hesh Records]] where V is a recording engineer.
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 12 Oct.'05
| Mass emails sent to the 3P agents from V announces that both unstable links ([[Bernard Holyoake]] and [[Monica Grand]]) have been eliminated. These emails were found through the [[3PGroupwareManager]] found during the live event. An example of the mass email is[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Successful_Completion_.28mass.29 here] in the email exchange between V and 02. Note that 02 questions leaving the fourth member of the Cube theft team - which we later find out is [[Claire Castille]]- alive. V replies: "I am unconvinced that the risk of exposure would be worth the gain in security. " but she will be eliminated when he thinks the time is right.
|-
| 18th Oct. 05
|02 advises [[V]] that he has made contact and "got in deep" with that one, he sends something to V. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Status here]
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-16T02:37:05Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
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! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) Link [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Leaked_E-mails#.28blank_subject.29_V_.26_V.27s_boss_re:_Holyoke_murder here].
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous." Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed -they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
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| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 19th Sept. '05
| 02 the 3P agent for london checks in with 01. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2]
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 10th Oct. '05
| 3P Agents 02, 05 and 07 talk about [[V]] and his bad mood stemming from his boss at work, which we later find out is [[Hesh Records]] where V is a recording engineer.
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 12 Oct.'05
| Mass emails sent to the 3P agents from V announces that both unstable links ([[Bernard Holyoake]] and [[Monica Grand]]) have been eliminated. These emails were found through the [[3PGroupWareManager]] found during the live event. An example of the mass email is[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Successful_Completion_.28mass.29 here] in the email exchange between V and 02. Note that 02 questions leaving the fourth member of the Cube theft team - which we later find out is [[Claire Castille]]- alive. V replies: "I am unconvinced that the risk of exposure would be worth the gain in security. " but she will be eliminated when he thinks the time is right.
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| 18th Oct. 05
|02 advises [[V]] that he has made contact and "got in deep" with that one, he sends something to V. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Status here]
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Anthony Granier

2006-09-16T02:24:16Z

Rose: added reference to Lancewood Archipelago, added note and puzzle, and fixed a bit of the diary description,

==General==
*Is associated with [[The War]].
*Was a politician.
*Became a Brilliant Novelist.
*Supervised the reconstruction of the city's sewer system.
*Was just a bit of a lech at times.

*He was quite close to [[Vianne Adamek]], former Master of the Academy, referring to her as "My Master" in writing.
*Married at least twice, with his second wife rumoured to have left him because she was jealous of his relationship with Adamek.
*Had two children: Edward and Amaithe.

*May have been part of [[The Third Power]]
**(Though [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] think it absurd.)
*He built a house, on which he included a beautifully inscribed Third Power symbol (which is simply referred to as "The Granier Mark").
*While staying in the house,[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle and a note written by Granier to his children.
**[[Kurt]] solves the puzzle which leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]].
**[[Violet]] translates the note. Granier tells his children if they want to know more about him, the puzzle will lead them to a place with more information.
**''See main article: [[Granier House]]''

*His diary is on display at the [[Academy]] [[Museum]] exhibit on [[The War]].
**It was reviewed and transcribed by [[Violet]] & [[Cymbalisty]]
**This resulted, however, in Cymbalisty being killed by [[Miranda]] who wished for the knowledge on the last page to not be uncovered.
**When at last the true final page was found, it was transcribed by [[Violet]] and [[Anna]].

==Note to children and puzzle==
* The note as translated by Violet reads:
My dear children, Edward and Amaithe -

As I write this, my time draws near. I have passed too many hours away from you, indeed, and never conceived a manner in which to tell you of all I had seen and done. I am sorry for it. I love you and kiss you both. If your heart is in the matter and you wish to learn more of your father, there is a place which contains much knowledge. I cannot write its name, but this puzzle will lead you to it. I am confident you will find out its secret. Should you travel there at last, go safely and forgive me.

Your ever-loving,
Papa

* Along with the note was [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg this puzzle] which leads us to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]].

==Diary==

[[Violet Kiteway]]uploaded this onto her weblog, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com Quirky Acuity]. But the final pages, containing Edwina Mounting's secret, were missing, presumed in the hands of the Police, following the mysterious death of [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]. Violet translates the pages the Police have, only to find out that [[Miranda]] murdered Cymbalisty and substituted a false ending. Violet gets the true final pages from Miranda's bag and she and [[Anna]] translate them.

'''13 March 1736'''
Have embarked upon Northern expedition. Accompanied by Edwina Mountling, an Academy scholar of about fifty despatched by my Master. "Accompanied", but not "companioned", for she is a woman of little conversation, preferring her mathematical calculations to civil discourse. Three days journeying and we are still only halfway to our destination. Exceeding weary. Provisions provided tiresomely similar. I relish a leg of mutton as well as any man, but cannot feast upon it for lunch and dinner every day without some decline in appetite. The lands through which we journey are as well-formed as I have been led to expect, but pleasant vistas give no relief from the awful task which confronts us. I find my heart is heavy indeed, despite the serving girl's charming attempts to lift my spirits.

'''17 March 1736'''
At last, the castle is reached. I find the hospitality very fine. My lord is an excellent host, and the feast with which he greeted our arrival would have honoured nobler men than we. I have writ to my Master that the first part of the journey is successfully completed. It is odd to muse upon my Master in this place. She would take some pleasure in this locale, I think; she has ever delighted in new landscapes and the new creatures found there. I recall her once, above ten years past, taking such pains to instruct me in some new specimen of hive-bee she had found, enumerating its parts and elaborating upon its society. Had the times not needed her resolve, she might have remained merely a fine naturalist. Would that it had been so. My Master has never visited this place, I think, nor ever will do now, but the fate of all the people within one dozen miles of here rests with her.

'''19 March 1736'''
I visited the mining works this day. Almost as much as can be done, has been done. They have extracted sufficient of the material for my Master's experiments. There is so little, so very little, and almost all of it will be needed if the thing is to be done. The men and women working at the mine know nothing of this, of course. They are so cheerful and so resolute. They tell me that they are honoured to work at an occupation which may prove the salvation of the City - this, of course, they have been told. Wanion!

'''21 March 1736'''
Today we feasted for The Builders Celebration, a festival of the Way of the Cube. Excellent sport, with several bouts of combat between the people of the village, divers plays and masques, and three boar roasted whole upon the fire. Ground struck for a new general store on the Green. A figure of the Holy Cube, along with images of Gyvann paraded through the streets. The matter struck me as curious. I shall write more upon this anon.

'''22 March 1736'''
Passed several hours in company with Mistress Mountling today. She, attempting to explain the convolutions of number which allow her, she declares, to know with certainty the effect of any mining before that operation has begun. I declared that if she can predict the future using numbers, she is surely a numerologist or fortune-teller of the kind employed at country fairs to entertain the simple-minded. She did not appreciate this witticism. I own that, once she had explained to me the basis for her calculations, her claim seemed less an idle boast. My Master's preparations have been long in the making. Nonetheless, certainty is needed. There will, Mistress Mountling informed me, have to be an experiment here, during our visit. This, it appears, is the reason that she accompanies me on this expedition. To her credit, Mistress Mountling seems to suffer some of the same pangs and regrets as I regarding this matter. She is a handsome woman. When not frowning over her books, one can see that she cannot be more than five-and-thirty.

'''24 March 1736'''
Hunting with my lord, while Mistress Mountling completed certain preliminary surveys of the mine site. Took some very fine game by the edges of the lake - banded ducks and seven Burg Fowl - and my lord proved excellent company, good-humoured and full of tales. Put to him EM's notion regarding an experiment. He agreed the thing must be done. Returned home to feast upon the game we had taken, but afflicted by an unaccountable melancholy. My lord, noting my mood, supplied the cure in the form of a chamber-maid sent to my rooms for sport.

'''25 March 1736'''
Dined upon a fine ham with spiced plums and roast parsnips. Rain all day, mining impossible. All but EM downcast. She positively delighted in her calculations and rather astonished I could not find useful work to undertake despite the rain. Mockery ensued. I see now that I was mistaken in my estimation of her age: she is at least forty.

'''28 March 1736'''
Rain past two days. Have occupied my mind reading once more the Essays of Varkin: On Love, On Marriage, On the Existence of the Celestial Bodies, On the Ancient Myths, and so on. Certain passages very fine.

'''30 March 1736'''
Rain at last begins to pass. Accompanied by my lord and EM, made a visit to the village. Charming rural scenes of agriculture and village life such as one rarely sees any longer in the City. Small children playing at Pyramid in the street. Pausing to observe the game, I notice that the pieces are cube in form, rather than the triangular forms common in the City. Conversed on this topic with my lord, who noted that the old forms of worship still retain much of their force here, while in the City they have waned these hundred years past, at the least. Recalling the excellent Builder's Celebrations, I suppose this to be but natural. Many of these children's fathers and mothers have worked daily in the mine, or have observed the place themselves. This shape has retained with them the significance it had for our ancestors, who journeyed out to this spot to observe the phenomenon for themselves and saw in it the hand of magic, or of an immortal force. It is curious. I am no man of science, I have no gifts in physic or alchymical minglings, but the old modes of worship have ever seemed lacking to me. But my Master, though of a deep and perceiving intellect in scientific matters, still holds to the religion we learned as children. Even though she has seen the root of it, even though she has - of all people - the greatest understanding of the mystery, sees that it is no mystery. I have spoken with her on this matter. She is of the view that even the deepest knowledge can penetrate only the "how" and not the "why", that the "why" is a matter for religion, not science. But what would her religion make of what we are to do here?

'''31 March 1736'''
Dined on a dish I have never before encountered: a soft-fleshed river fish steeped in a sauce of ale and cream, served with little radishes and onions. On inquiring the provenance of the recipe, discovered that the cook is a native of Machiantes. I inquired of my lord whether he did not fear for his life, but he replied jestingly, that he keeps the man so busy that he could scarce have time to plot or plan.

'''2 April 1736'''
EM's preparations for her experiment continue. She has become peevish and irritable, and appears tired. Today, when I made to fetch her for dinner, she barked that "unlike you, I am not constantly concerned with the needs of my stomach and the desires of my...." [here she used a low word which startled me considerably]. When I expressed my astonishment at being spoken to in this fashion, she began to cry. Women are a constant mystery.

'''3 April 1736'''
The reason for EM's sullen and inconstant mood today became clear. We are to select the subjects for the experiment ourselves. The thing is dreadful. We have been given a list of suitable persons, given such matters as health, strength and height. EM and I examined this list for above two hours today, but were unable to reach any conclusion. It is intolerable that the decision should rest with us; doubly so because we do not know these men and women, and have no notion of their situations. I have requested from my lord that he should at least tell us which of them have children or aged parents in their care. He has agreed.

'''6 April 1736'''
Received grave news today from the City. The peace with Viehattle is disintegrating. There have been incursions and breaches of treaty. Our spies indicate that Viehattle may even now be allying with Anjsbourg. My mood is so much depressed by this that even the girl's most sincere efforts to enliven me brought no relief.

''''7 April 1736'''
Today, the final preparations for the experiment have been made. After
much converse with EM, we have selected two men in their middle years,
unmarried and without living parents. This brings us but little
comfort. Edwina said: "all men touch one another's lives", and she
speaks truly. To make such a choice! It brings to mind the worst
excesses which one hears occur in Machiantes. My lord appears not one
whit disturbed, however, and dined heartily this evening while Edwina
and I ate but little.

"Come come," he said, "they do but go on ahead of their fellows, who
will follow them soon enough, if you have figured your sums sharply,
Mistress Mountling."

She nodded gravely at this. We have talked upon the matter a good deal
these past few days. If some must be sacrificed that others may live
free, is that so hard to bear? And if we should spare these few, only
for them to perish at the hands of our enemies, would we be thanked?
It is better that they do not know, that the children continue to play
innocent in the streets. We who bear the knowledge shall do so as our
burden.

'''8 April 1736'''
Experiment conducted today. An awful spectacle. I have no energy to
write more this night.

'''13 April 1736'''
Edwina has been busy with her calculations these three days. She tells me that she has taken many useful readings which go to prove what we have long suspected: the entire place will be destroyed. There is no help for it. We walked today upon the upland slopes and around the lake. She intimated that she was grateful for my continued counsel and I was glad to hear it. These days since the experiment have brought us into closer intercourse than I had ever envisaged. She finds the companionship of my lord and his household hard to bear - they regard the people of this place as their possessions, to do with as they please. The City has given them free hand here, so far from our own environs, and it has led to this unwelcome circumstance.

'''15 April 1736'''
Edwina and I dined heartily this night upon fine cakes of cornmeal, with figs and venison sliced thin. Talked long into the night upon divers subjects: art, literature, philosophy and science. She confessed that she had admired several of my short writings - declared that I should attempt longer works, perhaps a novel. I found myself delighted by this news. Felt no need for the attentions of the serving girl and told her that she need not return for several days.

'''17 April 1736'''
Despatched news of our progress to my Master. We are almost finished here - but a few more days, and Edwina's calculations will be completed. We have only then to agree with my lord a time for this matter to be concluded. It will not be long now.

'''21 April 1736'''
Abed this morning, Edwina most disconsolate. Upon inquiring of her what the trouble might be she, with a most mournful countenance, explained that she had been concealing a secret from me. I teased her a little upon this point, maintaining that she must have some other gallant gentleman admirer. She laughed a little at this. I entreated her, again, to entrust her secret to me. She replied that she desired to do so, but wished to ponder on the matter, taking her own counsel until to-morrow. My bed remains forlorn and lonely this night.

'''29 April 1736'''
{|
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|         ''False version, given to us by [[Miranda]], 16-JAN-06''
|         ''True version, given to us by [[Violet]], 24-MAY-06''
|- valign=top
| width=50% | At last, stole several minutes with Edwina in the great refectory at about the third hour after dawn when my lord's men had broken their fast and gone on their way. She, sighing mightily, declared that she did not wish for my company. I would not brook this and held her fast demanding she should explain to me why she had disdained my society and my bed these past days.

She, sighing again, said: "I cannot speak the words. For then, surely, you would disdain me."

I assured her that this could never be. She, smiling, asked if I could not let the matter bide, pretend that all that had been between we two had never been. I declared that I could not. "Then," she said, "I will confess the matter to you, and you will no longer wish for my society."

So saying, she made this speech:
"My lord," she said, '''"I am with child. I did not know for certain these few days but now the matter seems to me right clear. The child is yours, my lord."'''

I could not conceal my horror and alarm at this. Ah, wanion. That such things should be. I wished to look upon her but could not. I cast my eyes downward and muttered some words of consolation but made my good-byes sharply. I must think on this and these pages are no longer secure enough to do so.

| width=50% | At last, stole several minutes with Edwina in the great refectory at about the third hour after dawn when my lord's men had broken their fast and gone on their way. She, sighing mightily, declared that she did not wish for my company. I would not brook this and held her fast demanding she should explain to me why she had disdained my society and my bed these past days.

She, sighing again, said: "I cannot speak the words. For then, surely, you would disdain me."

I assured her that this could never be. She, smiling, asked if I could not let the matter bide, pretend that all that had been between we two had never been. I declared that I could not. "Then," she said, "I will confess the matter to you, and you will no longer wish for my society."

So saying, she made this speech: "My lord," she said, '''"I know only a little, but what I know I can no longer hide, with all that has been between us. Your master..." she paused there and tears started in her eyes. "Your master I believe does not wish that our experiments here should benefit only the city. To be blunt, my lord, I have been sent here to ensure that certain matters, certain elements of knowledge should be kept only for her, and for the group of loyal scholars she has formed. She wishes the power for herself. To do what, I know not."'''

I could not conceal my horror and alarm at this. Ah, wanion. That such things should be. I wished to look upon her but could not. I cast my eyes downward and muttered some words of consolation but made my good-byes sharply. I must think on this and these pages are no longer secure enough to do so.
|}

===Links===
*This section comprises links to Granier's diary, as given us by [[Violet Kiteway]].
**blog, 04-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment one" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html link])
**blog, 05-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment two" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html link])
**blog, 06-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment three" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html link])
**blog, 10-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment four" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html link])
**blog, 11-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment five" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html link])
**blog, 12-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment six" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html link])
**''blog, 16-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment seven" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_last_granie.html link])''
**blog, 24-MAY-06 "Deja Vu Granier diaries, installment seven" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/deja_vu.html link])

==In the news==
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
| Granier Biographer Angry

[[Diana Coh]], author of "Granier: A Man for Our Times" and leading Anthony Granier biographer, has added her voice to the protests against the Academy [[Museum]]'s new exhibit. In a speech to fellow protesters over the weekend, she said: "Anthony Granier helped lift this city out of the dark times and into the light. It is ridiculous that his name should be linked to the conflict in this way."
|}

==References==
*'''The Perplex City Sentinel'''
**more news in brief, 14-NOV-05 "Granier Biographer Angry"
**article, 03-NOV-05 "[[War]] Exhibit Details Released Amid Outcry" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/11/war_exhibit_det.html link])

*'''Quirky Acuity'''
**blog, 09-NOV-05 "Some News" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html link])
**blog, 22-NOV-05 "My Visit to uncle [[Sanjean]]" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html link])
**blog, 24-NOV-05 "Your suggestions" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/your_suggestion.html link])
**See '''Diary''' section above.

*'''The Path Of Least Time'''
**blog, 17-NOV-05 "[[The War]] Exhibit" ([http://www.pathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/the_war_exhibit.html link])

*'''[[Anna Heath]]'s Personal Site'''
**My Writing, 13-MAR-06, "Proof of Life" ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/ link])

*'''The Scarlett Kite'''
**blog, 1-SEP-06 "Perhaps a puzzle" ([http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html link])
**blog, 8-SEP-06 "Curiouser and curiouser" ([http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/curiouser_and_c.html link])

{{3P}}

Anthony Granier

2006-09-16T02:13:30Z

Rose: /* General */

==General==
*Is associated with [[The War]].
*Was a politician.
*Became a Brilliant Novelist.
*Supervised the reconstruction of the city's sewer system.
*Was just a bit of a lech at times.

*He was quite close to [[Vianne Adamek]], former Master of the Academy, referring to her as "My Master" in writing.
*Married at least twice, with his second wife rumoured to have left him because she was jealous of his relationship with Adamek.
*Had two children: Edward and Amaithe.

*May have been part of [[The Third Power]]
**(Though [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] think it absurd.)
*He built a house, on which he included a beautifully inscribed Third Power symbol (which is simply referred to as "The Granier Mark").
*While staying in the house,[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle and a note written by Granier to his children.
*[[Kurt]] solves the puzzle which leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]].
*[[Violet]] translates the note. Granier tells his children if they want to know more about him, the puzzle will lead them to a place with more information.
**''See main article: [[Granier House]]''

*His diary is on display at the [[Academy]] [[Museum]] exhibit on [[The War]].
**It was reviewed and transcribed by [[Violet]] & [[Cymbalisty]]
**This resulted, however, in Cymbalisty being killed by [[Miranda]] who wished for the knowledge on the last page to not be uncovered.
**When at last the true final page was found, it was transcribed by [[Violet]] and [[Anna]].

==Diary==

[[Violet Kiteway]] has been uploading this onto her weblog, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com Quirky Acuity]. But the final pages, containing Edwina Mounting's secret, are missing, presumed in the hands of the Police, following the mysterious death of [[Isaac Cymbalisty]].

'''13 March 1736'''
Have embarked upon Northern expedition. Accompanied by Edwina Mountling, an Academy scholar of about fifty despatched by my Master. "Accompanied", but not "companioned", for she is a woman of little conversation, preferring her mathematical calculations to civil discourse. Three days journeying and we are still only halfway to our destination. Exceeding weary. Provisions provided tiresomely similar. I relish a leg of mutton as well as any man, but cannot feast upon it for lunch and dinner every day without some decline in appetite. The lands through which we journey are as well-formed as I have been led to expect, but pleasant vistas give no relief from the awful task which confronts us. I find my heart is heavy indeed, despite the serving girl's charming attempts to lift my spirits.

'''17 March 1736'''
At last, the castle is reached. I find the hospitality very fine. My lord is an excellent host, and the feast with which he greeted our arrival would have honoured nobler men than we. I have writ to my Master that the first part of the journey is successfully completed. It is odd to muse upon my Master in this place. She would take some pleasure in this locale, I think; she has ever delighted in new landscapes and the new creatures found there. I recall her once, above ten years past, taking such pains to instruct me in some new specimen of hive-bee she had found, enumerating its parts and elaborating upon its society. Had the times not needed her resolve, she might have remained merely a fine naturalist. Would that it had been so. My Master has never visited this place, I think, nor ever will do now, but the fate of all the people within one dozen miles of here rests with her.

'''19 March 1736'''
I visited the mining works this day. Almost as much as can be done, has been done. They have extracted sufficient of the material for my Master's experiments. There is so little, so very little, and almost all of it will be needed if the thing is to be done. The men and women working at the mine know nothing of this, of course. They are so cheerful and so resolute. They tell me that they are honoured to work at an occupation which may prove the salvation of the City - this, of course, they have been told. Wanion!

'''21 March 1736'''
Today we feasted for The Builders Celebration, a festival of the Way of the Cube. Excellent sport, with several bouts of combat between the people of the village, divers plays and masques, and three boar roasted whole upon the fire. Ground struck for a new general store on the Green. A figure of the Holy Cube, along with images of Gyvann paraded through the streets. The matter struck me as curious. I shall write more upon this anon.

'''22 March 1736'''
Passed several hours in company with Mistress Mountling today. She, attempting to explain the convolutions of number which allow her, she declares, to know with certainty the effect of any mining before that operation has begun. I declared that if she can predict the future using numbers, she is surely a numerologist or fortune-teller of the kind employed at country fairs to entertain the simple-minded. She did not appreciate this witticism. I own that, once she had explained to me the basis for her calculations, her claim seemed less an idle boast. My Master's preparations have been long in the making. Nonetheless, certainty is needed. There will, Mistress Mountling informed me, have to be an experiment here, during our visit. This, it appears, is the reason that she accompanies me on this expedition. To her credit, Mistress Mountling seems to suffer some of the same pangs and regrets as I regarding this matter. She is a handsome woman. When not frowning over her books, one can see that she cannot be more than five-and-thirty.

'''24 March 1736'''
Hunting with my lord, while Mistress Mountling completed certain preliminary surveys of the mine site. Took some very fine game by the edges of the lake - banded ducks and seven Burg Fowl - and my lord proved excellent company, good-humoured and full of tales. Put to him EM's notion regarding an experiment. He agreed the thing must be done. Returned home to feast upon the game we had taken, but afflicted by an unaccountable melancholy. My lord, noting my mood, supplied the cure in the form of a chamber-maid sent to my rooms for sport.

'''25 March 1736'''
Dined upon a fine ham with spiced plums and roast parsnips. Rain all day, mining impossible. All but EM downcast. She positively delighted in her calculations and rather astonished I could not find useful work to undertake despite the rain. Mockery ensued. I see now that I was mistaken in my estimation of her age: she is at least forty.

'''28 March 1736'''
Rain past two days. Have occupied my mind reading once more the Essays of Varkin: On Love, On Marriage, On the Existence of the Celestial Bodies, On the Ancient Myths, and so on. Certain passages very fine.

'''30 March 1736'''
Rain at last begins to pass. Accompanied by my lord and EM, made a visit to the village. Charming rural scenes of agriculture and village life such as one rarely sees any longer in the City. Small children playing at Pyramid in the street. Pausing to observe the game, I notice that the pieces are cube in form, rather than the triangular forms common in the City. Conversed on this topic with my lord, who noted that the old forms of worship still retain much of their force here, while in the City they have waned these hundred years past, at the least. Recalling the excellent Builder's Celebrations, I suppose this to be but natural. Many of these children's fathers and mothers have worked daily in the mine, or have observed the place themselves. This shape has retained with them the significance it had for our ancestors, who journeyed out to this spot to observe the phenomenon for themselves and saw in it the hand of magic, or of an immortal force. It is curious. I am no man of science, I have no gifts in physic or alchymical minglings, but the old modes of worship have ever seemed lacking to me. But my Master, though of a deep and perceiving intellect in scientific matters, still holds to the religion we learned as children. Even though she has seen the root of it, even though she has - of all people - the greatest understanding of the mystery, sees that it is no mystery. I have spoken with her on this matter. She is of the view that even the deepest knowledge can penetrate only the "how" and not the "why", that the "why" is a matter for religion, not science. But what would her religion make of what we are to do here?

'''31 March 1736'''
Dined on a dish I have never before encountered: a soft-fleshed river fish steeped in a sauce of ale and cream, served with little radishes and onions. On inquiring the provenance of the recipe, discovered that the cook is a native of Machiantes. I inquired of my lord whether he did not fear for his life, but he replied jestingly, that he keeps the man so busy that he could scarce have time to plot or plan.

'''2 April 1736'''
EM's preparations for her experiment continue. She has become peevish and irritable, and appears tired. Today, when I made to fetch her for dinner, she barked that "unlike you, I am not constantly concerned with the needs of my stomach and the desires of my...." [here she used a low word which startled me considerably]. When I expressed my astonishment at being spoken to in this fashion, she began to cry. Women are a constant mystery.

'''3 April 1736'''
The reason for EM's sullen and inconstant mood today became clear. We are to select the subjects for the experiment ourselves. The thing is dreadful. We have been given a list of suitable persons, given such matters as health, strength and height. EM and I examined this list for above two hours today, but were unable to reach any conclusion. It is intolerable that the decision should rest with us; doubly so because we do not know these men and women, and have no notion of their situations. I have requested from my lord that he should at least tell us which of them have children or aged parents in their care. He has agreed.

'''6 April 1736'''
Received grave news today from the City. The peace with Viehattle is disintegrating. There have been incursions and breaches of treaty. Our spies indicate that Viehattle may even now be allying with Anjsbourg. My mood is so much depressed by this that even the girl's most sincere efforts to enliven me brought no relief.

''''7 April 1736'''
Today, the final preparations for the experiment have been made. After
much converse with EM, we have selected two men in their middle years,
unmarried and without living parents. This brings us but little
comfort. Edwina said: "all men touch one another's lives", and she
speaks truly. To make such a choice! It brings to mind the worst
excesses which one hears occur in Machiantes. My lord appears not one
whit disturbed, however, and dined heartily this evening while Edwina
and I ate but little.

"Come come," he said, "they do but go on ahead of their fellows, who
will follow them soon enough, if you have figured your sums sharply,
Mistress Mountling."

She nodded gravely at this. We have talked upon the matter a good deal
these past few days. If some must be sacrificed that others may live
free, is that so hard to bear? And if we should spare these few, only
for them to perish at the hands of our enemies, would we be thanked?
It is better that they do not know, that the children continue to play
innocent in the streets. We who bear the knowledge shall do so as our
burden.

'''8 April 1736'''
Experiment conducted today. An awful spectacle. I have no energy to
write more this night.

'''13 April 1736'''
Edwina has been busy with her calculations these three days. She tells me that she has taken many useful readings which go to prove what we have long suspected: the entire place will be destroyed. There is no help for it. We walked today upon the upland slopes and around the lake. She intimated that she was grateful for my continued counsel and I was glad to hear it. These days since the experiment have brought us into closer intercourse than I had ever envisaged. She finds the companionship of my lord and his household hard to bear - they regard the people of this place as their possessions, to do with as they please. The City has given them free hand here, so far from our own environs, and it has led to this unwelcome circumstance.

'''15 April 1736'''
Edwina and I dined heartily this night upon fine cakes of cornmeal, with figs and venison sliced thin. Talked long into the night upon divers subjects: art, literature, philosophy and science. She confessed that she had admired several of my short writings - declared that I should attempt longer works, perhaps a novel. I found myself delighted by this news. Felt no need for the attentions of the serving girl and told her that she need not return for several days.

'''17 April 1736'''
Despatched news of our progress to my Master. We are almost finished here - but a few more days, and Edwina's calculations will be completed. We have only then to agree with my lord a time for this matter to be concluded. It will not be long now.

'''21 April 1736'''
Abed this morning, Edwina most disconsolate. Upon inquiring of her what the trouble might be she, with a most mournful countenance, explained that she had been concealing a secret from me. I teased her a little upon this point, maintaining that she must have some other gallant gentleman admirer. She laughed a little at this. I entreated her, again, to entrust her secret to me. She replied that she desired to do so, but wished to ponder on the matter, taking her own counsel until to-morrow. My bed remains forlorn and lonely this night.

'''29 April 1736'''
{|
|-
|         ''False version, given to us by [[Miranda]], 16-JAN-06''
|         ''True version, given to us by [[Violet]], 24-MAY-06''
|- valign=top
| width=50% | At last, stole several minutes with Edwina in the great refectory at about the third hour after dawn when my lord's men had broken their fast and gone on their way. She, sighing mightily, declared that she did not wish for my company. I would not brook this and held her fast demanding she should explain to me why she had disdained my society and my bed these past days.

She, sighing again, said: "I cannot speak the words. For then, surely, you would disdain me."

I assured her that this could never be. She, smiling, asked if I could not let the matter bide, pretend that all that had been between we two had never been. I declared that I could not. "Then," she said, "I will confess the matter to you, and you will no longer wish for my society."

So saying, she made this speech:
"My lord," she said, '''"I am with child. I did not know for certain these few days but now the matter seems to me right clear. The child is yours, my lord."'''

I could not conceal my horror and alarm at this. Ah, wanion. That such things should be. I wished to look upon her but could not. I cast my eyes downward and muttered some words of consolation but made my good-byes sharply. I must think on this and these pages are no longer secure enough to do so.

| width=50% | At last, stole several minutes with Edwina in the great refectory at about the third hour after dawn when my lord's men had broken their fast and gone on their way. She, sighing mightily, declared that she did not wish for my company. I would not brook this and held her fast demanding she should explain to me why she had disdained my society and my bed these past days.

She, sighing again, said: "I cannot speak the words. For then, surely, you would disdain me."

I assured her that this could never be. She, smiling, asked if I could not let the matter bide, pretend that all that had been between we two had never been. I declared that I could not. "Then," she said, "I will confess the matter to you, and you will no longer wish for my society."

So saying, she made this speech: "My lord," she said, '''"I know only a little, but what I know I can no longer hide, with all that has been between us. Your master..." she paused there and tears started in her eyes. "Your master I believe does not wish that our experiments here should benefit only the city. To be blunt, my lord, I have been sent here to ensure that certain matters, certain elements of knowledge should be kept only for her, and for the group of loyal scholars she has formed. She wishes the power for herself. To do what, I know not."'''

I could not conceal my horror and alarm at this. Ah, wanion. That such things should be. I wished to look upon her but could not. I cast my eyes downward and muttered some words of consolation but made my good-byes sharply. I must think on this and these pages are no longer secure enough to do so.
|}

===Links===
*This section comprises links to Granier's diary, as given us by [[Violet Kiteway]].
**blog, 04-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment one" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html link])
**blog, 05-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment two" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html link])
**blog, 06-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment three" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html link])
**blog, 10-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment four" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html link])
**blog, 11-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment five" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html link])
**blog, 12-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment six" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html link])
**''blog, 16-JAN-06 "Granier diaries, installment seven" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_last_granie.html link])''
**blog, 24-MAY-06 "Deja Vu Granier diaries, installment seven" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/deja_vu.html link])

==In the news==
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
| Granier Biographer Angry

[[Diana Coh]], author of "Granier: A Man for Our Times" and leading Anthony Granier biographer, has added her voice to the protests against the Academy [[Museum]]'s new exhibit. In a speech to fellow protesters over the weekend, she said: "Anthony Granier helped lift this city out of the dark times and into the light. It is ridiculous that his name should be linked to the conflict in this way."
|}

==References==
*'''The Perplex City Sentinel'''
**more news in brief, 14-NOV-05 "Granier Biographer Angry"
**article, 03-NOV-05 "[[War]] Exhibit Details Released Amid Outcry" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/11/war_exhibit_det.html link])

*'''Quirky Acuity'''
**blog, 09-NOV-05 "Some News" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html link])
**blog, 22-NOV-05 "My Visit to uncle [[Sanjean]]" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html link])
**blog, 24-NOV-05 "Your suggestions" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/your_suggestion.html link])
**See '''Diary''' section above.

*'''The Path Of Least Time'''
**blog, 17-NOV-05 "[[The War]] Exhibit" ([http://www.pathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/the_war_exhibit.html link])

*'''[[Anna Heath]]'s Personal Site'''
**My Writing, 13-MAR-06, "Proof of Life" ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/ link])

*'''The Scarlett Kite'''
**blog, 1-SEP-06 "Perhaps a puzzle" ([http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html link])
**blog, 8-SEP-06 "Curiouser and curiouser" ([http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/curiouser_and_c.html link])

{{3P}}

Lancewood Archipelago

2006-09-16T02:08:26Z

Rose: collecting info about the archipelago

===General===
*Also known as the "Isles of Gyvain" because of its assocation with Cubeheads.

* First discovered on September 15, 2006 when [[Kurt]] solves [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg a puzzle] [[Anthony Granier]] had left 300 years ago for his children. Scarlett found the puzzle along with a note and passed it along to us. We couldn't figure it out, but Kurt did. Granier took readings from the islands. Kurt had the map needed to put the answers together.

* [[Granier]]'s [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/curiouser_and_c.html note to his children] accompanying the puzzle says in part: "If your heart is in the matter and you wish to learn more of your father, there is a place which contains much knowledge. I cannot write its name, but this puzzle will lead you to it. I am confident you will find out its secret. Should you travel there at last, go safely and forgive me. "

* [[Scarlett]] tells us:
** The archipelago is famous for wildlife, tretretretre skeletons, naval battles and pirates.
** Academy researchers went there during Granier's time but the record shows only that they studied Zoology and Geology.
** Hard to navigate but the Cubeheads used to live in a retreat there.

===References===
* Sea Journey The Scarlett Kite [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/sea_journey.html]
* Archipelago The Path of Least Time [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html]

Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-16T01:52:12Z

Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
{| cellpadding="5"
|-
! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
|-
| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
|-
| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
|-
| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
|-
| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
|-
| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
|-
| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
|-
| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
|-
| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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====March====
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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====April====
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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====June====
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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====August====
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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|15 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/the_archipelago.html solves the puzzle] for us. It leads to the [[Lancewood Archipelago]] a place we've never heard of, but [[Scarlett]] and [[Violet]] are going. A trip over the sea.
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Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
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| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
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| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
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| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) Link [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Leaked_E-mails#.28blank_subject.29_V_.26_V.27s_boss_re:_Holyoke_murder here].
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| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
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| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
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| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
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| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
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| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
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| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
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| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
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| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed -they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
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| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
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| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
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| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
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| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
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| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
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| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
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| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
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| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
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| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
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| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
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| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
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| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
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| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
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| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
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| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
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| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
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| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
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| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
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| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
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| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
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| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
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| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
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| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
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| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
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| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
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| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
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| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
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| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
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| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
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| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
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| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
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| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
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| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
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| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
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| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
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| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
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| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
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| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
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| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
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| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
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| 19th Sept. '05
| 02 the 3P agent for london checks in with 01. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2]
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| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
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| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
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| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 10th Oct. '05
3P Agents 02, 05 and 07 talk about [[V]] and his bad mood stemming from his boss at work, which we later find out is [[Hesh Records]] where he is a recording engineer.
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| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
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| 12 Oct.'05
| Mass emails sent to the 3P agents from V announces that both unstable links ([[Bernard Holyoake and [[Monica Grand]]) have been eliminated. These emails were found through the [[3PGroupWareManager]] found during the live event. An example of the mass email is[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Successful_Completion_.28mass.29 here] in the email exchange between V and 02. Note that 02 questions leaving the fourth member of the Cube theft team - which we later find out is [[Claire Castille]]- alive. V replies: "I am unconvinced that the risk of exposure would be worth the gain in security. " but she will be eliminated when he thinks the time is right.
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| 18th Oct. 05
|02 advises [[V]] that he has made contact and "got in deep" with that one, he sends something to V. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Status here]
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
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| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
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| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
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| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
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| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
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| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
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| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
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| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:47:16Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
{| cellpadding="5"
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! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
|-
| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) Link [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Leaked_E-mails#.28blank_subject.29_V_.26_V.27s_boss_re:_Holyoke_murder here].
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
|-
|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 19th Sept. '05
| 02 the 3P agent for london checks in with 01. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2]
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 10th Oct. '05
3P Agents 02, 05 and 07 talk about [[V]] and his bad mood stemming from his boss at work, which we later find out is [[Hesh Records]] where he is a recording engineer.
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 12 Oct.'05
| Mass emails sent to the 3P agents from V announces that both unstable links ([[Bernard Holyoake and [[Monica Grand]]) have been eliminated. These emails were found through the [[3PGroupWareManager]] found during the live event. An example of the mass email is[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Successful_Completion_.28mass.29 here] in the email exchange between V and 02. Note that 02 questions leaving the fourth member of the Cube theft team - which we later find out is [[Claire Castille]]- alive. V replies: "I am unconvinced that the risk of exposure would be worth the gain in security. " but she will be eliminated when he thinks the time is right.
|-
| 18th Oct. 05
|02 advises [[V]] that he has made contact and "got in deep" with that one, he sends something to V. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Status here]
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:44:26Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
{| cellpadding="5"
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! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
|-
| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) Link [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Leaked_E-mails#.28blank_subject.29_V_.26_V.27s_boss_re:_Holyoke_murder here].
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
|-
|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 19th Sept. '05
| 02 the 3P agent for london checks in with 01. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2]
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 12 Oct.'05
| Mass emails sent to the 3P agents from V announces that both unstable links ([[Bernard Holyoake and [[Monica Grand]]) have been eliminated. These emails were found through the [[3PGroupWareManager]] found during the live event. An example of the mass email is[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Successful_Completion_.28mass.29 here] in the email exchange between V and 02. Note that 02 questions leaving the fourth member of the Cube theft team - which we later find out is [[Claire Castille]]- alive. V replies: "I am unconvinced that the risk of exposure would be worth the gain in security. " but she will be eliminated when he thinks the time is right.
|-
| 18th Oct. 05
|02 advises [[V]] that he has made contact and "got in deep" with that one, he sends something to V. [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Status here]
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Talk:Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:36:37Z

Rose:

going through things I notice that we are missing a bunch of stuff from this timeline. I will work on updating it. rose 13:36, 15 September 2006 (PDT)

Talk:Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:36:12Z

Rose:

going through things I notice that we are missing a bunch of stuff from this timeline. I will work on updating it. 13:36, 15 September 2006 (PDT)~

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:34:54Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
{| cellpadding="5"
|-
! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
|-
| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) Link [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Leaked_E-mails#.28blank_subject.29_V_.26_V.27s_boss_re:_Holyoke_murder here].
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
|-
|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 12 Oct.'05
| Mass emails sent to the 3P agents from V suggest that both unstable links have been eliminated. These were found through the [[3PGroupWareManager] found during the live event. An example of the mass email is[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Emails_To_and_From_O2#Successful_Completion_.28mass.29 here] in the email exchange between V and 02. Note that 02 questions leaving the fourth member of the Cube theft team - which we later find out is [[Claire Castille]]- alive. V replies: "I am unconvinced that the risk of exposure would be worth the gain in security. " but she will be eliminated when he thinks the time is right.
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:22:05Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
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! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
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|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 24th/25 Sept. '05 (or possibly 01 Oct. '05)
| Through the crypto [[Backdoor]] recordings, [[Karen]] has more to say about the deliveries to her department, she hasn't noticed anything odd lately but she has noticed hush-hush correspondance with quantum encryption using the word "Viendenbourg" and references to the "material." Not much else other than a protest is happening at the Museum while she records [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Encryption_themes this message].
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:11:53Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
{| cellpadding="5"
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! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 7th April '05
| Emails exchanged between Term@830 and Term@620 regarding a drink and flirting. Probably these are two crypto kids as this is found through the Crypto [[Backdoor]]. Links to email [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#General:_Drinks here.] No idea who this is yet.
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
|-
|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Backdoor

2006-09-15T20:06:42Z

Rose: /* Output */ changed date of recording to show it was day before lunch with Kurt.

This page describes the Academy's [[Department of Cryptology|Crypto Department]] Backdoor file system. The system was used to discover a set of discussions and a parts list, as compiled by [[Karen Moro]]. Please see the '''[[Backdoor Summary]]''' page, which is simply a collection of the important facts learned from this endeavour. Those wanting to understand the mechanics behind the Backdoor (and help resolve some unsolved questions) should read the '''[[Backdoor Primer]]'''.

==Summary==

''Note: after the shut down of the data link to Earth, which was restored at the San Francisco live event, this page is not accessible. Not known if it will come back up.''

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]] and written by [[User:Scott|Scott]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface could be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 19 July 2006, the puzzle appears to be sifted through entirely and exhausted. For those new to it, or just generally confused, see the [[Backdoor Primer]] to learn how the interface operates.

If you simply don't have time or interest to sort through this entire page, you are welcome to read the '''[[Backdoor Summary]]''' page, which collects the audio transcriptions and inventory catalogues. It's the very short version of all this.

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and '''[[User:jbd|jbd]]''', #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts with the highest command in the left-hand column. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space and which spaces have been used before.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. However, if the next square has already been "used", the next direction (listed in brackets) is attempted. If this square has already been used, then the next in the list will be tried, and so on and so on (although N.B. the list of these below is far from complete). Some exceptions to this may occur - possibly certain combinations of commands may not run this check?

<pre>
mount - se
zone - west (but then see grid below, as seems to vary)
switch - se (...) (''Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?'')
rotate - north (northeast, then in clockwise order?)
copy - south (...)
flush - south (southeast, ...)
pwrite - e (south, ...)
popen - east (south, ...)
pread - west (south, ...)
</pre>

(This means the grids below are dependent on what commands were used to reach a particular square... But I'll leave it here for the time being -- Scribe.)

'''End''', if executed before a MOUNT command, will "log out" of one of two accounts. Configuring the system is different for no end commands, one end command, or two end commands. After MOUNT, END will end execution with the error "session can not be unloaded at this time". It is good for testing where the code is going.

'''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

Furthermore, commands are '''time-sensitive'''. The same command path may yield a different result depending on the time it operates. This realization came after most of the command path additions within this entry. Therefore, great care must be taken to not only log the times that one accesses any bit of information using a specific command code, but to also go back and check for new paths especially since it seems some Audio files are only accesible using a single command code at a specific time.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
19A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
20A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-RO-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''end''', '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

====Zero ENDs====

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with two '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with four '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 3
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 4
| unread || unread || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|}

====One END====

So far these have just produced single letters/characters. We're not sure if this is affected by Zones/Switches/Rotates, or by the Pwrite/Preads yet, so full configs are listed below:

'''n''' 
'''Grid:''' E Z Sw - -/ - Ca Pr Mo -/ - -Ro Fl Zo/ - -Ro Ro Pr/ - - Ro Z Z 
'''Command path:''' En Zo Sw Mo Zo Fl Ro Pr Zo Zo Ro Ro Ro Pr Ca 
'''Total Zo/Sw/Ro:''' 4 Zo, 1 Sw, 4 Ro 

'''' (apostrophe)''' 
'''Grid:''' - - Ca Pr -/E Mo - Ro Pr/ - - S Pw Ro/ - - Ro Pw Pw/ - - Ro Z Z 
'''Command path:''' En Mo Sw Pw Pw Zo Zo Ro Ro Pw Ro Pr Ro Pr Ca 
'''Total Zo/Sw/Ro:''' 2 Zo, 1 Sw, 4 Ro 

'''h''' 
'''Grid:''' E M - - -/ - - Sw Ca Pr/ - - Pw Z Ro/ - - Ro Pr Ro/ - - - Ro - 
'''Command path:''' En Mo Sw Zo Pw Ro Pr Ro Ro Ro Pr Ca 
'''Total Zo/Sw/Ro:''' 1 Zo, 1 Sw, 4 Ro 

'''n''' (second one? or the same?) 
'''Grid:''' En Mo - - - / - - Sw - - / Pw Zo Zo Zo Pr / Ro Pr Ro Ro Ca / - Ro - - - 
'''Command path:''' En Mo Sw Zo Zo Zo Pw Ro Pr Ro Ro Ro Pr Ca 
'''Total Zo/Sw/Ro:''' 3 Zo, 1 Sw, 4 Ro 

====Two ENDs====

The following tables are for the userspace files once 2 END commands have been introduced. So far, it looks like there's only 1 zone, no switches, and either 1 or 2 rotates depending on the time. The files available switch every 3-4 hours, and the table below assumes they switch on the hour but this may be wrong. Times are all in UTC/GMT.

''Ah. There seems to be a clash already. Maybe the changeover is more random than we thought?''

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Mornings''
!
! !! colspan="12" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''Time (UTC/GMT)'''
|-
! !! !! 0000 !! 0100 !! 0200 !! 0300 !! 0400 !! 0500 !! 0600 !! 0700 !! 0800 !! 0900 !! 1000 !! 1100
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotates'''
|-
! 1
| ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || [[#Audio: Over and out|over and out]] (0923) || ? || ?
|-
! 2
| ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || [[#General: To-Do list|todo]] (0921) || ? || ?
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Afternoons''
!
! !! colspan="12" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''Time (UTC/GMT)'''
|-
! !! !! 1200 !! 1300 !! 1400 !! 1500 !! 1600 !! 1700 !! 1800 !! 1900 !! 2000 !! 2100 !! 2200 !! 2300
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotates'''
|-
! 1
| ? || ? || ? || ? || [[#Audio: 14th of July 2005|14-jul]] || [[#Audio: 14th of July 2005|14-jul]] || [[#Audio: 14th of July 2005|14-jul]] (1820) || [[#General: Drinks|drinks]] (1910, 1923) [[#Audio: Encryption themes|themes]] (1920) || [[#Audio: Encryption themes|themes]] || [[#Audio: Encryption themes|themes]] || [[#General: Alternate To-Do List|todo2]] || ?
|-
! 2
| ? || ? || ? || ? || [[#Audio: 14th of July 2005|14-jul]] || [[#Audio: 14th of July 2005|14-jul]] || [[#Audio: 14th of July 2005|14-jul]] (1820) || [[#General: Drinks|drinks]] (1910) || ? || ? || [[#Audio: Packing case gone|case gone]] || ?
|}

====Errors====

Lovingly stolen from [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=254732#254732 SteveC's forum post]...

"No disk access" - you didn't put a mount in 
"Timeout in Folder" - you didn't put a rotate in 
"no area has been accessed": You didn't put a zone in 

"Unable to reset read permission" - misuse of pread 
"Unable to write to file" - misuse of flush 
"Unable to reset open permissions": misuse of popen 

"Unable to access file" - empty/corrupt location 
"Unable to get read handle" - empty/corrupt location<>br>

"Session cannot be unloaded at this time" - You put an end in AFTER a mount 
"All login sessions ended: File server inactive" - you put END END END before the mount 

"File access denied" - you put run in the path at the end, not cache.

===Infinite Loops===

Certain configurations get into endless loops, causing the interface to crash and throw up random data (see [[#Logs: Gatehouse 24|Gatehouse logs]]. Direction is important in causing these, but some commands seem more "crash-friendly" than others. Working out which ones can cause loops ''may'' help in finding how [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/07/rage_against_th.html Caine broke the system]] a second way.

Configurations below are listed in execution order, not grid order, with brackets around the part that should be looping. All start in r1c1.

Loops that crash (yay):
<pre>
ZO MO CO PW RO SW (RO FL)
ZO MO PW RO SW (RO FL)
MO (FL RO PR)
MO (CO RO PR) (variant of Caine's)
ZO CO CO ZO (ZO PR)
ZO ZO MO (RO PW FL ZO) (n.b. last ZO is against wall. might also be looping back to the FL above it.)
</pre>

"Loops" that don't (boo):
<pre>
ZO MO (RO PW FL ZO) (last ZO not against wall.)
MO (FL RO ZO) (non-crashing variant of Caine's)
</pre>

==Discoveries==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====General: Approaching the Master====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run rotate rotate / -- -- popen rotate cache

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run pwrite cache / -- -- popen rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run cache -- / -- -- rotate -- --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and
revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea
warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you,
and you will of course receive full credit for the work.'
Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's
not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I
guess.</pre>

''the Master probably refers to [[Sente]]''

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]
----

====General: Coffee====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run switch -- / -- -- pwrite rotate flush / -- -- -- cache zone

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>Crypto Dept. Order Form

Coffee
Coffee!
COFFEE!</pre>

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]
----

====General: Project Data====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- switch pread -- -- / -- -- switch -- -- / -- -- -- switch cache / -- -- -- -- rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>PROJECT DATA HEADER 1277 | Created 23156S</pre>

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]
----

====General: Kiteway disrupting the department====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- switch pread -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount switch -- -- / run rotate copy switch cache / -- rotate pread -- rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

''MANSOOR H. probably refers to [[Hunan Mansoor]]'' 
''Kiteway probably refers to [[Sente Kiteway]]''
----

====General: Big Nothing====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / -- pwrite rotate cache pread

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, switch, pwrite, rotate, switch, pread, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]
----

====General: Krsa algorithm====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, copy, zone, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>Notes:

To make this more precise, let Krsa be an RSA generator with associated security
parameter k and let Keys be the set of all moduli N that have positive probability
to be outbut by Krsa. Let Hash be a family of functions whose key-space is Keys and
such that HashN : { 0, 1}

-> Z

n for every N e Keys. Let DS = (Krsa, Sign, VG) be the digital signature scheme whose
signing and verifying algorithms are as follows:
Algorithm Sign N,p,qp,d (M)
y <- Hashn (M)
x <- yd mod N
Return x
Algorithm VGn,e (M,x)
y <- Hashn (M)
y

<- xe mod N
If y=y

then return 1 else return 0</pre>

''See Wikipedia for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA#Signing_messages signing messages with RSA]. Some formatting may have been lost if text is from a copy-and-paste, which may have resulted in the odd-looking "If y=y" (originally, say, "y='''y'''")''

----

====General: To-Do list====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' -- -- -- -- -- / -- -- -- -- -- / -- -- -- cache -- / -- -- mount rotate -- / end end zone rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, zone, mount, rotate, rotate, cache

::'''Times Found (UTC):''' 09:21 10-JUL-2005

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>Check notes with lucas
Book test time
Upload amends
Mark 142 as done
Book holiday time</pre>

''lucas probably refers to [[Lucas Bazeries]]''

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message22.JPG]]
----

====General: Drinks====

=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, copy, copy, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

::'''Times Found (UTC):''' 19:04

(N.B. I also get this output using config 22, at time of writing... -- Scribe)

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>
From: TERM@830

To: TERM@620

Subject: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

Are we on for a drink after work tonight?

From: TERM@620

To: TERM@830

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

I don know - who else might be coming?

From: TERM@830

To: TERM@620

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

Do you want other people to come?

From: TERM@620

To: TERM@830

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

Of course. I a sociable creature.

From: TERM@830

To: TERM@620

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

So Ie noticed.

From: TERM@620

To: TERM@830

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

You should behave yourself.

From: TERM@830

To: TERM@620

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

I am being the perfect gentleman, as always.

From: TERM@620

To: TERM@830

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

Not sure about the perfect. Or the gentleman. ;-)

From: TERM@830

To: TERM@620

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

So - the drink question. Other guests tonight?

From: TERM@620

To: TERM@830

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

I think it would be good to invite the whole gang out and
see who comes along. It feels like ages since wee all got
together. It would be nice.

From: TERM@830

To: TERM@620

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

You sure?

From: TERM@620

To: TERM@830

Subject: Re: drink?

Date: 7 April 269

Yes, I am.</pre>
----

====General: Alternate To-Do list====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, copy, zone, rotate, cache

::'''Times found (UTC):''' 22:02:40

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

<pre>i. set FEAL, LOKI
ii.prep IDEA
iii. log proc time
iv.write up
v. correlate with nov data
vi.send to cam</pre>

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message24.JPG]]

''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEAL FEAL], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOKI LOKI] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm IDEA] are all block cipher encryption algorithms. "Cam" is probably [[Camden Porta]].

----

====Part: Smart Dust Cameras (ref: 72690B-0F)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run rotate rotate / -- -- popen, zone, cache

::'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- rotate rotate / run -- copy rotate rotate / -- -- rotate cache zone

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]
----

====Part: Experimental remote TNI scanner (ref: 6032VQ-0J)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run switch -- / -- -- popen rotate cache

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run -- -- / -- -- mount -- -- / -- -- -- switch cache / -- -- -- -- rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]
----

====Part: High Power phase-conjugate laser (ref: 384621-5A)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run -- –- / copy zone zone cache -- / copy pwrite rotate -- -- / copy rotate -- -- -- / rotate -- -- -- --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.
|}

'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]
----

====Part: Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field (ref: 3141PU-1M)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run -- -- / copy zone zone cache -- / copy pwrite rotate -- -- / copy rotate -- -- -- / switch -- -- -- --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]
----

====Part: Nanoscale imager (ref: 62999E-3M)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- switch pread -- -- / -- -- switch -- cache / -- -- -- switch rotate / -- -- -- -- rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 62999E-3M 
EXTERNAL REF: 80EV21 
 
DESCRIPTION: Imaging/Nanoscale imager; reprogrammed for higher resolution and contrast on all material types.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]
----

====Part: Reynolds ioniser (ref: 813QE2-7X)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch pread pread -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 813QE2-7X 
EXTERNAL REF: 9315WC 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/[[Reynolds ioniser]]; adapted for use with Baker SMC-E for quick startup time.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]
----

====Part: Active Noise Control system (ref: 477DI5-2Y)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, copy, pwrite, switch, rotate, rotate, switch, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 477DI5-2Y 
EXTERNAL REF: 0928ES 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Active Noise Control system; increased area effect range. Altered waveform-analysis algorithms, increased network size to 1024 nodes.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]
----

====Part: Yorke-Takayuki simulator (ref: 5239JL-4M)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, copy, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 5239JL-4M 
EXTERNAL REF: 873AR8 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Yorke-Takayuki simulator; new compartment added for traffic analysis research.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]
----

====Part: Quadropole Magnet Current Regulators (ref: 5BPK76-8H)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 5BPK76-8H 
EXTERNAL REF: 7560WW 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Quadropole Magnet Current Regulators; debugged in line with requests from facility. Problems with intermittent field spiking between F and D types fixed.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]
----

====Part: 174-Ytterbium Atomic Clock (ref: 254ID9-3R)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 254ID9-3R 
EXTERNAL REF: HN424P 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/174-Ytterbium Atomic Clock; locked time-signal to interface with dedicated fibre network and 3D imager.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]
----

====Part: Broadman Nuclear decay RNG (ref: 3085NC-6R)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, zone, pwrite, rotate, switch, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3085NC-6R 
EXTERNAL REF: 7297CR 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Broadman Nuclear Decay RNG; upgraded statistical tests according to new guidelines.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]
----

====Part: WHISK array (ref: 177ETC-1U)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- -- switch -- -- / cache -- -- switch -- / rotate pread zone zone zone

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, switch, zone, zone, zone, pread, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 177ETC-1U 
EXTERNAL REF: ET185C 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/WHISK array; debugged data traffic handling systems, added documentation to beta features.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]
----

====Part: Tajison Plasma Wakefield Accelerator (ref: 9451RZ-4U)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- switch zone -- --/ -- -- switch -- cache / -- -- -- switch rotate / -- -- -- rotate switch

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, switch, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 9451RZ-4U 
EXTERNAL REF: 811WS6 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Tajison Plasma Wakefield Accelerator controller reconfigured to accept special material particles.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]
----

====Part: Nelis Nuclear Isomer Battery (Hf-178-2m) (ref: 26637C-8Y)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- switch zone -- cache / -- -- switch -- rotate / -- -- -- switch rotate / -- -- -- rotate switch

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, switch, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 26637C-8Y 
EXTERNAL REF: 5933EN 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Nelis Nuclear Isomer battery (Hf-178-2m); made compatible with facility electrical subsystem and dedicated fibre network. Enhanced burst mode added.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]
----

====Part: Klebold plates (ref: 122C76-3S)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' mount zone rotate switch -- / -- rotate -- -- popen / -- -- switch zone zone / -- -- -- switch -- / -- -- cache pread zone

::'''Command Path:''' mount, rotate, zone, rotate, switch, popen, zone, zone, switch, switch, zone, pread, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 122C76-3S 
EXTERNAL REF: 45442R 
 
DESCRIPTION: Imaging/[[Klebold plates]]; networked in array for large-scale 3D spatial scanning. Double redundancy.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message23.JPG]]
----

====Part: Flux Compression Generator (ref: 460WDN-4X)====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount rotate switch -- / -- -- rotate -- popen / -- -- switch zone zone / -- -- -- switch -- / -- -- cache pread zone

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, rotate, switch, popen, zone, zone, switch, switch, zone, pread, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Text:'''

:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
CRYPTO PARTS REF: 460WDN-4X 
EXTERNAL REF: IKLC45 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator; linked to 174Ytb clock and Nelis battery backup system.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message29.JPG]]
----

====Logs: Gatehouse 24====
When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run -- -- / -- -- copy switch flush / -- -- pwrite rotate rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

=====Alternate Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' zone mount run switch flush / -- -- pwrite rotate rotate

::'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

=====Output 1=====
::'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''

<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Output 2=====
::'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''

<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Output 3=====
::'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''

<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>
----

====Audio: 14th of July 2005====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount rotate rotate / -- cache -- rotate rotate / -- rotate pread zone zone

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, zone, pread, rotate, cache

::'''Times found (UTC):''' 16:52:09, 17:19:23

=====Output=====
::'''Audio:''' [[Media:Backdoor_audio_27.mp3|MP3 file]]

::'''Estimated Recording Date:''' 14-JUL-05

::'''Transcription:'''
:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
So you've got what you wanted.

It's Thursday the, what ... 14th of July? And here's your ''report''.

I don't know what you're expecting to hear but ... I don't know what's going on; it might be nothing. I ... I could be getting completely paranoid as well. I mean with you lot ''snooping'' round I'm already on eggshells.

<swallow> [[Camden Porta|Camden]] keeps watching me across the office - pretty sure he doesn't trust me.

I might be imagining it all I .. I dunno. Anyway, today I think I saw something odd. And it - and it might not be anything but if it ''keeps you happy'' here it is.

We got this delivery - we get deliveries all the time, you know hardware upgrades and stuff, but there was an ''extra'' item. It wasn't on the manifest. I only noticed it cos I was nearest the door when it all arrived, so I ended up signing for it.

So there was ... there was this packing case and, now I ''don't'' know what's in there. And it's locked in the stores now so I ... I can't get to it even if you want me to - it's about 5 feet high, 3 feet across and quite slim, like ... a painting or something.

So is this an art-theft thing? Is that what you're after - some kind of ''fence'' operation? And if you told me what to look for I might have a better chance of helping.

<tsk> Well - that's it. I'll ... I'll let you know if anything else happens.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]
----

====Audio: Packing case gone====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, copy, copy, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

::'''Times found (UTC):''' 22:02:40 (22-24 [?])

=====Output=====
::'''Audio:''' [[Media:Backdoor_audio_30.mp3|MP3 file]]

::'''Estimated Recording Date:''' July 25th based on her [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.htmllunch date with Kurt] which we know was on July 26th

::'''Transcription:'''
:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
Well, hello again.

<sigh> I hate talking into these things.
Hang on, I think someone's coming! <rustly noises>
No, no, it's alright.

Right, okay... that packing case... it's disappeared.

I don't know when it went, but it's not there today. So I.. I think I saw it a couple of days ago... that was the last time. Not much help, I know.

I gave the case a bit of a kick the other day, to see if I could hear what was in there. I think it was tech stuff.

Anyway, I'm meeting up with a guy for lunch tomorrow, and he's kind of a hardware freak. So I might try kind of nudging him, see if there's anything going on. He's a nice guy, so he might be helpful.

I'm not going to do anything, y'know, just to get information for you. It's bad enough sneaking around like this. I can't just talk to people anymore, it's like I'm always interrogating them, even my friends. I can't look at anything without suspecting it.
It'll do my head in.

<sigh> You'd better look after your side of the bargain.
It's the only reason i'm doing this.
|}
----

====Audio: Encryption themes====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, copy, zone, rotate, cache

::'''Times found (UTC):''' 19:20:54, 19:58:48, 20:02:01, 20:13:45, 20:30:37, 20:57:23, 21:01:26, 21:26:08

=====Output=====
::'''Audio:''' [[Media:Backdoor_audio_29.mp3|MP3 file]]

::'''Estimated Recording Date:''' 24/25-SEP-05 ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/weekend_brings.html link]) or 01-OCT-05 ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/10/museum_proteste.html link])

::'''Transcription:'''
:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
I saw my dad the other day so, thanks, he told me about everything and... Well I’m, I’m just glad there’s a point to all this; he’s... he’s looking much better... and I suppose that means that you’re happy with how I’m doing, so I’m... probably on the right track?

I’ve been keeping an eye on the deliveries here, um I don’t think there has been anything funny for weeks now, but , you’know, I ''might'' have missed something. There ''have'' been a couple of odd projects coming across my desk though. Nobody ever gets the full picture here, but I’ve noticed some themes in the encryption work I’m doing, for a start it’s pretty advanced, everything’s been marked for ‘quantum’ (which isn’t perfect yet, but it’s about the highest level we’ve got). But <sigh> there are a couple of words that keep coming up too and... well, I <stumbles over words> I don’t have a clear picture of what they mean, but maybe they’ll mean something to you, the sender or the recipient is always called ‘[[Viendenbourg]]’ and there are all these references to ‘the material’ and how much of it they’ve got. I know I’m not seeing all the messages, they spread the work around – you’know, security - but only a few of us can handle quantum encryption so I’m seeing a ''fair chunk'' of the correspondence. It just seems odd it needs to be so secret, so... that’s why I mention it.

I’d better go soon, there’s umm, a protest outside the museum and it will take me ages to get past them. Anyway... I can’t think of anything else... nope that’s it.
|}
----

====Audio: Suspicious delivery guy====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end zone mount -- / -- -- -- -- copy / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- cache

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Audio:''' [[Media:Backdoor_audio.mp3|MP3 file]]

::'''Estimated Recording Date:''' Shortly after 03-JAN-06 ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/artists_quarter.html link])

::'''Transcription:'''
:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
If he dies, you realise that's it. You can do what you like to me - I don't care about '''me'''.

[[Robert_Drake|Someone in my block]] got beaten up the other night. He isn't a violent guy; he's a calligrapher. But he just got attacked well f ... nothing basically. Well I think it was random, but I don't think I believe in random any more.
Was it you?

Are you trying to scare me? You don't need to so just ... stop it.

I did what you wanted anyway. Last night ...

I worked until I was the only one left in the office. Must have been about 11 when this delivery guy turned up with a trolley full of boxes. And he ''did'' look a bit surprised to see me there.
These two big boxes were for us, so I signed for them and went next door to grab Angelica so she could open the stores.

Anyway, the boxes were really heavy, so the delivery guy wheeled the trolley into the stores and dropped them off there. Then I saw him slide one of our cases under the trolley; when he moved the trolley, it wasn't there anymore. It was quick but I'm sure he swiped something. Then he left, and Angelica locked the door.

I would have followed him ... well, probably ... but Angelica started talking to me about my research and I couldn't just rush off. I saw him go to the end of the corridor ... to the elevator, and he hit the down button. There's only the basement under us, but I think there might be passageways for internal mail and things. I honestly don't know. And I'm not going down there in the middle of the night, so don't ask. No matter what you threaten me with.

Ummm the delivery guy was about 6 foot, white, short dark hair. I haven't seen him before.

Keep an eye out, will you?
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]
----

====Audio: Over and out====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end zone mount cache / -- -- -- -- rotate

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, zone, mount, rotate, cache

::'''Times Found (UTC):''' 09:23 10-JUL-2006

=====Output=====
::'''Audio:''' [[Media:Backdoor_audio_23.mp3|MP3 file]]

::'''Estimated Recording Date:''' Shortly after 19-JAN-06? ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/01/police_raid_dis.html link]) Maybe February, judging from "since January" in text. Probably the last in the series.

::'''Transcription:'''
:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
So this is it. Can't say I'm not glad it's over but, well, one day maybe you can tell me what this was all about.
I mean, I read the papers - police raids on subway stations - sounds like your kind of thing.

We've had a few more deliveries come in since January, but still no sign of the mystery man. It's been a different courier each time, and they've - they've all looked pretty innocent. The [[Viendenbourg]] messages are still going backwards and forwards.

I appreciate what you've done for my dad, but ... I've done my bit. That's it. That was the deal. You can go digging around in the tunnels if you like but don't expect me to do any more of your dirty work. You told me to stop, so I'm stopping.

Don't ever tell my dad about this.

Over and out.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]
----

====Audio: Getting dodgy====
=====Configuration=====
::'''Grid:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

::'''Command Path:''' end, end, mount, copy, zone, rotate, cache

=====Output=====
::'''Audio:''' [[Media:Backdoor_audio_25.mp3|MP3 file]]

::'''Estimated Recording Date:''' ?? But before the previous message. Summer solstice shutdown is in June, so perhaps JUN-05? ([http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/slacker.html link])

::'''Transcription:'''
:::{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
Look this is getting seriously dodgy.

Last week, [[Lucas Bazeries|Lucas]] completely cut me out of a meeting, and [[Mansoor]] has been ripping into my white paper and...

I'm sure it's not professional, it's personal. They know what we're up to, I swear.
No I don't, I don't know anything. I'm losing it. Please, I can't be that important. You could get someone else.

The whole place is shutting down over [[Solstice Gambol|Solstice]]. You...you could get someone to break in here and I don't know...isotope tag one of the packages and track it you probably do that all the time...what do you need me for?

Well, happy holidays.
|}

::'''Image:'''

:::[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]
----

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T20:03:55Z

Rose: /* 2005 */

==2005==
{| cellpadding="5"
|-
! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
|-
| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
|-
|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 25th July '05
| [[Karen]] reports that the package she mentioned before is now gone. She mentions she has a lunch date with a tech guy the next day. Turns out it was Kurt. Audio from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle [http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Audio:_Packing_case_gone here].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy! Guess what? The date was with [[Karen]] who Kurt almost a year [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/07/a_voice_from_th.html identifies] as the girl on the audio files from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle.
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2005

2006-09-15T19:51:10Z

Rose: /* 2005 */ added 14th july entry from backdoor page for completeness

==2005==
{| cellpadding="5"
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! width="150px" | ''That's the date! ''
| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
|-
| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am. [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
|-
| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
|-
| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
|-
| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
|-
| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
|-
| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
|-
| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
|-
| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
|-
|
| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
|-
| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
|-
| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
|-
| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
|-
| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
|-
| 31st May '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
|-
| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer." Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
|-
| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
|-
| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
|-
| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
|-
| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
|
| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
|-
|
| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
|-
| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
|-
| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
|-
| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].

Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
|-
| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)

Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
|-
| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
|-
| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
|-
| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
|-
| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
|-
| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
|-
| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
|-
|
| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
|-
| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
|-
| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
|-
| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
|-
| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
|-
| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
|-
| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
|-
| 14th July '05 (assumed)
|Audio recording from the [[Backdoor]] puzzle. [[Karen]] is talking about a package that was delivered but wasn't on the manifest that she signed. It is about 5 feet by 3 feet and thin like a painting. She mentions [[Cambden]] doesn't seem to trust her. (note: not sure who she is talking to at this point.)
|-
| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
|-
| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy!
|-
| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
|-
| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
|-
| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
|-
| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
|-
| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
|-
| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
|-
| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
|-
| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
|-
| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
|-
| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...

Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
|-
| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
|-
| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
|-
| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
|-
| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
|-
| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
|-
| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
|-
| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
|-
| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
|-
| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
|-
| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
|-
| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
|-
| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
|-
| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
|}

Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-11T22:53:38Z

Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
|-
| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
|-
| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
|-
| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
|-
| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
|-
| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
|-
| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
|-
| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
|-
| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
|-
| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
|-
| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
|-
| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
|-
| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
|-
| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
|-
| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
|-
|}
====February====
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
|-
| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
|-
| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
|-
| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
|-
| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
|-
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====March====
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
|-
| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
|-
| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
|-
| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
|-
| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
|-
| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
|-
| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
|-
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====April====
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
|-
| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
|-
| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
|-
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====May====
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
|-
| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
|-
| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
|-
| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
|-
| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
|-
| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
|-
| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
|-
| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
|-
| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
|-
| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
|-
| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
|-
| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
|-
| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
|-
| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
|-
| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
|-
| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
|
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett]] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]] last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again. Maybe the map from Granier, which we still haven't solved will be her path to follow. Is there a puzzle trail coming?

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-11T22:52:02Z

Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

[[Scarlett] did so well with her "independent study" in [[Tanraga]]last year that her college boots out of her classes. Guess she will soon be heading out on the road again.

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-11T18:42:50Z

Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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====April====
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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====June====
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night. And she's going to help save the wild orchids of Perplex City.

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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Timeline:In-game 2006

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Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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====March====
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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====May====
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
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|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
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|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night.

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows. The futures and the leaderboard report feature lyrics from Earth. Is Earth culture spreading? Just keep the 80s music away from PPC and everything will be fine.
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====October====
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Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-11T17:47:06Z

Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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====March====
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
|-
|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
|-
|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
|-
|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
|-
|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
|-
|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
|}

====September====
{| cellpadding="5"
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| '''That's what happened!'''
|-
|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
|-
|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
|-
|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
|-
|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
|-
|11 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] takes the note [[Scarlett]] found in the mosaic puzzle to [[Professor Sedgewick]]. The Professor points out some glyphs along the margin, one of which is a navigational marker. She is so absorbed with the note that she manages not to notice that Violet is hung-over. Violet confesses to us that she did something she shouldn't have with someone she shouldn't have done it with. Possible suspects: Kurt, some of Kurt's friends and Bruno from [[Caine]]'s band. The good news: she won lecks playing poker on Saturday night.

The Sentinel updates. Who was that parachutist who disappeared leaving only his purple chute behind? No one knows.
|}

====October====
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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====November====
{| cellpadding="5"
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====December====
{| cellpadding="5"
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Talk:Main Page

2006-09-11T15:10:40Z

Rose: /* Keep an eye on... */

==Keep an eye on...==
To keep this as a feature, or develop some kind of community category for things that people should bookmark and check constantly? Thoughts? -[[User:Lhall|Lhall]] 13:16, 21 August 2006 (PDT)

Hmm. Interesting. Well, I suppose as it becomes useful, sure. catchy theme. But I'm not sure it will be in need constantly. In theory, one should keep an eye on a whole bunch of stuff. but yeah, it's catchy. so we can remember to toss it in whenever something comes up. [[User:Scott|Scott]] 13:48, 21 August 2006 (PDT)

#I know for the Fireflies wiki in ilb we updated the main page with the events that were happening that week and with links to the pages puzzles would be posted on, etc. This game is different because it is hard to predict what will be updating and when. To keep updating the main page as events change is a daunting task. Maybe this section should just be used for announcing major new finds (libraryofbabel) or major events (Anna's murder, Caine's departure - if it holds).
[[User:Rose|Rose]] 08:10, 11 September 2006 (PDT)

==Skin==
Thanks to skenmy for the shiny new skin!
: 'sokay :) --[[User:Skenmy|Skenmy]] 11:42, 30 August 2006 (PDT)

==Typo==
Could the typo "cryto" be fixed to crypto please? [[User:Arkai|Arkai]] 20:52, 22 August 2006 (PDT)
:Ah, thank you much :) tis done [[User:Scott|Scott]] 15:36, 23 August 2006 (PDT)

== PXCbash ==

could the link to this be renamed as it is no longer being used for solely #syzygy quotes (and in fact, hasnt been for a long time, even before perplexorum)
rach =)

==Spec about Combed Thunderclap==
The page says that the creator of the libraryofbabel subdirectory "seems to have been back and forth to Earth." I don't think that is accurate. I haven't seen any evidence of a return to PPC from Earth. Can this be deleted?
[[User:Rose|Rose]] 08:06, 11 September 2006 (PDT)

Talk:Main Page

2006-09-11T15:06:06Z

Rose:

==Keep an eye on...==
To keep this as a feature, or develop some kind of community category for things that people should bookmark and check constantly? Thoughts? -[[User:Lhall|Lhall]] 13:16, 21 August 2006 (PDT)

Hmm. Interesting. Well, I suppose as it becomes useful, sure. catchy theme. But I'm not sure it will be in need constantly. In theory, one should keep an eye on a whole bunch of stuff. but yeah, it's catchy. so we can remember to toss it in whenever something comes up. [[User:Scott|Scott]] 13:48, 21 August 2006 (PDT)

==Skin==
Thanks to skenmy for the shiny new skin!
: 'sokay :) --[[User:Skenmy|Skenmy]] 11:42, 30 August 2006 (PDT)

==Typo==
Could the typo "cryto" be fixed to crypto please? [[User:Arkai|Arkai]] 20:52, 22 August 2006 (PDT)
:Ah, thank you much :) tis done [[User:Scott|Scott]] 15:36, 23 August 2006 (PDT)

== PXCbash ==

could the link to this be renamed as it is no longer being used for solely #syzygy quotes (and in fact, hasnt been for a long time, even before perplexorum)
rach =)

==Spec about Combed Thunderclap==
The page says that the creator of the libraryofbabel subdirectory "seems to have been back and forth to Earth." I don't think that is accurate. I haven't seen any evidence of a return to PPC from Earth. Can this be deleted?
[[User:Rose|Rose]] 08:06, 11 September 2006 (PDT)

Scarlett's Blocky Lines

2006-09-11T13:04:15Z

Rose: /* Cryptonomicon */ deleted images of copyrighted work: see bolded language at the end of each page.

{{Cleanup}}
===Messages===
http://thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/success.html

<blockquote style="border-left:solid blue 2px; padding-left:4px;">Cheers to you all! I'm so excited, I hurried over to that mosaic to try some more of your solves this morning while my aunt and uncle were breakfasting, and I got it OPEN! The whole panel on the wall just popped open and inside there was a small letter packet, there's just a piece of paper with some blocky lines on it plus a note I can't read. I hid it under my shirt and I'm going to run off and see if Violet can help me decipher the note later on. I think this looks like another puzzle, though, don't you? 

[[Image:Paper full.jpg|center|thumb|350px]]

Anyway, you must be wondering what the solve was - it turns out to be simpler than anyone had been thinking! I only needed to move two of the tiles to open it. The 2 o'clock tile went 90 degrees counter-clockwise, and the 6 o'clock tile rotated 180 degrees, and then pop! it just opened right up. 

Both Brian Rater and Claire Melton sent me this answer, and looking at it, it makes sense, because the resultant pattern leaves only one mosaic tile of each colour on the innermost, outermost, left and right points of the tiles as you look at them from the center, and moreover the colours go through the same pattern. 

Sorry it took me so long to get to this, though. I've been writing my placement exams, which have turned out to be much easier than I thought they'd be. This has turned into such a good week!</blockquote>

http://thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/curiouser_and_c.html
<blockquote style="border-left:solid blue 2px; padding-left:4px;">Violet's transcribed that letter into something readable. It's rather intriguing: 

My dear children, Edward and Amaithe - 

As I write this, my time draws near. I have passed too many hours away from you, indeed, and never conceived a manner in which to tell you of all I had seen and done. I am sorry for it. I love you and kiss you both. If your heart is in the matter and you wish to learn more of your father, there is a place which contains much knowledge. I cannot write its name, but this puzzle will lead you to it. I am confident you will find out its secret. Should you travel there at last, go safely and forgive me. 

Your ever-loving, 
Papa</blockquote>

===Transcription===
U95 D131 U434 D465 U569 D595 U611 D620 U634 D676 U686 D697 U714 D734 U738 D775 U782 D814 #
U274 D299 U364 D384 U393 D420 U446 D462 U465 D537 U576 D592 U608 #
D38 U40 D62 U75 D113 U133 D148 U149 D166 U260 D283 U656 D677 U741 D760 U771 D786 U808 #
D48 U66 D155 U159 D180 U218 D251 U348 D374 U479 D538 U588 D630 U652 D718 U790 D829 U861 #
U95 D133 U136 D175 U185 D196 U228 D266 U814 D865 #
U35 D105 U144 D166 U183 D227 U233 D268 U270 D283 U295 D306 U312 D336 U390 D415 #
U80 D128 U157 D208 U232 D268 U317 D425 U529 D553 U661 D692 U720 D747 #
U481 D500 U519 D552 U557 D574 U587 D656 U694 D727 #
D42 U58 D73 U680 D711 U721 D732 U741 D761 U778 D800 U821 D841 U863 #
U61 D116 U213 D287 U309 D358 U395 D432 U489 D498 U560 D608 U629 D644 U665 #
U162 D188 U220 D254 U261 D273 U277 D326 U340 D364 U419 D438 U444 D531 #
U187 D219 U312 D355 U395 D417 U500 D543 U555 D581 U591 D623 U632 D647 U659 D705 U799 D858 #
U indicates an upwards transition and D a downwards one, the number is the x co-ordinate of the transition, and a # sign indicates the end of a line. Lines start at x=34 and end at x=883

([[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=272569#272569 source]])

===Theories===

====Electronics====
* Binary data - line represents bitstream of 0's and 1's
* Bus - all 12 lines represent individual bits of a datastream (12 bit words or perhaps two 6 bit words)
* Pulse width modulation
* Sound waves

====Cryptonomicon====
Cabbage thinks it looks like a movement-based code in Cryptonomicon. ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=272575#272575 source])
This would then need a map such as [[:Image:Aeromap.png|aeromap.png]] or [http://www.perplexcitymap.com/ Perplex City Map]

===Links===
* [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16700 Unfiction thread]

Talk:Scarlett's Blocky Lines

2006-09-11T13:02:28Z

Rose:

''Do we need a page with the puzzles Scarlett is finding? I have the Mosaic puzzle and this puzzle very generally mentioned on the timeline but I didn't make a page for them. I am thinking this will be another puzzle trail for us to follow - made by Anthony Granier and feed to us through Scarlett. I think a page with all the puzzles in that trail would make sense.'' Also, I am not happy about the posting of pages from Cryptonomicon here, we know that is a violation of copyright rules. I think there is a Neal Stephenson wiki we can link to if we need it. I am going to delete those pages now, someone can put them back if they want.06:02, 11 September 2006 (PDT)

Anna Heath

2006-09-11T12:50:02Z

Rose: /* General */ added bit about Chair, date of Memorial service

[[Image:Anna.jpg|Anna kept a picture of her children on her desk; she said they would inspire her to keep learning how to communicate, even if that's just saying "Dada".]]

'''Website:''' ''http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/''

'''Deceased:''' July 28, 2006/269

'''Memorial:''' http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/
:Designed by [[Aiko]]

==General==
*37 years old
*Was married to husband [[Fleming Heath]] in August of 259
*Had three children, 6-year-old twins [[Otto and Pip Heath|Otto and Pip]], and 1-year-old daughter [[Eve Heath|Eve]]
*Fellow of the Academy
**Known for always being available to students who needed her
**Academy insiders suggested she had the drive and potential to be a future Master of the Academy
*[[Cube Retrieval Project]]'s expert from the department of languages and second-in-command
*Fan of the [[Nomads]]
*Address:
: [[Fisher Road|18 Fisher Road]]
: [[Old Town]]
: [[Perplex City]]

*Old friend of [[Isaac Cymbalisty]], who was her first real friend at the Academy.
**He introduced her to her future husband.

*Does not believe [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] committed suicide and has sworn to find his murderer.

*Previously had a bit of a fling, many years ago, with Academy Security Director [[Henrik Tanner]]

*Had "ailihphilia," the love of palindromes, and was a fan of Earth writer [[Georges Perec]], who created the longest palindrome in history.
*Her favorite card was {{Card|002|Designer Flakes}}, which was inspired and driven by her children.

*A memorial service was held at the [[Academy]] on the [[Great Lawn]] at 5pm on Thursday evening August 3rd 2006.

*The Anna Heath Chair for Ancient Languages was created in her honor. The chair will be fully-funded and most likely go to a candidate with an interest in ancient Earth Languages.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Anna2.jpg
Image:Anna3.jpg
Image:Anna4.jpg
Image:Anna5.jpg
</gallery>

==Scholastic Record==
*Gave talks on the ancient languages of the region and the beginnings of written script discovered on bone fragments in the Academy Lunchtime Lectures / Evening Courses.
*Was spotted when she was only 8 years old by Professor [[Estelle Sedgewick]]
*Legend has it that Anna corrected one of her teachers' spelling during a spelling bee
*At 18, Anna was offered a place at the [[Perplex City Academy|Academy]]
*Became a fully-fledged puzzle scribe by the age of 22
*Her multi-language crossword puzzles are particular objects of dread among her students

==Anna's Cards==
''Among others:''
*[[Prototype Cards: Number 074]], "WordSpy"
*[http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=018 018: Natal Name]
*[http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=024 024: Double Vision]

==Anna, on Earth Linguistics==
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
As a scholar of language, the question of why Perplex City seems to share a language with some geographies of Earth is one that pulls me back again and again. An itch that can't be scratched, if you will.

It bears noting that in the seventy-some years since the [[Centre for Reality Research]] first discovered Earth, the language Perplexians speak has been profoundly influenced by Earth, so the overall level of similarity has been growing; new words, slang, and figures of speech have been borrowed, and pronunciation has been altered to some degree, though some researchers believe some of the pronunciation shifts were already under way before the discovery.

As you know, the late and much-lamented Academicians [[Ruth Coralhouse]] and [[Horatio Flynn]] developed CF Theory together. This convergent development model suggests that that the two worlds began development from widely different points, but that we are at a point in our histories in which we very coincidentally use very similar language. This model is considered the best contender as the truth, though other theories still have their adherents.

[[Karel Panaya]], for example, suggests that language is strongly shaped by a culture's environment and internal development, and posits that this is evidence that the culture and environs of Perplex City must therefore be extraordinarily similar to certain locales on Earth. I have my doubts about this, based on my long exposure to Earth culture. We simply don't seem that fundamentally the same to me.

Other, less reputable sources suggest any number of other wild theories: that the Earth and Perplex City share a resonance in the fabric of reality that has an effect on the brain, and therefore on language (though no evidence of such a resonance has been found); or that this is evidence that Perplex City and Earth were somehow once part of the same physical world (despite the known fact that language is evolutionary, and a point of divergence would make the languages very different by now); or that this is evidence of an intentional design by a cosmic maker (a point that may or may not be disputable, but is a tenet of faith not of science; and yet does not explain the mechanism by which it came to pass).

Controversy aside, the discovery of Earth has been an unbelievably rich treasure for the linguistics department at the Academy. The array of languages spoken on Earth is so rich and varied compared to our own world that we are making vast strides in understanding. There has never been a more exciting time to be a linguist than now.

''source: [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/earthlinguistics.html Anna Heath's Personal Site]''
|}

==References==
*'''The Perplex City Academy'''
**[http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcityacademy.com/15.05.05/museum.html Lunchtime Lectures]
**Special Projects Division - [[Cube Retrieval Project]] ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/departments-special.html link])
**Anna Heath's Personal Site ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/aboutme.html link])
*[[Prototype Cards: Number 170]]
*'''The Scarlett Kite'''
**18-MAY-05, "You guys are strange..." ([http://thescarlettkite.com/archives/2005/05/you_guys_are_st.html link])
*'''Quirky Acuity'''
**3-JAN-06, "Progress" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html link])
**13-JAN-06, "Cymbalisty" ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html link])
*The Perplex City Sentinel
**article, 4-FEB-06, "New Year Begins with Dazzling Milestone" ([http://www.pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/01/new_year_begins.html link])
**article, 6-FEB-06, "Excitement For Earth Events Grows In City" ([http://www.pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/02/excitement_for.html link])
**article, 16-FEB-06, "[[Iona Rodie|Iona]] Interviews... [[Anna Heath]]" ([http://www.pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/02/iona_interviews_15.html link])
**article, 31-JUL-06 "Scribe [[Anna Heath]] Found Murdered in [[Catacombs]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/scribe_anna_hea.html link])

*[[Perplex City Police Department]] - [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] case file - [http://www.perplexcitypolice.com/pd269volintranet/case_file.php?cid=PXC978C675&section=witness witness statements]

Garnet Reed

2006-09-11T12:36:07Z

Rose: /* References */ fixed link to direct to PPC site

[[Image:Garnet.jpg|Garnet says he has 'many sources of information'. We presume he means the newspaper.]]

===General===
*member of [[Cube Retrieval Project]]
*holds a junior fellowship in cryptology
*is on secondment with the Academy from the Perplex City defence forces
*a graduate of the Academy's advanced studies programme
*regularly sets puzzles for the [[PCAG]] as well as the entrance-tests for the defence forces
*takes over heading the Cube Retrieval Project after [[Anna]] is murdered.
*after an audit of the PXC-Earth Data link shows irregularities, puts [[Kurt]] in charge of fixing the security issues
*is the official liaison point between the [[Perplex City Council|city administration]] and the [[Cube Retrieval Project|Cube Retrieval Programme]]
*enjoys mountaineering, skiing and white-water rafting

==Cards==
*070: Dissolution
*083: Pawnbroking
*086: A Pair of Squares
*165: Domino Dilemna
*217: Tower of Cubes
*243: [[Shuffled]]

===References===
*[[Aikoannacainegarnetkurttippyvon]]
*[[Perplex City Academy]] Special Projects Division - [[Cube Retrieval Project]] ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/departments-special.html link])
*Mentioned by Kurt
**[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/revelations.html]
**[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/vanished_into.html]
**[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/axiom.html]

Garnet Reed

2006-09-11T12:33:36Z

Rose: /* References */ added links to Kurts blog

[[Image:Garnet.jpg|Garnet says he has 'many sources of information'. We presume he means the newspaper.]]

===General===
*member of [[Cube Retrieval Project]]
*holds a junior fellowship in cryptology
*is on secondment with the Academy from the Perplex City defence forces
*a graduate of the Academy's advanced studies programme
*regularly sets puzzles for the [[PCAG]] as well as the entrance-tests for the defence forces
*takes over heading the Cube Retrieval Project after [[Anna]] is murdered.
*after an audit of the PXC-Earth Data link shows irregularities, puts [[Kurt]] in charge of fixing the security issues
*is the official liaison point between the [[Perplex City Council|city administration]] and the [[Cube Retrieval Project|Cube Retrieval Programme]]
*enjoys mountaineering, skiing and white-water rafting

==Cards==
*070: Dissolution
*083: Pawnbroking
*086: A Pair of Squares
*165: Domino Dilemna
*217: Tower of Cubes
*243: [[Shuffled]]

===References===
*[[Aikoannacainegarnetkurttippyvon]]
*[[Perplex City Academy]] Special Projects Division - [[Cube Retrieval Project]] ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcityacademy.com/15.05.05/departments-special.html link])
*Mentioned by Kurt
**[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/revelations.html]
**[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/vanished_into.html]
**[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/axiom.html]

Garnet Reed

2006-09-11T12:28:23Z

Rose: /* General */ updated role in CRT

[[Image:Garnet.jpg|Garnet says he has 'many sources of information'. We presume he means the newspaper.]]

===General===
*member of [[Cube Retrieval Project]]
*holds a junior fellowship in cryptology
*is on secondment with the Academy from the Perplex City defence forces
*a graduate of the Academy's advanced studies programme
*regularly sets puzzles for the [[PCAG]] as well as the entrance-tests for the defence forces
*takes over heading the Cube Retrieval Project after [[Anna]] is murdered.
*after an audit of the PXC-Earth Data link shows irregularities, puts [[Kurt]] in charge of fixing the security issues
*is the official liaison point between the [[Perplex City Council|city administration]] and the [[Cube Retrieval Project|Cube Retrieval Programme]]
*enjoys mountaineering, skiing and white-water rafting

==Cards==
*070: Dissolution
*083: Pawnbroking
*086: A Pair of Squares
*165: Domino Dilemna
*217: Tower of Cubes
*243: [[Shuffled]]

===References===
*[[Aikoannacainegarnetkurttippyvon]]
*[[Perplex City Academy]] Special Projects Division - [[Cube Retrieval Project]] ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcityacademy.com/15.05.05/departments-special.html link])

Garnet Reed

2006-09-11T12:25:43Z

Rose: /* Cards */ added some cards by Garnet

[[Image:Garnet.jpg|Garnet says he has 'many sources of information'. We presume he means the newspaper.]]

===General===
*member of [[Cube Retrieval Project]]
*holds a junior fellowship in cryptology
*is on secondment with the Academy from the Perplex City defence forces
*a graduate of the Academy's advanced studies programme
*regularly sets puzzles for the [[PCAG]] as well as the entrance-tests for the defence forces
*is the official liaison point between the [[Perplex City Council|city administration]] and the [[Cube Retrieval Project|Cube Retrieval Programme]]
*enjoys mountaineering, skiing and white-water rafting

==Cards==
*070: Dissolution
*083: Pawnbroking
*086: A Pair of Squares
*165: Domino Dilemna
*217: Tower of Cubes
*243: [[Shuffled]]

===References===
*[[Aikoannacainegarnetkurttippyvon]]
*[[Perplex City Academy]] Special Projects Division - [[Cube Retrieval Project]] ([http://wiki.incognitus.net/mirror/ppc/www.perplexcityacademy.com/15.05.05/departments-special.html link])

Timeline:In-game 2006

2006-09-11T12:19:09Z

Rose: /* September */

==2006==
====January====
{| cellpadding="5"
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
|-
| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
|-
| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
|-
| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
|-
| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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====February====
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.

Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
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| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.

Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.

Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.

Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
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| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"

[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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|21st May '06
|[[Kurt]] continues to hunt [[Miranda]] with our help. He tracks her to the Silborn-Griggs mine. They struggle and he kills her. [[Violet]] arrives having found her way through with her handy-dandy ferrogrammatograph. [[Kurt]] and [[Violet]] escape just before agents of the 3P arrive and they have [[Miranda]]'s bag.
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|24th May '06
|[[Anna]]who has been brought up to date by [[Violet]] helps decode the last page from the [[Granier#Diary]]. [[Miranda]] had it in her bag. It seems that [[Granier]] 's Mistress was not doing her experiments for the good of the world.
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|31st May '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Sente]] catch up. After asking about [[Miranda]], [[Sente]] tells [[Violet]] that a mysterious explosion occured cracking the mine wall a flood ensued. [[Miranda]]'s body is presumably safely hidden. We get to see [[Sente]] in action as he manipulates his response to the requests from a preservation society that he investigate the explosion.
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|1st June '06
|[[Anna]] starts to realize that the 3P must have other agents in the [[Academy]] . She also posts some of the puzzles (and the answers) sent to her by Cube Hunters in an effort to help cover up [[Kurt]] s absence.
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|5th June '06
|[[Douglass Finlay]] 's candidacy for City Council erupts in flames as an unidentified insider leaks documents alleging corruption and espionage. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/06/scandal_hammers.html breaks the scandal] .
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|6th June '06
|The curious foursome - [[Anna]],[[Violet]],[[Scarlett]] and [[Kurt]]combine their knowledge and devise a plan. They are going to find out about the stolen [[parts]] which ended up in the [[Five of Cups]] after [[Bernardo Holyoke]]'s murder, see what [[Helena Frye]] knows about the [[Gillit Road]] clean rooms, and find out who [[V]] called from the Hesh studio the day after the Cube was stolen. [[Caine]] will be helping out as well.
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|9th June '06
|[[Kurt]] [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/06/emerging.html tells us] about Miranda's death which sounds like self-defense.
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|14th June '06
|[[Caine]] manages to sneak into a [[Hesh]] record party and convince some of the Tech people to show him their [http://hesh-intranet.com/heshencrypted/phonebackup.php?floor=0 phone logs]. After we work the logs into a form he can understand,
[[Caine]] recognizes a number from the Hesh communication logs -- one in the [[Academy]][[Cryptography]] Department.

[[Anna]] rekindles her friendship with [[Henrik Tanner]] the Academy Security Chief to find out about the [[parts]]. She doesn't tell her husband [[Fleming]] and doesn't feel good about using Henrik but rationalizes, like [[Anthony Granier]], that "we won't save the world by keeping our hands clean."

On the lighter side [[Scarlett]][http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/06/video_competiti.htm]announces] [[UKVer 2.0]] as the winner of the [[video competition]].
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|29th June '06
|[[Helena Frye]] has been poking around the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mines.
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|4th July '06
|[[Caine]] gives us some information and asks us to keep looking.
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|6th July '06
|[[Caine]] happy with our info about the cryptographer who was being blackmailed, he looks into it some more. [[Scarlett]] shares with [[Kurt]] who recognizes the voice as [[Karen Moro ]] and figures out which [[parts]] were stolen from [[Cryptography]]
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|13th July '06
|[[Kurt]] confronts [[Karen Moro|Karen]]- she was blackmailed by [[V]] to get medicine for father to treat his [[Kam Syndrome]]. He tells her that some of the stolen parts were found in the [[ Five of Cups]]and recaps the list of murders relating to the Cube theft. [[Karen Moro|Karen]] suggests a plan: tagging the [parts]] that might be stolen from an upcoming shipment with radio isotopes and then following them around the city. [[Kurt]] figures out which parts to follow.
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| 21st July '06
|[[Anna Heath]] confirms to [[Sente]] that the marks on the cards wasn't a case of transmission corruption, as we do see evidence of this same tampering in our finals, though not in any of the earlier versions at all. I've checked back and seen some differences in the finals from the previous waves, as well. [[Leaked email]]
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|26th July '06
|The parts are moving, but [[Caine]] crashes [[Crowley]]'s car. He follows on foot. [[Anna]] takes over for him. The signal vanished somewhere in Old Town. She's missing.
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|27th July '06
|[[Anna]] is still missing, [[Fleming]] is frantic. The [[part]] she was following -- the Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment Field --is assumed to be in the hands of the [[Third Power]].
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|28th July '06
|[[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] find [[Anna]]'s body in the caves. She had been tortured before she died.
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|3rd Aug '06
| [[Anna]]'s memorial service reminds us all that we are involved in a dangerous business. [[Caine]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/aftermath.htmlspeaks at the service] and decides to speak to [[Violet]]. Not wanting to risk any lives but their own, [[Violet]] [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/not_one.html pledges]with [[Kurt]]to not involve anyone else. [[Scarlett]] finds out about Anna's death and it reminds her of her own mother's death. [http://story.perplexcity.com/archives/2006/08/bad_news.html#more Bad news indeed].
Everyone is sad and sorry for Anna's children.
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|10th Aug '06
| All connection with Perplex City is lost, all the websites have a message from the 3P "Say Good-bye to PerplexCity." [[Mind Candy]] puts up this [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/ emergency page] for instructions.
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|12th Aug '06
| During a live meeting called [[The_San_Francisco_Connection]], a second data link to Perplex City is made. And just in time too. Sente makes an [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/announcement.mov announcement] which is interrupted by the 3P [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage1.mp3 via call] to players gathered in San Francisco who are seen to leave the scene in helicopters. A [http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/phonemessage2.mp3 warning] from the 3P to stay away follows.

Perplex City suffers a massive blackout.
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|14th Aug '06
| [[Iona Rodie]]'s [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/city_loses_powe.html Sentinel article] surprises us with the magnitude and duration of the blackout. The city was without power for two days, Perplexians are in an uproar and want answers.
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|17th Aug '06
|[[Sente]] sends [[Scarlett]] packing to Uncle Sanjean and Aunt Annaliese. [[Iona]] advises [[Scarlett]] that she is better off out of [[Sente]]'s way for the next few days.

Another [[Leaked email]] [[Garnet Reed]] to [[Henrik Tanner]]
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is. (note we aren't given this email until August 27th and it pushes us over the last hurdle to finding [[Combed Thunderclap]] 's posting on the Academy website.) Two more [[leaked email]]s discuss the Academy's file system.

[[Douglass Finlay]] drops out of the Council race due to the scandal rocking his campaign. The Sentinel [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/08/finlay_abandons.html explains] Finlay wants to clear his name of the allegations that he promised lucrative deals to business partners and spied on his rivals'campaigns. The campaign insider who leaked this information to the press remains unknown. The police are investigating.
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| 18th Aug '06
|[[Caine]] shares the [http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/libermemoriarum/ memorial page] [[Aiko]] created for [[Anna]]. Work has been hell and no band because [[Crowley]] resents Caine crashing his car.
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|21st Aug '06
| After convincing her aunt she is a grown-up,[[Scarlett]] goes out and meets a boy [[Emory]] who works for the electrical authority. Turns out that the people who created the [[wormhole]] disabled most of the safety mechanisms to access the massive amount of power they needed. [[Scarlett]] hasn't heard from [[Sente]] for days and days.

And the people of PerplexCity may be fed up with Academy secrecy, a massive blackout tends to get attention, the [[Sentinel]] is leading a crusade to demand the truth. You can [mailto:protest@perplexcitysentinel.com email them]
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|22nd Aug '06
|[[Garnet]]'s takeover of the [[CRT]]has been keeping [[Caine]] quiet. [[Caine]] fears his blog may be compromised soon.
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|23rd Aug '06
|The abandoned porthole of the [[wormhole]] used by the 3P to get to San Francisco is found underground outside the city. Helena confirms [[Academy]] parts were used in making the [wormhole] but it was only up for a minute. She suspects a cover-up as does Kurt. Neither of them know who [[Garnet]] answers to - but it isn't just [[Sente]].
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|25th Aug '06
|[[Sente]][http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/news.html on the Academy website] answers the public uproar about the black-out by admitting that the 3P exist, that they created a wormhole and that some of them, not sure how many, made it to Earth to search for the Cube. He also speaks to [[Scarlett]] about concentrating on school so she is giving up the Scarlette Code, her myspace puzzle trail,for now. According to [[Von]], she had some special access to the data link with Earth.
[[Kurt]] [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/08/487.html updates] he decides to track who ordered the parts (if these people are so smart, why didn't they think of that sooner, before they risked their lives and all?) Guess what? He remembers a password that he happened to see on Sente's desk--we don't ask why Sente would write down passwords--and viola! The parts were ordered for [[Special Project 487]] . Now to find out who that is.
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|27th Aug '06
|We finally find what [[Anna]]'s memorial page was pointing us to: [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel a subdirectory] set up by none other than [[Combed Thunderclap]] who seems to be here on Earth with the Cube.
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|30th Aug '06
|[[Scarlett]] looks but hasn't found any secret rooms or passages in the house designed by [[Anthony Granier]].
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====September====
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|01 Sept. 06
|[[Combed Thunderclap]] updates the Library of babel directory. We aren't sure if we had hints to find this update, or if it just updated automatically for us.
[[Scarlett]] finds a puzzle for us to solve for her. [http://www.scarlettkite.com/mosaic_full.jpg A mosaic] frame around a painting of the place (a lighthouse) [[Granier]] wrote his last novel "Lay Sorrowe to Rest". [http://www.scarlettkite.com/archives/2006/09/perhaps_a_puzzl.html For the whole entry.]
|-
|04 Sept. 06
|[[Kurt]] pressures [[Karen]] for more information about Special Project 487 relating to [[Viendenbourg]]. She reluctantly searches and finds references to a word "axiom" that relates to the Project. Hoping to leave with her father in a few weeks when he gets out of jail, she leaves Kurt with a thought and a warning : why was she called off her search for unusual activity, and Kurt had better be prepared when he finds the people behind this Project
|-
|06 Sept. 06
|[[Caine]] runs away from the Cube Project group because of an email warning him of the danger involved.
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|08 Sept. 06
|[[Violet]] tells us she and [[Caine]] broke up, Caine is away at a music conference and she has a note written by [[Anthony Granier]] to translate. Yes, we solved Scarlett's mosaic puzzle and she found a note and another [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/paper_full.jpg Granier puzzle]inside. Later we get the translation of the note, Anthony tells his children of a location they can travel where they can find out more about him, but they have to solve the accompanying puzzle first.
[[Kurt]] finds many results as he searches for links to the word "axiom." Somehow he is given the job of fixing problems with the PPC-Earth Data link, but he doesn't mention our friend [[Combed Thunderclap]]s subdirectory. [[Garnet]] has bypassed [[Henrik Tanner]] after his audit of the Data link shows some genuine security issues. Normally the [[Academy Security Centre]] would handle this but now [[Kurt]] is on it.
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Combed Thunderclap

2006-09-11T12:16:31Z

Rose: /* General */

===General===
* Posted the message on the cards "I Stole the Cube Help Me Combed Thunderclap."

* Combed Thunderclap is a title of one of the books named in the short story Library of Babel written by Borges.

* He or she communicates with us at a directory on the Academy website - [http://perplexcityacademy.com/libraryofbabel/ library of babel] which has flash chapters telling his or her story.

* He or she is extremely knowledgable about the Earth.

* He or she buried the Cube on Earth.

* Even though the message on the cards says "I stole the Cube", Combed Thunderclap now says the Cube stole him.

* {[Kurt]] is given the job of fixing security issues with the PXC-Earth Data Link, which suggests that [[Garnet]] has found and read the messages placed by Combed Thunderclap on the Academy's site.

===Text===
Transcript of waking(thanks to Mico of unfiction):

‘Eye’ opens <>

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

For a moment I thought I could see…
everything.

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

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

That I did not kill anyone.

<>

But someone did.

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

<>

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

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

__________________

Where the strikethough words were written then erased, and
the <> refers to the start of a blank screen

----
Transcript of realise:
*page 1
I realise I should tell you what happened. So that you'll understand. Because
I'm going to need your help. I only hope that you find this first. I know that
there are others looking, that they may find what I have hidden. So, help?

*page 2
This is how it was, then, I stumbled onto it. I never intended to steal
anything. In fact, it was more that it stole me. I touched it and we were gone.
I didn't know that could happen. I didn't know anything. But I'm starting from
the wrong place again. You'll have to excuse me. It's been a long time and I
haven't known who I could tell, or if I could tell anyone.

*page 3
Begin at the beginning, then. I am a person, a real
person, a single individual in Perplex City. I buried the
Cube on Earth. And I will try to tell you how, but the hows
are less apparent than the whys, and even they
are obscure. Remember this: don't look for me, I know
you're already trying. Because those other people?
They're looking for me too. And if you find me, I don't
know who will travel with you.
Fellow-travellers can be dangerous: I should know.

===References===

*unfiction threads: [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16568 library of babel], [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16636 leaves update]

Academy Security Centre

2006-09-11T11:42:37Z

Rose: /* =References */

===General===
* Headed by [[Henrik Tanner]].

* Responsible for all of the Academy's Security concerns.

*[[Kurt]] is given the responsibility of fixing issues with the Earth Data link, could this be because they found what [[Combed Thunderclap]] has put in his subdirectory?

===References===

*[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/axiom.html Path of Least Time September 8th 2006]

Academy Security Centre

2006-09-11T11:42:20Z

Rose:

===General===
* Headed by [[Henrik Tanner]].

* Responsible for all of the Academy's Security concerns.

*[[Kurt]] is given the responsibility of fixing issues with the Earth Data link, could this be because they found what [[Combed Thunderclap]] has put in his subdirectory?

====References===

*[http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/09/axiom.html Path of Least Time September 8th 2006]