https://perplexcitywiki.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=SledgecallierPerplex City Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-26T04:08:00ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.2https://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Leaked_E-mails&diff=15337Leaked E-mails2006-09-17T22:27:15Z<p>Sledgecallier: /* 11 September 2006, 12.57pm */</p>
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<div>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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
The top portion of the e-mail reads:<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">"Dear [player name],<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Your Perplex Point total is now ''[total]''. You have solved ''[x]'' cards. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br/><br />
The Puzzle Scribe Team<br/><br />
Perplex City Academy"</div><br />
<br />
Then follows an error code:<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;"><br />
"f8080:xx95034<br/><br />
internal error academail<br/><br />
criticalerror 420<br/><br />
error-authconflict<br/><br />
error-redirect<br/><br />
error-handover<br/><br />
error-output<br/><br />
fatal-close"</div><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;"><br />
Failure in Centre for Reality Research Sandbox Mail Transport Daemon (daemon<br/><br />
subprocess 3ea5). Mind Candy unavailable. Final resend attempt follows.<br/><br />
----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">f90fmvvc9m239v-2;23f-000112academail<br /><br />
criticalerror1037<br /><br />
error502-authconflict<br /><br />
error503-redirect<br /><br />
f098431290fdhandovermcd</div><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2003]]'''<br />
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2004]]'''<br />
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2005]]'''<br />
<br />
=This year's E-mails=<br />
<br />
Please post your leaked e-mail here, in chronological order. Feel free to add relative links to topics as you see fit.<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Gossip (Tippy's Anguish)==<br />
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<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.34am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Caine Johansson]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.34am<br />
<br />
I guess everyone saw yesterday's [[Sentinel]], right? If not, go and look right now.<br />
<br />
:::'''''([http://pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/03/serena_helix_se.html link])'''''<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.35am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br/><br />
To: [[Caine Johansson]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.35am<br/><br />
<br />
Uh, what are we looking for?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.36am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Caine Johansson]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.36am<br/><br />
<br />
You'll know it when you see it.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.45am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br/><br />
To: [[Caine Johansson]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.45am<br/><br />
<br />
OMG! That's awful. She must feel terrible. Do you think we should, you know, go in and talk to her?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.46am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Caine Johansson]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.46am<br/><br />
<br />
I don't think that'd be the best idea. <br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.49am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Anna Heath]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Caine Johansson]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.49am<br />
<br />
Don't worry, [[Von Lubik|Von]]. I'll talk to her.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.52am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Aiko Entrescore]]<br/><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.52am<br />
<br />
Why am I not in the least concerned?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.53am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
To: [[Aiko Entrescore]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.53am<br />
<br />
Because you're a bad, evil person, naturally. I'm sure [[Tippy Ankron|Tips]] will be devastated<br />
for at least the next 15 or 20 minutes.<br />
<br />
==Confidential (Meanwhile . . .) ==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.21am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br/><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.21am<br/><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Good morning, T5876. How do you feel?<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.22am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: PSB<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.22am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
T5876: Oh, *le sigh* things are difficult.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.23am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.23am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why are things difficult?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.25am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: PSB<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.25am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
T5876: Something's gone wrong with this guy I was seeing. Well, no, that's not<br />
it really. I didn't even like him that much. But I think everyone in the office<br />
is laughing at me behind my back. I don't know, people are weird.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.26am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.26am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why are people weird?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.28am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: PSB<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.28am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
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<br />
me.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.29am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.29am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why don't they like you?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.30am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
To: PSB<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.30am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br />
Patient T5876<br />
<br />
T5876: Well, I guess they're jealous of me...<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.31am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br/><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.31am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why are they jealous of you?<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.33am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
To: PSB<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.33am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
T5876: Hmmmm. I mean, I guess I would be, if I were them. I'm beautiful,<br />
brilliant and wealthy - it's enough to make anyone jealous. *giggles*<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.34am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br/><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.34am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: How do you feel?<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.35am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
To: PSB<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.35am<br/><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
T5876: Much better, actually. Thanks psych-bot. Talk to you tomorrow.<br/><br />
<br />
==Mining Operations (Sente's sneaky plan)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.22pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] <br><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] <br><br />
Subject: Mining Operations <br><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.22pm <br><br />
<br />
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. <br><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.31pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations<br /><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.31pm<br /><br />
<br />
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.<br /><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.33pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations<br /><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.33pm<br /><br />
<br />
I'll be overseeing the initial tests myself, sir. I'll make sure you're notified of every development immediately.<br /><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.40pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]] <br><br />
To: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] <br><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations <br><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.40pm <br><br />
<br />
Be careful. There's no telling what, precisely, is going to happen. <br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.46pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations<br /><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.46pm<br /><br />
<br />
I will be, sir, don't worry. Though if ever there were a just cause for risking your life, this would be it.<br /><br />
<br />
==Names (Anna was pregnant?!)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===6 June 2006 08.13am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Anna Heath]]<br /><br />
To: [[Fleming Heath]]<br /><br />
Subject: Names<br /><br />
Sent: 6 June 2006 08.13am<br /><br />
<br />
What do you think about Ada this time? Or Hannah? Or Robert, so we can use Bob?<br />
<br />
===6 June 2006 08.18am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Fleming Heath]]<br/><br />
To: [[Anna Heath]]<br/><br />
Subject: Re: Names<br/><br />
Sent: 6 June 2006 08.18am<br/><br />
<br />
I think it's early days yet, and we still have a lot of time to talk it over. :)<br/><br />
<br />
==Wave 4 Cards (Sente vs. Mind Candy)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 10.38am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 10.38am<br /><br />
<br />
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?<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 10.53am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 10.53am<br /><br />
<br />
What do you mean by 'unusual markings'?<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 11.15am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 11.15am<br /><br />
<br />
I've sent over a few images of the printed cards. It's pretty obvious what I'm talking about.<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 11.58am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /> <br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 11.58am<br /><br />
<br />
This is clearly a problem on your end. Perhaps you should evaluate your production process.<br /><br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 12.0pam===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] <br/><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] <br/><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards <br/><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 12.0pam ''(note strange timestamping error - maybe pxc doesnt understand noon? Take this to mean noon, probably just a typo)''<br/><br />
<br />
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.<br/><br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 12.05pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Anna Heath]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 12.05pm<br /><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 9.41am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Anna Heath]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 9.41am<br /><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 9.48am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 09.48am<br /><br />
<br />
Well? What's going on?<br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.38pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /> <br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.38pm<br /><br />
<br />
We're checking into this matter. I'll let you know how to proceed once we've decided.<br /><br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.47pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br/> <br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]], [[Sente Kiteway]]<br/> <br />
Subject: The Mighty S <br/><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.47pm <br/><br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
And at least we don't celebrate holidays based on the mystical properties of the divine right angle.<br/><br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.47pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]]<br/><br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]], [[Sente Kiteway]]<br/><br />
Subject: Re: The Mighty S<br/><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.47pm<br/><br />
<br />
You sure know how to make friends, Adrian. Don't worry, I'll help you clear your desk out...<br/><br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.53pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br/><br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]], [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]]<br/><br />
Subject: Re: The Mighty S<br/><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.53pm<br/><br />
<br />
I'll give you until tomorrow morning to find a way to apologise to me for this.<br/><br />
<br />
==(blank subject) V's Chance==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 9.44pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 9.44pm<br /><br />
<br />
Will everything be ready in time or no?<br /><br />
<br />
V.<br /> <br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 9.49pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 9.49pm<br /><br />
<br />
Don't worry, it's under control. There's no way we'll miss our big date.<br /><br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 9.57pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 9.57pm<br /><br />
<br />
I hope your confidence is merited.<br /><br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 10.02pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 10.02pm<br /><br />
<br />
I've never let you down before, and I'm not going to start now. Remember, we have plenty of time left.<br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 10.04pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 10.04pm<br /><br />
<br />
That may be so, but I dislike cutting it so close. A chance like this may not come again.<br /><br />
<br />
V.<br /><br />
<br />
==Internal Security==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.52pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
Subject: Internal Security<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.52pm<br /><br /><br />
I'm finding traces of all manner of unsavoury activity in the Academy's file<br />
system. Very many obviously-truncated logs and poorly hidden traces of<br />
illegitimate access.<br />
<br />
Is any of this your doing or just your fault?<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.54pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
Subject: Protocol<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm<br /><br /><br />
You'll have to give me more specific examples than that, Garnet. I won't be baited.<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.54pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
Subject: Internal Security<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm<br /><br /><br />
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the<br />
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't<br />
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.57pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
Subject: Protocol<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.57pm<br /><br /><br />
I don't see anything apart from Aiko's memorial. Maybe just a flicker <br />
in the system, it does happen sometimes.<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.59pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
Subject: Internal Security<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.59pm<br /><br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
I'll be keeping an eye on it.<br />
<br />
==Fishing==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.38am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.38am <br /><br /><br />
How's your schedule looking for fishing this weekend? <br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.41am=== <br />
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.41am <br /><br /><br />
Not best. S wants me in to correlate some statistics for the security department Saturday morning. <br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.45am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.45am <br /><br /><br />
Want me to have a word with Henrik? <br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.47am===<br />
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.47am <br /><br /><br />
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. <br />
<br />
===8 September 2006 6.17pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 8 September 2006 6.17pm <br /><br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
==Happy Birthday==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 08.57am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: [[CRT]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 08.57am<br /><br /><br />
So.... guess who gave Master's daughter Violet Kiteway a very special birthday present over the weekend? She certainly seemed to enjoy it....<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.02am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.02am<br /><br /><br />
Wait, you and Vi didn't finally...?<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.04am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Kurt McAllister]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday <br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.04am <br /><br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.05am===<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /> <br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.05am <br /><br /><br />
Bruno? <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.06am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.06am<br /><br /><br />
Er. No. Seriously. Drop it.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.07am===<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]] <br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday <br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.07am <br /><br /><br />
Are you going to? <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.13am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.13am<br /><br /><br />
What do you want? <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.26am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br /><br />
To: [[CRT]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.26am<br /><br /><br />
Look, it was me, OK? It's not a big deal. Can we get on with some work now?<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.29am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Aiko Entrescore]]<br/><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /> <br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.29am<br /><br /> <br />
!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 11.54am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Violet Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 11.54am<br /><br /><br />
Oh *$£@£%^*(. Sorry. I just need to go and hyperventilate for a while.<br />
Can we have lunch *off campus* today? I am feeling in need of many many<br />
fried foods. Also, that is the last time we go out dancing with Tippy.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 11.59am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Violet Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 11.59am<br /><br /><br />
And !&@£*@ to you too.<br />
<br />
==Operation Visor==<br />
--------------------<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.45pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.45pm<br /><br /><br />
How are matters progressing? I need hardly remind you of the extraordinary significance of this operation.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.48pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.48pm<br /><br /><br />
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<br />
<br />
[[3PDossier|O2]]<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.54pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.54pm<br /><br /><br />
I think that kind of latitude is inappropriate. We are running out of options.<br />
<br />
[[V]].<br />
<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.57pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.57pm<br /><br /><br />
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?<br /><br />
<br />
[[3PDossier|O2]]</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Leaked_E-mails&diff=15336Leaked E-mails2006-09-17T22:26:53Z<p>Sledgecallier: /* 11 September 2006, 12.57pm */</p>
<hr />
<div>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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
The top portion of the e-mail reads:<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">"Dear [player name],<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Your Perplex Point total is now ''[total]''. You have solved ''[x]'' cards. <br />
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.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br/><br />
The Puzzle Scribe Team<br/><br />
Perplex City Academy"</div><br />
<br />
Then follows an error code:<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;"><br />
"f8080:xx95034<br/><br />
internal error academail<br/><br />
criticalerror 420<br/><br />
error-authconflict<br/><br />
error-redirect<br/><br />
error-handover<br/><br />
error-output<br/><br />
fatal-close"</div><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;"><br />
Failure in Centre for Reality Research Sandbox Mail Transport Daemon (daemon<br/><br />
subprocess 3ea5). Mind Candy unavailable. Final resend attempt follows.<br/><br />
----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: #d6d6d6; border: thin grey solid; padding: 10px;">f90fmvvc9m239v-2;23f-000112academail<br /><br />
criticalerror1037<br /><br />
error502-authconflict<br /><br />
error503-redirect<br /><br />
f098431290fdhandovermcd</div><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2003]]'''<br />
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2004]]'''<br />
* '''[[Leaked E-mails:2005]]'''<br />
<br />
=This year's E-mails=<br />
<br />
Please post your leaked e-mail here, in chronological order. Feel free to add relative links to topics as you see fit.<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Gossip (Tippy's Anguish)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.34am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Caine Johansson]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.34am<br />
<br />
I guess everyone saw yesterday's [[Sentinel]], right? If not, go and look right now.<br />
<br />
:::'''''([http://pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/03/serena_helix_se.html link])'''''<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.35am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br/><br />
To: [[Caine Johansson]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.35am<br/><br />
<br />
Uh, what are we looking for?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.36am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Caine Johansson]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.36am<br/><br />
<br />
You'll know it when you see it.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.45am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br/><br />
To: [[Caine Johansson]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.45am<br/><br />
<br />
OMG! That's awful. She must feel terrible. Do you think we should, you know, go in and talk to her?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.46am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Caine Johansson]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Anna Heath]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.46am<br/><br />
<br />
I don't think that'd be the best idea. <br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.49am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Anna Heath]]<br/><br />
To: [[Von Lubik]], [[Caine Johansson]], [[Aiko Entrescore]], [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.49am<br />
<br />
Don't worry, [[Von Lubik|Von]]. I'll talk to her.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.52am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Aiko Entrescore]]<br/><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.52am<br />
<br />
Why am I not in the least concerned?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 9.53am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br/><br />
To: [[Aiko Entrescore]]<br/><br />
Subject: Gossip<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 9.53am<br />
<br />
Because you're a bad, evil person, naturally. I'm sure [[Tippy Ankron|Tips]] will be devastated<br />
for at least the next 15 or 20 minutes.<br />
<br />
==Confidential (Meanwhile . . .) ==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.21am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br/><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.21am<br/><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Good morning, T5876. How do you feel?<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.22am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: PSB<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.22am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
T5876: Oh, *le sigh* things are difficult.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.23am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.23am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why are things difficult?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.25am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: PSB<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.25am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
T5876: Something's gone wrong with this guy I was seeing. Well, no, that's not<br />
it really. I didn't even like him that much. But I think everyone in the office<br />
is laughing at me behind my back. I don't know, people are weird.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.26am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.26am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why are people weird?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.28am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: PSB<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.28am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
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<br />
me.<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.29am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Confidential<br /><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.29am<br /><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br /><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br /><br />
Patient T5876<br /><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why don't they like you?<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.30am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
To: PSB<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.30am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br />
Patient T5876<br />
<br />
T5876: Well, I guess they're jealous of me...<br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.31am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br/><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.31am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: Why are they jealous of you?<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.33am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
To: PSB<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.33am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
T5876: Hmmmm. I mean, I guess I would be, if I were them. I'm beautiful,<br />
brilliant and wealthy - it's enough to make anyone jealous. *giggles*<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.34am===<br />
<br />
From: PSB<br/><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.34am<br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
Psych-bot: How do you feel?<br/><br />
<br />
===24 Mar. 2006 10.35am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br/><br />
To: PSB<br/><br />
Subject: Confidential<br/><br />
Date: 24 Mar. 2006 10.35am<br/><br />
<br />
CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION<br/><br />
Psych-bot consultation #34770<br/><br />
Patient T5876<br/><br />
<br />
T5876: Much better, actually. Thanks psych-bot. Talk to you tomorrow.<br/><br />
<br />
==Mining Operations (Sente's sneaky plan)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.22pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] <br><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] <br><br />
Subject: Mining Operations <br><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.22pm <br><br />
<br />
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. <br><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.31pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations<br /><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.31pm<br /><br />
<br />
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.<br /><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.33pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations<br /><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.33pm<br /><br />
<br />
I'll be overseeing the initial tests myself, sir. I'll make sure you're notified of every development immediately.<br /><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.40pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]] <br><br />
To: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]] <br><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations <br><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.40pm <br><br />
<br />
Be careful. There's no telling what, precisely, is going to happen. <br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===12 May 2006 3.46pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Lara Feldenbrandt]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Mining Operations<br /><br />
Date: 12 May 2006 3.46pm<br /><br />
<br />
I will be, sir, don't worry. Though if ever there were a just cause for risking your life, this would be it.<br /><br />
<br />
==Names (Anna was pregnant?!)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===6 June 2006 08.13am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Anna Heath]]<br /><br />
To: [[Fleming Heath]]<br /><br />
Subject: Names<br /><br />
Sent: 6 June 2006 08.13am<br /><br />
<br />
What do you think about Ada this time? Or Hannah? Or Robert, so we can use Bob?<br />
<br />
===6 June 2006 08.18am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Fleming Heath]]<br/><br />
To: [[Anna Heath]]<br/><br />
Subject: Re: Names<br/><br />
Sent: 6 June 2006 08.18am<br/><br />
<br />
I think it's early days yet, and we still have a lot of time to talk it over. :)<br/><br />
<br />
==Wave 4 Cards (Sente vs. Mind Candy)==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 10.38am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 10.38am<br /><br />
<br />
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?<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 10.53am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 10.53am<br /><br />
<br />
What do you mean by 'unusual markings'?<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 11.15am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 11.15am<br /><br />
<br />
I've sent over a few images of the printed cards. It's pretty obvious what I'm talking about.<br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 11.58am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /> <br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 11.58am<br /><br />
<br />
This is clearly a problem on your end. Perhaps you should evaluate your production process.<br /><br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 12.0pam===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]] <br/><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]] <br/><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards <br/><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 12.0pam ''(note strange timestamping error - maybe pxc doesnt understand noon? Take this to mean noon, probably just a typo)''<br/><br />
<br />
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.<br/><br />
<br />
===20 July 2006 12.05pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Anna Heath]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 20 July 2006 12.05pm<br /><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 9.41am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Anna Heath]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 9.41am<br /><br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 9.48am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
To: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 09.48am<br /><br />
<br />
Well? What's going on?<br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.38pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br /> <br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br /><br />
Subject: Re: Wave 4 Cards<br /><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.38pm<br /><br />
<br />
We're checking into this matter. I'll let you know how to proceed once we've decided.<br /><br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.47pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]]<br/> <br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]], [[Sente Kiteway]]<br/> <br />
Subject: The Mighty S <br/><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.47pm <br/><br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
And at least we don't celebrate holidays based on the mystical properties of the divine right angle.<br/><br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.47pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]]<br/><br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]], [[Sente Kiteway]]<br/><br />
Subject: Re: The Mighty S<br/><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.47pm<br/><br />
<br />
You sure know how to make friends, Adrian. Don't worry, I'll help you clear your desk out...<br/><br />
<br />
===21 July 2006 5.53pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Sente Kiteway]]<br/><br />
To: [[Mind_Candy#Adrian_Hon|Adrian Hon]], [[Mind_Candy#Naomi_Alderman|Naomi Alderman]]<br/><br />
Subject: Re: The Mighty S<br/><br />
Sent: 21 July 2006 5.53pm<br/><br />
<br />
I'll give you until tomorrow morning to find a way to apologise to me for this.<br/><br />
<br />
==(blank subject) V's Chance==<br />
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<br />
===23 July 2006 9.44pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 9.44pm<br /><br />
<br />
Will everything be ready in time or no?<br /><br />
<br />
V.<br /> <br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 9.49pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 9.49pm<br /><br />
<br />
Don't worry, it's under control. There's no way we'll miss our big date.<br /><br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 9.57pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 9.57pm<br /><br />
<br />
I hope your confidence is merited.<br /><br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 10.02pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 10.02pm<br /><br />
<br />
I've never let you down before, and I'm not going to start now. Remember, we have plenty of time left.<br />
<br />
===23 July 2006 10.04pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld<br /><br />
Subject:<br /><br />
Date: 23 July 2006 10.04pm<br /><br />
<br />
That may be so, but I dislike cutting it so close. A chance like this may not come again.<br /><br />
<br />
V.<br /><br />
<br />
==Internal Security==<br />
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<br />
===17 August 2006 06.52pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
Subject: Internal Security<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.52pm<br /><br /><br />
I'm finding traces of all manner of unsavoury activity in the Academy's file<br />
system. Very many obviously-truncated logs and poorly hidden traces of<br />
illegitimate access.<br />
<br />
Is any of this your doing or just your fault?<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.54pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
Subject: Protocol<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm<br /><br /><br />
You'll have to give me more specific examples than that, Garnet. I won't be baited.<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.54pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
Subject: Internal Security<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.54pm<br /><br /><br />
Well, there's some 'library of something or other' subdirectory off the<br />
main path, for example. I only saw it for a split second and I couldn't<br />
get into it, but it clearly doesn't belong there, whatever it is.<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.57pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
Subject: Protocol<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.57pm<br /><br /><br />
I don't see anything apart from Aiko's memorial. Maybe just a flicker <br />
in the system, it does happen sometimes.<br />
<br />
===17 August 2006 06.59pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Henrik Tanner]]<br /><br />
Subject: Internal Security<br /><br />
Sent: 17 August 2006 06.59pm<br /><br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
I'll be keeping an eye on it.<br />
<br />
==Fishing==<br />
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<br />
===6 September 2006 7.38am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.38am <br /><br /><br />
How's your schedule looking for fishing this weekend? <br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.41am=== <br />
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.41am <br /><br /><br />
Not best. S wants me in to correlate some statistics for the security department Saturday morning. <br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.45am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
To: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.45am <br /><br /><br />
Want me to have a word with Henrik? <br />
<br />
===6 September 2006 7.47am===<br />
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 6 September 2006 7.47am <br /><br /><br />
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. <br />
<br />
===8 September 2006 6.17pm===<br />
<br />
From: [[Patrick Azadian]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Fishing <br /><br />
Sent: 8 September 2006 6.17pm <br /><br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
==Happy Birthday==<br />
--------------<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 08.57am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
To: [[CRT]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 08.57am<br /><br /><br />
So.... guess who gave Master's daughter Violet Kiteway a very special birthday present over the weekend? She certainly seemed to enjoy it....<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.02am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.02am<br /><br /><br />
Wait, you and Vi didn't finally...?<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.04am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Kurt McAllister]] <br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday <br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.04am <br /><br /><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.05am===<br />
From: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /> <br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.05am <br /><br /><br />
Bruno? <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.06am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.06am<br /><br /><br />
Er. No. Seriously. Drop it.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.07am===<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]] <br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday <br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.07am <br /><br /><br />
Are you going to? <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.13am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br /><br />
To: [[Tippy Ankron]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.13am<br /><br /><br />
What do you want? <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.26am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Von Lubik]]<br /><br />
To: [[CRT]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.26am<br /><br /><br />
Look, it was me, OK? It's not a big deal. Can we get on with some work now?<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 09.29am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Aiko Entrescore]]<br/><br />
To: [[Garnet Reed]] <br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /> <br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 09.29am<br /><br /> <br />
!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 11.54am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Violet Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 11.54am<br /><br /><br />
Oh *$£@£%^*(. Sorry. I just need to go and hyperventilate for a while.<br />
Can we have lunch *off campus* today? I am feeling in need of many many<br />
fried foods. Also, that is the last time we go out dancing with Tippy.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006 11.59am===<br />
<br />
From: [[Violet Kiteway]]<br /><br />
To: [[Kurt McAllister]]<br /><br />
Subject: Happy birthday<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006 11.59am<br /><br /><br />
And !&@£*@ to you too.<br />
<br />
==Operation Visor==<br />
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<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.45pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.45pm<br /><br /><br />
How are matters progressing? I need hardly remind you of the extraordinary significance of this operation.<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.48pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.48pm<br /><br /><br />
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<br />
<br />
[[3PDossier|O2]]<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.54pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.54pm<br /><br /><br />
I think that kind of latitude is inappropriate. We are running out of options.<br />
<br />
[[V]].<br />
<br />
<br />
===11 September 2006, 12.57pm===<br />
<br />
From: name withheld<br /><br />
To: name withheld, name withheld<br /><br />
Subject: Operation Visor<br /><br />
Sent: 11 September 2006, 12.57pm<br /><br />
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?<br /><br />
<br />
[[3PDossier|O2]]</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=269_Case_Study_Raw_Data&diff=13155269 Case Study Raw Data2006-06-14T21:15:45Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==269 Case Study==<br />
===Clues===<br />
I have ordered and manually removed any duplications... there may well be many more clues for this puzzle but this is a good starting point.<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "Adamek," is "Access"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "an" is "to"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "basis." is "study"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "determined" is "require"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "have" is "Adamek,"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "If" is "to"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "of" is "channels"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "review" is "communications"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "Romero." is "an"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "study" is "you"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "tampered" is "Inman,"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "various" is "that"<br />
<br />
The eighth word after "you" is "further"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "Access" is "Adamek,"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "access" is "on"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "and" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "is" is "Fennerman,"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "one" is "research,"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "or" is "and"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "secure" is "including"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "study" is "basis."<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "that" is "various"<br />
<br />
The eighth word before "the" is "study"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "access" is "the"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "Adamek," is "study"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "compromised." is "Access"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "critical" is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "Fennerman," is "an"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "have" is "Morgan,"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "If" is "research,"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "including" is "have"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "is" is "to"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "Kiteway," is "to"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "Novak," is "basis."<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "of" is "and"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "on" is "study"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "Pham," is "as-needed"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "possible" is "with"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "Romero." is "If"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "that" is "compromised."<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "to" is "one"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "various" is "secure"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word after "your" is "the"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "access" is "study"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "adjunct" is "research,"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "are" is "to"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "determined" is "Inman,"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "fellows." is "speak"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "Mansoor," is "and"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "Morgan," is "have"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "speak" is "are"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "the" is "access"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "this" is "Mansoor,"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word before "to" is "require"<br />
<br />
The eleventh word is "indicators"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "an" is "are"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "and" is "been"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "as-needed" is "require"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "channels" is "or"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "determined" is "If"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "have" is "compromised."<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "including" is "that"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "indicators" is "communications"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "Morgan," is "Access"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "one" is "fellows."<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "or" is "Ekeba,"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "or" is "senior"<br />
<br />
The fifth word after "that" is "channels"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "adjunct" is "head"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "and" is "of"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "Ekeba," is "or"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "Fennerman," is "Mansoor,"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "further" is "access"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "institutions," is "Threat"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "of" is "various"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "research," is "this"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "review" is "of"<br />
<br />
The fifth word before "study" is "are"<br />
<br />
The fifth word is "government"<br />
<br />
The first word after "Access" is "to"<br />
<br />
The first word after "Adamek," is "Ekeba,"<br />
<br />
The first word after "adjunct" is "senior"<br />
<br />
The first word after "analysis" is "of"<br />
<br />
The first word after "critical" is "and"<br />
<br />
The first word after "department" is "head"<br />
<br />
The first word after "Ekeba," is "Inman,"<br />
<br />
The first word after "Fennerman," is "Pham,"<br />
<br />
The first word after "Mansoor," is "Adamek,"<br />
<br />
The first word after "of" is "the"<br />
<br />
The first word after "secure" is "communications"<br />
<br />
The first word after "senior" is "fellows."<br />
<br />
The first word after "study" is "to"<br />
<br />
The first word after "the" is "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The first word after "this" is "study"<br />
<br />
The first word after "to" is "the"<br />
<br />
The first word after "to" is "this"<br />
<br />
The first word before "adjunct" is "the"<br />
<br />
The first word before "an" is "on"<br />
<br />
The first word before "analysis" is "Threat"<br />
<br />
The first word before "are" is "you"<br />
<br />
The first word before "been" is "have"<br />
<br />
The first word before "further" is "to"<br />
<br />
The first word before "including" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The first word before "is" is "study"<br />
<br />
The first word before "Kiteway," is "compromised."<br />
<br />
The first word before "of" is "analysis"<br />
<br />
The first word before "of" is "review"<br />
<br />
The first word before "on" is "determined"<br />
<br />
The first word before "or" is "head"<br />
<br />
The first word before "require" is "are"<br />
<br />
The first word before "tampered" is "been"<br />
<br />
The first word before "various" is "of"<br />
<br />
The first word before "your" is "further"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "an" is "you"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "analysis" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "critical" is "channels"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "department" is "of"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "further" is "speak"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "head" is "the"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "indicators" is "secure"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "Kiteway," is "Inman,"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "Morgan," is "Romero."<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "or" is "Adamek,"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "Pham," is "to"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "study" is "an"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "the" is "one"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "to" is "please"<br />
<br />
The fourth word after "with" is "Mansoor,"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "as-needed" is "is"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "basis." is "determined"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "communications" is "that"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "fellows." is "of"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "government" is "Threat"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "head" is "speak"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "including" is "of"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "on" is "this"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "Romero." is "Morgan,"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "senior" is "one"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "speak" is "further"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "study" is "require"<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "study" is "Romero."<br />
<br />
The fourth word before "with" is "channels"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "as-needed" is "study"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "basis." is "to"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "communications" is "Mansoor,"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "determined" is "access"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "including" is "communications"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "Inman," is "study"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "institutions," is "secure"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "Mansoor," is "Access"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "Novak," is "an"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "Pham," is "on"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "require" is "please"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "secure" is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "this" is "you"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "Threat" is "possible"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "you" is "your"<br />
<br />
The ninth word after "your" is "one"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "and" is "government"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "are" is "study"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "communications" is "including"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "compromised." is "and"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "Mansoor," is "communications"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "require" is "is"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "secure" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "senior" is "to"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "that" is "of"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "this" is "an"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "to" is "on"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "to" is "to"<br />
<br />
The ninth word before "with" is "that"<br />
<br />
The second word after "Access" is "this"<br />
<br />
The second word after "analysis" is "various"<br />
<br />
The second word after "channels" is "been"<br />
<br />
The second word after "compromised." is "Mansoor,"<br />
<br />
The second word after "head" is "one"<br />
<br />
The second word after "indicators" is "critical"<br />
<br />
The second word after "is" is "on"<br />
<br />
The second word after "of" is "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The second word after "of" is "government"<br />
<br />
The second word after "of" is "indicators"<br />
<br />
The second word after "on" is "as-needed"<br />
<br />
The second word after "or" is "of"<br />
<br />
The second word after "require" is "to"<br />
<br />
The second word after "tampered" is "or"<br />
<br />
The second word after "the" is "senior"<br />
<br />
The second word after "to" is "study"<br />
<br />
The second word after "various" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The second word after "with" is "compromised."<br />
<br />
The second word before "been" is "channels"<br />
<br />
The second word before "further" is "study"<br />
<br />
The second word before "including" is "government"<br />
<br />
The second word before "Inman," is "Adamek,"<br />
<br />
The second word before "institutions," is "various"<br />
<br />
The second word before "Morgan," is "Ekeba,"<br />
<br />
The second word before "of" is "Threat"<br />
<br />
The second word before "one" is "head"<br />
<br />
The second word before "secure" is "critical"<br />
<br />
The second word before "speak" is "research,"<br />
<br />
The second word before "the" is "one"<br />
<br />
The second word before "to" is "require"<br />
<br />
The seventeenth word is "channels"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "Adamek," is "Romero."<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "are" is "further"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "channels" is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "government" is "that"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "head" is "fellows."<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "If" is "study"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "Inman," is "to"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "Kiteway," is "Pham,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "Morgan," is "this"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "Novak," is "determined"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "of" is "communications"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "of" is "possible"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "require" is "your"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "speak" is "of"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "study" is "If"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "tampered" is "Ekeba,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "the" is "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "this" is "basis."<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "to" is "as-needed"<br />
<br />
The seventh word after "to" is "the"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "Access" is "Ekeba,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "adjunct" is "the"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "been" is "that"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "been" is "that"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "channels" is "possible"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "critical" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "department" is "further"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "Ekeba," is "tampered"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "If" is "study"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "indicators" is "various"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "Novak," is "Mansoor,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "or" is "secure"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "Pham," is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "possible" is "of"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "research," is "access"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "secure" is "review"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "the" is "to"<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "this" is "basis."<br />
<br />
The seventh word before "you" is "is"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "analysis" is "review"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "critical" is "been"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "department" is "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "determined" is "you"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "Fennerman," is "this"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "head" is "senior"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "is" is "If"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "or" is "fellows."<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "Pham," is "study"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "speak" is "one"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "study" is "speak"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "Threat" is "including"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "to" is "research,"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "to" is "to"<br />
<br />
The sixth word after "various" is "possible"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "adjunct" is "department"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "determined" is "Romero."<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "fellows." is "or"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "indicators" is "government"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "one" is "speak"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "possible" is "various"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "speak" is "study"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "the" is "further"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "this" is "If"<br />
<br />
The sixth word before "to" is "basis."<br />
<br />
The sixth word is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "access" is "to"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "and" is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "are" is "please"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "further" is "one"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "Inman," is "is"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "Mansoor," is "to"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "possible" is "tampered"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "research," is "the"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "review" is "have"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "study" is "require"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "tampered" is "Fennerman,"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "Threat" is "indicators"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "to" is "or"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "with" is "Pham,"<br />
<br />
The tenth word after "your" is "of"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "as-needed" is "Novak,"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "basis." is "Romero."<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "communications" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "Ekeba," is "channels"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "fellows." is "to"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "Kiteway," is "and"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "senior" is "speak"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "that" is "analysis"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "this" is "on"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "to" is "as-needed"<br />
<br />
The tenth word before "with" is "indicators"<br />
<br />
The third word after "access" is "study"<br />
<br />
The third word after "communications" is "been"<br />
<br />
The third word after "department" is "one"<br />
<br />
The third word after "Inman," is "Pham,"<br />
<br />
The third word after "Morgan," is "Novak,"<br />
<br />
The third word after "of" is "senior"<br />
<br />
The third word after "one" is "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The third word after "or" is "the"<br />
<br />
The third word after "Pham," is "Access"<br />
<br />
The third word after "please" is "the"<br />
<br />
The third word after "research," is "to"<br />
<br />
The third word after "the" is "fellows."<br />
<br />
The third word after "Threat" is "various"<br />
<br />
The third word before "Access" is "Pham,"<br />
<br />
The third word before "an" is "is"<br />
<br />
The third word before "compromised." is "tampered"<br />
<br />
The third word before "department" is "speak"<br />
<br />
The third word before "Ekeba," is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The third word before "government" is "analysis"<br />
<br />
The third word before "If" is "an"<br />
<br />
The third word before "indicators" is "review"<br />
<br />
The third word before "of" is "head"<br />
<br />
The third word before "of" is "institutions,"<br />
<br />
The third word before "on" is "study"<br />
<br />
The third word before "please" is "further"<br />
<br />
The third word before "Romero." is "Fennerman,"<br />
<br />
The third word before "this" is "Romero."<br />
<br />
The third word before "to" is "Novak,"<br />
<br />
The third word before "you" is "as-needed"<br />
<br />
The thirtieth word is "Fennerman,"<br />
<br />
The twenty-first word is "with"<br />
<br />
The twenty-second word is "or"<br />
<br />
The twenty-third word is "compromised."<br />
<br />
The word "access" is next to "require"<br />
<br />
The word "an" is next to "on"<br />
<br />
The word "analysis" is next to "of"<br />
<br />
The word "are" is next to "require"<br />
<br />
The word "as-needed" is next to "an"<br />
<br />
The word "basis." is next to "If"<br />
<br />
The word "been" is next to "have"<br />
<br />
The word "been" is next to "tampered"<br />
<br />
The word "compromised." is next to "or"<br />
<br />
The word "Fennerman," is next to "Morgan,"<br />
<br />
The word "have" is next to "channels"<br />
<br />
The word "head" is next to "department"<br />
<br />
The word "institutions," is next to "government"<br />
<br />
The word "Mansoor," is next to "Adamek,"<br />
<br />
The word "of" is next to "various"<br />
<br />
The word "or" is next to "one"<br />
<br />
The word "please" is next to "speak"<br />
<br />
The word "possible" is next to "indicators"<br />
<br />
The word "possible" is next to "of"<br />
<br />
The word "require" is next to "are"<br />
<br />
The word "research," is next to "please"<br />
<br />
The word "review" is next to "including"<br />
<br />
The word "secure" is next to "and"<br />
<br />
The word "senior" is next to "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The word "study" is next to "is"<br />
<br />
The word "study" is next to "this"<br />
<br />
The word "study" is next to "to"<br />
<br />
The word "Threat" is next to "analysis"<br />
<br />
The word "to" is next to "this"<br />
<br />
The word "you" is next to "are"<br />
<br />
The word after "access" is "department"<br />
<br />
The word after "Novak," is "If"<br />
<br />
The word after "Romero." is "you"<br />
<br />
The word after "your" is "adjunct"<br />
<br />
The word before "fellows." is "please"<br />
<br />
The word before "please" is "If"<br />
<br />
The word before "research," is "basis."<br />
<br />
The word before "this" is "Kiteway,"<br />
<br />
The word before "to" is "study"<br />
<br />
The word before "your" is "as-needed"</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Cryptology&diff=13151Department of Cryptology2006-06-14T21:03:16Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>This is the Crypto department of the Perplex City Academy<br />
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There are a number of pages ranging from alpha to gama; all are encoded. They lead to an epsilon page which gives us a number of logic puzzles, these reveal transcripts and reports.<br />
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269 Case Study: A list of clues can he found [[here]] although there is no way to say whether it is complete.<br />
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268 Case Study: An Analysis of the Djinn Virus as pertains to Next Generation Key Technology - Available on request from Centrifuge Tian Fouler Coupland<br />
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267 Case Study: Sharp_and Sharp___of_substances that guidelines on developing agitation_systems to allow biometric use of cognitive enhancers. Bradshore Mittwoch<br />
macmonkey says : 'voice-recognition and other biometric security of pharmocological' fits in there as well, voice-recognition is th 18th word<br />
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'''267 White Paper:''' Neural Desteganographic Decryption. A proposed system to imprint an image with cipher-text recognisable by only the neural pattern of the intended recipient fails to work robustly or over time. Probable<br />
real-world uses limited at present. [[Stanton]], Cupertine.<br />
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'''266 Case Study:''' An analysis of the Academy security system, strengths and vulnerabilities, action points. Kiteway, Scryer, Gatlin, Framingham. Access to this study is determined on an as-needed basis. If you are require access to this study to further your research, please speak to the department head or one of the adjunct senior fellows. ''(NOTE: There seem to be some errors in the clues, notably those that begin "The word before X is Y.")''<br />
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'''269 Case Study:''' Threat anaysis of various government institutions including review of possible indicators that critical and secure communications channels have been tampered with or compromised Kiteway Mansoor Adamek Ekeba Inman Morgan Phan Fennerman Novak Romero Access to this study is determined on an as-needed basis if you are require access to this study to further your research, please speak to the department head or one of the adjunct senior fellows.<br />
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[[Category:Perplex City Academy]]<br />
[[Category:Cryptology Department]]<br />
[[Category:Crypto_Studies_and_Field_Work]]</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=London_PCAG_event&diff=10837London PCAG event2006-02-28T19:55:37Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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[[Image:Alert_liveevent_frontpage.gif]]<br />
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'''Please add links to your photo galleries below! If you need a login, ask in #syzygy and someone will create one for you. Also...we ''will'' be co-opting players' images for this page, so keep an eye out for your photos!'''<br />
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==General==<br />
*On Saturday, Feb. 25, players gathered in London for the much-anticipated [[PCAG]] competition, the follow-up to the [[New York PCAG event]]<br />
*Starting at 10 AM, 25-35 people turned up for "Brunchfast", a pre-event social at [http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/pubfinder/details.php?OutletNumber=333 JD Weatherspoon's pub] (though no one brought a pink balloon, the pre-determined identification symbol)<br />
*Meanwhile, nine players and representatives crammed themselves into a phone booth at Trafalgar Square for publicity shots with a professional photographer (by the way, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3162715.stm the world record is 14])<br />
*Doors opened at 12 PM for signing in 200 individuals, broken into groups of six (38 teams total)<br />
*After an introduction by [[Mind Candy|Adrian]], the games began at 1 PM<br />
*Goods including t-shirts, starter packs, mugs and posters were available for sale<br />
*Each team received one special, light blue PCAG bag, and every participant received a PCAG [[Leitmark]]<br />
*Base camp puzzle trades<br />
*The members of the winning team received clear cubes as prizes<br />
*After the games concluded, the top 8 teams were taken to the London Eye, where they intercepted a conversation (?) in morse code, flashed with torches on either side of the river; this has not yet been translated<br />
*Later, everyone retired to the Horse and Groom pub on Great Portland Street for social interaction lubricated by alcohol<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Phonebooth.jpg|9 people in a booth<br />
Image:Camerainterview.jpg|Cameras interview players at base camp<br />
Image:Merchandise.jpg|Merchandise for sale<br />
Image:Crowd.jpg|Just as the event starts<br />
Image:Endscreen.jpg|End screen<br />
Image:Puzzlemonkeyswin.jpg|Puzzle Monkeys take first place!<br />
Image:Pub.jpg|Hanging out at the pub<br />
Image:Blurrypub.jpg|Group shot at the end of the night<br />
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==The Games==<br />
*Players received on Perplex City bag per team, containing a folder with challenge and information sheets<br />
*Teams had until 4:00 PM to complete as many challenges on the sheet as possible. This included:<br />
**Taking phone camera pictures of the task as evidence and sending them in via MMS<br />
**Having helpers visually verify tasks<br />
**and texting base camp if the challenge could be answered in words<br />
*Teams would also receive trivia texts throughout the day, with points for each correct answer<br />
*Other texts would be sent out if a new challenge was happening close by<br />
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Image:Page1.jpg|The instruction sheet<br />
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===Challenge sheets===<br />
*16 questions requiring observation from walking round an area of central London (a triangle between Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square and Picadilly Circus) that we had to text back to HQ for varying amounts of points (10-40). With hindsight the questions were in a good walking order, although those that did it backwards didn't get waylaid by the anti terrorism march and demonstration. (340 points)<br />
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Image:Page2.jpg|Pages of questions<br />
Image:Page3.jpg|Pages of questions<br />
Image:Chavhome.JPG|Home of chavs<br />
Image:Chinatown.jpg|Chinatown<br />
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===Photo evidence===<br />
*Six photo questions that required you to MMS photos of your team in various locations (260 plus open-ended 5 points per letter photo)<br />
*These consisted of:<br />
**1) Photos of the whole team at the following Tube stations:<br />
***Chancery Lane<br />
***Picadilly Circus<br />
***Charing Cross<br />
***Leicester Square<br />
***Each of these was worth 20 points with an extra bonus 20 if you got them all.<br />
**2) Fit up to 6 people in a phone box. (5 Points per person)<br />
**3) Sit up to 6 people on a Trafalgar Square Lion. (5 Points per person)<br />
**4) Form a human chain between two diagonal Trafalgar Square Lions, with each end touching the Lion. (40 Points)<br />
**5) Form a human chain on the ground around Nelson's Column. (60 Points) <br />
**6) Spell out a real word using people, either standing up or lying down. (5 Points per letter)<br />
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Image:Liontrafalgar.jpg|Sitting on Lions at Trafalgar Square<br />
Image:Liontrafalgar2.jpg|Lions<br />
Image:Lionsconnect.jpg|Connecting two lions<br />
Image:Chain1.jpg|A chain that stretched all the way around Nelson's Column<br />
Image:Chain2.jpg|More chain<br />
Image:Leicester.jpg|Leicester Square<br />
Image:Chancerylane2.jpg|Team Viridian<br />
Image:Chancerylane.jpg|Teams at Chancery Lane<br />
Image:Jazzhandscharingcross.jpg|Teams at Charing Cross<br />
Image:Perlexity.jpg|"PERPLEXITY"<br />
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===SMS trivia questions===<br />
*Eight trivia questions texted through the day (7x20 + 1x10 = 150)<br />
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13:22:11, "Trivia - What year is it in Perplex City? Code: 601 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: 269 AC<br />
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14:53:47, "Trivia - What surname is shared by Sente, Violet and Scarlett? Code: 602 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: Kiteway<br />
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14:54:14, "Trivia - What's the tallest building in Perplex City? Code: 603 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: Ascendancy Point<br />
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14:54:31, "Trivia - Which river runs through Perplex City? Code: 604 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: The Mazy River<br />
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15:06:15, "Trivia - What is the leading newspaper in Perplex City called? Code: 605 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: The Perplex City Sentinel<br />
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15:17:20, "Trivia - What is Scarlett's blog called? Code: 606 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: The Scarlett Kite<br />
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15:28:25, "Trivia - Which Perplex City artist released an album on Earth? Code: 607 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: Viard<br />
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15:43:38, "Trivia .-- .... .- - / .. ... / .--. . .-. .--. .-.. . -..- / -.-. .. - -.-- ... / -.-. ..- .-. .-. . -. -.-. -.-- Code: 608 Points: 10"<br />
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Answer: ''"What is Perplex City's currency?"'' Lecks<br />
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===National Gallery trail===<br />
*A special National Gallery section that gave cryptic clues for a trail through the gallery with a bumper 250-point question at the end to tempt us. Also to be texted. (370 points)<br />
<br />
<br />
===Ranger verification===<br />
*Two questions requiring you to be witnessed either singing as part of a 6 team choir for 90 seconds in Leicester Square or playing various video games against other teams at the Trocadero Arcade. For free, too! (100 Points per team for the choir, 80/50/30 Points at the arcade, depending on how well you did)<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Happybirthday.jpg|Choir singing "Happy Birthday"<br />
Image:Hokeypokey.jpg|Doing the Hokey Pokey in Leicester Square<br />
Image:Trocadero.jpg|DDR at the Trocadero<br />
</gallery><br />
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<br />
===Base camp===<br />
*Two questions that required you to compete against other teams building a biscuit tower or spelling backwords (60 plus open-ended 10 points per letter spelling).<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Biscuitstack.jpg|Stacking custard creams<br />
Image:Biscuitsmeasure.jpg|Measuring biscuit stacks<br />
Image:Spellingbee.jpg|Spelling bee<br />
</gallery><br />
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<br />
===Spot challenges===<br />
*Three or four other tasks texted through the day, including choir practice, Wacky Races and a conga line<br />
<br />
<br />
===Final challenge===<br />
*The final task was to purchase the largest object possible for £1, with receipt<br />
**The undisputed* winner of the biggest item for £1 was the [[media:Toilet-Paper-=-ftw!.gif|toilet roll]] bought by the CRT (Cube ReCoventry Team). With two 2-ply rolls for the bargain price of £0.95, and weighing in at an amazing 119.04 metres long, or 13.09 square metres in area, it truly was value for money! Toilet roll runs from left to right through the far doors in the photo and then some way up the stairs.<br />
***(*may not have actually won!)<br />
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<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Newspaper.jpg|Spreading the newspaper on the floor<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border=1 cellpadding=10<br />
|-<br />
| '''Rank'''<br />
| '''Team name'''<br />
| '''Points scored'''<br />
|-<br />
| 1<br />
| The Puzzle Monkeys<br />
| 1200<br />
|-<br />
| 2<br />
| Perplex Monkeys<br />
| 1072<br />
|-<br />
| 3<br />
| Logic, Intelligence and excellance<br />
| 1062<br />
|-<br />
| 4<br />
| The Cube ReCoventry Team<br />
| 1017<br />
|-<br />
| 5<br />
| Team Jazz Hands<br />
| 1002<br />
|-<br />
| 6<br />
| Serpentine Road<br />
| 962<br />
|-<br />
| 7<br />
| Good Guys, Bad guys 'n' explosions<br />
| 957<br />
|-<br />
| 8<br />
| Reservoir Frogs<br />
| 937<br />
|-<br />
| 9<br />
| Chic Geeks<br />
| 892<br />
|-<br />
| 10<br />
| Random Genius<br />
| 880<br />
|-<br />
| 11<br />
| Anglo Irish Contingent<br />
| 827<br />
|-<br />
| 12<br />
| Simba's Waffles<br />
| 772<br />
|-<br />
| 13<br />
| NorfolkFour<br />
| 762<br />
|-<br />
| 14<br />
| The Klatchian Foreign Legion<br />
| 752<br />
|-<br />
| 15<br />
| The Red Folks<br />
| 752<br />
|-<br />
| 16<br />
| The Argonauts<br />
| 745<br />
|-<br />
| 17<br />
| Muddled to the power of 5<br />
| 727<br />
|-<br />
| 18<br />
| The Sharkheads<br />
| 720<br />
|-<br />
| 19<br />
| The Minkies<br />
| 707<br />
|-<br />
| 20<br />
| The Wildcards<br />
| 702<br />
|-<br />
| 21<br />
| The Roofers<br />
| 672<br />
|-<br />
| 22<br />
| Viridian<br />
| 665<br />
|-<br />
| 23<br />
| Team Cambridge<br />
| 637<br />
|-<br />
| 24<br />
| Exit, pursued by a bear<br />
| 617<br />
|-<br />
| 25<br />
| thekipsclubb<br />
| 615<br />
|-<br />
| 26<br />
| The Goodies<br />
| 612<br />
|-<br />
| 27<br />
| lippy yank<br />
| 590<br />
|-<br />
| 28<br />
| kalimotxo<br />
| 527<br />
|-<br />
| 29<br />
| Smarties<br />
| 492<br />
|-<br />
| 30<br />
| The IT Crowd<br />
| 465<br />
|-<br />
| 31<br />
| Hunters with attitude<br />
| 455<br />
|-<br />
| 32<br />
| Sigma Chi<br />
| 450<br />
|-<br />
| 33<br />
| Noumenon9<br />
| 435<br />
|-<br />
| 34<br />
| Violet-Harlow<br />
| 425<br />
|-<br />
| 35<br />
| Lill Baz<br />
| 390<br />
|-<br />
| 36<br />
| The Bells<br />
| 305<br />
|-<br />
| 37<br />
| The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad<br />
| 300<br />
|-<br />
| 38<br />
| And so it begins<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Facts==<br />
*Biggest event of its kind<br />
*127 people in the conga line<br />
*3830 texts sent out<br />
*1153 texts recieved<br />
*27276 points earned<br />
*2 things going completely wrong<br />
**The first was that culture wardens in Trafalgar Square wouldn't allow any "professional" filming of the events around Nelson's Column.<br />
**The second was the huge angry protest march which gathered in Trafalgar Square, *on* Nelson's Column...about 30 seconds before the Conga Challenge started right in front of them.<br />
*0 arrests<br />
*£1 challenge:<br />
**5 people sold for £1<br />
**3 countries<br />
**3 newspapers<br />
**1 toilet paper roll<br />
*''pcaglondon'' and ''perplexcity'' were listed as hot tags on Flickr for several days<br />
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[[Image:Hottags.jpg]]<br />
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<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Wardens.jpg<br />
Image:Protest.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
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<br />
==The London Eye and Morse Code==<br />
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<gallery><br />
Image:Londoneye.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
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==Photographs==<br />
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*[http://flickr.com/photos/lhall/sets/72057594071168772/ LHall's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://flickr.com/photos/15909250@N00/sets/72057594070753420/ Mikey_J's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/number9dream_/sets/72057594070928239/ number9dream's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414503@N00/sets/72057594070650349/ Daemon Kirjava's flickr photoset part one] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mautalent/sets/72057594071038539/ part two]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyparsons/sets/72057594071203768/ guy_p's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/52858379@N00/ sotonrich's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/skenmy/sets/72057594070254618/ skenmy's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/85268853@N00/sets/72057594070541197/ buzman's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/95065610@N00/sets/72057594070661529/ amliag's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/86464159@N00/ brat-sampson's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/39899380@N00/sets/72057594071295247/ Gibbet's flickr photoset (No kloos here!)]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaltips/ Crys's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlgeek/ sherpa's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/sledgecallier/sets/72057594071486227/ SledgeCallier's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.jocarter.co.uk/gallery/PerplexCity/ Angelsk's photo gallery]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/60912246@N00/sets/72057594071488099/ kksweety's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://flickr.com/photos/sequoya/sets/72057594071651095/ Sequoya's flickr photoset]<br />
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==Video==<br />
*[http://www.putfile.com/sledgecallier/ SledgeCallier's video of the event]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
*[http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/26/gamers-flash-mobs-and-london-the-perplex-city-academy-games/ Joystiq.com - "Gamers, flash mobs, and London -- the Perplex City Academy Games"]<br />
*[http://yemblespcag.livejournal.com/ Yembles' blog walkthrough of the PCAG for the team 'The Sharkheads']<br />
*The Perplex City Sentinel<br />
**article, 27-FEB-06, "[[Blafard]] in NY Crowned [[New York PCAG event|First Earth PCAG Winner]]" ([http://www.pxcsentinel.com/archives/2006/02/blafard_in_ny_c.html link])</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=London_PCAG_event&diff=10758London PCAG event2006-02-27T19:56:27Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>'''Please add links to your photo galleries below! If you need a login, ask in #syzygy and someone will create one for you. Also...we ''will'' be co-opting players' images for this page, so keep an eye out for your photos!'''<br />
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==General==<br />
*On Saturday, Feb. 25, players gathered in London for the much-anticipated [[PCAG]] competition, the follow-up to the [[New York PCAG event]]<br />
*25-35 people turned up for "Brunchfast", a pre-event social at [http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/pubfinder/details.php?OutletNumber=333 JD Weatherspoon's pub] (though no one brought a pink balloon, the pre-determined identification symbol)<br />
*Meanwhile, nine players and representatives crammed themselves into a phone booth at Trafalgar Square for publicity shots with a professional photographer (by the way, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3162715.stm the world record is 14])<br />
*Doors opened at 12 PM for signing in 200 individuals, broken into groups of six (38 teams total)<br />
*After an introduction by [[Mind Candy|Adrian]], the games began at 1 PM<br />
*Goods including t-shirts, starter packs, mugs and posters were available for sale<br />
*Each team received one special, light blue PCAG bag, and every participant received a PCAG [[Leitmark]]<br />
*The members of the winning team received clear cubes as prizes<br />
*After the games concluded, the top 8 teams were taken to the London Eye, where they intercepted a conversation in morse code, flashed with torches on either side of the river<br />
*Later, everyone retired to the Horse and Groom pub on Great Portland Street for social interaction lubricated by alcohol<br />
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<br />
==The Games==<br />
*Players received on Perplex City bag per team, containing a folder with challenge and information sheets<br />
*Teams had until 4:00 PM to complete as many challenges on the sheet as possible. This included:<br />
**Taking phone camera pictures of the task as evidence and sending them in via MMS<br />
**Having helpers visually verify tasks<br />
**and texting base camp if the challenge could be answered in words<br />
*Teams would also receive trivia texts throughout the day, with points for each correct answer<br />
*Other texts would be sent out if a new challenge was happening close by<br />
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<br />
===Challenge sheets===<br />
*16 questions requiring observation from walking round an area of central London (a triangle between Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square and Picadilly Circus) that we had to text back to HQ for varying amounts of points (10-40). With hindsight the questions were in a good walking order, although those that did it backwards didn't get waylaid by the anti terrorism march and demonstration. (340 points)<br />
<br />
<br />
===Photo evidence===<br />
*Six photo questions that required you to MMS photos of your team in various locations (360 plus open-ended 5 points per letter photo)<br />
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<br />
===SMS trivia questions===<br />
*Eight trivia questions texted through the day (7x20 + 1x10 = 150)<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
13:22:11, "Trivia - What year is it in Perplex City? Code: 601 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: 269 AC<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
14:53:47, "Trivia - What surname is shared by Sente, Violet and Scarlett? Code: 602 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: Kiteway<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
14:54:14, "Trivia - What's the tallest building in Perplex City? Code: 603 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: Ascendancy Point<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
14:54:31, "Trivia - Which river runs through Perplex City? Code: 604 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: The Mazy River<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
15:06:15, "Trivia - What is the leading newspaper in Perplex City called? Code: 605 Points: 20"<br />
<br />
Answer: The Perplex City Sentinel<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
15:17:20, "Trivia - What is Scarlett's blog called? Code: 606 Points: 20"<br />
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Answer: The Scarlett Kite<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
15:28:25, "Trivia - Which Perplex City artist released an album on Earth? Code: 607 Points: 20"<br />
<br />
Answer: Viard<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="60%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff;" bgcolor="#f3f3ff"<br />
|<br />
15:43:38, "Trivia .-- .... .- - / .. ... / .--. . .-. .--. .-.. . -..- / -.-. .. - -.-- ... / -.-. ..- .-. .-. . -. -.-. -.-- Code: 608 Points: 10"<br />
<br />
Answer: ''"What is Perplex City's currency?"'' Lecks<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===National Gallery trail===<br />
*A special National Gallery section that gave cryptic clues for a trail through the gallery with a bumper 250-point question at the end to tempt us. Also to be texted. (370 points)<br />
<br />
<br />
===Ranger verification===<br />
*Two questions requiring you to be witnessed either singing as a choir or playing video games (180)<br />
<br />
<br />
===Base camp===<br />
*Two questions that required you to compete against other teams building a biscuit tower or spelling backwords (60 plus open-ended 10 points per letter spelling).<br />
<br />
<br />
===Spot challenges===<br />
*Three or four other tasks texted through the day, including choir practice, Wacky Races and a conga line<br />
<br />
<br />
===Final challenge===<br />
*The final task was to purchase the largest object possible for £1, with receipt<br />
**The undisputed* winner of the biggest item for £1 was the [[media:Toilet-Paper-=-ftw!.gif|toilet roll]] bought by the CRT (Cube ReCoventry Team). With two 2-ply rolls for the bargain price of £0.95, and weighing in at an amazing 119.04 metres long, or 13.09 square metres in area, it truly was value for money! Toilet roll runs from left to right through the far doors in the photo and then some way up the stairs.<br />
***(*may not have actually won!)<br />
<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border=1 cellpadding=10<br />
|-<br />
| '''Rank'''<br />
| '''Team name'''<br />
| '''Points scored'''<br />
|-<br />
| 1<br />
| The Puzzle Monkeys<br />
| 1200<br />
|-<br />
| 2<br />
| Perplex Monkeys<br />
| 1072<br />
|-<br />
| 3<br />
| Logic, Intelligence and excellance<br />
| 1062<br />
|-<br />
| 4<br />
| The Cube ReCoventry Team<br />
| 1017<br />
|-<br />
| 5<br />
| Team Jazz Hands<br />
| 1002<br />
|-<br />
| 6<br />
| Serpentine Road<br />
| 962<br />
|-<br />
| 7<br />
| Good Guys, Bad guys 'n' explosions<br />
| 957<br />
|-<br />
| 8<br />
| Reservoir Frogs<br />
| 937<br />
|-<br />
| 9<br />
| Chic Geeks<br />
| 892<br />
|-<br />
| 10<br />
| Random Genius<br />
| 880<br />
|-<br />
| 11<br />
| Anglo Irish Contingent<br />
| 827<br />
|-<br />
| 12<br />
| Simba's Waffles<br />
| 772<br />
|-<br />
| 13<br />
| NorfolkFour<br />
| 762<br />
|-<br />
| 14<br />
| The Klatchian Foreign Legion<br />
| 752<br />
|-<br />
| 15<br />
| The Red Folks<br />
| 752<br />
|-<br />
| 16<br />
| The Argonauts<br />
| 745<br />
|-<br />
| 17<br />
| Muddled to the power of 5<br />
| 727<br />
|-<br />
| 18<br />
| The Sharkheads<br />
| 720<br />
|-<br />
| 19<br />
| The Minkies<br />
| 707<br />
|-<br />
| 20<br />
| The Wildcards<br />
| 702<br />
|-<br />
| 21<br />
| The Roofers<br />
| 672<br />
|-<br />
| 22<br />
| Viridian<br />
| 665<br />
|-<br />
| 23<br />
| Team Cambridge<br />
| 637<br />
|-<br />
| 24<br />
| Exit, pursued by a bear<br />
| 617<br />
|-<br />
| 25<br />
| thekipsclubb<br />
| 615<br />
|-<br />
| 26<br />
| The Goodies<br />
| 612<br />
|-<br />
| 27<br />
| lippy yank<br />
| 590<br />
|-<br />
| 28<br />
| kalimotxo<br />
| 527<br />
|-<br />
| 29<br />
| Smarties<br />
| 492<br />
|-<br />
| 30<br />
| The IT Crowd<br />
| 465<br />
|-<br />
| 31<br />
| Hunters with attitude<br />
| 455<br />
|-<br />
| 32<br />
| Sigma Chi<br />
| 450<br />
|-<br />
| 33<br />
| Noumenon9<br />
| 435<br />
|-<br />
| 34<br />
| Violet-Harlow<br />
| 425<br />
|-<br />
| 35<br />
| Lill Baz<br />
| 390<br />
|-<br />
| 36<br />
| The Bells<br />
| 305<br />
|-<br />
| 37<br />
| The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad<br />
| 300<br />
|-<br />
| 38<br />
| And so it begins<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Facts==<br />
*127 people in the conga line<br />
*3830 texts sent out<br />
*1153 texts recieved<br />
*27276 points earned<br />
*2 things going completely wrong<br />
**The first was that culture wardens in Trafalgar Square wouldn't allow any "professional" filming of the events around Nelson's Column.<br />
**The second was the huge angry protest march which gathered in Trafalgar Square, *on* Nelson's Column...about 30 seconds before the Conga Challenge started right in front of them.<br />
*0 arrests<br />
*£1 challenge:<br />
**5 people sold for £1<br />
**3 countries<br />
**3 newspapers<br />
**1 toilet paper roll<br />
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==The London Eye==<br />
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==Photographs==<br />
'''Please add a link to your photo galleries here. When adding images on flickr, be sure to tag them ''pcaglondon'' '''<br />
*[http://flickr.com/photos/lhall/sets/72057594071168772/ LHall's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://flickr.com/photos/15909250@N00/sets/72057594070753420/ Mikey_J's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/number9dream_/sets/72057594070928239/ number9dream's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414503@N00/sets/72057594070650349/ Daemon Kirjava's flickr photoset part one] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mautalent/sets/72057594071038539/ part two]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyparsons/sets/72057594071203768/ guy_p's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/52858379@N00/ sotonrich's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/skenmy/sets/72057594070254618/ skenmy's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/85268853@N00/sets/72057594070541197/ buzman's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/95065610@N00/sets/72057594070661529/ amliag's flickr photoset]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/86464159@N00/ brat-sampson's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/39899380@N00/sets/72057594071295247/ Gibbet's flickr photoset (No kloos here!)]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaltips/ Crys's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlgeek/ sherpa's flickr photostream]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/sledgecallier/sets/72057594071486227/ SledgeCallier's flickr photostream]<br />
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==References==<br />
*[http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/26/gamers-flash-mobs-and-london-the-perplex-city-academy-games/ Joystiq.com - "Gamers, flash mobs, and London -- the Perplex City Academy Games"]<br />
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*[http://yemblespcag.livejournal.com/ Yembles' blog walkthrough of the PCAG for the team 'The Sharkheads']</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=10061Tales From Earth:Authors2006-01-02T12:32:45Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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Can you also cc the e-mail to tales.from.earth'''SPLAT'''gmail.com as well so that we know you have complied and won't spend time chasing you up!<br />
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Thanks<br />
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==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
A true New Yorker, he has no patience for traffic of any kind. Travelling should be done in the shortest time possible, no matter what. In his spare time, he teaches spiders to count past 8. He is also working on creating a video game using Java: Sesame Street Fighter. He is tempted to use the Cube as a paperweight once he finds it.<br />
<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
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===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
<br />
===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
<br />
===Cronogenesis===<br />
<br />
Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
<br />
(http://www.citizensrequired.com)<br />
<br />
===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
<br />
===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle E) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
<br />
===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
<br />
===Frankie Roberto===<br />
Although fairly new to the world of Perplex City, Frankie Roberto is said to be enjoying the puzzle cards and the great artwork. Frankie works in new media development.<br />
<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
<br />
===GasparLewis===<br />
Gaspar Lewis was born in New York on February 14, 1990, but currently resides on Long Island, NY with the true name Adam. The name Gaspar Lewis is derived from coming up with some stupid 'spy name' when he was a little kid, and ending up sticking with it for aethstetics. <br />
<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Kenilworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
<br />
===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
<br />
===Josh Black===<br />
Josh Black, a somewhat quirky and conspiratorial individual, is currently studying film and has aspirations of becoming an author. He enjoys staying under the radar, hiding from "The Man", indie music and film. Josh has been a member of the cube retrieval effort since August 2005. Unfortunately he is unable to afford the prized puzzle cards and has to rely on the charity and goodness of fellow cube retrieval team members. <br />
<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
<br />
===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
<br />
===MikeyJ===<br />
MikeyJ, was born in Plymouth, UK and is slowly making his way northward. A seasoned porn star (under his full name Michael J Cox), he now intends to turn his hand (and other parts of his anatomy) to more literary pusuits. He hopes you prefer them.<br />
<br />
===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
<br />
===number9dream===<br />
Number9dream (aka Simon Douglas): fondness for flying kites, wearing ladies underwear and drinking espresso. That’s it. <br />
<br />
===oliverkeers13===<br />
oliverkeers13: Real name Oliver Keers. This young man started his life of crime early. His most recent, and arguably most infamous, illegal activity was at a recent Cube Hunting event in London, UK, Earth. He beat up several small children, and an elderly couple, in order to obtain exclusive cards. These were held by a secret illegal organisation, prompting much speculation as to his involvement with this organisation. Oliver refuses to comment on this matter.<br />
<br />
===Ryan Andrew===<br />
Ryan Andrew is 20 years old and from Manchester, England. He is currently studing Television Production and Design in London. He recently made The Sentinel when there was a small outcry asking for his public execution. A method involving "a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants" was asked for, but that bizarre, and frankly mentally unhinged request was denied due to Ryan being an (almost) upstanding member of the community. <br />
<br />
===Sentinel===<br />
Real name: Lee Horsley, Star Sign: Taurus / The Wave; 22 year old 'student' *Ahem.* Doesn't like writing about himself and so disguises it in a third person perspective; does like reading, astronomy, and basically anything that challenges my brain... I mean his brain =/<br />
<br />
===skenmy===<br />
Paul Williams, aka skenmy, finds it incredibly hard to talk about himself, but feels that people will not notice this if he just keeps smiling. Hobbies incldue gaming, flaming, and the occasional bit of maiming.<br />
<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
<br />
===TheBozzball===<br />
<br />
TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
<br />
===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''<br />
<br />
===Zaeil===<br />
Stacy Gray, aka Zaeil, can’t write a paragraph to save her life, let alone a story--but she’s been drawing since she was able to hold a pencil and hopes that a picture really is worth a thousand words.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=10060Tales From Earth:Authors2006-01-02T12:31:34Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*<br />
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== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
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As you may know, to get this book published we need to get each author to sign up to the Creative Commons licencing agreement.<br />
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To do this you will need to send an e-mail to Ellen Moriyama containing the following to text as this will then sign you up for the agreement. Without this your work '''CANNOT BE USED.'''<br />
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The address to e-mail to is emoriyama'''SPLAT'''seaside-press.com with the subject line including 'Tales from Earth' and your mail should include the following text: <br />
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'''I, [insert name here], confirm that the work submitted in my name is licensed to Seaside Press under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/).'''<br />
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Can you also cc the e-mail to tales.from.earth'''SPLAT'''gmail.com as well so that we know you have complied and won't spend time chasing you up!<br />
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Thanks<br />
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SledgeCallier<br />
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==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
A true New Yorker, he has no patience for traffic of any kind. Travelling should be done in the shortest time possible, no matter what. In his spare time, he teaches spiders to count past 8. He is also working on creating a video game using Java: Sesame Street Fighter. He is tempted to use the Cube as a paperweight once he finds it.<br />
<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
<br />
===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
<br />
===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
<br />
===Cronogenesis===<br />
<br />
Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
<br />
(http://www.citizensrequired.com)<br />
<br />
===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
<br />
===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle E) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
<br />
===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
<br />
===Frankie Roberto===<br />
Although fairly new to the world of Perplex City, Frankie Roberto is said to be enjoying the puzzle cards and the great artwork. Frankie works in new media development.<br />
<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
<br />
===GasparLewis===<br />
<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
<br />
The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Kenilworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
<br />
===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
<br />
===Josh Black===<br />
Josh Black, a somewhat quirky and conspiratorial individual, is currently studying film and has aspirations of becoming an author. He enjoys staying under the radar, hiding from "The Man", indie music and film. Josh has been a member of the cube retrieval effort since August 2005. Unfortunately he is unable to afford the prized puzzle cards and has to rely on the charity and goodness of fellow cube retrieval team members. <br />
<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
<br />
===kobeyu===<br />
<br />
<br />
===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
<br />
===MikeyJ===<br />
<br />
MikeyJ, was born in Plymouth, UK and is slowly making his way northward. A seasoned porn star (under his full name Michael J Cox), he now intends to turn his hand (and other parts of his anatomy) to more literary pusuits. He hopes you prefer them.<br />
<br />
===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
<br />
===number9dream===<br />
Number9dream (aka Simon Douglas): fondness for flying kites, wearing ladies underwear and drinking espresso. That’s it. <br />
<br />
===oliverkeers13===<br />
oliverkeers13: Real name Oliver Keers. This young man started his life of crime early. His most recent, and arguably most infamous, illegal activity was at a recent Cube Hunting event in London, UK, Earth. He beat up several small children, and an elderly couple, in order to obtain exclusive cards. These were held by a secret illegal organisation, prompting much speculation as to his involvement with this organisation. Oliver refuses to comment on this matter.<br />
<br />
===Ryan Andrew===<br />
Ryan Andrew is 20 years old and from Manchester, England. He is currently studing Television Production and Design in London. He recently made The Sentinel when there was a small outcry asking for his public execution. A method involving "a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants" was asked for, but that bizarre, and frankly mentally unhinged request was denied due to Ryan being an (almost) upstanding member of the community. <br />
<br />
===Sentinel===<br />
Real name: Lee Horsley, Star Sign: Taurus / The Wave; 22 year old 'student' *Ahem.* Doesn't like writing about himself and so disguises it in a third person perspective; does like reading, astronomy, and basically anything that challenges my brain... I mean his brain =/<br />
<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
<br />
===TheBozzball===<br />
<br />
TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
<br />
===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''<br />
<br />
===Watusi===<br />
Watusi is a dance or an album by the Wedding Present or a Rwandan tribe, or a small person who got sucked into the whole Perplex City thing and appears to have entirely too much time on her hands.<br />
<br />
===Zaeil===<br />
Stacy Gray, aka Zaeil, can’t write a paragraph to save her life, let alone a story--but she’s been drawing since she was able to hold a pencil and hopes that a picture really is worth a thousand words.<br />
<br />
===skenmy===<br />
Paul Williams, aka skenmy, finds it incredibly hard to talk about himself, but feels that people will not notice this if he just keeps smiling. Hobbies incldue gaming, flaming, and the occasional bit of maiming.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=10059Tales From Earth2006-01-02T12:30:21Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
*A final manuscript has now been sent to Seaside Press for publishing<br />
<br />
*[[Tales From Earth:Authors|Author's blurbs are collected here.]]<br />
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<br />
==References==<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
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==Index of articles==<br />
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===Section 1: Games===<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - by [[User:MikeyJ|MikeyJ]]'''<br />
''07-DEC-05, 192 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better?]] - by Ryan Andrew'''<br />
''13-DEC-05, 701 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - by [[User:Hituro|Hituro]]'''<br />
''13-DEC-05, 5832 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - by ammonite'''<br />
''03-DEC-05, 866 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - by [[User:Gibbet|Gibbet]]'''<br />
''09-DEC-05, 1331 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - by [[User:Cronogenesis|Cronogenesis]]'''<br />
''06-DEC-05, 2,087 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - by [[User:Sentinel|Sentinel]]'''<br />
''28-NOV-05, 2581 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - by [[User:GasparLewis|GasparLewis]]'''<br />
''2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers - Edited by Centipede''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - by TheBozzball'''<br />
''02-DEC-05, 3186 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - by [[User:Gibbet]]'''<br />
''04-DEC-05, 1242 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - by [[User:Scott|Scott]]'''<br />
''01-DEC-05, 2100+ words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - by [[User:Cronogenesis|Cronogenesis]]'''<br />
''07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - by Duckiemonster'''<br />
''11-DEC-05, 450 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - by [[User:Frankie Roberto|Frankie Roberto]]'''<br />
''3-DEC-05, 1000 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - by [[User:fantasticalan|fantasticalan]]'''<br />
''12-DEC-05, 847 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - by Katie Goldblatt'''<br />
''14-12-05, 722 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - by MagikGuy'''<br />
''9-DEC-05, 1600 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - by [[User:Cronogenesis|Cronogenesis]]'''<br />
''11-DEC-05, 271 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Rock Paper Scissors]] - by Ukmarkwilson'''<br />
An in depth dissertation on the ancient and noble history of a proud gaming tradition.<br />
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===Section 2: Tales From Earth===<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - by [[User:GasparLewis|GasparLewis]]'''<br />
''29-NOV-05, 1000+ words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - by Coxtin'''<br />
''29-NOV-05, 1081 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - by Forg'''<br />
''29-NOV-05, 1290 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - by [[User:number9dream|number9dream]]'''<br />
''15-DEC-05, 1076 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
A love story.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - by Mokey F. Rock'''<br />
''08-DEC-05, 2584 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - by [[User:Enigmaster|Enigmaster]]'''<br />
''29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) - Edited by Centipede''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - by Specterz'''<br />
''29-NOV-05, 500 words - Edited by Centipede''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - by Josh Black'''<br />
''14-DEC-05, 2000 words - Edited by SledgeCallier''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
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===Section 3: The Unfiction Collaborative Story===<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - By The Unfiction Community'''<br />
''6,800+ words - Edited by Scott. The Poor Bastard.''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
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===Section 4: The Perplex City D20 Module===<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - by [[User:Scott|Scott]]'''<br />
''01-DEC-05, 5400+ words - Edited by Cassandra''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City. (version 1.1)<br />
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===Section 5: Addendum and non-sequitor===<br />
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Several articles were, For various reasons, not printed in the final collection. This section, as included on this wiki, lists some of them.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - by [[Oliver Keers]]'''<br />
''15-DEC-05, 226 words''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
This project was turned down as a possible means of getting the attention of the 3P.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - by kobeyu'''<br />
''01-DEC-05, 614 words''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
This work was abandoned when the author ran out of free time.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - by Coxtin'''<br />
''29-NOV-05, 1225 words''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome.<br />
Was omitted due to (a remarkably impressive command of) foul language.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - by [[User:Hituro|Hituro]]'''<br />
''11-DEC-05, 2000 words''<br />
Playing games with People.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - by ammonite'''<br />
''09-DEC-05, 6583 words''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
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==Index of Illustrations==<br />
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'''ALL ILLUSTRATIONS BY ZAEIL THE MAGNIFICENT!!'''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Cover.png]]<br />
Colour Front illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]]<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]]<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth.png]]<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games.png]]<br />
Games - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction.png]]<br />
Collaborative story - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:KabukiBellyDancer.png]]<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:SpaysInvader.png]]<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:GamesWePlay.png]]<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dracovenatio.png]]<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:D20.png]]<br />
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== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
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==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
A true New Yorker, he has no patience for traffic of any kind. Travelling should be done in the shortest time possible, no matter what. In his spare time, he teaches spiders to count past 8. He is also working on creating a video game using Java: Sesame Street Fighter. He is tempted to use the Cube as a paperweight once he finds it.<br />
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===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
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===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
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==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
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===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
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===Cronogenesis===<br />
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Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
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(http://www.citizensrequired.com)<br />
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===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
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===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle E) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
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===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
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===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
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===GasparLewis===<br />
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===Gibbet===<br />
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The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Kenilworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
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===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
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===Josh Black===<br />
Josh Black, a somewhat quirky and conspiratorial individual, is currently studying film and has aspirations of becoming an author. He enjoys staying under the radar, hiding from "The Man", indie music and film. Josh has been a member of the cube retrieval effort since August 2005. Unfortunately he is unable to afford the prized puzzle cards and has to rely on the charity and goodness of fellow cube retrieval team members. <br />
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===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
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===kobeyu===<br />
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===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
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===MikeyJ===<br />
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MikeyJ, was born in Plymouth, UK and is slowly making his way northward. A seasoned porn star (under his full name Michael J Cox), he now intends to turn his hand (and other parts of his anatomy) to more literary pusuits. He hopes you prefer them.<br />
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===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
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===number9dream===<br />
Number9dream (aka Simon Douglas): fondness for flying kites, wearing ladies underwear and drinking espresso. That’s it. <br />
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===oliverkeers13===<br />
oliverkeers13: Real name Oliver Keers. This young man started his life of crime early. His most recent, and arguably most infamous, illegal activity was at a recent Cube Hunting event in London, UK, Earth. He beat up several small children, and an elderly couple, in order to obtain exclusive cards. These were held by a secret illegal organisation, prompting much speculation as to his involvement with this organisation. Oliver refuses to comment on this matter.<br />
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===Ryan Andrew===<br />
Ryan Andrew is 20 years old and from Manchester, England. He is currently studing Television Production and Design in London. He recently made The Sentinel when there was a small outcry asking for his public execution. A method involving "a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants" was asked for, but that bizarre, and frankly mentally unhinged request was denied due to Ryan being an (almost) upstanding member of the community. <br />
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===Sentinel===<br />
Real name: Lee Horsley, Star Sign: Taurus / The Wave; 22 year old 'student' *Ahem.* Doesn't like writing about himself and so disguises it in a third person perspective; does like reading, astronomy, and basically anything that challenges my brain... I mean his brain =/<br />
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===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
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===TheBozzball===<br />
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TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
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===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''<br />
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===Watusi===<br />
Watusi is a dance or an album by the Wedding Present or a Rwandan tribe, or a small person who got sucked into the whole Perplex City thing and appears to have entirely too much time on her hands.<br />
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===Zaeil===<br />
Stacy Gray, aka Zaeil, can’t write a paragraph to save her life, let alone a story--but she’s been drawing since she was able to hold a pencil and hopes that a picture really is worth a thousand words.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=File:Cover.png&diff=10011File:Cover.png2005-12-23T09:58:16Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
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*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
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===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
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==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries has now Passed!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
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*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
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===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
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*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
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==Index of articles==<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better?]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 5400+ words Editor:Cassandra'''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City. (version 1.1)<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.<br />
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==Index of Illustrations==<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Games - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Collaborative story - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:KabukiBellyDancer.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:SpaysInvader.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:GamesWePlay.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dracovenatio.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:D20.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 22-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Cover.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 22-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Colour Front illustration.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=9948Tales From Earth:Authors2005-12-19T22:10:17Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
A true New Yorker, he has no patience for traffic of any kind. Travelling should be done in the shortest time possible, no matter what. In his spare time, he teaches spiders to count past 8. He is also working on creating a video game using Java: Sesame Street Fighter. He is tempted to use the Cube as a paperweight once he finds it.<br />
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===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
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===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
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==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
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===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
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===Cronogenesis===<br />
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Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
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(http://www.citizensrequired.com)<br />
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===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
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===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle Entwistle) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
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===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
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===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
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===GasparLewis===<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
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The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Kenilworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
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===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
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===Josh Black===<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
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===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
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===MikeyJ===<br />
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MikeyJ, was born in Plymouth, UK and is slowly making his way northward. A seasoned porn star (under his full name Michael J Cox), he now intends to turn his hand (and other parts of his anatomy) to more literary pusuits. He hopes you prefer them.<br />
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===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
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===number9dream===<br />
Number9dream (aka Simon Douglas): fondness for flying kites, wearing ladies underwear and drinking espresso. That’s it. <br />
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===oliverkeers13===<br />
oliverkeers13: Real name Oliver Keers. This young man started his life of crime early. His most recent, and arguably most infamous, illegal activity was at a recent Cube Hunting event in London, UK, Earth. He beat up several small children, and an elderly couple, in order to obtain exclusive cards. These were held by a secret illegal organisation, prompting much speculation as to his involvement with this organisation. Oliver refuses to comment on this matter.<br />
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===Ryan Andrew===<br />
Ryan Andrew is 20 years old and from Manchester, England. He is currently studing Television Production and Design in London. He recently made The Sentinel when there was a small outcry asking for his public execution. A method involving "a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants" was asked for, but that bizarre, and frankly mentally unhinged request was denied due to Ryan being an (almost) upstanding member of the community. <br />
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===Sentinel===<br />
Real name: Lee Horsley, Star Sign: Taurus / The Wave; 22 year old 'student' *Ahem.* Doesn't like writing about himself and so disguises it in a third person perspective; does like reading, astronomy, and basically anything that challenges my brain... I mean his brain =/<br />
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===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
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===TheBozzball===<br />
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TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
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===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''<br />
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===Watusi===<br />
Watusi is a dance or an album by the Wedding Present or a Rwandan tribe, or a small person who got sucked into the whole Perplex City thing and appears to have entirely too much time on her hands.<br />
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===Zaeil===<br />
Stacy Gray, aka Zaeil, can’t write a paragraph to save her life, let alone a story--but she’s been drawing since she was able to hold a pencil and hopes that a picture really is worth a thousand words.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=9935Tales From Earth2005-12-18T11:36:08Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
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*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
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===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
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==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries has now Passed!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
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*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
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*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
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==Index of articles==<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 4500 words'''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
'''Needs an editor.''' The editor need not know how to play D&D. Simply a proofreader is requested.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.<br />
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==Index of Illustrations==<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Games - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Collaborative story - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:KabukiBellyDancer.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:SpaysInvader.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:GamesWePlay.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dracovenatio.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Number_Cruncher&diff=9933Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher2005-12-18T00:26:43Z<p>Sledgecallier: /* Number Cruncher */</p>
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<div>Us cube hunters on earth are fascinated with the puzzle cards crafted by the scribes at the academy, so we have decided to set you one or two puzzles of our own to say thanks.<br />
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== Number Cruncher ==<br />
'''By Jack Smith AKA Cronogenesis'''<br />
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01010011<br />
01110101<br />
01101101<br />
00100000<br />
01101111<br />
01100110<br />
00100000<br />
01110100<br />
01101000<br />
01100101<br />
00100000<br />
01100100<br />
01101001<br />
01100111<br />
01101001<br />
01110100<br />
01110011<br />
00100000<br />
01110100<br />
01101001<br />
01101101<br />
01100101<br />
01110011<br />
00100000<br />
01110100<br />
01101000<br />
01100101<br />
00100000<br />
01101110<br />
01110101<br />
01101101<br />
01100010<br />
01100101<br />
01110010<br />
00100000<br />
01101111<br />
01100110<br />
00100000<br />
01111010<br />
01100101<br />
01110010<br />
01101111<br />
01110011<br />
00100000<br />
01101101<br />
01101001<br />
01101110<br />
01110101<br />
01110011<br />
00100000<br />
01110100<br />
01101000<br />
01100101<br />
00100000<br />
01101110<br />
01110101<br />
01101101<br />
01100010<br />
01100101<br />
01110010<br />
00100000<br />
01101111<br />
01100110<br />
00100000<br />
01100100<br />
01101001<br />
01100111<br />
01101001<br />
01110100<br />
01110011<br />
00101110<br />
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'''Extra info.''' I wrote this myself. It should decypher as "Sum of the digits times the number of zeros minus the number of digits".<br />
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The should give 266 * 302 - 568 = 79764<br />
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cronogenesis-- I spotted an error. In your solution, you had 226, it should have been 266, which it is now. Everything else works out. Cheers [[User:Scott|Scott]]</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=9922Tales From Earth:Authors2005-12-17T01:45:27Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*<br />
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== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
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As you may know, to get this book published we need to get each author to sign up to the Creative Commons licencing agreement.<br />
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To do this you will need to send an e-mail to Ellen Moriyama containing the following to text as this will then sign you up for the agreement. Without this your work '''CANNOT BE USED.'''<br />
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The address to e-mail to is emoriyama'''SPLAT'''seaside-press.com with the subject line including 'Tales from Earth' and your mail should include the following text: <br />
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'''I, [insert name here], confirm that the work submitted in my name is licensed to Seaside Press under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/).'''<br />
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Can you also cc the e-mail to tales.from.earth'''SPLAT'''gmail.com as well so that we know you have complied and won't spend time chasing you up!<br />
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Thanks<br />
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==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
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===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
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==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
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===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
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===Cronogenesis===<br />
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Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
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http://www.citizensrequired.com<br />
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===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
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===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle Entwistle) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
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===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
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===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
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===GasparLewis===<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
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The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Kenilworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
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===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
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===Josh Black===<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
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===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
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===MikeyJ===<br />
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MikeyJ, was born in Plymouth, UK and is slowly making his way northward. A seasoned porn star (under his full name Michael J Cox), he now intends to turn his hand (and other parts of his anatomy) to more literary pusuits. He hopes you prefer them.<br />
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===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
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===number9dream===<br />
Number9dream (aka Simon Douglas): fondness for flying kites, wearing ladies underwear and drinking espresso. That’s it. <br />
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===oliverkeers13===<br />
oliverkeers13: Real name Oliver Keers. This young man started his life of crime early. His most recent, and arguably most infamous, illegal activity was at a recent Cube Hunting event in London, UK, Earth. He beat up several small children, and an elderly couple, in order to obtain exclusive cards. These were held by a secret illegal organisation, prompting much speculation as to his involvement with this organisation. Oliver refuses to comment on this matter.<br />
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===Sentinel===<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
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===TheBozzball===<br />
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TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
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===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''<br />
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===Watusi===<br />
Watusi is a dance or an album by the Wedding Present or a Rwandan tribe, or a small person who got sucked into the whole Perplex City thing and appears to have entirely too much time on her hands.<br />
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===Zaeil===</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=File:Dracovenatio.PNG&diff=9921File:Dracovenatio.PNG2005-12-17T01:44:00Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
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*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
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===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
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==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
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===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
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*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
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==Index of articles==<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 4500 words'''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
'''Needs an editor.''' The editor need not know how to play D&D. Simply a proofreader is requested.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Games.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Games - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Collaborative story - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:KabukiBellyDancer.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:SpaysInvader.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:GamesWePlay.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dracovenatio.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Black and white illustration.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=9891Tales From Earth2005-12-16T18:44:34Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
<br />
===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
<br />
==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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--------------------------<br />
<br />
==Index of articles==<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 4500 words'''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
'''Needs an editor.''' The editor need not know how to play D&D. Simply a proofreader is requested.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Games - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 16-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Collaborative story - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=File:Collab.png&diff=9890File:Collab.png2005-12-16T18:43:14Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div></div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Earth.png&diff=9884Tales From Earth:Earth.png2005-12-16T18:40:46Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
<br />
===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
<br />
==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
--------------------------<br />
<br />
==Index of articles==<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 4500 words'''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
'''Needs an editor.''' The editor need not know how to play D&D. Simply a proofreader is requested.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction.png]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=9882Tales From Earth2005-12-16T18:37:42Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
<br />
===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
<br />
==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
--------------------------<br />
<br />
==Index of articles==<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 4500 words'''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
'''Needs an editor.''' The editor need not know how to play D&D. Simply a proofreader is requested.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Earth]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Unfiction]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Tales From Earth - Section header. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=9860Tales From Earth2005-12-15T22:23:49Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
<br />
===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
<br />
==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
--------------------------<br />
<br />
==Index of articles==<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 0 words'''<br />
''(A work in progress)''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:When we met]] - [[User:number9dream]] 15-DEC-05, 1076 words Editor:Sledgecallier'''<br />
A love story.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:No_title&diff=9846Tales From Earth:No title2005-12-15T00:44:45Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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Zl gjragl guveq vf Uryran Selr'f pbqranzr<br />
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Lbh jvyy frr jung fxvyyf V unir gb bssre. B</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=9845Tales From Earth2005-12-15T00:42:56Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
<br />
===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
<br />
==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
<br />
<br />
*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
--------------------------<br />
<br />
==Index of articles==<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:No title]] - [[User:oliverkeers13]] 15-DEC-05, 226 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Oliver offers himself up as an agent of darkness.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 0 words'''<br />
''(A work in progress)''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=9844Tales From Earth:Authors2005-12-15T00:40:33Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*<br />
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<br />
== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
<br />
As you may know, to get this book published we need to get each author to sign up to the Creative Commons licencing agreement.<br />
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==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
<br />
===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
<br />
===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
<br />
===Cronogenesis===<br />
<br />
Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
<br />
===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
<br />
===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle Entwistle) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
<br />
===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
<br />
===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
<br />
===GasparLewis===<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
<br />
The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Keniworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
<br />
===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
<br />
===Josh Black===<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
<br />
===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
<br />
===MikeyJ===<br />
===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
<br />
===oliverkeers13===<br />
oliverkeers13: Real name Oliver Keers. This young man started his life of crime early. His most recent, and arguably most infamous, illegal activity was at a recent Cube Hunting event in London, UK, Earth. He beat up several small children, and an elderly couple, in order to obtain exclusive cards. These were held by a secret illegal organisation, prompting much speculation as to his involvement with this organisation. Oliver refuses to comment on this matter.<br />
<br />
===Sentinel===<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
<br />
===TheBozzball===<br />
<br />
TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
<br />
===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Childrens_Games&diff=9837Tales From Earth:Childrens Games2005-12-15T00:01:07Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>Children's Games of Earth<br />
<br />
Children of Perplex City, hi!<br />
My name is Katie and if you are as interested in Earth as I am in<br />
Perplex City, then you are probably dying to know about some of the<br />
children's games we play here on Earth! My school has done a project on<br />
playground games and I have chosen some of my favourite ones to share<br />
with you - here they are<br />
<br />
====Oranges and Lemons====<br />
<br />
We start off by singing<br />
"Oranges and Lemons<br />
Say the bells of St Clement's<br />
I owe you five farthings<br />
Say the bells of St Martin's<br />
When will you pay me?<br />
Say the bells of Old Bailey<br />
When I grow rich<br />
Say the bells of Shoreditch<br />
When will that be?<br />
Say the bells of Stepney<br />
I'm sure I don't know<br />
Says the great bell at Bow<br />
-<br />
Here comes the candle<br />
To light you to bed<br />
Here comes the chopper<br />
To chop off your head<br />
Chip, chop, chip, chop<br />
The last one's DEAD"<br />
<br />
and when we are singing the rhyme, two people hold both hands and lift<br />
their arms up to make an arch. The other players take turns to go<br />
through the arch while the song is being sung. One of the people making<br />
the arch is a lemon and the other one is an orange.<br />
When we get to the part of the song where it goes...<br />
"Here comes the chopper to chop off your head",<br />
the two people making the arch make their arms go down to capture a<br />
player in the middle. they are secretly asked if they want to be an<br />
orange or a lemon, and they will go behind the orange or lemon leader<br />
and hold on to their waist. When the last player gets caught he or she<br />
is "dead" and then there is a tug of war between oranges and lemons to<br />
see which is the winning team.<br />
<br />
(note by Katie's mum - Perplex City residents may be interested to know<br />
that the bells referred to in this children's rhyme belong to various<br />
churches in London, an Earth city we have recently moved from. The<br />
variation of the rhyme above and its accompanying game is from Lincoln,<br />
where we have moved to, and is slightly different to the version we<br />
Londoners knew. This sort of regional difference is very common in our<br />
traditional games & rhymes, as well as wider Earth culture)<br />
<br />
====I Sent a Letter to my Love====<br />
<br />
Decide which person is "on" - he or she has something to be the<br />
"letter". Everybody else forms a circle and sits down. Then everybody<br />
starts singing this song<br />
"A tisket a tasket<br />
A green and yellow basket<br />
I wrote a letter to my love<br />
But on the way I dropped it<br />
I dropped it, I dropped it<br />
One of you has picked it up<br />
And put it in your pocket"<br />
<br />
While the song is sung, the person who is "on" goes round the circle<br />
and he or she drops the letter behind a player. Whoever the letter<br />
drops behind has to get up and chase the person who dropped the letter<br />
when the song finishes. The person who is "on" has to quickly run to<br />
his or her place and sit in it! The new person with the letter is now<br />
"on". The game carries on until everybody has been "on".<br />
<br />
====Poison !!!***!!!====<br />
<br />
A person is "on". Everybody else holds one of he or she who is on's<br />
fingers. The person who is "on" asks the other players "do you like..."<br />
choosing something beginning with P, for example - pickle, pepsi,<br />
pennychew, penguin, pot noodle, pink pigs etc., until the person who is<br />
"on" says "...POISON!"<br />
<br />
Everybody else runs away to a safe place and tries not to be<br />
"poisoned" by the person who is "on" touching them. Anyone who is<br />
poisoned becomes the new chaser (person who is "on"). At the start of<br />
the game, you have three "lives" (chances), before you are "out". If a<br />
player lets go of a finger when the person who is "on" hasn't said<br />
poison, they lose a "life". In each game a player is "out" (has to stop<br />
playing) when the have lost all of their "lives".<br />
<br />
(note from Katie's mum - don't worry, no-one is ever actually killed in<br />
Earth children's games)</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Childrens_Games&diff=9836Tales From Earth:Childrens Games2005-12-14T23:59:38Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>Children's Games of Earth<br />
<br />
Children of Perplex City, hi!<br />
My name is Katie and if you are as interested in Earth as I am in<br />
Perplex City, then you are probably dying to know about some of the<br />
children's games we play here on Earth! My school has done a project on<br />
playground games and I have chosen some of my favourite ones to share<br />
with you - here they are<br />
<br />
Oranges and Lemons<br />
<br />
We start off by singing<br />
"Oranges and Lemons<br />
Say the bells of St Clement's<br />
I owe you five farthings<br />
Say the bells of St Martin's<br />
When will you pay me?<br />
Say the bells of Old Bailey<br />
When I grow rich<br />
Say the bells of Shoreditch<br />
When will that be?<br />
Say the bells of Stepney<br />
I'm sure I don't know<br />
Says the great bell at Bow<br />
-<br />
Here comes the candle<br />
To light you to bed<br />
Here comes the chopper<br />
To chop off your head<br />
Chip, chop, chip, chop<br />
The last one's DEAD"<br />
<br />
and when we are singing the rhyme, two people hold both hands and lift<br />
their arms up to make an arch. The other players take turns to go<br />
through the arch while the song is being sung. One of the people making<br />
the arch is a lemon and the other one is an orange.<br />
When we get to the part of the song where it goes...<br />
"Here comes the chopper to chop off your head",<br />
the two people making the arch make their arms go down to capture a<br />
player in the middle. they are secretly asked if they want to be an<br />
orange or a lemon, and they will go behind the orange or lemon leader<br />
and hold on to their waist. When the last player gets caught he or she<br />
is "dead" and then there is a tug of war between oranges and lemons to<br />
see which is the winning team.<br />
<br />
(note by Katie's mum - Perplex City residents may be interested to know<br />
that the bells referred to in this children's rhyme belong to various<br />
churches in London, an Earth city we have recently moved from. The<br />
variation of the rhyme above and its accompanying game is from Lincoln,<br />
where we have moved to, and is slightly different to the version we<br />
Londoners knew. This sort of regional difference is very common in our<br />
traditional games & rhymes, as well as wider Earth culture)<br />
<br />
I Sent a Letter to my Love<br />
<br />
Decide which person is "on" - he or she has something to be the<br />
"letter". Everybody else forms a circle and sits down. Then everybody<br />
starts singing this song<br />
"A tisket a tasket<br />
A green and yellow basket<br />
I wrote a letter to my love<br />
But on the way I dropped it<br />
I dropped it, I dropped it<br />
One of you has picked it up<br />
And put it in your pocket"<br />
<br />
While the song is sung, the person who is "on" goes round the circle<br />
and he or she drops the letter behind a player. Whoever the letter<br />
drops behind has to get up and chase the person who dropped the letter<br />
when the song finishes. The person who is "on" has to quickly run to<br />
his or her place and sit in it! The new person with the letter is now<br />
"on". The game carries on until everybody has been "on".<br />
<br />
Poison !!!***!!!<br />
<br />
A person is "on". Everybody else holds one of he or she who is on's<br />
fingers. The person who is "on" asks the other players "do you like..."<br />
choosing something beginning with P, for example - pickle, pepsi,<br />
pennychew, penguin, pot noodle, pink pigs etc., until the person who is<br />
"on" says "...POISON!"<br />
<br />
Everybody else runs away to a safe place and tries not to be<br />
"poisoned" by the person who is "on" touching them. Anyone who is<br />
poisoned becomes the new chaser (person who is "on"). At the start of<br />
the game, you have three "lives" (chances), before you are "out". If a<br />
player lets go of a finger when the person who is "on" hasn't said<br />
poison, they lose a "life". In each game a player is "out" (has to stop<br />
playing) when the have lost all of their "lives".<br />
<br />
(note from Katie's mum - don't worry, no-one is ever actually killed in<br />
Earth children's games)</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Childrens_Games&diff=9835Tales From Earth:Childrens Games2005-12-14T23:58:16Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>Children's Games of Earth<br />
<br />
Children of Perplex City, hi!<br />
My name is Katie and if you are as interested in Earth as I am in<br />
Perplex City, then you are probably dying to know about some of the<br />
children's games we play here on Earth! My school has done a project on<br />
playground games and I have chosen some of my favourite ones to share<br />
with you - here they are<br />
<br />
Oranges and Lemons<br />
<br />
We start off by singing<br />
"Oranges and Lemons<br />
Say the bells of St Clement's<br />
I owe you five farthings<br />
Say the bells of St Martin's<br />
When will you pay me?<br />
Say the bells of Old Bailey<br />
When I grow rich<br />
Say the bells of Shoreditch<br />
When will that be?<br />
Say the bells of Stepney<br />
I'm sure I don't know<br />
Says the great bell at Bow<br />
-<br />
Here comes the candle<br />
To light you to bed<br />
Here comes the chopper<br />
To chop off your head<br />
Chip, chop, chip, chop<br />
The last one's DEAD"<br />
<br />
and when we are singing the rhyme, two people hold both hands and lift<br />
their arms up to make an arch. The other players take turns to go<br />
through the arch while the song is being sung. One of the people making<br />
the arch is a lemon and the other one is an orange.<br />
When we get to the part of the song where it goes...<br />
"Here comes the chopper to chop off your head",<br />
the two people making the arch make their arms go down to capture a<br />
player in the middle. they are secretly asked if they want to be an<br />
orange or a lemon, and they will go behind the orange or lemon leader<br />
and hold on to their waist. When the last player gets caught he or she<br />
is "dead" and then there is a tug of war between oranges and lemons to<br />
see which is the winning team.<br />
<br />
(note by Katie's mum - Perplex City residents may be interested to know<br />
that the bells referred to in this children's rhyme belong to various<br />
churches in London, an Earth city we have recently moved from. The<br />
variation of the rhyme above and its accompanying game is from Lincoln,<br />
where we have moved to, and is slightly different to the version we<br />
Londoners knew. This sort of regional difference is very common in our<br />
traditional games & rhymes, as well as wider Earth culture)<br />
<br />
I Sent a Letter to my Love<br />
<br />
Decide which person is "on" - he or she has something to be the<br />
"letter". Everybody else forms a circle and sits down. Then everybody<br />
starts singing this song<br />
"A tisket a tasket<br />
A green and yellow basket<br />
I wrote a letter to my love<br />
But on the way I dropped it<br />
I dropped it, I dropped it<br />
One of you has picked it up<br />
And put it in your pocket"<br />
<br />
While the song is sung, the person who is "on" goes round the circle<br />
and he or she drops the letter behind a player. Whoever the letter<br />
drops behind has to get up and chase the person who dropped the letter<br />
when the song finishes. The person who is "on" has to quickly run to<br />
his or her place and sit in it! The new person with the letter is now<br />
"on". The game carries on until everybody has been "on".<br />
<br />
Poison !!!***!!!<br />
<br />
A person is "on". Everybody else holds one of he or she who is on's<br />
fingers. The person who is "on" asks the other players "do you like..."<br />
choosing something beginning with P, for example - pickle, pepsi,<br />
pennychew, penguin, pot noodle, pink pigs etc., until the person who is<br />
"on" says "...POISON!"<br />
Everybody else runs away to a safe place and tries not to be<br />
"poisoned" by the person who is "on" touching them. Anyone who is<br />
poisoned becomes the new chaser (person who is "on"). At the start of<br />
the game, you have three "lives" (chances), before you are "out". If a<br />
player lets go of a finger when the person who is "on" hasn't said<br />
poison, they lose a "life". In each game a player is "out" (has to stop<br />
playing) when the have lost all of their "lives".<br />
<br />
(note from Katie's mum - don't worry, no-one is ever actually killed in<br />
Earth children's games)</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth&diff=9834Tales From Earth2005-12-14T23:58:04Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
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<div>==General==<br />
<br />
*[[Violet Kiteway]] wants us to write a book for her.<br />
*She plans to have it published by [[Seaside Press]].<br />
*Once it's published, she can use her credentials as a published author to get access to the diary of [[Anthony Granier]]<br />
<br />
===References===<br />
*article, 05-DEC-05 "[[Seaside Press|Seaside]] Announces Plan to Release [[Tales From Earth|Earth Anthology]]" ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/12/seaside_announc.html link])<br />
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==Requirements==<br />
*<BIG><BIG>'''Deadline For Entries Is December 16th!!'''</BIG></BIG><br />
*Entries should be themed: '''Games'''<br />
*Use this page as an index of other pages.<br />
**For example, if Sente were to write a piece on his family, he might format it like so:<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kiteway Crazies]] - [[User:Sente]] 28-NOV-05, 5000 words'''<br />
A short treatise on my lunatic daughters, both of whom cavort with strangers.<br />
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===='''Please read the notice about copyright licencing under the authors section linked below.'''====<br />
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*'''Also note: Authors should collect their blurbs here:'''<br />
**'''[[Tales From Earth:Authors]]'''<br />
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==Index of articles==<br />
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'''[[Tales From Earth:Dicing With the Devil]] - [[User:Hituro]] 13-DEC-05, 5832 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A Gambler down on his luck makes a deal with the devil.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Which is Better]] - [[User:Ryan Andrew]] 13-DEC-05, 701 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Brains vs Brawn.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Assignment]] - [[User:Enigmaster]] 29-NOV-05, 1337 words (:D) Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story, illustrating one of the many pressures of student life.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Coffee Addiction]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1081 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A NON_AUTOBIOGRAHPICAL story about a man who loves coffee.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Carnival of Monsters]] - [[User:MikeyJ]] 07-DEC-05, 192 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An excuse to insult people.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Childrens Games]] - [[user:Katie Goldblatt]] 14-12-05, 722 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A look at the games played by the childern of Earth. <br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:CIA The forbidden fruit of Hollywood]] - [[User:Josh Black]] 14-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
An essay on the draw of Hollywood to the Central Intelegence Agency.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:A Day In The Un-Life: A Collaborative Effort]] - The Unfiction Community 6,800+ words Editor:Scott'''<br />
[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13305 Tales From Earth:Collaborative Effort] original workspace<br />
This story was written and assembled by an ad hoc rabble.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Games We Play]] - [[User:Duckiemonster]] 11-DEC-05, 450 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A chance encounter<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Draco Venatio]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 2100+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Dragons play games, the likes of which no man has any business playing.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Expedition]] - [[User:Forg]] 29-NOV-05, 1290 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
Another day comes, another day goes...<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Games-Sports-Ultimate Frisbee]] - [[User:kobeyu]] and ??? 01-DEC-05, 614 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
''(Abandoned -- feel free to finish it - A work in progress)''<br />
A description of one of Earth's newer sports.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:ilovenatalie.exe]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 2-DEC-05, 1300 words and a big pile of numbers Editor:Centipede'''<br />
William's girlfriend is missing, and somebody planned it.<br />
Can he solve his way to her rescue? Or rather... ''can you?''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Kabuki Belly Dancer]] - [[User:Mokey F. Rock]] 08-DEC-05, 2584 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A short story of escaping reality.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:DVD Games]] - [[User:MagikGuy]] 9-DEC-05, 1600 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A review of the Harry Potter 'Scene it?' DVD game.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The London 2012 Olympic Bid]] - [[User:Frankie Roberto]] 3-DEC-05, 1000 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
An article on London's successful 2012 Olympic Bid.<br />
''(comments, feedback and proof-reading welcome)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Moonbeam]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 06-DEC-05, 2,087 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A stranger a letter and an ancient coin... A rewriting of part one an old series I once wrote and did noting with.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth: The night]] - [[User:Specterz]] 29-NOV-05, 500 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A little rant about nights on Earth.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Number Cruncher]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 07-DEC-05, 0 words, lots of 0's and 1's (Not really)Edited by SledgeCallier'''<br />
A nice little binary puzzle I quickly wrote. The code should work but feel free to check it.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Perplex City D20 Module]] - [[User:Scott]] 01-DEC-05, 0 words'''<br />
''(A work in progress)''<br />
A role playing game module based in Perplex City.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:peta]] - [[User:Coxtin]] 29-NOV-05, 1225 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A story in which a monkey gives relationship advice which is unwelcome<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:people games]] - [[User:Hituro]] 11-DEC-05, 2000 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Playing games with People<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Ramblerhymes I and II]] - [[User:GasparLewis]] 29-NOV-05, 1000+ words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A free-form, semi-poignant tirade about nothing... in a good way.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Reality? Virtually!]] - [[User:Sentinel]] 28-NOV-05, 2581 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A discussion of the ever blurring boundaries between reality and the world of gaming.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Spay's Invaders]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 09-DEC-05, 1331 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
This is not a game!<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tower of Cards]] - [[User:Gibbet]] 04-DEC-05, 1242 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A story of persistence to fulfill a lifelong dream.<br />
''(Feedback will be welcomed)''<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Tuberunning]] - [[User:ammonite]] 03-DEC-05, 866 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
London is a game. In many ways. This is about a few of them.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Where's My Meniscus and other time wasters]] - [[User:TheBozzball]] 02-DEC-05, 3186 words Editor:Centipede'''<br />
A description of the games played by a group of people in a place.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Chanko-nabe]] - [[User:ammonite]] 09-DEC-05, 6583 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
A girl who fell in love with a sumo-wrestler.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:The Rebel Pirate]] - [[User:Cronogenesis]] 11-DEC-05, 271 words Editor:SledgeCallier<br />
Somebodys stolen the ships booty! But who is the culprit?<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Pawn]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Lone pawn on a chessboard, watched by more powerful pieces. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:Hide and Seek Peek]] - [[User:Zaeil]] 11-DEC-05, Illustration<br />
Peeking while others hide. Black and white illustration.<br />
<br />
'''[[Tales From Earth:To Epiphany and Beyond...!]] - [[User:fantasticalan]] 12-DEC-05, 847 words Editor:SledgeCallier'''<br />
Fantastic Alan guides you through the Christmas Games Season here in the UK.</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=9833Tales From Earth:Authors2005-12-14T23:54:07Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*<br />
<br />
<br />
== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
<br />
As you may know, to get this book published we need to get each author to sign up to the Creative Commons licencing agreement.<br />
<br />
To do this you will need to send an e-mail to Ellen Moriyama containing the following to text as this will then sign you up for the agreement. Without this your work '''CANNOT BE USED.'''<br />
<br />
The address to e-mail to is emoriyama'''SPLAT'''seaside-press.com with the subject line including 'Tales from Earth' and your mail should include the following text: <br />
<br />
'''I, [insert name here], confirm that the work submitted in my name is licensed to Seaside Press under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/).'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Can you also cc the e-mail to tales.from.earth'''SPLAT'''gmail.com as well so that we know you have complied and won't spend time chasing you up!<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
<br />
SledgeCallier<br />
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<br />
==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
<br />
===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
<br />
===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
<br />
===Cronogenesis===<br />
<br />
Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
<br />
===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
<br />
===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle Entwistle) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
<br />
===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
<br />
===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
<br />
===GasparLewis===<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
<br />
The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Keniworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
<br />
===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
<br />
===Josh Black===<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
<br />
===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest participants in the cube retrieval scheme. This brown haired, green eyed young cube hunter goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her interests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cube hunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
<br />
===MikeyJ===<br />
===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
<br />
===Sentinel===<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
<br />
===TheBozzball===<br />
<br />
TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
<br />
===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=9832Tales From Earth:Authors2005-12-14T23:51:38Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*<br />
<br />
<br />
== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
<br />
As you may know, to get this book published we need to get each author to sign up to the Creative Commons licencing agreement.<br />
<br />
To do this you will need to send an e-mail to Ellen Moriyama containing the following to text as this will then sign you up for the agreement. Without this your work '''CANNOT BE USED.'''<br />
<br />
The address to e-mail to is emoriyama'''SPLAT'''seaside-press.com with the subject line including 'Tales from Earth' and your mail should include the following text: <br />
<br />
'''I, [insert name here], confirm that the work submitted in my name is licensed to Seaside Press under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/).'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Can you also cc the e-mail to tales.from.earth'''SPLAT'''gmail.com as well so that we know you have complied and won't spend time chasing you up!<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
<br />
SledgeCallier<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
<br />
==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
<br />
===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
<br />
===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
<br />
===Cronogenesis===<br />
<br />
Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
<br />
===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
<br />
===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle Entwistle) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
<br />
===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
<br />
===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
<br />
===GasparLewis===<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
<br />
The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Keniworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
<br />
===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
<br />
===Josh Black===<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
<br />
===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt is, at seven years old, one of our youngest cubehunters. This brown haired, green eyed young lady goes to St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln and says her most treasured possession is a picture of Scarlett Kiteway that was sent to her by Sente's youngest daughter. Her intrests include her baby sister Amy, playing and talking and learning about Perplex City. Her favourite computer games are the SSX series of snowboarding games and Sims 2.<br />
Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cubehunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
<br />
===MikeyJ===<br />
===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
<br />
===Sentinel===<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
<br />
===TheBozzball===<br />
<br />
TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
<br />
===The Unfiction Community===<br />
''See colaborative story fFor this blurb''</div>Sledgecallierhttps://perplexcitywiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tales_From_Earth:Authors&diff=9831Tales From Earth:Authors2005-12-14T23:47:19Z<p>Sledgecallier: </p>
<hr />
<div>Authors should write about a 50 word blurb for themselves. This can be just about anything at all. Who are you? what would you like the worlds to know about you? If you don't write one, someone may be inviteed to write something about you. *cackle* *cackle* *cackle*<br />
<br />
<br />
== IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS ==<br />
<br />
As you may know, to get this book published we need to get each author to sign up to the Creative Commons licencing agreement.<br />
<br />
To do this you will need to send an e-mail to Ellen Moriyama containing the following to text as this will then sign you up for the agreement. Without this your work '''CANNOT BE USED.'''<br />
<br />
The address to e-mail to is emoriyama'''SPLAT'''seaside-press.com with the subject line including 'Tales from Earth' and your mail should include the following text: <br />
<br />
'''I, [insert name here], confirm that the work submitted in my name is licensed to Seaside Press under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 deed (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/).'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Can you also cc the e-mail to tales.from.earth'''SPLAT'''gmail.com as well so that we know you have complied and won't spend time chasing you up!<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
<br />
SledgeCallier<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
<br />
==Editors==<br />
===Centipede===<br />
===Scott===<br />
Scott is an American, fFor which an apology seems appropriate. No sensible cause can be fFound fFor the queer lisp apparent in his writing, though sometimes gothic architecture is to blame. He is proud to drink plenty of hard liquor; He only smokes when on fFire, which as you can imagine is all the time. He has a bit of a fFastener fFetish, loves pirates, bad movies, and pi.<br />
<br />
===SledgeCallier===<br />
Having spent his formative years in rural Leicestershire, SledgeCallier was transplanted to Oxford in a failed attempt to absorb knowledge. Instead he found himself working as a Cartographer. After a few years of this Sledgecallier came to his senses and moved into an IT Helpdesk role from where he now hides his powers from the rest of the world.<br />
<br />
==Authors==<br />
===Ammonite===<br />
Ammonite (real name Alex Fleetwood) lives in London, England. He works for old media. His favourite things include choral music, Anthony Lane reviews, shingle beaches and beer.<br />
<br />
===Coxtin===<br />
Conceived with an unusual amount of purpose and vigour Chris Martin finally arrived into the world after a record six thousand nine hundred and seventy two week gestation period inside his surrogate mother-Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. Standing tall at six foot nine he often strides around London parks mimicking Peter Crouch mimicking John Cleese mimicking Hitler. Attaching loaves of bread to his shoes, elbows and eyes, tourists are often shocked to see a tall man goose-stepping around Hyde park with Ducks, Swans and Chihuahua dogs biting at his flailing arms, legs and head. Academically the man appears to be inconstant however his main ambition when he sat his GCSEs was to spell out the name of his best friend, Adae, with his results. Although this was seen by the London School of Economics and Political Science to be a failure Chris could only see his results as a good thing and wondered if anyone was called Lseps. Frequently bored by his job he can often be found sitting in a second floor office in Blackfriars, in the city of London, making absurd claims about his life-he never tells people about this hobby though as Chris feels that no one would believe him. As far as hobbies go this crab ridden freak of man has few-however he does tie small children to famous buildings. He once tied up Jimmy Cranky to the Taj Mahal. He was greatly distressed to find that Jimmy was not a small child, but just a bit odd. Chris, aged nine, can be easily recognised because he has a head made out of corrugated iron, wood and apples.<br />
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===Cronogenesis===<br />
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Conogenesis (Jack smith) is a student/giant/pirate from Heanor, Derbyshire. Although living in this area, he is actually a citizen of the nation of Lovely, a small country in the middle of London boasting a population of 52,000. Cron has been searching for the Cube since the early days althought is usually ignored due to his mass speculation. He is best known for his poetry, rather than stories. Some of his better known pieces include "Weather" and "Mr. Moonlight". If you are looking for Cron you will usually find him listening to Viards 'The Silver City' or helping some stranger. He says hello, have a great day and may fortune smile upon you in the future :).<br />
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===Duckiemonster===<br />
Duckiemonster is a medical student looking for something to fill the hole in her life left by the recent demise of a three-year relationship. She loves to write, play bass guitar and also runs knitting classes.<br />
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===Enigmaster===<br />
Born and currently living on the friendly island of Jersey, Enigmaster (real name Lyle Entwistle) often finds himself cut off from the action surrounding the efforts of the mainland Cube-hunters, but still enjoys the thrill of the (metaphorical) chase. When he's not surfing or solving, he indulges in fresh and varied rock music, gadget shopping and can even be seen attempting a 'normal' teenage social life - with debatable success. Carpe Noctem!<br />
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===Fantasticalan===<br />
Fantastic Alan takes absolutely no pride in the ridiclously non-modest nickname he was given once upon a time. Similarly, however, he doesn't attempt to stop its propagation (well, would you?). Hailing from God's own town of Hinckley, in God's own county of Leicestershire (OK, I'll stop there), he isn't yet thirty and might do karaoke if he's drunk enough. He doesn't like cushions.<br />
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===Frankie Roberto===<br />
===Forg===<br />
Forg comes from a small little village outside Loughborough in which he has just inhabited. Starting his first year of A levels and spends all of his life either at his wonderful girlfriends house, working or spending huge amount of times sitting here learning about the wonderful world of Perplex City. Being fairly new to the community he is just getting settled into the goings on however he's loving every minute and one day, we will find that cube! The rest of his wonderful life is spent eating sleeping and playing his guitar.<br />
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===GasparLewis===<br />
===Gibbet===<br />
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The story of Gibbet stretches back over two centuries. In the year 1765 at the crossroads between Coventry and Keniworth, three scoundrels were hung for murder on a freshly erected gibbet. Flash forward to the present day and this place has become part of the vibrant Warwick University campus. And in 2002, young David Hill enrolled as a fresher. It took a rugby drinking social to notice the connection between his surname and this famous section of campus. But since that day Gibbet he became. Some say that if you listen to him talk you can just about make out the screams for mercy from the condemned men hung there all those years ago. Others just say that he talks rubbish! On a lighter note, he enjoys racket sports, plays trombone and spends far too much time on the computer!<br />
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===Hituro===<br />
Hituro is an electronic enigma, a personality created by an out of work web designer with too much time on his hands. When translated into the real world Hituro enjoys reading, writing, roleplaying, gaming and running large multi-player online games which take up entirely too much of his time!<br />
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===Josh Black===<br />
===MagikGuy===<br />
MagikGuy (Stefan Marseglia) falls under the Perplexian zodiac sign of "The Apple-Thief" and is currently studying A-Levels at his local Sixth Form in the areas of English Literature, French, General Studies, Information Communication Technology and Sociology. MagikGuy would like to aspire to become a Journalist when he is older and would like to study at Marmalejo College in Perplex City, the same place where Scarlett Kiteway is currently majoring in Journalism. MagikGuy has been a devoted member of the Perplex City phenomenon from early August 2005 and wishes to do his best in order to help out Perplexians by finding the whereabouts of The Receda Cube.<br />
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===Katie Goldblatt===<br />
Katie Goldblatt<br />
age: 7<br />
hair: brown<br />
eyes: green<br />
school: St Peter at Gowts, Lincoln<br />
most treasured possession: my picture of Scarlett Kiteway that she sent me.<br />
interests: my baby sister Amy, playing and talking, learning about Perplex City<br />
favourite computer games: SSX series of snowboarding games, Sims 2<br />
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Katie's mum & dad, Nikki Jenkins & James Goldblatt, have been known to join in with cubehunting too! They all play together online as Roxeth.<br />
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===MikeyJ===<br />
===Mokey F. Rock===<br />
Mokey belly dances and studies Japanese, which (sort of) accounts for her strange hybrid of the two cultures in her story. She believes in literature, the theatre, games, and all forms of healthy entertainment. When she isn't goofing off, Mokey writes and teaches English, which unfortunately does not mean she gets paid to talk about Shakespeare every waking moment -- just some of the time.<br />
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===Sentinel===<br />
===Specterz===<br />
Erik Nusselder, aka specterz, is from the Netherlands. He is 21 years old, and studying law school. His hobbies are music and tennis. <br />
Although quite new to the Cube Retrieval Team he has been diligently read up on everything, and hope to assist in finding the cube for the people of Perplex City.<br />
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===TheBozzball===<br />
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TheBozzball is a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Memphis, and is for a very short time working as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge before going off to be a quantitative analyst in New York. When not doing mathematics/mind problems, he likes to direct, adapt and perform in theatrical adventures such as his five-man adaptation of Twelfth Night.<br />
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===The Unfiction Community===<br />
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<div>'''CIA: The Forbidden Fruit of Hollywood'''<br />
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'''Josh Black'''<br />
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The CIA is an organization that has been shrouded in secrecy from its beginning. Due to the sensitive nature of their daily business, they cannot reveal anything about themselves that might endanger the United States or its citizens. The allure of this secrecy causes public demand for anything pertaining to the CIA. This has caused a wonderful genre of film to expand its borders into governmental conspiracy. Hollywood takes a bit of knowledge about the CIA, fabricates the rest, and mixes it with drama, suspense and plot twists to create a movie.<br />
How do these movies create such a semblance of the reality of the CIA? First it is necessary to know the history. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to move towards organized, governmental intelligence when he asked William J. Donovan, a New York attorney, to draft a plan for a new intelligence service. Donovan was appointed Coordinator of Information (COI) in July 1941, creating the nation’s first non-departmental intelligence organization in times of peace. After America entered WWII in December of 1941, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) came forth as a means to gather and assess strategic information needed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and to perform special operations that were not assigned to other agencies. <br />
In January 1946, Truman, then the president, established the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), whose mission was to provide strategic warning and conduct ‘clandestine activities.’ The CIG consisted of a Presidential representative, Secretaries of State, War and Navy. The first Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, USNR, who was also the Deputy Chief of Naval Intelligence.<br />
The CIG was disestablished in December of 1947 due to the National Security Act of 1947, which also created the National Security Council (NSC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This Act gave the CIA the responsibility of coordinating the nation’s intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence affecting national security as well as giving the DCI authority as head of the Intelligence Community, CIA, and principal intelligence adviser to the President.<br />
During the Cold War, the CIA tried to discretely manipulate the way the rest of the world viewed the US. In 1953, executive Head of Foreign and Domestic Censorship at Paramount Pictures, Luigi Luraschi, reported to a CIA contact known by the alias ‘Owen’ through letters. Fourteen of these letters from Luraschi to ‘Owen’ were recently declassified by the CIA. In them, the role that Luraschi played in ‘cleaning’ our American films that would be played abroad through implanting of ‘dignified negroes,’ the removal of alcoholics, and an emphasis on nationalism is seen. For example, in the Martin-Lewis gold comedy Caddy, Negroes were planted in the crowd wearing nice clothes and driving ‘up-to-date cars.’ (Eldridge 11) Or in the film Houdini, an entire character was cut from the movie because he was written as an alcoholic. (Eldridge 19) Luraschi also advised his contact of things he might want to try influencing in other production companies, what to be wary of, and who he might be successful at trying to manipulate in order to create a better image of America abroad. This being only the sixth year of the CIA’s operations, they had an incredible, yet subtle influence over the American Film Industry. <br />
Contrary to popular belief, the CIA cannot and will not spy on American citizens unless they are suspected of espionage or terrorist activities. The law specifically prohibits the collection of intelligence concerning the domestic activities of US citizens. In order to collect information on US citizens suspected of espionage or terroristic activities, there must be higher approval, sometimes coming from as high as the Attorney General, or the DCI. This rule was laid out in Executive order 12333 of 1981. Furthermore, this order prohibits the CIA from taking part in assassinations, whether directly or indirectly.<br />
Today, all of the CIA’s operations are done in secret, leaving the only public knowledge of the CIA to be reported through movies and television shows. Unfortunately, the entertainment industry has no real knowledge of the CIA; instead, the Agency is used to tell a fictional story. Most stories have a semblance of truth, but lack much fact, because who needs facts to make a movie? It’s not the facts that sell movies, it’s the suspense. The existence of the CIA is immanent in Spy Kids, a children’s film about young CIA agents, where the Agency is a wonderful, fun world filled with amazing gadgets and bright colors. The CIA takes on a slightly more covert role in the adolescent hit Agent Cody Banks where a young teenage male is recruited to get close to a female teenager in order to retrieve important information about new weapons. This film shows the CIA doing their teen agent’s homework so he can perform his duties. Again, the Agency is a wonderful, fun, yet secretive organization still dealing in gadgets, but with a bigger emphasis on the actual retrieval of intelligence. <br />
The CIA takes on a less childish approach in Bad Company. This film also portrays the Agency to be overtly good, mainly dealing with the issue of preemptively buying a nuclear weapon to keep it from terrorists. In Spy Game, a compromise that the CIA might make is seen, letting one of their field agents die rather than risk having anything get in the way of a trade agreement between the U.S. and China. In The Recruit, the danger of a rogue agent using his rank to manipulate people unknowingly into helping him smuggle out secrets from Langley, the CIA headquarters is shown. This film uses plot twists to change the audience’s viewpoint throughout the movie, keeping them from knowing who is good and who is bad. This movie is a great example of the ‘darker’ side of the CIA, where the Agency is still good, but the prevailing view is of a sinister, rogue agent. <br />
The CIA also plays a role outside of the big-screen. Every Sunday night on ABC, Agent Sydney Bristow of the TV show Alias works as an agent for SD-6, a rogue agency posing as the CIA, while being a double agent for the CIA in order to bring down SD-6. This takes the world of the intelligence community even further by bringing forth the idea of the ‘double agent’ and the dangers that go along with that role. Get Smart, first airing in September 1965, had a comical view of spies. Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86, was a horribly inept, underpaid, and overzealous spy. Probably one of the most hilarious spy shows in history, Get Smart featured a slew of crazy gadgets ranging from phones hidden in shoes to baby doll recording devices, to bulletproof pajamas. “Looking for an agent? Check under your seat cushion. Want a weapon? Try your finger gun. Need to make a phone call? Open up that bologna sandwich.” (TVTome) <br />
So how does the CIA feel about their portrayal in media? As stated on their website, part of their public affairs office includes a ‘Publication and Film Industry Liaison Officer’ whose job is to “provide advice and guidance to authors, screenwriters, directors, and producers who need information and insight into the world of foreign intelligence gathering.” The CIA feels that by working with film production companies, they can help provide a “more realistic portrayal” of themselves and promote a “better understanding of and appreciation for the Agency, its mission, and its employees.”<br />
Sometimes in films, you see the same basic organization, with the same underlying storyline, only the Agency is different. Hollywood’s perception of our government for the purpose of entertainment has ultimate portability. They use different names, but they are still portrayed in the same manner. After all, what’s in a name? In this case, it doesn’t matter if it is called CIA, NSA, FBI, or ARA (any random acronym) it’s still the same basic fabrication that is seen. The only difference between the CIA and other entities is a lesser shroud of secrecy and uncertainty surrounding the organization at hand. It is this same basic fabrication seen in Enemy of the State, showing what happens when an ordinary citizen unknowingly obtains evidence incriminating an NSA official of a political assassination and cover-up. In this instance, the NSA was portrayed rather than the CIA, and they were very corrupt, using illegal means to bring forth the political changes needed to help their organization move forward and gain more power. <br />
Now the roles that the CIA plays in Hollywood productions have been set forth. There is the role of the good guy, or protagonist, and the role of the bad guy, or antagonist. In instances where the CIA is the protagonist, they are battling against villains across the world in order to stop the nuclear armament of terrorists and to gain intelligence to be used by the US government to protect the safety of our nation and its citizens. In instances where the CIA is the antagonist, they are using all means necessary to gain control of the country, its citizens, or its money. Usually in movies, the entire CIA is not corrupt, only a few high ranking individuals. These individuals act as a rogue element, taking it upon themselves to gain power, information, or assets without the orders from higher powers. <br />
So what is it about this genre of entertainment that is so entertaining? Why is it so enjoyable? For one, we as humans are drawn to the forbidden. When you’re a child and your mother tells you not to touch the iron, what do you do? When you’re walking down and empty street and there is a bench with a sign informing you not to touch it because it freshly painted and wet, are you not inclined to touch it? Of course you are. It’s human nature to be attracted to what is forbidden. In Genesis 3, it didn’t take much influence to get Eve to eat the ‘forbidden apple’ causing the ‘fall of man’ and the subsequent inborn drive to the forbidden. By shrouding their actions in secrecy, the CIA makes itself attractive. Since we cannot know the truth about it, we are inclined to speculate and fabricate one. We desire to know what we cannot. As humans we strive for knowledge, we are an inquisitive species. It’s innate.<br />
Another part of this genre that is so attractive is the action. Anyone possessing a predominance of testosterone to estrogen (meaning men) and many of the opposite (meaning women) love a good action movie. What is a movie without action? You cannot have a CIA movie without action any more than you can have a bad horror film without cheesy gore and nudity. How about gadgets? Any self-respecting male loves gadgets. There is nothing cooler than a BMW that can be driven remotely from a wrist watch, or a credit card that picks locks. Electronic surveillance equipment, miniature sound recording devices and the radio frequency jammers that keep those recording devices from transmitting are all part of the intriguing aspect of high tech gadgets. And who can resist a gun wonderfully disguised as a walking cane or a telephone hidden in a shoe. (And a sink!) <br />
The real CIA is at work everyday behind the scenes to keep our country safe and informed of approaching danger, however Hollywood’s fabrication of the CIA is a wonderful form of entertainment soliciting itself in many suspense films. Due to the secrecy required to carry out their duties, the CIA will remain shrouded in doubt, but at least movies can shed light on the lie that keeps us all entertained for anywhere from thirty minutes to two hours.<br />
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Works Cited:<br />
“An Epic Mini-Series Event” 5 Feb. 2004 <http://www.cbc.ca/taken/><br />
Agent Cody Banks. Dir. Harold Zwart. MGM, 2003.<br />
CIA Factbook. CIA.gov. 16 March 2004. <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html><br />
Eldridge, David N. “’Dear Owen’: The CIA, Luigi Luraschi and Hollywood, 1953.” Historical Jornal of Film, Radio and Television. Vol. 20, No. 2 (2000)<br />
Enemy of the State. Dir. Tony Scott. Touchstone, 1998.<br />
“The Enemy Walks In.” Alias. Dir. Ken Olin. ABC. 6 Sept. 2002.<br />
Joey241. “The Recruit” Movie Spoiler Archive (2003). 5 Feb. 2004 <http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/recruit.html><br />
RDToo. “If Hollywood Deal with Reality…” Online Posting. 20 Oct. 2003. Gardenweb. 16 Feb. 2004. <http://glyphs.gardenweb.com/forums/load/circle/msg1002444428809.html><br />
The Recruit. Dir. Roger Donaldson. Touchstone, 2003.<br />
“Spies: Secrets from the CIA, KGB and Hollywood.” 21 Feb. 2004 <http://www.cia.gov/csi/exhibits/ReaganSpiesExhibit.htm><br />
Sterrit, David. “New Spy Kids on the Block:[ALL EDITION].” Christian Science Monitor Mar. 2003: 15<br />
Sylwester, Robert. “How Mass Media Affect Our Perception of Reality –- Part 1.” Brain Buzz Dec 2001. 16 Feb 2004. <http://www.brainconnection.com/content/172_1><br />
TvTome. “Get Smart.” 23 Feb. 2004. http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1014/</div>Sledgecallier