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==2005==
==2005==
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* Note also: [[Scarlett's Adventure Timeline]] from August 2005 - December 2005
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Apr '05
| [[Scarlett]] spills juice on [[Violet]]'s bag and asks her [[Sente|dad]] to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 24th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke]], owner of the [[Five of Cups]] bar and one of the Cube [[Theft|Thieves]], is murdered by [[V]] (leader of the conspiracy) in a violent struggle. Holyoke had been tasked with stealing and/or hiding high-tech equipment (including [[Klebold Plate]]s and [[Reynolds Ionizer]]s stolen from the [[Academy]], but had been selling some of it off on the side to make a profit.
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| 25th April '05
| [[Bernardo Holyoke|Bernardo]] is found dead at the establishment by fellow employees around 10am.  [[Helena Frye]] takes charge of the investigation! With determination! Bernardo's widow, [[Jessica Holyoke]], has fled, transferring all her assets to the [[Reconstructionist]]s, moving to their compound and changing her name to Kostka. Tom Cruise would be proud. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/five_of_cups_ow_1.html Link])
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| 27th Apr '05
| [[V]] and his boss exchange emails regarding [[V]]'s recent murder of [[Bernardo Holyoke]], with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 28th Apr '05
| [[Violet]] famously speculates on an audio program that her [[Sente|dad]] was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/04/azkaban.html Link])
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| 6th May '05
| [[Monica Grand]], Cube Thief, first contacts [[Pietro Salk]], under the pseudonym [[The Advisor]]. She's shaken by the killing of one of her co-conspirators, fears she will be next, and wants to give her story to the police (via The Sentinel) in exchange for immunity. She provides Pietro, a leading investigative reporter at the [[Sentinel]], with insider information regarding the equipment hidden at the [[Five of Cups]], in order to prove her credentials as a source. ([[Salklogs.doc#The_Logs transcript]])
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| 10th May '05
| The police, acting on the tip-off, discover the hidden equipment. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyoke_housed.html Sentinel article]) Pietro replies to Monica confirming that her information was accurate, and enquiring as to her story. She reveals the truth: that her and [[Bernardo Holyoke]] were both part of the [[Cube]] [[Theft]] gang.
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| 15th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and [[Monica]] meet, for precisely one minute, around 7am. She tells him that they were hired help in the raid, and that the [[Third Power]] were behind it.
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| 17th May '05
| [[Pietro]] tries to get into the [[Reconstructionist]] compound, but has no luck - they seem to recognise who he is.
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| 20th May '05
| Pietro notes that "I just bloody wish I could go to the police. This is too big, I just don't have the resources I need to figure this out on my own." For a journalist, this is quite a high-quality problem.
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| 24th May '05
| Pietro's investigations continue. It appears he's mainly having to work this out on his own, as he can't reach an agreement with "The Advisor" over immunity, etc. She mainly gets in touch to provide unhelpful pointers. He notes: "Memo: Makes no sense. Cubeheads want the Cube, of course. But then why would H have had to be *hired* to steal it? Can't have been hired by his wife, surely? By the Cubeheads? TA will not say. Says it is too dangerous."
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| Violet, meanwhile, attends a PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentioning the mysterious portal-archway-things in the [[Catbite]] region. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/05/more_history.html Link]) Today (or shortly before) [[Jessica Holyoke]] is traced to the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. Due to the icy relations between the cult and the Perplex City authorities, police are unsure how to proceed - they want to interview Jessica, but don't want to risk a direct confrontation. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/05/holyokes_wife_l_1.html Link])
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| 25th May '05
| Having seen the previous day's Sentinel article, [[Monica Grand]] contacts [[Pietro]] to tell him to abandon his [[Reconstructionist]] leads and concentrate on the [[Third Power]]. After some debtate, he agrees to start over and do more research at the [[Academy]].
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| 26th May '05
| Pietro finds someone at a Recon produce market who claims to know [[Jessica Holyoke]] and offers to put him in contact with her for 100 Lecks...
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| 27th May '05
| ...unfortunately, this doesn't turn out to be money well spent. No news.
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| 28th May '05
| [[Pietro]] and "The Advisor" (now better known to us as [[Monica Grand]]) continue to communicate. She shows him a record of a bank transfer showing she recieved a copious amount of money in return for her work on the [[Theft]].
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| 31st May  '05
| [[Violet]] is livid that the Police are afraid of confronting the Recons! So, inquisitive scamp that she is, she actually visits the [[Reconstructionist]] compound. She just gets the standard guided tour, though, and doesn't get anywhere near [[Jessica Holyoke]].
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| 1st June '05
| [[Monica]] tells [[Pietro]] that [[V]] is most dangerous because he's "a true believer."  Then she reveals he's been stalking him and his wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], to ensure he isn't double-crossing her. He is rather displeased to hear this.
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| 4th June '05
| Pietro and Monica make up. Psychosexual tension ratchets up another notch.
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| 7th June '05
| Pietro and Monica speculate on what the Cube actually ''does''. Monica speculates it's some kind of superweapon. Pietro neglects to let her steal his uberweapon, if you see what I'm saying.
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| 9th June '05
| 2.30am: Monica returns to her apartment, having been somewhere. We don't why she left or where she went.
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| 10th June '05
| [[Sanjean Adamek]] emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But [[Violet]] declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| By which she means: that day she's actually been back to the [[Reconstructionists]] with [[Kurt]], broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their [[Key]]s with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called [[Bullets]] and wins "six months worth of rent." (See [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/todays_adventur.html here] and [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/adventures_part.html here].) (By way of contrast, today ''I'' edited a wiki.)
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| Meanwhile, Monica is going a bit nuts with not leaving her apartment for quite some time, and rants to Pietro about it. She's lonely, Pietro, and a woman has ''needs''.
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| 11th June '05
| Monica starts really flipping out and asks Pietro to come and meet her in the bright light of day, to have a coffee in the [[Ascendancy Point]] atrium like "normal people." Pietro is like "yo, WTF?" She goes on about neuroinhibitors and never having a life she was really interested in, before seeing sense and going back to her apartment. That night, she sends him info about the backdoor hack into her apartment's heat sense system. "Just in case." Comforting words.
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| 12th June '05
| Monica and Pietro discuss alternative careers. Pietro would like to have worked on the [[Mimasan Maze]]. Monica had a thing for the [[Rudon]] forest and would liked to have worked with trees. It takes all sorts, eh?
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| 13th June '05
| [[Kurt]] manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and [[Violet]] sends it to us (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_mysterious_fi.html here].) We [[Recon Encryption Puzzle|decrypt]] it, and as is traditional send the results to absolutely everybody we can think of, including [[Sente]]. Sneaky, we ain't. The decrypt reveals that several prominent city figures are [[Reconstructionists]], including Cube Retrieval team member [[Aiko Entrescore]].
 
Pietro tells Monica he's found some information about the [[Third Power]], only to say that "I don't think it can be them. It's not what they would do." Monica can't give him any substantive evidence by key, so Pietro suggests they meet.
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| 14th June '05
| [[Sente]] urgently contacts [[Anna Heath]], having just learnt that [[Aiko]] is a [[Reconstructionist]]. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to [[Roberto Solitano]] to discuss the matter. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
 
Pietro and Monica have an apparently idle conversation about favourite trees, but are secretly arranging a meeting place. Monica spuriously declares she's going camping overnight, which is a bit odd. It seems things are all arranged though, because...
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| 15th June '05
| We learn that [[Aiko]] has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube [[Theft]]. ([http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/entrescore_arre.html Link]) Violet gets [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/some_things_i_d.html all pissy], but calms down a little [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/after_all_that.html two days later].
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| 16th June '05
| ...they meet! Apart from, they don't, because Monica spots a "dark-skinned man, knew how to handle himself, sitting in a leather armchair near to the cluster of birch trees" at the meeting point, assumes it's Pietro's minder and aborts the meetup. She rails on Pietro for this, but he denies knowing anything about it, and she seems to come around to the idea that it was all paranoia. Pietro comments to himself that this is starting to feel like an affair.
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| 17th June '05
| Pietro notes to himself: "It's got to be the Recons, it's got to be. How does Aiko Entrescore tie into all of this? Was she in on it, just not on the same team?"
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| 18th June '05
| Monica confides in Pietro that he's the only person in the whole city that she can talk to.
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| 19th June '05
| Pietro decides it's time to end the whole charade once and for all - he and Monica will go the [[Police]] together and tell them everything they know. In the end, Monica agrees to meet him at the [[Joya]]'s wedding at [[Ascendancy Point]] on the Solstice, 21st June.
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| 20th June '05
| [[Aiko]] is released from police custody without charge, after a judge, [[Erik Hornblair]], rules there is insufficient evidence to detain her for any longer. [[Police]] chief [[Eoin Morgan]] diplomatically calls the situation "ridiculously suspicious." Aiko does not return to work, but goes to chill out a bit at the Recon compound. Artists: so tempramental, eh?
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| [[Pietro]] is attacked with a neuroinhibitor and lapses into a coma before he has a chance to meet Monica as planned. His wife, [[Sylvia Salk]], finds him collapsed in his study.
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| 22nd June '05
| [[Pietro Salk]] emerges briefly from his coma to create an elaborate and convoluted [[Pietros maze|maze]].
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| 26th June '05
| [[Pietro]] finally dies in hospital.
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| 28th June '05
| [[Pietro]]'s funeral / memorial is held.
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| 29th June '05
| [[Violet]] returns from a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/06/a_vacation_on_t.html camping holiday] on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
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| 6th July '05
| [[Violet]] is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/blue_day.html watching her].
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| 8th July '05
| [[Kurt]] launches his Earth-eyes-only weblog, [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/ The Path Of Least Time].
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| 22nd July '05
| A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/sigh.html 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood']. Almost certainly [[Allain]].
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| 26th July '05
| Kurt has a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/planes_and_date.html lunch date] with a "girl from Crypto." Fancy!
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| 29th July '05
| [[Aiko]] stares down [[Violet]] when they [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html bump into each other] at the [[Academy]]. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
Kurt, meanwhile, is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/07/violet_and_book.html amused] by  the thought that we'd assume he was doing the humpty-bumpty with Violet.
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| 2nd Aug '05
| [[PCAG]] season opening ceremony! Kurt writes about it [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/stars_in_the_sk.html here]. "Violet and I lay back on the grass and looked up at the stars..." You said it, dude, not me.
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| 23rd Aug '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/07/oh_no.html Dinner!] [[Sente]], [[Scarlett]] & [[Brede]] and [[Violet]] & [[Kurt]] have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for [[Tanagra]]. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE ''TEENAGE'' DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
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| 31st Aug '05
| Kurt has a rather [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/08/the_cube_1.html insightful] discussion with "Boardman" at the [[Cube]] research labs.
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| 2nd Sept '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/the_book_the_cu.html apologises] to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the [[Third Power]] book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
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| 7th Sept '05
| [[Violet]], [[Kurt]], [[Von]] and a couple of Violet's friends head out to [[Ascendancy Point]] for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
And yet interestingly, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html claims] that he was out running that evening, "forgot something", met up with his friend [[Leo]] and then got talking about the [[Academy]] security systems. Leo posits that to break through the protcols would require at least two "genuises" and that "THINK BOTH MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE INFO DANGER TO SAY MORE." Coward.
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| 8th Sept '05
| [[Garnett]] and [[Caine]], from the Cube Retrieval Team, go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 9th Sept '05
| A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
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| 16th Sept '05
| Madness ensues today. Shortly before 9am, [[V]] murders [[Monica Grand]] in her [[Ascendancy Point]] apartment. Almost as soon as he leaves, [[Sylvia Salk]] arrives to find her on the edge of death. "We never held it", says Monica, then dies.
[[Sylvia Salk]] is now totally freaked out, and unable to cope decides to take her own life, joing her late husband [[Pietro Salk]] in the great beyond.
Cassandra from Earth emails Violet about all this, who races round to [[Sylvia Salk]]'s place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/last_friday.html by the way]. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/09/sylvia.html here] and once again makes empty, hollow promises about getting The Book.).
Meanwhile, Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/chatter.html reveals] that analysis of the PXC-Earth datalink have shown increased activity, indicating that there are nefarious extra elements communicating between the two worlds.
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| 21st Sept '05
| [[Scarlett]] checks in from her [[Tanagra]] hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her [[Sente|dad]] and [[Violet|sister]]. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 23rd Sept '05
| [[Caine]] paints the statues in the [[Founder's Gallery]] yellow. [[Von]] is most amused, and [[Aiko]] has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers. Meanwhile [[Tippy]] is busy manipulating [[Von] to go out and buy her coffee, to [[Anna]]'s chagrin. She tries to get [[Kurt]] to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 29th Sept '05
| [[Sente]] emails his assistant [[Patrick Azadian]], chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a [[PCAG]] meeting that day and a budget proposal from [[Estelle Sedgewick]]. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting [[Robert Solitano]] regarding the budget. [[Sente]] asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with [[Garnett]]. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks [[Lyssa Ling]] to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 3rd Oct '05
| [[Caine]] steals [[Tippy]]'s stapler, the utter bastard. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 6th Oct '05
| Violet ''finally'' heads over over to the central archives to meet her friend [[Cumber]] and gets her hands on The Book! Sadly, it's been nearly ruined, but she's confident that Kurt will be able to get something out of it and promises to swing by tommorrow.
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| 7th Oct '05
| And that's exactly [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/trip_to_the_lib.html what happens]. Ah, they're such a great team...
 
Meanwhile, [[Tippy]] asks [[Garnett]] out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. [[Von]] notices she didn't invite Garnett, Tippy disparages Garnett, and [[Aiko]] unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 11th Oct '05
| Violet observes that the pages of The Book which mention the [[Third Power]] are a lot more water-damaged than the ones that don't. "[http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/going_crosseyed.html Creepy, huh?]" We're inclined to agree.
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| 19th Oct '05
| Violet delivers some [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/see_i_deliver.html first quotes] from The Book, and not a moment too soon. The [[Third Power]] is described as one of the [[Cube]]'s "guardian cults" in the period immediately following the war.
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| 27th Oct '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/10/symbols.html posts some symbols] from The Book. Stirring stuff, eh?
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| 1st Nov '05
| Finally, Violet has some more [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/more_from_lenci.html dirt] from The Book on The [[Third Power]], suggesting it has deep roots at the [[Academy]]. She's also working hard on the [[War Exhibit]].
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| 7th Nov '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/11/that_pesky_book.html chimes in] with his take on restoring information from The Book: "all my copious spare time is being consumed by Violet's latest crazy project." Only because you love her, Kurty-boy.
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| 9th Nov '05
| Violet posts the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/some_news.html final instalment] from The Book, a list of implausibly famous characters from PXC history who the author claims were members of the [[Third Power]]. But [[Aiko]] remembers she's seen the 3P Symbol somewhere - specifically, in [[Sanjean Adamek]]'s house...
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| 12th (or 13th) Nov '05
| Kurt visits the [[War Exhbit]] with his current crush, Sarah. She goes "all quiet" when he mentions his investigations with Violet and then is decidedly non-committal about seeing him again. Lesson: Talking a lot about your totally great not-girlfriend is a losing tactic.
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| 22nd Nov '05
| [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html Long time no see, Violet]! She's been pokering about again, visited her uncle [[Sanjean Adamek]] and confirmed that the [[Third Power]] symbol is definitely in his house, and that it was put there by the original builder, [[Anthony Granier]] and that [[Aiko]] had, in fact, turned up at some point previously to take photos of it. Fortunately Granier is famous and prolific diarist, and she tried to get access to the rarest original ones. No deal - you need to be a published researcher to access them.
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| 28th Nov '05
| Six days later, Violet loses patience and hits us over the head by telling us to [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/a_brainwave.html WRITE A DAMN BOOK, ALREADY].
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| 29th Nov '05
| [[Violet]] is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness (she needed him to sign forms regarding her [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/11/my_visit_to_unc.html accreditation re: the Granier business) and tells [[Kurt]] about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via [[Leaked E-mails]].)
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| 1st Dec '05
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/ceremonies.html says] he's been getting a lot of mail about subway stations and ceremonies. He sends us eager Cube Hunters to the [[Brotherhood Of The Six]] for the information we need...
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| 6th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/book_update.html reports] that Jason & Miranda, aka The Ominous Librarians, have started working at the [[Library]]. She fails to notice that they should probably be pushed under the nearest subway train ASAP, for everyone's safety. Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/12/random_musings.html muses] randomly, and also notes having spotted a rogue reporter from The [[Sentinel]] over by the Cube Research labs that day. Huh?
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| 14th Dec '05
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2005/12/developments.html briefs us] on the latest happenings: [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is all over [[Miranda]] like a rash, but she's still dating [[Kurt]] and it's going very well, and she's mulling over making a move on [[Jason]], despite the fact that he just so happens to be "really interested" in the "manuscript stuff", OMFG RUN, VIOLET, RUN!
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| 16th Dec '05
| Our "trust no-one" attitude doesn't seem to have much traction in Perplex City - Kurt writes about taking [[Miranda]] out to the Finnegan/Johnson [[PCAG]] match, with a nasty headcold.
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==2006==
==2006==
[[Timeline:In-game_2006]]
[[Timeline:In-game_2006]]
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| '''That's what happened!'''
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| 3rd Jan '06
| Violet is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/progress.html now] a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over [[Miranda]]. And she's having no luck with [[Jason]] who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
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| 4th Jan '06
| First instalment of [[Anthony Granier]]'s [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries.html diary].
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| 5th Jan '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/gillit_road.html Kurt says] he's been thinking about it a lot, but he's finally decided to go to [[Gillit Road]] and try and find the evidence that [[Helena Frye]] is a spy. He asks the Earthlin's to try and find out who recorded the message on the [[Viard]] CD in the first place. Meanwhile, there's more hot [[Anthony Granier]] action [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_1.html today].
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| 6th Jan '06
| It's Graining men! Or more accurately, [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_2.html diary transcriptions].
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| 10th Jan '06
| First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the [[Gillit Road]] rendezvous.
[[Anthony Granier|Granier]] diaries, part [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_3.html quatre].
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| 12th Jan '06
| Violet's merciless [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_4.html diary transcribing onslaught] continues apace. And the [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/granier_diaries_5.html penultimate excerpt], too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell [[Jason]] ''all'' about it.
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| 13th Jan '06
| Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/the_flame.html a little early] to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html cover for her] leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
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| 14th Jan '06
| [[Isaac Cymbalisty]] is [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html found dead in his home] after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
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| 16th Jan '06
| Miranda [[:Image:PXC978C675_WITNESS_KATSOULIS_MIRANDA_P000.jpg| lies to the police]] about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Kurt does as well] though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
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| 17th Jan '06
| Kurt goes to [[Gillit Road]]. He manages to disrupt what ''appears'' to be a deadly police raid on a [[Third Power]] operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/helena_frye_and.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/interrogation.html here] for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the [[Viard]] recording in order to prove his innocence.
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| 18th Jan '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/cymbalisty.html expresses her sadness] over [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death, says that the final piece of the [[Anthony Granier]] diary is safe in [[Police]] hands, and that [[Kurt]] "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
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| 25th Jan '06
| We've hacked the first stage of the [[Hesh Intranet]] (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/01/mixolydian.html Kurt got there already] and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
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| 25th Jan '06 +
| It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
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| 29th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] and [[Kurt]] finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/hesh_poker_nigh.html worried and intrigued]. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
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| 30th Jan '06
| [[Violet]] turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing [[Pyramid]], which is beneath her contempt [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/01/seven_reasons_i.html nine times over]. Fortunately, she's brought along [[Caine]] to grease the wheels, and he finds out who produced the [[Viard]] album for Earth - [[Cyrus Quinton]]. Just the sort of information we were looking for, which is ace. Then Caine tries to make a move, real casual like. Busted!
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| 1st Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/cyrus_quinton.html Useful, but not useful enough] is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
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| 7th Feb '06
| So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/star_signs.html helping Kurt] (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
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| 8th Feb '06
| Violet says there's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/02/saving_kurt.html no chance] of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to [[Alejo]], despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved [[Caine]]. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
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| 13th Feb '06
| [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/last_words_of_m_1.html Kurt is horrified] by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with [[Helena Frye|Detective Frye]].
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| 15th Feb '06
| Kurt meets [[Helena Frye]] in a cheap cafè on [[Alchemy Bay]] to hand over the evidence - read [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/exonerated.html here] and [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/02/the_clean_rooms.html here]. Not only is he exonerated (definitely better than being exsanguinated) but he discovers that the people at Gillit Road were "building something ''big''... that required a clean room." And that this all ties in to the technology that's been going missing from The [[Academy]]. (Remember: [[Bernardo Holyoke]], [[Five of Cups]], [[Reynolds Ionisers]], etc.)
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|8th March '06
|[[Miranda]] has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/relationships.html feeling a bit lonely], bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
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| 9th Mar '06
| Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is ''funny but messy''. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_past_month.html Awwwwwww].
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| 10th Mar '06
| Kurt and Anna have a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/isaac_and_cymba.html blazing row] when Anna asks him to set up a phone-based comms link between Earth and the police hotline, and he tells her to "get over it and stop making up conspiracy theories." Kurt Hits For -10 HP!
Later that day, he posts a [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/counterpoint_1.html counterpoint]. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that [[Anna]] is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
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| 13th Mar '06
| Ah, Kurt is managing to be [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/remapping_1.html spectacularly irate] while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
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| 14th Mar '06
| Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
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| 16th Mar '06
| Kurt [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/03/and_consequence.html explains] how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
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| 31st Mar '06
| Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
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| 12th Apr '06
| Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/04/cognivia_and_a.html Link])
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| 24th Apr '06
| [[Oistin Meade]] sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
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| 29th/30th Apr '06
| Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
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| 2nd May '06
| Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
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| 4th May'06
| Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]  by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/finding_the_out_1.html Link])
Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html Link])
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| 5th May '06
| Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/fantasies.html Link])
He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a [[Old Town Explosion|mysterious note]].
We solve the puzzle and send Violet off to Augur Park Station where she finds locker 7196 and Miranda, who promptly legs it and loses Violet, despite Violet's vigorous training regimen of poker bars and gigs. Back in the locker Violet finds a key, clothes and provisions. ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/a_matter_of_lif.html Link]}
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| 6th May '06
| Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/concussed.html Link])
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| 7th May '06
| The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. ([http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/empty.html Link])
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| 8th May '06
| Kurt is [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/vital_statistic.html released from hospital] and post results of an [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/global_search.html audio search] for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
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| 9th May '06
| From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/drowsington.html Kurt goes to Drowsington], as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
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| 10th May '06
| Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_getaway.html Miranda shows up] at the Drowsington pharamacy. When confronted by Kurt she holds a knife to a customer's throat and Kurt lets her escape. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/dead_ends.html Violet tries to head her off] at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to [[Stone Mills]] on foot.
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| 11th May '06
| Violet and Kurt have a [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html massive row] over Kurt's obsession with finding Miranda. Violet returns to Perplex City leaving Kurt in Drowsington. Kurt takes the train to [[Stone Mills]] and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/calm.html pokes around in Miranda's things] from [[Augur Park Station]], finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
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| 12th May '06
| Violet calls [[Caine]] over to her place but she's [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/home_again_home.html 'too miserable'] for him so he leaves her to worry over Kurt by herself.
Kurt sets up the Stone Mills security cameras to examine people and their walking patterns and log matches for Miranda. He uploads the results to the [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/map.html map] on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/over_the_bridge.html escapes again].
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| 13th May '06
| Miranda heads to [[Ryefield]]. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/who_are_you.html firmware upgrade], meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/a_charged_silen.html talks to station staff] and the pharmacist at Ryefield alerting them to keep an eye out for her. He also visits a doctor who is surprised at his speedy recovery (owing to the experimental cream from 11th May).
|-
| 14th May '06
| Violet has dinner with Caine at Conundra. [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/news_of_the_tra.html Kurt calls her], interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
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| 16th May '06
| [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/arrested.html Kurt is arrested] for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the [[Perplex City Rail System|Perplex City Rail]] website to book up all the seats on all the trains running from Ryefield so that Miranda can't get on. Miranda is still at the station when Kurt is released but on seeing him she [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/barriers.html jumps the barriers] and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust.
Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine on foot.
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| 17th May '06
| Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/ive_found_somet.html looks up Miranda's library borrowings] and finds out that Miranda has been reading about Corant Caves, the Dedant ridge and the [[Silburn-Griggs]] mine.
Kurt heads out to the spot where Miranda was last seen and [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/overcast.html sets up camp].
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| 18th May '06
| Kurt talks a lot about some game called [http://www.thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/counterpoint.html Counterpoint] on his way to Silburn-Griggs.
Violet [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/delving_into_si.html reads a lot] about [[Silburn-Griggs]], realises that it is hazardous and that a ferrogramatograph would be useful and passes on the info to Kurt.
Scarlett is [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/05/soooo_sleeeeepy.html sleepy, chatty and bored].
|-
| 19th May '06
| Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the [[Academy|Academy Museum]] has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she [http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/05/got_it.html goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph] and tries to name-drop [[Sente|her father]] in order to get it. The museum call [[Sente]] who approves her with the condition "We are going to have a talk very soon aren't we, Violet?"
[[Scarlett]] hears about Violet's adventure from their 'hopping mad' father and lends Violet her car, complete with [[Anjsbourg]] camping gear. Violet sees mysterious camping gear and battered car and notes this for a later conversation with Scarlett. She drives towards Silburn-Griggs leaving Scarlett in Perplex City.
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Latest revision as of 09:10, 24 August 2006

This is a guide to the key happenings in Perplex City surrounding the Cube Theft and our following investigations. Newcomers might want to check out the official guide .

This guide isn't designed to be comprehensive, and instead deals with pertinent incidents - although the scope seems to be expanding somewhat due to Guy_P's masochistic streak. Also, dates are reported "as things happened" in Perplex City, not the date we learnt about what happened. For instance, if Violet goes out for coffee on the 14th but doesn't blog about it until the 16th, the entry goes under the 14th.

Also, this guide is written with hindsight. If we know Violet won 20,000 lecks at Poker, but we didn't find this out until months later, then the entry still says "Violet won 20,000 lecks."

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin.

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2003

That's the date! That's what happened!
10th Oct '03 Senior Fellows meeting at the Academy. Fierce debate surrounding Cube research: Inari Ekeba wants to experiment upon it, and when Sente Kiteway refuses she threatens (in anger, probably) to steal it. Astrid Lindstrom and Sanjean Adamek reflect upon it in via email.
22nd Dec '03 V demands to meet one his Academy insiders at once. They can't - they're in an Adjunct Senior Fellows meeting. V insists that they should make their excuses and leave. (via Leaked E-mails.)

2004

That's the date! That's what happened!
8th Jan '04 One of the Cube Conspirators attempts to rendezvous with another member, but incorrectly identifies the target and almost divulges secrets to a perfect stranger. (via Leaked E-mails.)
15th Jan '04 Violet emails her dad to say she's got flu and won't be coming to the ball. (via Leaked E-mails.)
Tonight, the Academy Ball. Cyrus Quinton, Monica Grand, Bernardo Holyoke and Claire Castille steal the Cube. Zounds! Fran Mendling killed in the raid. (via Leaked E-mails.)
16th Jan '04 The next day, Roll For Damage have a recording session. Cyrus Quinton is their audio engineer, and he makes a phone call to an "office at the Academy."

2005

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2006

Timeline:In-game_2006

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