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| This page contains a list of all our "known unknowns" - questions that we don't yet have answers to. There is also an oft-unused page of [[False Puzzles & Speculation]]. | | This page contains a list of all our "known unknowns" - questions that we don't yet have answers to. |
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| ==Current Hot Topics== | | ==Current Hot Topics== |
| Our Perplex City contacts have been talking about these recently:
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| | | *What's V doing at Radio One's Big Weekend? We need to stop him using the neural override and turning 30,000 people into walking puppets. |
| * Why kill [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]? He was the fairly dislikable/gruff but friendly chief librarian at the PXC Academy [[Library]] and was working on restoring the Granier Diaries with Violet. He died shortly before the final entry could be transcribed. Kurt figured out that Miranda did the killing by slipping him Ceretin 6 ([http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2006/05/the_actor.html link]) but why? Most likely something to do with that final page, since Miranda was involved in giving Violet the boring version ([http://www.quirkyacuity.com/archives/2006/03/the_last_granie.html link]). Anna is baffled, upset and scared that someone she knew did the murder ([http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/ 10th May 2006 entry]). | |
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| * We finally have evidence that confirms there was a second team of thieves who successfully stole the Cube, rather than [[V]], [[K]], [[Q]] and [[C]]. But who were these people? Interestingly, it seems clear that [[V]] had a [[3PGroupwareManager|connection]] to the second team also.
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| ==Unsolved Puzzle Cards== | | ==Unsolved Puzzle Cards== |
| ''See: [[Puzzle Cards]] for more on these.''
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| *'''[[Riemann]]''' ({{Card|238|Reimann}})- It's not really meant to be solved. | | *'''[[Riemann]]''' ({{Card|238|Reimann}})- It's not really meant to be solved. |
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| *'''[[Shuffled]]''' ({{Card|243|Shuffled}}) - Once the method is discovered, it'll be easy...
| | *'''[[The Thirteenth Labour]]''' ({{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}}) - Come join the concerted effort to solve this puzzle, download the client and follow progress at the [http://www.13thlabour.tk Assault on 13th Labour] site. |
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| *'''[[The Thirteenth Labour]]''' ({{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}}) - Come join the concerted effort to solve this puzzle, download the client from [http://www.e-wire.net.au/~eb_oakla/pxc/13labour_1_0_2.zip here], and follow progress at the [http://www.13labour.org Assault on 13th Labour] site. | |
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| * Many of the [[Cards]] have [[Playing card symbols]], and their various respective [[Talk:Playing card symbols|Letters]]. The full message and meaning is still unknown.
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| ==On The Back Burner==
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| No news from Perplex City lately:
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| * What is at [[Viendenbourg]]? What did the Castille family do there? We know it's some kind of military installation, and that they're trying to put together something that used to be there, according to [[Claire Castille]]'s story to [http://www.thescarlettkite.com/archives/2006/03/index.html Scarlett]. The sound of drilling emanates from a long, low-slung industrial building. It's very heavily protected by a neurodisruptive field built by Claire that renders intruders confused and ultimately unconscious. It was implied that [[Sente]] knows about its existence, but the employee might have assumed this from [[Scarlett]]'s presence at the facility. Does it have something to do with content in the previously mentioned [[Anthony Granier|Granier Diary]]? | | *'''[[Billion to One]]''' ({{Card|256|Billion to One}}) - A person must be located by just a photo; the card is meant to test the "six degrees of separation" concept by having us send emails around the world. Websites dedicated to the card are [http://www.billion2one.org/ billion2one], [http://haveyouseenhim.info/ haveyouseenhim], and [http://www.findsatoshi.com/ findsatoshi]. |
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| * Who created the [[Djinn]] virus? This was a virus that destroyed or accessed data on people's [[keys]], and was transmitted key-to-key. It was created by someone who accessed insider information at the [[Centrifuge]] labs - a company that manufactures keys. The answer to this question is also the answer to the silver [[Shuffled]] card.
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| * Who are those [[Public Unrest|crazy anarchist vandals]]? They've been vandalising Perplex City up a storm with their funny symbols and references to leading Earth Anarchist thinkers. Do they have anything to do with anything, or are they simply easy press-scare fodder? | | * Who created the [[Djinn]] virus? This was a virus that destroyed or accessed data on people's [[keys]], and was transmitted key-to-key. It was created by someone who accessed insider information at the [[Centrifuge]] labs - a company that manufactures keys. |
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| * The [[London_PCAG_event#The_London_Eye_and_Morse_Code|London Morse Code Message]] - WTF? We have snippets that are possibly decoded, but no concrete solve for the full message. We were possibly meant to go to the Tate Gallery at some point, but clearly haven't. Chalk another one up to the 3P, y'all! | | * Do the [[Public Unrest|symbols and references to Anarchists]] made by the vandals [[Malcolm and Spencer Kaplan]] mean anything important? |
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| * Who, and where, is [[Cyrus Quinton]]? We think Cyrus Quinton was the operational mastermind of the Cube Theft Team (codename: V) who disappeared once he had murdered [[Monica Grand]]. V's DNA records are not on the city databases, according to police leiutenant [[Helena Frye]], which means he is either from outside the city, or has been able to hack into their records. Kurt can't find the name Cyrus Quinton on any databases either. | | * Who, and where, is [[Cyrus Quinton]]? He was the operational mastermind of the Cube Theft Team (codename: V) who disappeared once he had murdered [[Monica Grand]]. V's DNA records are not on the city databases, according to police leiutenant [[Helena Frye]], which means he is either from outside the city, or has been able to hack into their records. Kurt can't find the name Cyrus Quinton on any databases either. |
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| * Why build a Clean Room? Kurt stumbled across extremely well maintained tunnels beneath the Gillit Road Subway. In return for providing information on Quinton, Helena Frye revealed that the 3P were constructing a clean room for purposes unknown.
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| * [[Helena Frye]] - really as straight as all that? Helena Frye claims the [[Gillit Road]] fiasco was a legitimate secret [[Police]] operation gone wrong, no thanks to [[Kurt]]. But why did Kurt overhear the passing lackeys ask "why is Frye getting the police involved?" Was she a double-triple-something agent? And even if she is, as we assume, legit, we don't know anything about her obviously extensive counter-3P investigations. Or why she lied about the items found at the [[Five of Cups] to [http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/08/police_close_ho.html The Sentinel].
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| * What do you mean, "we never held it"? When Monica died, she told Sylvia that the original theft team "never held it" - meaning The Receda Cube. Was this part of the plan? Did the Cube autotransport itself to Earth? Or was their whole operation a botched mission, or indeed a decoy from the real setup?
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| * Who was above [[V]] in the chain of command? We know he has a Bigger Boss, possibly representative of an even bigger Conspiracy. Who are these people? | | * Who was above [[V]] in the chain of command? We know he has a Bigger Boss, possibly representative of an even bigger Conspiracy. Who are these people? |
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| * Who's crooked at the Academy? We know that Cyrus Quinton called the Academy and had a heated discussion with someone on the day following the theft. ([[Alejo]]: "Even our best production guy, Cyrus, was a little off that day - I remember he was having this big argument, said he was talking to Helix about his contract, but when I redialed from the studio console a little later to talk to Helix, I got some office at the Academy.") Also, Kurt's friend [http://thepathofleasttime.com/archives/2005/09/the_breakin.html speculated] (with an unknown level of actual information) that it would take at least two people to thoroughly circumvent the Academy's security systems, but said it was a "danger to say more." We know that one is probably an Adjunct Senior Fellow from the [[Leaked_E-mails#Super_Sneaky.21|leaked emails]]. V also refers to someone "more senior", who probably resides at the Academy, and therefore is probably a Senior Fellow.
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| * Why steal the Cube? We currently can't ascribe a clear motive to the [[Third Power]] in their theft of the artefact.
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| * When will Violet & Kurt do the honourable thing and fall hopelessly in love with one another? Talking of which...
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| * Should we hate [[Miranda Katsoulis]]? Turned excessively paranoid, we've come to be highly suspicious of Kurt's new beau, Miranda, who appeared alongside another chap at the Library at the time the Granier Diaries were being restored. Which is not only suspicious, but there's also the fact that she isn't Violet, hence not good enough for Kurt. Obviously. Also, she turned on the waterworks when interviewed about [[Isaac Cymbalisty]]'s death. However, Violet seems to think she's alright.
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| * What happened on the night of [[Leaked_E-mails#Sneaky.21|7th Jan, 2004]]? One of the conspirators nearly gave the game away to a female somebody. They said a "challenge" line, and the person they were talking to (by chance) completed the "third element", at which point the conspirator started blabbing. They quickly realised their mistake and said that "I barely gave anything away before realising the error. She didn't appear suspicious." Does anyone remember anything?
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| * [[Inari Ekeba]] is a Professor Of Natural Sciences and wanted to do Cube Research, but [[Sente Kiteway]] wouldn't let her. The [[Leaked_E-mails#Senior_Fellows_Meet_with_Sente|meeting]] flared up and she rashly threatened to steal the Cube. Significant, or a red herring?
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| * Who was Mrs Kiteway? One assumes that [[Violet]] and [[Scarlett]] have a mother - who was she, and where is she now? (Our working theory is that she died when the girls were very young, I think.)
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| * The big question: If the cube is on Earth, how did it get here and how are we meant to get it back to Perplex City?
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| * Some while ago, a special offer was sent out from Firebox, which contained the [[Firebox 100 Letters]]. Many have speculated this is a global sudoku. While it is not directly tied to the rest of the story, the question remains, what is the correct solution?
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| *On the [[Receda Trail]], what was the missing link? Players traveled to a 9/11 memorial obelisk at Jones Beach, New York, but found no clues. Players then located the next step by checking for registered domains containing the word "receda". But what was the missing link between the two?
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