Timeline:In-game

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.

Shortcut T:I

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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• Note also: Scarlett's Adventure Timelinefrom August 2005 - December 2005

2006

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That's the date!	That's what happened!
3rd Jan '06	Violet is now a fully accredited author, so it's all go go go with the manuscript. She is getting jealousy issues over Miranda. And she's having no luck with Jason who is always working on "unspecified projects". (eg: "murder, blackmail, mutilation with electric drills, transferring between realities, etc")
4th Jan '06	First instalment of Anthony Granier's diary.
5th Jan '06	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 today.
6th Jan '06	It's Graining men! Or more accurately, diary transcriptions.
10th Jan '06	First snowfall and Kindling Of The Flame. One week until the Gillit Road rendezvous. Granier diaries, part quatre.
12th Jan '06	Violet's merciless diary transcribing onslaught continues apace. And the penultimate excerpt, too! Note also that she's been taking care to tell Jason all about it.
13th Jan '06	Violet & Jason go out for coffee, we assume. Kurt and Miranda don't leave work a little early to spend a charming weekend in the country as they claim! Instead Miranda has Kurt cover for her leaving work early by telling him that she needs to get more pills for her supposed Barrow-Feld syndrome and (presumably) somehow finds a way to slip some Ceretin 6 to Cymbalisty, resulting in his death.
14th Jan '06	Isaac Cymbalisty is found dead in his home after (probably) ingesting a deadly cocktail of Ceretin 5 and Ceretin 6.
16th Jan '06	Miranda lies to the police about leaving town with Kurt on the 13th. Presumably Kurt does as well though his interview isn't in the police file on Cymbalisty's death.
17th Jan '06	Kurt goes to Gillit Road. He manages to disrupt what appears to be a deadly police raid on a Third Power operation, which is then resultantly botched. He gets arrested! Read here and here for his account of proceedings. Now he needs the people of Earth to find out who created the Viard recording in order to prove his innocence.
18th Jan '06	Violet expresses her sadness over Isaac Cymbalisty's death, says that the final piece of the Anthony Granier diary is safe in Police hands, and that Kurt "seems to have fallen off the map completely."
25th Jan '06	We've hacked the first stage of the Hesh Intranet (password: mixolydian) but funnily enough it turns out Kurt got there already and seems to have thought it so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. He suggests that we need to socially engineer the boards to find out who engineered the Viard album.
25th Jan '06 +	It transpires we really, really suck at social engineering. We do, however, discover that the employees at Hesh have a night of playing Pyramid every Monday, so we clue Violet in to see if she fancies gatecrashing.
29th Jan '06	Violet and Kurt finally catch up with each other. Kurt tells Violet all about his escapades - as he's been keeping them hidden from everyone so far - and she is both worried and intrigued. Thankfully, she agrees to go along to the Hesh "poker night" (OK, so some confusion there, we admit) the next night to see what she can learn.
30th Jan '06	Violet turns up for some poker, only to discover they're actually playing Pyramid, which is beneath her contempt 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!
1st Feb '06	Useful, but not useful enough is Kurt's take on our breakthrough. It appears Mr Quinton doesn't really exist in any meaningful sense of the word, so we need to access the password-protected filesystem within to see if it provides us with something resembling proof.
7th Feb '06	So yeah, we're finally into the filesystem! But we still can't access Cyrus's secret files. "Enter, those who know what the builder called men under my star" is the clue we pick up from one of his public files. We aren't really sure where to go with this. This isn't helping Kurt (who's now being tailed, incidentally) - can Violet help?
8th Feb '06	Violet says there's no chance of us getting any clues from any Holy Books unless we can provide more information. She asks us to pass on our regards to Alejo, despite "having a few troubles with musicans these days", we take this to mean our beloved Caine. My twin loyalties to rock'n'roll and geekdom have never been so stretched.
13th Feb '06	Kurt is horrified by our discovery but relieved he can now clear his name with Detective Frye.
15th Feb '06	Kurt meets Helena Frye in a cheap cafè on Alchemy Bay to hand over the evidence - read here and 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.)
8th March '06	Miranda has gone off "up north" teaching kids to run, so Kurt is feeling a bit lonely, bless him. More relevant to our inquiries: he's acknowledged that we'd like him to help with the Anna/Cymbalisty thing, and says he "might send a note to Anna" about it. Which, lets face it, is better than running off screaming.
9th Mar '06	Violet's back from a long absence of "not feeling like blogging much lately" what with her boss topping himself and everything. She's been "going for lunch" (which I'm starting to think is a euphenism) with Caine, and the verdict on him is funny but messy. Regarding Jason, he's hot stuff, but there's no chemistry. (Also: he's obviously evil.) Most importantly, she misses Kurt. Awwwwwww.
10th Mar '06	Kurt and Anna have a 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 counterpoint. Or at least that's what he says, but generally maintains that Anna is delusional and us Earthlings are just plain naive. To be fair, he might have a point. A glimmer of hope: he says he'll hear Anna out.
13th Mar '06	Ah, Kurt is managing to be spectacularly irate while evidently slowly coming around to the idea of setting up the PXC-Earth phonelink. Nice bit of off-key sexism from a random player, you'll notice.
14th Mar '06	Kurt crumbles like a nice old bit of cheese, and agrees to set up the link, which is here. Then it's all go go go! We start calling in a massive crime-wave, even with some level of co-ordination, which must be a first for us. Some people get a bit overexcited and call in bomb threats, murders and the like, which is exactly what Kurt has asked us not to do, but never mind.
16th Mar '06	Kurt explains how he was convinced to help, but isn't best pleased with our antics. And if I may say so, rightfully so.
31st Mar '06	Scarlett leaves Claire and Allain in Anjsbourg and is on her way back to Perplex City.
12th Apr '06	Miranda leaves for what she claims is a conference and visit to her parents. (Link)
24th Apr '06	Oistin Meade sets up a survey for Earth people. In exhange, he will give Anna a report on Ceretin 6, the new as-yet-unreleased version of Ceretin.
29th/30th Apr '06	Miranda returns from what she claims was a conference and family visit.
2nd May '06	Oistin Meade provides the report on Ceretin 6, via Anna Heath.
4th May'06	Kurt hacks into the Cognivia database via a note found in Miranda's apartment. The hack probably alerts Miranda via her key. He finds out that she was hoarding Ceretin 6 during the trial and is the one who killed Isaac Cymbalisty by feeding him the unreleased version of Ceretin that has no overdose protection. (Link) Kurt calls Miranda who goes on the run and ditches her key. (Link)
5th May '06	Kurt's key is hacked, so he adds "an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again". (Link) He then goes to Miranda's apartment, which explodes in a "gas leak" and leaves him in hospital with injuries, concussion and a 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. (Link}
6th May '06	Miranda hires a pleasure cruiser from a place in Portside Docks and is recognised and reported as a missing person after she leaves. The Coast Guard are sent to retrieve her. (Link)
7th May '06	The Coast Guard report that the cruiser hired by Miranda was empty. Kurt sets up a global information search for her. (Link)
8th May '06	Kurt is released from hospital and post results of an audio search for the sound "Miranda". He also discovers that she needs a drug called Oxxypro regularly.
9th May '06	From the audio records, Kurt decides that Miranda is probably heading west. Kurt goes to Drowsington, as it's a nearby town west of Perplex City that will provide Miranda with Oxxypro without her needing to use public transport.
10th May '06	Violet meets Kurt in Drowsington. 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. Violet tries to head her off at the ferry but is seen and Miranda runs, eventually deciding to head to Stone Mills on foot.
11th May '06	Violet and Kurt have a 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 pokes around in Miranda's things from Augur Park Station, finding and using some experimental tissue treatment on his injured ankle so it will heal quickly. He also blocks all Violet's calls and messages from his key.
12th May '06	Violet calls Caine over to her place but she's '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 map on his website. These lead him all around town on false leads and Miranda escapes again.
13th May '06	Miranda heads to Ryefield. Kurt follows, realising that on Tuesday the rail system will have a firmware upgrade, meaning that Miranda can use a train without being picked up by Missing Persons. He 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. Kurt calls her, interrupting their dinner-and-puzzle. Kurt and Violet have an awkward conversation and apologise to each other for the fight. (Awww.) Violet refuses to reveal who she was talking with to Caine, driving him crazy, and decides to dig into Miranda's background for any helpful information.
16th May '06	Kurt is arrested for 'loitering with malicious intent'! We need to stop Miranda getting on a train so we use the 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 jumps the barriers and hops on a train leaving Kurt in the dust. Halfway to Vastage Miranda smashes a window and jumps out of the moving(!!) train. She heads towards the Silburn-Griggs mine on foot.
17th May '06	Violet 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 sets up camp.
18th May '06	Kurt talks a lot about some game called Counterpoint on his way to Silburn-Griggs. Violet 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 sleepy, chatty and bored.
19th May '06	Violet reads more about Silburn-Griggs and ferrogramatographs and discovers that the Academy Museum has several. She is challenged by the Academy Museum staff when she goes to borrow a ferrogramatograph and tries to name-drop 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.