Pietro Salk

Pietro and his wife, Sylvia

The shirt reads "I solved the Mimasan Maze"

Pietro Vincent Salk Deceased Webpage: http://www.salkfamily.com/

General

• Born 1968 or 1969
• Deceased 26-JUN-05 (in the late evening hours) at the age of 37
• Widow: Sylvia Salk
• Mother: Rowena Salk
• Father: Vincent Salk
• Brother: Philip
• Sister: Angela
• Took a Games Year
• Lived on Eclipse Approach
• Journalist for the Perplex City Sentinel
• Swiftly and unexpectedly sunk into a rapid coma on Monday, June 20
• Emerged from this coma for several hours Wednesday, June 22, and was only able to interact with his Key.

Puzzles

• When Pietro awoke momentarily during his coma, he wrote a maze program
• The puzzle was uploaded to the Salk Family website, with some interpretations by his Wife's Brother.
• This puzzle contains messages and clues left to us by Pietro.
  • Pietros_maze - linked directly
  • Salk_logs - discovered by subtle references
    • Salklogs.doc - a transcript of the logs

Timeline

• ??-???-90? - took a Games Year
• ??-???-97 - Marries Sylvia Salk
• ??-???-04 - Helped end a key fraud ring
• 06-MAY-05 - Is first contacted by "The Advisor" (reference)
• 10-MAY-05 - Followup with "The Advisor"
• 25-MAY-05 - Contact with "The Advisor" regarding research progress
• 01-JUN-05 - Lengthy conversation ("20 questions") with "The Advisor"
• 04-JUN-05 - Contact with "The Advisor" regarding Sylvia & Paranoia
• 07-JUN-05 - Contact with "The Advisor"
• 12-JUN-05 - Contact with "The Advisor"; a fairly personal conversation about dreams and stuff
• 13-JUN-05 - Contact with "The Advisor"; plans made to meet
• 16-JUN-05 - Planned meeting; instead, "The Minder" scared "The Advisor" away. (reference)
• 18-JUN-05 - Contact with "The Advisor"; "The Advisor" seems to be quite attached.
• 19-JUN-05 - Contact with "The Advisor"; Salk suggests talking to the police;
  • A meeting is planned on Soltice Day at the Ascendancy Point, during Joya's wedding
• 20-JUN-05 - Salk falls into a sudden and deep coma.
• 21-JUN-05 - Solstice Day
• 22-JUN-05 - Briefly emerges from coma; writes Pietros_maze
• 26-JUN-05 - Dies in hospital
• 28-JUN-05 - Funeral Services; Eulogy by Sister Golda Flynnt of The Brotherhood of the Six

References

• more headlines, 21-JUN-05 "Reporter Salk in Coma"
• article, 23-JUN-05 "Salk Briefly Emerges from Sudden Coma" (link)
• radio interview, 27-JUN-05 Michiko Clark reports that Salk has passed away, mentioning the maze program and finding files. (transcript)
• more headlines, 27-JUN-05 "Salk Dies in Hospital

Articles Written

• article, 16-FEB-04 "Academy Forms Retrieval Plan" (link)
• article, 12-JUN-04 "Academy Requests City Funds" (link)
• article, 20-JUL-04 "Special Cube Funds Granted" (link)
• article, 28-MAR-05 "Crime Lower in East Old Town" (link)
• article, 06-APR-05 "Recon Eight Released from Police Custody" (link)
• article, 26-APR-05 "Five of Cups Owner Found Dead" (link)
• article, 11-MAY-05 "Holyoke Housed Stolen Academy Equipment" (link)
• article, 15-JUN-05 "Entrescore Arrested for Receda Cube Theft" (link)
• article, 20-JUN-05 "Entrescore Freed" (link)

Webpage: http://www.salkfamily.com/

This person is part of the Category of Sentinel Authors. A long listing can be found here: Authors and Their Articles

Wilhelmina Best, Felix Blake, Kate Brewster, Jared Cherrywood, Antony Clapham, Jeremy Claridge, Alwhin Copi, John Cormoran, Gavin Crewel, Alexei Fairetoure, Roland Gerbera, Roberto Goodwin, Joyce Harrington, Corinne Hathaway, Corwin Jones, Cho Kaplan, Garima King, Foster Liddell, Amber Mai-Wan, Julius Loman, Iona Rodie, Pietro Salk, Lauren Sinclair, Natasha Valliere, Lucas Voorhies, Arling Wilson

Codenames "V", "Q", "K" and "C", were hired to do the Theft. They are tied to the deaths of Fran Mendling, Bernardo Holyoke, Pietro Salk, Monica Grand, Isaac Cymbalisty, Anna Heath --- but someone else got to The Cube first. Who? And Why? "We never held it, It was already gone."