Pietro Salk

	Pietro Salk
	Perplex City
Date of Birth	Unknown (d. 26-JUN-05)
Futures Sign
Occupation	Journalist for the Sentinel
Religion
Associations	Received information from the Advisor
Email
Website	http://www.salkfamily.com/

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
Married: 260 after a six-month courtship
No children
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
In a band during college called 'The Flaming Miles'.
Took a Games Year
Lived on Eclipse Approach
Journalist for the Perplex City Sentinel
Was contacted by Monica Grand, with information about the Cube Theft.
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.
Passed away a little while later, leaving a tangled web of mystery for us on Earth to solve.

PERPLEX CITY, SEASON ONE
The search for the Receda Cube on Earth

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

??-???-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", Monica Grand. link
10-MAY-05 - Followup with "The Advisor", Monica Grand.
25-MAY-05 - Contact with Monica Grand regarding research progress
01-JUN-05 - Lengthy conversation ("20 questions") with Monica Grand
04-JUN-05 - Contact with Monica Grand regarding Sylvia & Paranoia
07-JUN-05 - Contact with Monica Grand
12-JUN-05 - Contact with Monica Grand; a fairly personal conversation about dreams and stuff
13-JUN-05 - Contact with Monica Grand; plans made to meet
16-JUN-05 - Planned meeting; instead, "The Minder" scared Monica Grand away. link
18-JUN-05 - Contact with Monica Grand; Monica Grand seems to be quite attached.
19-JUN-05 - Contact with Monica Grand; 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

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

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

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."

Pietro Salk
Perplex City

Date of Birth	Unknown (d. 26-JUN-05)
Futures Sign
Occupation	Journalist for the Sentinel
Religion
Associations	Received information from the Advisor
Email
Website	http://www.salkfamily.com/