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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity June 10th - Today's Adventure
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RI_Barnica
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity June 10th - Today's Adventure
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Time: 08:53 PM

We're back! Alive, in one piece, have not been kidnapped by the Recons or subjected to too many inspirational presentations about the life of Gyvann. And, we have the key, although it took a bit of doing - Kurt is working on pulling the files off it now. First of all, thank you so much for the help with that door puzzle - it was invaluable, and the solution was right first time. It was about the only thing that went smoothly, though - apparently today, second Friday before midsummer, is some minor festival - the Celebration of Water, which meant that their usual prayer schedule was off...

Actually, why don't I start at the beginning? Much better; I think I'm still a bit jittery and overexcited from the whole business. OK, so as we planned I called a couple of days ago to say that Kurt was interested in finding out more about the religion and that I'd agreed to come with him; they were pretty amenable to the plan and didn't seem puzzled or worried at all. We arrived at the compound as arranged at 1pm; there'd usually be prayers at 3.30pm and again at 5pm, so we thought we'd be pretty safe.

The compound's huge - must be at least 500 or 600 people living there. The construction, as you'd expect, is really impressive - stone buildings (dormitories, refectory, library, school) that look like they'd survive for thousands of years. The walls are incredibly thick - must be two or three meters thick, I'd guess. I suppose this sort of construction is what gives outsiders the idea that they're planning for armageddon, but I think they just take their construction really seriously. It has the look of a brand-new ancient rustic village, if you see what I mean. The place is dominated, of course, by the huge temple, with those six enormous spires you can see on the skyline for miles around. There's a sense of order as well - you always hear it described on the news as a "compound including livestock", which makes it sound as though there are sheep wandering the streets. But no, it's all ordered pens and bells ringing to signal feeding time. It's peaceful, actually.

Anyway. Our plan had been that we'd arrive, take the tour as I'd done
before, which would be about an hour of presentation, a tour of the temple and communal buildings - where the keys are kept - for Kurt to take a quick peek, then some wandering round the sheep-pens while one of the guys told us about the importance of knowing how to live without technology and embracing the simple art of building with stone, at which point, the bell would ring, they'd ask us if we wanted to worship with them, Kurt would say "sure", I'd say "no thanks" and sneak off to get the key.

As it turned out not that simple. Because on the Celebration of Water there are constant prayers, which almost everyone attends, except those who have to watch the herds or, indeed, the tourists. Great, you might have thought, that will have made the whole business so much easier. Which in a way was true because the whole of the administration building, where the keys are kept, was completely empty and left open. But then, no, because whereas usually the guides will go off for a quick pray at the appropriate time, our guide today - Brother Hans, a man who appeared to have a disapproving look grafted onto his face - told us that he had agreed to "sacrifice his time of communion with the ineffable" in order to take us round. Meaning, he wouldn't leave us alone.

And, you're going to hate me for this but I have to go now! Just looked at the time and realised that I'm going to be late from my usual Friday night table at Bullets if I don't get ready to leave now. On previous experience, I'm going to be in no fit condition to continue this when I get home later ... will try to finish it off as soon as possible, though.

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RI_Barnica
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 		<Rubs hands together greedily>Bring on the files!
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 		Something tells me that she won't be able to continue her story for some reason....arrest?...and we'll be left with Kurt getting the files (and if we're lucky, the remainder of the story) to us.

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 		The Reconstructionists don't do Recon? Surely Brother Hans knows that Kurt is on the Academy webpage. Or do the Recons REALLY never touch tech?

Having a secret police is on every social group's agenda so they gotta be wise to infiltrations. Did they prepare anything for the possibility that a key may be stolen? Step-child of Djinn?

So Kurt gets a clean machine with certain utilities installed and downloads the key 'files' onto that computer and analyzes the
stuff. What does he get? A secret? A virus? A virus inside a secret?

What could the key possibly hold? Previous installations and files? I know you have to literally destroy a hard drive's platters to ensure data cannot be recovered - is that the sort of antique Kurt is working with?

Or is it just a freaking telephone?
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 		I'm just impressed you managed to spec with 78% of your sentences ending in question marks. Worshippy Mmmm, thats some good spec!
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