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[UPDATE] [EMAIL] Scarlett's Email - Aug 26 - Viendenbourg
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] [EMAIL] Scarlett's Email - Aug 26 - Viendenbourg
Quote:
Hi. My name's Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 20 years old and I live in
Perplex City. Last year the Cube - a very precious object - was
stolen from the Academy where my dad, Sente is the Master, and
concealed somewhere on Earth. We need to find the Cube and get it back.

Some pretty weird things have been going on in my life since I got a
summer job working at the Sentinel, the main newspaper of Perplex
City. First my friend Kurt did a computer search for something called
a "Reynolds ionizer", and his computer was targeted by a military
trace. Then I found that same phrase written on the back of a file
belonging to a journalist who died recently, along with another word,
Viendenbourg. When I went to the military archives to investigate the
word Viendenbourg I found nothing, but as I was leaving an old man
I'd never seen before handed me a data button with a map on it. It
was a map of the Tanraga mountains region, with a scribbled note:
"Viendenbourg. Before everything changed."

There's a lot going on in Perplex City; maybe by sifting all the
clues that are out there, you'll find out who stole the Cube. But I'm
following my own lead. My story is here and you can follow it with me.

---------------

Viendenbourg. Everything keeps coming back to that name. First, a
mysterious note written in pencil on the back of a dead man's file.
Now, a name scribbled on a map given to me by a stranger in a museum.
Things are just getting weirder and weirder.

Of course, the first thing I did was to go back to the museum, to try
to find that old man again. The very next day, I went back and asked
around. The lady in the military archive room said she'd seen him a
couple of times before, and that he uses *paper* ID, rather than
using a key. She didn't seem that surprised, said a lot of the older
people prefer to use paper ID. She thought his name was Peter
something - not very helpful. She wouldn't look it up for me, and she
wouldn't tell me what he'd been examining. I was about to leave,
frustrated. Then I had a brainwave.

I said: "I saw he was looking at a box labelled 5BC; it must be a
very moving set of material." And she said: "Oh yes, he cries every
time he looks at it." And then she put her hand to her mouth, as if
she shouldn't have said anything. I checked on the military archive
database; there are 7,968 boxes for 5BC, so that doesn't get me very
far, but at least it's something.

On the way home, I stopped at a map store. I'm going on vacation soon
with my friends Margot and Sanj and... my boyfriend Brede! We've only
just started going out, so I'm still a bit overexcited. He's great,
so kind and sweet. I worried it might be a bit weird going on
vacation together now that we've started dating, but I think it'll be
fine. Anyway, I'd promised the guys that I'd get maps for our trip to
Tanraga, so I bought the most detailed, most close-up ones I could;
downloads for my key as well as paper maps. The map the old guy had
put onto that data button wasn't the most accurate in the world, just
a sketch-map really, but he'd put in a few key landmarks: the Grey
Towers, Veldet Lake, Iskara Peak, the Sunken Island, so I thought I
could probably work out where Viendenbourg might be on an up-to-date
map.

As I walked home, I thought about what all this could mean. Obviously
that guy in the archives was doing historical research, so he
probably knows all about old place names. Maybe he wanted to tell me
where Viendenbourg was, but didn't want to get into conversation with
me, or talk to the archivist. Maybe he was just being old-fashioned
and charming. But I couldn't help having a prickling feeling at the
back of my neck. Maybe he knew I'd be there. Maybe he'd been waiting
for me, or for someone, to come round asking about Viendenbourg. How
did I know the information he'd given me was accurate, anyway? Maybe
he was just some mad old guy who heard me saying this weird word and
made up an explanation for it. How could a whole place be forgotten
anyway? If Viendenbourg was the name of a village, even an old name,
why wouldn't it be in the records?

When I got home, I looked carefully at the map the man in the archive
room had given me. Viendenbourg. It's in what looks like a deep
mountain ravine, with a small lake to the north. North of Iskara
Peak, to the west of Veldet Lake, almost surrounded by the spiky
range of the Grey Towers. It's not a place you'd really go to on
vacation - Veldet is beautiful and lush, Iskara is magnificent but
the Grey Towers are bleak - stunning from a distance but no fun to
hike - just miles and miles of shifting shale. I mean, people go
there, but not *many* people. And this place is right in the middle
of them. You wouldn't even get a good view! Still, it was pretty well
identified on this map.

So, I brought up my up-to-date maps and overlaid them, matching peak
to peak, ragged lake shore to lake shore, slowly bringing the two
maps into line with each other. And I looked. And there, on my modern
map, where a village called Viendenbourg should be there was...
nothing. No ravine. No small lake. No village. Nothing.

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lauriek
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 		I'm at work at the moment so don't have all my ppc links and stuff available. Does anyone know if the area described is covered by any of the currently available map sections? Ta'
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 		ok -- just read her email -- i knew there was a metamorphosis weapon used --- No ravine. No small lake. No village. Nothing. Smile
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wiglaf
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tanner wrote:
ok -- just read her email -- i knew there was a metamorphosis weapon used --- No ravine. No small lake. No village. Nothing. Smile



We don't know if there is nothing there yet, only that whatever is there, the is no record of it on the map.

I also wonder if it is related to the Newguard ruins that were discovered by hikers a few months back

http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/04/hikers_discover.html

I am not clear enough about my Perplexian geography to know how near this is to the Tanaraga mountains, but perhaps there is much ancient history that has been hidden away.

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 		Area 51 and all that Razz

Or, the public at one point were cognitively altered by the govt/military to erase knowledge or memory of any such place/event.

Mmm, smell the conspiracy.

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 		Question is, do we push Scarlett towards hiking out there and seeing what is there now or do we warn her off due to potential risks? There should be another way of checking out the area? Satellite photography perhaps? Google Perplexian Earth??
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 		The concept of a perplex city google maps is appealing.
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