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mattlock
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 		Hey guys, I've missed a few days and didnt realise we had found out who the advisor was! When did that happen?!!! lol
Anyway, I've been looking at some of the questions asked and was just wondering, have I missed something? The logs contained an extract number that we found to link to a comprendo webpage, but have yet been able to access (or have we?). Anyway, after searching through the forum and finding no joy I decided to send an email myself asking the password that Pietro Salk 'knew already'.

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Dear Ms. Grand,

Firstly I must apologise for my unexpected email and the shock you must have had when we Earthlings contacted you. Please believe us that we are here to help in the recovery of the cube and are trying to assist in any way possible, with the current lead being followed to you. We hope that you can help us and that we can help you in return. You have undoubtedly been told about the encrypted logs files left by the late Pietro Salk providing us with the communications between you had with him and the instructions to find out what you know. Since the discovery of yourself being the infamous Advisor I am sure you have been inundated with emails asking you questions. I myself have been looking over the logs we are keeping our end of things to help us collaborate in the cube's retrieval and have found that one mystery has yet to be solved from the logs, namely the accounts page you set up for Mr Salk showing details on the hefty transaction that was made to you. I have included an extract from the logs below, something which you should hopefully find familiar. We are still unsure as how to access this area knowing neither the password or user name for entry and if you could please shed some further light on this then we would all be grateful.

Date: 28 May 2005 3.48pm
From: The Advisor
To: Pietro Salk
Subject: Money
OK. I'm with Comprendo through my building. I've set up a single page for you to look at, identity details removed. You know the password already. The number of the extract is: 74419038751-4593855

Thank you for you assistance in this matter, and any further help you could provide would be enthusiastically welcomed! Please remember that we are also here for you with many contacts and abilities if you so need them, or if you just need someone to talk to.

Thanks again,
Mattlock


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MasterCheese
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 		Yeah, we already knew the Comprendo Finance login, that was one of the reasons that we discovered who the advisor was...
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mattlock
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 		God damn it! I wish this thing was easier to find information on! lol I was wondering how we found that out, just assumed that it was a combination of the heat sensor and a/c sensor stuff. Any idea where the info can be found? This forum is overrun with nonsense and unimportant stuff. I suppose I best think up another email to send them Razz

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Seej
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The Advisor wrote:
I will not respond to any inquiries from individuals who have sent me time-wasting mail concerning irrelevant matters such as the nature of my attire.

Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed

lol, I guess the ciphertext was a little too tough for Monica (well, weapons are her forté after all). I suppose that means it's up to you lot (well, or I could use one of my anonymous accounts on a different domain......) Wink

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mattlock wrote:
Any idea where the info can be found? This forum is overrun with nonsense and unimportant stuff.


http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Main_Page

mostly fFree of hubris since -- er, last year.

wikis are your fFriend. Search fFor anything, and you'll probably fFind something.

EDITed to add: OOH! I have a prediction!! Ryan Cahill was on his own breed of enhancers, of some kind, to slant the game against Chamaign! Scandal!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:27 pm
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Seej
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 		Well, by way of making up for being silly with our paranoid and very touchy weapons expert I started thinking about the whole police protection thing. Pietro had some high-level police contacts and TA's info hooked them up with the Klebold plates and Reynolds ionizers hidden in The Five of Cups. Specifically, Helen Frye. So I was wondering how to get a hold of Frye (no PXC Police Dept site that I can find yet) and figured that our best bet was Sylvia, so bunged something a little more sober (which is ironic) and sensible her way:

Seej wrote:
Dear Sylvia,

I'm a member of the team on Earth working on the theft of The Cube and also trying to figure out the mystery surrounding the your late husband. As you are aware, we have discovered that he was working with an individual who called herself The Advisor, but who's real name is Monica Grand and is a consultant at PCBC.

We have recently received replies from Monica and it seems that she clearly knows more than any of us. However, she is understandably reluctant to come forwards and share this information with us. She requires police protection before she will divulge any further details.

Pietro was able to secure some protection for her in the past, and it seems his contact on the Perplex City Police Department was Helen Frye. Helen actually benefited from information supplied by Monica via Pietro, as the equipment found at The Five of Cups in Pietro's article 'Holyoke Housed Stolen Academy Equipment' wouldn't have been discovered were it not for a tip-off from Monica.

Monica values her privacy and is deeply untrusting of most people involved in this matter, so if you could avoid mentioning her name (which I've only mentioned to you since one of my colleagues has already told you her identity), at least initially, I'm sure things would run more smoothly. Monica needs to feel secure, to feel that she's not going to suffer a fate such as Holyoke, Fran Mendling, or even poor Pietro, and she needs to be reassured that in return for her cooperation in the retrieval of The Cube she will not suffer the full weight of the law. Hopefully Helen Frye, who your husband clearly trusted with such matters, will be open to such a suggestion.

I appreciate that this may be upsetting for you and if you'd rather not pursue this I'm sure I speak for all my colleagues when I say that we fully understand. However, to truly establish why your husband died it would be very useful if you could arrange contact with Ms Frye.

Yours

Seej Engine


EDIT: Ack! That should be Helena, not Helen. Thanks Cassandra.

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 		Mail fFrom sylvia:
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I can't sleep for worrying. So many people are telling me different
things, and I don't understand. Can't you make it simpler? You said
this 'Advisor' was very dangerous. I don't know if I can trust her, I
don't know if I can trust you. How do I even know I can trust you? I
think I should speak to Pietro's friend Helena. She works for the
police, maybe that would be safer. What do you think I should do?

Sylvia


hmmmm
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 		Well that seems to be a lead to try and get Sylvia to set up police protection for the Advisor. You seem to be on her good side Scott, maybe you can convince her that the Advisor can help if she helps her out a little?

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ParityBit
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Scott wrote:
I think I should speak to Pietro's friend Helena. She works for the police, maybe that would be safer.


Hooray! Time to get an email address for Fry. But can we trust her, after she told the Sentinel that the parts recovered from the Five of Cups were just automobile parts, when we know what they actually were?

seej wrote:
called herself The Advisor, but who's real name is Monica Grand and is a consultant at PCBC.


Hells bells, what about discretion! We really shouldn't go around spilling information we know to everyone. What if Sylvia turns Monica in? What if Sylvia's email is being tapped. I think with both our correspondance to Sylvia and Monica we all need to reign on unloading all the secrets we know about.

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 		My reply to sylvia:

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Greetings, Sylvia.

You know Detective fFrye? She might have a certain ability we can use, then. The Advisor only wants assured immunity and protection. Nothing more. I explained my thoughts to you, a couple days ago, about Monica simply wanting out. She is a decidedly bad person. But she was a hired hand. If she fFeels she has immunity with the police, she may speak out against those who hired her -- those who killed Pietro. We can't go to the police ourselves. They'd never believe us. But you can talk to Helena, and explain the situation.

This looks like the only way. The Advisor will only talk to anyone if she thinks it is safe. She is very powerful, and well connected, and won't jeopardize anything in her life unless she can do so at no harm to herself. So the only way to go forward is to offer her what she wants.

She genuinely liked Pietro, Sylvia. Both as a writer, and a humanitarian. I know it's ludicrous to suggest giving a criminal of her calibre abject immunity. But it's all we've got. She didn't kill Pietro. She probably didn't kill anyone else, either. The real murderers are only protected by fFear.

Also, you asked how you can trust me, or any of this. I think you can only trust your heart. However, I have something a little more .. concrete. Attached, you will see a comprendo fFinance statement. Do you know what Pietro was working on before his death? Monica was involved in the Cube Theft. This statement shows her payment of PCL 40,000,000 fFor her part in the heist. You can take this to the police, as well.

We will get to the bottom of all of this. But Monica Grand is not the head of the beast: she is only a small part. And if the police sweep her up and carry her off to prison, she will probably be murdered quietly, with no closure on any of this, and no fFurther leads or information. To go any fFurther, we need her cooperation. Which means she needs protection.

Sylvia, I'm so sorry your happy life got so mixed up in all this. It's gone fFrom nightmare to torment, and fFor that I profoundly apologize.

Be strong--
Scott Myers, Earth


and then, yes, I did it. I attached the statement.
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 		well damn! Sylvia is quite picky Razz I emailed her this message earlier today, after my email to Helena Frye (not Helen, btw) this morning (so you know, helenafryeSPLATperplexcitypolice.com is not working) backfired.

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Dear Mrs. Salk:

I am a resident of Earth currently investigating the theft of the Receda Cube in Perplex City, and I am in need of some information. Do you have, or can you acquire, contact information for one Detective Helena Frye? I ask you simply because I know your husband worked with her often in the course of his career, and I cannot reach any other City officials presently. If you can provide me with any information, I would be most appreciative.

Respectfully yours,

Cassandra


This was my email to Detective Frye, which bounced back:

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Detective Frye:

We citizens here on Earth are slowly making headway in the Receda Cube case. We believe that the Five of Cups murder and the death of reporter Pietro Salk are connected with each other, and with the missing Cube.

From various articles in the Perplex City Sentinel and from notes written by Mr. Salk himself, it seems that you are aware of this link, and perhaps even aware of Salk's source, whose information led to the discovery of the specialized stolen equipment in the Five of Cups. If Pietro Salk and the future of Perplex City are important to you at all, I beg that you keep this information strictly private, and consider the request I am about to make of you.

I spoke earlier of Salk's source, who henceforth will be referred to as 'The Advisor.' The Advisor, we have learned, admitted to being privy to the Cube's theft and removal; however, A. contacted Mr. Salk to confess and request Salk's assistance to bring the main culprits to justice. We on Earth have managed to contact this mysterious Advisor, who has agreed to reveal more information about the stolen Cube and the possible murder of Pietro Salk on one condition only: that he/she be provided full police protection and immunity from retribution. I'm afraid that the guarantees of our own world's police and military are useless in the face of our societal separation; thus, I have turned to you. Can the Advisor be protected with the highest possible levels of secrecy and security? This conspiracy threads through all levels of Perplexian society, and I would not want your city to become unraveled. If you consider your department to be, perhaps, unable to agree to this compromise, are there others in the city who could assist us, whose integrity and strength you can vouch for ? Clearly there is resistance to the truth, as revealed in the Sentinel's article about the closing of the Holyoke case. I only hope you were not part of that, as a friend of Pietro, and that you will aid us and your city in this matter.

Respectfully yours,

Cassandra


I never get the character interaction Razz le sigh.

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ParityBit wrote:

But can we trust her, after she told the Sentinel that the parts recovered from the Five of Cups were just automobile parts, when we know what they actually were?


Often, in criminal investigations still underway, the true nature of the evidence discovered during the case is not revealed to the press, especially if it has high security implications. Though the general public may not know what a Klebold Plate or a Reynold's Ioniser is, the police will want to hide that information from the people involved with putting the things there in the first place. It gives them a false sense of security if all they found were some low value stolen goods.

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Often, in criminal investigations still underway, the true nature of the evidence discovered during the case is not revealed to the press, especially if it has high security implications.


A good observation. May it also be suggested that the withholding of information regarding the mysterious items found in the Five of Cups may have been performed for the additional purpose of concealing the existence of an inside source? In the event that The Sentinel had published the accurate information, 'V' would likely have assumed that either TA or 'C' were the informant, and terminated both. It is not yet the appropriate juncture to assume that we understand fully the motivations of Officer Frye, but I am of the opinion that the evidence at hand reflects well upon her intentions toward the illustrious informant at hand.

I wish I had performed my research better before contacting TA; I had forgotten Frye's involvement, and, thus, that we had a potential source for a criminal immunity. Embarassed Thusly, my email was probably entirely ineffective. Good luck!

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ParityBit wrote:
seej wrote:
called herself The Advisor, but who's real name is Monica Grand and is a consultant at PCBC.


Hells bells, what about discretion! We really shouldn't go around spilling information we know to everyone. What if Sylvia turns Monica in? What if Sylvia's email is being tapped. I think with both our correspondance to Sylvia and Monica we all need to reign on unloading all the secrets we know about.

Scott already told Sylvia this - see way back in the first post of the thread. Otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it and continued to refer to her as The Advisor.

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 		There is only one person in Perplex City that I can think of that has enough power to try and ensure police protection: Sente Kiteway. I have composed and sent him the following email:

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Dear Sente,

As we have not been in contact for quite sometime, I wanted to update you with our status here on earth, as well as ask you for a favor to aid in our search for "The Cube."

As it seems you already know from the posting under "Story so far" at www.perplexcity.com, Pietro Salk was in communications with someone known only as "The Advisor." From what we know, "The Advisor" had a heavy hand in the theft of the cube, and has vital information that could reveal the culprits/group behind the cube's theft, as well as its current location. Through a series of fortunate events and exquisite sleuth work, our team here on Earth has been able to discover the identity and residence of "The Adivsor."

We have made contact with "The Advisor" and she has responded. She greatly respected Pietro, and because of that respect and Pietro's desire for us to track her down, she has agreed to give us information, but only under a strict set of conditions. She has requested complete immunity and protection from the police if she fully discloses her information. This is an excerpt from her last communication to us:

" I possess certain information which might be of interest to you and am willing to provide it on the same terms which I agreed with Pietro. I will not give up the knowledge I possess simply to be arrested and sent to prison. I need immunity from prosecution and confirmation that I will be provided with police protection. If you on Earth feel you can somehow procure this for me, by all means do so."

, Mr. Kiteway, I write to you now to ask for your help in this manner. "The Advisor" is the best lead we have towards our search to find the cube, and getting this information could be instrumental in recovering the cube. Surely you have the contacts necessary to grant "The Advisor" such protection, and doing so could be the key to unlocking this puzzle.

Please respond as promptly as possible, as it is necessary to inform "The Advisor" of your decision.

Thanks for all your help,
Sean


I hope he can help us! **Crosses fingers**

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