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[Guin]

[Jotacon]

I haven't had a chance to listen to the MP3, but I will as soon as possible. If it's as brutal as everyone says, then I think I need to hear this before I get scared.

[Mima]

This may have been mentioned before, but I can't find it (if so I happily accept a trout in advance!!).

11/11/259 Cyrus joins Hesh from the Wiki

01/10/268 (2005) Cyrus leaves Hesh (same link as above)

27/10/268 The Council bans the record in Perplex City from the Wiki here.

3/11/268 Hesh announces that the Viard album will be released on Earth (same link as above).

According to this timeline, Cyrus could not have added the message for Earth, he could only have meant for it to be received in PPC.

[spec]I'm not sure what this means with regards to Gillet Road, but this would mean that his private file would probably have been discovered by someone following the trail in PPC, and it would therefore have implicated us in the murder, not I think the third power[/spec]

[Guin]

Mima your timeline only makes me more convinced that something is amiss here.

[duckiemonster]

[TIAG]Bloody... hell... This is reminding me why I'm spending so much of my life following Perplex City. I've just fallen down the rabbit hole all over again and it's great. [/TIAG]

I think I'm fairly happy that Cyrus is V from the track title etc. It would appear that V is not a proficient killer (did he mean to kill her at all?)

My "Pulp Fiction" sense is tingling the whole feel of the recording is very Tarantino: the music, Cyrus' role as the 'bringer of justice' reminds me of Jules' "I am the Lord, my vengeance shall rain down..." speech. The reference to the 'clean up' crew too. *sighs happily and makes a note to watch the film this evening*

I also like the pointing finger of incrimination at us earthies! Not a threat, as far as I can tell, more a "see what's going to happen if you lot insist on sticking your noses in?"

[Guin]

[ryandrew]

Holy crap. That was freaky beyond belief. I was actually quite distressed listening to that. A sick but fantastic touch was having some of our names as the composers. I felt physically sick when I read my name.
The phonecall at the end to me suggested that someone who works at ascendancy point was in on it, alerting them (presumably) to Sylvia's presence, but I may be wrong on that.

[eeeqz]

I'm pretty sure the 3P are playing us like a multi-stringed fiddle. Or possibly some kind of harp...... for the first time I'm glad I wasn't at Clapham

I've not totally made my mind up, but I don't think Cyrus is V. When I heard the recording I thought that maybe V had sent it as a warning to Cyrus. My favourite theory though was that Cyrus had a lower down position in the plan and then decided it was all wrong [his argument with someone at the Academy - V is supposed to work there] and tried to undo his part in it by giving us clues to help retrieve the cube [the message on the cd which ultimately lead to the discovery of the murder mp3].

But if it couldn't have been him that put the message on the CD according to the timeline, it does seem like Cyrus and us have been set up by the 3P/V just to find a recording of Monica's murder, just to threaten/frighten us? But then, why go to all that trouble just to tell us they mean business? Although they do seem to like doing things the long way round in PXC... Unless he put the message on before he left Hesh, perhaps encoding it somehow so it wouldn't play on keys, or something? Ooh, my head

Have we emailed Kurt and Violet? I think they need to know everything so they can be careful... I think it's probably worth telling them about the possibility that we might be framed, as if it happens we don't want them suspecting us so that we end up losing our PXC contacts...

[European Chris]

[ryandrew]

Ahh, that works too. I thought that mostly because of the 90 seconds estimation, as though the person was familiar with the building enough to know that. But yeah, it could have been anyone.

[WolverineFan]

Not sure if this is important, but I noticed that "insert.mp3" doesn't contain the morse code bit at the end of it (which translated to something like "3p communications network compromised").

Originally many of us suspected that the talking was just a distraction from the REAL message which was the morse code. Obviously that wasn't completely true. I think what's interesting here though is that if the morse code wasn't part of what Cyrus added then there was ANOTHER PERSON who changed the album before it was reproduced here.

Unfortunately my head is spinning from all the possibilities at this point. I agree that we should tell Kurt and Violet everything we've discovered so they can form their own conclusions.

I have no clue what to tell them to do next though. Helena just doesn't feel right.

Oh, and that timeline... Cyrus was working for Hesh for 9 YEARS and Kurt can't find any record of his existance???!!! That certainly sounds like a powerful cover-up.

[Juxta]

It could have been either really - Monica was obviously under observation. The fact that V rocked up and killed her, clearly knowing all about her discourse with Pietro is the big giveaway there, but we also have -

[Jotacon]

Totallly agree with you Juxta. Garnet is the newspaper man, after all. But how would he have found out about this before-hand? And know the location well enough to set up 20 minutes before? Seems a little strange to me. I don't think he would be with them, but you never can tell with some people.

[Centipede]

[European Chris]