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[ThusQED]

While I agree that Sente has been keeping an eye on Violet and Kurt, I'm not sure if key-logging is the way he did it. Frankly, it would be a simple matter just to have someone tail Violet as she left the city.

Also, although Scarlett bought her car after going to Viedenbourg, there is no reason to believe that the "people from V" did not follow her simply because they didn't show up to nab Claire. For all we know, the Castille's were found after Scarlett left and the reason for the secrecy was because of Scarlett's relationship with Sente. True, that is a sort of squirrely argument.

[Crane]

Believe it or not, this actually makes me trust him MORE...
Just the tone of the conversation...
The way he referred obliquely to Miranda's death makes me suspicious though;

[sledgecallier]

[Juxta]

[SPEC]
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and stake a claim, in a pseudo-Cluedo stylee. Patrick Azadian, in the Academy, with the Reynolds Ioniser. Actually, not with the Ioniser - that's V and his wacky psychotic ways. However, I've been deliberating over it for a while, and I'm increasingly convinced that Patrick is our mole in the Academy. He is:

*Ideally placed, he has the ear of the Master, although he is not "Senior" in the Academy, he's pretty much at the top of the tree, and would be privy to pretty much everything that Sente knows.

*Access to any and all areas of the Academy - we already saw how much weight being Sente's daughter carries, he wouldn't even need that, in the absence of the Master, he's effectively top-dog. "The boss wants you to do this for him..." is a massively powerful bargaining chip with anyone.

*Even if not present in top-level meetings, he'd be able to observe them easily - his presence around them wouldn't raise any suspicions.

*All of Sente's correspondence goes via him - this would also explain that tricky puzzle of how clues are getting onto the cards, which Mind Candy have no knowledge of.

*Final point: "...supplied by Patrick to ease the awkwardness, presumably, since that man thinks of everything." He's almost invisible, placed at the top of the tree, fingers in all the pies, knows everybody's motivations...but nobody *would* ever suspect him.
[/SPEC]

As for motive...well, that's a little more unclear at this juncture.

J

[h0neym0nster]

Friday, February 3, 2006
Back on the road

Scarlett writes "We've been travelling for just over two weeks now and, as I expected, my key signal has been intermittent. For some reason we seem to have hit a good spot the past few days, perhaps because we're travelling through open country at relatively high altitudes, so I've taken the chance to read through, and reply to, a lot of mail from home. I see a few of you noticed that I'd posted something to my blog - it seemed like the best idea. I didn't want my dad noticing that I hadn't posted anything and wondering why."

So obviously Sente knows that she posts to Earth, but can he read it? I would think so. As for the key signal......engineered to be a good signal at just the right time?

[JakeoNLI]

[e_nygma]

[cassandra]

we don't need to spoiler spec here the Azadian angle isn't new, but it's good to have it actually discussed in more detail. (Two more notes about him - I think his email still gives the autoresponder - but perhaps we should try again, and he was the author of the Firebox 100 letters sudoku game, which we never really finished.)

[GasparLewis]

Well, Leo could be underestimating the scope at which the involvement of higher-ups is taking place (a trade-up from two insiders to the second-biggest insider of them all), and thus overestimating the number of people required to pull of the heist.

But, Leo is infallible, so I guess that just CAN'T be the case.

And, we know, for a fact, that Patrick has been meddling with cards; The Firebox 100, anyone? Who are we to say the same person planting sudoku numbers isn't the same one slipping in the shaded letters, making a call to Combed Thunderclap?

One of the two is very, very deeply rooted in all of this; I foresee grand side reversals and revelations in the coming months. The framework is falling, and we're going to see what's making all the organizations, from 3P to the Academy to the City Council to the CRR, tick.

[PuzzledPineapple]

[Juxta]

[Tintintin]

[e_nygma]

[Velma]

1) Disabling a decent security system is a lot more complicated than merely pushing a button or cutting a wire. If it was that easy, there would be absolutely no point in having the system in place. There were several different systems in use, all of which needed to be removed. All would have back-ups and fail-safes. So if the power is cut, the alarm goes off. If a system is shut down, the alarm goes off. Etc.

2) The insider was not directly involved in knocking out the security system. They gave information away as to how the system operates, its weaknesses, and how it could be disabled. Whoever took the security out, still needed to know what they were doing.

Well, that's how I understood things to be. But if you want to carry on thinking that the security for the most precious and heavily guarded object in the city could be "switched off" by some "goon", then feel free.

[e_nygma]