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 		[UPDATE]Sentinel - 1st June 2006
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Hikers Sickened on Trail
By JARED CHERRYWOOD

A tour group of twelve hikers were hospitalised in Tanraga Town early on Tuesday after they reportedly fell ill on their journey with a virulent strain of bacteria. The travellers apparently became sick after sharing a meal on the hiking trail contaminated with an as-yet-unidentified bacteria. The group, primarily older teenagers on holiday, called for help when it became clear that nearly all of their group had became seriously ill. They were all transported by emergency helicopter to the town shortly thereafter.

Doctors at Tanraga Hospital say they are not yet certain what strain of bacteria the hikers have contracted, but say they believe the risk of contagion to others is minimal. "There are a lot of brackish pools and still ponds along the trails, and we suspect this group cooked a meal using improperly treated water," said doctor Gaspar Hammond. "All of the patients are suffering nausea and vomiting, serious dehydration, high fever, and so on. ... We have the situation under control, though, and suspect we'll be able to release all of them in the next day or so."

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Trail guide Adelaide Trent said that small pockets of similar infections occur frequently along the trails, but rarely are so many ill at once. "There's a lot of bad water if you're not a great outdoorsman," she said. "It's really an awful shame that these poor kids were out there on their own without better supervision and guidance."

Trent said that a standard kit for hiking in the area includes treatment pills and filtration, and she suspects the group prepared dinner on Monday night with untreated water. "It's not a mistake you make more than once," she said. "I just hope this doesn't turn them away from the outdoors entirely!"

The hikers were a part of a 16-person class of recent graduates from secondary school. Tanraga authorities have declined to identify which school or to name the individuals until their families can be notified. Four people with the group have not fallen ill, but have been admitted to the hospital for observation.


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View from Earth: Open Hearts and Borders
By RAYMOND PHERIS

As a history buff, I have started to study the fascinating history of Perplex City and have taken particular interest in The War. While I understand that this topic is deemed by some as socially unacceptable, I hope to bring an understanding to the citizens of Perplex City that matters pertaining to The War need to be discussed openly in order to truly gain closure and to be able to move forward peacefully.

War is not an occurrence unique to your planet. In fact, the War that took place in Perplex City reminds me of an Earthen battle we refer to as World War II. The propagators of this war were an alliance of countries that sought to expand their boundaries and eliminate those they deemed inferior. For a few years they succeeded, and when it seemed that they could not fail, a neutral country decided to enter the conflict, but unlike Machiantes, they joined the side of the defending countries. They eventually produced a weapon of great power that ended the conflict for good.

How does this affect the citizens of Perplex City? The Halley Peace Accord has officially ended your war, and interaction between your cities is beginning to occur for the first time in ages. While your citizens may be apprehensive about this, there is a lot to gain from this interaction. New commercial markets will open, improving economic conditions. The flow of ideas can be widened, encouraging academic growth and advancement. Perplex City may even gain an ally as your cultures begin to become better acquainted and find there are similarities in thoughts and beliefs.

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The thought of new commercial opportunities becoming available just makes common sense. While Perplex City has grown accustomed to being self-sustaining, I am sure there are items that are not available there that are readily available in another city, and vice versa. By trading your excess for products you lack, you will increase the amount of consumer options and opportunities, which makes for a happier consumer and a healthier economy.

Widening the flow of ideas should be seen as particularly attractive in a city that rewards intelligence such as Perplex City does. A common phrase on Earth is "two heads are better than one." Multiply that by the academics in other cities and you can imagine the good that could come from that brainstorming session. This meeting of the minds could lead to great new puzzles, discoveries, and constructive debate that would be for the betterment of everyone involved.

The idea of an ally is probably one that is foreign to you, seeing how Perplex City has been in relative isolation for so long. By nurturing these new contacts and relationships, an alliance could form, and given time cities such as Allerdun and Xia-Hifa could be depended on to come to your aid if another threat ever arises. These relationships could even lead to future conflict being averted! While these notions may seem somewhat sensational, on Earth the countries that started World War II are now allied with the major powers they battled with just 60 years ago, an occurrence I am sure my grandparents never envisioned.

As you can see, the are a great number of positives that can come from the opening of your city to the outside. While I can understand if there is initial apprehension, I implore the citizens of Perplex City to see this as a positive step in their growth and to encourage this interaction so that it may blossom into a Perplexian Renaissance.


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Gambol Numbers Decline
Organisers are blaming forecasts for unusually hot weather with the predicted drop in participation for the Solstice Gambol for this year. "There's still some time left, so it may yet turn around to meet or exceed previous levels," said organiser Hugh Linden, "but I frankly won't be holding my breath for it." (Full text)

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LETTERS

PERPLEX POINT PILFERING
Anyone can get to the top of the board
Even me, although I cannot afford
To buy all the cards & get to the top
So I've written this poem, if only to stop
One more person from having bonus points scored
Yes I know that it's petty, but hey, I was bored
One verse may not do it, but two should be fine
To get that star letter, those 5 points'll be mine

If you're all thinking one thing, I suppose
It's 'how's he gonna win any points with this prose?'
I think that I can, you've enjoyed it so far,
Or should that have been 'you've endured it so far'?
Maybe I should not have been so emphatic,
And instead written something more enigmatic...
So to finish this poem, I'll leave with the claim
That I know the Receda Cube thief's real name...

Jon 79, Earth
Ed. Note: This letter has been chosen as the Sentinel's Star Letter of the Week. The author has accordingly received five points on the Perplexcity.com leaderboard, as will future recipients of the Letter of the Week prize.

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ADRENALINE RUSH
As an interested party on Earth, I was dismayed to read that another jumper successfully bypassed the security of Ascendancy Point and attempted to jump off the pinnacle of the building, by means of the same maintenance hatch nonetheless. Although the thrill-seeker only suffered injury instead of death in this instance, I feel that the management of Ascendency Point and especially Eclipse Security should be brought to task for their egregious ineptitude in this matter. What if the jumper decided to take a piece of valuable art or a prized possession of a tenant with them on their next escapade?

Representative Jules Northerlie has made an apology and promised an "external security analysis." Even so, for a breach of that magnitude to happen within days of each other shows a complete lack of organizational control, and if I was a tenant of Ascendancy Point I would be wary of any suspicious people in the building in the immediate future.

Raymond Pheris/rlp6028, Earth

It is nice to see that despite all the advancements of Perplex City and its residents, that there are still some people that love to risk their necks for the thrill of the adrenaline rush. I refer of course to the jump off Ascendancy Point by that unknown daredevil and the copy-cat attempt by Raoul Benton. We have a similar "sport" on Earth called BASE jumping, where brave, some people would say stupid, thrill seekers throw themselves off the tallest buildings in the world and attempt to parachute to safety while avoiding the strange weather conditions caused by the same buildings they are jumping from.

I must ask if that other such "extreme" sports exist in Perplex City? If so, how big a movement is it? Are we perhaps more like each other than the citizens of the city wish to admit? What else do we share when it comes to risking our necks for kicks?

Locqust, Earth


Fwiw - the enciphered text is Rot-25 and reads:

Since your chief enigmatist, Blanco, left the Sentinel, I've noticed a marked downturn in the quality and sophistication of your Cryptology pages. You seem to consider even the simplest codes seem to be beyond your readers. I only hope that this letter will go towards proving you wrong.
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 		Re: [UPDATE]Sentinel - 1st June 2006
Quote:
Hikers Sickened on Trail
By JARED CHERRYWOOD

A tour group of twelve hikers were hospitalised in Tanraga Town early on Tuesday after they reportedly fell ill on their journey with a virulent strain of bacteria. The travellers apparently became sick after sharing a meal on the hiking trail contaminated with an as-yet-unidentified bacteria. The group, primarily older teenagers on holiday, called for help when it became clear that nearly all of their group had became seriously ill. They were all transported by emergency helicopter to the town shortly thereafter.

Doctors at Tanraga Hospital say they are not yet certain what strain of bacteria the hikers have contracted, but say they believe the risk of contagion to others is minimal. "There are a lot of brackish pools and still ponds along the trails, and we suspect this group cooked a meal using improperly treated water," said doctor Gaspar Hammond. "All of the patients are suffering nausea and vomiting, serious dehydration, high fever, and so on. ... We have the situation under control, though, and suspect we'll be able to release all of them in the next day or so."

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Trail guide Adelaide Trent said that small pockets of similar infections occur frequently along the trails, but rarely are so many ill at once. "There's a lot of bad water if you're not a great outdoorsman," she said. "It's really an awful shame that these poor kids were out there on their own without better supervision and guidance."

Trent said that a standard kit for hiking in the area includes treatment pills and filtration, and she suspects the group prepared dinner on Monday night with untreated water. "It's not a mistake you make more than once," she said. "I just hope this doesn't turn them away from the outdoors entirely!"

The hikers were a part of a 16-person class of recent graduates from secondary school. Tanraga authorities have declined to identify which school or to name the individuals until their families can be notified. Four people with the group have not fallen ill, but have been admitted to the hospital for observation.


Possibilities, in my mind:
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1. Biological Warfare. They're doing something naughty up at Viendenbourg, so why not more naughtiness in other areas? If they were doing biowarfare, I would think their scientists up there could come up with some seriously more nasty than just E. coli (our "dumb" scientists came up with things that scare the crap out of me).
2. Warning to Others. "If these kids went camping outside of Tanraga where the water is poor, why would I want to go camping outside of Tanraga? I could get hurt!" Spike a few kids' water supply and the number of potential future Scarlett events drops significantly.
3. Radioactivity and Mutation. Some bacteria gets a nice jolt of radiation and goes mutating on its merrily way into something a little more dicey (water treatment resistant?). Basically, this would be a variant of #1, but an accident instead of intentional like #1 and #2.
4. Kids didn't use water treatment tablets. Hey, it happens. It happened near Tanraga, which happens to be near a super-secret military base, but that's just a coincidence.

I guess I'm 51% #4, 49% #2. Seems awfully convienent that these kids were sick near Tanraga, but why would they wait for more than 2 months to scare people off after Scarlett broke in? The one thing that makes this more suspicious is that the bacteria is as-of-yet unidentified.

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European Chris wrote:
...or one big banana in the background of narrative.

The impression I have is that it's a large area.


That's true.

*blinks a few times* Umm, Chris? Why do you have duckie's avatar as your own? Did I miss something?

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 		Re: [UPDATE]Sentinel - 1st June 2006
e_nygma wrote:

The one thing that makes this more suspicious is that the bacteria is as-of-yet unidentified.


If this were Earth I would disagree as an ID on the bacteria would take overnight at least, and more likely 3 to 5 days. However, you'd expect PXC to be doing better at this stuff. We have rapid ID kits for certain organisms (although most have drawbacks, like the possibilities of false negatives and positives), so maybe it is a bit suspicious.

But it's hardly an effective way to ward people off, when you can just boil your water, or add a bit of chlorine.

Which could send me off on a rant about cleaning products that claim to "even kill MRSA" or O157 (presumably they mean O157:H7, which is the really nasty one) when so does a bar of Imperial Leather with a dash of hot water....w****rs!
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