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[Sasuntsi Davit]

[UPDATE] Quirky Aquity June 2nd 2005

[joolsweb]

Ok so here we go first puzzle for a while (at long last - am I the only one going slightly mad from all the waiting)...so all your clever bods what's yer take on this one then? Is it one of those riddles where you put an additional word in front or behind of the exisiting words...is there any sort of engine which does that for us?

edit - Sorry I've had another look at it and it seems it wants us to find out what is missing either in the words or the group of words...do the words make any sort of group to anyone...see I told you I was dense!

[oliverkeers13]

well except "length", they are all nouns and verbs (each word)
but as for what is missing; could it be a prefix/suffix?

[misteraitch]

Initial thoughts are that the word after attaches to the word before.....for example..

eye [patch]
[patch] work

[Macavity]

Possible solution: Those words contain the vowels a, e, o, and y, but not u or i. she might need to load up a particular user interface that only the Recons use in order to actually read the files.

[oliverkeers13]

Is it the word

[Muffin]

Before we all start solving I've started a thread in Puzzles.

Interesting to note head, face, eye progression...

We can still keep this thread for possible discussion of Violet in general, though...

[Kastanok]

Keeping puzzle solving to puzzles, yesterdays spec about prehistoric keys can now be thrown out the window Seems she was just exagerating.

[Daffy889]

Not prehistoric, but compared to earth technology it's pretty advanced if they had a personal device like a key 40 years ago. Could these be wired keys, hence why they can't leave the special room they're kept in? That would put them a bit more on a par with our phone technology of the time.

[Zedix]

Didn't look like they were wired since she said she could just take one and swap it with one that looks alike.

[Daffy889]

[thrush]

One thing that strikes me is that since Violet is being so explicit about how she's infiltrating the Recons, they probably have no access to her blog.

Does this mean that they can't access anything published on earth? Or does it mean that the blog is only being published on earth? Or - if it is available in PPC - is she just gambling that they don't read her blog?

[Zedix]

My bet is that it's only available on Earth. I doubt PPC has full access to the Earth internet...so that probably means the Recons can't read what she posts.

[thrush]

I think you're right. But I still feel it's a bit risky. It's pretty likely that they could get access to Earth Internet sites if they wanted - not only Sente and his daughters, but PPC Sentinel and several companies already have websites. So it seems like it isn't a strictly controlled thing. I am worried that she might get caught.

[lotusflower]

Oh noes!

It's the reconstructionists, they've locked themselves out of their key-room and replaced Violet with a clone and are using the clone to get us to solve their puzzles for them!

Oh noes!