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[UPDATE] June 23 - Sentinel/new web site: www.salkfamily.com

[cassandra]

mmm...snow crash.

[cassandra]

PS. argh. I don't work on a Mac.

[Mima]

Nor me ... sob, sob

[spugmeistress]

this looks hella cool! i'm on OSX but on an ibook too old to have these inertial sensor thingies, shame :( found a cool link if anyone's interested in what these are and why the maze needs em

http://www.applefritter.com/node/6838

edit for spec and geekiness:

reference point 1: in the birds of prey comic recently, oracle (computer hacker/detective) has been infected/hijacked/hacked into by brainiac (ubergeek of a supervillain) which caused and is continuing to cause similar symptoms. the typing in the sleep type stuff seems mostly to have been brainiac trying to take her over, gain her knowledge and access to resources or at least to stop others from gaining that knowledge from her. in other words, not a happy situation. maybe someone is attacking pietro through his mind, brain washing or hacking or whatever. with his involvement in the cube investigation who knows who got to him or what he found out that someone else doesnt want him to announce to the world?

reference point 2: in doctor who, rose looked into the tardis and kinda got her brain taken over by having the entire knowledge of time and space in her head, unfortunately it was about to kill her too. maybe pietro has somehow tapped into the consciousness of the cube itself, who knows what he stumbled across on his investigations, and the cube is now trying to communicate with us, maybe with this maze showing a path to where it is hidden?

reference point 3: stargate, jack o'neill downloads the knowledge of the ancients into his head on numerous occasions and nearly dies from it after it sending him a bit loopy but always managing to solve some big problem in the process. maybe this is information overload and the maze/code is the language in which pietro is trying to communicate to us.

if you want original ideas, look to someone else ;) i'm sure MC aren't blatently ripping off any of these, they just reminded me of stuff, and can maybe set us along the way on some theories of whats happened to pietro salk, who made it happen and why, and what we are gonna get out of solving this maze.

rach =)

[SocialElite]

Out of all the things on the Salk Family website, this is one quote of hers that stuck out to me.

[SocialElite]

And can someone check to see how long www.kevinglass.com has been registered for? I'm assuming that he's an actual Earthian programmer who got picked up by MC to help out with the project, but its worth checking out just to see if he's got any extra info for us.

[hamatoyoshi]

The maze makes me think that the PMs are playing too much WarioWare Twisted for the Gameboy Advance.

The whole game involves rotating your Gameboy to accomodate the motion sensor in the cartridge.

[Leeravitz]

Nasty! Interesting that his key was able to 'detect' something was wrong - makes me wonder again what that could mean? It makes it sound as if the key became 'aware' that Pietro's mental state was deteriorating, rather than, say, that Salk himself activated the key in order to send out a distress message. And what's wrong with Salk - his neural functions are disintegrating (whatever that may mean in 'precise' terms - neurons aren't firing properly anymore? brain tissue is decomposing?) - so, does this return us to the question of whether or not a key is somehow hardwired to the mental state of its handler??

If we're right (and we may well be) and Salk has ended up being rubbed out because he was interfering with matters that didn't concern him (but who got to him? The Recons? Some Old Town criminal association?), then we're seeing a powerful neural poison, engineered bacterium or the like at work here. Again, the implication arises that whatever 'weapons' are crafted within Perplexian society, they prey on neurological, rather than physical, weakness. It seems less likely that Salk has fallen victim to the fabled neuro - suppressant (even though that sounds intelligent as an initial guess), because one would imagine that the evidence of the usage of such a device is obvious. If this weren't the case, it's difficult to see why the police reached a verdict on Fran Mendling's death from neuro - suppression so quickly. So, it's probably something related, but different. Unless, of course, the Salks and the medical establishment just aren't au fait enough with usage of such underworld devices to recognise the symptoms when they see them. But I find that a little unlikely.

Certainly some food for thought here, even without the mystery of the puzzle...

[spugmeistress]

[Daffy889]

[JebJoya]

[spugmeistress]

[JebJoya]

/me sneaks in one more OT comment:

[hamatoyoshi]

Some DNS/Whois info regarding SalkFamily.com: Spoilered for those of you who don't like this stuff.