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[LOCKED] Scarlett Kiteway - September 2
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Incitatus
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 		Scarlett Kiteway - September 2
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Hi. My name's Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 20 years old and I live in
Perplex City. Last year the Cube - a very precious object - was
stolen from the Academy where my dad, Sente, is the Master, and
concealed somewhere on Earth. We need to find the Cube and get it back.

Some pretty weird things have been going on in my life lately. First
my friend Kurt's computer was targeted by a military trace when he
searched for the phrase "Reynolds ionizer". Then I found the same
phrase in a note written by a dead journalist, with another word,
Viendenbourg. When I went to the military archives to investigate, an
old man handed me a data button with a map of the Tanraga mountains,
with a place marked Viendenbourg. But I checked this map against maps
I bought of the same area and found nothing there - nothing at all.

There's a lot going on in Perplex City; maybe by sifting through all
the clues that are out there, you'll find out who stole the Cube. But
I'm following my own lead. My story is here and you can follow it
with me.

------------------------------

I'm setting off for Tanraga tonight. It's all happened so quickly -
my friends Margot and Sanj have made the final arrangements for the
accommodation, my boyfriend Brede has finalised our itinerary - when
we'll be taking the train, and when we'll be walking. And tonight
I'll be on that train heading out west. I love trains; there's an old-
world elegance about them. The ones that accompany the Tanraga
walking tours are fitted out in the original style of 300 years ago;
they have sleeper compartments and dark velvet seats and tiny
bathrooms fitted out in brass and chrome. Beautiful. So tonight the
four of us take the midnight train. It's scary and exciting. For me
more than for my friends.

I haven't told them about Viendenbourg. I'm not sure why, except
maybe that it sounds so crazy that I wouldn't know where to start.
I've said I might want to take a detour. I'm not sure I really want
to do that either. Of course, my friends said: a detour? Is it
somewhere cool? Can we come too? And I couldn't tell them. I pointed
in the general area on the map, told them I had a history project
that had to do with that location. They looked at me strangely. Brede
said: "what history project?" And I said the first thing that came
into my head: "Family history." It must have been obvious that I
didn't want to talk about it anymore, because they all went quiet.
Maybe they think I have some terrible family secret.

In the past week, I've been trying to find out more about
Viendenbourg, or Reynolds ionizers. Viendenbourg brings up nothing,
literally *nothing* on any kind of search I try. I've been to five
different libraries around the city, and I've even asked my sister
Violet to do a search in the Academy library where she works.
Nothing. She says she's going to keep looking while I'm away, though.
About 30% of the Academy's material is still in hard-copy only. Maybe
she'll find some clues.

Perhaps the only other lead is Kurt's key. I haven't told him what
I'm doing, but I asked him, as if it was nothing important, whether
he'd managed to solve the problems he'd been having with his key. He
said he had to dismantle the system to get rid of the embedded
programmes of the military trace. And while he was doing that, he
managed to make them spit out a location code. It's a military code,
so it doesn't give much location information, but he said the general
area is: Tanraga. Of course the Tanraga area covers hundreds of
square miles. Still, it makes me feel like I'm going to the right
place. Or maybe the wrong place.

There is one other thing. I had a farewell dinner with my dad and
Violet last night. I didn't bring Brede - not after the last time
when Vi and my dad had a big argument, but actually it was nice, just
the three of us, like when Vi and I were children. Vi was heading out
to poker afterwards, and wanted to arrange to meet Kurt for a drink,
but she had to call him on his temporary key, because he's been
having all these problems. She told my dad the whole story, about how
Kurt had been looking for Reynolds Ionizers, and been stung by a
military trace and wasn't that a disgrace? My dad just went really
quiet, and after a few moments he said:

"Tell Kurt to keep his mind on his job. That's my advice. Tell him to
get a new key, and stop worrying about any 'military trace'."

And he gave Violet one of his "I'm serious about this" looks.

I don't know what that means. Maybe nothing. But maybe soon I'll find
out. My rucksack is all packed, waiting on the floor of my bedroom.
And tonight I'll be taking the train.



--
I'm planning to send you an email once a week about my investigations,
but I won't be offended if you want to unsubscribe. If you really don't
want to hear about my adventures, just send an email to
newsletter-unsubscribeSPLATthescarlettkite.com.

If you think your friends would be interested in my emails, then you can send
them to www.scarlettkite.com and there's a signup box on the sidebar.

Until next week.

Scarlett

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 		D'OH!!

I just checked the topics to see if i got it forst for a change.

Double D'OH!

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 		Even when checking the topics, we are bound to get a few duplicate entries for updates. Probably, you and I both checked the topics at the same time, both started writing a post at the same time, and one of us hit the "Submit" button a few seconds before the other.

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