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[Daffy889]

[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - July 22 - Sigh

[Scott]

Young Jared Cherrywood picking up the trail left by his fForerunner, perhaps? Well, let's pop an email out to her and see if she knows who this guy was.

EDIT: ok, posted..

[oliverkeers13]

So violet isn't pissed with us. I'm intrigued by the lack of explanation of the absence of her posts, though. I would also like to know which whippersnapper was interested in the Brotherhood of the Six.

[WolverineFan]

[Scott]

[wintermute_au]

I'm certain that the "Brotherhood" in the Old Town is the Brotherhood of the Six -- they are the _most_ mainstream Cubists, and much of their celebration seems to have become running these festivals...

And I suspect that whenever people refer to "the brotherhood", they mean that of the 6, given that they are the originals

-p

[Leeravitz]

If you read the Brotherhood of the Six's website through carefully, it becomes obvious that the *essential* belief - set is Cubism, and that the Brotherhood are one particular sect of Cubist believers, who have developed alongside a number of others historically. The Brotherhood appear to be the most 'orthodox' Cubist group, and it is probably the adherents of the Brotherhood Church who are referred to when people talk about 'Orthodox Cubists'. Other 'splinter' groups mentioned include The Archers of Dawn, the Quadrilists, the Fire of the South, the Third Power, the Society of Elders, the Tarsians, and the Kababah Clan.

Because of the mysterious discovery of a symbol that has been read (by some) as a '3' encoded within Pietro Salk's maze puzzles, it has been hazarded that the mysterious 'conspiratorial' group of 'ancient believers' that Pietro was directed to investigate by The Advisor was, in fact, 'The Third Power' - however, there is no further evidence to prove that is the case as yet.

If we recall what *might* have prompted this commentary from Violet, it was that a number of us suggested, following suggestions on the Brothehood website, that locating a book called ''The Third Power, the Archers and the City of Dawn: An investigation into the Power of the Perplex City Cube and those who have guarded it''' by Andrew Lencival might be worthwhile. This sounds like a modern scholarly work, rather than an ancient document, but we were inspired to ask by virtue of the fact that we knew Pietro had visited the Academy Library and taken out books relating to the 'Conspiracy'. We also know that The Advisor told him that such a Conspiracy was ancient in origins.

So, to our mysterious whippersnapper: perhaps speaking of the 'brotherhood' in lower case is a generic term i.e. all Cubists are implicitly members of a brothehood (of souls? of fellow believers?) and so, all Violet meant was this guy was looking for ancient documents relating to Cubist belief, rather than the Six per se. Alternatively, these are literally ancient documents relating to the Brotherhood of the Six (and perhaps lesser splinter sects). My initial reaction was that some Perplexian was actually trying to track down the very book we had been searching for, although whether this counts as an 'ancient document' is an open question. Clearly, we are seeing someone attempting to pursue lines of inquiry we're interested in.

It's actually pretty odd when you think about it: either this is total coincidence, or somebody knows more about Pietro's investigations than, strictly speaking, they should do. And, given that I thought we'd already told Violet we were interested in this kind of data (though I can't remember if we did or not), it's strange she didn't make a connection in her blog...

[Scott]

[Mikeyj]

[number9dream]

[wintermute_au]

[Scott]

i just reposted to violet emphasizing and re-emphasising the importance of fFinding out who the guy was.

We **NEED** someone useful on our side. not a sodding person in perplex city fFeeds us a shred of information, the ignorant bastards, and it's pissing me off! My thinking is, if we can fFind out who the guy was, we can get him to talk to us and help us. But only if violet is moved to actually answer a simple question.

did i mention: the lack of interaction between these people is incredibly annoying, well beyond irksome, and on into plain /stupid/ of them.

[Mosestrotsky]

That is a good idea - but I am wondering who it may be.

Perhaps it is one of the thieves - or The Advisor (it still could be male) or some random factor like people who investigate alien conspiracies.

Hmm wonder if he will have a website - 'The Third Power is out There'

[sledgecallier]

I thought the revamped Perplex City website had now confirmed the advisor as a female?

[Mosestrotsky]

Sorry Note to self : Must use eyes!