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[UPDATE] Scarlet Kite - Aug 12 - Last Night
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wiglaf
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 		[UPDATE] Scarlet Kite - Aug 12 - Last Night
Friday, August 12, 2005
Last night
Category: me, 03:30 PM
Hi. A few of you had emailed me to ask if I could look for something for you, in the Sentinel offices. And last night I did. And I didn't find what I expected. And... I don't think I can carry on blogging about this. I'll be sending an email soon.

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flicks09
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 		Oooh. Mysterious. Is this email going out to everyone subscribed to the email updates on Scarlett's site, do you think, or just those who emailed her to suggest this plan of action in the first place?

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Flidget Jerome
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 		Well, at least she's a little more sensible about this than her sister. Very Happy

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Crane
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 		What, you think we'll actually GET her E-Mail? No chance. She'll be carried off by the Black Helicopters (or their Perplexian equivelent) before she can send it...
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 		EDIT: Ohboy. I ****ed up bigtime. I went and got the sites mixed up, and looked at VIOLET'S blog! Razz Embarassed
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The Beginning of the Naked Kurt Jokes:
(18:19:40) Crane: *pictures Kurt getting changed*
(18:20:21) rjw76: Crane: bad :S now I'm thinking of the same thing Razz
(18:20:26) Crane: ^ ^

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flicks09
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What, you think we'll actually GET her E-Mail?


I guess I'm just that naive Wink

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sledgecallier
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IT'S GONE! IT'S VANISHED LIKE HER OTHER ENTRY!



What has? The blog entry is still there as far as I can see?? Confused
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 		Just got this email from Scarlett, re 'Last Night'

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Sentinel's a weird place to work. It's Perplex City's leading
newspaper, so everyone's serious and focused, but at the same time
there's an "atmosphere of trust", so it's OK to take long lunches and
wander off for hours at a time. Which, I have to say, I do tend to do
sometimes, being an intern. It's been kind of a dull week, all things
considered, only punctuated by long lunches with friends and
colleagues. Except for last night, which wasn't dull at all. But I'm
getting ahead of myself.

Monday was pretty standard. Iona Rodie, my friend here at the
Sentinel, took me round to introduce me to the staff as the new
intern. We passed by Pietro Salk's desk - he was a Sentinel reporter
who died a few weeks ago. It was really sad; he was young and his
death was completely unexpected, just a sudden stroke, they said. His
desk has a picture of him on it now, and some flowers. It's a strange
empty place in the middle of a busy office. People go quiet every
time they walk past his desk.

Wednesday, my sister Violet and her friend Kurt came to see me.
Kurt's one of the few other people in Perplex City to have a website
that can be viewed from Earth. We love to talk about the letters we
get from people on Earth and compare thoughts but on Wednesday Kurt
seemed sort of rattled, which was odd. Apparently last week one of
his Earth correspondents had asked him to find out what a "Reynolds
ionizer" was. He drew a blank, but his key (the all-purpose sort of
computer we use here) detected that a military trace was being used
to find out who he was. He thought he'd blocked it, but he's been
finding a couple of odd things on his key since then, which makes him
think that maybe something got through and he's being tracked.

I have to say, I didn't think much about it after that. Kurt's really
cool, and excellent with technology - I was sure that his key
couldn't have got infected with anything too damaging. Thursday, no
one came to see me Sad So I spent my lunch hour checking through some
of the email *I'd* received from people on Earth. Strangely, quite a
few people wanted me to go and have a look at Pietro Salk's desk, to
see what I could find out about him. I guess whenever someone dies
unexpectedly, you always want to know what they were like, to
understand what happened. Anyway, I didn't mind, but I thought I
should probably wait until everyone else had left the office.

That was the hardest part, really, staying in the building long
enough to do it. I often stay until 8pm or 9pm - everyone does, it's
just part of the job. When the first people left, I said I was
"finishing something up". Then when a few stragglers were leaving,
they kept asking what I was working on that was so urgent. I said it
was schoolwork, and they rolled their eyes. At 11pm, the Sentinel's
editor Michiko Clark herself wandered through the office; I think she
was quietly impressed to see me still working, but she didn't say
anything and I felt too guilty to say hello!

But by 11.30pm the floor was silent apart from the hum of the air
conditioner. I walked over to Pietro's desk. The office was eerie -
the only movement was my reflection in the dark windows. I kept
thinking that a security guard was going to find me, or that someone
in a neighbouring office block would look over and see what I was
doing. But the floor was quiet. I stood in front of the desk - there
was nothing on it apart from a floral display and a big picture of
Pietro, smiling. I turned the picture face down on the desk.

I sat down in his chair. That felt weird too. No one sits at this
desk now. I pulled open his file drawer. It was mostly empty. A few
old case files lingered at the back, for stories of his that are over
and done with: Zindian Trials, Tompeka and Lode, Five of Cups. I
remember that story - it's recent. A guy got murdered in his bar and
they found technological equipment stashed there. I pulled the file
out and opened it, but there was nothing in it. I don't mean that
there was nothing interesting in it - I mean that it was empty. I
didn't quite understand that. If someone had taken over Pietro's
files, why hadn't they taken the file folder out as well?

I put the file folder back down on Pietro's desk and stared at my
reflection in the window. Nothing seemed to make sense, and I'd
wasted a perfectly good evening searching through a dead man's desk.
I felt ashamed of myself. I went to put the file back in the file
drawer, to leave everything as I found it. Which was when I noticed
something. A tiny note written in pencil but definitely in Pietro
Salk's handwriting. On the back of the file folder, just by the metal
hanging rod. It said this:

Reynolds ionizers. Viendenbourg.


There was a bunch of intro stuff before that, but it was basically just an introduction to Perplex City and the Cube.

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So. There is V. Viendenbourg.
Terrific. Outstanding. Way to go Scarlett.
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toongoon
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 		ooooh mysterious....

As a possible Salk log password solution or perhaps confirmation - what kind of flowers. Why aren't they dead yet? Is someone replacing them? She didn't say they were artificial. Could it have been the flowers that poisoned Salk?

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 		It's probably likely that the flowers are replaced by Salk's colleagues at the sentinel, it's the sort of thing you do when someone dies. (People put flowers on graves don't they?)
But knowing MC it's probably some elusive clue to solving one of the cards ;p

edit: Daffy just suggested on the chatroom. It doesn't -actually- say V=Viendenbourg does it? (correct if mistaken) It's likely, but jumping the gun a bit there. Smile

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tanner
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 		whats the betting she was seen by someone thru the windows?
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Crane
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 		To my mind, Viendenbourg sounds more like a place name than a person name...
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(18:20:21) rjw76: Crane: bad :S now I'm thinking of the same thing Razz
(18:20:26) Crane: ^ ^

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Scott
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Crane wrote:
To my mind, Viendenbourg sounds more like a place name than a person name...


To MY mind, "Viendenbourg" sounds a lot like "Hindenburg" . . . foreshadowing, perhaps?
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