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[LOCKED] [UPDATE] Scarlett e-mail- 8/22/05

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Spankit
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Joined: 22 Apr 2005
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Location: Hooville....Wahoowa!

[UPDATE] Scarlett e-mail- 8/22/05

New e-mail from Scarlett:

Quote:

The story so far:

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. It all
started last week, when I got a summer job working at The Sentinel,
the main newspaper of Perplex City. My friend Kurt happened to
mention that he'd done a search for something called a "Reynolds
ionizer" using his key (a kind of computer) and had been tracked by a
military trace. Then, when I went to look in the desk of Pietro Salk
- a Sentinel journalist who died a little while ago - I found a tiny
note scribbled on the back of a file. The note said: "Reynolds
ionizers. Viendenbourg."

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

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

Viendenbourg.

I stared at the file for a few minutes, just to convince myself that
the faint pencil note was really there. Reynolds ionizers.
Viendenbourg. The word meant nothing to me, but I jotted it down on a
scrap of paper, and then carefully put the file back in Pietro's desk
drawer, where I'd found it. I left the office, smiling at the
security guard on duty downstairs, feeling like I had the biggest
secret in the world burning a hole in my brain. Pietro must have done
research into Reynolds ionizers, must have found out more than that
they're just "military tech". This was a lead.

Of course, the first thing I did when I got home was to check my key
for anything about Viendenbourg. Nothing. It's not the name of a
person, it's not the name of a place, it's not the name of a company.
I thought of putting out a request for information in a tech
chatroom, but that seemed like it'd draw too much attention to me.
I'd have to be more sneaky.

I had a long think the next day. Clearly, I was looking for something
that had *some* link to military technology. So perhaps someone who
knew about military technology could help me. My key hadn't brought
up any matches for the name Viendenbourg, but someone out there in
the city must know what it meant. Unless, of course, Pietro Salk had
just made it up. But something about the simple fact that I couldn't
find any information on the word Viendenbourg convinced me that
wasn't the case. If it were just a random word there'd be something,
somewhere. This felt like a cover-up.

So I put on my walking shoes (in fact my sister Violet's stylish
black leather kneeboots Smile

) and went out to visit the Museum of
Perplex City where I know they keep a lot of military records. I
figured maybe Viendenbourg might be the name of some old general -
something that someone might tell me if I wasn't asking about
Reynolds ionizers in the same breath.

I love the Museum. It's clean and white, with high ceilings and lots
of light. They have a special room dedicated to the military archives
and there were about 20 people each sitting quietly next to a box
full of old papers, looking through documents. I was the youngest
person there by probably 40 years! I guess there are a lot of older
people researching their family histories. One white-haired man was
looking through a box of papers dated 5BC with tears rolling down his
cheeks. Military history must make moving reading.

I asked one of the research assistants if she could help me find out
anything about Viendenbourg. She was around 80 or 90 years old - lots
of older people volunteer as docents and advisors at the museum. She
was very sweet, but completely useless. She checked the museum key
system but found nothing, so we went meticulously through every
record in her physical index system. I felt terrible, because we were
talking pretty loudly and the room was really quiet. Everyone must
have heard what we were saying.

After about an hour, we'd exhausted the physical records and it
didn't look as if we'd got anywhere. So I thanked her for her time,
and she started to put the records away. As she walked off, I started
to gather my belongings together, so didn't notice the old man from
the 5BC box until he was right next to me. Up close, he didn't look
as old as I'd thought - maybe only 60. His eyes were very pale blue,
translucent as if their colour had been worn away over the years.

He said: "I think you dropped this" and put a tiny data-button into
my hand.

"Oh no, I didn't have one."

The elderly man looked up. The research assistant came closer. He
closed my fingers over the data-button and smiled:

"Yes," he said, "I think it belongs to you."

And as I was standing there, puzzled, he walked off. Surprisingly
fast for an old man.

I have to confess, I thought he must have put his contact details
onto that button, or some weird key virus, so I wasn't in a hurry to
open it up. When I got home, I set up an "airlock" function to
protect my data and opened it up. But it wasn't some old man's
details, but a map. Of an area near the Tanraga mountains. With what
looked like a small village marked with an x, and a little, scribbled
note. "Viendenbourg. Before everything changed."

--
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

scarlettSPLATthescarlettkite.com
http://thescarlettkite.com

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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:12 pm

christopher
Boot

Joined: 12 Oct 2003
Posts: 20

Beat ya to it mate Very Happy

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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:15 pm

GuyP
Unfettered

Joined: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 584
Location: London, UK

Ah, you got there just a minute too late, and it had already been posted... a bit of lockage, then. Sorry!

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:16 pm

Spankit
Decorated

Joined: 22 Apr 2005
Posts: 219
Location: Hooville....Wahoowa!

I know, by one minute. Happens to me everytime.

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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:16 pm

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