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[UPDATE] The Path Of Least Time - 17th NOVEMBER
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 		[UPDATE] The Path Of Least Time - 17th NOVEMBER
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The War Exhibit
Thursday, November 17 2005, 06:02 PM

One of the advantages of being a member of the Academy Cube Retrieval Team is that I get priority access to all exhibitions and events. At the time I thought this was marvellous but it's a bit of a bitter carrot when you don't actually have any time to go to them. This weekend, however, I made the point of checking out the new War Exhibit at the Academy Museum. There are still long queues to get in, so as I walked there with my friend Sarah, we entertained ideas about sailing past the hapless people standing in line in the rain, walking along a red carpet, etc etc.

What actually happened is that we had to slink in through the back entrance because there was a rather vociferous demonstration going on at the front; apparently a bunch of people were there to listen to Aurora Belle railing simultaneously against the glorification of war and in favour of us being proud of our city's history. There'll be no celebrity photos of us in the Sentinel, I'm afraid, although I'm glad that I didn't get hit by any eggs or tomatoes on the way in.

No matter what your feelings are on the subject, I don't think anyone could claim that the museum had done a bad job. The exhibition took up a serious chunk of the museum and had a whole bunch of artefacts that I didn't even know still existed. I found some of the scientific instruments recovered from Machiantes to be fascinating - their telescopes, astrolabes, microscopes all had influences from Perplex City, but were also very different in style and construction. Some of the displays about Anjsbourg were a bit harder to take - they had a very meticulous 3D half-hologram, half-artefacts reconstruction of a typical house there, together with records of people who might have lived there. Apparently some of my ancestors came from Anjsbourg, so it was strange to have a part of my past facing me.

We didn't have enough time to look over everything, so since Sarah's a military historian (although not directly involved in exhibit), we skipped over a lot of stuff and headed straight to the military archives section. Now, just like in your museums and libraries, it's impossible to actually touch the original source documents in the archives; they're normally behind polarised glass. However, the museum has been doing some really smart stuff with multispectral 3D scanning, where they're creating holographic replicas which you can flip through besides the actual documents. We spent a bit of time reading about the defence of Machiantes and what happened after that.

While Sarah was occupied with the Machiantes documents, I wandered around to look at the other documents on display - and what did I find but our old friend Anthony Granier's diary? Granier was one of the guys whose name cropped up in that Lencival book I've been scanning for Violet. The fact that Lencival thinks that Granier was a member of the Third Power is just laughable. Unfortunately the museum hadn't 'replicated' his diary, so I wasn't able to look through it (no doubt if Lencival was around, he'd eagerly be searching it for plans of taking over the world). I mentioned all of this stuff that I'd been doing with Violet to Sarah, who didn't seem particularly interested and went a bit quiet, and we had to leave shortly after that.

I'm not sure what I think about the exhibit. The museum has presented things in a very objective manner, merely making archives and artefacts available for display with a minimum of 'editorialising', but the fact is that in Perplex City, we talk about our past so little that the very presence of the exhibit is a political statement. And I can understand why people are bothered; I'm proud of our heritage and I don't think it's fair to unduly criticise what we did during the war. Yet on the other side, that's not a reason to stifle discussion and debate about what actually happened, especially if the museum is trying to raise issues that people in this city - myself included - haven't considered.

While I walked Sarah back to her department, I suggested that we should meet up again to check out the rest of the museum, but for some reason she was a bit non-commital and said she'd think about it. Typical.

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 		Hmm, anyone else think that Sarah is a plant?

I think it could be dangerous for Kurt to discuss what he's doing with anyone (especially someone involved with the military - unless I'm misreading the 'military historian' line.)
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 		Hmm. Maybe we shoud ask Kurt and Violet to use their mad ninja skills and infiltrate the exhibit just like they did with the Cubists? I also think you're right about Sarah. It's a little too convient
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 		Atrophied wrote:

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I think it could be dangerous for Kurt to discuss what he's doing with anyone (especially someone involved with the military - unless I'm misreading the 'military historian' line.)


I think you may have mis-read the 'military historian' line. She seems to be a historian that specialises in military history.

She may be a good person to ask about Viendenbourg, but I do agree with Atrophied about not completely trusting her. Her actions seem a bit 'shady'. It may be that she doesn't like Kurt's aftershave or something, but best to be cautious.
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 		I agree this "Sarah" sounds a bit dodgy. I suppose the title military historian could mean it's more of a hobby. Do we know much about Sarah Covington - can't find a lot about her on the Wiki but I recall she's come in for some suspicion in the past. Could be she's a buddy of Kurt's with a passing interest in military history - who knows?

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neuromancer wrote:
It may be that she doesn't like Kurt's aftershave or something


Unlikely, she seemed fine until Kurt mentioned the work he was doing with Violet to her, then she clams up... and they "had to leave shortly after that" - because of Sarah, or something unrelated?

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Unlikely, she seemed fine until Kurt mentioned the work he was doing with Violet to her, then she clams up...


Fair point. In which case I fully agree that we should be cautious. But how would you tell Kurt to keep a few details to himself when he's with Sarah?
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neuromancer wrote:
how would you tell Kurt to keep a few details to himself when he's with Sarah?


Don't know how to word it, but I agree that we should tell him not to discuss his work on the book with anyone else.

Assuming that "Sarah" is "Sarah Covington" she could certainly have been "C" (though I don't think it's terribly likely).

She could also be a 3P plant at the Academy. Maybe even the person responsible for defacing the book?

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 		I don't think she would have been the one to deface the book, if she had she wouldn't have been surprised about Kurt and Violet working on it. Generally people clam up when they don't have anything prepared to say, it's a means of gaining time to think.

Personally, I think she's just jealous of Violet, thinking the two of them a re a little too close working on their little project. That's assuming she (Sarah) has a romantic interest in Kurt and isn't just a 3P plant.

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Trust no one. Well, except Kurt. And Violet. Oh, and Scarlett and Sylvia. Oh nevermind!


Personally, I haven't trusted Violet since her disappearing post, but if I told him that, we'd never hear about this book. Wink

I know they (probably - I don't know how email-happy people are round here) don't know as much as we do about 3P, but they don't seem to have any notion of caution or secrecy - leaving symbols up on walls where any old recon can see them, chatting about it with a friend. Perhaps it would be worth pointing out to them that we suspect 3P of killing people to cover their tracks, and that we know they are quite good at planting moles.

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 		Well it is a well known fact that both Kurt and Violet keep dismissing about how close they really are. I think Sarah just possibly thinks of Violet as a bit of competition and doesn't like to be reminded of how close Kurt is to her.
Perhaps the live event in London and other events in Ascendancy point are making few people see "witches" everywhere? Laughing
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 		I agree with Centipede and Locqust, simply because we haven't heard of this Sarah before this point in our dealings with Kurt doesn't immediately make her a suspect. From the sounds of things, she might be a close friend of Kurt's, perhaps even romatically involved (or at least interested)

I don't think that her response to the mention of Violet and her working closely with Kurt really qualifies her as a candidate for the thumbscrews and desklamp-in-the-eyes treatment...not just yet anyway. Although, I still think that Kurt needs to make a move with Violet, they make for an interesting couple,

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 		So, my first instinct on reading this screamed 'Sarah is very dodgy', but after reading other views and then re-reading the post I'm tending to agree that it's more a 'romantic thing'. Not sure about Kurt and Violet as an item though, I think she'd be better off with me!
Sarah aside, it might be good to emphasise to Kurt the need for caution though.
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 		Yeah, re-read and concur, seems less dodgy and more 'romantically threatened'....catfight!!!!! wooo!!!

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While I walked Sarah back to her department, I suggested that we should meet up again to check out the rest of the museum, but for some reason she was a bit non-commital and said she'd think about it. Typical


OK, This could be contrued as a continuation of the coldness from Kurt talking about Violet, but it still sounds dodgy to me. He's wanting to spend more time with her, but she's still not sure? If it's a romantic thing, I'd have thought she'd be all over the offer.

Of course, we still don't understand how a woman's mind works. Even Reimann's Hyp will be solved before this I fear.....

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