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[UPDATE] Sentinel - Oct 3 - Museum Protest, Viard
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - Oct 3 - Museum Protest, Viard
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Museum Protesters Rally After War Exhibit Announced
By WILHELMINA BEST

Over nine hundred protesters gathered on Saturday at the Academy Museum to voice their opposition to the museum's new plans for a war exhibit. The gathering was organised primarily by Peace Watchers leader Soo-Yung Rosenthal, though Academy Senior Fellow Estelle Sedgewick also spoke at the rally. Police monitored the gathering for signs of emerging unrest, but no intervention was necessary, said chief Eoin Morgan.

In a surprise move, Academy Master Sente Kiteway appeared personally at the protest to speak to the assembled activists and explain the Academy's formal position on the exhibit. "We at the Academy feel that no subject should be considered too sensitive for furthering the pursuit of reason," he said. "Examining the actions of humanity at its worst can only grow our knowledge of sociology and anthropology. We would of course cover the topic with nothing but dignity and respect."

Kiteway's address was met with jeers and derision from the crowd. Kiteway left the assembly shortly after speaking, and was not available for questioning by the press.

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"Sente says it's important to examine all aspects of the human condition, but that's just ridiculous," said protester and Academy student Kelly Robart. "Perplex City as a society has chosen to eschew all of the choices that could lead to a recurrence of this kind of conflict ever again. We've learned all the lessons there are, here. ... Examining these painful times in detail can only bring sorrow."

Rosenthal spoke to the crowd regarding the example of Earth, whose "culture of glory" encourages violent conflict, and indeed canonises those who wage war as heroes. "On Earth, there are memorials and museum exhibits and statues in every city commemorating the achievement of violence over reason," Rosenthal said. "Ms. Marlowe and Master Kiteway have too long been touched by the hand of Earth. They have been corrupted by that influence. They don't see the obvious correlation between the glorification of war and the continuation of it."

Museum spokesman Gerard Owling said that Kiteway's appearance at the rally came as a surprise to him. Owling had a formal statement from Anja Marlowe, the museum's new curator and the architect of the exhibit, indicating that she understands the reservations many in the city have over the exhibit, and that she will take all constructive criticism to heart.

Marlowe was appointed the curator of the Academy Museum mere weeks ago. It was widely anticipated that Marlowe would try to address the topic of war in a new exhibit, as she has a track record of choosing controversial subjects around which to build exhibits. Marlowe herself has remained unavailable to the press.


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Upcoming Viard Album Should Be Banned
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Up-and-coming recording star Viard has produced an experimental album, The Silver City, that Hesh Records claims uses an experimental technology to use input to the auditory nerve to alter consciousness, particularly as pertains to intellect. Viard and his representatives claim that this technology is intended to enhance critical thinking skills, and is intended as listening material during puzzle-solving activity. We at the Sentinel feel the release of this experimental technology in the form of a simple consumer album is both abhorrent and unethical.

It has long been known that music can effect mental focus, but this is the first known attempt to intentionally prime the subconscious for a specific effect. Representatives at Cognivia have indicated that the arena smacks too much of mind control or other strictly unethical disciplines, and that as such, has not been considered an appropriate avenue for research or experimentation in the broader field of cognitive enhancement.

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The Sentinel received an advance copy of the album, and found the music to be particularly disturbing. The music operates on several levels simultaneously, and while one may experience some enjoyment on the surface of the music, it is troubling to listen to the music and feel that it is somehow altering your mental state without your explicit permission. How can we really know what layers of suggestion are being set like traps for us to stumble upon in our own brains? How do we know that there will be no harmful results from the release of this album to unsuspecting listeners across the city?

Indeed, anonymous sources inside the recording studio have given us heavily redacted reports on trials of this album and the preliminary research that led to its development. These reports indicate that the technology is by no means universally beneficial -- and there have been dark hints that in some cases, exposure has resulted in "serious and malignant side effects," though their nature has been left for us to speculate. From context, they could range from headaches and ill temper clear through temporary psychosis.

If there is even a grain of truth to to these reports, then Viard and Hesh must stop production of The Silver City at once. If they are using cognitive research in this monumentally irresponsible fashion and will not be dissuaded from their course, it is clearly incumbent on the City Council to put a stop to this release. The minds of our city are our greatest asset, and are no place for any "grand cognitive experiment," no matter how voluntary nor how well-intentioned.


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...uses an experimental technology to use input to the auditory nerve to alter consciousness, particularly as pertains to intellect.


My guess is that it's using some hyper-developed form of Binaural Beat Technology
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 		The Apple-Thief this week is more obscure than usual... finally found a copy of the poem it's from though. "Lament of the Silent Sisters" by Christopher Okigbo.

will post a section of it here due to the fact that it's a LONG poem.

Lament of the Silent Sisters by Okigbo wrote:
{(iv) Silent Sisters. Chorus}

Yellow images.
Voices in the senses' stillness.

Pointed arches.
Pieces in the form of a pear.

We see angels, filaments,
A host of harlequins under the shadows;

And bearded Judas,
Resplendant among the dancers.

We hear sounds as, they say,
A worshipper hears the flutes;

This music sounds so in the soul
It can hear nothing else.

We hear painted harmonies
From the mushroom of the sky--

Silences are melodies
Heard in retrospect.

And how does one say no in thunder?

One dips one's tongue in the ocean;
Camps with the choir of inconstant
Dolphins, by shallow sandbanks

Sprinkled with memories;

Extend one's branches of coral,
The branches extends in the senses'
Silence; this silence distils

In yellow melodies.

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 		I'm hoping this all portends an interesting session at the music site tomorrow.
Particularly the final future: "The Dragon (August 11 - September 10)
In the coming week, there will never be a writing instrument available when you need one. Not even if you make a special note of bringing one with you. It's in the stars, don't look at me. "

Instrument, note, stars...okay, maybe I read into things Wink

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I wonder if this is a reference to how we stumbled across the School of Music website.

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exposure has resulted in "serious and malignant side effects," though their nature has been left for us to speculate


They're pretty much asking us to spec about this, so here's one for you. Could it be possible that this is one of the methods used to cause such deaths as Pietro's?
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 		Interesting theory, any record of Pietro listening to music?

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jsweby wrote:
Interesting theory, any record of Pietro listening to music?


Everyone listens to music Very Happy My thought is that it is probably not hard for Pietro's killers to get into his key. We already specced that they might have caused his illness somehow using it. Now I believe we've found a possible method for them to have used his key to kill him. Simply hack into it, introduce an audio file that starts up next time he tries to make a call, and you have one dead man
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Axys Denyed wrote:
My thought is that it is probably not hard for Pietro's killers to get into his key. We already specced that they might have caused his illness somehow using it. Now I believe we've found a possible method for them to have used his key to kill him. Simply hack into it, introduce an audio file that starts up next time he tries to make a call, and you have one dead man


Oooh, next they'll have killer "hold" music Smile Maybe "elevator music of death". The latest "glitch" at Acendency Point Wink

Seriously though, from what Monica told Pietro, I think it's as simple as someone hitting him with one of those neuro-inhibitor thingies. His symptoms matched her description.
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WolverineFan wrote:
Axys Denyed wrote:
My thought is that it is probably not hard for Pietro's killers to get into his key. We already specced that they might have caused his illness somehow using it. Now I believe we've found a possible method for them to have used his key to kill him. Simply hack into it, introduce an audio file that starts up next time he tries to make a call, and you have one dead man


Oooh, next they'll have killer "hold" music Smile Maybe "elevator music of death". The latest "glitch" at Acendency Point Wink

Seriously though, from what Monica told Pietro, I think it's as simple as someone hitting him with one of those neuro-inhibitor thingies. His symptoms matched her description.


I know, but I figure I'd play devil's advocate on this one. There is also an idea floating in the back of my head of The 3rd Power using this type of music to try and get a stronger hold on the city (personally, I think this spec more likely)

EDIT: Now that I think about it, it makes even more sense once you take into account that we have found 2 music related websites on our trail following them
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