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[Scarletts' Email] October 14th
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 		[Scarletts' Email] October 14th
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OK. I'm sorry about that message last week. I must have sounded so confused - I think the people at the hospital had given me something to help me sleep, and in any case I was pretty out of it. Thank you all so much for not contacting my family; I've told them all they need to know - that I'm OK and that nothing's seriously wrong. Thank you for realising that I'm an adult and can make these decisions myself. Strangely, I did get a call from Iona at the Sentinel saying they'd had some tip-off that I was hurt, but I was able to reassure her that it was nothing serious. I guess journalists really do get to hear everything!

Anyway, I'm doing better now. I'm not even really hurt, just a few scrapes and bruises. Margot and Sanj are the same: just minor bumps and scratches. It's Brede who's seriously injured. And Allain is, well... Allain's missing.

The truth is I really don't remember a lot of what happened at Viendenbourg. I don't even have a proper impression of the place. That might be the drugs, or the shock, or... I don't know. I think I remember a building: long, grey, low-slung. And a sound... a whining hum, like machinery. I could have dreamed it - I've spent quite a bit of time sleeping and they say the drugs make the dreams very vivid - but it seems more real than that. I've spoken to Margot and Sanj - they remember even less than I do. They just remember walking and then... nothing. Nothing until the rescue guys found us.

We were at the bottom of a steep slope, they say. The four of us. Allain wasn't there, not anywhere. But Brede, Margot, Sanj and I were huddled at the base of a ravine. There were marks all down the slope to show where we'd fallen. The rescue guys said it happens pretty often in this area - people come off the track, get lost, it gets dark, they miss their footing and fall. I don't remember any of that, none of us do. We don't remember walking in the dark or getting lost or falling. But the rescue guys said we were lucky. Brede's key has emergency distress beacon which goes off automatically if it senses he's been injured. If it hadn't been for that... well we probably wouldn't have died, but we might have been a lot worse off before they found us. The hospital staff couldn't understand how we'd been hiking so late in the day only wearing our T-shirts and shorts, with our warm clothes still in our backpacks. And they don't know how what happened to Brede happened.

Brede's leg has been smashed. His right leg. They say it looks like someone hit it, repeatedly, with something large and heavy but that couldn't have happened - none of us would have hit him, none of us even had anything of the right shape or size. So they say it's probably an odd effect from the fall. Maybe some rocks landed on top of his leg. Except they didn't find us under any rocks. Or maybe it was a wild animal attack - there are some puma around here. Except that they don't tend to attack people, and there aren't any bite marks on Brede's leg. They say he's going to be OK. He's been pretty beaten up, has spent a lot of time drifting in and out of consciousness. I've been spending my days holding his hand, reading to him or just talking about anything that comes into my mind. His family are coming up here; I've had a struggle to persuade the hospital not to call my family, but apparently that's the one thing I was really insistent about even under medication. I don't want to have to give them explanations. I don't want to have to tell them what I think... that I got us all into this mess.

There's something else as well. When I woke up in this hospital bed, I had something in my hand. They tell me they tried to pry my hand open to get it out but I just wouldn't let go. It's only a twisted bit of metal and black plastic but I recognise what it is. It's half of Allain's key, battered and broken like Brede's leg. It means that, wherever he is, whatever's happened to him, he can't call for help.

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 		Question Okay -- feeling like a ditz once again. I didn't get this email, and I can't find it on the archives. Where is it?

Shocked The Viendenbourgs must have messed with my memory, too! Shocked

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 		The archives should work that's how I get them. But also get it as an email and didn't get it yet. Maybe the powers that be are a little behind today.
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 		Scarletts key is a bit screwed up. Plus they are in the middle of nowhere. So until they get back to the main city its archives only im afraid.
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 		Hey Fraggle, it's here in the archives.


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The Viendenbourgs must have messed with my memory, too!


lol, The Viendenbourgs. Sounds like a PXC version of the Addams Family! Very Happy Very Happy
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 		DA DA DA DUM
*click* *click*

DA DA DA DUM
*click* *click*

DA DA DA DUM
DA DA DA DUM
DA DA DA DUM
*click* *click*

(for those less musicly inspierd its The vindenbourgs/Adams family theme tune) Laughing
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Mokey Fraggle wrote:
Question Okay -- feeling like a ditz once again. I didn't get this email, and I can't find it on the archives. Where is it?
<snip>

Laughing


FYI, there's a hidden link with Scarlett's story in the main page, on the left of Scarlett's drawing. You can see it by selecting and highlighting the area surrounding it.
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 		so another key mashed up

from sylvia - monica meeting:
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She pressed a small object into my hand. I looked. It was a key. It had been crushed, one end wrenched off.


maybe kurt has got some more work

from scarlett:
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It's only a twisted bit of metal and black plastic but I recognise what it is. It's half of Allain's key, battered and broken

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 		Good spot tanner. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we had to get them to put them together. So who'll email Scarlett and Sylvia (or Violet or whatever)?
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 		Scarlett Says:
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...there are some puma around here...


I was just interested that they have some of the same wildlife as we do.

Anyway, more importantly, I think it may be possible that Allain/Tom left his key with Scarlett on purpose. Maybe there is some important information on it.

This is just speculation though.
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 		and how come brede appears to have been in a big fight - but not the others
SPEC - brede had a big fight with allain, killed him, destroyed the key and then pretended to have forgotten everything Very Happy /SPEC

but i dont think so
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 		here's my draft letter to scarlett, unsent as yet

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Scarlett--

Glad you are fFeeling a bit better. We all maintain decidedly abject silence, in your honour.

Say, uhm, about that key, is it possible Allain would have left some data on it? Something about who he really is, or where he went, or the devil is going on? If you can get it to work, maybe you can pull some documents out of it. If so, I'd bet you could send them off to us here on Earth, and we'll get to work on decrypting whatever might be hiding therein. You might be able to ask Kurt at the Academy fFor some sort of help, but I'd guess he would need to have the physical object, and he's a great distance away; and besides you obviously don't really want to involve anyone else.

Cheers!
--Scott, Earth


"decidedly abject silence" .. ok, so we were talking about something more .. but uhm .. like .. uhm .. we didnt, see .. and .. *cough* nice letter then?
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 		If we take half of Allain's key from Scarlett and half of The Advisor's key from Sylvia and some crazy glue...
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 		I think (wild spec a'brewin...):

They were getting close to Viendenbourg's secrets. (Not the Swedish Chef from the Muppets, but the PPC place... Smile) Allain had to make a move, to stop them, but he couldn't do it... he liked Scarlett too much. So he started to act, but he did so half-way. There was an ambush set in place, and he did only what he had to to look effective, but in the meantime, left Scarlett important info on that partial key that he know would be viewable by one of Scarlett's friends (aka, Kurt). Anyway, so everyone else gets beaten, or really thrown from a cliff, after a drug is administered, but Brede, fighting hard for Scarlett, whom he really loves, gets beat down exceptionally hard, and thus the beating he has taken is that much more visible.

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