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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity, 31st January 2006
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity, 31st January 2006
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Seven reasons I hate Pyramid
Category: me
Time: 08:30 PM

1) No one plays for money. What's the point of a game you can't play for money?
2) It's too quick-fire. There's really no chance to sit around, shoot the breeze, see what information you can, for the sake of argument, winkle out of people.
3) There's really no reading-people involved. You've either got it or you haven't got it. No amount of skill in working out what someone else is thinking will help.
4) There is no role for lying of any description.
5) All the variations! Speed Pyramid, Fool's Pyramid, Action Pyramid, Skew Pyramid. Each one demanding new paraphernalia. A marketer's dream. I like a game with many versions, but the purity of one deck of cards.
6)Oh the jollity. It is a family game. There were teenagers at BB last night.
7) And, did I mention, no one plays Pyramid for money?

So, all in all, I'm not tremendously pleased that you guys sent me to an evening of Pyramid when I was expecting a night of Poker. Still, I did my best for you.

As I was leaving my house, I got the idea that it might be a good plan to take Caine, one of the puzzle scribes who works with Kurt, along for the night. Caine's in a band, knows about music, so I thought he'd be the perfect person to blend in at a puzzle bar full of music producers. Luckily, he was free and happy to participate in my little escapade.

And actually, he was pretty good to have along. I like listening to music, but I've never understood the finer points of production (and you really don't want to hear me sing). Caine, on the other hand, blended in like a native, talking about new production technology with one table, then moving over to discuss the updated Gavretch-model guitars which are, apparently, set to revolutionise the face of something-or-other.

I think Caine was really enjoying himself too, particularly the "secret agent" element. I'd told him I needed to find out who had produced the Viard album, and that he should try to get chatting to the guys from Hesh, to get this information. I didn't tell him why I needed it, and he didn't even ask. I was pretty impressed by that - he cheerfully agreed to go along and try to find this out for me without needing to know why. I think I can see now why Kurt says that Caine's "a good bloke" - despite the slightly dodgy name.

After we'd been in the bar for about an hour, I'd subjected myself to more games of Pyramid than I've probably played in my life before, but still hadn't managed to get any of the Hesh folks to talk. I never knew anyone could be so intent on Pyramid. They didn't want to speak to me, and when I tried I found that it became obvious extremely quickly that I wasn't one of them - not a cool person working in the music industry anyway. I was losing hope when finally Caine sidled over to my table, put his hand on my shoulder and said:
"Get your coat, love, you've pulled."
I raised an eyebrow.
He grinned, and lowered his voice.
"I've got your secret info, all right?"
I smiled, threw down my current game and left with some relief.

As Caine was walking me back home from the bar, I asked him why he'd agreed to come along so easily. He didn't answer for a minute, then grinned and said:
"Just. You and Kurt seem to have a lot of fun with... whatever it is you guys do. And since you invited me and not Kurt... well, I just thought we might have fun too."
I thought about that.
I said: "Did you have fun?"
He said: "Yup."
"Well then," I said, "we'll have to do it again sometime."
And I wished him goodnight and went up to my apartment. Alone. In case you were wondering.

Oh, and the answer is that a whole crew worked in the original production, but the person who specifically finished it for Earth was Cyrus Quinton. He was, by all accounts, something of an oddball himself.


Cyrus Quinton? Never would have guessed.

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 		Cyrus Quinton - isn't he our "V" suspect.... interesting. Did anyone find him in the staff listings?

Hmmm... now we just need the password Very Happy Which is not YIISTIA !
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 		Cyrus eh? it's always the quiet ones...which I'm assuming he was, as he doesn't have anything in his profile...

Wonder what the Gavretch guitars are like. Maybe they're like the PXC equivalent of Fender??
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 		How falsely obvious is this getting?

Cyrus is a patsy, and it's been Kurt the whole time! Shocked

But, honestly, if Caine is so dead-set on joining the damn fun, then he should get off his sorry rocker ass, make a blog, and help us already! About time we start operating with another person we could trust, instead of two capable allies and a third out in the Perplexian boonies.

(Besides, he does make a pretty wicked ally. RAWK! Laughing )

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 		I take it someone has emailed Kurt with the info?
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
I take it someone has emailed Kurt with the info?


Violet, I hope! Very Happy

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neuromancer wrote:
Cyrus eh? it's always the quiet ones...which I'm assuming he was, as he doesn't have anything in his profile...


Actually, I don't think anyone who has left the company has anything in their profile. They probably clear it out when they add the leaving date.

GasparLewis wrote:
But, honestly, if Caine is so dead-set on joining the damn fun, then he should get off his sorry rocker ass, make a blog, and help us already!


There's some spec over here that he already has one, and that it's hidden in the unsolved number string on the Insights card. I'm not sure where they got that idea, because Kurt designed that card, but there has to be something useful in that number, right?
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Daffy889 wrote:
Actually, I don't think anyone who has left the company has anything in their profile. They probably clear it out when they add the leaving date.


Fair point, didn't notice that.


Daffy889 wrote:
There's some spec over here that he already has one, and that it's hidden in the unsolved number string on the Insights card. I'm not sure where they got that idea, because Kurt designed that card, but there has to be something useful in that number, right?


ooooh, unsolved numbers!!! *cue 'Lost' music* (OT: I've not seen series 2, incase they've found out where the numbers came from...)


So now that they've spoon-fed us our suspect's name, we just need to socially engineer the password out of the Heshites?? Would posing as Cyrus on the Hesh boards be too suspicious?? If not then I'd take a shot at it.
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