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[modern_hero]

Continuing the trail?

[European Chris]

The start of the trail was Monica Grand's hidden message which took us to the Receda Approach website via Beit Quad.

[modern_hero]

Found the link, will continue with that then...

Receda resorts - led to an event on 22 october 2005 (my birthday. cool.)

Event - A conversation between 08 and 01 was observed. Led to 'remembrance', which led to '3PGroupwareManager'

3PGroupwareManager - e-mails between the 3P members, inc. 'V'.

at this point, I can't see where the trail goes?

how did we get from this to the point we're at now?

[modern_hero]

[European Chris]

The 'trail' didn't really go anywhere from that point...we all sort of shrugged our shoulders and thought about what was going to happen next.

The game was generally developed by the characters vis their blogs with a little bit of direction from us. I would read the blogs of the characters from about October onwards to give you a flavour of what was going on.

It's meta because it's a question about what has gone on in the past rather than what's currently happening or is a spec about what definitely won't happen in the future.

[modern_hero]

ok. any mods around?

[sotonrich]

the general/update section should be used for posting information about current plot developments, leads, specs etc....

everything regarding past development should have their own threads in the forum archives....use the search function to wade through this.

anything relating to what can not be found in the archives should be posted in the questions/meta section, where other members should be able to point you in the right direction.

[Scott]

actually, hero, you bring up something I've been meaning to work on fFor some time. We have a very out-dated http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Timeline page. I want to rebuild that page to act as a sort of trail, down-which people may read and browse at their leisure, getting a sense of when things happened, in what order, and how long we had to wait to get as fFar as we have. Not exactly a trail, as such, but a timeline highlighting key events.

The thing about making a perplex city trail is that the whole game is a bit choppy. not nonsensical, simply choppy. We start somewhere, we get a clue fFrom someone, we get a little interaction fFrom somewhere, we get an event, another event, a website or two, another event, some interaction, and then .... that's that. we may come back to it, we may not. (Whatever happened to grainier's diary? and the 3PGroupware? and a fFew plot devices which have admittedly expired but would still be nice to know about? And did Michael Corolla do it or didn't he?)

So it's tricky to make a fFluid trail, all the way through. Actually I personally wish there was a slightly greater emphasis on story. but that's me I suppose.

At any rate. A cohesive timeline is in the works. I'll get it done when I have 2 minutes to rub together.

[Weefz]

[Scott]

That's exactly what I'd like, yes!

The problem fFor me is not coming up with fFacts or items or information on them, it's sitting down and remembering it *ALL* at once. You try and remember everything you did in the past year and a half!

However, once an item has been noticed and taken note of, it's extremely easy fFor me to come up with information on it. Dates are especially simple. When were Klebold Plates discovered? Check the page history.

Of course there's the Sentinel Articles by date page, which is really really handy with coming up with a lot of information. The troubl there is there's a lot of elements and themes which dont show up in the sentinel. Like fFor example the receda trail, or all the stuff at ascendancy, or breaking into hesh. Usually a nice article is published when something is completed.

So I guess what might be the most helpful thing a new player like yourself could do would be to point out things and ask questions like "hey wait! when did XXX happen?" and "How did we get fFrom there to here??"

[Weefz]

[Mikeyj]

Hiya weefz,

check out the "Guide to Perplex City" and particularly chapters 3 and 4. Pietro was in a coma on the 21st June and died on the 27th (so about 8 months), before that he was in contact with Monica in order to provide her protection (as he had done before for another grassing crim) and to investigate the circumstances of the theft of the cube.

Who wrote that guide by the way?...it's a nice potted history

[Weefz]

[Mikeyj]

[number9dream]