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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 5th May 2006
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Ramazel
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 		[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 5th May 2006
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Friday, May 5 2006, 12:05 PM

At about 7am this morning, my key emitted a siren, causing me to wake up and fall out of bed. My key is programmed to only wake me up if something life-threatening or truly urgent requires my attention. One of its monitoring cores had noticed something odd going on with the information flowing between it and the world, and determined that its firewalls had been breached. That's a long-winded way of saying that someone was sucessfully hacking into my system.

My key is pretty smart, so it basically wiped itself and prompted me to create a new password and restore the data. I discovered that that 'someone' who had been hacking in had also been trying to copy over all of my data. It was almost certainly Miranda.

I told the key to restore, and then hurled it across the room. It bounced off a bookshelf and landed in a plant pot that Miranda had given me. I sat up on my bed and rubbed the sweat off my forehead. Unsurprisingly, I hadn't slept very well, and I'd forgotten to have dinner amidst the adrenaline rush of setting up the Missing Persons system with my key.

While attempting to get to sleep last night, I'd entertained the notion that there might be a legitimate explanation for what Miranda had been doing. Maybe she'd be working undercover for the police, together with Helena Frye. Maybe she was a double agent in the Third Power. Maybe I'd misinterpreted what she'd said to me earlier.

On discovering the hack attempt this morning, those illusions evaporated and I sat in the dark in my room, alone. A little red light continued to flash from the plant pot. I sighed, and then picked up my key and wondered what to do. Nothing had come in to the Missing Persons system - no sightings reported, either by people or by cameras on public transport. She could be anywhere. I added an extra layer of security to my key in order to make life very unpleasant for anyone attempting to hack in again.

Despite everything that's happened, I don't really want to think too hard about Miranda at the moment. That's why I'm sitting at work, attempting to review a maths puzzle, constantly checking my Missing Persons notifications, and feeling empty.

I'm meeting up with Violet later today to figure out a game plan, but before that I'm going to follow one of your suggestions and visit Miranda's apartment again to see if there's anything useful there I can find.



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 		Well if she can hack Kurt's key (or has contacts who can), she could almost certainly set up a alarm system for if someone logged into her cogniva account - so i guess that answers what alerted her to run yesterday

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Well if she can hack Kurt's key (or has contacts who can), she could almost certainly set up a alarm system for if someone logged into her cogniva account - so I guess that answers what alerted her to run yesterday.


Good call!

However, I'm still being bugged by something raised in IRC last night... What was Miranda getting out of Kurt? I just cannot see an angle as to what reason she would have to hooking up with a member of the CRT, as it would only increase her risk of being caught out? We know she prob got the job in the Library to get hold of (and/or falsify) the last page of Grainger's diary but then why not just fade into the back ground once this was achieved? Or am I just missing something?
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sledgecallier wrote:
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Well if she can hack Kurt's key (or has contacts who can), she could almost certainly set up a alarm system for if someone logged into her cogniva account - so I guess that answers what alerted her to run yesterday.


Good call!

However, I'm still being bugged by something raised in IRC last night... What was Miranda getting out of Kurt? I just cannot see an angle as to what reason she would have to hooking up with a member of the CRT, as it would only increase her risk of being caught out? We know she prob got the job in the Library to get hold of (and/or falsify) the last page of Grainger's diary but then why not just fade into the back ground once this was achieved? Or am I just missing something?


For one thing, he gave her a whole lot of cover; she was also possibly trying to gather information about the CRT. Perhaps also, because of his friendship with Violet, trying to find out what she'd found in the diaries?
Any number of reasons, really, including a possibly genuine emotional attachment.

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sledgecallier wrote:
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Well if she can hack Kurt's key (or has contacts who can), she could almost certainly set up a alarm system for if someone logged into her cogniva account - so I guess that answers what alerted her to run yesterday.


Good call!

However, I'm still being bugged by something raised in IRC last night... What was Miranda getting out of Kurt? I just cannot see an angle as to what reason she would have to hooking up with a member of the CRT, as it would only increase her risk of being caught out? We know she prob got the job in the Library to get hold of (and/or falsify) the last page of Grainger's diary but then why not just fade into the back ground once this was achieved? Or am I just missing something?


Get the top techie in the CRT out of action and not willing to help us? Seems like a logical thing to me. We've been saying she's suspicious all along, if Kurt HADN'T been going out with her he would probably have been more open to suggestions and been helping us earlier.

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poozle wrote:

Get the top techie in the CRT out of action and not willing to help us? Seems like a logical thing to me. We've been saying she's suspicious all along, if Kurt HADN'T been going out with her he would probably have been more open to suggestions and been helping us earlier.


Blinded by her womanly charms, and she's got a direct line straight to the CRT to keep tabs on them. Classic honeytrap for information right there, with the added benefit that he is a trusted member of the CRT is providing alibis for her.

sledgecallier wrote:

What was Miranda getting out of Kurt?


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 		Just out of intrest have we seen any pic's of the devil woman?
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poozle
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Bakers_12 wrote:
Just out of intrest have we seen any pic's of the devil woman?


Yeah, they were posted here.

Just make sure ya don't get them mixed up.

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sledgecallier wrote:

However, I'm still being bugged by something raised in IRC last night... What was Miranda getting out of Kurt? I just cannot see an angle as to what reason she would have to hooking up with a member of the CRT, as it would only increase her risk of being caught out? We know she prob got the job in the Library to get hold of (and/or falsify) the last page of Grainger's diary but then why not just fade into the back ground once this was achieved?


It's bugging me too, my unconnected thoughts below:

Miranda joined the Library in December, before Violet and Cymbalisty got their hands on the book. So how did she know they were going to? She'd have applied for a job at the Academy museum (which is where the diary was when she started) rather than the Academy library otherwise wouldn't she? There might be a way round this though...wasn't Scarlett warned that there were spies in the Academy, implicitly suggesting the library?

There are advantages to being close to both Violet and Kurt: CRT member and Sente's daughter, so perhaps that's significant. I was trying to think of when Kurt and Violet did something together that could have aroused 3P suspicions that they were investigating something. The visit to the Recons compound?

Why did she kill Cymbalisty at all? He was oleaginous and horny, she nubile and flirtatious...surely that's a situation that calls for womanly wiles rather than an orrible grisly murder?

Could there be a connection with Viendenbourg? She turns up a little after Allain's taken? That's an ugly desparate spec...bleurgh

In fact I don't understand her purpose at all.

[quote=sledgecallier]Or am I just missing something?[/quote]

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 		Another question or two: was Miranda always 'dirty' (quiet, you), or was she turned to the (3P?) cause? Was she perhaps a 'sleeper' operative, tasked with looking after the information within the Granier diary, and only became operational once it was being translated?

Was the murder a sanctioned and planned event (the tortuous method of getting the C6 suggests so)? If so, by whom? Miranda, or her superior(s)? Or did she panic and kill Cymbalisty in a fairly hurried and ill-considered way that left this trail?

And all signs point to her being on the run not just from Kurt, the police and so on, but also from her own organisation...

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 		If Miranda is with the 3P, then whats with the change of MO (modus operandi for people whove never watched a detectvie show!) with Cymbalisty's death. AFAIK, all previous 3P killings were blatant murders with no real attempt to cover them up, which is very different to Cymbalisty's faked suicide.
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 		I'm guessing that the other murders were done by V and this was the handiwork of Miranda.
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 		[Spec] What if Miranda is part of the team who got the cube ahead of Claire Castille and rest of V's group.

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