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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 09/06/06
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 		[UPDATE] Path of Least Time 09/06/06
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Friday, June 9 2006, 12:21 PM
I've always had a strong sense of identity. I know who I am, I know what I'm skilled at, I know what I stand for and believe. It's easy to maintain an identity and beliefs when they're not tested.

When I entered Silburn-Griggs, I was hoping to find Miranda and reason with her. Even though she was a murderer, I knew she wasn't insane - I could tell that much, at least, from having lived with her. She must have had a reason for what she'd done, and if I could discover that, I could try and convince her otherwise.

I recorded the entire conversation I had with Miranda in the mines. Since then, I've been going over one part of it again and again, trying to understand:

Me: So explain it. What's so important you'll kill for it? The Granier diary?

Miranda: We had to get it back. It was about the experiments... the early Cube tests. We couldn't let Violet tell Earth what Granier discovered - the kind of damage the Cube could do.

Me: Is that why you tried to steal it? To use it as a weapon?

Miranda: We're just trying to take back what's rightfully ours. The Academy have fumbled around with it for centuries... they're children. Look where it is now, thanks to Kiteway. Imagine if someone from Earth finds the Cube and keeps it for themselves. With their record, it could be the end of both worlds.

It sounds coherent, and I'm not surprised that the Third Power believe that the Cube is 'rightfully theirs'. But the rest of it... the Cube as a weapon. I don't know. I suppose we'll find out one day.

I think Miranda had the same idea as me though - I think she wanted to turn me. She could've killed me when I walked in, but she didn't. It was almost as if she was testing me, and I desperately wanted her approval, even with everything that'd happened. I even believed her when she said she didn't mean to hurt me with the bomb in her apartment: "I never tried to hurt you. They wanted me to, but I wouldn't. Your key warned you about the gas, right? And in the pharmacy? I could have taken you out if I'd wanted." But when I finally asked her what her real name was, and said told me 'Caroline'... I realised I could never trust her. She'd lied so many times before, and I'd never even suspected.

Then something happened. We were kissing, and then she started fighting me. I wasn't sure what was going on, until a knife appeared in her hand. I managed to wrestle it away from her, and as we struggled, she stepped back onto it. The look of pain and shock in her eyes still unsettles me. She didn't even seem angry, but simply surprised.

After that, I can't remember much. Violet arrived and bundled me into her car, and took me back to my apartment. I was practically catatonic, I simply couldn't believe what had happened. I'd killed Miranda. You can call it self-defence, but that doesn't change the facts. I think Violet was horrified as well, but somehow she hid it.

For almost two weeks, I stayed in my apartment. I didn't feel like doing anything. I'd wake up late, and lie there in bed, not wanting to move or even think. Occasionally someone would call - maybe Violet or someone from the Academy, checking up on me - and I would have to pretend to be getting better. The worst moment was when my parents came down to visit me, and I couldn't tell them what I'd done. I didn't know who I was any more.

One day, I took a walk outside, mainly because I was getting tired of eating delivered food. I'd lost track of time, and it turned out to be the evening. The air was crisp, after a recent rainfall, and there were thin cirrus clouds in the sky, painted into amber near the horizon. That was the first time I remember smiling for a while. I decided to get a coffee and sit outside, and just watch normal people walk by.

When I returned home, I opened up my email to find several hundred new messages, mostly from people asking about the walkthrough that Von set up. There were a few before those that I read carefully, from Carda, Stefan and Nightingale, which reminded me that I didn't have any choice in what happened, and for all that I once cared for Miranda, she started this, and I had to finish it.

Violet had called some sort of 'conclave' that Sunday, with Anna and Scarlett. I hadn't seen either of them for some time, and I was worried about having to explain what had happened with Miranda and in the mines. Thankfully, Violet did most of the talking, leaving me to sit back and listen. She's explained on her own site about what we decided.

I returned to work this week, rather subdued. Everyone was very understanding about my time off, and I laughed when I saw that Anna had asked you to create puzzles in my stead. Thank you. On the face of it, things seem to be returning to normal, but I feel that with Miranda's death - with me killing her - events are going to become more serious. I'm sure we're getting closer to the cause of all of theft and who the Third Power are.

There was one other thing I wanted to mention. I met Caine in the common room this morning, and he confided to me that he was having problems getting into a Hesh party. Apparently his normal connections and strategies weren't working - I didn't ask - and he didn't even know when or where this party was, or how to get in. I suggested he take a look at the Hesh Intranet - there's bound to be information about the party there somewhere. I think he was a little disappointed that I wasn't able to magic up a solution, but if we're to trust him with anything, he has to start figuring things out himself.


PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:56 am
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kicktoria
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I suggested he take a look at the Hesh Intranet - there's bound to be information about the party there somewhere.


Anyone taken a look yet?

Good to hear from Kurt again - was starting to worry about him...
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 		Yep. In Hazel Coldbeck's personal area, there's a file called June12.rtf, which is a to do list ahead of a party. You can see it on the wiki here. I suggest we move discussion on this point to the other thread which is focusing on getting Caine in to the party here

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There was one other thing I wanted to mention. I met Caine in the common room this morning, and he confided to me that he was having problems getting into a Hesh party. Apparently his normal connections and strategies weren't working - I didn't ask - and he didn't even know when or where this party was, or how to get in. I suggested he take a look at the Hesh Intranet - there's bound to be information about the party there somewhere. I think he was a little disappointed that I wasn't able to magic up a solution, but if we're to trust him with anything, he has to start figuring things out himself.


Okay, perhaps this is me pulling an elephant, but

[TIAG]
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Puppetmasters: jeez, hit us over the head with what we should do! If you had given us more than four days to plan something, we could have done something cool a la getting The Ooze some airplay. I realize you want to advance the story to the end of Season 1, but part of what makes an ARG an ARG is to have the players push the story somewhat.

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Eh, whatever, let's go hacking. Dunno

EDIT: In reflecting on this, I realize that while they've heavily steered us, we don't really know what to do next to get Caine in the door. So, I vented a tad, perhaps unfairly. Still, I'll stick by what I said.

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 		Re: [UPDATE] Path of Least Time 09/06/06
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When I returned home, I opened up my email to find several hundred new messages, mostly from people asking about the walkthrough that Von set up. There were a few before those that I read carefully, from Carda, Stefan and Nightingale, which reminded me that I didn't have any choice in what happened, and for all that I once cared for Miranda, she started this, and I had to finish it.


I am so glad that we have all finally heard from Kurt once again and now know that he is starting to get his life back on track; I am especially pleased that he mentioned me in his latest blog entry - w00t! Very Happy
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 		Okay my bad totally irrelivant file, possibly. But there had to be more that just the to do list and an old file on a birthday party.

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 		Figures. I can't even remember what I wrote in that email and my inbox got formatted off the hard drive when I installed Windows XP...

Ah well.

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