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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time, 29th June 2006 - Subterranean

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Onionring
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[UPDATE] Path of Least Time, 29th June 2006 - Subterranean

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Subterranean

Thursday, June 29 2006, 03:38 PM

Officially, the Academy is on its summer break. No doubt this conjures up images of young and old academicians emerging fearfully out of their labs and offices into the outside world, soaking up their yearly allowance of vitamin D and gradually becoming members of the human race again. This is actually true for some people who work here - mainly the poor guys who have to do all the teaching - but for most researchers, the real work only gets started in the summer. Freed from having to deal with the pesky inconvenience of students and all that they entail (marking their work, avoiding them in corridors, speaking to them) as well as the innumerable administrative meetings that litter term-time, they can hunker down and get some serious thinking done.

The Cube Retrieval Team, being in Special Projects, operates on a different schedule, which is best described as 'everything is so important, it has to be done yesterday'. So, summer break doesn't really change our lives that much. In fact, with the new data link being set up to connect to San Francisco, we've had to do a lot of preparation on our end, as well as the plans for the activation day itself.

Still, the workload lets me focus and keep my mind off other things, and the good weather is sending a current of optimism through the CRT. People are even beginning to think that we might find the Cube again soon, especially with the number of people on Earth who are getting interested.

I haven't made much progress in our investigations into the Third Power. They're still a serious danger, and I'm sure they'll have been spooked by what happened in the mines. I don't know whether they're aware that I was involved, or to what extent, but on the bright side, no-one's come to kill me just yet. Caine is bumbling away with his 'investigations' in the Crypto department; chances are he's just trying to impress Violet. Both he and Anna are trying to discover the Academy Third Power agent directly, through their own contacts.

I'm trying a different strategy. Back in February, after the Gillit Road debacle, I talked to Helena Frye about what was going on in the 'clean tunnels' there She told me that they were being used to construct 'something big', and it might be related to the high tech equipment stolen from the Academy. It doesn't take a huge leap of logic to link that to a possible Third Power agent at the Academy, and clearly Helena knew more about the tunnels than she was letting on. The question is whether she wanted to tell me any more.

When I arrived back home yesterday after Von's movie night (some heist movie, inappropriately enough) I was planning to attempt another trace on her apparently deactivated key. I didn't get that far, after I noticed a message on my screen telling me that the 'Fried Demetrian' pizza I'd ordered wasn't available. After I stared at it for a few seconds in incomprehension, I loaded the message into an analysis program and discovered an embedded code inside. It only took me a couple of guesses to figure out the keyword; 'Kennard', the name of the cafe we met in Alchemy Bay.

It was pretty short.

"I can't talk right now, too difficult to get a signal. Currently investigating our mutual friends - think I might have something interesting. We should meet when I get back to the city next week - trust me, Silburn-Griggs is not a fun place to visit."

So much for the summer break.

Text complete with a bad link... how tasty

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:59 am

e_nygma
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Re: [UPDATE] Path of Least Time, 29th June 2006 - Subterrane

Onionring wrote:

Text complete with a bad link... how tasty

Apparently, said bad link has since been fixed. The paragraph now looks like this:

Kurt wrote:

I'm trying a different strategy. Back in February, after the Gillit Road debacle, I talked to Helena Frye about what was going on in the 'clean tunnels' there. She told me that they were being used to construct 'something big', and it might be related to the high tech equipment stolen from the Academy. It doesn't take a huge leap of logic to link that to a possible Third Power agent at the Academy, and clearly Helena knew more about the tunnels than she was letting on. The question is whether she wanted to tell me any more.

What is more interesting is this ...

Helena (via Kurt) wrote:

"I can't talk right now, too difficult to get a signal. Currently investigating our mutual friends - think I might have something interesting. We should meet when I get back to the city next week - trust me, Silburn-Griggs is not a fun place to visit."

Too difficult to get a signal? How close is Silburn-Griggs to Viendenbourg and Anjsbourg? As an aside, should we ask Scarlett to ping Alain, to see if all is well and if they discovered anything?

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:07 pm

duckiemonster
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no-one's come to kill me just yet

Oh dear, Kurt. This is not the sort of thing that you say. Ever. Especially if you're in a horror fillum.

/me pootles off to compose some more limmericks.

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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:12 pm

Mico
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duckiemonster wrote:

Oh dear, Kurt. This is not the sort of thing that you say. Ever. Especially if you're in a horror fillum.

At least it's not as bad as showing us pictures of his sweetheart saying he's going to marry her when he gets back from this mission!

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:35 pm

e_nygma
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duckiemonster wrote:

Oh dear, Kurt. This is not the sort of thing that you say. Ever. Especially if you're in a horror fillum.

Someone on Urban Dictionary compiled these rules for surviving a horror movie (an extension of the idea from Scream). Here are some possible applicable ones:

[OOG]A fun thing is to identify which movie the rule originated from. Some are obvious, some not so much, some can be multiple so the question then becomes which is technically the first (anyone want to try for a guess on the blonde rule near the bottom?).[/OOG][/list]

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:24 pm

mac_monkey
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Oh yeh I have another rule...

*The third film in the trilogy always rewrites the story.

Watch out for that one. Beware of season 3! Wink

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