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PERPLEX CITY ALERT! Email Aug 11
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Hunting4Treasure
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 		PERPLEX CITY ALERT! Email Aug 11
Yesterday, our only data link to Perplex City was cut by a group known as
'The Third Power'. They did this by launching simultaneous physical and
online attacks against our systems in London, which we cannot repair.

The San Francisco Connection is now the only way we can restore communications
to Perplex City. As you already know, the Perplex City Academy had intended the
live event tomorrow to be a celebration, where we would solve puzzles and games
set by them in order to activate the new connection. There was to be no urgency,

and if we had any problems, the Academy would have been on hand to help us.

That's no longer possible. Tomorrow, we'll be on our own, and we're going up
against the best minds of another world.

We're currently in the frantic process of trying to recover instructions and
data about the Connection from our damaged systems. By tomorrow, we expect
we'll have enough, but we'll still have to solve the puzzles and games required
to activate it - remember, we didn't set them, and we still don't have the
solutions ourselves. At 11am PDT (7pm in the UK) we will be giving an emergency
briefing both online and at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, detailing the
situation and what needs to be done. Visit http://emergency.perplexcity.com
for the latest information.

There's another problem. We only have a short time before the carrier wave of
the now-destroyed London link vanishes. Without that carrier wave, it will be
incredibly difficult to establish the new link from San Francisco. For that
reason, we ask you to form yourselves into teams, either before the event or on
the day. That way, we will have a better chance at tackling the puzzles. We
will not be keeping score - the stakes are too high for us to treat this like
a game.

For speed, you will also need to make plans for getting around the city - in
whatever way you prefer. A car, MUNI pass, bike, or rollerblades could all be
useful.

If you ever want to see Perplex City again, we will need your help tomorrow.
Formidable forces oppose us, but we can and must prevail. The Third Power
committed a hostile act against us, and we can only presume it was to disrupt
our efforts at finding the Cube. We will show them that Earth is not so easily
beaten.

Mind Candy
Visit http://emergency.perplexcity.com for the latest information.
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Hunting4Treasure
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 		Message on above-mentioned website:

The situation

On Thursday 10th August, our only data link to Perplex City was cut by the 'Third Power'. The San Francisco Connection is now the only chance we have to restore communications to Perplex City.

The opening of the San Francisco link was intended to be a celebration - a festival of puzzles set by the Perplex City Academy, for us all to enjoy. However, without the Academy to help us, the puzzles are now a major obstacle. We're currently trying to recover any instructions or possible solutions from our damaged systems.

The plan

At 11am PDT on Saturday (7pm in the UK), we'll be giving an emergency briefing both online at this website and at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, detailing what needs to be done.

We'll only have a short time - a matter of hours - before the carrier wave of the original link vanishes entirely. For that reason, we ask you to form yourselves into teams, either before the event or on the day. That way, we'll have a better chance of tackling the puzzles quickly and efficiently.

There is also an online component to the activation mechanism, here on this site. We know that it needs a set number of unique users to unlock each puzzle. This means there are two goals: solving the puzzles, and getting as many people as possible to visit this site.

If you ever want to see Perplex City again, you'll need to help on Saturday. Formidable forces oppose us, but we can and must prevail. We will show them that Earth is not so easily beaten.

Mind Candy
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Hunting4Treasure
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 		I'm still awaiting instructions as to where we're supposed to go, online. I guess we keep watching that website? Confused
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ArcySparky
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 		Haha... I knew it was a stupid idea to not have an override switch to turn on the SF connection...

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 		http://emergency.perplexcity.com/
http://emergency.perplexcity.com/

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At 11am PDT on Saturday (7pm in the UK), we'll be giving an emergency briefing both online at this website and at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, detailing what needs to be done.


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There is also an online component to the activation mechanism, here on this site. We know that it needs a set number of unique users to unlock each puzzle. This means there are two goals: solving the puzzles, and getting as many people as possible to visit this site.


It sounds straightforward - look for instructions tomorrow on the website; get people to visit the site and solve the puzzles that are unlocked.

Should be fun.
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Dranioth
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 		Hi, My name is Dranioth and I'm stupid enough to be working tomorrow. Evil or Very Mad

I certainly hope that the events don't subside after 5PM MST. Or I shall be rightly angry.

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PMAvers
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Dranioth wrote:
Hi, My name is Dranioth and I'm stupid enough to be working tomorrow. Evil or Very Mad


I submitted at work time off for tomorrow so I could attend online... but, they rejected it, saying that the 12'th was "booked" already.

I feel a illness coming on right now, causing me to have to call in sick tomorrow. Very Happy

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dontpanic42
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 		just got the e-mail. looks like i've got to get out of bed at least before three tomarrow? are we all goign to follow along in #syzygy?

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rose
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 		using #syzygy
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are we all goign to follow along in #syzygy?


Yesterday there was some discussion that #syzygy wouldn't work because of the amount of chatter going on. It may be easier to leave #syzygy for general and create another channel for the event. If another channel is set up, then I would expect that it will be easy to find in the topic of #syzygy.

I don't know how much co-ordination between the ground and on-line games will be needed - I guess we will find out tomorrow.

We have a whole 6 hours for the event and a whole 30 minutes to get things organized after we get the directions. That is loads of time for us so I am sure we will be fine.
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poozle
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 		I imagine, like the silburn griggs (sp?) that there will be chat on the page to use, although we might like our own channel which is less crowded.

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Scott
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 		it's best to not overthink it too much. fFor the clapham event, we all congregated in #syzygy, and once we had a sense of what was going to be happening fFor the next fFew hours, we split up into a fFew other channels to solve each puzzle grouping. This might be the way to go here, or not. Maybe we'll wind up clumping into teams. maybe we'll wind up splitting into boys and girls, or a random distribution of people who have varying specialties. Or maybe we'll all fFind it best to stay in one channel and use PMs fFor smaller conversation. Advice: don't worry right now about what groups will take shape in 22 hours.
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 		I imagine everything will sort itself out. These things tend to be well planned.
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Scott wrote:
...or a random distribution of people who have varying specialties.


I can juggle and play the clarinet*

* though not at the same time. Rolling Eyes
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CherokeeParkes
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 		It would be nice to think that all of our new found "hacking" experience will prove useful.

I guess its good for all uk users cause its on at 7pm, though not for anyone who works in the evening.

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jonc
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CherokeeParkes wrote:
I guess its good for all uk users cause its on at 7pm, though not for anyone who works in the evening.


Or anyone that has plans for their Saturday night...

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