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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 15 Feb 07 - Violet Part 3
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - 15 Feb 07 - Violet Part 3
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Sentinel Exclusive
Iona Interviews
Violet Kiteway
In this third and final part of our exclusive Sentinel interview, Violet Kiteway answers questions submitted over the past several days by our readership. Part I may be found here. Part II may be found here.


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Not to sound bitter about it, but given the kind of deceptions necessary over the past few years, (starting with, for instance, claiming to be unable to reach the Academy on the night of the theft) what else have we been misled about? What do we or have we known as fact that was simply not true?

Justin Peeples

Thanks for your question, Justin. I have tried to be as honest as I could, within the bounds of trying to keep myself, Kurt and my family safe. (Since I unarguably did not keep us entirely safe, I may have failed. Since most of us are alive and the Third Power haven't been able to use the Cube to do whatever they were planning to do with it, perhaps I succeeded. I'll have to leave you to judge that for yourselves.)

My search for the Third Power was entirely genuine -- I had seen their mark before, but other than that I had no idea who they were or what they wanted. Let me put it this way: there were two sets of intruders on the night, and together I and the people of Earth were looking for one of them. Everything that we did to find that second set of intruders, to learn about their motives, to disrupt their plans was real. I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you that I was part of the other set. I'm sorry if you feel betrayed or hurt. I did what I thought was right, which is all anyone can ever do.


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Will you be nekkid soon?

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Jet2themax

Jet2themax, I will be naked several times today -- for example, when taking a shower or getting ready for bed. However, you will never, ever witness this.


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I was wondering. A message was intercepted by the police, as well as being fFiltered to us on Earth. The message reads:

Electric splash
BB, 21 to 24
4: C, V, K, Q
20, V to 24

We have come to know the "C, V, K, Q" refers to the 4 people hired to steal the cube. What was the electric splash, and what does "BB, 21 to 24" refer to?

Scott Myers, Earth


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Thanks fFor your question, Scott. Helena fFrye, the police detective working on the case, has suggested that BB meant the Buttered Bridge, an ancient fFeature of the Academy. 21 to 24 probably meant the gate numbers through which the Third Power group were to enter the Academy complex. As fFor the electric splash -- it's the name of one of the fFireworks Kurt used in the display on the night the Cube was stolen. He's produced the fFireworks for a lot of Academy events; the Third Power probably used the electric splash as a signal to meet up.


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We now know that the Cube was buried in Wakerley Great Wood, but how did you decide on that location?

Sean Gavan (Onionring)

The Cube itself chose the location, Sean, as I tried to explain in the Library of Babel site. Evidently it has some kind of sentience. But, like everyone else, I have no idea why it doesn't do this more often. There's a lot we still don't know about it.


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I would like to ask Violet about what time she returned to Perplex City: Was she gone the same amount of time as she was on Earth, as time appears to pass at the same rate in our two worlds? Did the Cube send her back in time so she wasn't missed? Or did Kurt cover for her absence? Also relating to this; where did the Cube return her to? The Academy Museum? Just it seems unlikely that no one noticed the Master's daughter suddenly appearing in the spot the Cube was taken from a couple of days after its theft.

Good luck with part 3 of your interview. Could you pass on to Violet that I for one don't blame her at all her decisions, it's the only course of action she could take to ensure the Cube's safety.

Izzy Martin, an ex-Cube Hunter


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Thank you so much for your question, Izzy, and for your support. The answer is that time did pass at the same rate -- I arrived back in Perplex City a couple of days after I'd left. It was such a crazy time in the city though that no one really noticed I was missing. I wasn't supposed to be at the party at all, after all, and Kurt just told anyone who asked that I was still feeling ill. As for where I returned... it would have been handy if I'd turned up back in my apartment, but for no reason that's clear to me, instead I found myself in the middle of a clump of bushes in Polygon Park. Covered in mud. And had to walk home. So much for the all-powerful object, eh?


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Could you ask Violet: Just how did she get back from Earth to Perplex City? She seemed to rather skip that point.

Tally

Well, Tally, I got back pretty much the same way I arrived, which is to say... a quasi-mystical experience, a sensation of seeing the entire universe filtered through one point, and then the above-mentioned bushes, mud, wondering what that thing was I'd just trodden on. The Cube works in mysterious ways.


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Could you send a signed photo of yourself in a business suit to me? See above for address.

isca

No. But because I am feeling very generous, see below for a picture of me in a business suit.



Violet Kiteway

Violet, a lot of us have been following your blog over the past 2 years, right back to when you infiltrated the Reconstructionists compound to investigate Jessica Holyoke. However one thing still perplexes us -- on the evening of May 30th, 2005, as we were waiting for you to return and tell us how things had gone on, the following message appeared on your blog:

"Well. That was weird. You know how sometimes you can think you understand something, and suddenly everything swings round and it looks completely different? Like, one of those pictures which you think is a rabbit and then looks like a duck? Or, like your life, which you thought was all about one thing, turns out to be something else? Or... actually maybe I'm too tired to go into this right now."

A few minutes later, it disappeared. We feared for a lot at that time, we worried that you had been brainwashed, or kidnapped, or perhaps you had merely changed your mind. In hindsight, maybe you were about to tell us something that would have given the game away as to your hidden involvement in the Cube theft. Did you write this message? Why did you take it down?

Rachel Wild, Earth

This is a great question, Rachel, thanks for asking it. You're quite right when you say that revealing what happened in the Reconstructionist compound would have revealed my involvement in the theft. What happened was really quite simple... and then again not. I'll try to explain it as simply as I can. I arrived at the Recon Compound as I said, took the tour, as I said, spoke to Brother Tomas, as I said. And then -- one thing I didn't say. It was toward the end of my visit, when each of us had a brief private audience with one of the elder sisters, Sister Shlishi. The other tourists said that she took their hand and told them some piece of Gyvann's wisdom, so I didn't think anything much was going to happen. But when I went into the room... it's funny. Maybe when you spend all your days meditating and contemplating an object which seems to be able to do almost anything, maybe you really do manage to get in touch with it. Who knows?

Anyway, the old lady took my hand, turned it over, smiled at me and said: "My child. The Cube works in mysterious ways. If it has chosen you, who are we to question?"

Which, so what, right? I mean, she probably says that to everyone. Except then she said: "Your hands know that they have touched it. They know that they dug a hole so very far away in which to bury it. Your hands will not forget the Cube and the Cube will not forget you. We will do our best to protect you, as far as we are able."

And that was that. Which, frankly, freaked me out. And so I wrote the post you saw and put it up, but then immediately thought better of it and took it down because I felt I'd revealed too much. To be honest, this was the one thing I was concerned might lead you to suspect I'd had more to do with the theft of the Cube than I'd told you.

And did the Recons do anything to protect me? I don't really know. I wonder if this was the reason it was so easy for me to find the information about Aiko being a Recon which drew the heat away from me for a while. I don't know though. So much remains mysterious.

Unfortunately couldn't get the picture of Violet in a business suit to appear.
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Unfortunately couldn't get the picture of Violet in a business suit to appear.

I could. Wink
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 		Thanks for that isca Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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 		Link to article

Also this seems new:


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Pair to Receive Award for Foiling Third Power
By GARIMA KING

The City Council today announced it would be awarding Violet Kiteway and Kurt McAllister with the rare Perplex City Silver Solve for their roles in preventing the militant terrorist group, the Third Power, from acquiring the Receda Cube. Council Leader Nathan Earlywine gave prepared remarks at the announcement, saying, "It is rare for one individual to contribute so much to the greater safety and well-being of the entire populace of Perplex City. ... We have long known the Cube is a potential danger, and it is only through the work of Miss Kiteway and Mr. McAllister that the Cube has remained out of the hands of a deadly and malicious group." The Council reached its decision after hearing the report of a special committee formed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Cube's disappearance and subsequent recovery.

Though the City Council had to officially agree unanimously to award the Silver Solve, insiders in the Office of the Council have said that the decision was reached only after an acrimonious dispute as to its propriety. "The move only passed because Nathan and [Council Member] Camryn [Scott] agreed on it, and pushed the others into it. In particular, [Council Members] Armand [Levi] and Gisele [Karmin] were both convinced that the two should be brought up on charges of theft and obstruction of justice, and put in jail until the stars burn out. ... In the end they followed ranks for political reasons, but I assure you they aren't the only ones who feel this way." The source suggested that the current administration's handling of all of the recent related events may prove to be divisive in the next election cycle.

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Earlywine refused to speak on the matter behind his prepared comments, but Scott admitted that the Council and the city are not completely united in gratitude. "There are some who think that they should have come forward three years ago," she said. "But if they had done so, the Third Power would still be a potential threat to the city today. These two have worked tirelessly, and at great personal cost, to protect the Cube and Perplex City, and deserve our deepest thanks and gratitude."

Kiteway's and McAllister's story has captured the public imagination, so data networks were buzzing with approval of the award. Nonetheless, mirroring the City Council, a small but vehement segment of the population is bitterly opposed. "This is just theatre and politics, not justice," said Bill Rhampion, a judicial anthropologist.

The Silver Solve has only been bestowed four times in the last century, and is typically awarded posthumously. Most recently, it was awarded to Gemara Welter after she was killed while foiling a plot to assassinate the entire City Council and a number of other major governmental figures during the Council's annual regional mayoral summit.

The ceremony to award the pair will be held on the afternoon of February 24 in Key Square.




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 		Hmmm.. Feb 24th, eh?

Sounds like an opp to have a video feed live from PXC at a certain celebration party on Earth!
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 		That would be awesome Shocked

Maybe thats one of the things that will be available online...

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Hmmm.. Feb 24th, eh?

Sounds like an opp to have a video feed live from PXC at a certain celebration party on Earth!


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 		Judicial anthropologist? Sounds like more fun that practising law.

And Scott! Yer effin' fFs are effin' fFamous! You should really get that looked at. It could be - wait, it IS - catching. Very Happy
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 		does anyone feel like S2 will now be the 3P breaking out of jail.
"Oh look, there's like 50 3P members free."
then what? Twisted Evil
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 		Perplex City: Season Two
"Raising Caine"
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 		PXC: The Third Power Edition

This second season, you'll be going deep undercover, searching the web for the blogs of the 3P agents that, using supernatural powers, escaped in droves.

Agent73053: *sniff* My mommy yelled at me today.
Agent83924: Srry, G2G, hwrk needs to git done.

Rolling Eyes

Mind Candy will, of course, have much better things up its sleeves.

Right?

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 		Holy trout.... I just came back from a really, really long absence--over a year-- from Unfiction and Perplex City. I didn't mean to read all the developments I'd missed at one go, but golly, all of you and MC kept it too exciting not to! Great work, everybody, and congratulations especially to Rand0m!!!

[TIAG]I just hope they wrap up the story if ever they run out of material... PXC is far, far too special to spoil by running it too long.[/TIAG]
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 		DISAPPEARING BLOG POST!

That has made my day. Very Happy

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The ceremony to award the pair will be held on the afternoon of February 24 in Key Square.


I feel this will not go according to plan and the beginning of S2 coming on!!

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The ceremony to award the pair will be held on the afternoon of February 24 in Key Square.


I feel this will not go according to plan and the beginning of S2 coming on!!


I second that!

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gamegirl wrote:
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The ceremony to award the pair will be held on the afternoon of February 24 in Key Square.


I feel this will not go according to plan and the beginning of S2 coming on!!


I second that!


I Cube 2/3 that.

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