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[TRAILHEAD?] Don't Trust the Tesseract
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violetblue
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 		Sorry, long post. Onslaught of correspondence in the last 24 hours.

I've been asking around in 2014 about John. This, from Aimee:

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Hi Anna,

Sorry for the late reply. I was travelling back from Julie's yesterday morning so I didn't manage to get into work till the afternoon.

I did some digging around though, and there was a John Atkinson working here, but apparently he hasn't been in for weeks. According to one of his colleagues, he's not at home either. Nobody seems to know why so I'm going to chase things up with his neighbours today and see if they know anything.

If he's going to be a big help I'd really like to find him, but it's looking like somehow he already knows all this and has fled the country.

Aimee


So... we've lost John in 2014. Somebody got to him from MPS? Did he get a heads up from the future and run off?

This from Zach 2026, about duplicates and the Tesseract:

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DUPLICATES ARE CLONES. FEA WERE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD IN BIO-TECHNOLOGY, AND CLONING WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THEY MANAGED TO DO EXCEPTIONALLY WELL, DUE TO BREAKTHROUGHS IN STEM CELL RESEARCH. IT WAS JOHN WHO WORKED ON THE COPY PROGRAM AFTER TELEK FINISHED, SO I'M AFRAID I DON'T KNOW ALL THAT MUCH ABOUT IT, OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE IN THE UK HAD A 'BACK-UP' BODY.
AS FOR WHO THE TESSERACT ARE; I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY. NOBODY DOES. THEY'RE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PRESENCE IN THE COUNTRY, BUT NOBODY KNOWS WHO THEY ARE.
NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

ZACH


Aimee 2026 says similar things about the Tesseract. They're a non-entity puppetmaster, and "Clean Britain" came out of nowhere.

Now, before Simon's files on Aimee dropped, I was on team "Clean Britain over my dead body." I don't like the idea of persecution of any kind, and I'm not excited about yellow stars and prison camps in my fictional future. I figured, "Can't go wrong preventing 'cultural cleansing', no matter who the real bad guy is." But, there's no way that that newspaper clipping about Aimee's murder came from a society that institutionalized the persecution of gays. They are openly acknowledged as the cute, happy, engaged couple they were/will be. In evil anti-gay societies they would be labeled "mentally ill sexual deviants living in sin." Of course, the newspaper could be faked, but for now I'm shelving the issue until more becomes clear.

With my great crusade for lasting social equality temporarily and temporally in a quagmire, I'm 100% Team Julie. With a small caveat, that we can save Chloe and her children. It's awful what happens to them. I've put Julie in touch Zach and they're gonna work together without Aimee knowing anything about it. She needs someone besides Amy and faceless us to talk to about all this, someone directly involved. Zach isn't perfect but he hasn't killed anyone and he's not Declan or worse, John. His wife Chloe is who I want Julie to band up with. Maybe they can save each other?

On a lighter note, I "commissioned" a street mural from Julie. I'm trying to get her to start a campaign of street art to inspire a movement to counter the coming Tesseract. She actually seems really receptive to the idea. Help me get this off the ground and maybe you Londoners will see some interesting new graffiti pop up. ;)

EDIT: spelling

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 		Lol Violet i was actually wandering round east london (my local stomping grounds today) taking my mum on a tour of the great street art we have. Would love some arg inspired pop up art Very Happy

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 		Simon and future Zach have been pretty talky so i thought i would share:

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I don't think you're pushing things too far. As TBA's it's important that you know you can express your own opinion and/or take a stand against something you don't feel is morally right.

You are correct when you say that we are working towards the same goal, but I believe it to be for very different reasons. Aimee Gill and Zachary Spencer are simply trying to change their own history, and their own involvement. It's probably due to a guilty conscience in light of how the NCE responded to their 'information', but from what I understand, Aimee is more pre-occupied with saving Julie Atkinson. When I say that Miss Atkinson isn't important, I mean in the grand scheme of things. Her death doesn't bring about any repercussions other than Aimee going on the run. Everything still happens regardless of her being alive or not.

It could have been possible to maybe work alongside the traitors (in the background of course), and steer you towards the right path in stopping the attack, but Aimee Gill is too distracted by saving herself from becoming a murderer. We had to intervene once it became clear that she was going off-track and losing sight of the real motive.

We need to locate the Ark for several reasons; one of course being to detain Aimee Gill and Zachary Spencer, but also, there are a lot of missing persons of interest that we believe to be onboard the Ark. Those people are also our best option for finding Abigail Whittaker. She's a lose cannon who could derail this whole mission at any moment.

We want to bring the traitors to justice, this is true. But if we can detain Zachary Spencer and Aimee Gill in our time, it will also help us get the mission back on track on your time. We need to make sure that Aimee Gill doesn't lead her associates into a senseless mission of saving the life of just one person, instead of everyone. Doesn't it make sense that if she doesn't have any information to leak in 2026, then she has no reason to kill Julie Atkinson? Everyone can be saved. But we need to find them to be able to help.

As for the politics, I find it hard to explain. Britain in your time, as I recall, is suffering from a bit of an identify crisis politically. Nobody really stepped up to the mark and promised change.

When the Seven Sisters took control, it all stopped. We knew who we were, and we cemented our place in the world as a country of great pride and even greater influence. You cannot tell me that currently (2014), there is one party that sticks out for you, as the one to save Britain? I remember it being a time when all kinds of unsavoury parties started spawning all over the place. It's an unstable time for you, but the Seven Sisters will stabilise the country again.

They gave us exactly what we needed.

Simon


Evil Evil Evil!



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I couldn't possibly say how many people are here. If they found out I'd betrayed their trust I'd be thrown off. I'll dig around and see if I can find some other means of communication but is it really necessary now that email contact is possible again?

The Ark is very much a reality, but it has never been seen by anybody who isn't on board (barring Abigail Whittaker, who was supposed to be here with us, so I've been told). I can't reveal anymore than that, I'm afraid.

I wouldn't be so sure about the timeline changing just yet. The idea of Aimee and Julie being engaged just doesn't sit right with me. One of the first things they did in 'Clean Britain' was abolish gay marriage. I don't see how what we've been trying to do, would have effected that particular strand of events. I might be wrong, but I just don't see it. I saw Julie die on the security feed. It was definitely her. She wasn't with Aimee long enough to even be significant to them, unless somebody is trying to manipulate you with a story.

I can't tell you what to believe. We're all just faceless voices shouting out and hoping to be listened to, and you will ultimately make up your own mind about all of us.

The only thing I can say is that nobody is innocent. Everybody shares some part of the blame, whether it's a large chunk or just a small amount. It doesn't really matter.

As for something you can do to help, I wonder if you could find out if things have progressed with myself in your time? I had an email from Zac asking for help with it, but he's gone quiet since. I'm just curious if he got anywhere.

Thanks Russell,

Zach


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 		So 2014 Aimee finally reached out to me. She gave me Declan's email address. I realized that my email name and my linkedin were different (I forgot about the name on my emails, whoops) and since she responded to my LinkedIn request, I let her know that both are me in the interest of disclosure.

Any mention she makes of a Kanna or a K is me, but I've told her that I don't particularly have anything to do with anyone else, or know of anyone else's involvement beyond her, Zach, John (sort of), and Declan.

This puts me in a little of a bind, as I approached Julie under the assumption Aimee wasn't going to respond to me, and told her I was a stranger that found her blog on the internet. Hopefully telling Aimee I don't know much, and haven't been looking on purpose so I don't get confused and lose sight of the objective, covered my ass. And any mention either makes of me to the other ends up in them really thinking it's a coincidence. But tthat would probably be too easy.

this is the email I got from Julie yesterday afternoon
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Hi Kanna,

I can't tell you how nice it is to hear from somebody just offering kind words. Thank you for your encouragement.

I couldn't even begin to explain what's been getting me down (you'd never believe me anyway!). I decided to stay away from the blog for a while, because I could see I was just using it as a method of venting. That's not why I signed up for it.

You're right about the performance work. It was very empowering. I can't tell you how much I would love to trash a lovely clean room right now! It's certainly a much better method of venting my frustrations than writing depressing poetry.

Don't worry about me. I won't be down for long. I never am. I run away for a while, but I always find my strength again. It's my way of coping (and defiantly something to work on). We can't run away forever. And I can't run away from this...

Thank you. You made a brief smile flit across my face in a day that was shaping up to be worse than all the others recently.

The kindness of strangers really is magic...

Julie


I'm trying to get her to open up to me, and invited her to use my inbox as a venting space. Looks like something else might have happened with her and Aimee.

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 		CelesB, can we have Declan's address please?

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 		Yaha, CelesB, plse post Declan's email for us all here. This string was just posted as "Untitled" at Penzu: "Zhz, V arrq gb frr lbh. V arrq lbhe uryc"
Penzu letter string
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just ROT13 reading: Mum, I need to see you. I need your help.

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 		Sorry guys! Aimee mentioned to me she'd gotten it for someone else, so I imagined you lot already had it. Here it is

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declanphillipyoungSPLATgmail.com


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amandel wrote:
Yaha, CelesB, plse post Declan's email for us all here. This string was just posted as "Untitled" at Penzu: "Zhz, V arrq gb frr lbh. V arrq lbhe uryc"
Penzu letter string
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
just ROT13 reading: Mum, I need to see you. I need your help.


This could be quite interesting!

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 		Yaha, suncrusher, it sure is. What's puzzling me is how Abi's child got the Penzu link unless they hacked that email accn't. And if they can hack like their Mum why use such a simple code or any code at all for that matter? Dunno
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 		Unless it isn't her daughter? Could theoretically be a way that past versions of Abigail refer to her future self.

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 		Grrr.....

I've been working Aimee for seven days to get that e-mail address... every day, back and forth about it. She kept draaaaagging it out, saying she'll get it for me, and when I finally got it I was so excited!!! I rushed here to share it and it's already old hat and everyone's already e-mailed Declan but me.... Booooooo >:-( Why you gotta be like that Aimee, why??? I've been so good to you... You break my heart :'-(

Oh, well...

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Anna,

I managed to get Declan's email from Zach, it's declanphillipyoungSPLATgmail.com.

Also, I've had a word with a couple of John's neighbours, and the furthest I've managed to get in finding out where he is, is that he left in a hurry. Apparently he packed up his car and took off, without giving any kind of explanation. He has two daughters in the local school but when I asked a neighbour whose son is in the same class as his youngest, she said that the girls haven't been in school for a while either.

It sounds like he's had some kind of warning, and decided to flee with his family. I have no idea who could have got to him though.

I hope you get some help from Declan.

Aimee



sigh...

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 		That's entirely possible, CelesB, tho it doesn't explain how they accessed an email sent to only 6 peeps or why they are using code at Penzu.
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 		I figured Abby was trying to reach HER mum.

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 		New penzu entry explains how "daughter"
Found the journal, but not who either are.

Julie messaged me, told me she's going to distance heraelf from Aimee, so that's good.

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 		Yep I think we have solved the Julie issue so the question is what do with the remaining characters

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Hi Russell,

It's a shame I didn't see you at Pride, I was there even though I wasn't much fun. It would have been nice to chat in person.

I dont want to go into any real detail but let's just say I feel like I have to start making my time count for something. You never know when it could all end. As for the person I was with...well she would have gotten into some strange things in the future I fear, so I'm putting some well-advised distance between us.

Thank you for your continued kind words. It means an awful lot.

Julie


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