Archive for August, 2005

Air Conditioning

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

The tech support lines went live this morning. We spent a very long time floundering about, very nearly getting our hacked account (”theadvisor”) shut down because of all of the attention. Finally, Perplexed Pineapple, an Unfiction user, was able to convince the tech support operator that she owned the account. After being [...]

Live Technical Support

Monday, August 29th, 2005

The Heat Sensor interface at Ascendancy Point’s Eclipse security system was recently updated with a notice:
26th August 268:
We are testing a new live technical support facility with automatic configuration based on user location. This facility will be available for testing on Wednesday 31st August from 5:20pm to 7pm GMT, with access numbers being announced shortly [...]

“When it rains…”

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Recent days have brought us a flood of information. Since the last time we posted an update, the following things have occurred:

Scarlett added a “secret” section to her website. Clicking on some white-on-white text next to her picture on the homepage brings you to Scarlett’s Story, an archive of the email she has [...]

Comprendo Finance Expenses

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Earlier in the month, there was a news blurb in The Sentinel mentioning an account analyst for Comprendo Finance getting caught stealing money. Like many of the “key authorization required” excerpts, it was easily ignorable. The latest news in this unraveling story is quite interesting–partly for the story itself, but mostly because it [...]

Scarlett Holmes

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Since our last modblog post, Scarlet has returned to her job at The Sentinel and performed two Sherlock Holmes operations. The first was alluded to on her blog, but both are only really detailed in email. You did sign up for her mailing list, right? If not, head over to her site [...]

Perplex City Forums

Friday, August 12th, 2005

Perplex City has added a new meta-site to its repertoire. The Perplex City Forums are for discussion of the Puzzle Cards. The forums are organized in categories by card color, and include separate forums for discussion of each of the currently released cards. There is also a separate forum for coordination of card trading, if [...]

100 Clues

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

On August 2nd, those who have signed up for updates on the Perplex City site received an email from Sente, alerting them that the Perplex City puzzle cards were now available for sale (previously available for pre-order only) on Firebox.com. Sente also indicated that the first 100 to respond by ordering cards would receive something [...]

A week in the life of PC

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Well, hi there. A few things have happened since my last update. Hopefully my non-ARG schedule has returned to semi-normal and I’ll be able to update this more frequently… but who knows. So, what has happened in the last week?
Let’s start with the Sentinel. I think I’ll bullet the updates. [...]