A Month of Updates
Holy cow, a lot of stuff has happened since our last update!
- The biggest recent news is that wave 2 cards are officially released! Of course, they are available from Firebox. Also available is a Starter Pack containing cards, a binder with pockets for all 256 cards, issue 0 of Perplex City Magazine, a limited-edition Leitmark, and the Viard CD (see below for more information about the music.)
- The Clapham Common event went well and ended with us discovering a mole in our midst (who hopped on a helicopter and departed at the end of the day)
- Viard’s controversial unreleased album is banned for sale in Perplex City for its use of “embedded cognition enhancing technology.” The producer, Hesh Records decides to market it toward Earth.
- Scarlett talks to “the old man”, Henry Castille, grandfather of Allain. We learn of Allain’s mother (Henry’s daughter), Claire, a computer expert who used her underground and legitimate contacts to get transferred to the mysterious Viendenbourg. She was able to send out coded messages to her family, but they eventually stopped. Viendenbourg is protected by some fancy technology that is basically a confusion field. Allain went in after his mom, using a modified key to counteract the field. It protected him (until it got overloaded and exploded), and he was able to herd the rest of the group, who were quite befuddled by the field. Henry then sets Scarlett up with a cover job of working at an animal shelter near Viendenbourg. Scarlett prepares to depart on her journey. She has all the necessary equipment, including a device to monitor her health and send out a broadcast if there are any problems…welded around her ankle. She finally makes it to Viendenbourg. Waiting outside the building, watching when people enter and exit, she hears that they are drilling.
- Violet and Kurt decipher text from the damage book and discover that our favorite triple-square symbol really does belong to The Third Power.
- Violet learns, through Aiko, that her uncle Sanjean Adamek has the 3P symbol carved into the paneling of his house. Sanjean, it should be noted, is a descendent of Vianne Adamek, one of the seven original founders of The Academy. It turns out that the house–including symbol–was originally built by Anthony Granier, one of the names on the list, given to Adamek, then passed down through the generations.
- As part of the war exhibit, the Perplex City Museum has on display a newly unearthed volume of Anthony Granier’s journal. Violet uses her librarian connections to try to look inside the book, but keeps getting denied. It is such a valuable resource that access is limited to published and credentialed researchers.
- In an effort to get recognized as a published author, we are collecting together essays and stories to be published by Seaside Press.
- Perplex City Academy Games is discovered, wherein we learn of a puzzle card game named Clash. “The puzzle card game Clash is the cornerstone of the Games; it is the one event which every participant knows that they will certainly play – not once but many times. While the other games test one skill intensely, Clash demands a broad range of skills and abilities in puzzle-solving. The puzzles for the annual Games final of Clash are set by the brightest minds of the Academy; the one-on-one Clash final is one of the most watched sporting events of the year.” Sound familiar?
- The CD in the starter pack has a secret message, possibly intended for the 3P:
I can’t tell you who I am, they’d kill me if they find out how much I know. You know who they are. Follows something that u need to know. A detective here in pc has an agent of the third power. The third power stole the cube they killed people who knows what their capable of if your sensible stay just away, if u want to help us if you want to find the cube wait for the [inaudible] , exactly 7 days after that send someone to the abandoned subway station on Gilin road at 10pm you’ll find out enough to prove that there [inaudible] spy.
You remember The Brotherhood of the Six, right?
- The interface to Perplex City has been updated, giving you more statistics about individual cards and people.
- ELUCIDATE HAS FINALLY BEEN SOLVED!!!!
Elsewhere in the book is a list of names of supposed 3P members. All of the names are very important people, so it is hard to tell if the author is a crackpot in this case (he is in 99% of the rest of the book).