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Sentinel Employees

Includes Pietro Salk, etc

They're a mixed bunch at the Sentinel: tabloid hacks and gossip-mongers on the one hand, and pioneering truth-seekers on the other.

 
 

Violet Kiteway: "I Stole the Cube"

9 Feb 07

In a Sentinel exclusive, Violet finally reveals that it was she who stole the Cube. With a little help from Kurt. It all started with a poker game at the Five of Cups, when the landlord (Bernardo Holyoke) mistook her for another member of the crew hired to steal the Cube for the Third Power.

This is just part one of a three-part interview. More will be revealed...

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The Perplex City Academy The Receda Cube Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Kurt McAllister The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Third Power Violet Kiteway

 

Fear and Loathing in Perplex City

23 Jan 07

Violet is feeling powerless as the rescue operation for Scarlett (orchestrated by Helena Frye and Kurt) grinds into gear. And she's feeling scared about how things might turn out.

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Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Kurt McAllister Caine Johansson Perplex City Police Department Scarlett Kiteway Sente Kiteway Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

No need to panic

19 Jan 07

Scarlett doesn't check in with Violet as she'd promised, so big sis has something of a fit in the library. Caine tries to calm her down.

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The Perplex City Academy Episode 13: The Thunderclap Kurt McAllister Caine Johansson Scarlett Kiteway Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Something happens

19 Jan 07

Scarlett is going to use her Sentinel contacts to find out who might have turned over her house. Lunch with Iona Rodie is arranged for today.

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Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Caine Johansson Scarlett Kiteway Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Fire coming out of the monkey's head

19 Jan 07

More hassle for weary Caine. This time, Scarlett has gone off adventuring and he's getting the flak for letting her go.

In other news, The Ooze are gearing up for an important gig.

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Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Caine Johansson Scarlett Kiteway Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Saddle Up

18 Jan 07

Vi is furious that somebody has turned over her dad's (and therefore her old) home. Fortunately, Scarlett was safely out of the way at Caine's place. It's all another annoying distraction from the important business of looking for the Cube.

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The Perplex City Academy Cube Retrieval Team The Receda Cube Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Kurt McAllister Caine Johansson Perplex City Police Department Scarlett Kiteway Sente Kiteway Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Academy Security 'Sievelike,' Says Expert

18 Jan 07

Locus Technology's Gregory Dempsey condemns the Academy's security policies. Seems fair enough, especially since Sente's own residence was broken into last night.

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The Perplex City Academy The Perplex City Council Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Gone

18 Jan 07

The sight of her violated home awakens Scarlett's inner fury. From broken girl to determined fighter in one easy step. And Violet has an idea for what Scarlett can do about it.

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The Perplex City Academy Episode 13: The Thunderclap Important Entries Scarlett Kiteway Sente Kiteway Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Earth Link Locked Down by Executive Order

20 Oct 06

New Council Leader Nathan Earlywine limits the data link between Earth and Perplex City, insisting on a screening system to block 'potentially dangerous or subversive' material. Even the Sentinel may be censored. The order is put into effect today.

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The Perplex City Academy The Perplex City Council Cube Retrieval Team The Receda Cube Episode 12: The Lighthouse Important Entries Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Chrysalis

16 Oct 06

Scarlett has doubts about having gone to the Sentinel with the dirt on her father. All that youthful idealism...

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The Perplex City Academy The Perplex City Council Episode 12: The Lighthouse Scarlett Kiteway Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Academy Secrecy Harms City, Council Must Intervene Now

21 Aug 06

The Sentinel speaks out - and fiercely attacks the Academy, accusing them of causing the blackout and demanding an explanation. They start a protest campaign, encouraging all and sundry to email protest@perplexcitysentinel.com to voice their displeasure.

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The Perplex City Academy The Perplex City Council Episode 12: The Lighthouse Important Entries Mind Candy Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Third Power Whipsmart Icecream

 

Empty

29 Jul 06

Violet starts to wonder whether the Cube is really worth the lives of so many people. The shock of finding Anna's body seems to have hit her pretty hard.

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Anna Heath The Receda Cube Episode 11: The Conclave Caine Johansson The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor Violet Kiteway

 

Earth Interviews: Mind Candy's Andrea Phillips

3 Mar 06

Andrea Phillips discusses Mind Candy's expansion in North America, as well as the Earth-PXC link.

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The Perplex City Academy The Receda Cube Mind Candy The Perplex City Academy Games Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Last words of Monica

13 Feb 06

With a little help from his friends, Kurt cracks the password to Cyrus Quinton's files. He's shocked by what he finds - an audio recording of Monica Grand's murder. It's brutal stuff. (Check out Episode 4 for a reminder.)

This pretty much confirms that Cyrus Quinton is 'V'. What's more, it seems that V left this recording as a sick taunt, knowing it would be found. And the message on the Viard CD was a set-up, getting the Cube Hunters to disrupt Helena Frye's raid at Gillit Road.

Kurt passes the PXCPD the evidence. He's fulfilled his promise to Helena Frye. But can anyone catch V now?

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Episode 4: The Advisor Episode 8: The Murder Hesh Records Important Entries Kurt McAllister Perplex City Police Department The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor The Third Power V

 

Alejo to Participate in Live Chat with Earth

6 Feb 06

Following the success of Viard's album here on Earth, Roll for Damage star Alejo agrees to a live chat with his Earth fan club.

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Episode 8: The Murder Hesh Records Mind Candy Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Iona Interviews... Michiko Clark

27 Oct 05

The Sentinel interviews thier own editor. I ask you. Clark talks about the previous editor and the paper's uneasy relationship with the Academy.

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The Perplex City Academy Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Trip to the library

7 Oct 05

Violet gently blackmails her friend Cumber into giving her and Kurt access to the Third Power book. It's been seriously damaged and will take some time to decipher. (Sylvia's doing okay now, by the way.)

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Episode 5: The Third Power Kurt McAllister Sentinel Employees The Third Power Violet Kiteway

 

Sylvia

28 Sep 05

Following her traumatic encounter with Sylvia Salk, Violet seems a bit more energetic in tracking down that Third Power book.

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Episode 5: The Third Power Important Entries The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor The Third Power V Violet Kiteway

 

Sylvia's gratitude

27 Sep 05

Sylvia sends an email to say thank you to the Cube Hunters - in particular 'Cassandra', who was the first to email Violet asking her to visit Sylvia after she posted her intention to take an overdose. That message saved Sylvia's life.

She also remembers Monica Grand's final words. And what words they are: 'We never held it, it was already gone.'

(So did somebody beat the Cube thieves to the punch?)

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The Receda Cube Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor V Violet Kiteway

 

PCBC Economist Found Murdered in Point Dwelling

19 Sep 05

The Sentinel reports that Monica Grand (aka The Advisor) is murdered at Ascendancy Point - though the culprit is unknown. The murder scene is messy. Detective Helena Frye is on the case, but clues are few.

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Episode 4: The Advisor The Perplex City Banking Corporation Perplex City Police Department The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor V

 

Last Friday

19 Sep 05

A couple of weeks after her previous post, Violet does a lot of catching up.

She recalls how she was contacted by a Cube Hunter from Earth, telling her to visit Sylvia Salk and save her, because it was suspected she may have committed suicide. Violet, of course, has never heard of Sylvia Salk - but she went along, just in case, and arrived in time to save Sylvia's life.

(Sylvia is Pietro Salk's grieving widow. She posted what sounded like a suicide note on her family blog, prompting the Cube Hunters to call Violet for rapid help. The sight of Monica Grand's bloody corpse had apparently pushed Sylvia over the edge.)

During all this, Violet had a birthday, turning 26. No time for celebration, though.

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Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor The Third Power Violet Kiteway

 

The Advisor

16 Sep 05

Sylvia Salk agrees to visit Monica Grand on behalf of the Cube Hunters. She realises that Monica was somehow involved in her husband's death, and wants to know what happened.

But Sylvia finds Monica in a pool of blood. She hears a few last words: Monica says the murderer was V; and she hands over an image file, which contains hidden text and the start of the long, misleadingReceda Trail.

Sylvia posts the file and this farewell message before taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

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Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor V Violet Kiteway

 

Iona Interviews... Sente Kiteway

8 Sep 05

An insight into the mind of Sente. He explains the logic behind the whole Cube Retrieval scheme, discusses his Academic career and even finds time to have a jibe at the press. We also get an idea of how he occupies his time beyond work.

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The Perplex City Academy Cube Retrieval Team The Receda Cube Episode 1: The Theft Episode 2: The Hunt Begins Mind Candy The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Bank Deal Questioned

8 Sep 05

The potential acquisition of Fivebridge & Remton by PCBC is to be reviewed by the Council, for competition reasons. (The economic advisor working on the deal at PCBC is one Monica Grand...)

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The Perplex City Council Episode 3: The Journalist The Perplex City Banking Corporation The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor

 

Point's Problems Reaching Resolution

5 Sep 05

Ascendancy Point sets up a live support line for maintenance workers, to try and resolve the various faults and glitches in the building's systems. (It might also provide a handy access point for Cube Hunters trying to get into the building's records, as they try to identify The Advisor...)

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Episode 3: The Journalist The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Air conditioning puzzle

2 Sep 05

Ascendancy Point has been having some widely publicised technical difficulties, which the Cube Hunters exploit to their advantage. They gain access to the building's air conditioning simulator online, and learn that they can crash it. If they crash it at the right time of day (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, 9.30pm-10pm GMT), the system crashes in a particularly spectacular fashion, spewing out the name and room number of a Point resident.

Their collective efforts result in a long list of possible identities for The Advisor, who they know lives in the building. ('Read more' for the full list.)

Combined with their knoweldge of The Advisor's movements (derived from her messages to Pietro Salk), and looking at the heat sensor data, the Cube Hunters are able to narrow the suspects down to just one: Monica Grand.

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The Perplex City Council Episode 4: The Advisor Hesh Records Important Entries The Perplex City Academy Games The Perplex City Banking Corporation The Reconstructionists (Recons) The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor

 

A sad day

24 Aug 05

Scarlett tells us about Pietro Salk's memorial service, and reveals some crucial details about his life. Could they help with cracking his password-protected files?

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Episode 5: The Third Power Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Heat sensor puzzle

24 Aug 05

In one of The Advisor's messages to Pietro Salk, she mentions that she has a backdoor hack into the Ascendancy Point heat sensor system, which allows her to see people coming and going over ten floors of the building. This also porvides retrospective recordings of people's movements over the last few months.

The Cube Hunters figure out her password and, by looking at references to her movements in her messages, manage to narrow down where she lives - and therefore who she is.

The backdoor has since been closed, but you can still see read about the Cube Hunters' sterling work here.

Important Entries Sentinel Employees

 

Memories

23 Aug 05

Friends and family of Pietro Salk share their memories of him. (Might there be some vital info in here, to help the Cube Hunters to access more of his secret files?)

(For the less patient, you can find all the passwords to the Salk logs here.)

(Or if you're really in a hurry, you can read all the Salk logs together here. They detail all the key conversations between Pietro and The Advisor.)

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Episode 4: The Advisor The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor

 

Sentinel Changes Publishing Schedule

22 Aug 05

A change of editor brings a change of policy at the Sentinel, which will now publish its External Edition just twice a week. Or is it a spiteful restriction imposed by Sente, following their critical coverage of his efforts?

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The Perplex City Academy Cube Retrieval Team Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Don't say I never do anything for you

19 Aug 05

The Cube Hunters of Earth talk Violet into finding a book about the Third Power (based on their insight into Pietro Salk's conversations with The Advisor).

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The Receda Cube Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Third Power Violet Kiteway

 

Sentinel Publisher Summarily Dismissed

17 Aug 05

Publisher Lauren Grove is fired and replaced by Editor-in-Chief Michiko Clark, following accusations of religious intolerence regarding the dismissal of advertising manager Ryan Klein. More changes are said to be on the way.

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The Reconstructionists (Recons) The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

I found something important

12 Aug 05

Scarlett begins posting to a secret area of her blog: her 'story'. After chatting with Kurt and Violet, she sneaks around and finds a note in Pietro's files. There are just three words: "Reynolds ionizers. Viendenbourg."

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Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries Kurt McAllister The Salk Family Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Last night

12 Aug 05

Secretive Scarlett whispers to us about her snooping around Pietro Salk's desk.

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Episode 4: The Advisor The Salk Family Scarlett Kiteway Sentinel Employees

 

Sentinel Bombarded

9 Aug 05

The Sentinel itself is in the news as their dismissal of Ryan Klein (for being a Recon) causes outrage. The police have to control the protests.

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Perplex City Police Department The Reconstructionists (Recons) The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Lunchtime

8 Aug 05

Scarlett reports to us from her newsdesk - just a few steps away from Pietro Salk's...

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Episode 4: The Advisor The Salk Family Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Back to the Sentinel!

5 Aug 05

Scarlett gets an internship at the Sentinel. Time to bury that hatchet.

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Episode 4: The Advisor Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Sober Scrutiny of Sente's Schemes

19 Jul 05

The Sentinel offers a scalding summary of Sente's efforts to find the Cube. Their patience is wearing thin.

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The Perplex City Academy The Perplex City Council The Receda Cube Episode 1: The Theft Episode 2: The Hunt Begins Mind Candy Sente Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

A secret...

8 Jul 05

Perplex City puzzle cards go on sale for the first time - despite what the Sentinel might say.

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Important Entries Mind Candy Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

A Eulogy for Pietro Salk

5 Jul 05

Sister Golda, of the Brotherhood of the Six, says a few kind words about Pietro.

(Pietro's maze revealed several secret files, including some that were protected by personal questions connected with his life and loves. Sister Golda might just give away some useful info in her eulogy.)

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The Brotherhood of the Six Episode 4: The Advisor The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor

 

KT Shocker: 'I'm a Reconstructionist'

4 Jul 05

A brave, surprising revelation from Roll for Damage's bass player. The band are behind him. Hesh Records seems ambivalent. KT also takes the opportunity to support ex-Sentinel employee Ryan Klein.

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Episode 2: The Hunt Begins Hesh Records The Reconstructionists (Recons) The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Pietro Salk has now passed away

27 Jun 05

Sylvia Salk mourns the passing of her husband's spirit - even while he still breathes, in a coma. She appeals to everyone for help in understanding why he has been killed and what his maze message means.

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Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor

 

Mutter mutter

27 Jun 05

She's not happy... Scarlett bites back after Michiko Clark attacked her live on air.

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Episode 3: The Journalist Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

The Sentinel follows my lead!

24 Jun 05

Next on the radio is Michiko Clark. How dare she!

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Episode 3: The Journalist Important Entries Scarlett Kiteway The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Pietro's last message - his maze

23 Jun 05

Pietro Salk has suddenly fallen into a coma. Foulf play is suspected. Then he briefly emerges from his coma and creates a complex puzzle on his key. His wife, Sylvia, posts it on the family website, with a little help from her brother.

The puzzle - a series of mazes - can be downloaded from this entry.

(You can find the solutions, and what they all mean, here.)

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Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family Sentinel Employees The Advisor V

 

Salk Briefly Emerges from Sudden Coma

23 Jun 05

Sentinel reporter Pietro Salk revives briefly from his coma to work furiously on his key, before collapsing again. The fruits of his labour are posted by his wife on their family website.

(The doctors aren't saying what caused the coma in the first place, but it looks very like a malicious attack using some kind of neural disruptor - the same kind of weapon used in the Cube theft. Has Pietro become another victim of V?)

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The Receda Cube Episode 3: The Journalist Episode 4: The Advisor Important Entries The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees The Advisor V

 

Entrescore Freed

20 Jun 05

Aiko Entrescore, of the CRT, is released due to lack of evidence connecting her with the Cube theft. (She was only arrested after Kurt and Violet's enquries into the Recons anyway...)

(Note that the journalist writing this piece is one Pietro Salk.)

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Cube Retrieval Team The Receda Cube Episode 2: The Hunt Begins Important Entries Kurt McAllister Perplex City Police Department The Reconstructionists (Recons) The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees Violet Kiteway

 

Holyoke Housed Stolen Academy Equipment

11 May 05

Pietro Salk reports that the police have found high-tech kit hidden at the Five of Cups, the bar owned by Bernardo Holyoke. (What he doesn't mention is that the tip-off regarding the equipment came from him, acting on information given to him by The Advisor. It looks like she definitely does have access to inside info.) And what was Holyoke doing with all this stolen Academy kit?

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The Perplex City Academy Episode 2: The Hunt Begins Episode 3: The Journalist Important Entries Perplex City Police Department The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Recon Eight Released from Police Custody

6 Apr 05

Pietro Salk reports on the eight members of the Reconstructionist cult, arrested for and now cleared of the theft of the Cube.

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The Receda Cube Episode 2: The Hunt Begins Perplex City Police Department The Reconstructionists (Recons) The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

Crime Lower in East Old Town

28 Mar 05

Police chief Eoin Morgan claims that crime is falling in many areas, especially in the Old Town district.

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Perplex City Police Department The Salk Family The Sentinel Sentinel Employees

 

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