Mindez

Well, with season one finishing, it’s time to look back at what has been a truly awesome adventure. This series of blog posts looks back at everything that has happened thus far. This is part 1, looking at the events between January 2004 and March 2005.

Okay, it all began with the stealing of the Receda Cube. On January 16th, some time around 2 AM. It was a highly organised and sophisticated attack, that left one security guard, Fran Mendling, dead. This caused much panic in Perplex City, and much blame was pointed toward the Academy master, Sente Kiteway. Perplex City had lost its great and powerful religious symbol, and the entire city suffered. On February 1st, Sente announced to the city that the Receda Cube had been found.. but not in Perplex City. It was on Earth.

They could not pinpoint an exact location, though they knew from then that they would need the help of those on Earth to track down the Cube, to return it to Perplex City. That is how it all began.. The Academy started to plan how to communicate with us, how to help us find it, how to return the Cube to it’s rightful place. They acquired funds from the Perplex City Council on the 20th of July.. It was almost ready, we could almost make contact.

Meanwhile in Perplex City, the city was preparing for a great fall in its economy over the christmas period. Many families were still suffering from the loss of the Cube, they would only celebrate a very quiet holiday season. The loss of the Cube had affected Perplex City greatly, shaken their faith, the economy.. It was vital that they got it back. And yet.. a year had gone by, and still there was no Receda Cube.

By March 2005, the Perplex City Sentinel were printing critical reviews of Sente’s attempts of dealing with the crisis. Over a year had passed, and the Academy had done nothing but receive money from the council.

But by the end of that very month, the Academy had made contact…

To be continued in Part 2.

Well, as the first week with the Perplex City link being reopened comes to a close, all I can do is look back at the week and think “..Wow.. So much has happened o_O;”

Scarlett is still missing (Oh how we hope she is alright..), Sente is still imprisoned (Oh how we hope he is alright..), and Kurt’s still job-less (Oh how we hope he is alright..).

Since my last message, Kurt has rang Helena Frye, to ask for her help. The conversation can be viewed here, but it can basically be summed up by the fact that Helena has agreed to help us, and she is going over what we know, the Third Power messages we have found, etc. to find clues… And she’ll be back in contact soon.

So we’ve nothing to go on, until she does come into contact again..

This has truly been the busiest week in Perplex City that I can remember since I became interested in it..

Well, hello.

Introductions! I am Mindez, a cube hunter here on Earth. This blog is basically a way of reporting what’s going on in the world of Perplex City, my views of what’s going on, ranting, raving, probably some decent stuff as well maybe, investigations into what’s going on with the Earth cube hunters, speculation on some of the clues we have.. Yeah.

All in all, then, the story so far… Or at least since the 15th of January.

The link to Earth was re-opened by Nathan Earlywine, leader of the Perplex City council, in light of some new evidence that the Third Power were using the link to communicate, even through the supposedly unbreakable firewall. At the same time, we [the Earth-based CRT] discovered some messages, leaking through the link and becoming corrupted. So Nathan Earlywine closing the link was merely giving the Third Power an advantage. They’ve slowly been getting closer to the Cube, while we’ve been blinded from Perplex City.

Still, there was great joy as the link was reopened. All of our friends and ‘friends’ and “friends” in Perplex City have been in touch.. Kurt, Scarlett, Violet, and Caine.. and things seemed to be going pretty well. Their time without the link seems to have been generally good.

Still, all good things must come to an end. For tonight was the night of the Annual Academy Ball - the third since the Cube was stolen. And it is at this completely public event, with practically every journalist in town attending, and all of the Kiteway family.. that Sente was arrested, in a blatant act of power from the council. The reason given was that he was found to have been giving mind-enhancing drugs to the winner of the PCAG, or something. The way he was restrained, though..it had to be something else. Perhaps as blame for the theft of the Cube, or perhaps the council believes that Sente has the Cube.. or knows something.

Kurt has been fired from his job at the Cube Retrieval Team, too. So now everyone’s heartbroken.. Scarlett and Violet have had their father arrested, Kurt’s been fired.. All in all, Monday was a rather busy day.

Since then, still more bad things have happened. Kurt’s been moping around feeling sorry for himself, Violet’s been comforting Scarlet, who [with the effects of what happened at Lancewood, and having to watch her dad arrested] has been deeply changed.

Wednesday night [Was it Wednesday? I have a bad memory], Sente’s house was broken into. Kurt blamed this simply on journalists or cops, but when Violet and Scarlett went around to investigate.. the entire house was trashed. The sight of it inspired feelings of anger in Scarlett, and this was enough to return her to her old self, standing up to Violet’s mothering. Then, Violet got a plan. Cue massive cliffhanger (With Scarlett’s old self back, so are her old habits, particularly the annoying one where she has to end everything with a cliffhanger).

Scarlett went off to the Perplex City Sentinel to try and get some more information on who had broken into Sente’s house.

Violet spent the day worrying in the library, as Scarlett didn’t call her when she said she would…

A few hours later, Violet got a message… which seems to tell us that Scarlett is in trouble.

Kurt believes that she has been kidnapped by the Third Power. So he’s calling Helena Frye, a police detective.

“Helena… do you trust her?” asked Violet cautiously.

“I think so. She’s helped us before, told us about the Third Power’s portal, and she seems to be capable of working outside of Council or Police authority.” Positively happy about it, I thought. “She’s got the team and the access to find Scarlett. We don’t have anyone else to go to.”

Will Helena help the team? Will we be able to find Scarlett? Or will the Third Power be doing something uber-sneaky?

There’s only one way to find out.

Keep watching… (Or invent a time machine.. but I suspect that “keep watching” is going to be an easier option. And cheaper.)