Hot Water
On May 4, VioletUnderground.com launched, with Violet asking players to help her locate a leak in her new apartment building. This began the first, non-replayable, 'episode' of Perplex City Stories.
Through the new site's sections and posts following the solution of the puzzle, Violet revealed that, after her theft of The Receda Cube, many people sent her death threats, and she was forced to relocate to a new apartment building. She also introduced a new character, another tenant in her building named Gustaffsen. Gustaffsen is a scientist who was working on a new super-coolant, which was making the drips that Violet had noticed.
Gustaffsen and Cassia, one of the newer puzzle scribes at the Perplex City Academy, had informed Violet that their mail was being delayed, despite the Perplex City postal service guaranteeing delivery within five hours. By contacting an employee of the Perplex City Post, players gained access to a 'testing' area for the Post. After several experiments by players, it was discovered that post being delivered to the Apolyton Institute, a shadowy scientific organisation in the City.
A member of this Institute, who remains anonymous, contacted Violet to tell her that their mail had been vanishing for weeks, after the disappearance of technology for a "neural override". The plans for this technology were sent to the IP address of BBC Radio 1.
After coming into contact with a man named Paul Denchfield, players discovered that V (a.k.a. Cyrus Quinton), an agent of the Third Power organisation and a murderer, was planning to use the neural override to control the minds of the public at Radio 1's Big Weekend festival in Preston on the weekend of May 19 and May 20, 2007. The project was called "Frozen Indigo Angel", as these were the words needed to activate the override.
Several players won tickets to the event under the guise of being Third Power agents. At the festival, the players (with the assistance of Paul and groups of online players) had to find transmitters around the area in order to prevent the neural override. The players were successful, yet V escaped the festival grounds without being caught.
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