{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5317", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5317, "subject": "AEG timeline", "messages": 5, "voices": 3, "first": "2009-01-16T22:59:40+00:00", "last": "2009-01-17T21:29:05+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<1bf4dd40901161459p2d53b2c6x7eadb5afbabedcc9@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Dave Tallman", "address": "davetallman at msn.com" }, "date": "2009-01-16T22:59:40+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG timeline", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I though it might be useful to writ up an approximate time-line of the first\nfour days of AEG.\n\nDay 0\n08:00pm next to last \"Red Spot\" begins (a usual play start time)\n11:00pm show ends (3 hour play)\n11:30pm Cassie home, gets message\n11:40pm finishes computer check (10 min later, p. 24)\n11:45pm finish calling Sharon\n11:53pm at Baskin Robbins (7 min to closing time, p. 27)\n\nDay 1\n12:00am Cassie sleeps in car\n Start of certainty that Cassie will be involved. Reis could be\ninformed here.\n\n02:15am At Canadian border (Chase's time sense, p. 36)\n (It's about 372 miles from Springfield, MA to Buffalo NY,\n so they had to go over 140mph part of the way).\n03:00am Start of walk up mountain\n05:00am Start of ceremony, before dawn (2 hour walk, p. 33)\n...\n12:00pm Cassie wakes up (approx)\n12:40pm Meet Sharon for lunch at Walkers\n01:00pm Reis has lunch with India -- Reis must have play book in hand\n05:15pm Sharon's show airs, showing Cassie and Gideon (p. 88)\n08:00pm Last \"Red Spot\" begins\n08:30pm Cassie sees Reis in audience\n11:00pm Show ends\n11:40pm Talks about taking Margaret to cast party (starts in 1hr, 20min p.\n57)\n\nDay 2\n01:00am Start of cast party\n01:30am Cassie arrives at party (half hour late p. 57)\n01:45am Reis gives gold bracelet\n02:30am Leaves party with Reis, gets call\n (Tells Gid he's 6 hours late, from the time she saw Reis in\naudience, p. 70)\n...\n12:30pm Breakfast at International House of Toast (Chase time-sense p. 75)\n12:35pm Reis takes bracelet from Margaret\n12:40pm Call from Margaret to Cassie\n01:00pm Arrive at bank\n01:40pm Bank account business finished, Chase drops Cassie off\n02:00pm Chase arrives home, gets shot\n03:00pm Margaret supposed to come\n03:15pm Margaret arrives (15 minutes late, p. 82)\n03:30pm Sings \"Walk in the Reign\"\n03:45pm Listen to newscast\n04:00pm Chase enters apartment\n\nDay 3\n01:00pm to meet Zelda at Greek place for lunch\n01:30pm read-through begins\n04:30pm read-through done\n05:00pm measurements at home, answering machine calls, signs contract\n07:00pm dinner date time\n\nIf Reis is first informed that Cassie is involved by Sharon or Aaberg at\nabout midnight, Day 0, he has 13 hours to create a plan for Cassie's\ndestruction, write a musical, commission a bracelet, and travel from Berlin\nto Kingsport. No wonder we think he might be using time travel. (This\nassumes he wasn't lying about writing the musical and making the bracelet\nfor her specifically.)" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "David Duffy", "address": "david.duffy at qimr.edu.au" }, "date": "2009-01-17T05:52:14+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG timeline", "in_reply_to": "<1bf4dd40901161459p2d53b2c6x7eadb5afbabedcc9@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Dave Tallman wrote:\nI though it might be useful to writ up an approximate time-line of the first\nfour days of AEG." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Excellent. Does anyone know if Wolfe makes a timeline when plotting? It\nseems almost certain." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "If Reis is first informed that Cassie is involved by Sharon or Aaberg at\nabout midnight, Day 0, he has 13 hours to create a plan for Cassie's\ndestruction, write a musical, commission a bracelet [...]" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "No, he said he had the bracelet commissioned months age (presumably to have at\nhand to kill a dragon).\n\nDavid Duffy." } ] }, { "message_id": "<49717AE5.4070401@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Dave Tallman", "address": "davetallman at msn.com" }, "date": "2009-01-17T06:29:57+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG timeline", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "David Duffy wrote:\nNo, he said he had the bracelet commissioned months age (presumably to have at\nhand to kill a dragon).\n " }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "That's what he said at the cast party, but he told all sorts of lies \nthere. Almost everything he said there about the bracelet he \ncontradicted in later statements to Cassie:\n\n1) It was 14-carat gold. (No, 24-carat gold, 10 oz of solid gold).\n2) It was commissioned months ago. (No, it was designed for her by \nsomeone who worked around the clock).\n3) He didn't know who he was going to give it to until he saw her \nperform in the play. (No, he wanted to give it specifically to her, and \nhe denied seeing the play).\n4) He hoped she would love it and think fondly of him when she wore it. \n(No, he eventually admitted it was radioactive gold. He hoped to force \nher to wear it enough to get sick)." } ] }, { "message_id": "<4972365C.80608@mindspring.com>", "from": { "name": "Henry Eissler", "address": "henryeissleriii at mindspring.com" }, "date": "2009-01-17T19:49:48+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG timeline", "in_reply_to": "<1bf4dd40901161459p2d53b2c6x7eadb5afbabedcc9@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Dave Tallman wrote:\n\nDay 1\n\n02:15am At Canadian border (Chase's time sense, p. 36)\n (It's about 372 miles from Springfield, MA to Buffalo NY,\n so they had to go over 140mph part of the way)." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": " It's Kingsport, dude.\n ---H" } ] }, { "message_id": "<49724DA1.6030707@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Dave Tallman", "address": "davetallman at msn.com" }, "date": "2009-01-17T21:29:05+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG timeline", "in_reply_to": "<4972365C.80608@mindspring.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Henry Eissler wrote:\n It's Kingsport, dude.\n " }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Kingsport is fictional, so I can't get an exact distance on that. I used \nthe closest known real city." } ] } ] }