Demonstration System 14

posted by Breadmower on Thu 10th May, 07 at 21:53:42

So, today we got access to the that Ralph Kerrigan told us about yesterday (someone's obviously sorted things out so that we can get to it from Earth).

"This demonstration system sends live tracer parcels through the regular Perplex City Post service", it says, "This system is designed for use by potential business clients as a risk-free way of testing our capabilities, or by internal post office employees in order to monitor our system for performance issues. Because this demonstration does send real parcels, please use it responsibly."

Now the only problem is that we don't know quite what kind of parcels are getting delayed. At the moment, we only know of two people who are suffering from the problem: Gustaffsen (from ) and Cassia (a puzzle scribe from the Perplex City Academy). Not really much to go on there, and to make things worse the demonstration system has a myriad of options to choose from when sending a tracer parcel: destination, shape, weight, insurance, and so on. Looks like we'll need to send a whole set of these tracer parcels and wait to see which ones get delayed. Maybe we should see if Violet can find out what Gustaffsen and Cassia received in their delayed packages, so that we can narrow it down a little.

In the meantime, we'll just have to go with Plan A: systematically send different types of packages, and see which ones get held up. "Please use it responsibly"? Sorry to everyone at Perplex City Post - I think your workload is about to increase dramatically...