Welcome to your preparation chamber, agents. Alison and Joel you have been selected by your team as the ones most likely to question authority. Your questioning abilities will come in handy but more importantly your ability to interview and interrogate the others will affect the outcome of this challenge. You two will NOT participate in challenge #5 which will be held a secret from you. Your challenge begins now. As capable agents, as you have proven in the past, you must now interrogate the other agents in your team to extract certain pieces of information regarding their challenge. They were told not to reveal any information regarding the challenge as normal but they are very unaware that you two are trying to get them to reveal this information. This challenge may be simple or it may be very difficult depending upon your abilities. You may simply coax them into telling you the details and you may lie to them as necessary. We have given you some information and help on some interrogation methods if you see it necessary to use those methods. You have three specific questions to answer. Should you be able to answer all three questions accurately (within judgment of the producers), you two will gain the coveted XX. However though, this challenge is also worth money. Should the others be able to keep the answers secret, money will be added to the jackpot. It is your decision alone if you even want to embark upon the challenge. You may both work as a team to obtain the answers to the questions.

Stipulations of the challenge:
-Every person that you inquire has 24 hrs to answer your question. If they do not answer within 24 hrs, you will get the answer to one of your questions (randomly selected).
-If one of your questions is to a person in a public forum, another person may answer on their behalf (ie: a question directed to sandee may be answered by jeff instead), but only within 12 hrs of the post.
-People questioned will always attempt to answer the truth to their knowledge. If they simply do not know, they will tell you that you don't know. They also do not need to tell the complete truth.
-Only one question may be asked to each person at a time until they have answered a question. Therefore you cannot barrage a person with questions so that they cannot answer all the questions. Once a person answer's his/her question, you may ask them another.
-An official answer must be posted in this forum before the deadline.
-Once challenge #5 ends (the one you need to find out) and you have not posted an official answer, the other seven will go into the interrogation chamber in challenge board 3 and will be informed of your challenge. You will have the ability to interrogate/interview the others in there.

Questions to be answered:
1) In which order did the players post during their challenge (include all players that posted once during the challenge and notify which players if any did not post during the challenge)?
2) What was the specific goal of the challenge and what were the steps necessary to complete the challenge to win money?
3) What was the general consensus of the other players of what Alison and Joel were doing in their own challenge?

Challenge Deadline: Thursday 22:00 EST

"Should you be able to answer all three questions accurately (within judgment of the producers), you two will gain the coveted XX."
Rosenbaum... I thought I told you to leave your personal video collection in your office. –barrylogan

*gulp* –rosenbaum

Wow this sounds quite tough. I am wondering what you think Alison, should we try and let them get the cash or should we try for the XX? I am assuming this means X-Quiz eXemption, is that correct? Anyways what do you think? If you want to try and get the XX we can and we should get moving on this. Otherwise we let them win it and we get the cash but take our chances on the quiz. –joel

This early in the game and exemption might cast suspicion, but I don't want to get executed either... Let me get a chance to read EVERYTHING when I get home so I can make a clear decision. I will definitely be online for a few hours after 6pm PST, if there is a timeline before that time. Make the decision, I trust you. –alison

Okay, so I've read through everything now, and I was thinking... First, how would we even attempt to ask these kind of questions without alerting them to the fact that we are going for an XX, because if they suspect that, we probably won't be able to get much. Second, we have NO money in our pot, after losing the other challenges..... ON THE OTHER HAND..... If we don't do this, what ARE we going to do? We'll get to interrogate them after? I don't understand why we'd be doing that either, unless I misread the challenge... I think that to have an XX on the second round is a great opportunity because it gives us a few more days to narrow down our suspect, not to mention having one suspect removed at the same time. I feel guilty though, it's sooo early... But if it is anything like last challenge, and they need full co operation from all players, they may not even win anyway. It will be easier for us to cooperate because we can message each other as much as we want on this board. If it's okay with you, I'd like to give the XX a try, I just don't feel that confident about going into another quiz. –alison

Yeah after thinking about this for a while, I also thought that perhaps their challenge might have something to do with figuring out what our challenge was. I know it sounds strange but if it is true then we would have to put some sort of effort in to help them. Anyways...I agree lets try and go for the XX.
I would like to try and get info from Michael, Sandee, Jeff, umm and maybe, Omar and Justin. Any of those that you would like to interrogate let me know, I can easily switch, I just kind of picked some names of people I have had a little contact with. –joel

I am in a room with Omar and Li, so I am going to try and pick their brain without actually picking their brain. Also, I'll private message some people, just to say hi, because there are some I still haven't spoken to. Li I think will be the hardest to get info from because she is in Singapore, and is 16 hours ahead of me time wise, I don't think we'll ever click online, but she answers the questions I leave. Again, this is lunch break check, so I'll be back online full force tonight (hopefully no more banning) and we'll get crackin. –alison

I'm thinking that Li would be the last one to post for their group. Now are we deciding the order of posts of 7 people? Or the order of posts per group? 3, and then 4? I am a bit confused for that question. But Li just told me in our room that she is always on AFTER everyone and is always there alone. She is in Singapore, 16 hours after me, so 13 hours for the east coasters. Poor girl. Anyway, thought I'd let you know what I had so far. Do you have anything yet? –alison

Nah I have sent off messages to people but with no response except "We can't talk about this." Not sure how we should go about getting answers. I am in a room with Jeff and Mysty and neither of them like to chat much. I will keep at it though. Would be tres nice to get that XX. –joel

I just messaged a few people (the ones I can't talk to here or in my hotel room) haven't had a chance to see their answers, but we'll see. I don't think I'm gonna push it. If they win money, and we lose the XX I'll be happy still, but I'd really appreciate the couple of extra days... -alison

Hey Sandee, well it seems that this is the first time that we have really talked other than on the public boards. Hope you are nejoying the game so far. I thought maybe we could work together on trying to root out who this CyberMole might be. One of the ways I figured we could do this, is narrow down how active some of these people are in their posting. Just out of curiosity, what order have Michael, Li and yourself posted on the board for your challenge. Perhaps if we know that Michael is first and you are second and Li is third, and we notice this trend on other boards then we can use this information. That would be awesome if you could get back to me on this. Thanks! –joel (message to sandee)

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