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[SPEC] The Receda Cube
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Alison_1
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 		[SPEC] The Receda Cube
Item of worship, futuristic time traveler, object of prosperity, or just plain scientific bauble, The Receda Cube has captured our imagination. Welcome all SPECs: What is the Receda Cube?

I'd like to put one SPEC out there: a book/game was mentioned in the original pre-game, "Masquerade," which was a mega-hit treasure hunt in Britain and spawned interest in a lot of the published interactive fiction games of the previous decade. I'm positing that there is an actual, representational cube buried or hidden somewhere out in the world that we're ultimately going to have to find. A real live trasure hunt buried in the electronic pages of the Web...what say ye?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:28 pm
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 		Re: [SPEC] The Receda Cube
Alison_1 wrote:
I'm positing that there is an actual, representational cube buried or hidden somewhere out in the world that we're ultimately going to have to find.


Please, please, please let this be what happens. Very Happy

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leakingpen
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 		and please let them choose the most off the wall place, like, say, arizona! Razz
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V1tation Br3theren
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 		Hey I found a cube! And loads of binary. Hmm...
Is this what we're looking for? It seems relevant anyway!

The Cube???[url]

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yanka
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 		Great job, whoever made this! *applause*

V1tation Br3theren, it's another fan of the Cube - check out the binary under the flash Wink

[edit: or, er... was that you? Embarassed ]
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 		Whoever (for some odd reason) didn't get the binary, here's a translation.


"You are looking for the cube. Thank you. But you are looking down the wrong rabbithole."

This isn't part of the game, but it's cool nonetheless.

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PillarNumber7
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 		Yea, if you look at the bottom of the page it is claimed by "another airmover13." Or another fan. So definatly OOG, but cool none the less.
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Alison_1
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 		Moral Dilemma?
I'm just going to throw this out there...

There have been some good discussion in other threads about the moral implications of finding The Cube, that in one Perplexian's opinion its disappearance might herald a culture shift in the form of a less crass or commercial way of thinking in his current community. And one ARG'er, a self-avowed Athiest (sorry, can't remember his name) sympathized with the merits of a less capitalistic culture and mused whether of not The Cube should be returned at all.

And what of our society? Since The Cube has found its way into Preplex City their community has enjoyed some kind of phenomenal renaissance, an overabundant bounty of luck and good fortune such that they realigned their calendar to its arrival and mystical cults celebrate its existance. What if we should find this Cube...might it also mean that the same paradigm shift could happen for us?

My question is: given the tremendous opportunities this Cube presents for our own world -- why should we give it back?

What if this Cube is some sort of 'evolutionary catalyst,' what if its purpose is to elevate society; and then, when the time is right, it disappears and reappears into another less advanced civilization where it once again can exercise its purpose? I say this Cube is our bounty! It's ours, I tell you! Ours! Find it, find it my minions and bring it to me! I must be the CUBE MASTER! MU-HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Twisted Evil

::looks around, clears throat, wipes brow:: Embarassed

Er, excuse me...um, er...nevermind. Just got a little excited there. Wink

mu-hahahaha
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 		Re: Moral Dilemma?
Sentinel Editorial wrote:

For all that we know, it was representatives of this Earth that stole the Cube in the first place. Why should we trust them?


Well theyre not far off the mark. so I say if the shoe(s) fit, and are green,
and appear in some irrelevant and somewhat annoying email log, and get turned into a really bad pun like this. then by all means the cube should be ours. We deserve it. Ours. OURS! OURRRRRS*! Just paper-mache sente's head and return that to them, as tanner pointed out is fairly cubely, and looks like nobody will miss him anyways... and in the meanwhie we can keep the real cube, and make multidimensional popcorn, mhmm

guess that cube-fetish-fever-love is catching eh Alison ? Laughing



*may actually be classified as mine

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brat-sampson
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See?? It's beginning already!

Very Happy

Uh, but back on topic... I hope soon we'll have access to the article on how their world has changed since losing the cube. That should at least help us understand a bit more about it's nature and whether we should give it back (if we ever actually find it that is)
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vibration13
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 		\\//////^3
Thanks- the lil hypercube will serve as a pretty diversion until we get a bit closer to discovering where (and what) the "real" cube is at.

It also serves as a convenient link to the visual clues so far. I think I'll keep it updated as the game develops (unless those mysterious folk from Project Syzygy have any objections).

Happy Hunting... vibration13

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Salkunh
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thanks wrote:
Whoever (for some odd reason) didn't get the binary, here's a translation.


Ya know not everyone can read binary...dont be so up ya own arse about it.
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Monster Man
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 		Another puzzle in the cube page
What about this in the source?

WAGON GERM MARGO GWEN RAG ME GOWN

I'm sure it's simple, but I'm new to this.

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Quote:
What about this in the source?

WAGON GERM MARGO GWEN RAG ME GOWN


Try running the first set of words through http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/

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 		Re: Hey I found a cube! And loads of binary. Hmm...
V1tation Br3theren wrote:
Is this what we're looking for? It seems relevant anyway!

The Cube???[url]

vibration13: You are not allowed to post under multiple accounts as per the Terms of Service of the unforums. This isn't the place to shill your random site in some vain attempt to get people to visit it. Put it in your signature and if people *want* to they will click it, if not, then don't pretend to be someone else and post it in a topic.
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