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Re: what this all is

[Myxl Dove]

Re: [SPEC] Figuring out the story line

[ecwilder]

good call myxl... i've been thinking the same...

THE ONE is alive!!! who cares if it's going to 'shock' them.. theres no time to let them live in their docile sleep....
zion needs an army. awaken the masses.

[Sunny du Pree]

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All eggs in one basket theory...

[aqualung1105]

I agree with Trip, Beth is obviously investigating glitches in the matrix - I appears Avery did too, which is why he went missing (Sunny´s point about Avery, and possibly Beth and Phillip, being programs, and that Avery went in exile, is very interesting - todays new info suggests he had a wife, though, doesn´t sound that programmy...).
Regarding the MetaVRX: In M1, agent Smith tells Morpheus about the nature of the matrix - that it is based on the highest level of technological development before AI - so for Metacortex to be on the brink of launching an Intelligent VR would mean that this matrix cycle is near the end (=Reload).
Phillip Gairden seems to also be a paranormal investigator, but if he is in fact Stone Jeffreys (I think the pictures look alike) he might be an agent trying to find out how far along Beth is and wether she should be terminated? (even though Jeffreys is an employee of MetacorteX, just like Beth, he is in a different department, so she wouldn´t´know him as anyone other than Gairden...out on a limb here?).
(BTW, SidMatrix - your point about saving us from extinction reminds me of a point on another site - don´t remeber which one - that the machines hold no animosity towards humans, they only try to get the world to function to the best of their (inhuman) capabilities).
Anyway, back to the storyline: I don´t think Smith, Neo, Trinity, Morpheus or any other known Matrix caracter is part of this game - IMHO the appearance of the *TRANSFERRED* info in Metacortex´s employee index is a ploy from the PM´s to get us interested (after all, when we find the search field, what is the first name we´ll try?), and therefore hovers between the ARG and reality.
I think what we need to find out is what Beth was on to, and who else knew - both good and bad guys.
However, we are really just wasting our time ;^) - remember, Neo spent a looong time hacking and never got anywhere for real until someone from the "outside" helped him (=Trinity and Morpheus)...
This could cause some speculation on where the first Free Minds came from:
At the time of the pre-matrix war between the AI and humans, "we" tried to kill AI by nuking it, more or less sacrificing ourselves to that end. The Nuclear Winter would then, if the war itself didn´t, cut off the machines´ energy supply, the sun.
At this point the machines invented the "human power plants" and the embryo fields, but we must assume that there was a population of free humans still wedging war on them - the first Zion.
These people must have found out about the matrix and found a way to infiltrate it, finding the first scepticals (=Thomas Anderson, Beth McConnell...) and freeing them.
So our story line is: We (the players of the game and the in-game scepticals) execute our disbelief in what is supposed to be our reality, and hope for the Free Minds to find and help us...we will get nowhere on our own....

[Wix]

Theories with h@X0r philez and the WHOMP Spike

[Styles]

Re: Theories with h@X0r philez and the WHOMP Spike

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[Hoplophobe]

Just an odd thought here, and if this theory has been posted elsewhere-please excuse my lazy-ness, but I was thinking about what happened in TMR when Neo was able to disable the machines that were hunting the crew of the hovership he was in. He used almost the same gestures he used inside the Matrix to stop bullets or to "effect the environment". Now he is able to do the same kind of thing outside of it. What if that outside of the Matrix world is actually inside a Matrix itself and Neo on some level knows that? The best way for me to describe it would be to compare it to the movie Total Recall. Where almost all of the aspects of "Quade's" Ego-Trip was being played out---even the blue sky on Mars, at the end of the movie you and the character were left wondering "What if this is all a dream?"

{[(Matrix Neo is in)-Escapes to "real world" way in the future] But all inside a larger Matrix and not realizing it}

Maybe the whole Zion thing is a place the Matrix allows the more rebelious minds to go to in order to keep them from doing themselves any real harm and to keep them in the machine/powerplant. Give them a small taste of freedom because it does not matter anyway seeing how they are still all in and making power. Maybe the reason Neo was able to do what he did outside the hovership was because he instinctively knew that he is still in the Matrix. Again just a theory.


Maybe the game is just another aspect of the Matrix in a Matrix in a Matrix. The rub is which Matrix is it in?

[Omnie]

[livi_17]

I watched The first Matrix again looking for any clues that might be related to this game other then the obvious Metacortex company, and the name Thomas Anderson. This may or may not be useful at all, but I thought I would make it available just incase.

Neo is in search of an answer to the question, "what is the Matrix, and does it exist?" He is so compelled by that question that he lives alone, and his laundry piles up. He sleeps at his computer desk searching for the answer. It was this dedication to the search that lead Morpheus and Trinty to find Neo. Is it possible that the missing characters, went missing because they too were aware of a Matrix and went looking for an answer?

Neo has no friends except the junkies he sold the pirated software to. He sold them information on a disc. What was on those discs? Something important enough that he had to remind them that if they get caught, he had nothing to do with it. Could he be selling beta versions of Metacortex's software? Could the missing characters be guilty of the same? Could Beth be on the verge of doing the same?

Neo keeps his discs hidden inside a book titled "Simulacra and Simulation." Could this book hold any answers to the puzzles in this game? Here is more info on that book: http://www.uta.edu/english/hawk/semiotics/baud.htm

Neo lives in apartment 101. This likely means nothing at all... but it is a ones and zero's number.

Neo's clock reads 9:18 when he wakes up after his encounter with Agent Smith in which he was implanted with a bug. I only through this in incase a 918 comes up. It might signify "wake up."

Trinity carcked the IRS database. Thats how Neo knows of her. Again, maymean absolutely nothing. Unless a characetr in the game is referred to as cracking or hacking the IRS d-base.

Neo's boss' name is Mr. Rhineheart. wonder if he is in metacortechs employee directory. Unfortunately his first name isn't given in the movie.

Trinity and switch take neo to the Adam st. bridge and remove his bug. (in Redland, WA?) Something to watch for if locations are named in Redland.

My own observation tells me that any paranormal or supernatural activity can easily be explained as a "glitch" in the Matrix. This is evident when Neo see's the cat twice and says, "I just had a Deja Vu." The oracle touches on Warewolves and vapires and other lore as well in revolutions. Is it possible that Beth's fascinations in the paranormal, are actually fascinations with glitches in a Matrix? Maybe she doesn't know yet at this point that a Matrix exists, but is searching for proof as Neo did. Maybe the missing man and woman were also seaching for the truth, and were found by Morpheus and Trinity.

The Oracle has a sign in her kitchen that reads in latin, "Know thy self." Again, might be useless.


So those were just a few notes. Again, they may be entirely useless... who knows.