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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 6 Oct 06 - Back On The Road Again
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James Stone
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 6 Oct 06 - Back On The Road Again
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Back on the road again
Category: me
Time: 09:20 AM

One week on and my arm seems to be healing nicely. The cast should come off over the weekend and hey, at least now Kurt and I both have exciting broken-limb stories to share.

Arriving back in the city with a visible injury wasn't as difficult as I'd expected. I'd already primed my father with the old "exploring archaeologically-significant island, fell down cliff, look aren't I lucky to have got off this lightly" excuse. He didn't ask any more questions.

It's weird though. I have this feeling, given past events, that he might just know everything and not want to tell us that he does. I just don't know. Maybe he has access to all my medical records and knows that I had to get a complete change of blood due to my dose of radiation. Maybe he knows where the radiation came from. And maybe he's just my dad, who loves me and who doesn't want to seem uncool by fretting too much about a broken arm.

Scarlett, Kurt and I (and, yes, Caine too. On occasion. When he happens to have time. And I happen to want to see him. Which may or may not have been "quite a bit".) have spent the week poring over the information we extracted from Lancewood. We've come to a few conclusions. Some pretty nasty experiments were done there, and extensively recorded. They were experiments connected to the construction of the Cube. It seems clear that, when the experiments at Lancewood were finished, the Cube had been made.

Another set of things is clear from our encounter with Major Jake Maine. He was wearing modern clothing, with a set of modern dog tags. None of the names he mentioned: Thorpe, Jackson, Choi or Stephens matched up with names in the Lancewood experimental records. While I don't want to rule anything out at this stage, it doesn't seem likely to me that he was a 300-year-old ghost who happened to clothe himself in military clothing made of advanced modern polymers. We think that whatever happened to him happened recently.

This still leaves a great misty cloud of things that are completely uncertain. Who or what managed to do whatever had been done to Major Maine? Why did they do it? What is Special Project 487 or "the 487th"? What does all this have to do with the Cube? Or the Third Power? Could Maine have been part of a group who stole the Cube?

All of which leaves us with only one road forward. Or rather, backward. It seems that everything starts and finishes at Viendenbourg. So Scarlett and I are going back. We'll travel over the weekend and aim to arrive there at the start of next week. We think, at last, we might finally find some answers.



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 		Oh, Viendenbourg, here it comes, and now for a weekend of nervous anticipation!

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We think, at last, we might finally find some answers.


Or at least a big, heaping platter of doom.

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 		<selfish>I hope nothing too exiting happens next week. I'll be on holiday, and I don't want to miss it!</selfish>
Although if they discover evidence that the Cube is in Istanbul, let me know and I'll pick it up Very Happy
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 		Something has been niggling a little in the back of my head, and I'm not sure whether it should be or not.

The worship of the cube can't predate the construction of the cube can it?

Unless the cube was worshipped as a concept and then for some reason when it was decided to make this thing of power in Lancewood, someone chose the cube shape for religious reasons. The legends of Gyvann certainly seem to predate the history at Lancewood, so were these shoe-horned into Cubism later (in the way that religions meld and schism)? Gyvann can't have been a contemporary of Granier. Anyway, I don't like the thought of a religious involvement in the construction of the cube (was the war started for religious reasons?)

Presumably it wouldn't do the Brotherhood of the Six (or any of the other religious orders including, I suppose the 3P) much good to discover that not only was the cube the subject of grisly tests during its genesis, it was also conceived in order to be a weapon (see brotherhood of the six peace light and harmony page.

One more thing in my brain as I wait for the bell to leave. How did the Cube get from Lancewood to catbite gorge? Did someone throw it? Did Granier leave it behind in someone's bedroom after a conquest?
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 		I hope something does finally happen next week. Nothign happened at all this week Sad
And by the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like much is happening this weekend either.
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Mikeyj wrote:
The worship of the cube can't predate the construction of the cube can it?

Yeah, I was thinking this, but there was a note in the experimenters' pages that said
Lancewood Logs 22 Sep 06 wrote:
[16:35] Violet: February 1737. Aha.
[16:36] Violet: "Construction of GP-SCMS began this week. Some scientists are already calling it the 'Cube'. Have tried to discourage this line of thought, but it seems that old traditions die hard."

so it seems like there was already a Gyvann cube worship thang in the good old days. Quite why this mined material was formed into a cubic shape (and apparently had strange markings inscribed on it) is, however, beyond me at this stage!

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 		so it seems they were reluctant to call it the cube, so something fundamental to the substance it was made from made the cube the most stable shape. And the markings on the outside are the connections for the control? And of course it's obviously captured the soul of Gyvann as well.
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 		That never occured to me actually, about Gyvann predating the construction project at lancewood, sometimes it is hard to remember an entire fragmented history!

But I did have a thought, maybe this "cube" built at lancewood is a reproduction of the one from Gyvann's stories? Maybe the designers decided that a weapon/device based upon the legends would give a psychological (I know I probably spelt that wrong!) advantage against perplex city's enemies?

"Hey look we have Gyvann's cube! We must be on the winning side!"

"Oh no they found the cube! We're dooooommmmmeeeedddd!"

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 		OR!!

One of the cube's many powers is time travel and it went back in time to be worshipped by Gyvann so that it would be known about in the future when there were people technologically advanced enough to create it?

Cue Terminator time paradox Very Happy

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 		If this does turn out to be an ontological paradox, I might well cry Smile

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 		Right. This is the time to straighten things out.

Let me make this really really simple. Cubism was started thousands of years ago. We don't know when Gyvann lived. The Receda Cube was built north of the city, and then fFound south of the city, a couple hundred years ago. Once word got out about a mysterious cube of amazing properties, it was an overnight sensation in certain circles (so to speak).

Almost certainly, The Receda Cube is a weapon of unthinkably immense potential, whose original purpose has no relation to religion at all.

Once again: The Receda Cube has nothing to do with Cubism. Cubists, however, want everything to do with The Receda Cube. I can't over-stress the importance of these two statements.

Citing references, taken fFrom the academy Cube History page:

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Reverence for the Cube is also caused in some part by Cube-focused religions, some of which go back many thousands of years. These faiths focus on the works of mankind and co-operative efforts to build a better world; a fundamental tenet is that cubes are works of man, and never to be found in nature. The shape of a cube is representative of the struggle for civilisation to improve itself and provide for its people. The Receda Cube, then, with its undeniably unusual physical properties, holds a special significance for the religious faithful in Perplex City, as a manifestation of the aspirations of mankind.

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 		Ah all is now made clear, cheers Scott! Very Happy
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 		Surely Earth players, Violet et. al., 3P and the Academy, are the only ones who know that our Cube was 'constructed'. As far as the general populus know it was just found.

Although you would have thought they would have made it a different shape - just to avoid confusion. Or a 'Made in Hobbs' sticker on the bottom.
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 		Granier's Diary
In Granier's diary he wrote:
21 March 1736 - A figure of the Holy Cube, along with images of Gyvann paraded through the streets.

30 March 1736 - Granier is not a cubist, but it appears that "his master" Vianne Adamek is.

29 April 1736 - "Your master I believe does not wish that our experiments here should benefit only the city. To be blunt, my lord, I have been sent here to ensure that certain matters, certain elements of knowledge should be kept only for her, and for the group of loyal scholars she has formed. She wishes the power for herself. To do what, I know not."


Cubism and Gyvann are both old religions as the cube is being built, mostly not worshipped in the city. However, the Master of the Academy Vianne Adamek is a cubist, and if she was still in power when it was discovered, brilliantly placed not to discourage reverence for it when it was rediscovered.

I know this has been mentioned before, but it is possible that when the cube was used to destroy the other side in the war, it in some way rebounded, hitting the outskirts of PPC and causing the gorge, which is why it might have been discovered there.

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