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konamouse
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 		INFO: http://www.synthasia.com/aquarium.html
When you click on About Us, you first see the spanish list of books (translation to follow on friday or saturday - I have a preliminary, but I'm taking it to work to have a native speaker to help with some of the words and syntax).
Anyway, at the bottom right of this page are some right and left triangles. There are arrows, click on the right arrow and you get the following article (this is the same format and typos as posted on the site):

About Us.
The Wishing Well – or – Releasing The Butterfly of Chaos, by Frater Choronzon.

The general function of a Wishing Well is understood from an early
age by most people. The user projects some required outcome of
events, or "wish" into the well, perhaps accompanied by a symbolic
financial donation, and waits for events to take their course.
Similar properties are attributed in popular tradition to acts of
cutting a birthday cake and breaking a wish-bone while devouting
certain species of poultry.

In every sense, the act of making a wish using any of the above
ritual props is a magical operation though experience suggest that
Wells tend to be more effective than both chicken bones and all but
the most esoterically decorated cakes in achieving the intended
result.

As of late, many Wishing Wells have been withdrawn from public
access; and, moreover, recent opinion polls have indicated high
levels of dissatisfaction with the scarcity of wish-fulfillment
opportunities, particularly among vegetarians. This paper attempts
some analysis of the dynamics involved in successful wish-making,
and offers a ritual procedure which readers may find useful pending
the launch of another "Wishing Well Withdrawal" from the public eye.

Anyone who has studied non-linear dynamics (or Chaos Mathematics) as
applied to the interaction of complex systems (for instance life-in-
general) will be aware of the extreme sensivity of such systems to
initial conditions. This is illustrated by the so called Butterfly
Effect; a model of the process by which a butterfly flapping its
wings on the Carribean Islands can set in train a series of
atmospheric interactions which may culminate, after some elapsed
time, in the occurence of a hurricane in London.

The hypothesis in this context is that the ritual act of making a
wish sets up initial conditions for a Chao/dynamic process which
culminates, after some elapse time, in the occurrence of whatever
event was the original objective of the wish; hence the subtitle
"Releasing the Butterfly of Chaoes". Atmospheric effects are often
synchronous with successful magickal operations as was observed, for
example, by those who were present for (or within earshot of) the
4,000 watt "Enochian Verse Recital" in South London, 17.30 Hrs,
Monday 28 May, 1990; but where magic is concerned the atmospherics
are felt to be little more than by-products of casual sequence which
is primarily electromagnetic in character.

The actual process by which a successful wish is transformed into
its outcome is, of course, magic; at lest in the sense that modern
TV receiver might be acknowledged as such by Agrippa or Abra-Melin
the Mage – Was there ever a more effective acrostic "for divers
visions" than an infrared remote control?

A detailed explanation of how the magical process appears to work
would fill a book (reasonable offers from reputable publishers
accepted); suffice it to say that no rewrite of either the Laws of
Physics or the Axioms of Mathematics is required, and to mention
that the Astrological elements of the hypothesis will form the
substance of a paper to be presented to a forth coming meeting of
the "Talking Stick".

For the purpose of this exercise, the process may be appropriately
visualized by consideration of nothing more complicated than a
humble smoke-ring. In mathematical terms this is a Torus (a ring-
doughnut shaped structure) which has a clearly defined, coherent and
self-contained existence for an extended period within a
fundamentally chaotic matrix; ie. it can hung around for several
seconds retaining its structure in the turbulent air of a
smoke-filled room. Such ordered structures fall quite naturally out
of the Chaos Mathematics which models the behavior of gases and
liquids (Fluid Dynamics for the technically inclined). Examples of
such ordered structures in a chaotic environment abound, and not
only on this planet. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, for instance,
has been in existence at least since Galileo observed it in 1610,
though the chaotic nature of that planets atmosphere was not
appreciated until the flypast of the Voyager spacecraft of 1979.

A perfect smoke-ring requires very little expenditure of energy to
be brought into existence, though that energy, in the form of a
controlled pulse of gas projected from its creator lips has to be
quite precise – ie. smoke-rings don't always work, particular if
someone is watching, and the best ones of all usually happen quite
by accident! Significantly, the only way an observer can know if a
smoke-ring is there because it has smoke in it. If an identical
pulse of gas is projected from a non-smoker, the Toroidal ring
structure will be established in the just the same way within the
atmosphere, but its presence is almost impossible to detect, even
with the most sophisticated of scientific instruments.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:29 am
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Justin_Case
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 		Aquarium Spanish page
Without actually speaking much Spanish, I can tell you what that page is all about, i'd recognise it anywhere Wink

It's a list of occult books you would find in a Spanish version of the Call of Cthullu role playing game. It starts saying these books are ressources to be used by gamemasters to complement their adventures

In this paper and dice table game, Mythos books are extremely valuable, as they are one the best ways to add to your Chtullu Mythos score (which represents how much you actually understand the nature of the hidden world).

When you see CON 0/1d4, it translates to SAN 0/1d4 (for sanity score loss). The numbers represent how sanity you lose whilst reading the book...Gaining insights in this game always makes you more vulnerable to insanity Wink I will no go into more details, for fear of being even more confusing...

Suffice it to say you will find references to these works in many HP Lovercraft books, but not really anywhere else... although there are exceptions...

A couple of translated titles:
La Clavicule de Salomon
Aleister Crowley's Book of Laws (actual book)
The book of secret Magic
etc

Justin "nsmouth" Case

PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:57 pm
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wellnownyc
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 		missing links?
Did anyone notice that there seem to be missing links or aomething on the aquarium page?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:00 pm
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 		in services
there is part of a poem by yeats, the stolen child. I dont know if it is significant or not./

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tatter2323
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 		Anyone notice that the aquarium link on the fun stuff page disappeared around the same time that the link for the human interface project showed up? Now how can this be since they have seemingly come to take Dale away?

Is this a PM error or part of the plot?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:18 pm
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danman_d
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 		aquarium
My best guess is that they took Dave away, then someone saw this on his site, and took away the link to the seemingly 'crazy' page, and just added another link to make it look like he was at least working on something. But who knows?

-Danny
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ND3rdEYE
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 		Re: in services
wellnownyc wrote:
there is part of a poem by yeats, the stolen child. I dont know if it is significant or not./


The other side is from Sir Ofeo around lines 370 - 400.

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orfeo.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 10:47 am
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konamouse
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Joined: 02 Dec 2002
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 		Poems
The first is called Sir Orfeo, and can be found here:
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/anglica/Chronology/14thC/SirOrfeo/orf_text.html

The second is called The Stolen Child, by WB Yeats, and can be found
here: http://www.heatherlands.com/lyrics/stolenchild.html
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 11:39 am
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Justin_Case
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 		lorem ipsum
It's been mentionned in the chat room a couple of times, so I though i post it here... "Lorem Ipsum..." is pseudo-latin text that is used to see what a font looks like when there are many words. It is provided in many website creation software as the default text.

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/lorem_ipsum.html

This being said, i realise that is it a reference to a story that *could* be related... but I mostly think it's a well placed red herring.

Justin "cididunt " Case

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tatter2323
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 		This is where the essay about wishing wells is from.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos288.htm

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:55 pm
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 		Is there a puzzle on the privacy page of the aquarium?
Could the recipe for wishing powder be a puzzle?

2 parts sage
1 part sandalwood
1 part tonka beans

sagesage
sandalwood
tonkabeans

"...grind each of them seperately. You may choose to sift them to keep only the lightest, finest parts of the powder"

"Once them have all been ground..." typo or intentional?

Just wondering,
drizjr

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JohnnyMidnight
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 		Re: missing links?
[quote="wellnownyc"]Did anyone notice that there seem to be missing links or aomething on the aquarium page?[/quote]

This happens only when you have clicked on the home button. It is the action in the clue "[Meaghan] would spend hours watching our real aquarium, chasing the fish around with her little finger on the glass"

If you click anywhere on the computer, the link that you are sent to that doesn't exist is "escribira@estadireccion.com". Being I am a Canadian, I did a Spanish to English translation on the internet, knowing no spanish myself, and it is writeSPLATthisaddress.com (approximately). There is no website registered with internic of estadireccion.com so this must mean synthasia. I just started this game last night, so I am sure everyone has already written dale and this is old info.

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 		Third text entry in about us
Their is a third text entry in about us. If you click the right arrow again you get:

Sometihg(sic) cool about our team, we love our

ONE MUST LEARN TO PRAY, JUST AS ONE MUST LEARN EVERYTHING ELSE. Whoever knows how to pray and is able to concentrate in the proper way, his prayer can give results. I speak of ancient prayers; many of them are much older than Christianity. These prayers are, so to speak, recapitulations; by repeating them aloud or to himself a man endeavors to experience what is in them, their whole content, with his mind and his feeling.

SUBTITLE

EVERY PHENOMENON, ON WHATEVER SCALE and in whatever world it may take place, from molecular to cosmic phenomena, is the result of the combination or the meeting of three different and opposing forces. Contemporary thought realizes the existence of two forces and the necessity of these two forces for the production of a phenomenon: force and resistance, postive and negative magnetism, positive and negative electricity, male and female cells, and so on. But it does not observe even these two forces (words blocked by For Meaghan sign) everywhere. No question has ever been raised as to the third, or if it has been raised it has (Blocked by for meaghan sign) heard.

Comment: This looks like filler, but those strange typos keep appearing. They are very unlikely typos and only appear in the aquarium. Either the game makers are trying to make it appear that Dale was sloppy in developing the aquarium or these spelling errors are the forest through the trees. Once again I only started yesterday so I appologize if this is all old.

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greywolf
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 		Just as an after thought, I did send an email to the address "writeat this direction and it finally bounced back today. So that doesn't work either.

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 		Quotes source found
"Every phenomenon, on whatever scale..." and "One must learn to pray..."quotes from the aquarium are by G.I. Gurdjieff - found here http://www.gurdjieff.org/gurdjieff2.htm

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