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What a funny way you talk, old fashioned, but now

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:47 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:49 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:51 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:52 pm

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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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A thread has been started in the Puzzle section of this forum for this as well. Keep puzzle-y stuff over there, update stuff here.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:52 pm

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A new arrangement of the story:

The Pious Flea

Living in a old castle
Playing hide and seek.
When the widows thin legs
Like needles, click down the hall
The flea goes quite still
She spies the flea
Her legs come up, her jaws they
snap. Hes in trouble.
Flick he leaps, into a crack
She does not go by.
She bites and pop!
It seems theres no more flea: but
There he is again!
She cuts him off
at the conservatory!
But he leapfrogs her!
he skips the hall
Jumping for the great throne room
She comes on behind.
There is the Queen!
Quick he leaps onto her throne
A new friend, says queen.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:53 pm

mbgNarnian · Boot Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 15

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**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:57 pm

mbgNarnian · Boot Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 15

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**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:07 pm

ste · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 52

So, the spider - an autonomous program designed to the restore the queen to health (and conceivably protect the precious data - eg the location of earth - that the queen possesses) notices the flea, and tries to eliminate it. But the flea evades the spider, and reaches the queen, who sees it as a friend.

[Spec], but: perhaps it is here the queen's mission statement changes from "survive, evade, resist, escape" to "survive, evade, REVEAL, escape" (as shown in that big block of overprinted text on the last update). And now the queen has outgrown the spider, it is more inclined to believe the flea, its new counsellor, and perhaps the queen's motivation will ultimately change to seek, evade, reveal, resist. Uh oh.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:23 pm

GunsmithCat · Unfettered Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 459

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:34 pm

Kagehi Kossori

We can't be sure anymore what the SPDR process even is or was either. We have been assuming that it was intended to repair the AI, but what if it is actually the a mangled version of the Cole Protocal process. The AI, infected with the flea, says the spider doesn't understand the law, but instead seems to be deleting memories, trying to erase the AI's data. We could be looking at a combination of covenant infiltration of the main AI, with a badly implimented and failing attempt to delete the AI to protect Earth's location. The AI also 'thinks' it is sane now, but it seems to be a few bricks short of a wall still and is operating only on its most basic core function, with every detail, including who it is and where it came from lost. It has also stripped down to essentials, which means any ethical routines or other non-essential processes where likely abandoned.

This is only getting worse....

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:50 pm

rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:25 pm

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sherpa

Look, guys.

This text is already being dealt with in the PUZZLES thread, because it is one: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5486&start=15

it is also on the Wiki.

Why is there such need to scrap all that work and start theorising from scratch here?

the text snippets are haikus, not a coherent story, but they do need ordering if you want to put in some effort on that? Smile

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:47 pm