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[Email] James Mutters - 21 May 2008

[DavFlamerock]

"Why do you think you will succeed this year where others have failed in the past?"

Because we can work off of what they used. We can see where they failed and not fall to that mistake. In essence, we have the advantage of accumulated knowledge.

[chaobell]

In the unlikely event TheO really are the good guys, they really need to work on their PR skills. Ugh, what a jerk.

[Khaos]

These disasters are obviously "Quick Continental Change". So, as far as we know, they have nothing to do with human synchronization, it's only the NATURAL way our world fight the limits of the multivers.

I would even say that these disasters were caused by a LACK of human synchronization.

So, sorry James, but i still think Human synchronization is better then doing nothing and let our world collapse by itself.

[Cineball]

Yes, well that's James point isn't it? That synchronization is causing the collapse. Hopefully the intervention goes well and we can find a way to convince him of the error of his ways.

[dreamerblue]

That actually changes completely my view of TheO...so they want desynchronization not because they want Neopangea to occur, but because they want to prevent it just as much as the allies do? And they want to avoid synchronization because they feel that synch'ing is what makes Neopangea occur!

This explains why TheO sent Noriko that postcard implying that if another earthquake happens it will be her fault...he seems to mean that if she participates in synch'ing, it will cause an earthquake, which will therefore be her fault. (This interpretation of that postcard means that when the author wrote on it "We were too late for Intercalated Games" to prevent the depicted earthquake, it means they actually did do a synch, which actually caused the earthquake, though they misunderstood and thought the synch failed to prevent the earthquake because they did it too late.)

Problem, though...there was no Olympic Games in 1815 (when the Tambora eruption occurred)--and thus no omphaputer text file for that year, and probably no synch'ing labyrinth run--so how could it have been caused by an athletic synchronization? (Unless, I guess, there was a group doing synch runs secretly at that point? Does that fit with what we know of the in-game historical timeline of when the Lost Sport started being run secretly again?) Does he actually think that eruption was caused by synch'ing? Maybe not, actually, since his question focuses on the aftermath of the eruption and not the cause, whereas he specifically wants us to think about the cause of the 1906 earthquake. He just wants to emphasize that big geological events = very bad (assuming he's not grasping at any idea that the eruption was in some way beneficial).

Note, too, that the 1906 Games was not actually an Olympic Games (although it does have an omphaputer text file). From Wikipedia's article on those Games:

[AUZ505]

As somone who was always not a true codex believer I would like to additionally ask those questions:

- Nobody knows what will happen if the "maximum limit" of worlds is reached. Even the codex states that it is just a theory that the multiverse will restart. How can someone be sure, that a maximum limit will exist at all?

- The codex states that reality will try to reduce the number of world with RCC. Could it be that RCC not happens naturally but due to labyrinth synchronization?

- We asssume that labyrinth runs have to take place in the six diffferent world types. What could be synchronized between them? You can only try to overcome the geographic differences, e.g with RCC, right?

- Parallel selves probably only exist in the same world type, e.g. our parallel selves are only in Gaea-Worlds. Regarding the codex personal labyrinths would not reduce the number of worlds dramatically. Does this mean reducing the number of worlds could be done only by cross-world-type synchronization? Which again only could happen by continental change.

So Theo might be the wrong or on the bad side, but just believing all the things written on 27 codex chapters, without at least having doubts, could be very dangerous.

[Cineball]

You bring up some interesting points. I wonder if we're missing a lot of pieces in the as yet not recovered pages. The codex gives instructions, but if it's incomplete we may have no way of figuring out the secrets after all. I think that should be a larger focus than it has been so far. Do we know if anyone is currently working on recovery? Are any of the allies in that part of the world?

[meta] Would it terribly ruin the experience of the game if an IG character made a pick up?

[Khaos]

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[jasper]

Having only read the English translation at first, I thought it was saying they didn't meet any people they knew from their home worlds in this world.

I think that's translated a bit too literally in the wiki English translations where it says "We did not meet some people from our own parallel selves" for "Ni ne renkontis iujn el niaj propaj paralelaj memoj en ĉi tiu Gaea mondo." iujn is a plural someone that we didn't meet, and which I think would be better translated as any (even though there is another Esperanto word for any, iu can be any): We did not meet any of our own parallel selves.

Except Jorge did?!?
I think there is going to be something in that.

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Re: [Email] James Mutters - 21 May 2008