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Roland · Boot Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

[SPEC] The Tower, The Mirror

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:54 pm

truegent · Veteran Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 101 Location: CO, USA

I suspect that Kitchen was a clue. Where as the rest of her discriptions (Tower, Stairs, Mirror) are metaphorical (five syllables, phew, that one tuckered me out Wink

) and are just an attempt to convey her environment using the vocabulary she has had to work with.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:09 pm

Arana

Spiral Staircase in tower

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:53 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:02 pm

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truegent · Veteran Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 101 Location: CO, USA

Re: Spiral Staircase in tower

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:17 pm

Shadowkiller · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 125 Location: Spokane

I think it is quite possible that the message may contain more then one clue. The recipe1, 2 and 4 thing has been sitting there for awhile. I don't think it was just suddently done, I think the SP gave the hint because those Axons had been completely missed. I wonder what else has been missed.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:12 pm

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rhapsaria · Greenhorn Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 6

Re: [SPEC] The Tower, The Mirror

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:53 pm

Zanzibar · Boot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 31

Oh boy. Wow. Somebody in another thread mentioned the 'twisted pair' cabling that connects computers as a metaphor. Until I saw that, I couldn't envision what the metaphors were.

Let's do some free-association here. 'Room at the top of the tower.' Might be a router? Cable/DSL modem? Could it be the server itself? Perhaps the SP only lives on Dana's home computer, and the server is a different machine?

And the BIG CLUE is the GIANT MIRROR that has magically appeared. Perhaps we should ask SP about it...she's picking questions; hopefully if we ask questions about the mirror and she chooses one as one of her 'finalists,' we can vote en masse for whichever question concerns the mirror.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:38 pm

NMZ · Boot Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Minnesota

One problem with the theory of the Giant Mirror being a mirror for older ILB files is that the Queen was able to see SP behind her in the mirror. It is, of course, possible that SP jumped to conclusions and that the Queen actually heard her instead of seeing her in the mirror.

Ah, who needs definite answers anyway?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:43 pm

the blaze · Boot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 14

maybe we're supposed to use the files from the kitchen to break the mirror. Then SP would be able to spy on the queen.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:29 am

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**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:57 am

Elec · Boot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 57

That's quite possible. The webcam is probably on top of Dana's monitor (based on the 404 pictures) which would make it higher than the rest of the PC. It could easily be a window, since the Operator proved she could see out of it (not much to see if Dana is gone but it is a window to stare out of). If it's a USB webcam, the only way to get there is through the USB cable. A USB cable is two sets of twisted pair - one for power/ground and one for signal/data. An electronic entity would likely have to travel up the data pair to get to the webcam.

I dunno exactly what that would make the mirror. I know that signal reflection is sometimes an issue in cables (this is why certain networking standards require the use of terminators) but I'm not sure how the queen could implement this.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:24 am

jrobot · Kilroy Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2

"< > They say killing a spider brings seven years of bad luck.<BR><BR>"

from ilb.diff

Breaking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck too...

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:22 am

SecondSundodger · Boot Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Jet City

Mirror in the room

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:46 am

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SecondSundodger · Boot Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Jet City

Nevermind my above post. I just re-read the response to Paul and realized the mirror is something within the tower. I'm not too keen on this sorta stuff, but do webcams use mirrors in them as part of the picture-capture process?

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:51 am

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