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[rose]

what I mean

[usernameguy]

It's getting a little off-topic, but I really think the Sleeping Princess wrote the Widow's Tale. First, Melissa is amnesiac and really disoriented when she first wakes up, I doubt she remembers when she was "dead". Second, it's clearly not the Flea or SPDR. Third, it's written from the 3rd person, as an observer. Fourth, it's in the Princess' writing style.

I think the Sleeping Princess was learning our slang, not English. She already knew storybook English. (Which is interesting in itself...)

[WhiteGulls]

Hm. Going on a purely word-relation spec here, it's plausable. Durga refers to herself as being 'reflected', I believe.

"But, I'm reflected. I can't look at myself, I bounce away."

Going with that, it'd be rather hard for a mirror to look at itself, because a mirror reflects it's surroundings, so it's impossible for it to know what it is. Now, for evedence that Durga is in our timeframe, when we don't even know who or what Durga is, is lacking in all senses. But, if we DO get proof that Durga is in our time frame, this is a good theory, that Durga is being used by the Queen and PF.

[rose]

I disagree

[Aelith]

Could the giant mirror be the recording medium that that holds the snippits of future memory the queen is transmitting?

[Platonix]

Re: I disagree

[Shad0]

Re: I disagree

[GroovYChickeN 2.o]

I'm not trying to cause more ruckus but no one has brought up the idea that maybe it is some other "person" that we havent been introduced to yet. Just something I've notised in reading all the posts

[aliendial]

This thread has some of the best, thoughtful spec, that I've seen in a few weeks. Everybody take a bow. I won't single anyone out, cuz you all contribute.

[Platonix]

[Stone]

Re: I disagree

[grimcat]

Out of curiosity, has Melissa shown any awareness of the Sleeping Princess in any of her texts?

[rose]

The only reference I recall is the one that said something like:

[usernameguy]

Let's assume Durga is a relative of Melissa, and not Melissa herself.

I'm not sure it's Durga, per se, but maybe someone just like Durga. Maybe it's a clone of Melissa. See, Durga is probably in Melissa's past (our future). We've established that on that first day, it was only Melissa, SPDR, the Flea, and the Sleeping Princess. So Melissa probably doesn't have access to Durga.

Despite all the guff I've given you :^>, I actually kinda like the idea. If you were an AI, it'd be very easy to create a copy of yourself, assuming you had the spare resources. You could ask your clone to take care of stuff you can't concentrate on at the moment.

Though Melissa and Durga both try to take up all available resources ("wet the system"). Melissa already has to fight with the Flea and the Princess for space. I doubt having a clone around would help things.

[usernameguy]

You know what the Princess/Flea/Melissa situation reminds me a lot of? Core Wars.

Core Wars is this old hacker game where you write a program that dukes it out with a program someone else wrote. You set up a little padded room on the computer, you put your little automaton in the room, and set it running. If you still have code running at the end of the game, you win.

Well, our programs nowadays aren't AIs. They're pretty primitive. So you have to stick to a basic strategy.

It turns out there were only a few basic types of Core War programs, some of which correspond to our AIs:

• the Imp is always on the move, like the Sleeping Princess
  
• the Replicator hops all around, and the Vampire tries to convert enemy programs, like the Flea

I wonder if the writers knew about this.