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Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
I now have two questions:
1. [SPEC]What would make an AI have Freudian slips? Rogue process? Virus? Some personality vestige from the underlying source brain?
2. [SPEC?]Is it reasonable for the enhottenators to get to 776 hots and stop for a sec? What happens if we stop at 776 and issue a demand for information of some kind? Would that give "us" any leverage against the Queen in any way? Or Melissa? Given that their underlying motivations are unclear, or possibly negative, is there any way for us to milk the situation for more info to make a beneficial choice?
Okay, three:
3. [SPEC]If Perdita == Melissa, doesn't she have an awesome reason to be looking for revenge?
R.
Edit: De-stupided my AI reference (getting crowded in this plot)
Edit2: Re-de-stupided...
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:33 am
Last edited by Rob on Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:49 pm; edited 2 times in total
Aelith
Decorated
Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 153 Location: Missouri
We need another flash of inspiration. What nusery story involves a hand and boot. hmmm a boot for a hand is a glove. Puss 'n Boots is a boy story. (comma at the end for 'n)
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:29 am
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
What about the sounds? As I look at these, they seem more like atmosphere, but perhaps there's some relationship I'm missing.
Quote:
like faraway pennies sliding across a concrete floor
Quote:
like marbles dropping into an empty can
Quote:
like the squeak of a rusting tricycle wheel
Quote:
like scalpels bouncing on a metal tray
Also from chapter 2:
Quote:
like a pile of forks dropping into a tin pot
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:11 am
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
Just noticed a misplaced period in Chap 3:
Quote:
But she bit her lip, in the exquisitely fetching manner she did when perplexed., and was
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:10 pm
johnny5
Entrenched
Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 995 Location: Elysian Fields
Perdita's Story wrote:
Together Perdita and the Clockwork Rat set out to travel the city together.
This is another error, or at least poor grammer. She used "together" twice.
I can't find any reason for it.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:40 pm
Aelith
Decorated
Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 153 Location: Missouri
Googled up another idea for ya'll to play with. From The Elves and the Shoemaker:
Quote:
And so it went on and on. Instead of being a very poor shoemaker, be became a very rich shoemaker.
His shoes were so well made that even the queen herself wore them.
At last the shoemaker said to his wife, "We must find out who makes the shoes."
So one bright moonlight night they hid behind a curtain , where they could watch the bench and not be seen.
Just on the stroke of midnight, two little elves jumped through the window.
They went skipping and dancing up to the bench.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:41 pm
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
Nice find, Johnny. I now have the following suspicious words:
boot
hand
in
together
. (a period)
Google's not turning up anything too interesting, no stories with boots, hands and little girls. However, the phrase "boot in hand" seems to turn up a lot in military fiction.
R.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:43 am
skybruin
Unfettered
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 373 Location: Missoula ,MT
perhaps this may have more to do with the body parts perdita lost. here's a list
thumb,
eye,
foot,
hair,
hand,
teeth.
Anybody make anything out of these body parts?
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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:58 am
Astald
Unfettered
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 747 Location: Just outside of Pittsburgh (Go Steelers!)
I guess this is kind of off-topic because it isn't about the new 404 page, rather the previous one. I noticed the first sentence in her answer to Naptikon was another grammatical mistake.
Sleeping Princess wrote:
I don't know you opened the glass coffin exactly.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:25 pm
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
Fiddled around with the suspicious words in URLs, didn't find anything. However, I didn't exhaust all possible permutations, either, just stuff that would look similar to previously discovered URLs.
http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/XXX.wav
and
http://ilovebees.com/XXX_XXX.html
No joy, but what the hey...
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:25 am
Nightmare Tony
Entrenched
Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Meadowbrook
like faraway pennies sliding across a concrete floor
Quote:
like marbles dropping into an empty can
Quote:
like the squeak of a rusting tricycle wheel
Quote:
like scalpels bouncing on a metal tray
Also from chapter 2:
Quote:
like a pile of forks dropping into a tin pot
ALL are the sound of metal, but the first two are stone-metal or glass-metal, but metal is common to all...
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:45 am
Aelith
Decorated
Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 153 Location: Missouri
I've been doing the same, the terms shoemaker (hand made boot) and together again. I'm beginning to suspect SP just needs an editor.
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:51 am
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
They corrected one typo, but left the others, so 'supwiddat? There's something there, but maybe we don't have all the pieces yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:08 pm
skyhawk0000
Veteran
Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 119 Location: DFW, Tx.. The Midcities
(spec, kinda OT) (spec, kinda OT)
"phone boot", taken from the perdita story, may not be a typo. the term phone boot seems to be used in some european countries to refer to either a standalone unit, like a wall-mount or open air payphone, or to an actual enclosed booth.
http://www.best.tuke.sk/ga03/survival_guide.html
PART II : The telephone
If you want to call home, bring your coins (ones, twos, fives and tens) to a phone boot .
http://www.crime.se/twins/archive/street/radiostocktown/radiostocktown2.html
- We have a caller. Good morning. What's your name?
- Susanna.
- Hello, Susanna. Where you're calling from?
- Actually, I'm in a phone boot .
- And where's the phone boot ?
- It's in the street. But it's not all that important, I just want to say I
and so on. this is all based on google-thinking, but seems right, and searching just calls up the same line or spec thats its a typo with secret meaning.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:09 pm
RandMod6
Veteran
Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 85 Location: 46.875805 -096.784945
[puzzle]misplaced word in new 404 text The same 'typo' appears in SP's new <9/28> ending to Perdita's story. If it's a typo, it's consistent which suggests perhaps:
a) it's not a typo at all, but a euro thing as previously postulated
b) umm, it's important enough to repeat & bring to our attention <shrug>
Personally, the repetition leads me to think that it's not part of a puzzle. Thoughts, suggestions, flaming retorts?
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:05 pm
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