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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity October 19th
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The_Worminator
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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity October 19th

Violet wrote:
At long last, some success!

Right, so, Kurt and I have finally managed to decipher some of this waterlogged book. And when I say "Kurt and I" I mean that Kurt used his extensive and detailed technical knowledge and skill and I brought beverages and sat around being charming. Hey, we all bring what we can to the party.

Kurt's managed to retrieve a few pages which I've read through and, believe me, they are mostly drivel. Just take my word for this. Some edited highlights include:

- An account of how the author was denied entry to the Academy library on the grounds of being improperly dressed. He appears to think they ought to have let him in dressed in his flashing-LED headdress, designed by him to honour the Cube.

- A long, pointless rehashing of the debate about whether the extinction of the square-bellied lizards of Catbite was caused by anti-Cubists. The author willfully does not mention that a full ten years before the publication of his book, an entire population of square-bellied lizards was found to the north of the city, and that most naturalists think they simply migrated to follow food sources.


- Wild misquotings from the ancient sources. For example, where Lemnal describes Madna rowing the sky-boat through the maze of stars and being helped by the spider who spins out her thread behind them so they can find their way back, this Lencival decides that the word "spider" is actually another word for "cube" and that the whole story is an allegory for Madna being guided on a spiritual quest by the power of the Cube.


So you see what I mean. Drivel.

But I do have one little snippet for you that's actually of some interest. In amongst all his meanderings in the world of mythology, he comes up with this:

"Although as I have clearly demonstrated the Cube is mentioned in mythological sources dating back at least 1,500 years, there is a definite upswing in Cube-based myth in the years following the end of the War. Even before the purported "discovery" of the Cube, the immediate post-war period contains extensive Cube-related material such as has not been seen in any earlier time period when Cube-texts must be meticulously pieced together [he means "invented" - Violet.] from the existing sources. And even at this juncture the name of the Cube is strongly linked with one of it's [his error, not mine - Violet.] guardian cults, the Third Power; the linkage is stronger at this time than any other, suggesting to me that it was at this point that the meditative powers, spiritual leadership and guidance of the Third Power reached its contemplative zenith."
I have to say, that's not what it suggests to me at all - shadowy organisations don't usually become well-known through meditative powers alone. And what's a "contemplative zenith," for goodness' sake? Anyway, I thought you might like to chew on that. There will be more.

Also, the word from Kurt is that the next page he's working on seems to include diagrams as well as text. Excited? I know I am...


I posted an update. I feel special.

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PuzzledPineapple
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You are special, Worminator, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Diagrams? We know one symbol, but I'm guessing any more we can get before Saturday would be useful. But I suppose telling them that we're meeting up with the Third Power on Saturday and would like the information as quickly as possible would be a bit rash.

So we have support for the 'Cube appearing and ending the war' theory, whether it's the ultimate weapon or a deity. Anyone up for random spec?

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cassandra
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Maybe Kurt's diagrams will reveal the Cube image and text from the trailer?

I'd like to know about the Cube's " 'purported' discovery." Also - so are we getting closer to a better definition of BC and AC at all?

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This makes me think perhaps the cube was not so much discovered as created; perhaps by the Third Power. There certainly seems to be a sense of lost technology from the time of the war.

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wiglaf wrote:
This makes me think perhaps the cube was not so much discovered as created; perhaps by the Third Power. There certainly seems to be a sense of lost technology from the time of the war.


[spec]
Maybe it's a storage device with all the knowledge that was accumulated up until the time of its creation (perhaps even everything since then if its sporting one of those super advanced AI's).

It must have some kind of self-defense mechanism as well so that whoever they were fighting wouldn't be able to "open" it Smile That would be what killed the scientists studying it.

Even better, it transported ITSELF to Earth when it realized it was about to be stolen Smile
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WolverineFan wrote:

It must have some kind of self-defense mechanism as well so that whoever they were fighting wouldn't be able to "open" it Smile That would be what killed the scientists studying it.


Hmm..sounds like the Ark of the Covenant doesn't it? Actually, I think that's been mentioned somewhere before...*Wowbagger does a little searching* aha, here.

Wow, nice post!

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cassandra
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though I don't want this to become a Cube spec thread only, I'll add that it probably has the potential to be or create a nuclear weapon, given the neutrino emission and such. Perhaps it contains the origins of the Universe Razz

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i actually thought it was pretty interesting that the third power seemed to be at the height of their power and/or popularity just after the war ended. makes me wonder why and what part they had in it all, but i guess we won't know until we know more about what the war was in the first place. but am i right in thinking that they are saying the war was pre-cube discovery? 'officially' at any rate, though it seems to be suggesting that maybe the third power either had it in their possession or at least knew alot about it at the time.
rach =)

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