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Diandra
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 		Little Boxes Archive Story
I'm not sure what we're supposed to get out of the Archive on little boxes, but since this story happened in Redland, WA (where Metacortex is located), it might be significant.

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Document #50 Status: Debated
Class: Year: 2003, Location: US-Northwest

Summary
Computers located within a 1-mile radius in Redland WA transmit what appears to be a radio broadcast over speakers, along with static and 'ghost' images on the monitors, before completely shutting down. Within sixty seconds all electrical components of any kind also shut down

Details
White-collar workers, when interviewed, report that they think it's probably just some sort of power grid failure of some sort, never mind that the radius has been determined to be nearly perfectly circular (one employee of a financial firm claims that only half the monitor turned off - that is, half the screen remained lit, and the other half, plus the computer tower, shut off immediately. When all power went down, the monitor went completely dead.) All witnesses to the event seem initially quite disturbed by the event, but quickly lose interest in follow-up, and have trouble remembering details within a few days.

July 18, 2003
Redland WA

Perhaps the date is also significant if we're dealing with a timeframe of yet-to-be-revealed events.


Also, this might matter as a vortex is known to make things (perhaps people?) disappear.

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Document #73 Status: Unverified
Class: Location: US-Northwest

Summary
Physics goes awry in a small area just south of Mt. Rainier

Details
This one's been lurking in the shadows of Mt. Rainier, apparently. A hotspot of physics gone bad just south of the national park in WA is the Cascade Vortex, a well-established tourist attraction that's been gaining popularity recently. Not sure if it's due to the strength of the effects witnessed there, or if it's just because tourism is on the upswing in that area. Physics is the wildcard here, increasing in strength as the subject gets closer t

Objects crash to the ground (sometimes very gently!) as the gravity levels shift. Things that stand upright are suddenly askew, and meteorological data is very difficult to fix within a 2-2.5 mile radius.


NOTE: Part of the story is missing. It's that way on the site.

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 		Zurich
Maybe this Zurich story is important, too. The former CEO spent time there, according to the news on the Metacortex site.

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Document #57 Status: Unverified
Class: Location: Europe, Year: 2003

Summary
Hikers unable to leave a certain grid square for almost four full days, despite being experienced and well-equipped walkers.

Details
Seven amateur hikers from Zurich claim to have spent four days in June trapped in a grid square. The hikers, who are currently being treated for exposure, say that they cannot make sense of their experience.

Oliver Schrader, the most experienced of the group, explained that every time the group was about to cross into an adjacent grid square, they found themselves at the opposite edge of their original square.

It seems unlikely that they could simply have gotten turned around or lost, not with their collective years of experience, and not for four full days.

This is a trivialization, but it reminds me of a computer game I once played where you'd walk off one side of a map and appear on the other side.


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 		Someone else, earlier this morning, speculated that these episodes are glitches in the Matrix. For instance, where water turns red for a day then back to normal...is not a miracle, but an electronic error generated by the real world simulator.

I totally think this is true. So, my approach to an inroad here would be to convince emc2 that her collection of anomalies are "evidence" that theMatrix exists. If that is the point of our contact with her.

It makes me suspicious that she will be a linchpin in the story: rising from ignorance of the Matrix to becoming convinced, and finally becoming a "heroine" of some sort.
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 		Yea, I'm certain of this now that we have access to the full archives, there are many mentions of square block/mile radius and localization within grids, all which relates to what is shown in that one episode of animatrix which name I cant remember at the time. (Episode about the crazy glitched house with rain falling indoors and floating objects and such)

EDIT: Anyone not familiar with Matrix cannon, because the computer generated virtual world is controlled by computersd and systems which still fail and malfunction even in the future, unexplained events occur which would seem paranormal to someone without an understanding of the matrix. They are also caused by programs which are unseen by the human eye that dictate all non-human activities (ie. cats, dogs, cattle, locusts, trees, flowers, fish etc.) As explained in Matrix Reloaded, these programs governing such things do occasionly fail or just become out dated and need to be replaced causing "strange activity".

Another cause for these events are the Matrix being changed in some way such as the scene in Matrix pt 1 where the Controllers remove all windows and exits in a building to trap the rebels causing a black cat to cross the path of one of the characters twice in the exact same fashion(deja vu).

What in my opinion all of thios tells us is that all of the characters in this ARG are not meant to be loacted in our world, or a "pre-matrix" world, but in the current world of the matrix, circa Matrix-Matrix Reloaded.

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 		How did you access these archives? It will not allow me to.

EDIT: Posted this when I first got into this.. I apologize for speaking before researching. How amateurish of me. Wink
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 		I definitely agree with the whole "glitched matrix" idea.

DrLariat wrote:
Yea, I'm certain of this now that we have access to the full archives, there are many mentions of square block/mile radius and localization within grids, all which relates to what is shown in that one episode of animatrix which name I cant remember at the time. (Episode about the crazy glitched house with rain falling indoors and floating objects and such)


Yep, this one was called "Beyond" and is one of my favorite... There is a scene in this film where the girl's cat floats, just like in one of the stories on little-boxes...

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 		dmax... taking from your idea:

What if Elizabeth McConnell is Trinity? Could this be a prequel to the Matrix movies?

deeper and deeper.....

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 		glitches?
Glitches in the Matrix, or as the Oracle said, "programs doing what they're not supposed to do." Sort of a paraphrase there, but remember it was in context of, "whenever people see a ghost, or an unexplained occurance." So Beth's ghost sightings are either glitches or insolent programs, maybe someone should catalogue where and when they happened for future reference. Did one happen in Vienna, for instance?
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ChainedLightning
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Stavro510 wrote:
What if Elizabeth McConnell is Trinity? Could this be a prequel to the Matrix movies?


I had wondered about that myself - but the fact that the database shows that Thomas Anderson has been transfered kind of rules that out, I think.

Since he has already been transferred it has to be taking place AFTER at least the middle of the first Matrix movie... so I'm wondering if this isn't either

A) leading up to where we are in Matrix Revolutions, so we'll get to see what is happening in the "real world" of the Matrix while our heros are trying to save humanity. We would be in place before Smith has started copying himself over people.

or

B) happens after Revolutions and leads up to the Online game, but I don't think this can be it because I would think that with Smith taking over so many people that things are getting pretty creepy.

CL

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 		You know, something keeps occuring to me about the whole Thomas Anderson transferred thing. I don't exactly remember the first Matrix as its been awhile since I saw it but for some reason I've been thinking Neo was in NYC. Now, I can't find anything to confirm or deny this but if I'm right it would make sense for him to have been transferred. Just a thought. Also, wasn't there a mention of Trinity's real name in the first Matrix? Maybe I'm remembering when Neo met her and knew her reputation incorrectly but I could swear her name came up.

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Goblinrat wrote:
You know, something keeps occuring to me about the whole Thomas Anderson transferred thing. I don't exactly remember the first Matrix as its been awhile since I saw it but for some reason I've been thinking Neo was in NYC. Now, I can't find anything to confirm or deny this but if I'm right it would make sense for him to have been transferred. Just a thought. Also, wasn't there a mention of Trinity's real name in the first Matrix? Maybe I'm remembering when Neo met her and knew her reputation incorrectly but I could swear her name came up.

Not sure where the movie takes place, although i'm positive no mention of trinity's real name was ever made.
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goblinrat wrote:
You know, something keeps occuring to me about the whole Thomas Anderson transferred thing. I don't exactly remember the first Matrix as its been awhile since I saw it but for some reason I've been thinking Neo was in NYC. Now, I can't find anything to confirm or deny this but if I'm right it would make sense for him to have been transferred


The city in the Matrix is never identified, but the road signs and place names correspond to Chicago, the Wachowski brother's hometown.

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 		Am I the only one who has noticed that with all of the article archives, there is no Article 66? It just goes straight from 65 to 67...I even tried trying to get there manually and got an error message...

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Goblinrat wrote:
...but for some reason I've been thinking Neo was in NYC..


Probably because so many films are set there you kinda take it for granted "Tall buildings, ah! must be New York".

ChainedLightning wrote:
Since he has already been transferred it has to be taking place AFTER at least the middle of the first Matrix movie...


His "Transfer" occured in February 1998 - based on the initial Call log in the film:

Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98 13:24:18 REC:Log>

Sadly I can't recall any dates in Reloaded that might give us a clue where we are in relation.

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ajes wrote:
Am I the only one who has noticed that with all of the article archives, there is no Article 66? It just goes straight from 65 to 67...I even tried trying to get there manually and got an error message...


And no 46,48,49 or 52

And 51 is a duplicate of 53 (one at a time) without the location details.

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