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[Chat] Eli Hunt - 15 May 2008
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mr.judkins
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danteIL wrote:
So, it sounds to me like ol' Eli is expecting us to somehow decide on a large-scale labyrinth through these critical cities (and we only know 5 of the 27 so far), and then use GPS technology to 'transmit' the actual path of someone walking the entire labyrinth (as proof), to some kind of register or omphaputer. Yes?


Kai seems to think so - I forwarded him the above conversation, explaining that Eli makes it plain his help will be essential in achieving this - whatever the disagreements may be between them.

Here is the guts of his reply:

Kai wrote:
As for the stuff from Eli, there's a TON of information there. He's right, he and I used to argue a lot before he went off and left Ariadne to her own devices. I'm willing to put aside my differences of opinion if he is. I've been thinking about how to track this city-sized labyrinth thing, and I've found just the thing! Tracksticks!!! www.trackstick.com

I'll order a bunch, when you have a team ready to make labyrinths in the cities we know we need to make them, let me know and I'll send you a trackstick!


If you click through to the details about the Trackstick II, you can see examples of the result - looks pretty awesome to me.

So it looks like once we begin finding out which cities are required, we can get Kai to send tracksticks out to a representative there to walk the labyrinth pattern and mark it for all to see.

Which puts the ball in the court of those working to infiltrate TheO - we need to find out where they are concentrating their forces, for those are the cities where we'll need to map out labyrinths...


EDIT: Just to clairfy, what I read from this is that he will send one trackstick to each team in each city.

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 		:O SO AWESOME.

I am juiced about those tracksticks. I'm also juiced about the city-labyrinths. Perhaps on Saturday we should start talking mapping?

The SF run is still happening on Sat right?

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danteIL wrote:
I know that I for one have gotten completely confused by the multiplicity of kinds of labyrinths that have suddenly appeared:


I'm also confused.

1) Which labyrinths can decrease the number of the worlds?
- Kai wrote at Ariadne's blog "we need a LOT more personal labyrinths to happen". Does this mean personal labyrinths can decrease the number? But he seems to gather a lot of people at New York, and it sounds like a training labyrinth, not a personal labyrinth.

2) Which labyrinths were described in Ch.10?
- I mean the phrase "a single world will often cause a simultaneous labyrinth to take place in six varied places". If this phrase is about Olympic labyrinths, will the six run at six different places?

3) Are training labyrinths for practices purposes only?

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 		This is what I understood so far:

- Personal Labyrinths:
Done within 12 weeks before the (multiversal) olympic games. Helps to prepare the many worlds for the synchronization event. Minor effect on overall world count.

- Athletic Labyrinth (7-circuit labyrinth)
Done during the (multiversal) olympic games. Best done on 6 places so that coordination could be possible with at least one other world. Needed for reducing the number of worlds and to synchronize the many worlds.

- Training Labyrinths (3,5 or 7-circuit)
Only for training of the Athletic labyrinth. No synchronization at all.

- City-sized Labyrinths
For multiversal travel a real big omphalos of the size of the earth is needed with 27 knots. One knot is a city-sized labyrinth. I guess this is mainly needed to bring back our amnesiacs into their original world. Not needed to save the worlds.

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 		Practice Labyrinths should reduce the number of worlds too if the players are precise enough about it- I mean, it should work through the effects of athletic alignment or athletic co-ordination described in chapter 16. That chapter seems to indicate that any kind of sport training would reduce the number of worlds if you were precise and deliberate about it.

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 		Do you mean Kai is confused? He plans what he calls "Labyrinth Training Festival" at New York to decrease the number of the worlds.

I feel almost everyone is confused Smile

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jasper wrote:
Practice Labyrinths should reduce the number of worlds too if the players are precise enough about it- I mean, it should work through the effects of athletic alignment or athletic co-ordination described in chapter 16. That chapter seems to indicate that any kind of sport training would reduce the number of worlds if you were precise and deliberate about it.


But how and why should someone on another world make the same training labyrinth on the same location and same place? It is not registered or communicated to the other worlds (like personal or olympic labyrinths).
The chapter you refer, is just about describing that synchronisation is best done within a human. Athletic synchronisation is the basic principle why personal or olympic labyrinths work at all.

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AUZ505 wrote:
Athletic synchronisation is the basic principle why personal or olympic labyrinths work at all.

Personal labyrinths aren't athletic at al.

Whether training labyrinths can decrease the number of the worlds is very significant. I'm discussing a plan for running labyrinths in Japan with my friends, but to pursuade many people to join us, I feel training labyrinths must have their own significance.

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 		In Ariadne's forum I found a thread titled "Do City Labryinths have to be run on or before 21st June?" posted by Chippy, and it's not answered. I wonder if he's still looking for the source, but just now I was looking for it, so I raise this thread.

Did Eli say this important date only in the chat with Mr.Judkins? Isn't it important?
May we make this chat IG?

And I don't think all 27cities can finish building their labyrinth by June 21st.

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 		I've now made that portion of my chat with Eli unquestionably IG by posting it in reply to Chippy - as I state there, he suggests that prior to the 21st is the "best time" for these "military exercises" of giant labyrinth making to occur.

I agree that it's unrealistic that they'll all be done by then. Perhaps if confirmations had come back to us earlier we would have a better jump on them by now...

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mr.judkins wrote:
I've now made that portion of my chat with Eli unquestionably IG by posting it in reply to Chippy - as I state there, he suggests that prior to the 21st is the "best time" for these "military exercises" of giant labyrinth making to occur.

I agree that it's unrealistic that they'll all be done by then. Perhaps if confirmations had come back to us earlier we would have a better jump on them by now...
Oooh, jabby jabby at Mr. Hunt! Very Happy
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 		Yeah... I'm still not quite over the flu, so a little bit grumpy. Very Happy

Perhaps a little irritated that we had to wait so long if there is a time constraint on us to complete these. He's a lovely man, with a wonderful voice, but he's shocking when it comes to quick replies...

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 		Thanks a lot for your responses, mr.judkins!

I think there're some cities among 27 that don't have any plans yet.

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 		http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=540974#540974

This may be a clarification from Eli. The solstice June 21st is not a deadline, he called in the peak time.

Do we have a list of 27 cities? I tried to look for one earlier but got side tracked.

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jasper wrote:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=540974#540974

This may be a clarification from Eli. The solstice June 21st is not a deadline, he called in the peak time.

Do we have a list of 27 cities? I tried to look for one earlier but got side tracked.


Here is the list: http://olympics.wikibruce.com/Earth-omphalos (without Philadelphia)
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