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[SPEC] METASTORY : Spec on how this all ties together

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[SPEC] METASTORY : Spec on how this all ties together

Some of the people in one of the chat rooms asked me to mention my ideas here. Sorry if it adds to the clog and conjestion of the forums. Please note that at this time this is spec, I am trying to put all the pieces together and my ideas of which characters are saying what things may change when I finish it.

N.B.: Some people think what I have ascribed to the Queen may be the Sleeping Princess...At this point, it isn't important, we could call them characters A,B,C and D-- until we get the the pieces we have correctly assembled.

My idea is that we need to order all of the pieces we have into what we have called, for lack of a better name, the "metastory," but, it's really just the story... we need a title.

This story begins with the fable of The Widow's Journey as a sort of prologue, and it seems to be what one of the entities/characters dreamed before waking and discovering it has been "shipwrecked."

After this, the story we have so far is told by it seems four point of view: that of the "Queen" which is hurt and which the "Widow" (the console commands?) entity is trying to repair; that of the "Sleeping Princess" which is trying to get out of the box it is in and which has been communicating with us directly through the emails; and, that of the "Pious Flea" which makes very unobtrusive and hard-to-spot comments.

Also, the story we have so far is told in a non-linear way, which is to say, not chronologically. Much of the text we have seems to be from the injured "Queen" which doesn't remember or communicate events in a direct chronological order.

Nevertheless, we can take the bits that we have, combine them and, hopefully, have an entire story so far.

To me, that story is the realization of the shipwreck, loss of the crew, assessment of damage, self-test and repair. While, simulataneously, for reasons we don't know, another entity is trying to communicate with us directly.

edited subject to add bracketed label - AD

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:25 pm

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