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tommy04 · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 22

[SPEC] A wild spec regarding the cube(s)

**Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:54 pm

beano�

Can I kick it?

**Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:00 pm

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Nik_Doof

Re: topic, rename it to summat nicer...we're all too used to wild spec here so theres no need to announce it as that Smile

[Edit: Done! Fi]

**Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:45 am

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darkblaze

if sente was a tratior then how could he give someone perplex city's highest honor?

**Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:20 am

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EclecticMunk · Boot Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 40 Location: South Africa

It's a good point about the website though. Either Sente is / has access to someone very high up in the Perplex City heirarchy (mayor?) or he is a very accomplished hacker to have managed to steal the primary .com domain from whoever should own it (most likely a business to do with city tourism).

[SPEC extrapolation...]
Take www.newyorkcity.com for example. This is a site that promotes that cities attractions. Imagine going to that address one day and finding only a weird and cryptic message. Whoever put the message there is bound to be some sort of hacker. In order to be able to keep the message there, they would have to be very accomplished.

The postcard tells us that there are Perplex City tours, which means it does indeed have some sort of tourist industry, yet the website contains nothing in the way of tourist attractions; only Sente's bizarre request for help.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:06 pm

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newzgrl · Boot Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Cincinnati

I kind of thought "project syzygy completed" meant that there were enough of us (arg-ers) gathered together and signed up to help sente search for the cube. sorry if this has been covered b-4... my brains are fried ..and i just consumed an entire bag o microwave popcorn reading over all the posts. Dunce

**Posted:** Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:38 pm

blackdays · Kilroy Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 2

Whoa.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:03 am

Walker · Boot Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 22

Assuming it's the same font size, I don't think that "NUMERICAL" would fit in that blacked-out space. There's only room for about 6 letters.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:31 am

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**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:13 am

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Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:25 pm

tanner

it's really just called the "blacked out word CUBE" -- thats irs name.

Smile

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:32 pm

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Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

I just read this thread again, and actually think that there might be some mileage in Tommys spec of there being multiple cubes. The logo would indeed suggest this. Maybe there are several cubes, which when combined have an almighty power capable of... er... something Wink

And one of them has gone missing. Maybe there are enemies who are trying to get the cubes for themselves. [/spec]

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:26 pm

tanner

i want one Smile

however the obvious step up from one cube is eight cubes (the cubes that bound a tesseract in the way six squares bound the cube)

there are less than eight in the logo
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**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:34 pm

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neon snake

of course, this then leads to the film adaption, 'One of our Cubes is missing!'

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:11 pm

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Or the sequel, "Dude, where's my cube?"

(sorry... I had to...) Laughing

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:39 pm

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