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[ArtherEld]

[SPEC] Old Town... wild eyed speculation of what it is

[da5id]

well, the bit about the shoe maker in "old town" sounds reasonable (for such a wild spec), HOWEVER...

well, it seems that the perplex city academy itself is located in the old town, as indicated by the top right picture in indexB.html. which would mean that there would have to be a taversen square somewhere etc.

so, i personally would rate this spec not all too likely. but that's my personal opinion.

[ArtherEld]

Thanks that does clean it up.

[beano³]

Re: [SPEC] Old Town... wild eyed speculation of what it is

[Chris K]

My understanding is this:

There is another universe, similar to ours.
In this universe there is a city called Perplex City, this is probably the New York of their world.

There is an ancient organisation called The Academy which is very powerful, it possibly controls Perplex City (it's like the council)

There is a secret project which is researching opening portals into our world. (I get this from the Gatehouses)

They are studying our world.

The women have noticed some really fashionable shoes while studying our world (designed by Versace or whatever) and want them.

This is why they say:

'Who designed those fabulous shoes?' 'Oh, no-one *you'd* have heard of.' Hah!

No one in their world would know who Gucci was, only these women (who work for the secret project) have seen our world.

They want to find some patterns (templates) for the shoes so they can then take them to a shoemaker in Perplex City and get them made.

They obviously use the technology that they use to study our world to look at shoes etc. (Okay, I *know* this would be a gross misuse of project resources, but do you think we could try to get, I don't know, patterns for them)

My guess is that they left the equipment on (as it says in an email) and the Cube somehow got transported into our world.

[Nik_Doof]

The Academy i suspect is setup to research "the other dimension" aka us...

Why such a long title for a research into shoes....its sorta like a social studies or history lectures would use to describe ....well "the design and production of shoes". Also why would they have tours around the Academy.... like Buck Palace or the Houses of Parliment...or even a old university, basiclly something important must happen there, as suggested before it maybe central goverment down to a highly prestigous research laboratory (like CERN, MIT, or Parc Xerox).

The Academy are researching us, while the cube plays a vital role in the liftestyle of Perplexians, its not vital for this study....after all how would Sente get here?

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[Chris K]

It isn't The Academy that researches our world. I remember someone from the Gatehouses saying "we're glad to be working with The Adademy on this".

I guess they're supplying money and/or researchers.

I think The Academy is something like Oxford/Cambridge in that it's a historic tourist attraction but also a place of cutting edge research. We know it's benn going for 300 years or more but also that it's helping with this portal stuff.

I'm sure the PM went to Oxbridge, probably took a fair bit of inspiration from there.

[ArtherEld]

Shoot, the Academy might not even know about it. Look at our world. Supposedly lots of projects get funded without even knowing what the project is about.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

if the cube was accidentally sent to us, then it maybe in our best interest to keep a hold of it as a bargaining tool to their universe

[beano³]

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[yanka]

[Freefly]

For what it's worth, there's an open air museum in Denmark called 'The Old Town' (the English name)...
www.dengamleby.dk

No Taversen Square though. But Most danish surnames end in -sen. Just made me think...