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[UPDATE] New article Sentinel (April 15th)
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 		That's just a phrase like "I practically live on the internet" or "I basically live on a football pitch".

Just means you spend a lot of time doing it.

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 		Maybe not just anyone is allowed to cross over into alternate realities. Maybe the cube enabled that travel, and now they are left with only data and a way to see and communicate with us. Why then the obscurity of the information? To make it fun and challenging?

Anyone who posses the cube would likely be able to read on our progress and intercept transmissions meant for us. This could explain why everything is encrypted. But what if the cube is here and the 'possessor' is not? What if it isn't "stolen" so much as missing? Or put in a 'safe' place?
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 		Spend a lot of time doing what - using your definition (let's take the football pitch one) to say "I practically live on the football pitch" means you spend a lot of time on the football pitch. In this, she says "I practically live over there" - meaning she spends a lot of time on earth?

TBH, I don't personally believe it, its a bit of an odd thing to say but I think she must just mean that she spends so much time researching/studying earth that she feels as if she's one of us?

Maybe...

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 		Thats before you look at the sidebar headlines and see:-

Thylacine litter born

Hmm, extinct australian marsupial anyone?
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 		Not so fast Sente!
Ok. Here's the deal. Perplex City is making a profit off of our world. Each time Lyssa Ling buys something from Mitchell Alba - I want a cut. Cold, hard Leks(Lecks).

Now, if the people of Perplex CIty wish to have their cube back with our help then they will have to pay for this service, and a little down-payment is customary. Perhaps their 'researchers' are not doing their jobs too well. Perhaps sibling loyalty has gotten in the way of right action.

What we do know is that they are likely infringing on a variety of legally held patents. What right do they have to exploit an Earth technology without first consulting with the proper owners?

We could buy newspaper subscriptions and keys!
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 		Assuming, of course, that the keys are not a physical object as has been otherwise suggested... We get back to whether matter can be transferred across the void between alternate realities..? (Taking the cube to not be "matter" in the strictist sense, this being (OOG)SciFi(/OOG) and all...)

Jeb

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jebjoya wrote:
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Brain Bender chain of puzzlebars, greeted the waiting customers at the door in person, quizzing them on what they were looking for and directing them to the right department


That is quite cool - a department store sized puzzle bar... - just what us lot need to keep our brains supple


sorry to be nitpicky, but the guy who ran/owned/whatever the puzzle bars has now set up an earth themed department store. he wasn't standing outside a puzzle bar directing people to different departments, he was standing outside his new shop.

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But for me the interesting thing is that there also seems to be a University, so we have a third academic institution in the city...what's the difference between the Academy and the University? And Marmalejo College for that matter.


three academic institutes in one city, especially one so big as PPC, is by no means unusual. manchester on its own has 4 institutes for higher education, 5 including salford and probably nearer 10 if you include the whole of greater manchester. plus we have a lot of colleges that are mainly for the 2 years pre-university but can sometimes do degrees as well.

rRootage wrote:
Isn't there a chance that because of their inherently trendy society that they would just call off the Cube hunt, say "Thanks, but you guys took too long. We're going over to Penny now".

I'm worried Sente and Scarlett are going to get bored of us.


one hopes that it would be the other way round if anything given the current state of affairs ;)

kastanok wrote:
Scarlet's comments about not being able to get things across confuse me a little because we've already been told the Cube was transported from PC to Earth. And why does Lyssa need to get a cobbler to make up suitable shoes if she can't cross over to Earth? The point of those shoes is to fit in and look like everyone else. If she wore PC fashion, she'd attract attention.


as far as i can remember we've been told more certainly that stuff cant be transported between here and there than it's been suggested that the cube was transported here. and even if it was transported, the inherent mysticism of the cube probably makes it an exception rather than the rule. also, who says it was one of them that transported it?? so from what we've seen i think its fair to say lyssa hasnt been here and just likes the cool 'different' and currently rather trendy earth style fashions.

rach =)[/quote]

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 		Alice in Wonderland
Hi All,

My name is dthought, I've been lurking for a couple of weeks and Cassandra made a comment that sparked my thinking a bit...

cassandra wrote:
As an aside:

The author of this article is named Foster Liddell. The young girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland, etc was Alice Liddell.

Interesting.



There's a lot of references to "Through the Looking Glass" in this game. Dinah who handed out the clues at Abbey Road is a reference to Alice's cat featured in the first chapter of the book. I wondered if there was more to the references to Through the Look Glass. So I'll just [Spec] a bit -

We've had our face licked by Dinah and now we're through the looking glass and into the game. In Chap 1 after Alice goes through the looking glass she notices little chess pieces doing silly things by the fire - perhaps this is similar to the articles in the Sentinel - we don't understand it just yet, but let's observe. Then next in the chapter when Alice moves the king and queen up to the table she notices a journal - for us would that be the Scarlett Kite website? Alice can't read it because the journal is back to front. In Scarlett's site Scarlett has put up an ambigram that may or may not be a puzzle. The ambigram can be read from all directions but has anybody tried looking at it back to front? I did a mirror rotate in Microsoft Photo Editor but I couldn't find anything. But maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Of course this is all speculation.

Now for a few arguments against this speculation - Scarlett's site is written for our side of the glass so we can understand it. The ambigram came from somebody on earth so for us it is the right way around. So I could be wrong about this.

Furthermore, the discussion on the board about the guy who sent the ambigram is of the opinion that he is OOG so the ambigram may be irrelevent. But he is a professional graphic designer - and his services are for hire.

Maybe I'm taking things too literally. Pun intended (we've been directed to read A Midsummer's Night Dream too.) And perhaps this is like the Bible code - where you take sections of the bible to predict world events - but anybody can draw comparisons to things when all you have are consonants to work with. Maybe I am drawing coincidences together to analyse a clue. You could analyse the articles in the sentinel against the first chapter of War and Peace and draw a conclusion that there is something there when in fact there isn't.

I won't be offended if you tell me I'm wrong.

OT - And in case you're interested - in the journal in Through the Looking Glass is the poem "Jabberwocky". Which, of course, Alice does not understand.

Cheers all

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 		Re: Alice in Wonderland
dthought wrote:
And in case you're interested - in the journal in Through the Looking Glass is the poem "Jabberwocky". Which, of course, Alice does not understand.


Which served as inspiration for a great classic SciFi short story by "Lewis Padgett" in 1943 called ""Mimsy were the Borogoves" in which:
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two children interpret Jabberwocky as rules to use to open a trans-dimensional conduit to transport them away from earth
(spoiler tags in case you want to find and read the story)

Connection?
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mikeyj wrote:
But for me the interesting thing is that there also seems to be a University, so we have a third academic institution in the city...what's the difference between the Academy and the University? And Marmalejo College for that matter.


three academic institutes in one city, especially one so big as PPC, is by no means unusual. manchester on its own has 4 institutes for higher education, 5 including salford and probably nearer 10 if you include the whole of greater manchester. plus we have a lot of colleges that are mainly for the 2 years pre-university but can sometimes do degrees as well.


Apart from the fact Manchester is exceptional in terms of uni's and number of Students, certainly in the UK, that wasn't my point. It seems to me that there is a functional distinction between the University and the Academy

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