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[SPEC] Eoin Morgan?
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Crane
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 		[SPEC] Eoin Morgan?
Remember Eoin Morgan, police chief?
An author called Eoin Colfer published a young adult book called "Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code". In the book, the plot revolved around recovering a microcomputer called simply The Cube from the people who stole it. Additionally, there was a line of a coded message at the bottom of each page (the message in the book is COMPLETELY unrelated to Perplex City, the book was published before it begun). Could it be that there is or will be a clue written in that code? The authors name, AND the book being about the search for a stolen cube is too big a coincidence surely?

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 		Actually, without the benefit of more concrete information I'd say it's fairly obviously a coincidence. You have two things that half match our game (half a name, and a cube that's a computer, whereas it seems like the Receda cube is something more amazing than that). Perhaps I'm wrong, but we have no way of knowing that at this time.

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 		Eoin's not that uncommon a name. It's a regional (Welsh?) variation on Owen.
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 		I would fFile this under allusion, or homage. It seems the PMs are sprinkling the whole game with subtle references to books they've liked. which is pretty cool. good fFind (but nothing more).
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 		I remember the name Eoin Colfer being used somewhere ig. I thought of the Artemis Fowl books aswell.

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Kastanok wrote:
Eoin's not that uncommon a name. It's a regional (Welsh?) variation on Owen.


It's Irish Gaelic, actually, and is the translation of 'John' (and closer to the name Evan). Owen is an anglicization of both Irish/Scots Gaelic and Welsh names (Eoghan/Ewan and Owain).

Morgan is Welsh.

(Sorry for the tangential name etymology post.)

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 		Yeah, you're probably right. It's probably just an homage...

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cassandra wrote:
Kastanok wrote:
Eoin's not that uncommon a name. It's a regional (Welsh?) variation on Owen.


It's Irish Gaelic, actually, and is the translation of 'John' (and closer to the name Evan). Owen is an anglicization of both Irish/Scots Gaelic and Welsh names (Eoghan/Ewan and Owain).

Morgan is Welsh.

(Sorry for the tangential name etymology post.)


Oh, thanks a lot for that. Fascinating Smile I feel quite guilty in getting to quite so wrong and thoroughly expect trouting by welsh and irish persons. Razz
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 		be funny if you were right tho Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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