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Flake99 Started conversation Apr 14, 2003
Hello everyone,
I thought it might be useful to keep a log of plot lines that need to be resolved in the story. It's for my own benefit really, so if you think its a bad idea, just ignore me. Or tell me to stop.
OK, we need to explain how Raymond and X2 came to be the subjects of genetic engineering. what the purpose of the genetic engineering was.
Why there is too much silicon in the universe and what effect this has on it.
Why Mr and Mrs Joyce are aliens ('Utarians' i think) posing as humans.
How the small, green flannel works.
And, most importantly, why imagination is dying all over the universe.
I think thats all of them so far, if i've missed any feel free to add them.
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Laura Posted Apr 15, 2003
Good idea to have plot lines - could get a bit lost otherwise. X2 could be some sort of failed attempt to create an intelligent childrens' pet - hence the hat - but it all went wrong as X2 had to be given an over 18 only certificate.
Not sure about Raymond - my guess is that we don't find out what he's genetically modified for untill arount the end of the story, when everything should all fit together.
The silicon could be because people are using computers too much, and don't do enough of their own thinking.
Mr. and Mrs. Joyce could be on Earth because they prefer its gravity (using one of Jonathons' ideas here). Or something like that anyway. What they are doing as regards the genetic research program is another matter.
The small green flannel is powered by Oddy's imagination I thought - which explains why it didn't work properly when Oddy wasn't around.
Imagination dying could be linked to the silicon.
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Darkwin - the critical morass from terrarium Posted Apr 15, 2003
Yea, and the Utarians might have wanted to sieze the oppurtunity of unimagination (we'll have to use a simlar term) to their own advantage. How or Why? That should be answered later as 'the Utarians wanting to look for a planet to move to due to overpopulation' or something...
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Darkwin - the critical morass from terrarium Posted Apr 15, 2003
is there an antonym for that...
i thought it'd be interesting to come up with our own little word thing lol 
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Andy Posted Apr 15, 2003
I was trying to pull the Millennium bug into the 'too much silicon' line, which ties in nicely with societies over reliance on computer storage and the loss of imagination. The Millennium Bug, of course, turns out to be a big hoax, but when nothing happens the world doesn't say: "We've been had" they say: "Our strategy worked" and buy more computers.
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Laura Posted Apr 15, 2003
Hmmmmmm. Another alien? Or maybe gets made redundent at some point as everyone ends up happy and sets off to destroy the universe by taking over all TV channels.....
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Flake99 Posted Apr 15, 2003
Haha. Would be funny if it turned out every channel was showing his mindless, pointless chat show. Causing all the brain rot.
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Flake99 Posted Apr 15, 2003
I've just thought of another issue that needs explaining - why raymond 'heigh' needed an alias.
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Laura Posted Apr 16, 2003
I've wondered that one as well - it really needs to be added into the story while Raymond and X2 are avoiding the lab technicians. My guess is that either his actual name is impossible to pronounce, or he didn't have a surname previously. Or something. Or he tried to escape on a previous occasion, thought that chnging his name would mean that they couldn't find him, was wrong, and got recaptured....
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Andy Posted Apr 16, 2003
As I named the fella, here's a little 'back story'.
One day Raymond discovered the joys of illicit chat rooms, but having little imagination he always used his full name in everything he wrote. The problem was that everyone asked him how to pronounce it, which got in the way of, ahem, things. So, to simplify his on line life he started saying his name was Raymond Hay (the nearest the English language comes to pronouncing his real name). Eventually that got shortened to RayHay and, as he became more notorious among the denizens of that particular sector of cyberspace he was rechristened "Wahey!" A name that almost demands to be shouted.
He has a sister you know. And her name is Fay...
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Laura Posted Apr 16, 2003
who also appeared on a certain area of cyberspace, not that Raymond new this.
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Flake99 Posted Apr 16, 2003
So was his real name 'Raymond Heigh' and he changed it to 'Raymond High' when he saw the school? Or visa vera?
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Laura Posted Apr 16, 2003
His name was Raymond Hay, I think, which was changed to Raymond Heigh when passing Raymond High. 
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