GUT Conjecture

Welcome to the insanity causing musings of trying to find a Grand Unified Theory of whatever it is that the adventurers are experiencing with reality, and realms, and really they would be pleased to know anything about anything.

To keep a good record, please put the date and name with your reflections before you become mind-melted.

So Many Questions
9/25/2018 - Joshua - Questions - If you know the answer to any of these or have further questions, please post! Ovaltine decoder ring - do these actually decode? ie do they decrypt something coded. Also if applied to a book in a foreign language, do they just cause a single page to be readable or the whole book? Red Carpet healing factor - Do removed body parts grow back? eg if the tip of your pinky is removed, does it grow back? what about a hand or a foot? A kidney? A small or large part of skin? (asking this last part for a friend) DORA healing - we heal quickly (not as quick as Talent) and some changes can disappear - eg a implanted bomb in the skull will eventually go away. Is this healing unique to our group or do all DORAs have it? do body parts grow back? Why does our hair sometimes reset to its original length? Why did the Elves and zombies avoid the grapevine fields to the east of Beastkin San Angeles during the invasion? Why do we sometimes disappear and what factors control the length of time? Does this happen to DORAs who are not part of our group? Why do we not always appear where we disappeared from? Why were there no sign of the MIBs in the devastated Burlington?

What could this all be? Ideas
12/21/2018 - Joshua - Ruminations on our circumstances - Not in any particular order and I will add more/expand on my thinking when I have time.

We are in the Tommy Westphall Universe.

Brains in Mi Go Jars Advanced MMO

Therapy for insane people

Rats in a maze => studying specialised people and their affects on the reality around them to gain a better understanding of those kind of people.

We are a type of Fluctlights

Inside Yog-Sothoths spheres

Are we the people from before arriving here or are we copies of them

Are the memories of our previous existence being patchy/vague etc on purpose or a side effect of our situation.

A combination of several of the above

Instances of the same realms existing at times, different quantum states, then sometimes collapsing in, merging and sometimes one becoming the dominant quantum state (eg Greg Egan, Quarantine)

Multiple instances of the same realm - shadows of the realm? A Part of a test to see how events play out when different people are injected into a situation?

We have a flow on effect onto new Realms, with strong focuses manifesting eg Dr Morton/Blue.

DNA/Genetic Testing
3/30/2019 - Joshua MacKay - DNA/Genetic Testing - Freddy, Doc Yang & myself had our DNA tested in Cyberpunk Hong Kong

- We are first cousins. - we have Alien/synthetic DNA strands

The report will be left at the Embassy if anyone with appropriate knowledge wishes to see if more can be learnt from the results.

3/30/2019 - Aeolous - DNA/Genetic Testing - The scientists there were quite interested in studying us further. It seemed they were willing to do a fair bit for the opportunity, but we told them we would think about it and get back to them. This could potentially be worth quite a lot of money if we were willing to let ourselves be studied. Given that this is a fairly futuristic zone with lots of high-level technology, there may be risks involved (in terms of what they could potentially do with this information), or there may not. Does anyone have any objections in allowing the scientists to further study us if we were to gain a substantial amount from it? Obviously, we would do our best to secure a nondisclosure agreement of some sort on top of the promise that our DNA would not be used for anything outside of testing without our consent.

3/31/2019 - Aeolous - DNA/Genetic Testing - No actual figures were discussed, but they seemed awfully keen. I mentioned something about a "clean room" to Joshua (I needed one. Still kind of do, but too expensive) and they overheard me, seeming quite interested in allowing us to use it. The standard cleanroom that I found online costs around HK$8000 per hour and I needed one for possibly up to 2 days, which would be approximately HK$160,000. To give you a rough idea of how much that is: a big Mac is worth HK$70, a monofilament sword is worth HK$5000, a "standard/medium" translation earpiece is worth HK$5000, and a pair of VR glasses is worth HK$4000. I should also add that things are much more expensive if you don't have ID, assuming you are able to find someone willing to do business with you if you don't have one. It may be worth investing in some top of the range fake IDs. I believe Doc Fulton paid around $70,000 (in Night City, USA) for his false ID back in the day. I do not know what the price would be in Hong Kong. Also, a crappy smelly hotel charges around HK$2500 for 3 people without ID per day, opposed to only HK$400 if you have ID.

4/7/2019 - Joshua MacKay - DNA/Genetic Testing - We took the DNA testing to the next stage - some background folk (the Cooks in Burlington) and some Doras that were background folk - Darius & Claire from MMOland. Darius and Claire were concerned about their DNA getting into the hands of a private company due to their DNA possibly already being on file (as to if they have the same DNA as they did when in Night City is debatable). Abiding by their wishes we did not do the testing at a clinic. Instead we bought a high end home DNA testing kit called "Are you my daddy DNA testing kit". This kit gives a positive or negative result. With a positive occurring out to second cousin.

Darius and Claire came out as positive matches to myself, Glenn and Dana. The Cooks came up as negative.

The DNA tester is currently in the Embassy. If you wish to use it take it to a tech friendly location. It worked ok in Burlington. We just did it behind closed doors, out of site of the background folk.

Whether someone with medical and or programming knowledge can modify the kit to give better/more detailed results remains to be seen. We also consulted with a Psychic, Spencer at the village of Santa Clause in Gothic. He advised that we (Glenn, Dana & myself) were related and Merlin is our grandfather, firming up what we were starting to suspect and believe.

4/8/2019 - Joshua MacKay - DNA/Genetic Testing - So that would mean we are great grandchildren of Corwin, who is Merlin's father & King Random's brother and possibly great great (great?) grand-children of Benedict, another of Random's and Corwin's brothers.

4/8/2019 - Aeolous - DNA/Genetic Testing- So I guess that makes Random our Great Uncle?

Purpose of the Realms
3/13/2019 - Aeolous - The Red Pendent Book - Now I'm starting to wonder if the demons are everyone outside of the firewall and that whoever made our pocket shadow doesn't want them coming in. Or maybe not everyone – just some. After all, nobody on the other side of the firewall has been able to cross over into our pocket shadow, yet we do so freely into theirs. Saving the world could literally mean saving our pocket shadow. In fact, it may be that Zog is the one being kept out specifically, especially when you consider the message that was found in The Asylum about Zog's eye. Perhaps this eye is the red gem. I'm willing to wager that Random knows exactly what the firewall is and what it's there for. I'm going to stop thinking now. This is hurting what little of my sanity I have left.

Altering Realms until they are Different Ones
2/19/2019 - Joshua - [Encrypted] Revitalising Gotham - Having a better understanding as to what caused the world to devolve to the 50/60's may be worth looking into. Batman was more the modern version. He wasn't the 60's version. The world did not change until after his death. I think there are other factors. eg the removal of White and Brown changing. As to someone with business acumen, I don't know of anyone in our group. You may need to see if you can find someone in Gotham who is trustworthy. And get someone else to look over the contracts etc before you sign them.

2/21/2019 - Glenn James - [Encrypted] Revitalising Gotham - It would be a huge effort, but it seems like we could probably change a zone on the scale that you are talking about; however, we don't really have any reason to believe that it would change back to the way it was before as opposed to something else.

Origin of Tarot Cards
2/18/2019 - Doc Fulton - Trumps - So, I was thinking that the Tarot cards are a part of the Trump tree and someone is somehow feeding us the cards while working on their trump skills. Unseen Good Guys are helping...?

2/18/2019 - Joshua - Other Doras that are not part of our group are also getting Tarot cards. The gentleman with no fingers that you & I chatted to gave me a couple of tarot cards for us giving him info.

2/18/2019 - Aeolous - Wait. What about the ones in MMO Land? Have they gotten any? We may potentially be able to get more of them if that's the case.

2/18/2019 - Joshua - Has anyone checked to see if those from MMOland that can use Clems have gained Tarot Cards? eg those in the old Library? I'd forgotten to ask.

Linked Realms
3/11/2019 - Joshua MacKay - Magic in Beastkin - I’m hoping that the two Genova zones (the human and the Beastkin) are no longer linked due to us spending time in each of them, which hopefully caused them to become more real and their own distinct places

3/12/2019 - Joshua MacKay - Magic in Beastkin - We are currently not sure as to what has occurred in human Melwix has replicated to the Beastkin version. Based on circumstantial info (eg Alex Kinley being wanted by the crown in human Melwix and no word of this having reached Beastkin San Angeles even through more than enough time has passed to have allowed word/ warrants to travel between Genova and San Angeles) makes me believe the two zones have become seperate and travelling their own paths.

3/12/2019 - Joshua MacKay - Magic in Beastkin19th century Genova seems to be heading towards technology with magic waning. Not encountered any other zones that are directly linked. While some appear to be the past or future of other zones, when we have done a deep dive there were differences. That is we could not take knowledge of things such as horse race winners lotto numbers stock exchange from one to the other and make a profit.

Role of the Red Phone and MIBs
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