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Demonstrably untrue theories
colinsapherson
Posts: 191
9/9/2012
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Has anyone had any ideas about the Neath that were subsequently disproved by more game content being added? Beliefs about how London worked when actually it just didn't? Then share your idiocy here for the world to see!
I encourage a format of saying what your theory was and how it was disproved. Such as:
Theory
The Soft-Hearted Widow was going to turn up as a major antagonist in the endgame. She was either pulling all the strings or was a Master in disguise.
Disproof
Her opportunity card appearing so we could donate to her charitable lodging work. And the fact that this was accompanied by closing the 'let's see the Soft-Hearted Widow' request on the feedback page.
Now I realise that because the endgame hasn't happened yet, this isn't conclusive proof. But I'm pretty confident. Also, it gives me space to transfer my suspicions to the Ambitious Barrister - never quite trusted that one...
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WordsLikeWeeds
Posts: 43
4/5/2013
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colinsapherson wrote:
Theory
The Soft-Hearted Widow was going to turn up as a major antagonist in the endgame. She was either pulling all the strings or was a Master in disguise.
Disproof
Her opportunity card appearing so we could donate to her charitable lodging work. And the fact that this was accompanied by closing the 'let's see the Soft-Hearted Widow' request on the feedback page.
The new options on the Widow's card indicate your theory might not be so wrong after all. There is, at least, more to her than meets the eye.
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Zmflavius
Posts: 53
4/13/2013
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With regards to Mr. Apples, I've read that the reference to the Garden of the Hesperides might not be the only theory. I've actually read a rather interesting theory, which examines the full description of Mr. Apples, "food, wood, and immortality," suggesting that Mr. Apples might be Jesus. The wood would be a reference to how Jesus was trained as a carpenter in his childhood, and the food and immortality are references to well-known motifs from the New Testament, ie, "whosoever eats of my body and drinks my blood has eternal life," which is symbolically represented with the bread of life, or the Eucharist.
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
4/13/2013
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Certainly, we perceive and use it as a language... of sorts... or perhaps a sort of runic magic... but the name always makes me think of the Hermetic or Swedenborgian theories of Correspondence - that the world of the mind corresponds to the world of the body, and that the laws of one thing are the laws of all things. As above, so below - and vice versa. As the movements of human bodies are governed by caprice, by economics, by whim, and by love, so are the movements of ancient powers, of celestial bodies.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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