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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:24:51 +0000

Active Cases of Program Scary-Scary

Subject 0 is the latest instance of an escaped subject from the top secret Project Fishery and Wildlife Adaptation team Program Scary-Scary, overseen by Dr Kirog Calanta. Other subjects that are believed to be associated with Program Scary-Scary.

Subject A - A large invisible bed based entity that hides in the small dark spaces beneath all beds in all places at all times. Subject A's translocative abilities are a mystery and Dr Kilrog has a lot to answer for with this one, let me tell you! The number of nights it has asked for a glass of water is astounding.
Subject M - lives inside pictures of flowers and moans quietly when no one is home. Subject M is very difficult to research because they're never active when anyone is watching. It is very hard to every have one hundred precent proof - other than the files recovered from the wreckage - that they a real thing.
Subject Y - Hides in tea pots and breathes tea. I don't want to think to hard on that one as the proposition it presents is truly frightening for all lovers of tea; which I am one!

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:03:07 +0000

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:09:26 +0000

The Assumed Origin of the Rainea Entity

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:11:06 +0000

The Assumed Origin of the Rainea Entity

There are many, many different assumed origins of the Rainea Rainbow entity.

It has been theorised that it may be of extraterrestrial origin, coming to earth from a distant star. This theory is questionable at best and quite ridiculous at worst as it assumes that colours are the same everywhere and everywhere has rainbows. Personally, am of the esteemed opinion that rainbows originate from Earth and uniquely created by sub atomic rumbling emanating from beyond human understanding.

That's just me though but the Mouse tends to agree.

Others have suggested that the Rainea is ancient, the last of a long lost, prehistoric culture of colour based lifeforms that latch onto humans subjects to anchor them into this existence. This is a frightening prospect, as it suggests this has been happening forever and we're only just recognising this situation now! I mean, surely we would have all seen a giant rainbow creature attached to a four year old!?! Maybe it can't always be seen? Maybe it is a colour from out of space and we're only seeing a part of it. More investigation is required. –Add your Name here:

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:32:33 +0000

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:06:52 +0000

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Posted by Neel Krishnaswami on November 20, 2003 at 08:43 PM

Here's a little roleplaying game that I've been toying with. I call it the Lexicon rpg, in honor of its inspiration, Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars.

The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers – the other players – on the construction of an encyclopedia describing some historical period (possibly of a fantastic world).

The game is played in 26 turns, one for each letter of the alphabet. Actually in this instance we it'll be twenty-three turns as as we're going to skip Q, X and Z as options letter options

1. On the first turn, each player writes an entry for the letter 'A'. You come up with the name of the entry, and you write 100-200 words on the subject. At the end of the article, you sign your name, and make two citations to other entries in the encyclopedia. These citations will be phantoms – their names exist, but their content will get filled in only on the appropriate turn. No letter can have more entries than the number of players, either, so all citations made on the first turn have to start with non-A letters. Essentially, you citations in the first turn start with the letter B through Y, excluding the letters Q, X and Z

2. On the second and subsequent turns, you continue to write entries for B, C, D and so on. However, you need to make three citations. One must be a reference to an already-written entry, and two must be to unwritten entries. (On the 25th and 26th turns, you only need to cite one and zero phantom entries, respectively, because there won't be enough phantom entries, otherwise.)

It's an academic sin to cite yourself, you can never cite an entry you've written. (OOC, this forces the players to intertwingle their entries, so that everybody depends on everyone else's facts.) Incidentally, once you run out of empty slots, obviously you can only cite the phantom slots.

3. Despite the fact that your peers are self-important, narrow-minded dunderheads, they are honest scholars. No matter how strained their interpretations are, their facts are accurate as historical research can make them. So if you cite an entry, you have to treat its factual content as true! (Though you can argue vociferously with the interpretation and introduce new facts that shade the interpretation.)

4. This little game will probably play best on a wiki, and it should take a month or so to play to completion. At the end of it, you'll have a highly-hyperlinked document that details a nice little piece of collaborative world-building.

The owner of the wiki should set the general subject of the Lexicon. I suggest that he or she make use of the technique of “open reference” when describing the historical period: “You are all revisionist scholars from the Paleotechnic Era arguing about how the Void Ghost Rebellion led to the overthrow of the cyber-gnostic theocracy and the establishment of the Third Republic.” What a cyber-gnostic theocracy is, or what happened to the first two republics, or what the Paleotechnic Era is are all unknown – they are named to specifically to evoke a mood and inspire the other players' creativity. (This is an idea which I've first seen in fully articulated form in the character creation rules for Robin Laws's Hero Wars game.)

From the Wikipeida Entry (which is much clearer)

Lexicon is a computer-assisted role-playing game invented by Neel Krishnaswami and popularised by the indie role-playing game community. As originally proposed, it is played online using wiki software. Players assume the role of scholars who write the history and background of a particular fictitious time, setting, or incident.[1] As the game goes on, the players collaboratively create an elaborately interwoven account.

Each game is a series of 26 turns, keyed to the letters of the alphabet from A to Z. On the first turn, each player must write an Encyclopedia-style entry beginning with the letter A, citing and linking to two entries that are not yet written. These are called “undefined” entries. Undefined entries must begin with a letter later in the alphabet.

The 25 subsequent turns proceed consecutively through the letters of the alphabet, one letter per turn. In a turn, each player writes one entry that begins with the turn's specified letter. If one or more undefined entries are available that begin with the letter, a player must choose and write an undefined entry before any new entries can be created under that letter. A new entry must create and link to two undefined entries, and must also link to an entry written on a previous turn. Near the endgame, when sufficient undefined entries exist to occupy all players for the remainder of the game, no new undefined entries may be created.

Many variants exist, such as covering two or three letters per turn, or starting each player on a different letter. Some games permit other players to post comments or expansions of earlier entries. The optional “Rule of X” treats X (or any other appropriate letter) as a wild card; entries for the X turn may begin with any letter. “Telephone pad” is a shorter variant with 8 turns (corresponding to the letters on a telephone keypad) instead of 26 turns (one per letter of the alphabet).

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**Posted by Neel Krishnaswami on November 20, 2003 at 08:43 PM**

From the Wikipeida Entry (which is much clearer)

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