C-SCA03 (Jul 29, 2022)
Puzzle
“Don't be Clueless at the Stanley Hotel—you'll shoot your eye out, dressed like that.”
Anachronistic Trivia | 1 Word
Clue
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Clue 1: What movie is the Stanley Hotel from? What about shooting your eye out?
Clue 2: And all three of them are dressed similarly - how so?
Clue 3: Any other movies, one with plaid anachronisms?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Braveheart
Explanation: Cher from Clueless, Jack Torrance from The Shining, and Ralphie from A Christmas Story all wear plaid. This would be incredibly out of place in Braveheart, as it is set in the late 13th century, and clan plaid would not have been formalized until the Victorian era.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[BRANCH] THE LAST CAFE
[SERVER] IV
[DATE] 7/29/22
[INDEX ID] SCA03
[SECURITY] CAFE
I was wondering why No. I needed to study the Society's Tomes. I suppose it makes sense now, in a way. He was looking for a way to replicate what we do in terms of time travel*. See—without getting into the terribly boring specifics of it, we use books to travel back in time**. We are able to do this because the words found in books were written at a very specific time, in a very specific place, by a very specific person. They hold memories, emotions, and the ever-slightest sliver of an author's soul. From that, with some other methods, we are able to travel back to when those words were first penned.
What No. I has done is circumvent one of the Society's greatest hurdles. To do what the Society does, we have had to build an extensive library with meticulous notes of when and where words were penned. No. I's "Soul Core Alpha," in theory, does not need that—it just needs a person who was there for where you want to go back to. That being said, if I understand No. I's idea correctly, this is not nearly as powerful as our own method of travel as—well, it isn't traveling at all. It's archival, or more so, the unearthing of archives lost to time. It is finding the words instead of following them.
What this means is that, no, we will not be traveling back in time to witness the Fall of Eden for ourselves. Not only would that be impossible it would be dangerous. Paradoxes, butterfly effects, and likely much worse would follow***. If the Soul Core works as intended, we should simply see things as they once were. It will be interesting to see if it works. I have my doubts that it will work as what we want to see happened so long ago… longer than the longest any of us can even fathom on a technical level. But perhaps a machine would not face the same limitations as we mortals do.
*We do not actually "time travel." It's more complicated than that, but time travel seems to be easier to convey what we do.
**Again, it's not… it doesn't work like that. But, for the sake of simplicity, let's say that it does.
***Goggins.