https://consolidatedpower.co/~donald/zero/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=208.58.213.202&feedformat=atomHighway 0 - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T10:20:22ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.34.0https://consolidatedpower.co/~donald/zero/index.php?title=Bureau_of_Reclaimed_Spaces&diff=3635Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces2021-06-08T18:22:14Z<p>208.58.213.202: /* Third floor (bears) */</p>
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<div>{{Highway<br />
| Title = BUREAU<br />
| Image = 0_bureau.png<br />
| Route = 65<br />
| Direction = clockwise<br />
| Left = The scare-crow<br />
| Left link = The scarecrow<br />
| Right = The crystal<br />
| 2Route = 65<br />
| 2Direction = counterclockwise<br />
| 2Left = The crystal<br />
| 2Right = The jaws<br />
| 2Right link = The jaws<br />
| Height = 456px<br />
}}The '''Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces''' is an institution that assigns new uses to spaces deemed underused. Its offices are built into the side of a cathedral with architecture partially inspired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bride%27s_Church,_East_Kilbride St. Bride's Church of East Kilbride]. Its location between the [[Echo River]] and the main circuit of the {{ZeroLink}} make it a hub of underground travel.<br />
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== Layout ==<br />
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=== Lobby ===<br />
The lobby consists of a small dock with a reception desk and a waiting area. Niches in the walls contain clusters of television sets, each depicting different scenes. The [[Bureau of Secret Tourism]]'s phone, answering machine, and brochures sit on the waiting area coffee table.<br />
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Hermit crabs congregate along the edges of the dock during [[Will]]'s organ performance. Many have repurposed office supplies as shells.<br />
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=== First floor (clerks' offices) ===<br />
The clerks' offices are a relatively average office space — desks, computers, stacks of paperwork. [[Lula Chamberlain]], [[Rebecca Metzstein]], [[Ed Böhm]], and [[Ellen MacMillan]] can be found working at their desks while [[Rick]] idles beside the elevator.<br />
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=== Second floor (conference room) ===<br />
The conference room has a projector screen and a table of employees that watch Conway and Shannon as they pass. There's also a water cooler, coffee, and food. In the back is a small kitchen.<br />
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On a ledge across from this floor, [[Will]] can be found grilling crab beside a large pipe organ. If the player watches him, he will begin playing [[Music#Act_II|"Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces"]], and lights throughout the building will dim.<br />
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Once the lights are out, the conference begins a slideshow of "obscure corners of nameless interiors, astronomical diagrams projecting the distances between celestial bodies, a painting by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico Giorgio de Chirico], a list of 'unpopular anagrams.'"<br />
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=== Third floor (bears) ===<br />
The third floor is occupied by a group of bears that may have previously lived near the [[town]]. They sit among stacks of buckets, watching Conway and Shannon as they pass.<br />
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=== Fourth floor (archives and records) ===<br />
The fourth floor is crammed with tall stacks of filing boxes containing records beginning with A, B, C, D, E, and F. All other records are stored in unit C315 of the [[Random Access Self Storage]] facility.<br />
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=== Fifth floor (diagrams and drafts) ===<br />
[[Greg]] can be found working on the top floor. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Beethoven) Beethoven's Symphony No. 3] plays on a skipping record in the corner.<br />
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== Employees ==<br />
=== Current ===<br />
* [[Mary Ann]], receptionist<br />
* [[Lula Chamberlain]], senior clerk<br />
* [[Rick]], ingestion clerk<br />
* [[Wanda]], ingestion clerk<br />
* [[Rebecca Metzstein]], junior clerk<br />
* [[Ed Böhm]], junior clerk<br />
* [[Ellen MacMillan]], junior clerk and "documents czar"<br />
* [[Greg]], interior spatial analyst<br />
* [[Luis]]<br />
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=== Former ===<br />
* [[Weaver Márquez]], intern<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Bureau front.png|Arrival at the Bureau<br />
File:Bureau.png|Overview of the Bureau building<br />
File:Lula.png|Lula at work<br />
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[[Category:Locations]]<br />
[[Category:Act II]]<br />
[[Category:Act III]]<br />
[[Category:Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces|*]]</div>208.58.213.202https://consolidatedpower.co/~donald/zero/index.php?title=Weaver_M%C3%A1rquez&diff=3634Weaver Márquez2021-06-04T14:44:06Z<p>208.58.213.202: /* Name & references */</p>
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<div>[[File:Weaver.png|thumb|150px|right|''WEAVER: Nice to know you, Conway. Keep your eyes open. Especially in the dark!'']]<br />
'''Weaver Márquez''' is a gifted mathematician and [[Shannon]]'s cousin and childhood friend. A mysterious woman with a semi-mystical<br />
presence, Weaver guides [[Conway]] and Shannon to the {{ZeroLink}} in [[Act I]].Shannon describes her as having had trouble focusing in high school, saying, "She was so smart, but always going off in different directions, mind racing, like five conversations going on in her head at once and you're lucky if even one of them is with someone in the room." She has a tendency to mysteriously disappear.<br />
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== Life and work ==<br />
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Her childhood residence was the [[Márquez Farmhouse]], constructed at 100 Macondo Lane on top of a hill after her family bought the land. Weaver left her family after learning of their massive debt incurred by the farmhouse. At one point, she was an intern at the [[Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces]], but quickly grew bored; here she befriended [[Lula Chamberlain]], who she remained penpals with after her internship ended.<br />
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Weaver studied mathematics in university. At this time, she also worked as one of [[Donald]]'s research assistants for [[XANADU]]. Along with translation work for the Bureau, she used math to help translate between Spanish and English. She is the inventor of The Formula, used at the [[Hard Times Distillery]]. <br />
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Weaver also previously worked at [[WEVP-TV]], where she handled the archives. According to [[Dashiell]], she had a "head for signals." In [[Act IV]], [[Mimi]] recounts how Weaver suddenly disappeared from the station, although this was not uncommon given the station's transient workforce. However, following her disappearance, a pirate signal began mysteriously intercepting the station's broadcast, transmitting a video in which Weaver stood in the middle of the studio, facing the camera, and mumbled a strange, indecipherable message that came through only as a sinister-sounding hum. The video came with on-screen captions using a non-standard font, which repeated on loop:<br />
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:''"Go underground, as deep as you can go. The air is cool and the earth is damp, and when you close your eyes you are surrounded by the dead. Remember where that is? You'll find your way from there. I think this place is what you're looking for. Some of it will wash away soon, but I think you'll be happy here, even without the mail, school, and these magnificent, tragic horses."''<br />
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This same video appeared dozens of times over multiple years before the station was wiped out by a [[Un Pueblo De Nada|flood]]. Mimi remarks that the video of Weaver may have been the station's last broadcast before the flood.<br />
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== Family ==<br />
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Weaver is the cousin of [[Shannon Márquez]]. Her parents are [[Remedios Márquez]] and [[J. Márquez]].<br />
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== Name & references ==<br />
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Weaver is named after scientist and mathematician [[wikipedia:Warren Weaver|Warren Weaver]] and the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]. Her and her cousin's names reference the [[wikipedia:Shannon–Weaver model|Shannon–Weaver model]] of communication, used in the fields of information theory and telecommunications, and the street name and number of their family's farmhouse, 100 Macondo Lane, are references to the town of [[wikipedia:Macondo|Macondo]] in Márquez's novel ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''.<br />
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In [[Act I]], Weaver asks Conway, "Which of your parents was it who wouldn't allow you to watch television?", a near-direct quote from the play ''[[wikipedia:Equus (play)|Equus]]''.<br />
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Per the {{V&A}}, Shannon's framing of Weaver – "But Weaver's not a puzzle. She's a mystery." – is a reference to the writings of Gregory Treverton. Treverton differentiates the concepts by describing a puzzle as something solvable if information was not being withheld, while a mystery provides too much information with no guarantee of relevance; puzzles can be solved, but mysteries can only be framed.<br />
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[[Category:Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Márquez family]]<br />
[[Category:Act I]]<br />
[[Category:Un Pueblo De Nada]]<br />
[[Category:Act V]]</div>208.58.213.202https://consolidatedpower.co/~donald/zero/index.php?title=Weaver_M%C3%A1rquez&diff=3633Weaver Márquez2021-06-04T14:10:02Z<p>208.58.213.202: The third sentence in this first paragraph used to be" She is often cryptic, but never lies." I deleted it because seriously what the hell is that?</p>
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<div>[[File:Weaver.png|thumb|150px|right|''WEAVER: Nice to know you, Conway. Keep your eyes open. Especially in the dark!'']]<br />
'''Weaver Márquez''' is a gifted mathematician and [[Shannon]]'s cousin and childhood friend. A mysterious woman with a semi-mystical<br />
presence, Weaver guides [[Conway]] and Shannon to the {{ZeroLink}} in [[Act I]].Shannon describes her as having had trouble focusing in high school, saying, "She was so smart, but always going off in different directions, mind racing, like five conversations going on in her head at once and you're lucky if even one of them is with someone in the room." She has a tendency to mysteriously disappear.<br />
<br />
== Life and work ==<br />
<br />
Her childhood residence was the [[Márquez Farmhouse]], constructed at 100 Macondo Lane on top of a hill after her family bought the land. Weaver left her family after learning of their massive debt incurred by the farmhouse. At one point, she was an intern at the [[Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces]], but quickly grew bored; here she befriended [[Lula Chamberlain]], who she remained penpals with after her internship ended.<br />
<br />
Weaver studied mathematics in university. At this time, she also worked as one of [[Donald]]'s research assistants for [[XANADU]]. Along with translation work for the Bureau, she used math to help translate between Spanish and English. She is the inventor of The Formula, used at the [[Hard Times Distillery]]. <br />
<br />
Weaver also previously worked at [[WEVP-TV]], where she handled the archives. According to [[Dashiell]], she had a "head for signals." In [[Act IV]], [[Mimi]] recounts how Weaver suddenly disappeared from the station, although this was not uncommon given the station's transient workforce. However, following her disappearance, a pirate signal began mysteriously intercepting the station's broadcast, transmitting a video in which Weaver stood in the middle of the studio, facing the camera, and mumbled a strange, indecipherable message that came through only as a sinister-sounding hum. The video came with on-screen captions using a non-standard font, which repeated on loop:<br />
<br />
:''"Go underground, as deep as you can go. The air is cool and the earth is damp, and when you close your eyes you are surrounded by the dead. Remember where that is? You'll find your way from there. I think this place is what you're looking for. Some of it will wash away soon, but I think you'll be happy here, even without the mail, school, and these magnificent, tragic horses."''<br />
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This same video appeared dozens of times over multiple years before the station was wiped out by a [[Un Pueblo De Nada|flood]]. Mimi remarks that the video of Weaver may have been the station's last broadcast before the flood.<br />
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== Family ==<br />
<br />
Weaver is the cousin of [[Shannon Márquez]]. Her parents are [[Remedios Márquez]] and [[J. Márquez]].<br />
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== Name & references ==<br />
<br />
Weaver is named after scientist and mathematician [[wikipedia:Warren Weaver|Warren Weaver]] and the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]. Her and her sister's names reference the [[wikipedia:Shannon–Weaver model|Shannon–Weaver model]] of communication, used in the fields of information theory and telecommunications, and the street name and number of their family's farmhouse, 100 Macondo Lane, are references to the town of [[wikipedia:Macondo|Macondo]] in Márquez's novel ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''.<br />
<br />
In [[Act I]], Weaver asks Conway, "Which of your parents was it who wouldn't allow you to watch television?", a near-direct quote from the play ''[[wikipedia:Equus (play)|Equus]]''.<br />
<br />
Per the {{V&A}}, Shannon's framing of Weaver – "But Weaver's not a puzzle. She's a mystery." – is a reference to the writings of Gregory Treverton. Treverton differentiates the concepts by describing a puzzle as something solvable if information was not being withheld, while a mystery provides too much information with no guarantee of relevance; puzzles can be solved, but mysteries can only be framed.<br />
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[[Category:Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Márquez family]]<br />
[[Category:Act I]]<br />
[[Category:Un Pueblo De Nada]]<br />
[[Category:Act V]]</div>208.58.213.202