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SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
God bless you, Time Cube.

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WobblySausage
Nov 7, 2014

SHISHKABOB posted:

God bless you, Time Cub.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
its gone guys

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

WobblySausage posted:

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At first we see an eye. Closed and slowly it opens up and looks
around. Later we get a full view of a man lying on the floor
in a strange-looking room. 4 walls, 1 ceiling, 1 floor. 6 sides
just like a cube. There is a kind of door on each side. Each
door has a handle. On the walls are weird-looking pictures.
They doesn't seem to look like anything seen before. The man
stands up in the middle of the room. The camera pans around him.
Then he makes some sounds and opens a door in one of the walls.
As he looks in to the open door, he sees a new room like the one
he is located in, but the light in the new room is blue. He
turns around and the door closes by itself. Then he opens the
door in in the floor. Under that door, there's a new room
excatly like the first, but in this room the light is red.
The door closes. He opens a new door in one of the walls.
The light in there is red. He looks back and then crawls into
the new room. As he lands on the floor in the new room it makes
a loud sound, and then the door closes behind him. He takes one
step, and then there is a loud sound. The man stands still.
Slowly he begins to bleed, and slowly his body begins to fall
apart. As the last parts of his body hits the floor, we see
a sort of trelliswork. First it moves to the floor, and
afterwards it is being folded up.
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TITLE AND INTRO
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A man lies on the floor. A door is open beside him. Slowly
we see a hand trying to find something to hold on to. A man
crawls up from the hole.
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QUENTIN

Hey...


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Quentin closes the door in the floor. He sits down beside the
man lying on the floor and tries to wake him.
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QUENTIN

Hey...


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Quentin stands up and opens a door in one of the walls. He
looks into a new room. Red light. He closes the door again.
The man from before is now awake. We hear a sound from one of
the other doors in the walls. Quentin stands beside the door
preparing to attack whatever that comes out from there. As
someone looks out, Quentin grabs her by the neck, throws her
to the floor and tries to beat her, until he realises that
it is a lady. The lady screams, and sits down in a corner
of the room.
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QUENTIN

I'm sorry... It's alright, I'm not gonna hurt you.


HOLLOWAY

What do you want?


QUENTIN

I thought you were...


HOLLOWAY

What?


QUENTIN

I don't know...


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We hear a loud sound and everybody in the room looks around.
As the sound stops, someone screams for help. Quentin opens
a door real fast. As the camera switches to a new angle, we
see a girl in a red room screaming for help. When she sees
Quentin she walks towards him.
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QUENTIN

STOP!


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Quentin crawls into the room.
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LEAVEN

What, what?


QUENTIN

It's ok, come here.


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Quentin helps Leaven into the room where the others are
located. Holloway helps Leaven out, but not good enough,
because Leaven falls and drops her glasses. Leaven sits up
against a wall and Quentin comes towards her.
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QUENTIN

It's ok, calm down, evrything's gonna be fine.


HOLLOWAY

What was in there?


QUENTIN

Just give me a minute to figure things out.


HOOLOWAY

Why are you afraid of that room?


QUENTIN

Just give me a minute I said.


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The door in the ceiling is being opened. We see an old man.
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QUENTIN

How many people are in this thing? Listen! We can't go
climbing around in here.


HOLLOWAY

Why not?


QUENTIN

There's traps.


HOLLOWAY

What do you mean, traps?


QUENTIN

Ubitraps. I looked into a room down there and something almost cut my

head off!


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The old man crawls down to the others, while Quentin talks
about the traps. Leaven breathes heavily.
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HOLLOWAY

Holy God, holy, holy God!


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The old man sits down and begins to untie his shoe. Leaven
suddenly hugs Quentin. Holloway sits down beneath Worth.
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HOLLOWAY

Are you alright? Mister? Worth?


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Holloway gets the attention from Worth.
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QUENTIN

Alright?


WORTH

I hit my head?


HOLLOWAY

Let me take a look at that. It's ok, I'm a doctor, it doesn't
look bad.


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The old man stands up.
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QUENTIN

What the hell are you doing?


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The old man opens a door and now looks into a blue room.
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QUENTIN

Hey old man?


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The old man, Rennes, throws his boot into the room. An
incinerator quickly burns the boot. Rennes pulls the boot
back and then the door closes. Rennes drops the boot on the
floor.
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RENNES

Motiondetectors integrated in the walls. Tough to spot.


LEAVEN

Oh God, oh God, oh God.


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Rennes is on his way to open a new door.
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QUENTIN

Wait a second! Let's all just relax for a minute. Does anybody remember

how they got here?


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Long, nervebreaking silence.
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HOLLOWAY

Perogies! I was eating dinner. Perogies, cheese and potato. I ran out of

sour cream and then I went to the fridge and then I... I don't know...


QUENTIN

You... Leaven?


LEAVEN

I... I just went to bed and then


QUENTIN

What about you?


WORTH

I just woke up here.


HOLLOWAY

Middle of the night. It's like Chile. They always come in the
middle of the night.


LEAVEN

Who?


HOLLOWAY

Only the government can build something this ugly.


QUENTIN

Oh, it ain't government.


HOLLOWAY

Then what is it.


QUENTIN

I don't know.


HOLLOWAY

Aliens!


QUENTIN

Please, we're spooked anough as it is. Let's rule out aliens from now on

and concentrate on what we know.


LEAVEN

My mom's gonna freak...


QUENTIN

Rennes...


LEAVEN

Just won't be there...


QUENTIN

What do you think Rennes?


RENNES

We don't solve the act, sitting still. I'm moving at this straight line,

till I get to the end.


QUENTIN

Alright, I attend to agree.


LEAVEN

Shouldn't we wait here? To see if anybody comes.


WORTH

No one is gonna come.


QUENTIN

There's a way in here, so there's gotta be a way out. We can avoid the

traps using the boot. Holloway is it. What do you think? For an exit?


HOLLOWAY

Ok.


QUENTIN

It can't be that simple.


RENNES

It ain't gonna be that simple. Take a look around. Take a
good long look around, see it. Coz, I got a feeling it's
looking at us.


LEAVEN

I just wanna wake up...


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Leaven blinks with her eyes several times. Quentin sits down
beneath her.
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QUENTIN

Leaven, we can do this. We just have to stay calm, and work
together as a team. There's gotta be a lot of people
looking for us on the outside. I'm a cop, alright?


LEAVEN

You're a cop?


QUENTIN

Yeah... I'm gonna get you out of here, I promise, but you
gotta be with me on this one...


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Leaven nods.
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LEAVEN

Ok.


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Rennes opens a new door, waiting for Quentin to give "signal"
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QUENTIN

Boot it!


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Rennes throws the boot, nothing happens.
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RENNES

Clean.


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Through several times of boot-throwing we see other rooms, with
other colors on the walls. On the way to a new green room,
Leaven notice some numbers in the passage between two rooms. A
loud sound is to hear.
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HOLLOWAY

That one sounded closer.


RENNES

It's mechanical. Seems to come at regular intervals.


QUENTIN

Maybe it's the ventilationsystem?


RENNES

No bets...


HOLLOWAY

No kidding, I'm boiling


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Leaven looks at the numbers again: 566 472 737. Above these
numbers are some others: 476 804 539.
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QUENTIN

What is it, serial numbers?


HOLLOWAY

Room numbers, they're different in each room.


WORTH

Oh great, so there's only 566 million 400.000 rooms in this thing.


HOLLOWAY

There'd better not be! We have about three days without food and
water before we're too weak to move.


LEAVEN

They have to feed us, don't they?


QUENTIN

Holloway!


HOLLOWAY

Oh, we have heat, stress, physical exhaustion i.e. dehydration,
headaches, dizziness, disorientation, confusement. Mental process.
The body eventual begins to break down it's own tissue.


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Rennes rips a button of Holloway's shirt.
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RENNES

Suck on it... Keeps the saliva flowing.


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Again the boot lands in a new room. This time, it's red.
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QUENTIN

What?


RENNES

The air seems dry in there.


HOLLOWAY

Trapped?


RENNES

Molecular chemical sensor.


QUENTIN

Why the hell didn't the boot set it off.


RENNES

The boot's not alive. It detects hydrogen-sulfide extruded from
the skin.


QUENTIN

How come, you know so much about sensors, Renz?


RENNES

Rennes... Not Renz! It's french!


QUENTIN

Fine, you're french. I'm asking how...


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Rennes opens a new door and throws the boot.
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QUENTIN

Rennes... Sensorexpert... With the right age... I don't believe
it...


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Quentin laughs.
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QUENTIN

This guy is The Wren...


HOLLOWAY

The what?


QUENTIN

The Wren. The bird of Attica. through the coop on six major
prisons.


RENNES

Seven!


HOLLOWAY

You're kidding right?


LEAVEN

You can get us out?


RENNES

Maybe.


HOLLOWAY

An escapeartist!


RENNES

Yes, I'm Harry "loving" Houdini. The only reason I dragged you
so far, is cause I need your boots. If you're not smarting up
I'm gone like that. No more talking... No more guessing. Don't
even think about something which is not right in front of ya.
That's the real challenge, you gotta save yourselves from
yourselves.


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Rennes jumps into the new room. We hear a click.
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RENNES

Merde.


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Rennes gets acid in the face. He screams, and the door closes.
In the other room, the door begins to open.
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QUENTIN

Get him out!


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Rennes' head is partly dissolved. He screams quietly, because
he has blood in his mouth. The others scream too. They lay him
in a corner. After a little while they look to him again.
He's dead, most of his head his been dissolved.
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QUENTIN

So it was electrochemical or whatever, right? And he missed it.
The Wren... That's great, that's loving great.


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Quentin turns the corpse of Rennes around with a foot.
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QUENTIN

Alright... It's time to reassess this place.


HOLLOWAY

I've been over it again and again, why would they throw
innocent people in here? Are we being punished?


LEAVEN

I've never done anything to deserve this!


QUENTIN

Forget about all that! You can't see the big picture from in
here. So don't try. Keep your head down. Keep it simple.
Just look, look at what's in front of you.


WORTH

That's what he said.


QUENTIN

Start with us. We got an escapeartist and a cop.
There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor Holloway.
That gives you a function, a reason, right?


HOLLOWAY

No, it just makes me go: "Why me, and not one
of the ten million other doctors out there"!


QUENTIN

Leaven. What are you?


LEAVEN

Nothing, I jst go to school, hang out with my friends.


QUENTIN

What else?


LEAVEN

There is nothing else. My parents are these people
I live with them... I'm boring.


HOLLOWAY

I think we have to ask the big questions: What does it want? What is it

thinking?


WORTH

One down, four to go.


QUENTIN

Why don't you tell us what your purpose is Worth!


WORTH

I've wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an
officebuilding, doing officebulding stuff. I wasn't
actually bursting joie de vivre before I got here. Life
just sucks in general.


HOLLOWAY

I can't stand that attitude.


LEAVEN

Because, he's right.


QUENTIN

Whatīs your purpose Quentin?


QUENTIN

Kids.. Three of them... I haven't made my piece yet.
I'm getting out of here no matter what. That's where
my strength comes from. You people find yours wherever you
got it. For Christ's sake. What do you live for? Don't you
have a wife or a girlfriend or something?


WORTH

Nope, I got a pretty nice collection of pornography


HOLLOWAY

Nice, nice. I ain't got anyone either, but I'm not giving
up. I'm pissed off. The came into our homes. They stripped
us bare. They took my rings. They took my... my amethyst.
I wanna know who's responsible.


QUENTIN

Leaven, your glasses? You don't need them?


LEAVEN

Only for reading.


QUENTIN

Well, they took off her jewelry, but they must have put
these on you. If nothing is random... why are they here.


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Quentin opens a door in the wall. We see three numbers:
582 434 865. On the other side there's the numbers: 149 413 568.
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QUENTIN

Leaven, what do you read in school? Math?


HOLLOWAY

What can they mean?


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Leaven takes the glasses and begins to study the numbers.
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LEAVEN

149?


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Leaven opens a new door. The numbers we see are: 645 372 xxx
-649
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LEAVEN

Primenumbers. I can't believe I didn't see it before.


QUENTIN

See what?


LEAVEN

It seems like if any of these numbers of prime, then the room is
trapped. Ok, 645... 645, that's not prime. 372... no. 649...
Wait, 11 x 59, it's not prime either. So that room is safe.


QUENTIN

Wait, wait, wait. How can you make that decision based on one
primenumbertrap?


LEAVEN

I'm not. The incinerator thing was prime: 083. The
molecularchemical thing had 137, the acidroom had 149.


HOLLOWAY

You'd remembered all that in your head?


LEAVEN

I have a facility for it.


QUENTIN

Leaven, you beautiful brain... Boot it.


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Holloway throws the boot. Nothing happens.
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QUENTIN

Ok, out of the way.


LEAVEN

Brains before beauty.


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Leaven jumps into the room............... Nothing happens......
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LEAVEN

SAFE! Primenumbers! Primenumbers! Primenumbers! Primenumbers!


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The camera pans around for some time. First we see the numbers:
656 778 462, then we see Leaven thinking.
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LEAVEN

How long have we been in here


QUENTIN

Nine or ten hours.


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We see a door closing. Then we see Leaven rubbing her eyes.
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HOLLOWAY

How do you know?


QUENTIN

5 'o clock stubble. the last thing I remember was shaving.


LEAVEN

I guess I missed breakfeast... or lunch... or whatever


QUENTIN

Now don't worry. I'll be home in time for dinner.


LEAVEN

If we get out, I'l make you dinner.


QUENTIN

You got a date.


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Quentin opens a door and Leaven looks at the numbers inside.
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QUENTIN

Doing good.


HOLLOWAY

I need to smoke! I could smoke a butt of a sidewalk.


QUENTIN

Holloway... Just real yourself in a bit. Come on. Were moving
along, things are looking up.


HOLLOWAY

Ok. You're right, I quitted smoking years ago. I just need to
be occupied.


QUENTIN

Talk to me. Have a conversation. What kind of doctor are you
anyway?


HOLLOWAY

Uh, you know, the free kinda... Er, come on help me. Tell me
about your rugrats.


QUENTIN

Ok. We have three boys. Nine, seven and five.


HOLLOWAY

Oh, good God. Poor woman. There's no way I'd survived that.


QUENTIN

She didn't either................. She's not dead, we're just
separated.


HOLLOWAY

I'm sorry, I can't just shoot the breeze.


LEAVEN

These numbers aren't prime.


QUENTIN

Ok. Clear.


HOLLOWAY

Excuse me, sorry.


QUENTIN

You could try and help me out here buddy.


WORTH

No, I couldn't


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The group crawls into the new room. Shortly afterwards they are
in a green room, with everyone looking down in a new room.
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LEAVEN

This one is trapped too.


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Quentin closes the door.
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HOLLOWAY

We have to backtrack?


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Quentin looks up.
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QUENTIN

Not yet.


LEAVEN

Oh, no.


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Everyone looks up on the door. the Quentin looks at Leaven.
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LEAVEN

Read them to me.


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Quentin takes of his shirt. Leaven is ready to hold it.
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HOLLOWAY

What are you? His coatrack? Oh please.


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Quentin begins to crawls up to the door. As he wants to open
the door, he says:
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QUENTIN

It's stuck!


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As Quentin opens the door, a guy falls down and almost hits
Leaven. Quentin jumps down and the new guy stands up.
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KAZAN

This room is green.


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Kazan begins to knock his head into the wall.
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QUENTIN

Holloway.


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Holloway now looks at Kazan.
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HOLLOWAY

Hi there.


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Holloway puts a hand on Kazan's forehead.
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KAZAN

This room is green.


HOLLOWAY

Yes it is.


KAZAN

I wanna go back to the blue room.


QUENTIN

Is it shock or what?


HOLLOWAY

I think he's mentally handicapped.


KAZAN

I like the blue room.


QUENTIN

Jesus Christ!


LEAVEN

He almost broke my neck.


HOLLOWAY

Hey there, are you all alone? Do you wanna hold my hand, honey?


KAZAN

Butter first, then honey, Kazan. Butter first then honey.


LEAVEN

How did he survive?


KAZAN

I wanna go back to the blue room.


HOLLOWAY

There's lots of blue rooms. We'll find another one to you
real soon.


LEAVEN

This is just way too bizarre.


HOLLOWAY

Will you just worry about your own numbers...


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Leaven looks molested.
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HOLLOWAY

Go on, I'll look after him.


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Leaven points at the ceiling.
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LEAVEN

Safe, obviously. Since he almost fell on my head.


HOLLOWAY

Shall we go for a walk? Kazan, do you wanna go for a walk?


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As Quentin begins to crawl up to the door. Kazan gets
terrified. He hits himself with the one hand on his head.
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HOLLOWAY

Erm' Quentin. Let's not make him do the climbing thing right away.


QUENTIN

Holloway!


KAZAN

Holloway.


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The screen fades and next time we see something is in a new
room where Kazan opens a new door.
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HOLLOWAY

Could they have taken us all the way to New Mexico?


QUENTIN

What are you talking about Holloway?


HOLLOWAY

I'm talking about : "Where do you hide something this big?" It has at

least got to fill something.


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Holloway stands walks over to Quentin and stands beside him.
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HOLLOWAY

I'm sorry to shake your foundations Quentin, but you have no idea
where your tax-dollars go.


QUENTIN

Free clinic doctors?


HOLLOWAY

Only the military industrial complex can afford to build something
this size.


QUENTIN

Holloway, what's the military industrial complex? Have you ever been

there? I'm tellin' you, it's not that complex.


HOLLOWAY

And how would you know from where you are.


QUENTIN

What do you think these establishments is? It's just guys like me. Their

desks are bigger, but their jobs aren't. They don't conspide, they... buy boats. No,

this place is... Remember Scaramanga? The bad guy in "The Man With The Golden Gun".

It's some rich psyco's entertainment.


HOLLOWAY

Is that what you think?


LEAVEN

Clear!


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Holloway crawls into the passage.
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HOLLOWAY

Ok, you're a cop. Single bullet theory. Right on.


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As Holloway lands in the new room, she starts to lose her
breath. It seems like she's being choken.
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LEAVEN

Gas!


QUENTIN

Holloway! Get back here.


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But Holloway stays where she is.
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Quentin slaps Holloway in the face. He looks insulted.
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HOLLOWAY

God help you Quentin. Did you smack your kids around too?


LEAVEN

Is anybody besides me interested in what's on the other side of that

door?


QUENTIN

Open it.


WORTH

Door number six, not door number one, door number two.


QUENTIN

Open the loving thing.


HOLLOWAY

("singing") Sunshine.


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Worth opens the door. Now we see something completely black. Only with a little light

from rooms below and on the other sides. It's the edge, the shell.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


KAZAN

Nighttime.


WORTH

My old friend the shell.


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Worth crawls into the passage.
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WORTH

It's there. Morning!


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Now we hear a gigantic echo.
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QUENTIN

Hang on to me.


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Quentin crawls in and Worth crawls into the room again.
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QUENTIN

Can't see poo poo. Nothing to hang on to.


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Quentin crawls back.
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QUENTIN

We have to try something. We gotta see if the door's over there. Someone

has to swing over there and take a look. We make a rope of our clothes. Take it off.

I'll tie it onto myself.


LEAVEN

Yeah, you're gonna go. You weigh like 500 pounds it'll snap in two

seconds. I'm the lightest.


QUENTIN

Forget it.


HOLLOWAY

I'll go.


QUENTIN

I'm going Holloway.


HOLLOWAY

She's right Quentin, you're too heavy. I'm the lightest after Leaven.

Anyways it's my turn.


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As Quentin ties the clothes, Holloway and Worth talks together.
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HOLLOWAY

How long did you know people we're put in here.


WORTH

A couple of months.


HOLLOWAY

That's not long , if you consider your whole life.


WORTH

I am.


HOLLOWAY

You opened my eyes Worth, thatīs something.


WORTH

David.


HOLLOWAY

Helen.


WORTH

And such a Helen.


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Holloway begins to crawl outside the room. She's almost crying.
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QUENTIN

That's as far as you go.


HOLLOWAY

There's nothing down here. Hold tight. I'll try swinging over there.

Place yourself I'm gonna try again. Ok, one more time.


WORTH

Hurry, you're getting heavy.


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Third time Holloway tries to swing over to the shell there's a big crash. The others

now drops the grip of the rope. Quentin just reaches the end of the rope, as Holloway

is falling. The others graps Quentins feet as he is almost out fo the room too.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


HOLLOWAY

What the hell is going on?


QUENTIN

Get up here now!


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Holloway crawls up. In the end Quentin can reach her arm. First Quentin smiles,

Holloway smiles too. But then Quentin looks someway different. Holloway knows what is

going to happen.
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WORTH

Quentin...


LEAVEN

Do you got her?


WORTH

What's going on?


LEAVEN

Is she Ok?


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Quentin drops Holloway and crawls back into the room.
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QUENTIN

She... slipped.


KAZAN

Holloway.


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Leaven sits down i a corner. Quentin walks over to her.
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WORTH

Sssh! Come on Kazan. Kazan will you please stop doing that!


QUENTIN

Leaven, you gotta be strong sweetheart.


LEAVEN

Don't even talk to me.


QUENTIN

We gotta get down to the bottom. It'll be easier to get on to shell from

there. It's a long loving way with only one boot. But we gotta do it, before we get

too weak. You gotta keep cracking the numbers Leaven.


LEAVEN

I can't think anymore.


QUENTIN

Sure you can. It's your gift.


LEAVEN

It's not a gift, it's just a brain.


WORTH

Let her sleep for a while. We haven't slept for loving hours.


QUENTIN

Ok, one hour.


WORTH

How the gently caress are you gonna know how long an hour is?


QUENTIN

An hour is as long as I say.


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The group go to sleep. In the background weird music is to hear. After a little

while, we see someone taking the boot away from Worth. Then we see a hand holding

Leaven for the mouth. Then Quentin is bending towards Leaven and afterwards we see

him carry Leaven. The next we see is a door closing.
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LEAVEN

What are you doing?


QUENTIN

We have to make it down to the bottom. There'll be quiet there and you

can concentrate.


LEAVEN

Do you just wanna leave them?


QUENTIN

They're traps! We are the key. I get us down there. You think us out.

Believe in me. Try to see what I see, how my mind works. THRASH! When I look into

someone's head like a loving x-ray. I looked through the walls. I dreamed him at his

desk, designing everything. He can't let you solve the puzzle. There is a purpose. We

are the purpose. The cube is us.


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Quentin begins to touch Leaven.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

Quentin...


QUENTIN

We fit like numbers. A man and a woman. Two halves of the equation. I

take you down. The perfect key.


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Quentin goes further and tries to touch her breasts.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

I'll slip you on the lock.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven runs away. Quentin stands up.
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QUENTIN

Leaven... It's time to go down.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin tries to catch her. Meanwhile a door is being opened. Worth comes jumping

hitting Quentin to the floor. Kazan enters the room too. The door closes.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

Get away from her. Leaven, they're loving spy's. Him, the retard.

Holloway had outside information about my family. She went too far.


LEAVEN

You dropped her.


WORTH

Just go Quentin


LEAVEN

Give us the boot, you pig!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin turns around and suddenly hits Worth with the boot. Then he walks towards

Leaven.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

You don't want the boot.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Then Quentin again hits Worth several times. Afterwards he opens the door in the

floor.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

You wanna come with us Worth? Down the hatch.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin throws Worth down the hole in the floor. As Worth hits the floor, he starts

laughing.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

What the gently caress's with him?


--------------------------------------------------------------------
The others crawl down to Worth. He lies on the door, on the handle. As the camera

switches angle, we see a corpse with the face down. Quentin turns the corpse with his

foot. It's Rennes. Quentin drops the boot.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

How does he...?


WORTH

(laughing) It's The Wren, the old Renster.


QUENTIN

How could...?


WORTH

(laughing) We've been going in circles


QUENTIN

That can't be.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin grabs Leaven and opens a door.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

Where are we?


LEAVEN

I don't know.


QUENTIN

Where are we???


LEAVEN

You figure it out! You haven't done anything. All you do is freak out!

YOU MURDERER!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven starts crying. Worth stands up and laughs. Quentin sits down.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

You were right Worth. There is no outta here.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin starts crying. Kazan comes and touches his hair.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

(crying) Get away from me.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth stands up.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth opens the door to were Rennes was killed. There's nothing. All we see is black.

It's the edge, the shell.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

How come there's nothing out there.


QUENTIN

You see an edge.


WORTH

We were not at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?


QUENTIN

gently caress off!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin throws the boot after Worth, but the boot does not him it's being thrown out

of the room.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Oh, that was good.


QUENTIN

What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.


WORTH

HEY! Listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before! We haven't

been moving in circles, the rooms have!


LEAVEN

Of course.


QUENTIN

The rooms?


WORTH

That explains the thunder, the shaking. We've been shifting the whole

time.


LEAVEN

It's the only logical explanation. I'm such an idiot.


WORTH

What are you on to Leaven.


LEAVEN

Give me a minute. The numbers are markers point on a map, right?


WORTH

Right.


LEAVEN

And how do you map a point that keeps moving?


WORTH

Permutations.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven nods.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

Permu... what?


LEAVEN

Permutations. A list of all the co-ordinates the room passes through.

Like a map that that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves and

where it moves to.


QUENTIN

The numbers tell you all that?


LEAVEN

I don't know. I've only been looking at one point on the map, which is

probably the startingposition. All I saw, was how the cube looked like before it

started to move.


QUENTIN

Ok, so it's moving. How do we get out?


LEAVEN

27. I know where the exit is.


QUENTIN

Where?


LEAVEN

Stay away from me.


WORTH

Back off, Quentin!


QUENTIN

I just wanna know, don't you wanna know?


LEAVEN

You remember that room we passed through before, the one with the

co-ordinate larger than 26?


WORTH

What about it?


LEAVEN

That co-ordinate placed the room outside the cube.


WORTH

A bridge?


LEAVEN

Right, but only in it's original position.


QUENTIN

What are you talking about?


LEAVEN

Look, the room starts off as a bridge, then it moves it's way through the

maze, which is where we ran into it, but at some point it must return to it's

original position.


WORTH

So the bridge is just a bridge...


LEAVEN

... in a short period of time. This thing is like a giant

combinationlock, when the rooms are in their startingposition ht elock is open. But

when they move out of the linement the lock closes.


WORTH

Well the size of us... It must take days to complete a full cycle.


QUENTIN

So when does it open?


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Now we see Leaven doing some math again. Quentin crawls towards her.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

Don't! We find it's original co-ordinates by adding the numbers, the

permutations is found by subtracting the numbers. It's it. The room moves to 0, 1 and

-1 on the x-axis, 2, 5 and -7 on y, and 1, -1 and 0 on z.


QUENTIN

And what does that mean.


LEAVEN

You suck in math? Ok, I need the roomnumbers around as a referencepoint.


WORTH

666... 897... 466...


QUENTIN

567... 898... ok?


LEAVEN

Yes!


QUENTIN

And 545... Did you get that?


WORTH

656... 778... 462...


LEAVEN

That's enough. X is 17, y is 25 and z is 14. Which means this room makes

two more moves before returning to it's original position.


WORTH

Do we have time?


LEAVEN

Maybe...


QUENTIN

Then let's go.


WORTH

Can you work out the traps in the system?


QUENTIN

gently caress the traps, let's get to the bridge.


WORTH

Well you threw out our last boot, you loving idiot.


LEAVEN

Technically I can identify the traps.


WORTH

Technically?


LEAVEN

First I thought they were identified by primenumbers, but they're not.

They're identified by a number that are the power of a prime.


QUENTIN

Ok, so?


WORTH

Can you calculate that?


LEAVEN

The numbers are huge.


QUENTIN

But you can, right? You can?


LEAVEN

I have to calculate to numbers of factors in each set. Maybe if I had a

computer...


QUENTIN

You don't need a computer.


LEAVEN

Yes, I do.


QUENTIN

Figure it out!


LEAVEN

Yes, I do!


QUENTIN

I'm not dying in a loving ratmaze.


LEAVEN

Look! No one in the whole world could do it mentally! Look at the number:

567898545. There's no way I can factor that. I can't even start on 567. It's

astronomical!


KAZAN

Two... Astronomical.


WORTH

What did you say?


KAZAN

Astronomical.


WORTH

Before that...


KAZAN

Factors...


LEAVEN

How many factors Kazan? Of 567?


KAZAN

Two...


QUENTIN

What are you loving kidding?


LEAVEN

How many factors does 30 have?


KAZAN

Three...


LEAVEN

And seven?


KAZAN

One... Gumdrop.


LEAVEN

I don't have any gumdrops.


KAZAN

Gumdrop!


WORTH

Kazan, I'll give you a whole box of gumdrops for each answer.


KAZAN

Gumdrops come in bags.


WORTH

You want 'em in bags, you got 'em in bags.


KAZAN

I don't like the red ones.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth opens a door and tells the numbers to Kazan.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

8-9-8.


KAZAN

Two...


WORTH

5-4-5.


KAZAN

Two...


LEAVEN

He's giving us the factors.


KAZAN

Astronomical.


QUENTIN

You're telling me Tell-A-Son boy is a genius.


LEAVEN

By those numbers the room should be safe.


QUENTIN

There's only one way to find out.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin takes Worth and throws him into the room.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

LEAVEN

Don't!


WORTH

Safe.


QUENTIN

Kazan, my man!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin tries to make Kazan give him the factors.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

What's the numbers boy? Right here! Look here! Make him do it.


LEAVEN

Kazan, we gonna do some numbers, ok? We like to do numbers, right?


KAZAN

Primenumbers.


LEAVEN

That's right. Can you tell me the factors of 656?


KAZAN

Two...


LEAVEN

779...


KAZAN

Two...


LEAVEN

462...


KAZAN

Three...


LEAVEN

Clear.


QUENTIN

Move. Come on let's go. You too Worth. Move your scuddy rear end Worth, I'm

not through with you yet. Leaven open up that door, and get Einstein working on the

numbers.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
As Quentin has his head in the room, Worth closes the door and tries to choke

Quentin.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

Oh, Jesus!


WORTH

Go! Hurry!


QUENTIN

Leaven.


LEAVEN

563... Come on Kazan... 563...


QUENTIN

You fuckheads, you're dead!


KAZAN

Two...


LEAVEN

Clear...


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin gets his head out, and Worth closes the door. Next we see the number 384.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


KAZAN

One..


LEAVEN

Trapped!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth enters the room and closes the door.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Check the floor.


LEAVEN

Is he dead?


WORTH

Not quite.


QUENTIN

Not even close, Worth! When I'm finish I'll throw you in a loving trap

on the way out of here.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
On the other side of the door, we see Quentin opening the door.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

Where is he? Come here! I said come here riiight..........


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin falls down in the room under the floor. We see Worth hanging down there.

Afterwards Leaven and Kazan help Worth up from there.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Got ya. That way.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Now we see the number 805
--------------------------------------------------------------------


KAZAN

Two...


LEAVEN

Clear.


KAZAN

Four...


LEAVEN

Clear.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
The next door they open lead them to the edge again. This time there's much more

light out there.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Oh.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven puts her head outside the room, and quickly takes it back. A room is passing

by. When they open the door again, there's a room there.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

I guess that proves out theory. The numbers.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
We see two numbers: 206 911 xxx
--------------------------------------------------------------------


KAZAN

Four, two, three.


LEAVEN

Clear.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
They enter the new room, except Kazan, the room they just came from moves away.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN/WORTH

KAZAN!!!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
In the background we hear Kazan screaming.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

Listen. He hasn't moved far.


WORTH

I'm gonna find him. What do you think?


LEAVEN

You don't have a lot of lives left.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
We see Kazan in a red room. He's terrified. Then we see Worth entering a blue room,

then we see Leaven step on a piece of glass, the one from her glasses. Then we see

Worth in the ceiling of the red room with Kazan.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Kazan?


KAZAN

I didn't move.


WORTH

Yeah, good. Erm, you have to climb up here, ok?


KAZAN

I don't like that.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven opens a door and studies the numbers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

14... 26... 14... WORTH GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!!!


WORTH

Five bags of gumdrops?


KAZAN

27 bags total.


WORTH

27 bags, deal.


LEAVEN

Come here Worth, this room's next move takes it to the bridge.


WORTH

We're coming.


LEAVEN

Over here. Move it. We don't have much time come on.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth and Kazan crawls in to Leaven's room. Leaven closes the door. They just make

it, before the room moves. As we see the group again, they lie down.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Is that the end?

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Page Source shows indications that the domain has been parked, so I guess he forgot to renew the domain and the site is still out there. Domain registrations do not obey the rules of the cube.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
don't worry we still have http://cubicao.com/theory/index.html which magnificently explains Cubic wisdom to the stupid and evil

i suspect it was written by that kid who hung out with Gene for several days and taped their conversations but for some reason never produced it into a documentary

Radical and BADical!
Jun 27, 2010

by Lowtax
Fun Shoe

Gazpacho posted:

don't worry we still have http://cubicao.com/theory/index.html which magnificently explains Cubic wisdom to the stupid and evil

i suspect it was written by that kid who hung out with Gene for several days and taped their conversations but for some reason never produced it into a documentary

it kind of makes a weird sense. the mathematical concepts are a bit beyond me but even as a kid i figured it boiled down into some sort of quantum mathematics being explained by a brilliantly crazy hermit

WobblySausage
Nov 7, 2014

SHISHKABOB posted:

Is that the end?

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth and Kazan crawls in to Leaven's room. Leaven closes the door. They just make

it, before the room moves. As we see the group again, they lie down.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

Worth...


WORTH

Eaoh, it' better be it.


LEAVEN

It should be.


WORTH

Where?


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven opens a door, there's nothing behind it. She closes it again.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Ooh, arh.


LEAVEN

Give me a minute. Be patient. So guess what, this was the room we started

in. I was right, we should never have moved in the first place.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
The room starts to shake, it's moving. As it stops, Leaven opens the door. We see a

red room.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

The bridge.


KAZAN

Red...


LEAVEN

Kazan.


KAZAN

38079


LEAVEN

Clear!!!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
They enter the red room. Leaven closes the door. Kazan opens a new door. We see

daylight. Worth sits down.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

Worth???


WORTH

Go ahead.


LEAVEN

What are you doing. You can't quit now. It's not your fault!!!


WORTH

I have nothing to live for out there.


LEAVEN

Was is out there.


WORTH

Boundless human stupidity.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
In the background we hear a door opening.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


LEAVEN

I can live with that.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Leaven says some strange sounds, she rises. Behind her we see Quentin with a door

handle. Quentin has stabbed Leaven in the back. He drops her to the floor. He's

covered with blood. Kazan closes the door to the daily life.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Nooo!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Worth hits Quentin quite hard. But just after Quentin does the same to Worth.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


WORTH

Kazan get out to the door!


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Quentin stabs Worth with the handle. Worth falls to the ground. Quentin tries to

reach Kazan.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


QUENTIN

Red, Kazan.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Kazan opens the door. Meanwhile the room starts to move. As Kazan is outside the

room, Quentin grabs his t-shirt. As he is just halfway out he can't move anymore.

Worth holds Quentins leg. Quentin gets split up in two parts. Afterwards we see the

room move. There's blood on the inner cube. In the room again we see Worth crawl

towards Leaven. Halfway he stops moving he dies. The last we see of the movie is

Kazan looking at the inner cube, before he turns around and disappears into the

bright, white light.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

That Robot
Sep 16, 2004

ask me anything about robots
Buglord
gently caress time cube

time octagon is the new hotness

Pitdragon
Jan 20, 2004
Just another lurker
I was talking to a guy earlier today and he started trying to sell me on this idea that the earth was flat and was talking about how NASA is a hoax to get people to worship satan and there's this thing called the firmament that is like a globe or a dome around the earth but the earth itself is a flat disc that is standing on pillars and we're on the top side of the disc and underneath are pillars and also hell. He wasn't a crazy homeless and in fact is someone I've known for a while so the experience was sort of surreal. Now I get home and see that time cube is gone? Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something!

rabble rabble
Mar 24, 2015



Nap Ghost

Chinatown posted:

its gone guys

still?

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
From anonymous, the Time Cube Hip-Hop "NIGGAZ BE FEARIN' THE TIME CUBE TRUTH"

FLIP THE 8 TRACK, DIVIDE IT BY TWO,
4/16 TIME, WHAT THE gently caress YOU GONNA DO?
NIGGAS ASK "WHAT BE HAPPENIN' HERE?"
MAYBE IT'S TIME Y'ALL ACKNOWLEDGE YO' FEAR.
TIME CUBE PROOF'S ABSOLUTE, IMMUTABLE,
YOU'RE EDUCATED STUPID, YOU FIND IT INSCRUTABLE,
CAN'T FATHOM A 4 CORNER WORLD,
KICKIN' PHAT RHYMES FROM PAPYRUS I UNFURLED.

I'LL POINT OUT INADEQUACIES IN YOU, FOO,
YOUR RAP PROFESSOR IS EDUCATED STUPID TOO!
IT'S UP TO YOUTH TO FORCE THE EDUCATORS HAND,
SO WISE UP, OR YOU'LL INHERIT A BARREN LAND,
CUBELESS WORD ALLOWS THE EVIL TO RULE,
SO RISE UP, NIGGAZ, MAKE EM' TEACH CUBE IN THE SCHOOL,
DON'T ACCEPT CUBELESS EDUCATION,
CAUSE COMPARIN' TO CUBE IS LIKE SEX VS. MASTURBATION!

ACADEMIC IGNORANCE OF TIME CUBE DENIES LIFE,
DENIED LIKE LAST NIGHT WHEN I hosed YO' WIFE!
YOU MUST ADMIT THAT WORD ENSLAVES HUMAN MIND,
AND MY WORDS ARE MAKIN' Y'ALL THE COTTON PICKIN' KIND,
STUPID AND EVIL PEOPLE CALL ME CRAZY,
AND READIN' YO RHYMES I CAN'T HELP BUT GET LAZY,
MUTHAFUCKAS CAN'T OFFER ANY CONTEST,
FOR EVERY RHYME YOU GOT I SPIT 4 THAT'S BLESSED,
SO MEDITATE ON YOUR IGNORANT 1 CORNER LIFE,
'CAUSE I BE WAITIN' FOR ALLA Y'ALL TO END THE STRIFE.

OUT.

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
if you can't replicate the entirety of the timecube experience by skimming through thread titles in gbs, gbs has failed

Glorgnole
Oct 23, 2012

if you want to replicate the timecube experience you can buy dr. bronner's liquid soap concentrate. there's cool stuff on the labels and it's really good shower reading.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

yes

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Al Borland posted:

the future is now!

Now we're in the present.

And now this is the past.

no gently caress stop go back i dropped something

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
this is the worst day ever :mad:

TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

this is the worst day ever :mad:

first, betty white dies, then agag doesn't and now THIS

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Glorgnole posted:

if you want to replicate the timecube experience you can buy dr. bronner's liquid soap concentrate. there's cool stuff on the labels and it's really good shower reading.

the first time i noticed this was loving wild

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
it changed while i was re-reading it a few days ago, thought it was an ad redirect

am i the last person to have witnessed timecube in its true form?

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
the power of the TIme Cube is within you, go forth and prove them wrong

J.theYellow
May 7, 2003
Slippery Tilde

PoPcornTG posted:

Where did it go OP?

into time

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
I love cubes

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
onto a different simultaneous today, presumably

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

TwoFire posted:

first, betty white dies, then agag doesn't and now THIS

one of these things did not happen, you rear end in a top hat

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam

Pitdragon posted:

I was talking to a guy earlier today and he started trying to sell me on this idea that the earth was flat and was talking about how NASA is a hoax to get people to worship satan and there's this thing called the firmament that is like a globe or a dome around the earth but the earth itself is a flat disc that is standing on pillars and we're on the top side of the disc and underneath are pillars and also hell. He wasn't a crazy homeless and in fact is someone I've known for a while so the experience was sort of surreal. Now I get home and see that time cube is gone? Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something!

A very long time ago, I wrote a letter to the president of the International Flat Earth Society, posing as a school kid who believed in the flat earth. I asked him if he had a list of materials available that I could use to refute all the 'round-earth nonsense' that my geography teacher was spouting. I was hoping for a price list of materials and maybe a free pamphlet. He sent me so much stuff. I got maps that 'proved' the earth was flat. I got books, I got flyers, I got posters to put up in the classroom when the teacher wasn't looking. Crazy stuff. And it came with a hand-typed letter reminding to always trust my eyes and not believe it when my teacher claimed that 'the earth is a mud-ball, spinning!'

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

genesplicer posted:

A very long time ago, I wrote a letter to the president of the International Flat Earth Society, posing as a school kid who believed in the flat earth. I asked him if he had a list of materials available that I could use to refute all the 'round-earth nonsense' that my geography teacher was spouting. I was hoping for a price list of materials and maybe a free pamphlet. He sent me so much stuff. I got maps that 'proved' the earth was flat. I got books, I got flyers, I got posters to put up in the classroom when the teacher wasn't looking. Crazy stuff. And it came with a hand-typed letter reminding to always trust my eyes and not believe it when my teacher claimed that 'the earth is a mud-ball, spinning!'

do you still have this stuff because lol

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam

TEAYCHES posted:

do you still have this stuff because lol

I do have a bunch of stuff. Back when postage was $0.22, Ivan Stang, founder of the Church of the Subgenius, published a book titled "High Weirdness by Mail" where he talked about all the strange groups out there and how to contact them. This was basically pre-Internet. I had the book, and over several years I sent out letters to most of the people and groups listed. Each letter was carefully written to convince them I was a likely dues-paying candidate, and I got loads of stuff from many, many whackos.

Some were cute and fun. N.O.T.S.A.F.E. was an organization dedicated to pointing out how idiotic we have become in our quest to keep everything as safe as possible. They did this by acting like they were an advocacy group, and every issue of the newsletter had long lists of Things That Must Be Banned, which inevitably included their own newsletter "Due to the possibility of paper cuts."

Probably the scariest group was "The Church Of Jesus Christ, Christian". Their basic view was that the KKK was so far left they might as well call themselves jew-loving communists. They advocated some truly frightening stuff, as you can imagine.

Most of the propaganda I was sent by these groups is stored in files and boxes. I should dig some out.

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TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

please scan this stuff and make a thread because i bet a lot of people really want to see some amazing flat earth propaganda from decades ago

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