Congrats!

Good job Team Agonothetai! We've completed the mission that was tattooed on the Six's arms: we trovis la ringon perditan. We found the lost ring and have the info we need to send 'em home! We found all the chapters of the Codex. We've won against TheO and stole the five Rings before they knew what was happening! We've helped reduce the number of worlds by synchronizing by competing in the lost sport and doing personal labyrinths. In one summer we've assembled Olympic-class labyrinth runners, breaking the training records the omphaputer gave us even though we're up against athletes who've been running labyrinths forever! In fact, Dav Flamerock is going to be the runner for Team San Francisco in the Multiversal Olympics! Congrats!

Now all that remains is to compete and then send the Six home (well, actually, Eli and the Six minus Alex (Ariadne)! Does anyone have a copy of the transcript of the Lost Ring chat where they actually deciphered the 5 rings to find it? The file Alex provided is corrupted, and I'm confused as to what the Lost Ring actually said. :P

Sorry that Chapter 2 of the Agonothetai696 podcast isn't up. Dav sent me the file but it wouldn't work on my computer.

~Hikaro

The Worlds Need Our Help

The idea of a multiverse has existed in philosophy for some time; just last year I read part of a book by David Lewis for a philosophy class, in which he asserts that there are a near-infinite number of worlds, where everything that is possible happens. Thus to say something is possible is to say something happened in at least one of the worlds in the multiverse.

But when I say that I am now a believer in this theory, it isn't because Lewis convinced me. It's because I know people who have come from other worlds. Ariadne, Markus, Noriko, Lucy, Diego and Mei Hui. I've been following their blogs, and they woke up in labyrinths all over the world with amnesia and a strange tattoo that says "Trovu la ringon perditan" (Esperanto for "find the lost ring"). Since they have amnesia, what we do know about the multiverse is thanks to the Codex of the Lost Ring, which we were able to find with help from a historian named Eli Hunt and his "omphaputer." The Codex warns that unless we can synchronize the worlds within the multiverse by playing the lost sport of the Olympics (called labyrinth-running) and running personal labyrinths, the multiverse will reach its limit of number of worlds, and all the worlds will collapse into a single world, starting the universe over. The multiverse has a natural method of reducing the number of worlds (created by each choice made by anything) by merging worlds with only very trivial differences and by drastic, rapid continental movement on "outliers" (worlds very dissimilar to the others). Our world, unfortunately, is an outlier, and we must synchronize or risk putting the multiverse in further danger of collapse.

The three methods of synchronizing the Multiverse are outlined in the Codex (which I have helped translate from the original Esperanto): labyrinth running, which consists of a blindfolded athlete navigating a labyrinth whose walls are made by people standing and humming; athletic alignment (remaining perfectly still in a position, which aligns you with parallel versions of yourself); and personal labyrinths, which involve reflecting on a life changing decision made within the last four years while walking a labyrinth, which also synchronize parallel versions of yourself. Synchronizing merely merges worlds and people instead of collapsing them.

Unfortunately, besides the six agonothetai (game keepers of the Ancient Olympics and now refer to those who help synchronize the Multiverse) we have enemies in the form of Theo (likely an organization rather than a single person), who has been sending threatening messages to the agonothetai and claim to have converted Markus, and possibly Ariadne, to their side. Also, La Sekto (Esperanto for "the sect") is a mysterious organization independent of Theo but who mistrust the Six and is trying to make contact with Theo.

Please help us! The best thing to do would be to get caught up on everything by checking out the handy beginner's guide and timeline that some of us at the Wiki have put together to help new--and old--friends of the Agonothetai. Take the ancient strength quiz to see what kind of agonothetai you are, and then help with your strength's missions, posted on Ariadne's site (graciously put together by her new (rich) friend Kai, who helped her back when she first was found in the labyrinth).

Together, we can save the world!

I will go into more detail in subsequent posts :-)

~Hikaro

Useful links:
Ariadne's Blog
Movie clips with Ariadne and Eli in them: a communication from the another world?
Eli Hunt's site
The Wiki, a resource of all the information we have collected