The Series - Maximum Ride Unofficial Community2024-03-29T14:48:45Zhttp://flockforum.ning.com/forum/categories/the-series/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noOut with a Bang: ARG ending lettertag:flockforum.ning.com,2011-02-06:2971573:Topic:904752011-02-06T16:36:25.884ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
<p>This is the ending letter that I intend to post after the end of the ARG. Is there anything that you'd like me to change, add, or remove?</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Well then, I believe that’s it.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank you for your participation in the first MDW fan-made Alternate Reality Game, or ARG for short. The show you’ve been enjoying over the past few weeks has been the product of months of effort…</span></p>
<p>This is the ending letter that I intend to post after the end of the ARG. Is there anything that you'd like me to change, add, or remove?</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Well then, I believe that’s it.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank you for your participation in the first MDW fan-made Alternate Reality Game, or ARG for short. The show you’ve been enjoying over the past few weeks has been the product of months of effort rummaging around with Audacity, Photoshop, MS Paint and MS Word that my colleagues and I endured as a labor of love for those who have ever taken the time to look beyond the words of the Maximum Ride novels to the darker plot underneath.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">I believe some thanks to my co-conspirators are in order:</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">First I’d like to thank Elena, my co-coordinator, excellent character puppetmaster, document writer, audio mixer, and the voice of the one and only Dr. Marian Janssen. Without your cooperation, none of this would have happened, and I’d have never known about the Itex Worldwide symbol.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Next, I’d like to thank Monogatari for his work in picture effects and for contributing his voice for Jeb Batchelder. Keep being awesome!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">I also want to give a huge thanks to Dual for testing the puzzles. You were spot-on about the time it took them to solve each one of them.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">And Wade the Duck, Phoenix, MusicintheWind, Terra, and Jane, thank you so much for your additions to the voice cast and helpful suggestions over the course of the project (Anne Walker, Scientist 1, Scientist 2, and recordings of Max, respectively).</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Finally, I’d like to thank all the other facilitators who’ve been working on the inside to help the ARG run smoothly on MDW, and whose suggestions and commentary helped to make for a great story. Come up and take a bow if you want!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Doubtlessly, the rest of you out there may be wondering why we put so much effort into what is, essentially, the most elaborate MR fanfic since <i>Reality Check?</i></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The truth of the matter is that we were all extensively frustrated with the lack of effort put into the community by the site owners. Once upon a time, Maximum Ride fans had a single site that provided ARG-like quality posts on a weekly basis. This site, the original Fang’s Blog, was abandoned in favor of random commercial comments by the assorted book characters and a community that, over the past three years, has diminished from in-depth analysis to a ten-thousand-post-long thread of people complaining about how bored they are. What does it say then, when we, thirteen individuals with no budget and schedules squeezed in around secondary school or college, can put on a show like this, while the best efforts of people who are <i>paid</i> to spend <i>time</i> working on this amounts to little more than a handful of cheap posts and the occasional premade flash puzzle on Addictinggames.com?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">So, Mr. Patterson, Ms. Boxerette, Hachette, and any others of you out there who are responsible for the poor excuse of community rallying and marketing that we’ve seen so far, my colleagues and I address this Alternate Reality Game to you in hopes that you will see it and understand our case. There won’t be any further rallying from me, but know this: <i>we care about your plot, we just want you to care about us.</i></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">EndOfTheEarth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">--<u>The Itexicon ARG</u> Co-coordinater, audio mixer, writer, puzzle and art designer, and voice talent for Dr. Roland ter Borcht.</span></p> Favorite plot holes?tag:flockforum.ning.com,2010-10-02:2971573:Topic:803902010-10-02T02:36:47.650ZScorpioHeadSnaphttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/ScorpioHeadSnap
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<p>Out of curiosity, what are your "favorite" plot holes?</p>
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<p>Out of curiosity, what are your "favorite" plot holes?</p> Itex ARGtag:flockforum.ning.com,2010-09-08:2971573:Topic:779902010-09-08T15:19:26.665ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
ARG --- Alternate Reality Game<br></br><br></br>A project to recreate Itex-era documents showing the rise of Itex as a company, and the creation of the Maximum Ride characters. Initial discussion on "What are you doing" thread starts <a href="http://flockforum.ning.com/forum/topics/what-are-you-doing-right-now?commentId=2971573%3AComment%3A77868"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">HERE</span></a>.<br></br><br></br>The story will chronicle Elena Mueller (known by her internet alias…
ARG --- Alternate Reality Game<br/><br/>A project to recreate Itex-era documents showing the rise of Itex as a company, and the creation of the Maximum Ride characters. Initial discussion on "What are you doing" thread starts <a href="http://flockforum.ning.com/forum/topics/what-are-you-doing-right-now?commentId=2971573%3AComment%3A77868"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">HERE</span></a>.<br/><br/>The story will chronicle Elena Mueller (known by her internet alias "Valentine") after her return from a trip to Germany, and the discovery of the various Itexicon files.<br/><br/>(I'll start updating this OP over the weekend to start compiling the files)<br/> Angle: A Math Riddle Novel (a fic)tag:flockforum.ning.com,2010-07-28:2971573:Topic:749182010-07-28T00:13:53.654ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Note; some of the jokes involve an understanding of calculus graphing. I think there's enough algebra references for most of you to get it though.<br></br><br></br></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Chapter 1</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">When Maximum awoke that fine Wednesday morning, she began her day with her normal ritual of looking in the mirror, confirming that she was indeed still concave-down.…</p>
<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Note; some of the jokes involve an understanding of calculus graphing. I think there's enough algebra references for most of you to get it though.<br/><br/></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Chapter 1</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">When Maximum awoke that fine Wednesday morning, she began her day with her normal ritual of looking in the mirror, confirming that she was indeed still concave-down. This was fortunate as she<br/> had had a serious scare some time ago that she might become concave-up. She had<br/>
warned Function multiple times that should she ever pass the inflection point,<br/>
that he was to induce upon her a non-removable discontinuity.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">After applying an eighty degree turn to her doorknob, followed by inducing the door into rotation about its hinge, Max turned down the hall hoping to see that the others were also awake.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The first room she entered contained two of the boys; Integral and g(x). “Time for a positive slope!” Max shouted, “Up you get!”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“I’d rather no slope at all,” Gazzy commented, “I’m in no mood to rise.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Come on, I’m sure you can derive the strength from somewhere!” Max argued.</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“If I derived any more, I’d be nothing!” Integral complained.</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Then how did you figure I got up?”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Not by Deriving,” Integral retorted, “Besides, we all know that Function likes his graphs to have lots of curves to them.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Max gave an annoyed gasp of disgust at this, and moved to another room, hoping to get better results. This room contained the two girls. She tried the eldest first. “No-slope, get up!”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“I’m already vertical,” No-slope whined.</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Really? What’s your rate of ascent then?”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">No-slope promptly vanished.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Max turned to the younger girl. “Angle, are you up honey?”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“You pointed out yesterday that I was acute, right?” Angle pointed out.</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“I did.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Then I’m up.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“How do I know that you aren’t a-greater-than 270 degree Angle?”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“It’s possible, considering how you seem to have everyone bending over backwards for you already.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Well, what do you want me to do?”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“You could let me lead.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“That’s my domain.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“I could always get your fiancé Function to disagree.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">"No."<br/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Do you always have to be absolute, Max?”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“It wouldn't be as fun if I stayed local.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Whatever.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Seeing that Angle couldn’t<span style=""> </span> be translated to another position, Max decided to go and see Function. “They won’t listen to me,” she whined to Function, “Isn’t there anything you can do to help?”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Well, I’m already quite distributed.”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Maybe it’s time you found a way to simplify?”</p>
<br/>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“I would try, but I don’t think you’d like it. Few people like it when a Function gets messy.”</p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">End of Chapter Question<br/></span>Why do Vulcans (from Star Trek) avoid dessert?<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br/><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Answer: Because they risk interacting with pi and becoming irrational.</span><br/></span><span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><br/><br/></span> Math Riddle Novelstag:flockforum.ning.com,2010-05-25:2971573:Topic:691042010-05-25T00:12:56.526ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
Considering their success on MDW, I intend on trying to make the whole series.<br></br><br></br>Here's what I have so far:<br></br><br></br><p style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037217789?profile=original"></img></p>
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<br></br>Check back for updates, and feel free to submit your…
Considering their success on MDW, I intend on trying to make the whole series.<br/><br/>Here's what I have so far:<br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037217789?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
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<br/>Check back for updates, and feel free to submit your own!<br/> All the published MR books, in a convenient place.tag:flockforum.ning.com,2010-05-23:2971573:Topic:688422010-05-23T15:16:07.946ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
<p>Inoticed that Xuut managed to get her hands on pdfs of books 1-5, but since we reference these things fairly often, I thought some of you might prefer this as a separate item, so that you don't have to go searching through pages of thread to find them<br></br> <br></br> UPDATE: Books 6 and 7 too! Way to go Xuut!<br></br></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037206410?profile=original">Book 1</a> TAE…</div>
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<p>Inoticed that Xuut managed to get her hands on pdfs of books 1-5, but since we reference these things fairly often, I thought some of you might prefer this as a separate item, so that you don't have to go searching through pages of thread to find them<br/> <br/> UPDATE: Books 6 and 7 too! Way to go Xuut!<br/></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037206410?profile=original">Book 1</a> TAE</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037207062?profile=original">Book 2</a> SOF</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037208532?profile=original">Book 3</a> STWAOES</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037208831?profile=original">Book 4</a> TFW</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3807240491?profile=original">Book 5</a> MAX</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037286407?profile=original" target="_self">Book 6</a> FANG (Note, every other page is blank)</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037286623?profile=original" target="_self">Book 7</a> ANGEL (Note, super-huge font, you may want to zoom out)</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3037288401?profile=original" target="_self">Summaries</a>, if you're too shy to ask one of us or not in the mood to deal with WIkipedia.</div>
<p><br/> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Again, credit goes to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Xuut</span> for digging these up.</span></p> The history of MR fandomtag:flockforum.ning.com,2009-12-30:2971573:Topic:392072009-12-30T15:41:08.062ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
As I mentioned previous times, I wished to write a history of the fandom.<br />
I intend on doing it in three parts.<br />
1) Conception (book 2) and the old blog<br />
2) MX and Anti Dominence<br />
3) Summer 2009 and current day.<br />
<br />
We are starting with number 1.<br />
I can easily type up things regarding the book, however I wasn't really around (except a bi-monthly glance at the featured posts). So, I need names, dates, big events. Remember this is centered at the MR community as a whole, not just the Antis, so if there…
As I mentioned previous times, I wished to write a history of the fandom.<br />
I intend on doing it in three parts.<br />
1) Conception (book 2) and the old blog<br />
2) MX and Anti Dominence<br />
3) Summer 2009 and current day.<br />
<br />
We are starting with number 1.<br />
I can easily type up things regarding the book, however I wasn't really around (except a bi-monthly glance at the featured posts). So, I need names, dates, big events. Remember this is centered at the MR community as a whole, not just the Antis, so if there were dates that were important to them (maybe something crazy happened around a book release?) Give 'em<br />
<br />
I'll update the OP as we move through the parts. Let's turn JP's marketing against him!tag:flockforum.ning.com,2009-12-15:2971573:Topic:340142009-12-15T22:34:03.555ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
I'm sure that all of you are aware of the sweepstakes to be able to put your name into the next W&W book. IF not, <b><a href="http://www.addictinggames.com/spotlight/witchandwizard.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>'s the link. You should have gotten an e-mail from Wisty and this site recently with the same link.<br />
<br />
Anyway, <b><a href="http://enthroned98.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/stephen-colbert.jpg" target="_blank">this</a></b> guy got me thinking... wouldn't it be fun to mob out a…
I'm sure that all of you are aware of the sweepstakes to be able to put your name into the next W&W book. IF not, <b><a href="http://www.addictinggames.com/spotlight/witchandwizard.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>'s the link. You should have gotten an e-mail from Wisty and this site recently with the same link.<br />
<br />
Anyway, <b><a href="http://enthroned98.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/stephen-colbert.jpg" target="_blank">this</a></b> guy got me thinking... wouldn't it be fun to mob out a sweepstakes? And what better person to mob it out with than the character that has gotten the most MR press, FANG!<br />
<br />
Why not Jeb or Roland you may ask? Well, I have a similar post going on MDW, and if we can get the sqees to follow suit, we'll have a pretty large chance of hijacking the sweepstakes. Imagine the stupefied look on JP's face when he goes to pull a name and sees nothing but Fang, Fang, Fang!<br />
<br />
So, here's what you do:<br />
Go to the W&W sweepstakes website.<br />
Type "Fang" into the first name box, then make up whatever last name you please. We're just trying to get the first name to work.<br />
Fill out the rest of the sweepstakes as you would had you submitted your own name.<br />
<br />
Remember, the more people we get who submit this name, the better chance we have of it actually appearing in the book! So use all of your e-mail addresses to make it happen, and be sure to make a few more to get a better chance!<br />
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<s>Yes, I know that I said I wouldn't be back 'til tomorrow, but after I read that e-mail I couldn't help myself.</s> Actually good plot lines for the rest of the series?tag:flockforum.ning.com,2009-12-13:2971573:Topic:334212009-12-13T04:33:05.204ZFakehttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/FakerthanFang
You know, if the series was more orientated to good plot and less Fax. Fang dying horribly painful deaths, Roland and Jeb having their wedding, etc.
You know, if the series was more orientated to good plot and less Fax. Fang dying horribly painful deaths, Roland and Jeb having their wedding, etc. MR Mathematicstag:flockforum.ning.com,2009-11-19:2971573:Topic:282372009-11-19T22:23:41.367ZEndOfTheEarthhttp://flockforum.ning.com/profile/EndOfTheEarth
I posted this as part of a discussion on MDW labeled <b><a href="http://www.max-dan-wiz.com/forum/topics/maximum-ride-minus-fang-equals" target="_blank">"MR minus fang equals"</a></b><br />
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"Obviously MR-Fang=42.<br />
It's a pretty common thing:<br />
<br />
MR-Max=42<br />
MR-Fax=42<br />
MR-The Environment=42<br />
MR as is (-0)=42<br />
(Where MR is the Angel Experiment, which is a constant)<br />
<br />
The funny thing about this is that, according to the associative property, Max=Fang=The Environment=Fax=0, which is to say that in all these…
I posted this as part of a discussion on MDW labeled <b><a href="http://www.max-dan-wiz.com/forum/topics/maximum-ride-minus-fang-equals" target="_blank">"MR minus fang equals"</a></b><br />
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"Obviously MR-Fang=42.<br />
It's a pretty common thing:<br />
<br />
MR-Max=42<br />
MR-Fax=42<br />
MR-The Environment=42<br />
MR as is (-0)=42<br />
(Where MR is the Angel Experiment, which is a constant)<br />
<br />
The funny thing about this is that, according to the associative property, Max=Fang=The Environment=Fax=0, which is to say that in all these cases, the item being subtracted is inconsequentail.<br />
<br />
Some things upset this though.<br />
As an example:<br />
MR-Jeb=10<br />
Similarly, MR-Plot=8<br />
<br />
Which proves why so many of the Antis found MR5 shallow, as the proof suggests MR-Jeb-plot=-12.<br />
<br />
And don't get me started with the Anti Theorem:<br />
ter Borcht + Jeb = 42<br />
Which explains why the antis prefer reading slashfic over the recent literature."<br />
<br />
The girl who I responded to was actually silly enough to ask me to explain the Anti Theorem. So, I gave the following proof:<br />
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<u>Proof of the Anti Theorem:</u><br />
Given, MR-Jeb =10 and MR-0=42<br />
Therefore Jeb=32, which is to say a large part of the book.<br />
Then, all the antis agree that ter Borcht completes Jeb. This fact is proven time and time again without mathematics, therefore it must be a true statement.<br />
Since MR is a constant, and because it set the tone was also "complete" at that time, it's logical to consider that since MR=Complete and Jeb + ter Borcht =Complete, that therefore MR=(Jeb + ter Borcht)= 42.<br />
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Therefore, ter Borcht + Jeb = 42.<br />
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Does anyone have any additional theorems, corollaries, or proofs that they wish to add?