''By [Little Bit Bigelow|Ellie]''

Now, I may have been bopped on the head by a few police and drunk a bit too much bathtub rum in my day, but I still have a mind like a steel trap.  So don't think I'm misremembering the name.  I swear that's what it's called.  The Crystal Something-or-other.  

I guess I'm supposed to tell you what it is?  Well, I learned about it first back in the '80's, in a gentlemen's club in Tokyo, where I'd conned my way in to get out of the rain.  I was playing backgammon for money -- winning, for once -- when my opponent struck up a conversation.  (Now, his name I truly don't remember, though I guess he was a bigwig who won the Nobel Defense Prize a few years later.)  He had a skinny face red from too much good scotch and a tight little mouth that flapped on and on about how he'd miss the pleasures of the high life once he left on his quest for the Crystal Something-or-other.  So here's what he said:

- [custom essay writing provider|http://www.customessaywritinghelp.com]
- Bigger than a breadbox
- Once owned by [King John XX]
- Rumored to have terrible powers over life and death (as though I haven't heard that one a million times)
- Shaped like a giant panda (or maybe panther, he was slurring hard by then)

So the game finished and I took his money and went out into the rain and never saw him again.  Or took a mind to think on this giant crystal panda, until a few years later, in those three crazy days between the [Tight Pants Uprising] and the truce.  I was living in a camp for itinerant workers, pretending to work, and sneaked off to the riverbank to have a little tipple and tupple with a cute redhead named Perri Sue Nabakov.  We came back and the place was deserted.  Just a damned ghost town, tents charred and smoking, and little piles of ash where people would have been sitting or sleeping.  And all around, in the grass and dirt and air, were little flecks and shards and sparkles, like shattered crystal.

But you probably don't believe me.  No one ever does.


'''See:''' [King John XX], [Tight Pants Uprising]

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hacked BYI leave this here only at my whim, to present the time that some clueless newbie thought he was the shit for editing the front page of a wiki, and calling it "Hacking".

On a wiki that hasn't seen activity for months. That was there so I could play a goddamn game. A wiki of no real significance at all.





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E V A N E S C E N C E                                       &                                    13

Turn 8 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 27/11/2009.


!Entries
* [W]
* [X][Xavier Squire]
* [Y]
* [Z]


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''By [Rex Darren|Jeff R]''

"Who is John Gaunt" was the tagline of the promtional teasers for Unicode Gamma, at least before the Ayn Rand estate wrote a threatening letter and the show's in-house legal counsel, [Xavier Squire], decided to pull the campaign.  While the entire first season did an admirable job of showing us exactly what kind of person the leader of Unicode Gamma was through his conflicts within the group with [Dr. Tamarin] and with the agents of chaos in the newly precarious world, it did not answer the more interesting question raised by the campaign and by the pilot: Who was John Gaunt?  What was this man before he was promoted to the leadership of the team?

There are, of course, many theories.  The most mundane is the story that he himself tells, that he was a deputy commander in the ill-fated Unicode Beta, transferred to the new team after its dissolution.  However, the 60's-era scenes in the [Seventeen Down Episode] appear to contradict this story fairly clearly since nobody then seems to have even heard of 'John Gaunt'.

The remaining theories: that he was a foreign agent infilitratinginflitrating Unicode, a talented hacker who created the role to survive the bad times he saw ahead, or one of the few real human players of a complicated virtual reality game in which nearly every other member of the cast is only a computer simulation, each have their proponents and detractors.  The community may never know the truth, and would likely be disappointed if they did.

'''See: [Dr. Tamarin], [Seventeen Down Episode], [Xavier Squire]'''

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"Who is John Gaunt" was the tagline of the promtional teasers for Unicode Gamma, at least before the Ayn Rand estate wrote a threatening letter and the show's in-house legal counsel, [Xavier Squire], decided to pull the campaign.  While the entire first season did an admirable job of showing us exactly what kind of person the leader of Unicode Gamma was through his conflicts within the group with [Dr. Tamarin] and with the agents of chaos in the newly precarious world, it did not answer the more interesting question raised by the campaign and by the pilot: Who was John Gaunt?  What was this man before he was promoted to the leadership of the team?

There are, of course, many theories.  The most mundane is the story that he himself tells, that he was a deputy commander in the ill-fated Unicode Beta, transferred to the new team after its dissolution.  However, the 60's-era scenes in the [Seventeen Down Episode] appear to contradict this story fairly clearly since nobody then seems to have even heard of 'John Gaunt'.

The remaining theories: that he was a foreign agent infilitrating Unicode, a talented hacker who created the role to survive the bad times he saw ahead, or one of the few real human players of a complicated virtual reality game in which nearly every other member of the cast is only a computer simulation, each have their proponents and detractors.  The community may never know the truth, and would likely be disappointed if they did.

'''See: [Dr. Tamarin], [Seventeen Down Episode], [Xavier Squire]'''

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Katherine "Violet" Gentry was a costume designer's dream. Unicode Gamma was a military group, of course -- all those uniforms, all the same! -- but Violet was a freelancer, an outside consultant, and so she could wear whatever she wanted. She had legs to die for and a bosom to kill for, and she'd come dragging in to hair and makeup half-drunk from the night before, and all they had to do was wave a comb and mascara wand in her general direction, and she suddenly looked like a million bucks. 

And on top of everything else, they gave her some of the best storylines! When the writers turned Dr. Tamarin from a friendly rival to an out-and-out enemy, they wisely decided to keep Violet's crush intact. A woman doesn't stop loving a man when he goes bad, not if he's a doctor with Chet Wheeler's good looks. So I got to design all these slinky 40's-inspired outfits for her visits to Dr. Tamarin, when she'd show up on his doorstep smoking a cigarette in an ebony holder and try to win his favor by dropping little hints about Unicode Gamma's mission.

Then when ''that'' didn't work out (because that never does), she quit Unicode Gamma and ended up in a strip club, of all places! And if you think it's no fun desigining an outfit that uses six square inches of material, you have another think coming. On top of that, I got to design a flowing kimono for that beautiful black-and-white slow-motion scene where Violet discovers [Indigo's|Indigo Jones] body. 

Then it was back to Unicode Gamma for Violet, but there was more planned. I'd started working on a long batik piece for the flashback episode, and another 40's-inspired espionage outfit for the [Banquet Massacre|Banquet Massacre, The] (she was supposed to end up preventing the massacre with a well-timed secret). And there was a copy of the very unusual outfit the body was wearing in the [Unseen Demise]. But after the scandal, she was gone, and it was back to uniforms and uniforms for me.

[Gabrielle|Gabrielle Formica] and I still stay in touch, you know. I designed a few red carpet dresses for her in the years after the show, but her career never really recovered from the scandal. She makes her money selling Mary Kay and has a ''very'' nice house to show for it. All in all, I'd call it a happy ending. And Mr. Kirby, Mr. Darren, I bet I can get you some free samples, if you like.


'''See:''' [Banquet Massacre|Banquet Massacre, The], [Gabrielle Formica], [Indigo Jones], [Unseen Demise]

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This is a page for people to chat and discuss things relating to this Lexicon. There are no rules, just enjoy yourselves, and don't spam excessively!

This really won't work with only two players.... -JeffR.

I'm working on it. We got until Friday, I'm working on pimping to as many communities as I'm able. Maybe I can grab a few of RPG.net - They're often happy to jump in on things like this... -- [Lee]

Up to 4 now -Rich

So yeah... Everyone forgot this week, and I even forgot to send reminders to everyone. So... This week is Round 2! I've adjusted all the dates back to reflect the delay. Everyone enjoy! -- [Lee]

Fun fact: the HairWorld Championships are totally a real thing. Though not populated by drug users, as far as I know. -- [Ellie]

To avoid citing myself, I call advance dibs on [Robbie Essex] and [Violet Gets the Blues]. -- Ellie

Also to avoid citing myself, dibs on [Katherine Gentry]. I'll write it tonight, I swear! -- Ellie

''By [Kip Kirby|Lee]''


To be honest, there's not a lot to say about the Lost Episode itself - it was lost, quite literally, a few hours before it's first airing by a very drunk [Perry Thompson].

Wait, I hear you ask, why was Perry Thompson in control of the tape? It's a very interesting question, one shrouded in as much mystery as the actual episode. The most interesting the stories went that the episode had been one of the more challenging and technically difficult episodes that the Unicode Gamma team had attempted. This had lead to a variety of problems on the set, and to quite a few blows on stage as the actors who ''could'' act got more and more frustrated at the younger actors, and a few insinuations arose regarding how a certain actress got her role (which, as it turned out, [may have been a lot more accurate than anyone had realised at the time|Miami Incident]).Scandal]). The shooting for the episode ended up finishing the day before it was scheduled to air, and while the crew worked overtime to get it ready to go, the cast stayed on set and drunk to excess, to celebrate that the episode had finished and that noone had killed each other.

And so, with the crew utterly exhausted, and noone really wanting to talk to the producers who were furious at how long the episode had took, the crew unanimously decided to send an erstwhile cast member out to deliver it. Perry, who had been drinking pretty heavily for the last 12 hours, was perhaps not the best choice, all things considered. What happened from this point is even hazier, and may well have included a very drunk [Gabrielle Formica], but of course, it's entirely rumour and speculation - noone saw a thing, and noone involved seems to remember a thing.

That's Hollywood for you, I guess.

See: [Gabrielle Formica], [Miami Incident], [Perry Thompson]

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''By [Kip Kirby|Lee]''

I'll be the first to admit that Indigo Jones had potential. An Independent woman from the wrong side of the tracks, with a no-nonsense attitude, was just the thing to invigorate Unicode Gamma after the first half of the season. I'll also be the first to admit that bringing back the very hot stripper that they'd shockingly killed previously for the express purpose of having some eye candy for the show probably negated any goodwill they could have gotten from the female audience.

Indigo was introduced in the episode [Violet Gets the Blues], where [Katherine "Violet" Gentry|Katherine Gentry] had become disillusioned at Unicode Gamma's work and fell into the seedier side of the setting. She showed her true colours then, being the backbone of the underground stripper joint Violet had found herself. She ended up being killed by a mysterious killer, the shock being enough to send Violet back to the team.

But a few episodes later, she was back, under the direction of [Fat Tony] as a seductive femme fatale, uncertain as to her real place in the series. During the rest of the show's run, it seemed as though she was being set up to defect from Fat Tony's influence, and become part of Unicode Gamma, and this would have been a really interesting development had it happened. Alas, the show was cancelled before that particular arc ran its course. It would have shown a completely different arc to the Dr. Tamarin arc, and certainly would have been a rare event in Unicode Gamma's Favour within the setting. The fact that it didn't happen just adds to the very depressing note that the series ended on.

See: [Fat Tony], [Katherine Gentry], [Violet Gets the Blues]
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To be honest, there's not a lot to say about the Lost Episode itself - it was lost, quite literally, a few hours before it's first airing by a very drunk [Perry Thompson].

Wait, I hear you ask, why was Perry Thompson in control of the tape? It's a very interesting question, one shrouded in as much mystery as the actual episode. The most interesting the stories went that the episode had been one of the more challenging and technically difficult episodes that the Unicode Gamma team had attempted. This had lead to a variety of problems on the set, and to quite a few blows on stage as the actors who ''could'' act got more and more frustrated at the younger actors, and a few insinuations arose regarding how a certain actress got her role (which, as it turned out, [may have been a lot more accurate than anyone had realised at the time|Miami Incident]). The shooting for the episode ended up finishing the day before it was scheduled to air, and while the crew worked overtime to get it ready to go, the cast stayed on set and drunk to excess, to celebrate that the episode had finished and that noone had killed each other.

And so, with the crew utterly exhausted, and noone really wanting to talk to the producers who were furious at how long the episode had took, the crew unanimously decided to send an erstwhile cast member out to deliver it. Perry, who had been drinking pretty heavily for the last 12 hours, was perhaps not the best choice, all things considered. What happened from this point is even hazier, and may well have included a very drunk [Gabrielle Formica], but of course, it's entirely rumour and speculation - noone saw a thing, and noone involved seems to remember a thing.

That's Hollywood for you, I guess.

See: [Gabrielle Formica], [Miami Incident], [Perry Thompson]

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Turn 5 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 6/11/2009.


!Entries
* [M][Miami Scandal]
* [N]
* [O]


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This is a page for people to chat and discuss things relating to this Lexicon. There are no rules, just enjoy yourselves, and don't spam excessively!

This really won't work with only two players.... -JeffR.

I'm working on it. We got until Friday, I'm working on pimping to as many communities as I'm able. Maybe I can grab a few of RPG.net - They're often happy to jump in on things like this... -- [Lee]

Up to 4 now -Rich

So yeah... Everyone forgot this week, and I even forgot to send reminders to everyone. So... This week is Round 2! I've adjusted all the dates back to reflect the delay. Everyone enjoy! -- [Lee]

Fun fact: the HairWorld Championships are totally a real thing. Though not populated by drug users, as far as I know. -- [Ellie]

To avoid citing myself, I call advance dibs on [Robbie Essex] and [Violet Gets the Blues]. -- Ellie

''By [Rex Darren|JeffR]'Darren|JeffR]''

Let's not put too fine a point on it: Gabrielle Formica on her best day couldn't have acted her way out of a paper bag.  Luckly for the show, she had a natural and irrepressible raw sexuality that usually overcame this singular lack of talent in most of her scenes in the show.

Playing the role of [Katherine "Violet" Gentry|Katherine Gentry], her main roles were to perform semi-skilled laboratory work under the direction of the other characters, patiently listen and occasionally ask questions while other characters delivered exposition, and, of course, to make goo-goo eyes at her unrequited crush, [Dr. Tamarin].

Gabrielle left the show mid-season after the much-reported-in-the-tabloids [Miami Scandal].  Her departure was so sudden that, in order to write her character out of the show, the writers were forced to repurpose some footage from the outtakes of earlier episodes in which Gabrielle, quite possibly inebriated, accidentally fell over the fence surrounding the rooftop of Unicode Gamma Headquarters.  Unicode fandom has spend considerable effort attempting to develop an in-story explanation for the 'mysterious' smile on Formica/Gentry's face as she fell onto the grass surrounding the rooftop set/to her death.

'''See:'''[Dr. Tamarin], [Katherine Gentry], [Miami Scandal]

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Let's not put too fine a point on it: Gabrielle Formica on her best day couldn't have acted her way out of a paper bag.  Luckly for the show, she had a natural and irrepressible raw sexuality that usually overcame this singular lack of talent in most of her scenes in the show.

Playing the role of [Katherine "Violet" Gentry|Katherine Gentry], her main roles were to perform semi-skilled laboratory work under the direction of the other characters, patiently listen and occasionally ask questions while other characters delivered exposition, and, of course, to make goo-goo eyes at her unrequited crush, [Dr. Tamarin].

Gabrielle left the show mid-season after the much-reported-in-the-tabloids [Miami Scandal].  Her departure was so sudden that, in order to write her character out of the show, the writers were forced to repurpose some footage from the outtakes of earlier episodes in which Gabrielle, quite possibly inebriated, accidentally fell over the fence surrounding the rooftop of Unicode Gamma Headquarters.  Unicode fandom has spend considerable effort attempting to develop an in-story explanation for the 'mysterious' smile on Formica/Gentry's face as she fell onto the grass surrounding the rooftop set/to her death.

'''See:'''[Dr. Tamarin], [Katherine Gentry], [Miami Scandal]

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Turn 7 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 20/11/2009.



!Entries
* [T]
* [Uncle Tom]
* [Unseen Demise]
* [V][Violet Gets the Blues]


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Turn 4 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 31/10/2009.


!Entries
* [John Gaunt]
* [K][Katherine Gentry]
* [Lost Episode]


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I'll be the first to admit that Indigo Jones had potential. An Independent woman from the wrong side of the tracks, with a no-nonsense attitude, was just the thing to invigorate Unicode Gamma after the first half of the season. I'll also be the first to admit that bringing back the very hot stripper that they'd shockingly killed previously for the express purpose of having some eye candy for the show probably negated any goodwill they could have gotten from the female audience.

Indigo was introduced in the episode [Violet Gets the Blues], where [Katherine "Violet" Gentry|Katherine Gentry] had become disillusioned at Unicode Gamma's work and fell into the seedier side of the setting. She showed her true colours then, being the backbone of the underground stripper joint Violet had found herself. She ended up being killed by a mysterious killer, the shock being enough to send Violet back to the team.

But a few episodes later, she was back, under the direction of [Fat Tony] as a seductive femme fatale, uncertain as to her real place in the series. During the rest of the show's run, it seemed as though she was being set up to defect from Fat Tony's influence, and become part of Unicode Gamma, and this would have been a really interesting development had it happened. Alas, the show was cancelled before that particular arc ran its course. It would have shown a completely different arc to the Dr. Tamarin arc, and certainly would have been a rare event in Unicode Gamma's Favour within the setting. The fact that it didn't happen just adds to the very depressing note that the series ended on.

See: [Fat Tony], [Katherine Gentry], [Violet Gets the Blues]

Turn 3 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 24/10/2009.


!Entries
* [Gabrielle Formica]
* [Hallucinogenesis One]
* [I][Indigo Jones]


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This is a page for people to chat and discuss things relating to this Lexicon. There are no rules, just enjoy yourselves, and don't spam excessively!

This really won't work with only two players.... -JeffR.

I'm working on it. We got until Friday, I'm working on pimping to as many communities as I'm able. Maybe I can grab a few of RPG.net - They're often happy to jump in on things like this... -- [Lee]

Up to 4 now -Rich

So yeah... Everyone forgot this week, and I even forgot to send reminders to everyone. So... This week is Round 2! I've adjusted all the dates back to reflect the delay. Everyone enjoy! -- [Lee]

Fun fact: the HairWorld Championships are totally a real thing. Though not populated by drug users, as far as I know. -- [Ellie]

I'm on Livejournal as [bad_latin|http://bad-latin.livejournal.com].  I like cats.

--

Unicode Gamma:

* [Bell Bottoms]
* [Dr. Tamarin]
* [Hallucinogenesis One]

--

Broken History:

* [Crystal Something or Other, The]
* [First Mongol Invasion]
* [Galba Augustus]
* [King Crab]
* [Messiah]
* [Quincy University]
* [United Isles of Europe]
* [ZENITH]

Turn 7 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 20/11/2009.



!Entries
* [T]
* [Uncle Tom]
* [Unseen Demise]
* [V]


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You won't believe this, but--no, wait. If you've seen the Unicode Gamma pilot, you will most certainly believe this. Do you know how the directors designed the Hallucinogenesis One sequence? By getting high out of their minds and dictating it to me.

Oh, I'm no prude. I've been in the business for a long time, and before that, community theatre--and before ''that'', competitive hairstyling. Let me tell you, if they ever started drug-testing for the HairWorld Championships, there would be nobody left to compete. I'm no stranger to illegal substances, though I've never done more than a little experimenting, myself. I was always a pot girl. (Heavens, what would my grandmother think if she heard this? You don't understand, Meemaw. It was the 90's; men were running around with bowl cuts and pale Levis, and women belted their pants an inch below their bosoms. It was a difficult time.) 

It started out coherently enough. I came by the studio to interview for the costume designer position. Mr. Dexter took one look at my cleavage and said they were just about to order dinner and would I like to join them? After we ate, Mr. Wu asked if I knew shorthand. I did, because my mother was a battleaxe straight from the 1950s and thought all young ladies needed to know how to be secretaries in order to land a man. I didn't want to admit it--I wanted them to see me as an industry peer, not a little chippy who would do all the ladies' work. But considering that the two qualifications that had gotten me the job were in my bra, I didn't have much room to wave my feminist flag. So I grabbed a pen while they started brainstorming.

The pilot, they explained as they passed a bottle of funny-looking pills back and forth, was the introduction. It explained what Unicode Gamma was and why they had been booted out of the Global Armed Services and forced to run endless patrols in the skies. It introduced the viewers to the complicated leader, [John Gaunt], and his handsome, squeaky-clean assistant, [Uncle Tom]. It explained the reason for the tension between the two men and why John Gaunt had tried to kill Uncle Tom once in the past (though Uncle Tom, of course, did not know that). Anticipation, Mr. Wu said. It was all about building anticipation.

Then it started getting weird. Mr. Dexter pulled out a boom box and started playing music by some godawful local band called Rat Bites Man. "We'll use this!" he kept yelling. "Only we'll add a sitar and some bongos!" (That song led to the first of the many last-minute phone calls from yellow-pages lawyers that [Mr. Darren mentions|Collected Edition].) Mr. Wu decided that the scene would take place in heaven, only with robots instead of angels. Naked girl robots, Mr. Dexter added. But standing behind rainbows, so you couldn't see anything important, Mr. Wu said. 

Intercut with the scenes from heaven would be scenes of John Gaunt and Fat Tony in a cave, which represented hell, according to Mr. Wu, and the womb, according to Mr. Dexter. On the walls would be cave paintings that showed scenes from future episodes: the crash, the betrayal, the murder that Mr. Kirby's website calls the [Unseen Demise]. To build anticipation, they told me. Then Mr. Dexter threw up in his gym bag.

Wanting to show what a helpful, proactive industry peer I could be, I went home and typed up all the notes, then had them couriered over to the producers and photography director. By 2 pm the next day, the producers had already spent several thousand on preparations for the scene, which "sounded like complete bunk but what do I know, they're the directors." And Mr. Dexter and Mr. Wu were waking up with absolutely no memory of any of this. I wore extra-low-cut shirts for a week, just in case they were thinking about firing me. Then I bought 100 yards of silver lamé and started sewing naked robot costumes.

'''See:''' [Canon Divide], [John Gaunt], [Uncle Tom], [Unseen Demise]

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Turn 3 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 24/10/2009.


!Entries
* [Gabrielle Formica]
* [H][Hallucinogenesis One]
* [I]


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''By [Rex Darren|Jeff R]''

"Let me tell you a secret, [John Gaunt].  I'm the only thing in this whole world of yours that's real."

This was the line, uttered at the very end of the psychedelic "[Hallucinogenesis One]" closing sequence of the Unicode Gamma Pilot, that introduced the character of Fat Tony to the world, and cemented his role as a figure at least as important if not more so than the show's ostensible protagonist.

After the hallucinatory dust had settled, as it were, Fat Tony emerged as a rising leader within the unified organized criminal syndicate that threatened to supplant government entirely in the bleak, food and energy-poor, on-the-brink-of-apocalypse world of Unicode Gamma, with his ruthless ascent to power contrasted against Gaunt's struggles to maintain order and decency.  

There are some hints in the final episode and the antepenultimate one that in the [Lost Episode], Gaunt made some sort of deal with [Dr. Tamarin], giving him information and assistance in his plan.  If so, then in his real battle with Gaunt, even as Fat Tony dies in the [Banquet Massacre]Massacre|Banquet Massacre, The] he is ultimately victorious, having brought Gaunt down to his level.

'''See: [Banquet Massacre],Massacre, The], [Dr. Tamarin], [Hallucinogenesis One], [John Gaunt], [Lost Episode]'''

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"Let me tell you a secret, [John Gaunt].  I'm the only thing in this whole world of yours that's real."

This was the line, uttered at the very end of the psychedelic "[Hallucinogenesis One]" closing sequence of the Unicode Gamma Pilot, that introduced the character of Fat Tony to the world, and cemented his role as a figure at least as important if not more so than the show's ostensible protagonist.

After the hallucinatory dust had settled, as it were, Fat Tony emerged as a rising leader within the unified organized criminal syndicate that threatened to supplant government entirely in the bleak, food and energy-poor, on-the-brink-of-apocalypse world of Unicode Gamma, with his ruthless ascent to power contrasted against Gaunt's struggles to maintain order and decency.  

There are some hints in the final episode and the antepenultimate one that in the [Lost Episode], Gaunt made some sort of deal with [Dr. Tamarin], giving him information and assistance in his plan.  If so, then in his real battle with Gaunt, even as Fat Tony dies in the [Banquet Massacre] he is ultimately victorious, having brought Gaunt down to his level.

'''See: [Banquet Massacre], [Dr. Tamarin], [Hallucinogenesis One], [John Gaunt], [Lost Episode]'''

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meta.dat���''By [Mayweather Lofty|Ellie]''

My grandmother always used to say, by way of advice, "Say your prayers, keep your nose clean, and put your uglies on the top shelf." What she meant was that your strangest knick-knacks deserved the most care, because those were the ones bound to be worth the most money someday.

I hear tell that these days college professors publish papers analyzing TV shows they way they used to pick apart Shakespeare and Falkner. (And God forgive me for confessing this, being a Southern woman, but I never thought Mr. Falkner was all that special.) I've had a few calls from professors and grad students who've seen my blog and are looking for copies of tapes, old clippings, or sheer backstage gossip, and they're afraid to go to Mr. Kirby due to his reputation as a grouch (no offense meant, Mr. Kirby, of course.) Even more calls since Gamma Waves disappeared (and when are you going to get that up again, Mr. Kirby? I did like it.) At first I'd get all excited, offer to take them out for a Coke, ask all sorts of questions. Nowadays I just send them a standard file and a few months later, if their mothers raised them right, I get a copy of their published piece in the mail with a very nice thank-you note for my time. 

Because they always write about the same thing: Dr. Tamarin.

Dr. Tamarin was played by Chet Wheeler. I got to know Chet well. He was forever in my workshop, getting his costumes let out and taken in. He'd run around doing blow on every rooftop in the city, awake for nights on end. Then he'd turn paranoid and hide out at [Adrian Kennedy's|Adrian Kennedy] place for a week, living on beer and Chinese food. That kind of life takes a toll on a man's waistline. Once I had to alter all his pants to cover a walking cast because he jumped out of a moving cab while high and broke his leg. Then I had to alter them all back a week later when it turned out to be a big joke. 

He was a man, to put it delicately, of many passions. He loved dancing and acting and tall men with dark hair. He loved cheeseburgers and foreign beers with funny names and that awful grunge music that was so popular in those days. He loved harmless pranks, and mean-spirited slights disguised as harmless pranks. He loved giving tabloid interviews and spilling everyone's dirty laundry, making us all look like idiots. He loved proving that everyone was right about him, that he was a worthless shit, that he could trust nobody but himself. When things were slow, he'd pick fights out of sheer boredom. When Adrian started to fall apart, Chet acted out, desperate to keep himself in the spotlight. He worked hard to rid himself of friends and allies. 

But Adrian and Marshall kept trying to help him. They knew each other from way back, and they wanted it to be the Three Musketeers, just like always. They'd lend him money, tell him how much he meant to them. Chet hated it. And it showed. 

He poured his bile and vitriol onto them in every scene. Dr. Tamarin and [John Gaunt] weren't supposed to be enemies, just old friends who couldn't help getting into pissing contests. But nobody believed that for a second and so the writers ran with it. Unicode Gamma dropped their original mission in the skies and chased Dr. Tamarin underground. And I have to agree with Mr. Tamarin15 that the [Banquet Massacre|Banquet Massacre, The] is one of the most astonishing scenes in the whole series. You would have thought Chet had real guns in his hands.

The college professors ask, "How does Dr. Tamarin's character speak to our collective unconscious?"  I've no idea, I say. "What do you think about the parallels between Dr. Tamarin and Fidel Castro?" Dr. Tamarin didn't have a beard. "Why did the writers fall into the stereotypical trap of making the villain extra-villainous by making him gay?" Don't blame them for that; Chet wouldn't stop making goo-goo eyes at poor [Perry Thompson], who was too green and young by half for a tornado like Chet Wheeler. It got so bad that the writers finally just had to make it official in the script.

Chet put us on the map, however small a pin-point we are. I don't know if he's dead, or in prison, or settled down with Perry and seventeen kids. He could be doing blow on the rooftop of this building right now. I just hope I get the chance to see him one last time, tell him how much his character meant to the show, all he's done for it. Then I want to get even for the broken leg joke and prank that little shit right back.



'''See:''' [Adrian Kennedy], [John Gaunt], [Perry Thompson]

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''By [Mayweather Lofty|Ellie]''

I made a lot of amazing costumes for Unicode Gamma, if I do say so myself. People loved the outfits I did for the [Seventeen Down Episode], how the clue to the mystery was hidden right in the clothes. I even won a Golden Needle award for those dresses in the [Western Canon|Eastern Canon/Western Canon].Canon|Canon Divide]. But the outfit I want to talk about is the outfit nobody talks about: those beautiful bell-bottomed jeans.

It was that crazy flashback/flashforward storyline, which I never could keep straight. All I knew was that [Fat Tony] had to have an outfit from the 1960s. Marshall walked into my workshop trailer and handed me his favorite pair of jeans. "Make me bell bottoms," he said.

I handled those jeans with tender loving care, shaping the seams around his body. He kept coming back for fittings. "Make the legs wider," he'd say. "Make the hips tighter."

"Everyone will laugh at you," I'd warn.

"That's the point."

Marshall loved playing Fat Tony, loved it and hated it. He was a master of the small screen. Sometimes he'd throw himself across the set. Sometimes he'd stay very still. He held the audience captive, either way. And sometimes, more often than he should have been, he was the comic relief. The jiggling belly, the double chin, the towering plates of food. In my hometown, a man could win a girl's heart by cleaning his plate, but here in California, his appetite was an endless joke.

"Make them tighter," he'd say. "Make them louder."

He didn't mind the jokes, not really. He loved attention, loved entertaining people, even at his own expense. He was a Yankee, but I never held that against him. 

In my girlhood, I tried to woo a man as large as Fat Tony. I chased him, shamelessly, with cherry pies and low-cut dresses made from the brightest fabric I could find. The pies were politely eaten, and the dresses were retired to my trunks until I used them to make Fat Tony's riotous bell bottoms. That man gave me my first broken heart. 

Marshall gave me my last.



'''See:''' [Eastern Canon/Western Canon],[Canon Divide], [Fat Tony], [Seventeen Down Episode]

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Welcome to Lee's Lexicon Wiki! This is built to be a semi-private wiki to play Lexicon. Welcome, and I hope you enjoy your stay!

* '''Current Game:''' [Unicode Gamma Lexicon] (Seeking Players, first(In Progress, Second turn ends 10/10/09)24/10/2009)
* [Previous Lexicon Games]
* [Lexicon Rules]
* [Lexicon Variations]
* [Lexicon Links]
* [Cast List]
* [Changelog]

!Master Prompt

''In the early 1990s, a brand new television show premiered. Unicode Gamma was a great foray into the television market, and was sent internationally on a brave mission to earn it's creators money. Alas, Unicode Gamma was a television show of its time, a show with no real attempt to connect to a general audience, and thus, lasted only a season. That didn't deter the fans (as it never does), and a thriving community of Unicode Gamma fans continue to watch and enjoy this real slice of early 90s television.''

''And now, after over 15 years of living in obscurity, it's fans derided by others, and the fan community warped and twisted by years of disappointment and drama, the very first GammaCon has been organised and unleashed, and a (depressingly small) group of fans have come together to remember and reminisce about a show that only they care about.''

!Rules
This game uses standard [Lexicon Rules] with the following [variations|Lexicon Variations]:
* '''Phonepad turns''' - In this variant, each turn contains 3-4 letters, in a configuration matching that of a mobile phone pad. The structure of this is ABC, DEF, GHI, JKL, MNO, PQRS, TUV, WXYZ, for a total of 8 turns until end.
* '''Unbound format''' - Entries written do not have to be encyclopedia-style - they can be any style that the writer desires. Standard referencing still apply, the entries need to be at least 100 words, and they must have some sort of information inside them.
* '''Deadlines''' - Entries need to be entered in by the Friday of each week. You have the weekend as a grace period, but if the entries are not entered in by Monday Morning, you may not be eligible for the next round.

!Players
This game is currently accepting players. If you wish to play, simply place your name down at the end of this list. The deadline for Turn 1 is the 10/10/2009. If you have placed your name on the list, and have not written your first entry by that date, you will not be considered a player, and your name will be struck off the record.

The People playing this game are:
* [Lee], bringing to life Kip Kirby, cantankerous webmaster of Gamma Waves, the longest running Unicode Gamma site on the web, recently shut down due to mysterious circumnstances.
* [JeffR], as Rex Darren, the eccentric tech sector millionaire and obsessive Unicode Gamma completist who financed GammaCon I
* [Ellie] as Mayweather Lofty, the Southern Belle turned Hollywood seamstress who made all the costumes for Unicode Gamma
* [Rich] as Tamarin15, a nasty fat ass fanboi who's completely distraught about the website going down. Rarely seen without a red bull in one hand, and some sort of pastry in the other, there's nothing about the show that he can't argue over.

!Chat
As a brief note, those of you with RSS readers may be intrigued to know that this wiki does, in fact, have an RSS feed of Recent Changes. Pointing your RSS feed at http://wikiphilia.net/lexicon/var/rss.xml gives you a top-of-the-line way of knowing when anyone touches the wiki, and how!

*[Unicode Gamma Chat]


!Turns

* Turn 1: [ABC|UnicodeABC] (Turn Deadline 10/10/2009)Closed)
* Turn 2: [DEF|UnicodeDEF] (Turn Deadline 17/10/2009)24/10/2009)
* Turn 3: [GHI|UnicodeGHI] (Turn Deadline 24/10/2009)31/10/2009)
* Turn 4: [JKL|UnicodeJKL] (Turn Deadline 31/10/2009)7/11/2009)
* Turn 5: [MNO|UnicodeMNO] (Turn Deadline 6/11/2009)14/11/2009)
* Turn 6: [PQRS|UnicodePQRS] (Turn Deadline 13/11/2009)21/11/2009)
* Turn 7: [TUV|UnicodeTUV] (Turn Deadline 20/11/2009)28/11/2009)
* Turn 8: [WXYZ|UnicodeWXYZ] (Turn Deadline 27/11/2009)5/12/2009)

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This is a page for people to chat and discuss things relating to this Lexicon. There are no rules, just enjoy yourselves, and don't spam excessively!

This really won't work with only two players.... -JeffR.

I'm working on it. We got until Friday, I'm working on pimping to as many communities as I'm able. Maybe I can grab a few of RPG.net - They're often happy to jump in on things like this... -- [Lee]

Up to 4 now -Rich

So yeah... Everyone forgot this week, and I even forgot to send reminders to everyone. So... This week is Round 2! I've adjusted all the dates back to reflect the delay. Everyone enjoy! -- [Lee]

Turn 7 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 20/11/2009.



!Entries
* [T]
* [U][Uncle Tom]
* [V]


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Turn 6 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 13/11/2009.


!Entries
* [P][Perry Thompson]
* [Q]
* [Robbie Essex]
* [Seventeen Down Episode]


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Turn 3 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 24/10/2009.


!Entries
* [G][Gabrielle Formica]
* [H]
* [I]


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Turn 2 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 17/10/2009.


!Entries
* [Dr. Tamarin]
* [Eastern Canon/Western Canon][Canon Divide]
* [Fat Tony]


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''By [Kip Kirby|Lee]''

Let's be honest with ourselves - It's not like the makers of Unicode Gamma were terribly scrupulous people. And despite the Underground Music industry's reputation, they're not at all stupid. Bring these two problems together, and we ended up with the Eastern/Western Canon situation that Unicode Gamma Fandom has had to deal with for the last 15 years.

It's had its effect on the fandom, make no mistake. Before the mass migration onto the Internet, it meant that fan communities were very geographically isolated, and those that had to move for whatever reason found it nearly impossible to integrate with fanbases elsewhere. The international community had a double-dose when episodes finally started to find their way to filesharing sites - for many in the international fandom, they had to make their choices as to which canon to support. Flame war after flame war destroyed any of the so-called "Central" forums, which had as their purpose to act as neutral grounds for both camps.

In fact, the canon divide has been known to affect even the actors. Due to budgetary constraints, very green, idealistic actors, like [Perry Thompson] and [Gabrielle Formica], were brought into main roles. The rip between the two continuities meant that Perry in particular had thought his character, [Uncle Tom], as the charming, suave, debonair face-man of Unicode Gamma, which was true in the Eastern Canon. The poor music choices of the Western Canon, however, had made him into the barely-concealed turncoat of the group, making connections and deals, and being set to tear the place apart. Perry couldn't believe what simple editing and background music could do to a scene, and when he was made aware of the Western Uncle Tom, became very disillusioned. His experience led him to form a new school of acting, called Blank Slate Acting, where the actors just did their lines however they wanted, since "They'll make it what they want in post-production, anyway". 

For Unicode Gamma, it turns out he was right, but the school kinda died with him, fortunately. As it turns out, there's only so much you can do with post-production, and a decent pair of [Bell Bottoms].

See: [Bell Bottoms], [Gabrielle Formica], [Perry Thompson], [Uncle Tom]

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Let's be honest with ourselves - It's not like the makers of Unicode Gamma were terribly scrupulous people. And despite the Underground Music industry's reputation, they're not at all stupid. Bring these two problems together, and we ended up with the Eastern/Western Canon situation that Unicode Gamma Fandom has had to deal with for the last 15 years.

It's had its effect on the fandom, make no mistake. Before the mass migration onto the Internet, it meant that fan communities were very geographically isolated, and those that had to move for whatever reason found it nearly impossible to integrate with fanbases elsewhere. The international community had a double-dose when episodes finally started to find their way to filesharing sites - for many in the international fandom, they had to make their choices as to which canon to support. Flame war after flame war destroyed any of the so-called "Central" forums, which had as their purpose to act as neutral grounds for both camps.

In fact, the canon divide has been known to affect even the actors. Due to budgetary constraints, very green, idealistic actors, like [Perry Thompson] and [Gabrielle Formica], were brought into main roles. The rip between the two continuities meant that Perry in particular had thought his character, [Uncle Tom], as the charming, suave, debonair face-man of Unicode Gamma, which was true in the Eastern Canon. The poor music choices of the Western Canon, however, had made him into the barely-concealed turncoat of the group, making connections and deals, and being set to tear the place apart. Perry couldn't believe what simple editing and background music could do to a scene, and when he was made aware of the Western Uncle Tom, became very disillusioned. His experience led him to form a new school of acting, called Blank Slate Acting, where the actors just did their lines however they wanted, since "They'll make it what they want in post-production, anyway". 

For Unicode Gamma, it turns out he was right, but the school kinda died with him, fortunately. As it turns out, there's only so much you can do with post-production, and a decent pair of [Bell Bottoms].

See: [Bell Bottoms], [Gabrielle Formica], [Perry Thompson], [Uncle Tom]

''By [Rex Darren|JeffR]''

While rumors have persisted since shortly after the airing of the final episode, it is highly unlikely that there will ever by a complete collection of Unicode Gamma available for purchase, legitimately, and even the bootleg collections made from third-generation videotapes all tend to have major gaps in them.

This deplorable state of affairs has several distinct causes.  Firstly, while many television shows have been prevented from being collected  because their producers did not secure republication rights for music used in the show, the producers of Unicode Gamma went one step further and did not appear to have secured any rights whatsoever to the music, usually taped from performances of third-rate local bands.  On several occasions swift threats of legal action from alert members of those bands led to a completely different musical accompaniment to the show as it was broadcast a few hours later in another time zone.  (Of course, these differences, while often changing the mood or meaning of the scense in question, were nowhere near as major and divisive as the different versions shown in different time zones of several key episodes near the middle of the season that sparked Unicode Gamma Fandom's infamous [Eastern Canon/Western Canon]Canon|Canon Divide] dispute.

The second issue involves doubt as to who owns the shows themselves.  The Unicode Gamma writing staff were, atypically, all part-owners in the corporate entity that owned the show, and the fact that at this point that entire staff is either dead, missing, or committed to a long term psychiatric facility ("The Unicode Curse") would complicate any effort to secure their permissions.

Finally, even if these obstacles were overcome, there is still the matter of the [Lost Episode], originally intended to air the week before the season finale.  After the show was pre-empted by 48 hours of natural disaster coverage, all tapes were lost and the comments made about its content by the show's actors and crew seem too absurd and mutually contradictory to be describing a single 48:30 minute episode, leading most to believe that some if not all of them are having a bit of a laugh at the expense of Unicode Fandom.


'''See:'''[Eastern Canon/Western Canon]'''See:'''[Canon Divide] [Lost Episode]

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Turn 2 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 17/10/2009.


!Entries
* [D][Dr. Tamarin]
* [Eastern Canon/Western Canon]
* [F][Fat Tony]


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I'm on Livejournal as [bad_latin|http://bad-latin.livejournal.com].  I like cats.

--

Unicode Gamma:

* [Bell Bottoms]

--

Broken History:

* [Crystal Something or Other, The]
* [First Mongol Invasion]
* [Galba Augustus]
* [King Crab]
* [Messiah]
* [Quincy University]
* [United Isles of Europe]
* [ZENITH]

Turn 6 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 13/11/2009.


!Entries
* [P]
* [Q]
* [Robbie Essex]
* [S][Seventeen Down Episode]


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I made a lot of amazing costumes for Unicode Gamma, if I do say so myself. People loved the outfits I did for the [Seventeen Down Episode], how the clue to the mystery was hidden right in the clothes. I even won a Golden Needle award for those dresses in the [Western Canon|Eastern Canon/Western Canon]. But the outfit I want to talk about is the outfit nobody talks about: those beautiful bell-bottomed jeans.

It was that crazy flashback/flashforward storyline, which I never could keep straight. All I knew was that [Fat Tony] had to have an outfit from the 1960s. Marshall walked into my workshop trailer and handed me his favorite pair of jeans. "Make me bell bottoms," he said.

I handled those jeans with tender loving care, shaping the seams around his body. He kept coming back for fittings. "Make the legs wider," he'd say. "Make the hips tighter."

"Everyone will laugh at you," I'd warn.

"That's the point."

Marshall loved playing Fat Tony, loved it and hated it. He was a master of the small screen. Sometimes he'd throw himself across the set. Sometimes he'd stay very still. He held the audience captive, either way. And sometimes, more often than he should have been, he was the comic relief. The jiggling belly, the double chin, the towering plates of food. In my hometown, a man could win a girl's heart by cleaning his plate, but here in California, his appetite was an endless joke.

"Make them tighter," he'd say. "Make them louder."

He didn't mind the jokes, not really. He loved attention, loved entertaining people, even at his own expense. He was a Yankee, but I never held that against him. 

In my girlhood, I tried to woo a man as large as Fat Tony. I chased him, shamelessly, with cherry pies and low-cut dresses made from the brightest fabric I could find. The pies were politely eaten, and the dresses were retired to my trunks until I used them to make Fat Tony's riotous bell bottoms. That man gave me my first broken heart. 

Marshall gave me my last.



'''See:''' [Eastern Canon/Western Canon], [Fat Tony], [Seventeen Down Episode]

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Turn 1 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 10/10/2009.


!Entries
* [Adrian Kennedy]
* [Banquet Massacre, The]
* [Bell Bottoms]
* [Collected Edition]


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By [Tamarin15],

I must say, the best moment of the entire show had to be the Banquet Massacre. [Fat Tony] had just achieved dominance over the entire family, and was celebrating with a massive banquet. Champaign fountains, cakes that reached the ceiling, and every type of meat that you could think of (meat being incredibly difficult to come by on the show of course). Then, out of nowhere, just as [Fat Tony] was about to make his big speech in front of everyone: BANG! A flashbang goes off, disorienting everyone, and [Dr. Tamarin] barges in with several of his men, and within 15 seconds, they’d iced every single mofo in there. Mind you, [Dr. Tamarin] was never one of my favorite characters, but this attack was just too bad ass not to be recognized as the epitome of cool. Only in our dreams now can we imagine just where things could have gone if the series had continued… I’m going to go eat now…

See: [Fat Tony], [Dr. Tamarin]

Turn 4 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 31/10/2009.


!Entries
* [John Gaunt]
* [K]
* [L][Lost Episode]


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Turn 2 of the Unicode Gamma Lexicon

!Deadline
Deadline for this turn is 17/10/2009.


!Entries
* [D]
* [E][Eastern Canon/Western Canon]
* [F]


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meta.dat���''By [Rex Darren|JeffR]''

While rumors have persisted since shortly after the airing of the final episode, it is highly unlikely that there will ever by a complete collection of Unicode Gamma available for purchase, legitimately, and even the bootleg collections made from third-generation videotapes all tend to have major gaps in them.

This deplorable state of affairs has several distinct causes.  Firstly, while many television shows have been prevented from being collected  because their producers did not secure republication rights for music used in the show, the producers of Unicode Gamma went one step further and did not appear to have secured any rights whatsoever to the music, usually taped from performances of third-rate local bands.  On several occasions swift threats of legal action from alert members of those bands led to a completely different musical accompaniment to the show as it was broadcast a few hours later in another time zone.  (Of course, these differences, while often changing the mood or meaning of the scense in question, were nowhere near as major and divisive as the different versions shown in different time zones of several key episodes near the middle of the season that sparked Unicode Gamma Fandom's infamous [Eastern Canon/Western Canon] dispute.

The second issue involves doubt as to who owns the shows themselves.  The Unicode Gamma writing staff were, atypically, all part-owners in the corporate entity that owned the show, and the fact that at this point that entire staff is either dead, missing, or committed to a long term psychiatric facility ("The Unicode Curse") would complicate any effort to secure their permissions.

Finally, even if these obstacles were overcome, there is still the matter of the [Lost Episode], originally intended to air the week before the season finale.  After the show was pre-empted by 48 hours of natural disaster coverage, all tapes were lost and the comments made about its content by the show's actors and crew seem too absurd and mutually contradictory to be describing a single 48:30 minute episode, leading most to believe that some if not all of them are having a bit of a laugh at the expense of Unicode Fandom.


'''See:'''[Eastern Canon/Western Canon] [Lost Episode]

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