Carly's Notes

Every Rabbits podcast episode, Carly will upload supporting materials to Notes section of the Rabbits website.[1]

## Season 1

### **"Episode 101: Game On"**

#### Notes on Hazel

* Is the game responsible for E's death?
* Hazel is most likely female (her 4chan & the Oxford kid)
* Hazel almost won VIII, then just dropped off the map
* H was the expert on VII, and pretty much anything R [Rabbits] related
* Did Hazel know Byron Preiss?

### "Episode 102: Concernicus Jones"

#### PDF (page 1), shared by Jones

* [Mentioned, but not covered in the episode]

#### PDF (page 2), shared by Jones

* Username: ashley
* Post Time: 05:09AM
* Join Date: Sep 2003
* Posts: 1,217
* Blog Entries: 6
* Content:
	+ Looking for something special? Look no further. I'm looking for something too. I'm hoping you're going to be able to help me find it.
	+ xo Lysandra.
	+ [two broken image thumbnails]
	+ lysandraloves.net

### "Episode 103: Marigold and Persephone"

#### PDF (page 1), shared by Jones

* "What does it mean to play a game? In fact, what is a game? The Germans describe a game as an activity for pleasure, without conscious purpose. Wikipedia's entry reads as follows: a game is structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements.
* All of that sounds accurate, but to me, incomplete. The world changes quickly these days. So quickly, in fact, that it's unclear to some cultural anthropologists if human beings actually have the capacity to adapt at this pace. In the very recent past, if we saw a great white shark in real life, we were in danger. It was almost certainly an intense life-altering encounter. Now, we have shark week. The images that dance across our screens would probably give any one of our ancestors a coronary. But, have we evolved enough to handle this kind of input? On the surface we appear to be fine: television, internet, multi-tasking on multiple screens, but what's going on beneath the surface? Is there something happening there? Is our, for lack of a better term, 'operating system' capable of parsing all of this input? Are these images and sounds, moving toward and through us at such an alarming rate harming us in ways that have yet to be uncovered?
* How is virtual reality going to change our lives? It might start with games and gamers, but that technology is going to end up on our faces, in our brains and, eventually, in our blood. We won't be escaping or pausing our lives to play games, the games will be an integrated part of everyday life. I imagine a world, in the very near future, where the amount of income generated by playing these integrated games will overtake every other industry. This opens a Pandora's Box of Global Currency concerns, privacy issues, and the mental and physical well being of the human race. It's certainly an interesting time to be alive."
* R [Rabbits] not virtual reality more like concurrent reality
* Not new? History examples?
* Knights Templar, Terracotta Army, Skulls, Whitby Abbey, Sandy Island, Meechum Radiants, Super Sargasso Sea?
* H Marigold

1. ↑ https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/notes
2. ↑ Likely a reference to Eric Parker, Carly's older brother.
3. ↑ lysandraloves.net is a working link and is a registered domain owned by Terry Miles under his company Cinemanovel Films. Instead of the photos Carly references in RABBITS, the website contains an embedded Itch.io text-adventure game. The website reads that the game's internal codename is *Sentinels* and that the developer is South Elk Gaming Company (a play on words of South Elk Trading Company, another domain Terry Miles owns). The game has an alternative codename listed called *Untitled 1993*; this may mean the game was in-universe archived in 1993.
4. ↑ H, likely referring to Hazel, and Marigold, are two names of rabbits in an unrelated adventure novel with multiple follow-up film/TV adaptations (one in 1978 and a Netflix series in 2018) called *Watership Down*. This is the first indication that Hazel's name may be a pseudonym.