CUBELORE

About the Cube

Everything we know about the cube so far.

Facts about the cube and its lore in reverse chronological order of when we learned about them.

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CUBELORE
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  • Upon entering the cube. a fat pelican pecks your eyes out, but you may be able to earn them back by performing a series of deeds that our hosts are yet to identify.
  • The cube has a very bird-led culture that could be described as an aviarchy
  • There is an entity in the cube known as the Coherent Cube who exists to keep continuity

Episode seven

  • There’s a town in the cube
  • The cube is vast and has towns
  • Cubeton is a nice place, rustic
  • The albatrosses act as a delivery service for items such as Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray
  • Albatrosses carry items bundled in a sheet like a stork
  • The cube has a ride service called Cuber
  • There is a chain of off-licenses called the local Cube
  • Cubl is the local supermarket. Spend a Cubl, Live a Lot
  • Cubemail is an email service in the cube
  • There is a cube tax that funds the albatrosses
  • You will be forced to watch the Hypercube film when you arrive at the cube
  • The films are part of a larger body of Cubaganda
  • That’s just a cube having a gander
  • Cubephrase is a gameshow in the cube
  • Roy Walker is alive and well and living in the cube

Episode six

  • Special guest Shaggy was found washed up on the beach in the cube
  • They put him back on the beach at the end of the recording session and hid him in the sand to protect him from the albatross
  • Shaggy may return to re-record the lost episode
  • Sound doesn’t travel through the cube. This includes the sound of incorrect opinions.
  • The albatross is a skilled drag performer
  • All newcomers to the cube must survive their first tucking from the albatross
  • As punishment for not finishing their recording on time, the albatross inflicts a wide variety of tucks upon the hosts
  • These include being taken to, tucked in, tucked back, wearing a tuxedo, and sometimes being offered a Tuc biscuit
  • After being tucked back, the albatross appraises you with the keen eye of a drag competition judge, and when satisfied flies away again
  • The albatross sports the tonsur haircut made famous by Friar Tuck, and is sometimes also wearing a tuxedo (unclear if the outward appearance of the albatross is the same each time)
  • Mike is in the cube as a punishment for a crime he committed as a child
  • In many ways, Silent Hill is like the cube
  • The cube is its own dimension or pocket reality
  • However, unlike Silent Hill, the interior of the cube is quite peaceful as there are no bricks in tumble dryers

Episode five

  • Mike & Jack can dance (if they want to), but only in the cube
  • In the cube anything they manifest becomes real (for example, a phone, an elephant)
  • They are all-powerful in the cube
  • You can’t be cancelled in the cube (can’t cancel what’s trapped)
  • Got trapped in the cube looking for heaven
  • The cube was found at the top of the escalator to the sky
  • When they entered the cube they found it contained recording equipment
  • The cube is the afterlife
  • Solved racism, but solution trapped in the cube
  • Solved world hunger, same issue
  • No prejudice, bliss in ‘ere
  • There’s lots of beds here
  • The cube is susceptible to copyright law
  • Sponsorship deals can also get through
  • The cube klaxon sounds at the end of the episode
  • A lovecraftian albatross arrives when you’ve recorded too long
  • The albatross defies description, but it does have wings.
  • The wingspan (or one wing, or simultanously both measurements) of the albatross measures the equivalent of 19 football fields
  • The albatross may be able to cancel Mike despite the anti-cancellation properties of the cube
  • Jack is regularly driven to the point of madness over the albatross

Episode four

  • The cube has sound dampening properties to negate the effects of the outside of the cube
  • The cube is a fucking universe
  • Guests can materialise in the cube
  • The party’s in the cube
  • In the cube, all time exists
  • You are still late for the party
  • In the cube, the place where you need to get the wine is always open
  • In Episode 8 it was stated that the Cubists are coming, but this claim has since been disputed

Episode two