Classified
Not a cult
Est. 1096 · Probably

TheOxford Conspiracy
Society

Dominus Illuminati Mea(“The Lord is my Illuminati” — tr. a man in the King's Arms)

The University's oldest second-oldest only society that is definitely not real.

§01The Board

Four years of research, three crates of Bodleian index cards, and one very long piece of red string. The cards can be moved around. That doesn't mean the truth can.

↑ drag the evidence. click "open file". the string follows you. it always follows you.

FILE №

CREDIBILITY
TOP SECRET

§02Cambridge Does Not Exist

Have you ever been to Cambridge? Has anyone you trust been to Cambridge? Think carefully. A "Boat Race" every year against an opponent no one has met in daylight. A rival university that just happens to have the exact same idea for everything. Wake up.

OXFORD (real) London (suspicious) Milton Keynes ↻ HERE BE NOTHING Ordnance Survey (Redacted Edition) · scale: irrelevant
  1. Every "Cambridge student" you've met has, at some point, been in Oxford. Coincidence?
  2. The name translates to "a bridge over the Cam". The Cam is a river named after the town named after the bridge over the Cam. Circular. Fabricated. Lazy.
  3. Their colours are light blue: the colour of a screen with nothing on it.
  4. "Cambridge" has won the Boat Race many times, which is precisely what a hologram would want you to think.
  5. Try to find it on a map. Oh. You found it. They got to the map.
21:05LONDON MARYLEBONEON TIME
21:12BICESTER VILLAGEON TIME
21:19CAMBRIDGEDOES NOT EXIST
21:19MILTON KEYNESAGAIN

§03The Five Missing Minutes

Christ Church runs five minutes behind Greenwich. Great Tom strikes 101 times at 9:05pm. They call it "tradition". We call it temporal embezzlement. Every day, 300 seconds are harvested from every person in the city. Where do they go?

GREENWICH (their time)
OXFORD (true time)

Seconds stolen from you since you opened this page:

0.000

Total stolen since 1546: person-seconds (est.)

§04Term Card

All meetings are held in the room behind the room behind the bookcase in [REDACTED] College. If you know where it is, you were already invited. Bring your own tinfoil; the society supply was "confiscated".

WeekEventLocation
0thSquash & Debrief. Free drinks. The drinks are not drugged. Why would you ask that.The room that isn't on the fire plan
1stTalk: "The Radcliffe Camera Is A Camera." Where's the film? Who's developing it? What will we look like in the photo?Directly beneath it, quietly
2ndWalking tour of the Bodleian sub-basements.Cancelled (we lost Gareth)
3rdPigeon Interrogation Workshop. They know what you did at Bridge. Bring breadcrumbs, they respond to bribery.Broad Street, centre
4thDebate: "This House Believes The Oxford Comma Is A Cipher." Speakers for, against, and a third speaker who is a plant.A secret Union room
5thFifth Week Blues Séance. We contact the spirit of whoever invented collections.Port Meadow, after dark, among the cows (informants)
6thMallard Watch. All Souls next hunts the duck in 2101. We are getting in early.A respectful distance from All Souls
7thFormal: Black Tie & Tinfoil. Sub fusc bow ties will be checked for transmitters.A college with suspiciously good wine
8thAGM & Mass Memory Wipe. Minutes will not be taken. Minutes will be taken.You won't remember
9thThere is no 9th week.—

§05Initiation

Membership is free, mandatory and irrevocable. Pass the screening to receive your certificate. Nothing you enter here leaves your device. That's what we'd say either way.

§06Secure Terminal

Direct line to the society mainframe (a Raspberry Pi hidden somewhere in the Pitt Rivers). Type help.

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