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[Vilnius]

Our final wav, and it was beautiful. Simply amazing.

[Tarrsk]

WOW. Such a sad, poignant final wav! The perfect way to end this, I think: a personal communication from Melissa, bereft of the background noise and vocal distortion we've grown accustomed to, a reflection of her wholeness. Goodbye, Melissa... we love you too!

[Checksum]

OK, picture this:

Shaumburg, IL. Huge movie theater, packed with people. Halo 2 playing on the big screen, explosions booming from the sound system.

And in the back a clump of beekeepers not paying attention to any of the above because we're all huddled around a tiny piece of paper from a grade school composition book, staring at a bunch of words and a mathematical equation, shouting out suggestions to Angelo (appropriately) who relayed them to Buzzkill (also appropriately) who checked them out on the web.

And it worked!

I hope NY, SF and Austin had as much fun as Chicago did. I know I personally had a blast!

-checksum

P.S. This picture was taken from the galley of the Apocalypso aka Denny's.

P.P.S. Sorry this isn't a complete Chicago Combat Training crew picture, but sadly some of our loyal crewmembers left early. However, we did manage to get a new recruit into the picture - third row, center, in the black shirt, saluting is our friendly neighborhood Microsoft/Halo 2 rep who ran the Combat Training Exercise and was cool enough to come grab a bite with us and humor all our questions about ILB and Halo 2. Not only did he hang out, but he handled our onslaught with grace and tact. Kudos! (anyone catch his name?)

[Digitally l33t]

Side note, and if this was already mentioned, my eyes didn't see it.

Melissa explains that she had to fabricate two Herzog wavs, that we have determined to be the last two. She says if you listen carefully, you could tell which ones.

First thought, he says things like "reveal the truth" and other such Melissa phrases. Thanks to Fiendish for pointing that out to me.

But how about this? No heartbeat.

[krystyn]

[n00b]

[Kazic]

That was beautiful. Wow. I love you too M!