Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Tue Nov 19, 2024 6:33 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!) » The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): General/Updates
[SPEC] Mellisa / McKaskill dialouge
View previous topicView next topic
Page 1 of 4 [56 Posts]   Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
Author Message
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1327
Location: Charlotte NC, USA

 		[SPEC] Mellisa / McKaskill dialouge
from the new email from Mel, keep the spec to only this dialogue, not the SP's email, that's a seperate issue, thanks:

Quote:

McKaskill, I said. Got a moment?

Sure, Operator!

They call me the Operator because, you know, I work the system to take care of my crew.

McKaskill was a nice kid, family from Durban, on the outer colony world of Biko, which had been glassed years ago. But he'd grown up in refugee apartments in the inner colonies and he had the look of someone who spent his childhood in concrete places under artificial lights.

Weedy.

He was doing a check in the tool crib now. The go-to kid for tools and parts. The stacks of shelves were his little kingdom, probably more his own than anything he'd had growing up. I liked him a lot.

McKaskill, I said, I was checking the slipstream packets. I do that before I send them out. You knew that, right?

His eyes went to the grating at his feet and he got all casual inner city don't screw with me, because he knew I was onto him.

Somebody has been talking to you, I said. And now you're sending him a message back.

So?

I sighed. McKaskill, bad people are putting bad thoughts in your head.

He tried to get righteous. Op, that thing…whatever it is, in the hold. They're keeping big-time wraps on it. You know that. I heard the Captain. The way she's talking, they're not gonna let people look at, it's goin' to a basement in ONI. A sub sub sub basement. They can't just take something that big and…shove it away somewhere.

McKaskill, I said, sending messages off to people without clearance, you know, that could be construed as treason.

Op! Melissa! I didn't mean—

And we're at war, crewman. Which makes treason a capital offense.

His eyes got wide. But-but-but you got it, he said, it didn't go nowhere.

You're my crew, and no one is going to touch my crew without going through me. I've got your back, McKaskill. But you're going to have to tell me about this contact.

Some old guy. You know, bad taste in clothes. But he was cleared to come aboard, so he has to be Intel.

You know his name?

Probably not his real one.


hmmmmmmmm, so that's how the Castaway came on board... he was contacted by this kid AFTER they got the artifact

.........deeper

fire away
_________________
seeker > !seek canoe
!splotch

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:06 pm
Last edited by CoffeeJedi on Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:46 pm; edited 2 times in total
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Freelance
Boot


Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 61

 		Don't have any real speculation, I'm just in awe of the wonderful writing. If the PM's really are reading this forum, I gotta give them props, this dialogue is amazing. Especially the very end.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:38 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1327
Location: Charlotte NC, USA
Quote:
Weedy


weedy? any ideas? i got nothin'
_________________
seeker > !seek canoe
!splotch

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:07 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Dorkmaster
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1328
Location: The People's Republic of Dork

 		I just think Weedy is a description, not a new character. I think she's saying that Mckaskill looked weedy.
_________________
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:09 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1327
Location: Charlotte NC, USA
Dorkmaster wrote:
I just think Weedy is a description, not a new character. I think she's saying that Mckaskill looked weedy.

i kinda thought that too, didn't think it was a new character... but... how exactly does one go about looking weedy? stick your feet in some dirt and try to kill plants?

probably nothing
_________________
seeker > !seek canoe
!splotch

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:12 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Speaker
Veteran

Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 108
Location: Mississippi

 		Of a scrawny build; spindly or gawky

From dictionary.com
_________________
Speaker
LCP Profile

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:13 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 26 Sep 2002
Posts: 3651
Location: Is not Chicago

 		Weeds grow through the cracks, and in spite of good growing conditions. They take root in nearly every environment, and survive, even though they might not be as robust (or as healthy-looking) as other plants in better situations.

He may appear weak or malnourished, but he's an urban survivor.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:13 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
clamatius
Decorated


Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 209
Location: Seattle
Quote:
how exactly does one go about looking weedy?


Don't go outside or do any exercise. Eat as little as possible. Stare at a computer a lot.

Maybe you guys need to use a dictionary a bit more.

Weedy, adj:
3 : noticeably lean and scrawny : LANKY
_________________
Check out my [URL=http://clamatius.blogspot.com/]blog[/URL] for my latest ILB stuff.
The [URL=http://ilb.extrasonic.com]Fireflies Wiki[/URL] is now open!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:15 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1327
Location: Charlotte NC, USA

 		ok! ok! so weedy is a word!! i get it! yeesh!!!!!

so.... the REST of the dialogue... who is the castaway... he's more than he appears somehow
_________________
seeker > !seek canoe
!splotch

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:17 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
clamatius
Decorated


Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 209
Location: Seattle

 		Who is the Castaway? Well, he
Quote:
was cleared to come aboard, so he has to be Intel.


So he's an ONI officer. That doesn't really tell us much, because we already knew that
Quote:
The Castaway had some connection there: sending out signals to confuse the enemy.


Best guess right now is that he's just some random ONI officer unmentioned before the ARG.
_________________
Check out my [URL=http://clamatius.blogspot.com/]blog[/URL] for my latest ILB stuff.
The [URL=http://ilb.extrasonic.com]Fireflies Wiki[/URL] is now open!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:32 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1327
Location: Charlotte NC, USA
clamatius wrote:
Who is the Castaway? Well, he
Quote:
was cleared to come aboard, so he has to be Intel.


So he's an ONI officer. That doesn't really tell us much, because we already knew that
Quote:
The Castaway had some connection there: sending out signals to confuse the enemy.


Best guess right now is that he's just some random ONI officer unmentioned before the ARG.


yeah, i'm not saying "omg teh castaway is mas7er chef!!!1", but you don't just have "random ONI officers", those guys are pretty important, pretty specialized, and pretty secretive.... he was cleared to come aboard, but he only came AFTER McKaskill told him "hey old man, we have some wierd gray cylinder thingy, come on over and take a gander"
perhaps the whole "distract the enemy" thing is a front, he was actually looking for that object out there for ONI
_________________
seeker > !seek canoe
!splotch

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:38 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Dorkmaster
Unfictologist


Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 1328
Location: The People's Republic of Dork

 		Well, and my question to follow up the thoughts of Jedi, are this:

How does a ratty, weedy-type person, who essentially is a "repair man/mechanic/parts supervisor" have contacts in ONI Intel? I mean, secret contacts even... I have no idea what conclusion that the answer could create, but still, it seems a little strange that Mckaskill would have someone like that to send a secret transmission to anyway, right?
_________________
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:42 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
clamatius
Decorated


Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 209
Location: Seattle

 		Seems like we're getting closer and closer to the meaning of the cylinder.

Right now that's the most mysterious thing in the story - my personal spec is that it will turn out to be a deus ex machina to join the Halo universe with ours (e.g. a time travel thingamajibba). Or the Princess. Or both. Smile
_________________
Check out my [URL=http://clamatius.blogspot.com/]blog[/URL] for my latest ILB stuff.
The [URL=http://ilb.extrasonic.com]Fireflies Wiki[/URL] is now open!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:43 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
clamatius
Decorated


Joined: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 209
Location: Seattle
Quote:
It seems a little strange that Mckaskill would have someone like that to send a secret transmission to anyway, right?


If you read the text carefully, the Operator says that
Quote:
Somebody has been talking to you, I said. And now you're sending him a message back.


So it's more the other way round - ONI talking to McKaskill, not vice versa.
_________________
Check out my [URL=http://clamatius.blogspot.com/]blog[/URL] for my latest ILB stuff.
The [URL=http://ilb.extrasonic.com]Fireflies Wiki[/URL] is now open!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:44 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Macavity
Entrenched


Joined: 25 Jul 2004
Posts: 883
Location: UNSC Comm Relay Station Alpha, West Shokan, NY
Dorkmaster wrote:
Well, and my question to follow up the thoughts of Jedi, are this:

How does a ratty, weedy-type person, who essentially is a "repair man/mechanic/parts supervisor" have contacts in ONI Intel? I mean, secret contacts even... I have no idea what conclusion that the answer could create, but still, it seems a little strange that Mckaskill would have someone like that to send a secret transmission to anyway, right?


I would suspect that ONI has contacts in the crews of all UNSC ships, who have instructions to report anything unusual that they've come across (mysterious artefacts, derelict ships, strange rouins, activity on dead planets . . . ).

Mr. Weedy McCaskill may be one of those ONI contacts, who's in touch with an ONI agent.
_________________
You are likely to be eaten by a grue. If this predicament seems particularly cruel,
Consider whose fault it could be, with no match or torch in your inventory...
NP: Erase The Truth

PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:45 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 1 of 4 [56 Posts]   Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!) » The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): General/Updates
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group