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[INTERACTION] Communication from & with Milwaukee Residents
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Pendragon4
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 		I feel useful. Very Happy

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:52 am
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tubbytango
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 		Sent this last night:

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Sorry about the brevity of my phone call earlier, but technology has it's downsides sometimes.

Mike, I was wondering how easily I could be relocated to Milwaukee. My parents were from there, and to be honest the area where I'm at right now isn't doing much for me. I'm currently in the West Kentucky area. (I know right?)

To be honest, a lot of my questions were answered in the video you guys put out. (That Terry Nanny!)

I did have a few other questions though. Firstly, how does one get promoted to a higher powerclass, and secondly, where does Blackstar get all of it's supplies from. (I mean some things just have to be imported from somewhere right?)

Mike, I hope that we can speak more about this whole relocation thing sometime soon on the phone. Thanks for being so helpful.



PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:12 am
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nwfisk
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 		Just a suggestion - but has anyone tried feeding back the line: "SURELY YOU KNOW WHAT IM REFERRING TO" in any communications?

It seems to me that Russo is quietly leaking information (the chart solution) - if so, we might be able to use the line to get more information about specific non-Blackstar approved topics, such as rebels.

So, maybe someone might try "Has there been any recent rebel activity in the area? Surely you know what I'm referring to..."

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:36 am
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arcolz
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 		Although I haven't heard back from Mars since I posted on her facebook wall, I went ahead sent her a message:

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Ever since you posted that message, things have gone crazy over in my part of town too. Surely you know what I'm referring to. Between the rebels and the Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragments I don't know what to do. I have my rebreather and flare gun in case I need to leave, but no one to travel with.


As you can see, I used "Surely you know what I'm referring to." Maybe this will get her to talk....

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:30 pm
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modernsaints
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 		Hey all - first post in this game, first time seriously committing to an ARG Smile (tried my hand at one for a week or so last spring but it moved way too slow for my tastes.)

Anyway, I have a compulsive need to be helpful and a compulsive desire to read everything in addition to hearing it, so for others like me, I transcribed the calls Clocks and Pendragon posted. My hearing gave out/the static got worse at the end of the first call, so if someone else has a better idea what they're saying that'd be great.

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First call:

Mike: MTC, Mike Russo speaking.
Clocks: Hello? Hello? Oh, hi. I tried calling the MTC thing, but I didn't get anyone, so I tried your home number.
Mike: Yeah, MTC offices are closed during the... (couldn't make out this bit?)
Clocks: I just got this email from this person, I just moved into Milwaukee, uh... mars.madison? And I'm a little confused, I have no idea who this person is, and they're claiming to know me. Do you know anything about this person? It's really confusing.
Mike: Mars Madison. Name doesn't really ring a bell. Can you tell me anything more about her?
Clocks: Let's see...
Mike: Oh! She's the new machinist who just moved to town, right? Yeah, she's a black girl, mid-20s. I've never met her but her profile came through on the immigrations desk. And she sent you an email?
Clocks: Yeah, and her email is mars.madisonSPLATthisismymilwaukee.com.
Mike: That's something we automatically assigned - yeah, makes sense.
Clocks: Yeah, let me pull up the email really quick.
Mike: Sure. Can I have your name?
Clocks: I'm Jim. I left a voicemail trying to talk to you earlier.
Mike: It's sometimes a little tough to get through to me, we've been fielding a lot of phone calls recently, but we're trying to pick it up. We're actually gonna hire someone else down here at the MTC. (incoherent) ... get more information out to the public.
Clocks: You guys are doing a great job, I love the city so far.
Mike: Thanks a lot, thanks a lot. Where you coming from?
Clocks: Wichita.
Mike: Oh, actually let me pull up Mars' file here... she's a Wichita emigrant as well, now that I look at it. Not too much of a file, though. Serious character, but a lot of people don't have their files fully complete when they move in. What brought you to Milwaukee rather than Wichita, how'd you get here?
Clocks: I was on your website, and I had a friend that moved here, uh, Lipps Laroux, and I just joined his facebook, and saw him on facebook, and I said, "Well, this looks great." And me and my wife had heard good things, obviously, you know, after the whole... Blackstar thing. Of course we were a little skeptical, but then we got to talking, and everything just worked out, and we've only seen a couple fragments and things haven't been really hectic for us. So everything's been working out pretty good.
(Mike asks for the text of the email Mars sent, Clocks reads it)
Clocks: ... and I just thought that kinda seemed weird for someone I had never met before.
Mike: And you never set her anything?
Clocks: No, never.
Mike: Unusual, unusual. Well, maybe an email got rerouted, but I'm sure she means no harm. A lot of relocations to Milwaukee result in a certain amount of, you know, it's always tough moving to a new place. A lot of new people here. But it just sounds like she's a girl trying to meet new people, make new friends. Did you know anything more specific about her situation?
Clocks: She says young African-American, she says she's not involved... and she's fairly antisocial. I've had a few emails with her.
Mike: There's a lot of freelance (something)
Clocks: Like I'm just a little confused as to what she's doing actually emailing me. It's a little weird that she got my email, and it's a little worrying cause, you know, I'm a married man, I have two kids -
Mike: I can't even begin to guess where she got your email from. Typically, you know, uh... I can only imagine that she responds to people who originally write her. (something) your account? Maybe you worked on a shared terminal or something like that? (something) she sounds like a pretty copacetic character, looking at her background (incoherent) ... don't worry.
Clocks: But she doesn't have a criminal record or anything?
Mike: No, no criminal record. Jim, I actually gotta hang up on you, I got another call coming right now - could be more -
Clocks: Oh, all right. I find any problems, I'll call you right back
Mike: And send the video to all your friends and family -
Clocks: Yeah, definitely.



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Second call:

Mike: Mike Russo, Milwaukee Tourism Commission.
Clocks: Uh, hey, Mike, this is Jim again. Uh, sorry to call at such a late hour again.
Mike: It's fine, Jim. How's it going?
Clocks: It's going fine, but there was something I forgot. (Mike: Yeah?) It's - there was - I got this weird email with this booklet that apparently wasn't supposed to be released - it was leaked or something -
Mike: Yeah. It was - Milwaukee: A Reasonable Haven - (incoherent) - and that was not suppose to be released. And our communications director, Michael Lewis, sent it out without prior approval, and I ended up getting in a considerable amount of trouble as a consequence. What can I tell you about the booklet?
Clocks: Oh, it was just - I was going over it, and there was this list of people in the booklet, and actually Mars' name was in there.
Mike: Oh, was it?
Clocks: Yeah. And my good friend... oh whoops... but what I was asking was, if there's some kind of mailing list I can get on for things like this.
Mike: There's definitely a mailing list. (asks for email, that whole spiel)
Clocks: Okay.
Mike: And yeah, there's a lot of information going out pretty much every week, and there's going to be more.
Clock: All right. Thanks, Mike, I really appreciate it. Now... where did you move from when you came... uh...
Mike: I was, uh, a transplant to Milwaukee, actually, back during the Dormant Era, and you'll excuse me if my memories of that era are not fantastic. From what I remember, very faintly, I lived in what was once known as New York City, in a region of NYC once known as the Lower East Side. Wonderful place. What fragments or remains of my brain still spin forth information from that time recall a, uh, halcion world. Bright colors... and lots of food... and not constant bombardment from Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragments. So I moved to Milwaukee in, uh, I believe it was about DOR 10. And I moved here actually to work for the previous governmental organization, before the 300 Troubles and Go.D.S.E.E.D.'s birth, and, you know, stayed on during the Troubles... helped initial rebuilding efforts... and I continued in my admittedly and slightly changed position in the then newly-formed Milwaukee Tourism Commission.
Clocks: Well, whatever you can do (something), it's a great city, it's probably...
Mike: We think so too. We think so too.
Clocks: Wichita's a shithole compared to Milwaukee.
Mike: Aw, there are good people in Wichita...
Clocks: My entire family's in Wichita. There are good people in Wichita. It's a shithole compared to Milwaukee.
Mike: Yeah, yeah, it took us awhile to get in touch with them. The Creep was really keeping communication lines down. We really didn't even know that Wichita was there for at least a few years. A few years after the Troubles, that is. So, Jim, I'm going to have to step aside here - I have a few things I have to do before bedtime here - even I sleep - but send me that email again. (and then closing formalities, etc)



Will add these to the wiki as well, just to have everything everywhere. (Also, I can't be the only one who cracked up at Mike's delivery on the "constant bombardment by Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragments" line, right?)

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MrCthulhu2U
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modernsaints wrote:


Quote:
Second call:

Mike: What fragments or remains of my brain still spin forth information from that time recall a, uh, halcion world. Bright colors... and lots of food... and not constant bombardment from Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragments.




Wow, this is interesting and lends additional credence to the theory of M-Rotors being internally embedded.

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ClocksStriking13
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modernsaints wrote:

Mike: Yeah, MTC offices are closed during the... (couldn't make out this bit?)


I couldn't quite understand what he said, but he definitely said something about him being at his house from 8-11.

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regentswift
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 		I just sent Russo the following text message:
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Hey mike, want to hear a joke? What's the only thing godseed fragments won't consume and destroy?


Let's see if he's heard this one before. Wink
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regentswift
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 		Yup, he has:

His fast reply:

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Heard it before. What else you got


Thinking fast, my reply:
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Okay, how about this one: how many blackstar employees does it take to change a lightbulb?


Now, I'll have to think of a punchline...
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:47 pm
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regentswift wrote:

Okay, how about this one: how many blackstar employees does it take to change a lightbulb?

Now, I'll have to think of a punchline...


Three. One to replace the lightbulb, one to reseat the m-rotor, and one to jettison all affiliated personnel.

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regentswift
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 		The continuation:

He asks:
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how many?


I answer:
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Two: One to screw it in, one to screw it up

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Surely you know what I'm referring to


his comeback:
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More like a hundred. One to do it and 99 to be slain by Go.D.S.E.E.D.


I reply:
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Haha. Got any more good jokes?


He says:
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Yeah email me for them i hate texting


I sent him an email asking him for them. Let's see where this goes... Smile
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 		That's really amusing regentswift. Mike can be a pretty grim guy, huh? Let's see how funny his jokes are. Now I'm really curious about The Creep again.

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ClocksStriking13
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 		HUGE DEVELOPMENT!

We just had a genius call. We mentioned Surely you know what I'm referring to and he started opening up. He's on our side. He says he can't talk about that at work but can on his home because it's not being tapped as far as he knows (phone taps begs authoritarian gov. to me.)

Prepare, this call is juicy! Uploading it now.


EDIT:

Here it is!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XEN2GJVG

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regentswift
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ClocksStriking13 wrote:
HUGE DEVELOPMENT!

We just had a genius call. We mentioned Surely you know what I'm referring to and he started opening up. He's on our side. He says he can't talk about that at work but can on his home because it's not being tapped as far as he knows (phone taps begs authoritarian gov. to me.)

Prepare, this call is juicy! Uploading it now.


EDIT:

Here it is!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XEN2GJVG


Nice.
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 		I can't listen to that audio on my phone so I hope I don't overlap knowledge here. But I just talked to mike about the creep and he was really talkative for me.

First,he's not sure if it's because of the godseed or how they are relted,but they do fight but we knew that.

I asked what it was and he danced around it and I could tell he had trouble finding the words. He ended up saying it was a large amount of cthonic(sp?) energy. He said it's hard to explain without seeing it but you don't want to see it. Apprently a power level 20 or above can take it down. He said jagoda,terry nanny or the mayors league could do it.also voltaire

Then he told me about the first instance, where they sent out "worker" and he was able to kill it. But he said there are not many worker class people walking around.

We finished on the numbers of creep. He wants to believe it's a series of intelligences into one,but he is "probably wrong".

He said deluth has problem too,but not the creep. Mike said he had seen pictures,maybe we will too.

It was a fun talk,and mike was super cool about everything

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