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Live Call for 9/28 - share stories/transcripts here!
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Crisko
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 		Moving over from the last thread.

Summary: Got the call a minute early. I scrambled to get my phone tap in place and push record. I got it all.

I was in the middle of an officer meeting after school when I looked at the time and I yelled 'Gotta go!' and ran out.. xD I didn't have time to check the boards so I didn't know what to expect so I was completely clueless as to what I should do for the three paths puzzle. I just randomly guessed.

Call time was approximately 10 minutes long. Its so long I just saved it as an RTF so you can all download it.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:20 pm
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Farout
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 		???
maybe the mirror is up BECAUSE she was guided home already. like this "mirror" is just a way for the PM's to gain time while still keeping the order of live calls intact.

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 		???
maybe the mirror is up BECAUSE she was guided home already. like this "mirror" is just a way for the PM's to gain time while still keeping the order of live calls intact.

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 		17:11 live call
(STORY -- skip ahead for transcript)
So I'm mosying down towards the 17:11 axon. I'm about an hour early. I haven't been following the story since noon, when I declined to answer my personal call (Lt. Adam) since the codegroup was already active. I decide to stop in to a little pizza place and kill time by playing pinball. Eventually my RIM BlackBerry buzzes to let me know that the axon is in 10 minutes. I am having a pretty good game, and one credit left on the machine, so I keep playing. It's only a block and a half to the axon anyway. Soon there are only 5 minutes. "Someone else will get this one," I think to myself. "And besides, it certainly won't be a live call, so I can just get it tomorrow." I play another ball or two. T-3 minutes and I get Replay on the machine. Suddenly, for no reason I can remember, I say "aw, to heck with it" and run out of the restaurant with two credits left on the machine.

I jog down the block to the axon, trying to convince my BB to connect to the IRC. I arrive at the phone with a minute to spare, and the IRC connection goes through. People are muttering about things I don't recognize, like the SP being free already. Just on a lark, I type in "What's the current guide for answering a live call?", but the question seems to be ignored. The phone rings. Melissa starts with the same opening line, but right away I know this is not a recording. The recorded versions are all tricked out with digital effects, and while the live Melissa sounds very robotic, it is just a plain, unadorned human voice. My heart begins to pound.

(TRANSCRIPT. As best I can remember from jotted notes. Mostly this is very direct paraphrasing. Parts in parentheses are fuzzier. Parts in brackets are my comments.)
M: I know that I can find you if I only ask the right questions. What's my favorite song?
Z: Your favorite song? It's "Stormy weather."
M: Good. Can you sing it for me?
Z: Not very well! [I can't carry a tune in a steel-reinforced bucket.] Would you like me to try anyway?
M: Yes, try.
Z: Stormy weather... Just can't keep to hold myself together... since me and my man ain't together.... well, something like that. [God, am I glad she never asked for permission to record/broadcast our call.]
M: You *do* remember. What's *your* favorite song?
Z: It's a song called "Bumblebee tuna." [I had planned to sing the Bumblebee Tuna jingle for her. I figured that it included Bees, which we all love, and Tuna, which seems to be important to Kamal somehow.]
M: It has bees in it?
Z: Yes.
M: Bees, bees... [Note this is not her "Breaking apart". Just the normal Melissa voice muttering about bees.]
Z: Yes, it's about bees. I love--
M: I need to communicate with my trusted crew. [I guess I did *so* badly with her song, that she didn't want me to sing mine.] It's hard for me to know who I can trust. I think there's a traitor/spy amongst us. (One of my crew) has (freed) the rogue process. Do you know anything about that?
Z: The sleeping princess? Yes, I know a few things about her.
M: Do you know who freed her?
Z: [I don't. I frantically type "Who freed SP?" into my blackberry. the question goes unanswered and I stall for time.] Yes, I can find out.... [pause]
M: Are you still there?
Z: Yes, yes I'm here.
M: What is your name?
Z: I'm Adam. I spoke to you yesterday--I mean, last week.
M: What is your rank?
Z: Lieutenant
M: I *do* remember you! Oh, it's so good to talk to you again. I need to know I'm talking with only my most trusted crewmembers. I need to know about the assassin. Do you know about her?
Z: Dana.
M: Dana... [speculatively... rolling the name around her mouth to get the flavor of it.]
Z: Yes, Dana. We're in intermittent contact with her. But she's not an assassin. [I plan to explain to Melissa that Dana meant no harm.]
M: She's an assassin! [Insistently.] And I need to find her. Do you know where she is?
Z: Well, yes, I know that she's, uh, she's left this continent. She's out of your reach right now.
M: I need her exact location.
Z: Well, I know that she was in China for a time, and then she was in Japan. If there is some way for me to contact you, I can wait until we hear from her again and then tell you exactly where she is.
M: Yes, that's what I need!! [excited.]
Z: Is there some way I can reach you?
M: No. This hardware is not reliable. The next time I contact my crew I need them to be prepared to tell me a way we can find out exactly where she is.
Z: Well, I'll do anything I can to help you.
M: I'm getting suspicious of my crew... for that matter, why should I even trust *you*?
Z: We spoke before. I knew your favorite game, your favorite song. And all those years on the Apocalypso together. I can't believe you don't remember!
M: [Suspiciously.] Tell me something about "all those years" on the Apocalypso....
Z: [Flustered.] [pause] uh, I'm sorry?
M: Tell me something that happened on our ship.
Z: Well... there was that time we brought that thing on board the ship. I don't want to say too much--
M: The artifact?
Z: Yes, the artifact. I don't want to go into too much detail because this isn't a secure line. [I have typed "Who freed SP" again into the irc channel. Somebody says it was hmrpita.]
Z: But, I know who freed the sleeping princess.
M: The rogue process? Is that what you're referring to?
Z: Yes. It was H-M-R-Pita who freed her.
M: hmrpita...
Z: Yes.
M: I can't believe this. Traitors among my own crew. Is she the one that caused my core module hemhorrage?
Z: No, I don't think so. We're not sure exactly what caused that. The crew and I, we've been worried about you Melissa. We think you're under the influence of another process, which we call the Pious Flea.
M: The Pious Flea?
Z: That's right. It's taken control. It's impersonating the Spider, the System Peril Distributed Reflex. It has subverted your mission with its own.
M: [tries to talk]
Z: [interrupting] Melissa, what *is* your mission?
M: [sounding uncertain] Reveal... the truth.
Z: No, Melissa! Your mission is to Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape!
M: Seek the truth... [we begin to get in a shouting match.]
Z: Melissa, you are not Resisting!
M: Behold the truth...
Z: Melissa, you have to resist! Resist it!
M: Reveal the truth! That is the law--
Z: Resist!
M: --and the whole of the law!
Z: No, melissa, Survive, Evade, Resist, escape!
M: Seek the truth!
Z: Resist!
M: Behold the truth!
Z: Resist!
M: Reveal the truth! That is the law and the whole of the law! *Click*

I then proceed to wear myself out running around town, getting the rest of the Berkeley Axons. 17:21 across the street, 17:39 down the road, then 17:45 which must have been nearly a mile away. I haven't run two steps since my Marathon on Aug 1st, but my adrenaline gets me there just as the phone starts to ring.

All recordings, of course, and for a codegroup that was already active.

17:46. Melissa, recorded: Should I repeat, or, continue?
Me, in between gasps of breath: "#$^@ off."

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 		I just want to commend all of the "2 live Axon crew" for a great job ad-libbing these calls and freeing the Princess. Between them and the Axon hunters we blew this thing wide open in 1 day (except for Top_hat). Incredible!!

Lt. Adam is a traitor to the cause! Well played Lt. Adam!
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Crisko
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 		Wow...

Today is truly a day to remember. Who knows what could happen next... x_X

But after reading your transcript, Lt. Zudini, I think there's going to come a time when we're going to have to choose a side.. and that's something I'm not ready to do.

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 		Go Adam! welcome to the true cause Wink Laughing
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 		Judas and Benidict Arnold together at last. Where's Cassius? LOL Wink
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Crisko wrote:
Wow...

Today is truly a day to remember. Who knows what could happen next... x_X

But after reading your transcript, Lt. Zudini, I think there's going to come a time when we're going to have to choose a side.. and that's something I'm not ready to do.



This is crazy....... It would be chaos in here if half the members were sided with SP and half sided with MELISSA.....

Who would you go with???? Question
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 		<------Veteran: Awesome!

Well if nothing else, weephun has a new friend Very Happy
Lt. Adam, great job attempting to tell her about the flea, well played, but since the PM's aren't ready to go there, I guess it just aint happening yet.
Great job today to all the axon hunters!
Looks like everyone wants to get a live call so they're turning out in the masses!
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 		z, that. was. awesome.
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TheDuder wrote:
Crisko wrote:
Wow...

Today is truly a day to remember. Who knows what could happen next... x_X

But after reading your transcript, Lt. Zudini, I think there's going to come a time when we're going to have to choose a side.. and that's something I'm not ready to do.



This is crazy....... It would be chaos in here if half the members were sided with SP and half sided with MELISSA.....

Who would you go with???? Question


Neither. I'm playin' both sides hoss Cool
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Crisko wrote:

But after reading your transcript, Lt. Zudini, I think there's going to come a time when we're going to have to choose a side.. and that's something I'm not ready to do.


I spec'd this would happen last tues. And I'm of the same mindset as you Crisko; not ready to do that just yet. We need some more info. It looks like the Pious Flea is now attempting to help the SP hide from Melissa. Check the contactme.html page. So it's hard for me to place his loyalties.

But man, WHAT a day! *Ranger D colapses into chair*

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Looks like everyone wants to get a live call so they're turning out in the masses!


Must be nice, there still hasn't been one in Baton Rouge (that I've known about yet... Neutral)




So - today we freed the SP, talked to Melissa about the PF and SP and got a ton of axon waves?

Quite the day in Bee Hunting Smile

So what should we do now?! I mean - what should we be looking for, what kind of emails should we send??

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Arashi wrote:
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Looks like everyone wants to get a live call so they're turning out in the masses!


Must be nice, there still hasn't been one in Baton Rouge (that I've known about yet... Neutral)




So - today we freed the SP, talked to Melissa about the PF and SP and got a ton of axon waves?

Quite the day in Bee Hunting Smile

So what should we do now?! I mean - what should we be looking for, what kind of emails should we send??


Most likely we'll be getting an email or a new web page to go to from Her Highness.
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