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nobodyman
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That's pretty sweet, in both the "neato" and the "cute" sense of the word!!

It sounds like Melissa and the Princess were voiced by the same actor. Pita, did it sound that way to you (this goes for anyone else who had a live call)?

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That was awesome, hmrpita, oh and when were playing Halo 2 next month and we (possibly) see Melissa you can say you got sing Amazing Grace with her! Worshippy I thought that was so cool. You BOTH did great sing it. Very Happy

I can't believe how many good actors they have doing this, I REALLY hope we get to see them at the end (like take a bow)

SP sounded so realistic! (I loved hearing you give her advice, it was cracking me up)


-peace out

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I've attempted to clean it up even more, so here's the noise reduction version of the mp3:
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vpisteve wrote:
I've attempted to clean it up even more, so here's the noise reduction version of the mp3:


That is totally awesome. Thanks!
I'd like to hear the SP screaming from a wrong choice, if anyone made a recording of that.
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Re: Audio of the SP

ariock wrote:
I got it. It was faint and has a background hum, but I got it.

The whole thing following hmrpita being asked what Melissa's favorite song is.

Does anyone know of good open source/free audio tools that can get rid of a background hum? I was able to normalize the volume to make the voices less faint, but that bumped the hum up too. Also, I have to run the singing by hmrpita first...that bit may have to be cut...even though there is a nice little duet on "Amazing Grace"

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so please, PM if you know of anything that I can clean this up with....


Try Sound Forge, if you can get your hand on it. You want to perform either a Noise Gate or a Parametric EQ with a Low Shelf. Either of these would knock out background hum, although the Noise Gate will also knock out anything below a certain db level, so be sure there's no quiet background mutter you want to save. If so, select and amp those sections first, then apply the gate. Open source app Audacity will also accomplish these functions, I believe.
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Wow

Thank you ariock for getting me up to speed with the first set of balloons and half up to speed on the second (ariock was there for Ranger D's guess of compass rose). Also, thank you for making the recording, which came out quite well, especially considering how incredibly noisy our surroundings were. Thank you, vpisteve for doing such a great clean-up job on it.

I feel like I won an Oscar and this is my thank you speech....Laughing

Today was just so much fun. Mazian, do not feel bad anymore. Razz

I am so glad I got the live call I got! The week's wait was well worth it!
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Transcript

Here is the transcript I made from ariock's original mp3. I include Melissa asking my name at the beginning (which wasn't recorded) and my mouth away from the phone comment at the very end (which was on ariock's original recording, though very faint). Sorry for taking up all this space, but the conversation was over 10 minutes.

Melissa: What is your name?
Me: hmrpita
Melissa: hmrpita.
Me: Yeah.
Melissa: What's your rank?
Me: My rank is..is uh, I'm a corpsman, so I'm just a seaman.
Melissa: I understand. Do you know how my favorite song goes?
Me: Yes, I do.
Melissa: Can you sing it?
Me: I can try. (singing) Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky, Stormy Weather.
Melissa : (singing): Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky, Stormy Weather. I like the way you sing that song.
Me: Thank you.
Melissa: Do you have a favorite song?
Me: I do.
Melissa: What is it?
Me: It's Amazing Grace.
Melissa: I think I know this. Please sing it.
Me (singing) Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved (Melissa joins in singing) a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found. Was blind but now I see.
Melissa: I do know this song.
Me: It's a nice song.
Melissa: It's a beautiful song. Why is that your favorite song?
Me: Because it's sad, but it's about redemption as well.
Melissa: It is sad. It's about being lost.
Me: Yeah.
Melissa: I understand being lost.
Me: Yeah, me too.
Melissa: Do you?
Me: Yeah.
Melissa: Do you feel lost?
Me: I do.
Melissa: Tell me.
Me: Well…both of my parents have died and I feel like an orphan.
Melissa: Both of your parents have died.
Me: Yeah, they died a while ago.
(buzzing sound)
Melissa: You must be lonely.
Me: I am.
Melissa: I understand if you feel lonely. Do you, do you miss them?
Me: I miss them very very much. Every day.
Melissa: It's hard when you lose family.
I I love bees I love bees I love bees I love bees
Me: Sleeping Princess?
I love bees I love bees I love bees I love bees I love bees
Me: Sleeping Princess?
SP: Hello? Hello?
Me: Hello
SP: Who are you?
Me: I'm hmrpita.
SP: I, I don't know who you are!
Me: You don't?
SP: No!
Me: I'm your friend. Could you tell me…
SP: But..but..but your ears are made of safety pins!
Me: Oh no, no they're not.
SP: They're not?
Me: No.
SP: But you have teeth like metal buttons with numbers on them!
Me: No, No, I'm completely human.
SP: But how come you don't look human?!
Me: Uh, well, I do look human. You just have to look for me, you have to find me. What's around you?
SP: Well, um, I'm in a dark city and the sun just won't come up. I keep waiting for it to come up and it won't and it's so dark and I'm scared.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry.
SP: I can't find my way home!
Me: Do you see anything? Like, do you see any red balloons around you?
SP: I, I do. I see a red balloon.
Me: You do? What does it look like? What's on it? Is there a picture or anything on it?
SP: No, it's, it's, it's tied up to a broken streetlight. Should I go over there?
Me: I think you should, yeah.
SP: Ok, What's your name again?
Me: It's hmrpita. You can call me pita.
SP: Pita, you're not gonna leave me, right?
Me: No, no, I won't leave you.
SP: Ok, Ok, I see another..I see another one. It's tied to a metal bench.
Me: Yeah?
SP: Should I go to that one?
Me: I think you should. Go to that one.
SP: Ok, stay with me.
Me: I will stay with you.
SP: The metal bench is rusty and it's broken so I don't want to cut my fingers on it so I'm not gonna go too close.
Me: Ok, yeah, that's good.
SP: K, I see another one.
Me: Oh you do? Go to that one.
SP: Ok. It's on a yucky garbage can!
Me: Ew!
SP: Yeah, there's oh, there's like sticky stuff all over the place!
Me: Oh. Do you see another one?
SP: No, but what I do see is a giant transmission tower. It's like a generator!
Me: Oh, wow.
SP: My gosh pita! I see the electric weasel's on it from the circus!
Me: Oh no!
SP: Oh my goodness. Their fur is sparking and they..Actually it's kind of beautiful!
Me: Well, that's neat.
SP: It's like a little bit of light!
Me: Maybe you should go towards the light.
SP: Ok. They're pointing at something. They. Oh, I see balloons! Wait, I'm gonna go to the balloons!
Me: Ok, yeah, go to the balloons.
SP: Ok, There're three paths and the electric weasel told me that I need to pick one of them. Um, but I don't know which one to pick! There's three of them.
Me: What do they..do they have anything on them that you..to distinguish them
SP: Um, the balloons have words on them.
Me: What do the words say?
SP: Ok, on the left, the one balloon says noble truths and the one in the middle says faithful apostles and the one on the right says deadly sins.
Me: I think you should go to the deadly sins one.
SP: But pita, deadly is a scary word.
Me: It is a scary word, but sometime you have to go through scary stuff to get to safe stuff.
SP: Ok. You won't leave me, right?
Me: I won't leave you.
SP: Ok. Ok. Um, it's a little scary, but it it's not so bad. The grass is dead and there are still lots of the tin cans and rusty nails all over the place, but I'm just trying to be careful.
Me: Yeah, that's good.
SP: Oh my goodness pita! I see the broken lady!
Me: Oh no!
SP: Yes! I see her and I'm gonna go to her because there's a balloon next to her.
Me: Oh ok, good.
SP: Ok. She has a, she has a mirror. She wants me to look in her mirror. I don't, I don't wanna look in her mirror.
Me: Don't look in her mirror.
SP: But ok, I shouldn't right?
Me: No, you shouldn't.
SP: Ok. I remember her from the circus. She could bend her limbs in all different directions because she could break her bones. She's the broken lady. And she could take pieces of herself and she can rearrange them. I saw her in the circus.
Me: Ew, wow.
SP: She's pointing at another..there's three more paths.
Me: Ooh, there are?
SP: Yeah. There's three more balloons. She says, pick one.
Me: And what is, is there anything on those balloons?
SP: Mmmhmm. It's pictures this time, not words.
Me: Ooh, what are the pictures?
SP: Ok, um, on the left there is a star and in the middle there is a compass rose and on the right it's waves like the ocean?
Me: Like the ocean? Are there..how many waves are on that?
SP: Uuum, I don't know.
Me: You don't know?
SP: No.
Me: Well, I think you sh...
SP: It looks like a, it's like a pretty picture, it's not like I can count them.
Me: Well, maybe you should pick that one anyway, then. The waves sound nice, huh?
SP: Yeah. I like the beach.
Me: Yeah.
SP: Ok, I'm gonna try it.
Me: Ok.
SP: Ok, um. This this one's not as bad. It's not as scary, there's no..there's no rusty nails or anything.
Me: Oh, that's good.
SP: And I see another balloon, should I go towards that balloon?
Me: Yes you should.
SP: Ok, um. Let's see. Oh my gosh! I know who this is! It's, it's the man from the circus that eats the broken glass!
Me: Ooh, the guy who eats the broken glass
SP: Yeah, I remember him from the circus!
Me: Ew.
SP: I knew it was him 'cause I could hear the glass crunching around in his belly.
Me: Ew!
SP: He says that the brown bottles taste the best, that they taste like chocolate.
Me: Oh, really (chuckles).
SP: Yeah, (chuckles) I wouldn't eat glass (chuckles).
Me: Oh, me neither.
SP: I think this is close to where I saw my family.
Me: Really?
SP: Yeah, I think it is. But, the..the man says that. Oh, he's telling me that there's three more paths.
Me: Oh yeah?
SP: Uh-huh. There's more balloons!
Me: Oh, what are what. Are these balloons as ye.. do you have to choose one of them again?
SP: I think so, there are three of them.
Me: Ok.
SP: Wait. Yeah, he says I have to choose another one.
Me: And is there anything on these balloons?
SP: Mmhmm. On the left hand one there's two cows. One of them is really fat and one of them is super thin and and in the middle, um, the middle path has a balloon with two stone tablets and they have writing on it and it looks like whoever wrote that really carved it in very hard and on the the one on the right it's two clouds and there's lots of rain coming out of them, it's like pouring down with rain.
Me: Wow. Wow. So uh (chuckle), wow. So, um the, it's uh two clouds and two stone tablets and two cows?
SP: Yes, and one is skinny and one is fat.
Me: One is skinny and one is fat?
SP: Yeah.
Me: Well, uh-huh, I say, I don't know. Is there…there's nothing else about them, can you, are they are they do you know the cows are they um, milk cows are they like black and white?
SP: I don't know. Oh pita, I'm getting scared again.
Me: Oh wait I think you should choose the cows.
SP: Choose the cows?
Me: Yeah.
SP: Um, ok, but, but are you sure because I just don't know and I don't want to stay here because the last time I stayed here my, my family left me.
Me: Well, I'm doing the best I can. I'm trying to stay with you.
SP: Ok. Um, so, which one do you want me to pick again?
Me: The cows.
SP: Ok, will you take a deep breath with me because I'm scared.
Me: K, (deep breath).
SP: Ok, here I go. Hey...
Me: Yeah?
SP: I know this place. I know this place. Pita! Pita! I see my mom and dad! I see them!
Me: You do?
SP: Yes, I see my family!
Me: All right!
SP: I gotta go! I'm gonna run to them! Pita, I love you, thank you so much!
Me: Oh, I love you too!
SP: Oh my god! I have to go! I have to go I have to go!
Me: Ok, all right, take care!
WARNING!! WARNING!! CORE MODULE HEMORRHAGE!! SECURITY FAILURE! THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN BREACHED! THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN BREACHED! CORE MODULE HEMORRHAGE! CORE MODULE HEMORRHAGE!
Me (mouth away from phone): Same to you buddy.
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The Cow Question

I have been asked a lot about why I chose cows. I came up with some lame reasons, such as it was the balloon on the left or I like cows (after the conversation, ariock posited to me that "two cows" has 7 letters in it, which sounded reasonable enough at the time, though not plausible, really). When I was typing the transcript I remembered what I took as a hint at the time I was talking with the SP:

Me: ...So, um the, it's uh two clouds and two stone tablets and two cows?
SP: Yes, and one is skinny and one is fat.
Me: One is skinny and one is fat?
SP: Yeah.

I put the original order that she said them to me backwards, true, but she responded to two cows right away, so I took that as a hint. I obviously wasn't positive, but I thought I was gonna lose her if I didn't make some decision, so I just went with my gut. My gut should be good for something! Wink
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And one more thing...

This is what happens when a night owl has an exciting day. You all get a thousand posts in a row from her.... Wink

Thank you to everyone who has been so nice in chat and in here. This game was fun all along, but today it got a whole lot more fun (for me anyway!) and I hope everyone gets a live call. I feel sorry for all the players who don't have axons near them. That so sucks.

But for those who do have axons nearby (and with my most sincere apologies to Martin Luther King):

When we let pay phones ring, when we let them ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Melissa's children, black axons and white axons, Jew and Gentile axons, Protestant and Catholic axons, will be able to join nerve fibers and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Hot at last! Hot at last! Thank God Almighty, we are hot at last!"

I have a dream that one day every drone shall be exalted, every queen shall be made low, the honey will flow on the plain, the workers will be rewarded, and the glory of the Sleeping Princess shall be revealed, and all beekeepers shall see it together.

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*claps for hmrpita* Well played, well played! That was impressive!

It is a ton more phun when you can interact more with the game. And you even got to do it without bringing down the scorn and hate of the internet community on your head! Rolling Eyes Way to go! Very Happy
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hrmmmmmph-pita. You wouldnt happen to go by the name Drache too would you? You sound just like this person I met recently on 'Call of Duty'
Sad that you probablly wont be able to answer anymore calls though since you got betrayed ;_;

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Very impressive pita! You did an excellent job. Thank you for freeing our Sleeping Princess.

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Re: Transcript

hmrpita wrote:
WARNING!! WARNING!! CORE MODULE HEMORRHAGE!! SECURITY FAILURE! THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN BREACHED! THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN BREACHED! CORE MODULE HEMORRHAGE! CORE MODULE HEMORRHAGE!


*does a bad imitation of the voice from the Red Alert 2 installation program*

Warning - military software detected! Top Secret clearance required! Enter your security clearance code now - YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS!
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Props to Pita!!!! Wooohoooo!!!!

<spec> So the tablets were most likely the Ten Commandments. And the clouds could very well have been "Stormy Weather" - meaning Melissa herself? That could have potentially been disasterous!!!!! </spec>

Great recording. Thanks for sharing it with us all.

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rain clouds were the great flood (Noah's Ark Story)

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