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[HitsHerMark]

[chulo333]

Astald: yeah, i think this all advances the game. I almost told her about Zudini having Dana's current location too, but she wanted to finish the call cuz she was messing up so much.

by the way astald, are you crew? i wasnt sure when she asked me.

[meadslee]

Why not bargin with her?

Ask her what the information about Dana's whereabouts is worth to her. I'm not saying give her the actual information and details about where Dana is or who has that information. Just find out how badly she wants to find Dana.

[Astald]

No chulo333, I'm not registered crew with Melissa. And meadslee, Melissa really doesn't seem to be the type of AI you can bargain with. She may disconnect if she feels she is being toyed with.

[chulo333]

Astald - you should go catch a live axon and see what happens when Melissa realises it's you

[Astald]

Trust me, I would if I could. That would be a very interesting phone call, almost as interesting as if hmrpita would have talked to her live again today. If I ever get the opportunity to get an axon, I will see what Melissa has to say about prior events.

[meadslee]

Well if Melissa REALLY REALLY wants to find out the whereabouts of Dana, the assassin as she puts it, surely she would be interested in any info, and would be interested at a price.

Say something that you would be risking your own life passing on the information. Then just give a bogus address.

It might work, and buy Dana sometime. I would do it myself, but living in the UK and no Axon's, i'm screwed!

[AngriBuddhist]

Well today was pretty cool.

I got up and checked the days answer,Truth. Noticed HitsHerMark had
posted some Relay Code and then noticed another. I didn't have time to
research what was going on so I wrote them down and left.

Out of the 11 axons that I answered (missed one to report in), my live call
was the 4th. The beginning and end you all know but it was the middle that
I had the most fun with.

I am not going to tell you what it was either. Now, before you accuse me of
holding out on you, let me say that it was of a personal nature and will be
much better if you wait to hear it. I have no doubt that the PMs will post the
majority of it, if only to shame me.

[Arana]

Davis Live Call

[XStryker]

Chief Science Officer XStryker, reporting for duty!

So, here's the full story. I got to the location for the 12:41 PDT axon, on Rt. 110 in Long Island. I found a bank of 2 pay phones. Looking good, right? I test them out, and neither of them work. I pace back and forth a bit, frustrated, thinking maybe this is a broken axon. And then, with little time to spare, I noticed a payphone on the other side of the street, outside a Burger King.

This is a very large and busy street, with a divider almost as high as my waist. If I went to the corner to cross, I would miss it.

I hesitated. Was I really going to cross 6 lanes of traffic to catch a payphone that I figured wouldn't be live? Yes, apparently, yes I was, and the flow of traffic cooperated with me. I ran as fast as I could to the Burger King, and as I neared the phone, I heard it. It was ringing! My heart lept, and I grabbed the phone.

And there was a silence, and I knew this one would be live.

All quotes below are merely paraphrases. I didn't record and have a poor memory.

X: Hello? *pant* Melissa?
M: Don't hang up, bad hardware, blah blah What must we reveal?
X: *pant* The truth!

I can barely hear a word she's saying. The street is super busy, cars constantly zooming by.

M: Name?
X: XStryker.
M: Spell it.
X: X S T R Y K E R
M: What is your rank?
X: Chief Science Officer <<dork alert!>>
M: You sound out of breath
X: I ran across the street to catch this call.
M: You must be very devoted.
X: Oh, you bet <<WAY too out of breath to say anything intelligent or useful>>
M: (asks permissing to record this)
X: Yes.
M: (talks about nicknames, and asks for mine)
X: <<realizing I forgot to think of something clever, I gave my actual college nickname>> Pimpy
M: (asks for spelling)
X: P I M P Y
M: How did you get that nickname?

It's actually short for Quote Pimp, which was my radio name, which I gave myself because I quote funny lines a lot (a friend once said I was a "regular quote pimp tonight", and I decided to use it on college radio). However, I somehow decided this would be too annoying to try to explain, so I made up a different answer.

X: My friends gave it to me... they were making a jab at my success with the ladies. <<Am I retarded?>>
M: A jab? They hit you?
X: No, I mean like they making a joke.
M: They were teasing you? I think I understand, as a sign of camraderie, correct?
X: Yes, camraderie, exactly.
M: With a nickname like that, you must have had success with the ladies.
X: Well, I am married. <<and probably retarded>> But no, they were making fun of me. I pretty much struck out with the ladies. <<WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???>>

To be completely honest, I think about 5-7 different girls were interested me in my senior year of college. After being a total dork for 3 years, I was wearing contacts, dressing a little better, feeling more confident and self assured. I was ready to take on my status of being the cool geek guy that all the anime club geek girls were drooling over. But the second girl I dated that year, well, she was the one, and now we're married. For a very brief time, though, I was almost about to be a geek playa. But there is no question that I was, and am, a total geek. Incidentally, my wedding was 5 days after August 24th.

M: You're very honest. <<and very good at embarassing myself, I guess>>
X: With you, Melissa? Always. <>
M: Your wife must be very understanding.
X: Oh, yeah. In fact, I may have to pick her up late today in order to get another call. <<actually, I basically was on time, because Strifey and Siege got the 5:17 and 5:47 EDT axons>>
M: I have an excerise to test blah blah give me a phrase of exactly 7 words, starting with your name.
X: XStryker... lives in Long Island, New York. <<soooo creative. But it's succint, easy to say, and easy to remember. MadCow got it, so, good.>>
M: Good. Repeat it.
X: (Repeats)
M: Now remember it exactly, communicate it to the crew, they have one hour blah blah. *click!*

I booked back to the car, and sped home. I was waaaaaay over the speed limit. Next time, I will be prepared to call someone instead. But I got the code to the chat room in about 15-20 minutes. I was so psyched about making the crew, but embarassed about my nickname story. Here's hoping next week I am calm, cool, collected, and ready to say something worthwhile.

Chief Science Officer XStryker, signing off.

[atdt1991]

Dag, yo!

[Xevo]

Just for the record, Ermac posted to chat "Atdt is THE Jack of All Trades" and pDK posted correctly on the boards "Atdt is A Jack of All Trades".

Unfortunately, we didn't catch the correct answer until the first person to get a live call with that code gave it wrong, and got berated. And the last chance to do it was someone who, apparently, had the RIGHT code, but tried to use a Halo character name (ala the Macaskill incident of earlier in the day) and was completely shut down.

Oh well, but great job everybody on the co-ordinating! That was certainly an exciting day of trying to get things done...

[Kali]

So, I'm just reporting in to say I'M ON THE CREW!!!

I'd post the conversation I had with melissa, except that I was with Phaedra as she posted the full account and gave her everything I could remember then.

I hope she got my cell number right, because I was so panicked and excited that I don't know if she missed the 6 in the number or if I just missed it when she said it. (xxx) xxx-6xxx

One thing I'll add, to mitigate my stupidity, we picked my name because last week we needed to get death into the conversation to spark the ilovebees rant, so, goddess of death seemed a good choice.

So when she asked me about it, already knowing what it meant, I panicked as I realized I couldn't say, "well I was hoping to make you go nuts so I could talk to and free that little princess person you just put in jail. Since she got away already, no reason."

I have to get back to work now...

[slacktron]

Re: Dag, yo!

[Kali]

Predicting live calls