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[DESPERATE SPEC] Our Final Mission
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Skyfall
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 		[DESPERATE SPEC] Our Final Mission
It looks like the game's winding down. We've lost the Sleeping Princess, and the Axon Plotters are breaking into Chawla Base on Sunday. I have no idea how the burning-out of the Sleeping Princess will effect Durga in the future, at the point where her crew needs her the most, but that is no longer in our hands. That does not imply, however, that we can have no effect on their success.

Herzog's most recent axon set has convinced me that the Pious Flea originated with him, or at least with his department. It is entirely possible that the seeker escaped the burn which killed the Sleeping Princess--while it was protecting the Princess, it may not have had to accompany her to do so. The upshot of this? The Pious Flea is still around, and can still influence events.

I was pretty sure we were going to lose the Sleeping Princess this week (though it felt like a gut punch when it happened yesterday) when I saw that Melissa was transmitting Herzog and Rani's files directly to us. Admittedly, it's nice that she trusts us as her crew enough to keep us informed of confidential information that she probably still isn't broadcasting to Durga.

You see where this is going.

We need to send "needles" and "the_truth" to Durga before the raid on Chawla Base on Sunday. And since the Princess is dead, we will probably have to do it without being prompted by the Flea. (Unless he gives everyone a shout-out on Friday, or something.) If Durga doesn't find out about "triangles, lines, dots," I guarantee you that the final WAVs will end in tragedy.

To all dedicated transmission-senders: the Pious Flea may still be watching the original communication channels. We need to figure out what subject title the seeker will filter out to send to Durga. Was "seek, behold, reveal" ever spoiled? I'm not entirely convinced that we'll get no assistance on this one, but I am convinced that this is the moment where we step up to the plate and do our little bit to save the world.

Rally, SPArmy. She would have wanted us to do this.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:25 pm
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 		Re: [DESPERATE SPEC] Our Final Mission
Skyfall wrote:

Rally, SPArmy. She would have wanted us to do this.


REMEMBER THE PRINCESS!!!!
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 		I sent the following to ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com, since that was the last address I recall the Flea having access too.

!behold >> truth wrote:

behold
truth >> !transmit >> Durga

McKaskill: (nervous) Hello?
Herzog: McKaskill. Good.
McKaskill: Y-you must have the wrong number--
Herzog: Disconnect, and I'll tell Section 3 where you are.
McKaskill: Damn it, you are just bad luck, you know that?
Herzog: I'm already as good as dead. Don't think I give a damn about taking you with me.
McKaskill: My life hasn't been worth a dry man's spit since we had our first little chat before the Apocalypso shipped out.
Herzog: What can I say? I... have a way with people.
McKaskill: When the whole thing started to go down, I tried to squirt you a note. Did you know that? The Op busted me up for it pretty good.
Herzog: It was the right thing to do.
McKaskill: Yeah, sure. Only it'd be Mama McKaskill's little boy getting the long sleep if she had ratted me out, not you.
Herzog: We have to talk about the Artifact that you held on the Apocalypso.
McKaskill: I-I hate the sight of needles. I can't even give blood!
Herzog: McKaskill, it took a lot of work to seek you out. I need to know how they triggered it, everything depends on it!
McKaskill: I told the investigators. I don't know nothin' about nothin'.

behold
truth >> !transmit >> Durga

Herzog: I don't know what they'll do if I give them your location. Maybe a hard sound pulse to drop you while you're crossing the street. Or gas, they're using gas more these days.
McKaskill: (hesitantly, glasses clattering) I was just messing around. Like, it had these shapes on it, you know. Triangles and lines and dots. I wasn't even thinking about it, just a nervous habit. (swallowing liquid) I-I got bad nerves!
Herzog: Right, and...?
McKaskill: They went all the way around, like the tread on a tire. I don't know why, I just... touched all the triangles first. The official lab team had given up, they couldn't get nothin' out of it.
Herzog: Triangles, all the way around...
McKaskill: Mm-hmm. (swallowing) Then lines.
Herzog: Then dots?
McKaskill: (chuckling) then kablam!
Herzog: Triangles, lines, dots...
McKaskill: Damn, I'm empty.
Herzog: If it makes you feel any better about revealing the truth, you... may have just saved the planet.
McKaskill: Then maybe the planet can buy me a drink. (Glasses clattering)


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 		1. The Herzog wavs aren't on the recipe3 this time, so they may not be hidden.
2. Wouldn't Rani consult with Herzog before going into Chawla? He is, after all, effectively dead and therefore safe.
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 		I sent a similar email

Quote:
Starblade>>transmit truth>>seeker
succeed

behold

McKaskill: (nervous) Hello?
Herzog: McKaskill. Good.
McKaskill: Y-you must have the wrong number--
Herzog: Disconnect, and I'll tell Section 3 where you are.
McKaskill: Damn it, you are just bad luck, you know that?
Herzog: I'm already as good as dead. Don't think I give a damn about taking you with me.
McKaskill: My life hasn't been worth a dry man's spit since we had our first little chat before the Apocalypso shipped out.
Herzog: What can I say? I... have a way with people.
McKaskill: When the whole thing started to go down, I tried to squirt you a note. Did you know that? The Op busted me up for it pretty good.
Herzog: It was the right thing to do.
McKaskill: Yeah, sure. Only it'd be Mama McKaskill's little boy getting the long sleep if she had ratted me out, not you.
Herzog: We have to talk about the Artifact that you held on the Apocalypso.
McKaskill: I-I hate the sight of needles. I can't even give blood!
Herzog: McKaskill, it took a lot of work to seek you out. I need to know how they triggered it, everything depends on it!
McKaskill: I told the investigators. I don't know nothin' about nothin'.

behold

Herzog: I don't know what they'll do if I give them your location. Maybe a hard sound pulse to drop you while you're crossing the street. Or gas, they're using gas more these days.
McKaskill: (hesitantly, glasses clattering) I was just messing around. Like, it had these shapes on it, you know. Triangles and lines and dots. I wasn't even thinking about it, just a nervous habit. (swallowing liquid) I-I got bad nerves!
Herzog: Right, and...?
McKaskill: They went all the way around, like the tread on a tire. I don't know why, I just... touched all the triangles first. The official lab team had given up, they couldn't get nothin' out of it.
Herzog: Triangles, all the way around...
McKaskill: Mm-hmm. (swallowing) Then lines.
Herzog: Then dots?
McKaskill: (chuckling) then kablam!
Herzog: Triangles, lines, dots...
McKaskill: Damn, I'm empty.
Herzog: If it makes you feel any better about revealing the truth, you... may have just saved the planet.
McKaskill: Then maybe the planet can buy me a drink. (Glasses clattering)


Starblade>> transmit truth>> seeker
seeker>> transmit truth >> Durga

Starblade>>find>>princess
fail
creepy

seeker>>find>>princess
succeed?
seeker>>grope>>princess
succeed?

princess>>evade>>Melissa
fail?
princess>>survive>>Melissa
fail?

seeker>>seek princess>>the last fortress | 17:23:00 ?


Maybe the PF managed to do something to protect or save a part of the SP...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:26 pm
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 		Re: [DESPERATE SPEC] Our Final Mission
Skyfall wrote:
IHerzog's most recent axon set has convinced me that the Pious Flea originated with him, or at least with his department. It is entirely possible that the seeker escaped the burn which killed the Sleeping Princess--while it was protecting the Princess, it may not have had to accompany her to do so. The upshot of this? The Pious Flea is still around, and can still influence events.


I agree with this. The language used by Herzog is that of PF. Herzog recruited McKaskill as a human agent on the Apocolypso. Not a top officer, but an unnoticable member of the support crew. Similarly I spec that he (or his group) planted the unobtrusive low-complexity (compared to an AI like the Operator) program in the computer system. PF looks to be working on the same side as the current Jersey's team. Go PF! I hope that you are still there (likely) and that you managed to sequester the princess (not so likely).
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 		Ya like the Flea now don't you!? Yeah! Eat it! Eat it!

(j.k)

In all seriousness, these seems like a sound plan. I'm just happy that my adroit defense of every one's favorite bug might pay off.

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 		[quote="Starblade"]I sent a similar email

Quote:
Starblade>>transmit truth>>seeker
succeed

behold

McKaskill: (nervous) Hello?
Herzog: McKaskill. Good.
McKaskill: Y-you must have the wrong number--
Herzog: Disconnect, and I'll tell Section 3 where you are.
McKaskill: Damn it, you are just bad luck, you know that?
Herzog: I'm already as good as dead. Don't think I give a damn about taking you with me.
McKaskill: My life hasn't been worth a dry man's spit since we had our first little chat before the Apocalypso shipped out.
Herzog: What can I say? I... have a way with people.
McKaskill: When the whole thing started to go down, I tried to squirt you a note. Did you know that? The Op busted me up for it pretty good.
Herzog: It was the right thing to do.
McKaskill: Yeah, sure. Only it'd be Mama McKaskill's little boy getting the long sleep if she had ratted me out, not you.
Herzog: We have to talk about the Artifact that you held on the Apocalypso.
McKaskill: I-I hate the sight of needles. I can't even give blood!
Herzog: McKaskill, it took a lot of work to seek you out. I need to know how they triggered it, everything depends on it!
McKaskill: I told the investigators. I don't know nothin' about nothin'.

behold

Herzog: I don't know what they'll do if I give them your location. Maybe a hard sound pulse to drop you while you're crossing the street. Or gas, they're using gas more these days.
McKaskill: (hesitantly, glasses clattering) I was just messing around. Like, it had these shapes on it, you know. Triangles and lines and dots. I wasn't even thinking about it, just a nervous habit. (swallowing liquid) I-I got bad nerves!
Herzog: Right, and...?
McKaskill: They went all the way around, like the tread on a tire. I don't know why, I just... touched all the triangles first. The official lab team had given up, they couldn't get nothin' out of it.
Herzog: Triangles, all the way around...
McKaskill: Mm-hmm. (swallowing) Then lines.
Herzog: Then dots?
McKaskill: (chuckling) then kablam!
Herzog: Triangles, lines, dots...
McKaskill: Damn, I'm empty.
Herzog: If it makes you feel any better about revealing the truth, you... may have just saved the planet.
McKaskill: Then maybe the planet can buy me a drink. (Glasses clattering)


Starblade>> transmit truth>> seeker
seeker>> transmit truth >> Durga

Starblade>>find>>princess
fail
creepy

seeker>>find>>princess
succeed?
seeker>>grope>>princess
succeed?

princess>>evade>>Melissa
fail?
princess>>survive>>Melissa
fail?

seeker>>seek princess>>the last fortress | 17:23:00 ?



You should probably define survive for the flea. He might not know what it is.

It might help to do...

!survive >> !evade scramble

query: Princess !evade > Master-sec 0

That's more flea-speak precise (I think).

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turbov21 wrote:
I sent the following to ladybee777SPLAThotmail.com, since that was the last address I recall the Flea having access too.


starblade wrote:
I sent a similar email


Nice job! A couple questions:
* What have you used as a subject header for the e-mail? The Seeker might be picky about what it filters away from Melissa
* Did you include the WAV files as attachments to the e-mail? If I recall correctly, the Seeker ignored our early transcript-only e-mails in favor of ones with the audio clips attached.

TheBiggestSean wrote:
Ya like the Flea now don't you!? Yeah! Eat it! Eat it!

(j.k)


Heh; for the last week, I've been majorly waffling between classifying the Seeker as "CovenantSpy" and "HerzogMole." I think, at this point, a great number of us are glad to have been proven wrong about it . . .

. . . at least, I hope we were wrong . . . Wink
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 		I used:

transmit truth>>Durga

I wasn't aware he didn't read certain ones based on the header, or that he didn't read the manuscripts. Perhaps I should resend with the .wavs attached. I didn't think I needed to explain survive, as the Flea was saying for a little bit:

Survive
Evade
Resist
Escape

to the SP.

I don't think the Flea is also dead. I saw a new thing on one of the recipe pages (don't remember which), but near the middle, saw the familiar mantra 4 times, each time written over the other. It repeated about 10 times, I think.

Also, it could of attached back onto Melissa, again.

What I don't get, though, is how she 'burned' out the SP, and yet, everything is intact except for (quite obviously) the SP, and her text on the contactme page. How do you 'burn' something out on a computer?

And, was Melissa just bluffing about going home, or can she really do it?
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 		In previous weeks, you had to email danatwingSPLATgmail.com with the sound files themselves (as an attachment) with the subject seek, behold, reveal. I think. Dang, now i have to go check.

Yep, that appears to be the case. One needs to email danatwingSPLATgmail.com, using the subject "seek, behold, reveal" (only without quotes). The body of the email could read something like this:

seeker > !transmit truth >> Durga


which says, simply enough "Seeker, transmit the truth to durga". It's been shown in past weeks that he can understand what we mean most of the time. I don't think he is as dumb as we think he is Smile

EDIT: filled in the blanks after digging on the forums
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