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[Quixote]

Here's what I have so far, just using the last parts. Still needs work.

monitors. Wait. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to—Footsteps in the hall/ Middle-aged, female; stride length and time suggest height approx. 1.7m./ Halsey.

More footsteps. Door opens and nurse comes in, steel tray rattling with/ needles and scalpels and little evil scissors with hooked blades.


Door swings open. It's her. Coffee stains on labcoat. She gives me the queenly smile. Calls me/ by name not number. Why not? She took my name away./ She owns it now, can use it if she likes. Tactical option reflex: unarmed;

She tells me to get in the chair. I don't kill her. She straps me down. /Halsey picks up a needle. Tests the plunger. Something yellow sprays out. Venom colored./ Don't worry, she says. The queenly smile. This will hardly hurt a bit.

Anyways - I have to get to class. Good luck, guys!

EDIT: tried to add some /'s

[thebruce]

please make sure to break up the text clips with a / or something noticable. We don't want to step on our own feet here... we need to know which clips have been used as we piece it together.

http://ilb.extrasonic.com/index.php/October_29_Princess_Monologue
is now organized a little better, with the flea speak at the bottom (blocks of text instead of sentence fragments) and the discussion page has the original locations of the text fragments

[CoffeeJedi]

what i have so far... seems like we're missing some big chunks:

[Trynian]

Okay, more organized attempt at organizing the text clips (yes, that's what I was doing).

These two appear to go together:

"Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to- Lab day, honey. But can't I have a slice "
" of- Later. This will just take a few minutes. "

though I'm not sure what part they are.

Here's the longer part we were looking at earlier.

" Short walk through the"
" Labyrinth. Click-clack of bootsteps in the corridors."
" Into lab 7. Wait. Tongue depressors, swabsticks "
" Fluorescent lights. Smell of formaldehyde. Still"
" monitors. Wait. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to—Footsteps in the hall"
"Middle-aged, female; stride length and time suggest height approx. 1.7m."
"Halsey. "
" Door swings open. It's her. Coffee stains on labcoat. She gives me the queenly smile. Calls me"
" by name not number. Why not? She took my name away."
" She owns it now, can use it if she likes. Tactical option reflex: unarmed;"
" swabstick through the eye; monitor wire"
" garrote. Linger there. "
" She tells me to get in the chair. I don't kill her. "
" She straps me down."
" More footsteps. Door opens and nurse comes in, steel tray rattling with"
" needles and scalpels and little evil scissors with hooked blades. "
" Halsey picks up a needle. Tests the plunger. Something yellow sprays out. Venom colored. "

Sound good so far?

Need to figure out where
" feel the new implants, itchy little bumps along my spine."
" Eggs waiting "
" to hatch. Gross. Try not to think about it."

goes, as well as the pair at the beginning.

[Edited to include "middle-aged, female", "Halsey", and "she straps me down".]

[Lurking_Kouzou]

[chaotic_mind]

The Sleeping Princess lay in the deepest chamber of the dungeon in a coffin of glass where the Widow could not hear her breathing

With her staff at the ready the Widow tested the casket's iron lock, but the lock remained fast. Then she touched it with her staff, and spoke the true name of the Princess, and lo! the lock fell open

But when the Widow opened the casket's lid she saw the glass was cracked, and though ancient prophecy foretold that only the kiss of a handsome prince could wake her, the Sleeping Princess was gone.

Slightly different then what Coffee Jedi has, but still doesn't completely close the sentences. Missing periods, that sort of thing.

Luke P.

edit - going to add the file names real quick. expect them soon.

[Smoke]

Behold!

[CoffeeJedi]

[Checksum]

[danteGA]

okay since I am of the just-want-to-get-the-meaning school, here's what I've pieced together. I agree that it is in at least two parts:

[Monkeyboy]

Here's my theories on the story or phrase order... or at least the Spartan program bit... I'm using to /represent what I think is a high probability of being correct, and a // to indicate that something may be missing.

[Wandering_Angela]

Here's what I have so far - a bit different:

The Sleeping Princess lay in /the deepest chamber /of the dungeon /in a coffin of glass

Short walk through the /Labyrinth. Click-clack of bootsteps in the corridors. /With her staff at the ready / the Widow tested the casket's iron lock, but the lock remained /fast. Then she touched /it with her staff, and /the lock fell open /But when the Widow opened the casket's lid she saw the glass was /cracked, /and though ancient prophecy foretold that only /the kiss /of a handsome prince could wake /her, the Sleeping Princess was /gone.

Eggs waiting /to hatch. Gross. Try not to think about it.

Into lab 7. Wait. Tongue depressors, swabsticks /monitors. Wait. Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to—Footsteps in the hall /Middle-aged, female; stride length and time suggest height approx. 1.7m. /Halsey.

Door swings open. It's her. Coffee stains on labcoat. She gives me the queenly smile. Calls me /by name not number. Why not? She took my name away. /She owns it now, can use it if she likes. Tactical option reflex: unarmed; /swabstick through the eye; monitor wire / garrote. Linger there. /Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to- Lab day, honey. But can't I have a slice /of- Later. This will just take a few minutes.

She tells me to get in the chair. I don't kill her. /She straps me down.
Fluorescent lights. Smell of formaldehyde. Still /feel the new implants, itchy little bumps along my spine. /More footsteps. Door opens and nurse comes in, steel tray rattling with /needles and scalpels and little evil scissors with hooked blades. /Halsey picks up a needle. Tests the plunger. Something yellow sprays out. Venom colored. /Don't worry, she says. The queenly smile. This will hardly hurt a bit. /

help help no no / no please /I promise /it won't /I'm sorry I'm sorry

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What's left:

could not hear her breathing.
where the
I, I thought this was locked.
thought you couldn't see.
your majesty
Widow
spoke the true name
of the Princess, and lo!


Edit: formatting

[TheDoctor]

I think chaotic got it - I came up with pretty much the same thing, though I can't find a period that closes the sentence after "lock fell open". Ah well....

The Sleeping Princess lay in /
the deepest chamber /
of the dungeon /
in a coffin of glass /
where the /
Widow /
could not hear her breathing.

With her staff at the ready /
the Widow tested the casket's /
iron lock, but the lock remained /
fast. Then she touched /
it with her staff, and /
spoke the true name
of the Princess, and lo! /
the lock fell open /

But when the Widow opened the casket's lid /
she saw the glass was /
cracked, /
and though ancient prophecy foretold that only /
the kiss /
of a handsome prince could wake /
her, the Sleeping Princess was /
gone.

[Checksum]

I think if we all take a second to examine each others compilations we can fine tune it better than 5 or 6 people working individually on their own.

-checksum

[danteGA]