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notgordian
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[AA][Puzzle] Incantation Task Making Sure Mikey Surry Doesn't Go Insane I figure this task might be fairly involved, so now that we're in CF with Potential, here goes.
According to the letter described in this post , we're supposed to help Surry gather materials to not go insane. They are as follows.
Quote:
A candle lit once and then snuffed out by a woman -- Vecheeso and wife
A black feather held by a man - stratagos
A pebble held by a boy - Highwind767
A vial of sand or a shell gathered from a body of water by a girl
A red string knotted nine times by a mother in the morning - Jain
A clipping from a sapling tree gathered at noon lostgunslinger
A rose in bloom plucked at twilight
A piece of bark from an oak, gathered at night - Dionysus
A spray of pineRobMagus
So: there are 9 things to gather. Ideally, it'd be nice to have a guy get the stuff that requires a man/boy, and a girl to get the woman/girl stuff. Post here if you think you can get any of these things and would be willing to take pictures/videos with proof.
I'm assuming Surry could take the pictures / screencaps of the items and use them for the ceremony in the proper locations. Which leaves the incantation -- I figure if we record four (or more) people chanting the incantation on Audacity and edit them together , we could have him press the play button on his computer whenever he wants to get the ritual done and comply with it to the letter. To repeat three times, he just plays it three times.
Incantation:
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Psyche, guardian of souls, here me.
These offerings of life are laid before you.
Life paired with death;
youth to age;
child to mother;
male to female;
light to dark.
Fire, water, earth, and air, consecrated to you.
Bless me. Bless me. Bless me.
I am my self. I am my self. I am my self.
Restore my soul, my wholeness, my oneness.
I am my self. I am my self. I am my self.
Restore my balance. Heal my mind.
I am my self. I am my self. I am my self.
For the sake of cadence and whatnot, here's my recording of it .
Action items in bold.
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:58 pm
Last edited by notgordian on Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:10 am; edited 6 times in total
Vecheeso
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Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 337 Location: Titusville, FL
i have a good cameraphone and a great video camera, and im married, so i can get the lady blowing out the candle no problem, dibbies!
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:01 pm
Jain
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I am a mother with red string and I have a webcam.
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:31 pm
highwind767
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Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 501 Location: In the skies
Well, I got a photo of my brother holding a small pebble anyway (Albeit not a great one due to his shaky hands ) Here
If you guys want a video, I can get that as well if I can find my old webcam.
If I get some time to myself later, I'll record myself saying the incantation as well.
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:11 pm
Dionysus
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Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 612 Location: Philadelphia Area
Ok, now that I am now thinking clearly I can almost certain find an oak tree around here somewhere and collect some bark.
I also should be able to record myself reciting the incantation.. I just have to download Audacity and go get a mic for my lappy. I make my first tips on Friday so I can do that then
EDIT: found several parks near my apt via google. Oak tree sure to be there.
EDIT EDIT: Visited the local park and couldnt find an oak tree (what I THOUGHT I found wasn't an oak), but I did find one at the edge of someones yard... I'll be heading down there tonight.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: Stealth mission successful. Video and photos taken. Oak bark acquired and I wasn't seen (at least not until we'd resumed "leisurely stroll on sidewalk" mode). Let me know where to post it all or if I should just send it direct to Surry.
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:55 pm
RobMagus
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I can find a spray of pine - there are Ponderosa pines all over campus.
I shall do so tomorrow, and bring camera.
Also, I can record the incantation right now, as I already have Audacity and a mic. Should be up in a bit!
EDIT: I have the incantation recorded and ready for editing. I didn't do noise removal or anything, and I have it saved as an .ogg.
Where should I put it?
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:12 am
Dionysus
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I would suggest putting all copies of photos, video, and audio files right here in this thread. That way our organizers, Michael aka notgordian, can merge the audio recordings with audacity, assemble the photos/video and the audio into a zip or something and send it off to Surry. Those who will be perfoming live during the incantation will, of course, have to wait.
I will be putting the video and photos of my bark hunt up tonight when I get back from work and am in possession of batteries... *kicks his camera*
EDIT: Photo up. Video of the gathering is 22 MBs so I didnt want to upload it directly to UF. Its processing on Youtube as we speak
EDIT EDIT: Here's the video . Sorry you can;t see much. Towards then end my roommate finally thinks to move in closer so you can see a bit. We didn't bring a flashlight because we were afraid of drawing attention.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:18 pm
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Jain
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Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 462 Location: Texas
I made my red string video this morning and put it on YouTube. It's processing now. I've never uploaded a video to YouTube before so I'm not sure how long that will take. When it's done I will post the link here and email it to Mike as well.
Girly Self Conscious Disclaimer: I look awful cause I just woke up and I'm from Texas so y'all don't laugh at my accent! haha
Edit: Here is the link. For some reason the audio is not lined up. I have no idea how to fix that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGEZAJUY7I
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:33 pm
Vecheeso
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okay, lets figure out everything we need. if mikey's IG life hinges on us, we should work fast and try and see if we can get everything he needs from us this weekend
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:42 pm
stratagos
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I can get a picture of myself holding a black feather. Michaels is just down the street
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:59 pm
intersect
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I'm going to go look for a sapling tomorrow morning, and hopefully find one b4 noon.. i should be able to find one with all the forestry surrounding campus
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:33 pm
Jain
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I got a reply from Mike today after sending him the link to my video.
Mike wrote:
Jain,
You are so awesome for doing this for me. Can you send me a picture of the string too? I'll use the pictures of the items to crush together as the ritual says. I pray it works and that this Michael guy who sent me the information isn't just stringing me along. Pun intended. I want to try to do this this weekend, I don't think I can make it through the weekend if we don't get it done. The hallucinations are stronger. I went to my mailbox yesterday and when I turned around the sidewalk was covered in bodies, reaching to me - grabbing me - clawing at me. I could feel them as I ran over their bodies back into the house. I felt them underfoot and grabbing at me. Their claws digging into my legs burning as though they were releasing a venom of death into my bloodstream. How I am able to even pull myself together to e-mail you all is beyond me.
Thank you from a terrified,
Mikey Surry
Sounds like some scary stuff. I sent him this picture of my string.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:26 pm
notgordian
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Collection Status Update Status Update:
All but two of the items have been claimed by people. Those are listed in the first post. We still need:
-Sand or Shell by a girl
-Rose in bloom
Will upload my audio file in a few minutes -- that'll give something to get the cadence if we want them all to sound together. Won't have time to edit it together this weekend though, so hopefully someone else can manage that and send it in to Surry.
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:46 pm
notgordian
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Doublepost to add the audio -- recorded using Audacity, exported as an mp3 using the Lame encoding (just search for the .dll file if you haven't done this before).
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:03 am
Jain
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If no one else can get to a body of water, I have a shell but it was gathered a long time ago. Do you think that would still count?
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:07 am
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