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[kyuurijanaidesu]

[festivusr]

Latest chuck twitter

[modernsaints]

Woo! New call! Will transcribe this one for y'all too at some point tonight; thinking of making myself Standard Phonelog Transcriber just cause I honestly have no other idea how to be helpful.

Planning on calling in myself sometime tonight, too - any questions people want me to find out about? Any subjects we need a lot more info on? Might try to find out more about the booklet and specifically what the hell is up with their idea of dinosaurs.

[Giff Hoyt]

Just have to say, I'm really impressed with how far in advance this thing was planned out. Who would've thought Terry Nanny's "Surely you know what I'm referring to" from the original video would become a password of sorts?

[Molecular]

Interesting talks!

So we're being told to pay attention to chucks status updates on twitter was it? About the things he's eating.

I think we need to take all of the sentences he's written there, put them in order and see what we can find of interest.

Anyone got them available?

[Rakne]

Here you go!

[modernsaints]

Aaaaand transcription. I dorkily enjoy this sort of thing a lot.

[kyuurijanaidesu]

[ClocksStriking13]

I just got off the phone with Russo, and the mystery of the M-Rotor has been unveiled.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5U5YCWJ0

[synspark]

[Pendragon4]

I actually did that call. Also, we managed to call Mike again.
He explained what M-rotors are and what they do, but not exactly what happens when they are unseated.
I'll either have Clocks further explain it or just let you listen to the Audio file being uploaded right now.

Also, Mike confirmed that "Surely you know what I mean" was just a password he wanted people to get. I thought so after the call we did earlier today, how he seemed to change the subject in the call after I dropped the phrase (o.o I can't find it in transcript)

As a Sidenote... Mike seemed to have a sick desperation in his voice.
For some reason I think he is going to die, or have something happen to him. D:

Also, Kyuuri: I wanted to find a way of asking if his favorite beverage was Vermouth.
I also liked how he went back for his phone right after he was about to hang up, paused for a few seconds and said, "Pardon?" xD

[kyuurijanaidesu]

[Planet Walker]

[ClocksStriking13]

Mike said he feared he was going to be terminated in the call.

[modernsaints]

Sorry, Pendragon - will edit that. And transcribe Clocks' call. omg so much typing, my heart is all aflutter :3

Just got off the phone with Mike myself - HOLY DAMN IT WAS AWESOME, SO MUCH INFO - couldn't get a transcription of MY call due to me having a terrible memory - but I took notes and here's the basic stuff I got.

Told him I was doing a project and one of my friends pointed me to the booklet, and that I was interested in the dinosaur history section. Dropped the "surely you know what I'm referring to" password; Mike laughed and said he'd heard that a lot lately.

Mike informed me that dinosaurs were humans' worst enemies, they were tyrannical, promised peace and brought violence, etc. The Dinosaur Viceroy was a horrific leader. This was about during the 1970s, he said; he reiterated the concept of humans stealing the knowledge of magnetism from the dinosaurs and using it to overthrow and destroy them. I asked for a date, and he stumbled a bit - seemed confused - said it'd be "DOR 33? no - earlier - anyway I was very young then - yeah, I was alive at that point. But very young." Then he went on to mention that one of the 300 Troubles was everyone's loss of memory, and that anyone with memory intact cared little about dinosaurs, history, etc. He also confirmed that people in the present timeline are using what remains of media to recreate the past. He said, and this was interesting, "It's hard to tell whether we can trust that... but I trust it, and I trust us now."

He then went on to tell me that after the dinosaur era came the Era of Pro Wrestling - I had serious difficulties not laughing here. Apparently numerous bards, including Shakespeare, tell of an Ultra Warrior (who we've heard referenced) before. He was ultimately betrayed by a folding chair to the back/head (forget which), which Mike says was "a very common weapon during that era". (I am stifling my laughter.) He then went on to segue into the concept of hubris. Right then my phone connection cut out.

I called back right away, apologized for my phone, and said, "I'm in Chicago - you know how it is here." He freaked out and said, "You're ALIVE in CHICAGO? Oh my GOD. I can't - I can't even imagine how irradiated your body must be - " and then something about my skeleton. Shiiit. I cover for it, tell him I'm passing through on my way to safety, and he tells me in a sort of panicked voice, "Well, hurry through, and may Cool Dog watch over you."

Then we try to get back on subject. I mention hubris, he starts laughing a bit and pretends he's coughing, and goes on to tell me that hubris is what caused the slaying of Adam and Eve by the Snake-Monster. He also goes on to talk about hubris being what drove the Blackstar folks to create Go.D.S.E.E.D. in the first place - some ranting here at Blackstar, a mention that nobody really knows their motivations - some choice bits included "blah blah we'll build you hospitals, blah blah you help us create this mechanically engineered monster" or something along those lines.

He did make a point of saying that anyone directly involved with creating Go.D.S.E.E.D. initially is long dead, and if by some chance someone did remain who might know about it in more depth, well... that's not something we need to worry about at this point in time, and he said we probably won't need to until much farther down the road. So I guess any spec on that subject is fairly unnecessary for the time being.

Not a lot of super-pertinent info, but a lot of fun world-building stuff, and who knows when some of this will come in handy.