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[Oh, It's Just Pawl...]

Re: questions about the tapes...

[avarame]

Perhaps we shouldn't consider the wav files to *really* be Melissa's memories. Sure, that's what the messages at ilovebees.com imply, but the wav files themselves don't support that.

Instead, I think what we're seeing is more like third-party omniscient narration, like most books. There's nobody telling the story, the story is just being told. There is no narrator, just the narration.

While there may be some merit in connecting the stories told by the wav files back to ilovebees.com and what we've learned from there, the new stories simply can't be Melissa's memories. The narrator is omnipresent and invisible, and there's absolutely no direct connection between these stories and Melissa.

(Okay, okay, Jason Morelli is probably the Castaway. But that doesn't explain why Melissa knew his son. And it doesn't explain Melissa's memories of the other two stories.)

[Binarius]

Amen, brother. Or sister.

*adding the joint-WAV transcripts to all the previous text*

It makes me wonder, however. WHY are we given yet another, narrative this time, piece of the "novel". I can't wait for some puzzles, requiring the knowledge of all those facts, correlated somehow... :]

[Flidget Jerome]

I think the link between the Kamal and Jersey stories is the restaurant. Why yes, I am clinging tenuously to the fact that both storylines make a point of saying the restaurant in question serves tuna, but I can see Jersey asking Durga to spy on his cheating mother, and picking up on the communications between Sophia and Kamal by accident.

[pjv2]

anyone notice how "wierd" jan sounds when she is talking about getting accused of stealing? she talks really fast and in a much higher voice.

[Xanedon]

Has anyone sent the recombined files to Ladybee777 or to Dana just out of curiosity?

-Xanedon

[Binarius]

Apparently, some people from another thread did.
But, according to the site messages, it might be pointless, as it's up to Melissa to take action now... But we'll see.

[Motoss]

I listened to the combined wav files again and every time I listen to them I am more and more convinced that the "Durga" conversations are a lead in to the "Jan" conversations. Consider:


Durga ends her .wav arc by saying "I can do better than that" when asked for pictures of Jan. The "Jan" arc of .wavs could be Durga's real-time observation of Jan as reported to Jersey.

[BrianV1]

[Oh, It's Just Pawl...]

is there any possibility that the one of the two voices for jen is an innermonologue? i personally think it's the smart-ass option but, i thought i'd throw this out there in case anyone hadn't thought of it.

[johnny5]

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[MrBeefy]

It seems that Jan is trying to play down her intelligence by trying to sound more like what she thinks a teenage girl would/should sound like at that age. Kind of a defense mechanism in order to get out of being in trouble. The cop wasn't buying it, however.

I suspect this is the same behavior occurring in the green text... the entity is trying to play down its intelligence... or threat.

[Malrog]

[SPEC]SP = Jeannie

[mc.schroeder]

about jan speaking differently: she's just sarcastic, that's all.

[AngryEd]

Couldn't the glass coffin just be a stasis chamber like Master Chief was in at the beginning of Halo 1?