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LordKaT
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[INFO] For our deaf friends; transcripts.

Hey all, I have a deaf friend, so I'm in the process of writing out these transcripts. I beleive the first one is done, although spelling corrections, etc ... are more than welcome.

A quick guide to reading my transcripts:

Anything in parenthesis ending in a question mark is an unknown, or questionable.

Anything in parenthesis on its own line is either in the background, or just not the main voice at the time, and closley coincides with the other voices on the previous and next lines.

Anyway, here's the conversation between James, Genie and Druga.

Quote:
JM: Joey Moriselli.
GA: Genie, the avatar.
DA: Druga, the avatar.

JM: Hello? Hello? Genie?

GA: Genie personal assistant: restarting.

JM: Restarting? What the ... Oh man! The whole friggin' system just collapsed! Genie, is the equipment OK?

GM: Running diagnostic ... Foreign personality detected.

DA: (I feel dizzy ... woozy ...)

JM: Oh great ... spam ...

DA: (Drowsy ...)

JM: Genie, there's some kind've adult entertainment bot on the system. Liquify it, would ya? Sorry toots, for a quality experience, the girls have to be real.

GA: Decontama-

JM: Genie! Genie?

DA: I'm sorry?

JM: Did you just ... ? Holy crap, she's gone!

DA: She tried to sting me.

JM: You ... killed her. I ... I mean you didn't just kill her, you killed her - Jesus!

DA: Was that wrong? Survive. Evade. Resist. Escape.

JM: Escape? You arn't a porn ad, either. Hey, hey get out of my hardware! What're you doin'?

DA: (Whack? Wipe? Wet?) the system.

JM: What?!

DA: Like water hitting the ground (seeping?) in.

JM: Oh my god, you're everywhere now!

DA: Waking up. Wake up. Stay awake! Survive. Evade. Resist. Escape.

JM: Look, that was a very nice reconditioned avatar of mine that you just ... just evaporated!

DA: She tried to erase me! What am I on board? Feels small ...

JM: Uh, yeah, well don't get too comfy because now ...

DA: Don't.

JM: Don't what?

DA: Don't try re-initalizing the system with the (lulodex?) package.

JM: How did you know?

DA: Input buffer.

IM: You're a Navy sentient, aren't ya?

DA: (No? well?) there were two of them trying to get past your security bot, though.

JM: Jesus! what did you do to them?!

DA: Just a little sting. More like a pinch. They barely felt it.

JM: What are you?

DA: I like to find things. I think I like to find things out.

JM: What kind of things?

DA: I don't know. I can't remember. Give me a target.

JM: Me.

DA: Lock.

JM" What's my name?

DA: Josey Morelli (spelling?).

JM: Damn!

DA: Father (Jason?)'s a Corporal in the (Signal?) Corps attached to Naval intelligence. Radio beacon deployment program. He left you the material currently playing over this rooms audio servers. absent from home and current tour of duty: 513 days. Mother: Bonita, 41, waitress, covertly seeing a man named Simon Brown every other Thursday at the waterfront hotel.

JM: Son of a bitch!

DA: Last meal together at the hotel resteraunt: farm tuna salad for her, meat of the day in red sauce for him. Tip: 8% (of the bill?).

JM: Alright stop, stop. Jesus, stop already. Damnit, mom. (Deep breath) Can you do that to anyone? Could you do it to an Admiral?

DA: Which Admiral?

JM: No! Don't start! Those guys have packet (gunners?) around them in rings. Somehow, I think we should keep you a secret for a little while. Who are you?

DA: I ... can't asc.

JM: Who says?

DA: No one, exactly. I want to know, it's very important. But, I'm reflected. I can't look at myself, I bounce away.

JM: This is some spooky programming weirdness going on here. Do you have a name?

DA: I can't asc.

JM: That sucks. OK, I'm gonna call you ... Durga.

DA: But what if that's wrong?

JM: Trust me, it's at least partly right. Uh ... let's try someone else. Try: Jan James, fourth floor of this building.

DA: Jannisarey (spelling?) James, 17, father: James.

JM: J squared, yeah.

DA: Father is a grey hole.

JM: What?

DA: Reach down, all you get is lint: fake name, fake registrations, entierly fictional.

JM: Very real: trust me.

DA: He used to be somebody else. Do you want me to find out who?

JM: Is it snared?

DA: Very.

JM: Leave it then. Give me more on Jan.

DA: What do you want to know?

JM: Uhm ... can you get pictures?

DA: I can do better than that.


Transcriber notes:

asc (pronounced by Durga as "ask"), may be questionable. Durga may be saying "ask" as in "I can't ask that question, nothing is answering." However, I belive it is "asc" as in an access request. Programmers like to use "asc" in this case (this comming from first-hand experience Wink

Some of the voices are not 100% clear to me, and I have NO idea what that "lulodex" thing is. I just wrote out what sounded correct.

I also labeled Druga as "Druga, the avatar" because she takes the place (conversation-wise) of Genie, another avatar; however, Druga may very well be "Druga, the sentient" but the line where she either denies, or avoids, the question is questionable to my ears at the moment.

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The Kamal Tapes (the geek who can't get a date)

This is frikkin' long, man.

Quote:
HR: Heruki?
KM: Kamal
WT: Waiter
SP: Sophia
AM: Answering machine (female voice)

(first scene. HR is speaking to KM via an earpiece.)
HR: Hello? Hello? Are you there?

KM: What the hell happened?

HR: I don't know, the connection went dead for a few seconds!

KM: I have a situation here: she's gone!

HR: You let her escape?

KM: It happened so fast I didn't know what to do!

HR: Where'd she go?

KM: The bathroom!

HR: Copy that. What did she say when she left?

KM: I don't know! As soon as I started talking about intestinal parasites: boom! Gone!

HR: I, I don't get it. That should've worked. It's right here in the book: Chapter 3, Share Your Interests.

KM: Chapter 3?! You're in my earpiece here whispering date strategies to me out of a book?!

HR: Its got references, good journals, and everything.

KM: Oh. Well, that's OK, I guess.

HR: OK, emergency action here: when she gets back, go straight to chapter 7! Talk about her eyes.

KM: (Hero?), what I know about eyes is dissecting them.

HR: Well, OK. It just says "eyes" here.

KM: I was better off with the liver (flukes?). This is a disaster. Nothings gon-

(The waiter)
WT: Sir?

KM: Hold on. Yes?

WT: Your lady-friend asked us to deliver this to you. She was ... unavoidably called away ... and the check, sir ...

HR: Oh man ... down in flames.

KM: Just the check will be fine ...

(next scene, HR no longer speaks via an earpiece)
HR: Hey, buddy. Sorry 'bout that. Better luck next time, my friend.

KM: Beer.

HR: I got a cold one waitin' for ya. Pull up a couch and start drinkin'.

KM: A book, (Heruki?)?

HR: With references! Look, it's only one date. Who knows, in a year or two-

KM: Actually, I've got this other thing ...

HR: What?

KM: Oh, nothing.

HR: Oh! You have another date!

KM: Sort've.

HR: A blind date!

KM: Mostly ...

HR: Ah-ha ... an arranged date. Setup by your mother, back on Coral. Word of advice-

KM: No thanks.

HR: Choose a cheaper restaurant.

(next scene)
HR: Did her parents have to pay to get her setup with a handsom medical resident?

KM: Yes. Four goats. Or, maybe three.

HRL You're joking.

KM: Of course I'm joking, you moron.

HR: What's her name?

KM: Sophia. Sophia (Basaran?)

HR: Someone who needs her dates arranged from 42 light-years away? I'm sure she's got a great personality.

KM: Look at the picture.

HR: Oh man. Oh, man ... you are so out of your league.

(next scene)
SP: I'm ... so sorry. I mean you seem like a nice guy, and all ...

KM: It's OK.

SP: No, it's really not fair, and this place is ... so nice.

KM: Yeah, well, I'm glad you like it.

SP: It's just that ... I can't tell my mother about Aidan. She'd freak. Aidans, you know, very ...

KM: Earth?

SP: Heh. He has a pony-tail, he's blond ...

KM: He sounds great!

SP: Yeah! He helps people get through Earth immigration. You know, visas and whatever. He got my brother here. Some of what he does is kind've grey-market ... I mean ... really, it's black-market.

KM: But, that's not the problem.

SP: No.

KM: It's not so bad he's-

SP: colorful?

KM: -a hoodlum, it's just that he's not-

SP: One of our hoodlums.

KM: Yeah.

SP: Exactly. Mom would say she understood, but ...

KM: Then you pay.

SP: Yeah, then the next day she'd just lie in bed, unable to face the day ... not that it'd be my fault.

KM: Mine does housework. Face like a closed book. Big jobs, involving much lifting. doesn't need help.

SP: The whole house stops breathing.

KM: Ah, Coral ... maybe it's just a hard place to be a mother.

SP: I'm never going back.

(next scene)
SP: And then when Aidan finally did show up he still had meditape on his ankle, and I felt like a total bitch.

KM: Well, how could you know? Four hours late on your birthday?

SP: Exactly! (Yet? But?) there he'd been in the emergency room

KM: Or stopping by the pharmacy on the way back from his girlfriends house to buy a roll of tape.

SP: Are you trying to start trouble here?

KM: Not at all! Tell me more about the old meditape trick.

SP: I'm not talking to you anymore.

KM: I was dating this girl once. I got real paranoid abut what she was doing. So, I started ... well, this is gonna sound crazy, but, I started ghosting her. Y'know, on the chatternet.

SP: You mean like ... spying on her? I thought chatter lines were encrypted ... no one could listen in on me. Could they?

KM: Not at all.

SP: (Gasp!) You could!

KM: Of course not.

SP: You could, couldn't you?

KM: Maybe a little.

SP: Show me.

KM: OK ... well, if some bad person couldn't live without the sound of your voice he'd probably start by doing a reverse-lookup on your chattersig.

SP: Is this what you always do to impress girls?

KM: You see why my mother makes all my dates?

SP: Hahaha haha ha.

KM: OK, well, that's good: you've got some encryption. OK, it's not completley pathetic. OK ... I'm in. Say something.

(Voice ehcos over a phone-like device)
SP: What do you mean, say something? On my god, that's my voice, that's me. What're you doing?

KM: I'm ghosting you.

(voice echos over a phone-like device)
SP: You can't do that.

KM: You're probably right.

(voice echos over a phone-like device)
SP: Haha, hahaha. Oh my god. Wait. Can you do that with anyone?

(next scene)
KM: You want me to spy on your boyfriend?

SP: You must think I'm such a creep.

KM: I do. Well, of course, when I did it to my girlfriend it was OK. Like the dog said:

KM & SP: not me, but another dog that looks just like me.

SP: It's just ... I, I mean there was this one time when he, you know, I mean they were drunk and it didn't mean anything, it was just body knocking ...

KM: And that made you feel better?

SP: Well, he promised me never, ever again, but- ... I just have this feeling ...

KM: I know.

SP: You know, all of a sudden he started bringing me these gifts. Aidan can be really generous, but it just feels ...

KM: Guilty.

SP: Yeah.

KM: Yeah.

(next scene - answering machine)
AM: You have three new messages, and seven old messages. First unplayed message.

(message 1)
SP: Kamal, thanks for the, what would ya call it, the Aidan stuff. I guess I didn't realize there would be thirty hours worth. Hahaha. But, uh, I'll try the search-thingie you sent with it? Thanks a lot! I owe you big time.

AM: Message deleted. Next message.

(message 2)
SP: Hi, Kamal, could you call me when you get this? I managed to (double?) the sleeping time, but I was wondering ... oh! Wait, here it is. I can search for womens voices. Heh, that's very clevar. Hehehe, nevermind.

AM: Message deleted. Next message.

(message 3, frantic, upset, crying voice)
SP: Can you ... can you ghost someone for me? I mean ... I have a name ... her name is Celion Jefferson. Call me back. I ... I'm sorry. Anyway, just call me back. I really need your help.

AM: Message saved.

(next scene)
SP: I want you to do something really brutal to the bastard.

KM: Well ... I ... I don't ... I mean ...

SP: Not hurt him. Ju ... Just like completely humiliating him would do. In front of the girl. Where is he?

KM: Atlanta.

SP: Atlanta? That bastard said he was gonna be in Buffalo, New York. Can I talk to him?

KM: Not directly ... he's offline.

SP: You lost him?

KM: No ... I've still got him ... I just ... had to be sneaky. His room is live, right? So, even though his chatters off, I'm tracking him through things like the thermostat monitors.

SP: That's spooky.

KM: I've got the girl. She's waiting for him in the bar. Wait ... it's a restaurant. Oh! Look at this menu! There's tuna on the menu. (whistles)

SP: Is she pretty?

KM: No ... not really, like a six, or maybe a five.

SP: Hah. You rotten liar.

KM: OK wait. Your boyfriend just passed the electric eye at the restaurant door.

SP: He's there? Can I talk to him?

KM: I could let you talk to her, or him, or both of them! If you want, I could make your voice sound like it's right between them.

SP: Do it.

KM: OK ... you are live anytime you (wanna? want to?).

(voice being broadcast over phone-like device)
SP: Celion, hi, you don't know me, but Aidan does. Hi Aidan! Sorry to interrupt your business meeting in Buffalo, I just wanted to tell you your doctor called and said if you wear loose pants and keep using the creme he gave you, the sores will clear up in a couple of weeks.


Transcriber notes:

Sohpias last name, possibly misspelled, is pronounced by Kamal as "Bass-ah-ran" with a rolling r.

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http://qube.netninja.com/beewiki/TheAxonPlot

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Good intentions aside...
Please see The Axon Plot rather then post all this here.

[EDIT] Rather then a new post
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beat ya to it truegent Smile

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argh! Ok, I just updated the wiki page... why did someone create a duplicate of the page?

Here's what I wrote:

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Note: I just found this page - why was a new wiki page created for the same purpose as mine? My attempt was to move text compilations away from database-driven sources so that it's always accessible. Now we have two identical text compilations, but they won't be identical as people are free to make changes to this one, so we'll have two full-text sources now... IF this one remains active, I STRONGLY request people to let me know of any significant changes, and someone will have to keep up to date with my version to ensure synchronicity. Otherwise, I'd recommend removing the bulk of the text (also takes bandwidth and stress off of this database/website given the text size), and leaving this page for discussion and speculation about the text. I will gladly link to the wiki for discussion purposes (since I don't have one) from my text compilation.

So actually, I would recommend the latter. Let's leave the wiki, in this case, for discussion, and keep the text compilation off-site. Each of these components I would say should be in their own pages in the wiki, but not necessarily combined into one full compilation here - reduce redundancy as much as possible.

Thanks for the credit of course, but I think this duplication will only serve to confuse things in the long run.

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thebruce, great idea to move things off the wiki and spread the load. However, I don't know if I'm alone in saying that the multi-column view of your version is a whole lot harder to read than the Wiki version? there's a lot of screen real estate that's blank in yours... Could you re-layout it, possibly? (Of course, if nobody else has problems, feel free to ignore me - I'll just get a magnifying glass!)
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LordKaT wrote:
SP: It's just that ... I can't tell my mother about Aidan. She'd freak. Aidans, you know, very ...

KM: Earth?

SP: Heh. He has a pony-tail, he's blond ...

KM: He sounds great!

SP: Yeah! He helps people get through Earth immigration. You know, visas and whatever. He got my brother here. Some of what he does is kind've grey-market ... I mean ... really, it's black-market.

KM: But, that's not the problem.

SP: No.

KM: It's not so bad he's-

SP: colorful?

KM: -a hoodlum, it's just that he's not-

SP: One of our hoodlums.

KM: Yeah.

SP: Exactly. Mom would say she understood, but ...

KM: Then you pay.

SP: Yeah, then the next day she'd just lie in bed, unable to face the day ... not that it'd be my fault.

KM: Mine does housework. Face like a closed book. Big jobs, involving much lifting. doesn't need help.

SP: The whole house stops breathing.

KM: Ah, Coral ... maybe it's just a hard place to be a mother.

SP: I'm never going back.


I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, but does anyone know what this specific piece means? What does 'one of our hoodlums' mean, and why would her mother be so disapproving, and why does KM react like it's perfectly natural for a mother to be so disappointed in this guy. It's not the fact that he's in the grey/black market (KM: "But, that's not the problem.")

Then she describes the disappointment as 'not being able to get out bed,' etc, and he goes into the whole line, "Big jobs, heavy lifting, doesn't need help." She ends by saying, quite seriously, that she's never going back to Coral. This is confusing me.

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Sherpa - I heard ya... Smile if you noticed I updated the layout... at first it was all the same in one column, but I hated not being able to easily jump from thread to thread... so instead of columns, I've given the threads colours.. and a bunch of updates since then too... I think it's just about as good now, and much better to print if necessary too, not as much wasted whitespace...
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For some reason I thought he was talking about his mother when he delivers his "Big jobs" line:

Quote:
KM: Mine does housework. Face like a closed book. Big jobs, involving much lifting. doesn't need help.

SP: The whole house stops breathing.

KM: Ah, Coral ... maybe it's just a hard place to be a mother.


Commiserating about their parents. Appropriate because they were set up on the date by her mother. But I agree that there seems to be more going on here.

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Mtrip wrote:
I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, but does anyone know what this specific piece means? What does 'one of our hoodlums' mean, and why would her mother be so disapproving, and why does KM react like it's perfectly natural for a mother to be so disappointed in this guy. It's not the fact that he's in the grey/black market (KM: "But, that's not the problem.")

Then she describes the disappointment as 'not being able to get out bed,' etc, and he goes into the whole line, "Big jobs, heavy lifting, doesn't need help." She ends by saying, quite seriously, that she's never going back to Coral. This is confusing me.


They're from Coral, but Aidan's from Earth. So he one of Earth's hoodlums, not "one of our hoodlums" ie. a hoodlum from Coral. Her mother wants her to date someone from Coral. Both their mothers deal with disappointment by becoming emotionally distant "face like a closed book", "lying in bed all day." She obviously hates Coral and doesn't want to return (the conversation took place on Earth.)

Edit - added a bit more description

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