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[Gemini]

As posted in that other thread over there...

My call at 9:57 in Lafayette LA was live. She asked me her favorite song, I told her, she asked me to sing it. I didn't know it, I told her I was sorry. Then she asked me my favorite song, to which I replied "Stairway to Heaven." Her response: "Hmmm. That's impossible." She asked me to sing it, but I was so nervous I couldn't remember the words quite right. So I start humming. She asks me if there are words to this song, so I start half-mumbling half-singing something resembling the chorus to Stairway to Heaven. I really hope that this doesn't end up on the Internet, because I must sound like a gigantic moron.

Then she went on, asking me if it reminded me of a memory. I said no. This was probably a mistake, I probably could've made something up and made more progress with her. Then she asked me my name, I told her Gemini. She asked me my rank, I told her Commodore. Then she asked me what ship I was on, I said the Apocolypso. She said I must be new, and made me spell out my name. Then she said something about having to stop Durga from preventing the consummation of the truth, or something like that. I don't think those are her exact words. Then she took my phone number, told me she'd be contacting me, and told me this connection wasn't secure and hung up.

She didn't ask me if she could record the call, so I hope this means my retarded singing will remain between myself and Melissa. She didn't break down any, so I couldn't say Sleeping Princess. I did try that on a recorded call earlier, and nothing happened.

[zaeil]

Petty Officer Zaeil reporting in with whatever I can still remember at this point... I may have the details mixed up in parts. Forgive me!

useful
12:15 PDT
35.776983 -78.638117
Raleigh, North Carolina

I got there a bit early, and had time to stand in the rain and get righteously nervous. My anxiety was heightened by the early phone call--four minutes before time, the phone rang. Nobody was on the other end, and after a few seconds, I heard a hangup. I was worried that it was the real call, but decided to wait it out. Sure enough, right on time the phone buzzed.

The call started out as standard, although I could tell even standing out there on a busy street that the call was pretty clear. Melissa stated that it was become more and more difficult to utilize that method of communication, then asked me what her favorite song was. After a pause to gather my wits, I answered, "Stormy Weather."

"Sing it for me," she said.

I freaked momentarily, but stalled for time by telling her I didn't know much of the lyrics. She asked me to sing what I knew. So...I proceeded to butcher it. She started to sing with me! (although MUCH better than I was singing!!) Then she said, "Good, you do remember. What is your favorite song?" I muttered somthing about Stormy Weather being a pretty song and one of my own favorites (really, I just didn't want to sing again! ). "Like me," she says.

Then she asked me why did I like it. Well, this is where I try to steer the conversation towards a breakdown, and answer that it makes me remember times that I was lonely. She said something to the effect of how am I lonely. I responded that it was difficult to talk about (the nerves were REALLY getting to me at this point and I was having a hard time winging it), and I eventually got a little lame (but truthful) and said it was because I didn't really fit in anywhere and felt lonely a lot. She said she understood, to which I responded that I thought she might. Then she declared me trustworthy, and asked me my name and rank, and what ship I served on.

"You're not on my roster," she says. "You must be a new recruit."

"Yes!"

"Good."

Then she mentioned the rogue process, and how she had it locked up with a code sequence and that it would stay locked up FOREVER. She asked me to broadcast it to other members of the crew because it was important. Yep, okay, I'll let 'em know.

Then she asked for a phone number. She definitely said at this point that she could not communicate with me directly, but that she would transmit to me once a week. She also asked for permission to share my call with the crew.

I figured the call would be done at this point and was getting ready to hang up and find some shelter from the rain....when she asked me another question!

M: "Where are you?"
Z: "I'm in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina."
M: "Downtown...Raleigh?"
Z: "Yes."
M: "Tell me what you see."
Z: "Well, there are buildings all around me, and right now I'm standing in front of a parking deck getting rained on." (*said with a little attitude: I've been out in the rain with no umbrella for fifteen minutes at this point*)
M: "Getting rained on."
Z: "Yes."
M: "Are you alone?"
Z: "Yes."
M: "Do you mean that there are no people around you?"
Z: "Well, there are other people, but I don't know any of them."
M: "You do not fit in."
Z: "Definitely not."
M: "I understand. You are a loyal crewmate."

Then she said that she had to break communication because "they are coming," and that was that.

(EDIT: I should probably also add some details about the location, in case anyone scans through for information. This particular axon has been lit up nearly every week since it was added in during either the second or third wave, but NEVER on Tuesdays. Its first week, it wan't activated until Saturday, when I had time to trek to Raleigh to find it...and after that, it has been activated on Wednesdays by an unknown. Last week it went unactivated.)

[RandMod6]

non live call report

[Cortana]

MikeWas, Aliendial and I hit Union Station this afternoon to do a kamikaze strafing run on the Union Station axons, boy what an adventure

The first call we got was live. Melissa. Again.

She again asked for the favorite song and asked for how it went, we all butchered it again, it sucked. Then there was more singing.

This is where it got cool. We got her all flustered, and summoned The Princess (Melissa can't make that saving roll, it's so cute!) who was quite flustered. She wanted comfort that we were human, because we looked like we had a coin return slot for a mouth and safety pins for ears. We told her we could sing or read poetry. After a failed attempt (There Once was a Man from Nantucket is just not child friendly) we went with happy birthday and that brought her out of it enough to continue.

The SP is lost. In a city where the sun never shines, where the is garbage strewn everywhere. She saw a balloon tied to a lightpost, and we told her to go to it, then to a rusty metal bench, then to a generator, with electric weasels (like from the Circus, she said! The fur glowing and sparking, a truly disturbed image) and that they were pointing. That's when we got to the path choice.

We went with the Seven Deadly Sins, and it worked! She said she saw a Broken Lady, like at the Circus, whose limbs could bend in any direction and she could move any part around. She then said there were three balloon paths again. Star, Compass and Waves.

Compass? Didn't work so well. She started Screaming (a chilling, chilling noise) and that's when we got Melissa back.

Melissa wanted to know what happened so we said something about a little girl asking for directions, and that's when melissa said "SABOTAGE! You will be rewarded for bringing this to my attention" and then asked for more info about Aliendial.

A long strange trip, has today been.

[thebruce]

more compass... compass wrong... bad compass...

keep up on the puzzle in this thread for the right answers

[Ranger D]

Post irrelevant. Please delete this.

[Kazic]

[hmrpita]

System has been breached!

[bcriswell]

Re: System has been breached!

[Wynn]

Way to go, hmrpita!!

[Nova]

We have conflicting reports. We're hearing that hmrpita and friends guided the SP home with sins / wave / cow, but we also hear that Melissa has put up a mirror at the second junction that would prevent wave. Only one can be true, so I guess our next task is to determine which is the case.

[Nuriko]

Yay!

What were the other options other than cows?

[kidk]

-- moved from the crew phone thread

I took a live call at 15:35.

If you end up hearing my very bad "Do you have a little time" rendition, I'm truly sorry for the pain it will cause you.

M> indicated she understood the song and asked me why it was my favorite.
me> I said because it always seems everyone is so busy like a bee.
M> Why do you call them busy bees.
me> because they never stop flying or working.
M> something about worker bees and queen bee and some mumbling on her part.
(some more talk about bees)
me> talked about why you can't work all the time, you need to take some time out for your life.
M> When you're on a ship, everyone's life is dependent on you and it's important to work and do your job well.
me> well of course, but you still need some time to take care of yourself
M> I take care of my crew.
me> Good.
M>...
me>...
M> starts talking, I start mumbling, we both stop.
(lots of people walking by, guy on the phone next to me looking at me like I'm strange)
M> What are all those sounds I hear? Where are you?
me> outside a target
M> A target? Like someone shooting at you? A bullseye?
me> well, not someone shooting at me. but like a bullseye. a place for people to shop. A thing (yeah, I can't figure out the word metaphor) to indicate this is the place people want to be. to go..
M> I understand.
me> is there anything else I can do for you
M> standard contact info spiel, important for crew to find one another
M> don't worry, we will be rescued. I will get us out of here

Give or take, that's what I can remember right now.
-Lt. Cmd kidk


Notes:
My phone rang almost a minute early.
I got off the phone at 15:39 and some change, so, it looks like Melissa took the next available phone to go live with.
For some reason, my axon is still not listed as hot.

[Ranger D]

Decided to move my post for organiztional reasons. This was the 13:47 call. Ariock was with me. We tried to record the call, but I couldn't hear Melissa so we has to scrap that. Transcript:

Melissa started off with the basic what's-my-fav-song-stormy-weather intro. Had to sing it. (sound of windows shattering, cars crashing)
M: What's your fav song?
Me (with planned answer): good riddance, by green day. (Sung that too, again, more windows shattering, dead birds falling from the sky...)
M: Why is that your fav song?
Me: it reminds me of my friend from high school. He got into a car accident when this song was popular on the radio.
M: car accident?
Me: yeah, he lacerated an artery, and cut 2/3 of the muscle in his arm. He had to go to the hospital and get operated on.
M: operation, they had to cut him? (rough paraphrase)
Me: yeah the had to cut him.
M: ilovebees, ilovebees...
Me ...sleeping princess.

A little girls voice came on. She said I had sharp metal buttons and was afraid of me. I assured her that I was human and I really wanted to help her. She asked me my name, and I told her my name was Ranger D. I asked her to describe what she saw. She saw a red balloon on a phone, on a bench an on a generator or on/near a transmission tower. She said "I'm really scared, Ranger D!" She said there were electric weasels climbing up and down it, and they wouldn't tell her where to go.

So at this point I saw that other brave folks have tried to take her down the other two paths, so I told her to go down the path marked with a red balloon that said DEADLY SINS on it.

She went down the path with no blood curdling scream! yay!
She said she saw someone from the circus. I couldn't hear the name, but it was the (I think) woman who had broken bones and could contort herself. She then said she came upon another three-way fork with three more balloons. These did not have words but had pictures on them.

1. The balloon on the right had a picture of a saw (not sure on this, it was loud)
2. The balloon in the center had a compass rose on it.
3. The balloon on the right had pictures of waves.

The SP was pressuring me for answer, so Idecided to go down the middle. I told her to go down the compass rose path. She screamed bloody murder..... then Melissa came back. After that she said she detected an anomaly. I told her this line is not secure. She asked me for my name and rank. I gave it to her. Ranger D. Chief Warrant Officer.

Melissa: Ranger D... I've spoken with you before haven't I?
Me: Yes you have. (With a big ass grin on my face.)
Melissa: You are a member of the Apocolyspo.
Me: Yes I am.
She asked for my contact info, I gave it to her. She said she wasn't sure that she could contact me personally. She also said the rogue process was locked up and that I should telk the crew this.

She asked for my permission to broadcast, I said yes.
Then she started to break up like there was a bad connection and she was gone.

Thoughts:
I find it interesting that Melissa remember that I had talked to her before. I had failed that call last week, but she didn't mention anything about that, just that I had spoken to her before. The only way someone would've known we had spoken before was if they were watching these boards. The failed call I had with her lasted 25 seconds MAX, and I never gave her my name.

EDIT-Cleaned up the post a little bit. Doesn't look like a 5 yr. old typed it now:)

[Ranger D]

You rock hmrpita! Awesome job! San Francisco comes through once again