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[QUESTION] The order of recruitment into Team Jersey?

[Gestas]

Re: [QUESTION] The order of recruitment into Team Jersey?

[adfegg]

That wasn't, quite, what I wanted to know, but thanks anyway. Maybe I should rephrase:- I think it likely that Jersey showed up on Rani's door before Jan joined the team, and possibly before Kamal joined the team. Perhaps Jersey got back just in time for Kamal to turn up on his door? Has anyone got any comment?

Incidentally, you mentioned a sound file editor? Where can I get one? Only I've got a WHOLE LOT of 30-second files that I'd like to see as a smaller bunch of longer files.

[Gestas]

Okay - sorry. I should have listened to the sound files before I posted, (and re-read your post)!

I personally think it is pretty much up in the air about the actual timeline for at least some of the files. There's absolutely nothing to tell us just when Jersey contacted Rani at her apartment. We just know it is within the week before the Saturday Meeting. So I agree, it could have come at three points, and it seems an argument could be made for each one:

Contacting Rani first of all - this could be the most likely as she is the important one to get to the artifact on Chawla Base. The recruitment of Kamal, then Jan, would be Durga just being efficient after already having a plan.

However, if we assume she contacted Rani after Kamal arrived, it also works. Durga had her plan, and was already planning to get Rani to help, and Jersey could have gone to see Rani when he was out and about getting a new lamp and dishes to replace the ones broken in the fight

The idea that Rani was contacted last is probably the least likely, since I would think contacting her would come first unless you were confident of being able to use Jan. It just seems that Durga would have planned for Rani, then looked at who else was needed. But, if we are listening to the assembled wave files from humptydumpty, we need to place Rani after Jan, since her train trip leads straight to Jersey's apartment on Saturday.

So, this post isn't really any help at all! It could be any of them, and I don't think there's any way of tying it down further. So, I say just choose your favourite order and go with it

(As for wave file editors - I use Audacity, an open-source sound editor available for Windows, Linux, Mac. I found it easiest to ignore all the little files from each page though. The humptydumpty page has the assembled files, and it is easier to just break those up into the wind-up - wind-down segments if you want to play with the order of things. It's much less work, and manipulating the small files will end up pretty much the same anyway!)

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[Gestas]

[archon]

Okay, so you're gonna have to ask yourself just what exactly is Team Jersey. Is it the team that infiltrated Chawla Base or is it people that Durga has been spying on, or what? Team Jersey's first referrence came in week 5 or 6 (I'm too lazy to re-listen at the moment) when Durga insisted that that was their team name. Durga and Jersey then helped Jan kill Kinkle. Even though Jan didn't kill Kinkle. So was Jan officially a Team Jersey member then? I'd say so, since Durga was used in Jan's revenge mission.

Kamal was Yasmine's brother, so obviously Durga knew him longer than Jan, but she didn't get in contact with him (aside from the chatter) until the Chawla Base mission.

[thebruce]

Re: [QUESTION] The order of recruitment into Team Jersey?

[Gestas]

Re: [QUESTION] The order of recruitment into Team Jersey?

[thebruce]

yeah, and I totally agree, most chapters until later can work thread by thread... there doesn't seem to be any definitive order to the scenes... it all depends on how you want to spin the story... mine is just one of many possible ways... technically, because all the threads take place simultaneously for the most part, you could theoretically tell the story scene by scene jumping from threads... so giving your friends the threads in their order may still be a perfectly reasonable lineup... mine's just another. but ya, it'll be fun when it gets to the later chapters...

[adfegg]

I can't help thinking of the Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. The story followed the antics of each of the characters in turn, with little regard to chronology.

Oh yeah, and Kamal lives on the west coast. Durga mentions in 'Just A Little Sting' that she's booked him a shuttle there.

[urthstripe]

He lives in Berkeley

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[thebruce]

[adfegg]

Considering the time of year, I think we can all forgive you for the late update.