Fragment 14: OBSCURIOTEMPUS FOUND

[Mr5yy]

Okay. @Robert, we need to use your smooth, silky voice.

Edit: If we have to read something, your still doing it. Peer pressure!

[Augustus_Octavian]

I really like the “voicemail” idea. Should we come up with a script?

[Mr5yy]

How about this for the beginning?

"Hello there!

Sorry for this, we’re trying a new system and don’t know entirely how it works."

[Revenir]

I feel we should add that we’re Mountaineers, since that caught Augie’s attention. Maybe something like “We’re Mountaineers and we’re looking for Augie. Can you help us?”

[Mr5yy]

Okay so…

"Hello there!

Sorry for this, we’re trying a new system and don’t entirely understand it just yet. We are Mountaineers looking for a man named Augie. Could you help us find him? (Or) Can you help us?"

[Revenir]

Sounds good to me, that way we can figure out what will happen with this new limitation.

[Robert]

You know what? I’ve had a good life. Sure, I’ll offer my voice to the potential soul sucking, voice stealing storm zombie mountaineers that are out there.

We really think this is a good idea? I’ll record something to offer to the group to vote on.

(In technical terms I’ve been toying with how to do this. I have a voice recorder on my phone. But it only records .m4a files which the site won’t allow. I found a website for free online which will convert .m4a to .mp3, which I apparently can upload. http://online-audio-converter.com/)

[Brendon]

One very, very minor edit, I would maybe say “Could you help us get in contact with him?”, has the same sort of “help us find him” approach but isn’t necessarily going to scare the person we are in contact with

[Mr5yy]

That’s sounds even better!!! So final one!

"Hello there!

Sorry for this, we’re trying a new system and don’t entirely understand it just yet. We are Mountaineers looking for a man named Augie. Could you help us contact him?"

[Robert]

Here’s my best stab at this. I went off script because I couldn’t resist being a smartass… it’s my defense mechanism when I’m doing insane things.

(https://d39z42ofxysd63.cloudfront.net/original/2X/5/5c9b2b9c54670bf8ebdf394bdcd16e69cfadcca6.mp3

Any criticism or changes are welcome.

[Tinker]

Sounds good to me! Fingers crossed there’s no soul sucking voice thieves on the other side!

[Mr5yy]

Amazing

[Augustus_Octavian]

Eh, Balimoran. We expect things to be a little off-script.

Seriously though, it sounds great. Thank you so much for doing this! Let’s see what we get back. Hopefully it’s not a backwards-smack-talking evil mind-eraser on the other end.

[Mr5yy]

If @Robert is trapped by maqic we salute you! O7

[Robert]

Well. I think I sent it. I attached the file. Hit send. It gave me a brief progress bar like it was uploading the file, and the send button greyed out and it’s just sitting here staring at me now.

No idea if it did something or not. I guess we’ll see.

[Mr5yy]

Feels like the Voyager Data disks.

[Rimor]

We should make a Google Doc (if we even can) for the voice recordings to keep track. Also the message sounds awesome @Robert!

EDIT: I forgot to mention this before but the text “Like leaves swept into a stream, are sounds and stories in a dream. What will you send?” makes me feel like the site is judging me.

[Tinker]

So I guess now we wait…maybe brainstorm some more places that the compass or journal might react? Or somewhere else to start looking for a new potential fragment?

[Augustus_Octavian]

I think we just wait for whatever comes across at midnight, then go from there.

[Ashburn]

If we can’t save the actual files in one place like that, we could always transcribe them into a Google doc.