Conversation · Soona, the Programmer
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Soona, the Programmer
Kim Kitsuragi
You- Horseback Antenna
Shivers
Inland Empire
Esprit de Corps
Perception (Hearing)
Rhetoric
Logic
Savoir Faire
Physical Instrument- Perception (Sight)
Empathy
Interfacing
Coalition Warship Archer
Authority
Pain Threshold
Endurance
Conceptualization
Electrochemistry
Hand/Eye Coordination
Composure
Encyclopedia
When
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"We're ready to try, at least. Please, put on these headphones, there should be two extra sets. I've configured the channels so that only your microphone is set to broadcast, officer. We'll all be able to listen, but anyone we reach will only hear your voice."
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"You will need to transmit your connection request while I attempt to locate the warship's public frequency. You will likely encounter some interference, but it's important to keep transmitting your request until you're acknowledged. Ready?"
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- "You will need to transmit your connection request while I attempt to locate the warship's public frequency. You will likely encounter some interference, but it's important to keep transmitting your request until you're acknowledged. Ready?"
- "You will need to transmit your connection request while I attempt to locate the warship's public frequency. You will likely encounter some interference, but it's important to keep transmitting your request until you're acknowledged. Ready?"
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Every lightswitch, every motor carriage, every doorbell, tea kettle, and radio in Martinaise, all mingled with electrical interference caused by scattered thunderstorms over Ozonne.
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- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is Lieutenant Harrier du Bois of the RCM. Please acknowledge."Remembered · 1
- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is Detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau of the RCM. Please acknowledge."Remembered · 1
- "What should I say?"
- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is RCM Officer Tequila Sunset. Please acknowledge."Remembered · 1
- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is RCM Officer Firewalker. Please acknowledge."
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Lieutenant Harrier du Bois of the RCM. Please acknowledge."
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- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is Lieutenant Harrier du Bois of the RCM. Please acknowledge."
- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is Detective Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau of the RCM. Please acknowledge."
- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is RCM Officer Tequila Sunset. Please acknowledge."
- "Coalition Warship Archer, this is RCM Officer Firewalker. Please acknowledge."
You're all alone out there, wandering a blasted heath, calling out to the night, but there is no reply, except for the buzzing of invisible machines...
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Looking at him now, with both hands on his headphones, you see very briefly what the lieutenant must have been like when he first joined the RCM...
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Then he turns to you. He gives you a half smile along with an almost imperceptible nod of encouragement.
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- Then he turns to you. He gives you a half smile along with an almost imperceptible nod of encouragement.
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- Nervous for who, though, you cannot say.
- Then he turns to you. His expression seems to say, 'You'd better not leave this mess for me alone'.
- Then he turns to you. He shakes his head slightly and looks back at the amplifier.
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"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Tequila Sunset. Please acknowledge."
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Detective Costeau. Please acknowledge."
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Lieutenant Du Bois. Please acknowledge."
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Perhaps you're simply imagining it, but it seems as though you're learning to pull apart the fibres of this auditory felt. You focus on one strand in particular, one that sounds very nearly human...
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"Nein, Liebling! Das lasse ich nicht zu … Wie kannst du unseren Jungen bloß auf einem dieser Dinger nach Vredefort schicken?"
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"Marianne ... mir erzählt, dass Oskar nicht mehr ... seit er auf einem Luftschiff aus Graad zurückgekommen ... halten ihn die Psychologen für vollkommen normal ... aber sie hat das Gefühl ... seit seiner Rückkehr ... einem Fremden zusammenzuleben..."
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"Marianne hat mir erzählt, dass Oskar nicht mehr derselbe ist, seit er auf einem Luftschiff aus Graad zurückgekommen ist. Natürlich halten ihn die Psychologen für vollkommen normal, aber sie hat das Gefühl, seit seiner Rückkehr mit einem Fremden zusammenzuleben..."
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Something about her son going to Vredefort on an aerostatic... to see some psychologists? Or maybe it's the psychologists saying it's normal... to have feelings for strangers? Foreign languages were never your strong suit.
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"Liebling, bitte… Er ist unser einziges Kind. Er kann doch auch nächstes Jahr zur Akademie gehen."
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"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Tequila Sunset. If you're there, Archer, please acknowledge."
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Detective Costeau. If you're there, Archer, please acknowledge."
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Lieutenant Du Bois. If you're there, Archer, please acknowledge."
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- "Not ghosts, officer. Crosstalk. You have to keep trying until we get a signal through."
- "In the meantime, you must keep trying."
- "It's crosstalk. In all likelihood they can't hear you. You have to keep trying until we get a signal through."
- "Keep trying, officer. We'll get a signal through eventually."
- "It isn't gibberish, it's Walder. Now please, keep trying."
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"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Tequila Sunset. Do you acknowledge?"
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Detective Costeau. Do you acknowledge?"
"Coalition Warship Archer, this is Lieutenant Du Bois. Do you acknowledge?"
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A slight frisson at the point where your neck meets your spine. Something about the lieutenant's words, directed at you, but not you.
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"I promise you, I didn't, even though it certainly sounds like me..." The lieutenant seems to wince at the sound of his own voice.
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"Yes," the programmer cuts in. "A particularly eerie specimen, but still just a harmless piece of the past returning to surface."
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Something here is eating at the lieutenant, as much as he would like to move past it.
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- Something here is eating at the lieutenant, as much as he would like to move past it.
- "...are astronomically low."
- Hold on, isn't the pale supposed to be thousands of kilometres from here?
- Pale? Pale-pale-pale... Seems to be missing from your records.
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- Here it is again, this pale... If only you knew more about it.
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"Roy said this transceiver came with some kind of signal purifier. Maybe we should turn that on?"
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"... someone has been maintaining it..." The lieutenant's voice suddenly grows faint and distant, as though he were speaking from a passing motor carriage...
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"Coalition Warship Archer. Do you acknowledge? This is Tequila Sunset."
"Coalition Warship Archer. Do you acknowledge? This is Detective Costeau."
"Coalition Warship Archer. Do you acknowledge? This is Lieutenant Du Bois."
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"... Warship Archer. Are you there, Tequila Sunset? Please acknowledge."
"... Warship Archer. Are you there, Detective Costeau? Please acknowledge."
"... Warship Archer. Are you there, Lieutenant Du Bois? Please acknowledge."
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"Archer! This is Tequila Sunset. Can you hear me?"
"Archer! This is Detective Costeau. Can you hear me?"
"Archer! This is Lieutenant Du Bois. Can you hear me?"
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"Damn..." The programmer removes her sweat-drenched headphones. "Even with the crosstalk suppressed the signal is still very weak."
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"I did not expect simply locating the signal to be so difficult." She appears to be concentrating very intently.
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"We must consider several variables: local entroponetic conditions, the sophistication of our transceiver, the quality of our connections, and the physics of our antenna itself."