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Post by Katalia on Oct 31, 2019 9:04:19 GMT -5
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Post by Katalia on Oct 31, 2019 10:21:56 GMT -5
I am having difficulties figuring out what is being said between 20:40 and 21:32. But I think I have the rest. Very unsettling indeed.
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Post by Todd on Oct 31, 2019 10:47:35 GMT -5
I'm impatient to finish my work day, as I've heard things that merit investigation.
Alas, I can't afford Boundless Library products without employment, therefore work is my priority.
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Post by jackoat on Oct 31, 2019 11:05:34 GMT -5
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Post by Todd on Oct 31, 2019 12:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by Geodus on Nov 1, 2019 18:00:03 GMT -5
It *seems* like Morse code, but I wasn't able to make sense of it.
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Post by Todd on Nov 1, 2019 18:51:05 GMT -5
It *seems* like Morse code, but I wasn't able to make sense of it. You're just a few steps away.
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Post by wortelboer on Nov 2, 2019 13:40:43 GMT -5
Wow...that was brutal. I think between last night and today it took me about 8 hours to finish...Thanks to Todd for the nudge I finally got the Morse code dots and dashes separated correctly . After that the next step was a breeze.
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Post by rob on Nov 2, 2019 15:41:07 GMT -5
If you've worked with audio files, it's made much easier by importing the MP3 into an audio editor like Audacity and slowing the speed.
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Post by Todd on Nov 2, 2019 17:16:16 GMT -5
If you've worked with audio files, it's made much easier by importing the MP3 into an audio editor like Audacity and slowing the speed. I'll go one step further and say look at the waveform. Dots and dashes make two distinctive shapes.
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Post by Geodus on Nov 3, 2019 3:21:45 GMT -5
If you've worked with audio files, it's made much easier by importing the MP3 into an audio editor like Audacity and slowing the speed. I'll go one step further and say look at the waveform. Dots and dashes make two distinctive shapes. That helped quite a bit, and your previous comment gave me the confidence to persevere.
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Post by Geodus on Nov 3, 2019 3:22:30 GMT -5
That was "creepy".
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Post by dmikester on Nov 4, 2019 11:25:12 GMT -5
So what are people's theories on what happened at the end of this podcast? Was the spirit contained somehow? Did the Librarian of Clarke's Laws survive? Is it odd that the Librarian of the Unknown Mind was acting fairly nonchalant about being possessed when she introduced the follow up bonus episode?
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Post by wortelboer on Nov 4, 2019 12:15:41 GMT -5
From the sounds of it the Librarian of Clark's Law managed to get out of the room and I assume rushed to get help. I think the Librarian of the Unknown Mind was possessed by the spirit as she would have been yelling too. I'm guessing they somehow got the spirit excised the Librarian and back into the recording. When discussing it, later she did sound upset to me and said she wanted to forget the whole thing. Maybe the librarians of the boundless library are used to such things.
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Post by Todd on Nov 5, 2019 9:05:24 GMT -5
On a tangent, as someone who has done acting for film, stage, and radio, I would like to take a moment to relate how different each medium is. Stage acting requires broad, deliberate actions if the audience is supposed to pick up on a specific motion. Such broad actions look fake, and in fact humorous on film, which can tell with close-ups and cuts where your attention should be focused.
Radio, and by extension podcasts, remove the visual cues, making you tell the entire story by sound alone. While foley and music go a long way to fill in the gaps, without a narrator, we're left with only the actors to fully communicate the intent of the scene.
Which brings us to the escape scene of the wallpaper woman. It is, by nature, ambiguous by omission. Some things seem a bit off, like the almost nonchalant response of the Librarian of Clark's Three Laws. "I've got to get out of here. Who locked this door." Delivered in what seems to me to be an unconcerned fashion. Is it a limitation of the medium, not allowing us to see the horror in his eyes?
It's worth pointing out that the tapping at the end is actually on a wax cylinder, based on the audio cues. It's also worth calling out Clark's Third Law. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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