Itex ARG

[EndOfTheEarth]

ARG --- Alternate Reality Game

A project to recreate Itex-era documents showing the rise of Itex as a company, and the creation of the Maximum Ride characters. Initial discussion on "What are you doing" thread starts HERE.

The story will chronicle Elena Mueller (known by her internet alias "Valentine") after her return from a trip to Germany, and the discovery of the various Itexicon files.

(I'll start updating this OP over the weekend to start compiling the files)

[nathan_p]

>.> Uh, it sounded absolutely fine with me. Accurately representing a general German accent on paper is pretty damn hard. I would say just stick with what you've been doing.

...after all, the books are just a blind. So we don't need to stay too accurate to them.

[Devil's Sunrise]

Re: German accent problems:
The autopsy doesn't have to be done by ter Borcht specifically, does it?

[EndOfTheEarth]

In listening to it again, the accent sounds almost more French or Russian, with all the "zis" and "zees" German is more "dis" and "dese"

If it's my voice, then yeah, it needs to be ter Borcht, unless someone else wants to read it with a different accent. The voices themselves need to stay consistent. As an example: I couldn't to ter Borcht and Jeb at the same time; people would notice that it's the same voice.

Heck, I'll have time next weekend to do both recordings, unless I find an odd pocket of time during the week... what with Halo Reach out this week, I'm probably booked until the weekend, but we'll see.

[nathan_p]

Actually, your fake!accent sounds almost Austrian less than straight German to me. Not that I can quantify quite why other than the way you hit the "th" sounds, but compare/contrast with, say, Christoph Waltz...

[EndOfTheEarth]

It's the way I pronounce words like zee and zere, more like cee and cere (with heavy c-as-s sounds)

Heck, I'll try it based around D first. If the old one sounds better, I can always redo it.

Now though, I need to get to bed, I need my 8 to function tomorrow.

[nathan_p]

Go nuts :D I finally worked the kinks out of the audio-editing program I use (Myna, from the Aviary suite), so I'm up for whatever you decide on.

[Omega]

The surveillance implant is based on a small chip that is surgically implanted behind the retina, at the back of the eyeball. An ultra-thin wire both strengthens the optic nerve, and allows for the transmission of information via shortwave to the larger transmitter located in the thoracic cavity. The new device is expected to be quite durable, compared to previous models, since the chip is enclosed in a titanium casing, making it both water-proof and corrosion-proof. The researchers estimate that the device will last for at least 10 years inside the eye. The implant will allow us a bird-human eye view of the flock's movements, and we estimate it will be highly useful in observing the social interactions of our developing experiments.

[Devil's Sunrise]

o.o

That's frickin' sweet.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Where did you get this from!?

You ought to make a note of this being one of two chips, the second one being surgically implanted in the arm. No way an implant that size can hold a long-distance transmitter.

Also of note, the retina is a bit further back, it might just be easier to tap into the optic nerve (in short, having it sit on the back of the eye, wrapped around the rear.

Still though, if you painted that, that's epically awesome.

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

Maybe the larger transmitter is the implant in the arm? If not, what is the implant in the arm for?

[EndOfTheEarth]

That's my point. Short-distance transmitter in the eye talks to long-distance transmitter in the arm.

[Omega]

Short distance sends to bigger trasmitter in the chest. Chest = less likely to get found and less likely to get damaged. Besides, I hated the Max-arm-chip-thing.