Conversation 1162: DOOMED / FREQUENCY FIREPLACE

Different radio frequencies cover the fireplace like Kedran mosaic tiles.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Frequency Fireplace This old fireplace is covered in lines drawn in blue and red marker, the mesh spreading over the stone like blood vessels on alabaster skin. It looks ghostly and strangely ancient.
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3 None
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4 You Radio frequencies for what?
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5 You [Leave.]
6 Conceptualization The whole thing resembles Kedran mosaic tiles. Very Pisantic.
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7 Frequency Fireplace Unclear. It looks like a cardiovascular system, split into veins and capillaries. Very advanced.
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8 You Hold on, how do I know what Kedran mosaic tiles are supposed to look like? Variable["doomed.fireplace_concept_kedran_mosaic_tiles"] == true
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9 Conceptualization History classes. Students with their textbooks open, studying the roots of our civilization. Those aquarelle-blue tiles looked beautiful in the sun.
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10 You What am I looking at?
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11 Frequency Fireplace Radio frequencies, it seems. UKV123.6, UKV123.7, UKV123.9... some written notes too. Sparse and cryptic.
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12 You Wait, who's the Game Master?
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13 Half Light Looks like a surveillance programme...
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14 You If it's a game, then who's playing?
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15 You This must be an elaborate piece of art.
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16 You So we're dealing with something medical here?
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17 Frequency Fireplace Whoever decides to call in to a call-in station, it looks like.
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18 Frequency Fireplace Someone very important.
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19 You Of course... (Narrow your eyes.) The anatomy of *the curse*. Variable["tc.doomed_commercial_area"] == true
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20 Frequency Fireplace You think so? The web is comprised of radio stations. All lead back to one red heart, titled: The Game Master Frequency. A note says: 'This one can listen in on any station it wants?!'
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21 None
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22 None IsKimHere()
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23 None (IsKimHere()) == false
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24 Kim Kitsuragi "My god..." The lieutenant leans closer, his finger tracking the maddening rhizome. "It's as if the *less money* they had, the more ambitious their project became."
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25 Inland Empire A diagram for summoning some time-forgotten being? The symbols seem very esoteric.
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26 Interfacing They must have had *massive* airwidth. These things don't come cheap.
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27 Perception (Sight) A list of names under the stations suggests people across *six isolas* would be playing: Mundi, Insulinde, Katla, Graad, Samara, and even Iilmaraa.
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28 You What else? (Squint at the lines.)
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29 You "Why do you say that?"
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30 Frequency Fireplace Nothing. It's just lines on marble, an echo from times long gone. No one has used the fireplace in ages.
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31 Kim Kitsuragi "The schedule." He nods at the calendar on the chalkboard, wiping his marker-stained fingers clean. "I know *doom* when I see it -- the company was running out of funding."
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32 You "Mhm. The cost of airwidth alone must have been huge." Variable["doomed.fireplace_interfacing_bandwidth"] == true
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33 Kim Kitsuragi "Exactly." He nods at the calendar on the chalkboard, wiping his marker-stained fingers clean against his jacket. "This schedule -- I know *doom* when I see it. The company was running out of funding."
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34 None
35 None
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36 None IsKimHere()
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37 None (IsKimHere()) == false
38 None
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39 None Variable["doomed.moodboard_read_slogans"] == true and Variable["doomed.moodboard_read_calendar"] == true and Variable["doomed.moodboard_viewed_drawings"] == true and Variable["doomed.moodboard_viewed_photos"] == true and Variable["doomed.fireplace_have_read_it"] == true and Variable["doomed.doomed_radiocomputer_turned_on"] == true
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40 None (Variable["doomed.moodboard_read_slogans"] == true and Variable["doomed.moodboard_read_calendar"] == true and Variable["doomed.moodboard_viewed_drawings"] == true and Variable["doomed.moodboard_viewed_photos"] == true and Variable["doomed.fireplace_have_read_it"] == true and Variable["doomed.doomed_radiocomputer_turned_on"] == true) == false
41 None
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42 None Variable["doomed.fortress_accident_kim_switch_done"]
43 None (Variable["doomed.fortress_accident_kim_switch_done"]) == false
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44 Frequency Fireplace Perhaps... The web is comprised of radio stations. All lead back to one red heart, titled: The Game Master Frequency. A note says: 'This one can listen in on any station it wants?!'
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45 Conceptualization A conductor for the hundreds of story threads that pass through the Game Master's Frequency.
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46 Authority The leader of a massive on-air game built by these people.
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47 Empathy All of this gone, left unrealized.
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48 Logic There's no way a little basement studio working *here* could pull anything like this off.
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