TAGE #1: Discussion thread

21:34 / 01.09.05

Quick note: there's pretty obviously a sentence missing from the latest post, it's under moderation...

09:51 / 23.09.05

Look out you son of a bitch
Goddamn motherfucker
Do you know who you're fucking with?
You're fucking with the stallion, mang
You're fucking with the goddamn stallion, mang
You're fucking with the stallion, mang
Goddamn piece of shit
On my dick you should sit
Do you know who you're fucking with?
Prancing stallion -- oh ho handsome -- prancing on the grass
I'm the fucking stallion, mang -- the stallion
I'm the fucking stallion, mang -- the stallion
I am the stallion, mang -- you get it?
I am the stallion, mang -- you get it?
You see the damn stallion, mang?
You goddamn son of a bitch
You fucking piece of shit
Prancing stallion running through the glenbrook
Prancing stallion running over hillside
We must not reduce the stallion......
I will not be buckled on the stallion.....
Great is thou who rides the stallion
Goddamn son of a bitch
Goddamn piece of shit
Now it's clear, and I can see the stallion
Yes, I too can struggle with the stallion

10:14 / 23.09.05

Does that mean you're still enjoying it?

11:30 / 23.09.05

I am still enjoying it, but that's not what it means. I was just listening to Ween's "all request live" album, "live on the infanet" as they call it, which has five songs about stallions. I know that Fite! is a mare, but still. Uncanny.

Quantum

12:22 / 23.09.05

Ah, Ween...

09:37 / 10.10.05

Those who need methadone to feed their TAGE habit while teh computer is rebooted might like to go here.
The Gingerbread Grail.

11:44 / 10.10.05

Apologies for the delay: on the one hand, work is a bit of a bastard at the moment. On the other hand, it doesn't help when people keep posing commands after several have already been posted, thus making what I have to write that much longer...

Triplets

12:44 / 10.10.05

Perhaps put a three command cap in place?

Tryphena Absent

13:23 / 11.10.05

Perhaps ignore subsequent commands or, you know, pick the one you like best? Surely teh computer is in charge?

08:04 / 27.11.07

As you may have seen, this is back in effect. I'm going to attempt to provide some answers and a resolution, with your help, before the end of the year. You might want to head towards the Science Personnel only area, though.

(Off-topic, but I was shocked to read this until I remembered it was a reference to dear old Bruno and his views on r&b...)

18:08 / 29.11.07

if you had made a defective assassin clone and wanted to get rid of it, why on earth would you erase hir memory and dump hir in a clearing on an island full of clues that would lead hir back to your base?

especially if, as she says, you've already done so multiple times?

why aren't we expendable? these people appear to have no problem killing anyone else, and we're just a clone.

also her last speech seems to indicate that we will become expendable once we've been reprogrammed again. why would that be?

doesn't make any sense to me. currently my suspicion is that dad wants us to come back here and figure things out. and, I suppose, since we're an assassin, we were supposed to kill one of the kids. maybe?

18:22 / 29.11.07

Ahhhh...

15:31 / 30.11.07

Downtime notification: teh Computer will respond to instructions some time tomorrow. Please refrain from adding too many further instructions in the meantime.

12:55 / 01.12.07

Well, memo 47 certainly cleared that up a little.

Still, I'm struggling to form any kind of plan of action at this point.

Maybe we should head to where the action is and try to help out Highgraves and Maria...or whatever their names are? Assuming they're not already dead by now, or that anyone cares.

23:05 / 02.12.07

Pants, I could be wrong but I think we may not actually be Twenty-Three.

23:54 / 02.12.07

as in, we're the real Highgraves (with a memory wipe) and the guy who's running around with Maya is the real 23 (with false memories)? could well be.

or, given that last memo about memory erasures and facial recognition, we could be, well, anyone. and so could everyone else.

I'm inclined to just point some bullets at the ones who seem naughtier, but then I often get tired of trying to unravel mysteries about halfway through and just sort of passively wait for the hero to explain everything at the end.

03:47 / 03.12.07

I think we are a music producer.

10:02 / 04.12.07

A friendly reminder to limit instructions to 2-3 at a time, and post any discussion of the situation in this thread.

11:03 / 04.12.07

North.

11:06 / 04.12.07

You are in a Poetry thread. The only exit is down a rabbit hole.

13:18 / 04.12.07

We weren't instructing! We were expositing.

grant

20:26 / 04.12.07

Just wanted to say I'm loving reading this thing.

16:08 / 05.12.07

I just looked up helicopters on Wikipedia and it turns out there's THREE levers, not two. Damn.

16:34 / 05.12.07

Don't worry, I'm sure we know how to fly a helicopter.

20:32 / 05.12.07

Wouldn't we have to fly upside down to behead the zombie with the rotors? If so, good.

Evil Scientist

08:23 / 06.12.07

I really don't want to end up bailing out into the drink. If we have no anti-missile/agent devices on the chopper I reckon we should try and evade the damn thing. If it's a heat-seeker then we're fracked and we can always leap out heroically at the last second and drown trying to pull shrapnel out of our back as the sharks close in.

09:54 / 07.12.07

I apologise if it seems I am steering the protagonist's movements too much - do let me know!

10:16 / 07.12.07

Nah, you're alright. I was just interested to see if there was anything further up the beach.

HCE

20:14 / 07.12.07

OMG that's totally von Mises!