S2 Ep. 3 — echo… (echo…)

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Hello. I hope somebody is listening. This is a distress
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call from university. It's a message. Someone must be trying
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to send a message to the city, and the only
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thing we're able to perceive from here is the sort
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of resonance is that you hold sport. Is someone actually
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out there listening. I need to get to I need
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to get to the roof. I need to hear it again.
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I don't think the radio can pick up on it,
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so you probably can't hear it. But it's there, ever
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so faint. As soon as people wakes up, I'll ask
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them again to help me decipher it. It has to
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be a message. Nothing else makes sense. I do hope
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the city isn't interfering with it so much that it's unrecognizable.
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It must be such a strong signal to get past everything.
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Even if it's this quiet. The fact that I can
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hear it at all is a miracle in itself. I
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wonder what it is, who's sending it, and why why now,
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after all this time, have I just not been listening.
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There's a saying that you can only find the hope
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that you're looking for if you're stuck in your despair,
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if you're not trying to change things, then all the
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help in the world can come at you and it
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won't make a difference until you embrace it. Maybe I've
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been stuck in my despair. Maybe I forgot to hope.
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It's scary, you know. I don't want to get hurt
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if it turns out that I was wrong, But maybe
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it's necessary. I'm not getting anywhere if I don't take
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a leap of faith, So for once, I'm choosing to hope.
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It's a message now that is. We've been working on something.
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I just don't want to say anything until we were
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sure it was going to work. We're building an antenna,
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not a fancy one by any means. We're kind of
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having to make do with what random scraps we find,
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but hopefully an antenna that will help us pick up
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on the signal we can barely hear. I don't even
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know how to describe it properly. It's like the faintest
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melody that you can sort of make out from far away,
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and you can tell it's something, but you really wouldn't
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be able to describe it. Are the notes high or low?
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Is it slow or is it fast? You don't entirely know,
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but you're sure that it's there. Like waking up from
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a dream and trying to remember it. That's what hearing
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the sound feels like. The hope is that if we
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place our antenna on one of the rooftops where the
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sound is easiest to notice, we can find the signal
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without too much struggle, and then we can amplify what
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we're struggling to hear right now. Of course, people can
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hear it a lot better than me already. The problem
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is they don't talk or write, so it's kind of
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a hassle to communicate. They obviously understand a lot of
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what I say, more than they let on, I bet,
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but I must admit that I'm not as good as
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understanding them. We're almost unbuilding the antenna. I will report
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back as soon as we're ready to go if this works.
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I know it isn't you, February, but I like to
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imagine it is somehow that you've been reminded of me
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and track me down to this inescapable city, that you're
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trying to send me messages over the walls, and spend
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days and nights pacing wondering what I'm doing and who
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I'm with. I know you have your own life now,
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and so do I, but that doesn't stop me from
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missing you. We're back. What's support? I hope you're listening. Well, Actually,
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if I'm right, then someone is listening the person sending
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the signal that we're about to try and to code
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together with beetpoop, which means there might be more of you.
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Are you ready to go? Buddy? All right? Here goes nothing.
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It's working. Look beepoop it's working. Yes, yes, we need
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to adjust it. Sorry, old support. You probably can't hear
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over the radio just yet, but we're picking up a signal.
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I'm going to try and tweak it so it's more
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easily decryptible. There. I think I've done it. Listen carefully,
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can you hear it? It's real? It's real. Now, we
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just need to figure out what it means. What's that? Okay? Echo?
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M I guess you're right. Boop. It does sort of
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sound like an echo. It's repetitive at least, yeah, an echo.
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You're really good at this. Okay, hang on, I've got
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an idea. You're just gonna have to trust me on this.
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I think I hope it will work to quote the echo.
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We're backing up on. Maybe then we can even try
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to trace it back to its origin. Can you imagine,
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after so long, we could have a way to reach
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the city, We could reach the outside, We could be
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free in a roundabout way, just to communicate with real
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people outside the city would be But I can't get
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ahead myself, one step at a time. First, to crypt
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the signal, I'm sorry to say. For that, I'm gonna
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need all the power that I can get, which means
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cut off the broadcast for a while, however long that takes. Okay, Well, goodbye,
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old Sport. I'll be back soon to report on what
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we discovered. Perhaps then we'll have discovered you see you
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on the other side.