From: bulkbruin@aol.com (BulkBruin)
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Subject: waiting for duality (or someone like him)
Date: 14 Sep 1997 23:51:33 GMT
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new info up on duality's backstory: sounds like some kind of religious war
is going on, then a warrior (the player?) falls from the sky and proceeds
to kick butt.
also something about a 1,000 year cycle...(eerie feeling of deja vu here).
great minds (bungie and doubleaught) thinking alike, or coded apocalyptic
messages about the millenium? you be the judge.
also, check out the miner's quote about patience. doubleaught's sly way of
telling us "it'll be ready when it's ready"?
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Subject: Re: waiting for duality (or someone like him)
Date: 15 Sep 1997 00:26:57 GMT
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<<also something about a 1,000 year cycle...>>
actually, that's a "thousand year storm", an odd phemomena that has been
documented where, around ever thousand years, a really big storm strikes.
We're supposed to be getting one out here in Southern California this
winter. Wait a sec... Duality's supposed to be coming this winter too...
gee, I wonder.......
-Forrest John of the House of Finness (Camera de la finnesi, en Italiano)
pfhorrest@aol.com, http://users.aol.com/pfhorrest
Co-webmaster / Conceptualist, Obsidian Software/Design Studios
Project More Coordinator, http://users.aol.com/pfhorrest/fm.html
From: Bryan E Holland-Minkley <beh+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: waiting for duality (or someone like him)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:21:19 -0400
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> new info up on duality's backstory: sounds like some kind of religious war
> is going on, then a warrior (the player?) falls from the sky and proceeds
> to kick butt.
>
> also something about a 1,000 year cycle...(eerie feeling of deja vu here).
> great minds (bungie and doubleaught) thinking alike, or coded apocalyptic
> messages about the millenium? you be the judge.
I though the Bungie member who had done the story was now at
DoubleAught. If he's doing the Duality story too, then wouldn't that be
one great mind working alike?
> also, check out the miner's quote about patience. doubleaught's sly way of
> telling us "it'll be ready when it's ready"?
Perhaps. But "Aim for the legs, and shoot twice. Covet your life,
not your bullets." doesn't seem to carry too much of a personal message.
Not for me, anyways.
-Bryan Holland-Minkley
beh+@andrew.cmu.edu
From: jack@radionics.com.SPAM (Jack Miller)
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Subject: Re: waiting for duality (or someone like him)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:07:03 -0400
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In article <19970914235101.TAA08961@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
bulkbruin@aol.com (BulkBruin) wrote:
> new info up on duality's backstory: sounds like some kind of religious war
> is going on, then a warrior (the player?) falls from the sky and proceeds
> to kick butt.
>
> also something about a 1,000 year cycle...(eerie feeling of deja vu here).
> great minds (bungie and doubleaught) thinking alike, or coded apocalyptic
> messages about the millenium? you be the judge.
Sounds suspiciously reminiscent of ZPC's story line, in which the ruling
monarchy is overthrown by the Black Brethren and the psionic king-to-be is
shot into space in a coffin... the Black Brethren suppress and feed off
the kingdom until the king falls back to the planet to take back the
throne.
xxx hj xxx
From: bulkbruin@aol.com (BulkBruin)
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Subject: Re: waiting for duality (or someone like him)
Date: 15 Sep 1997 20:49:15 GMT
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Bryan Holland-Minkley (beh+@andrew.cmu.edu) quoted me on recent changes at
doubleaught's duality page:
>> >>also, check out the miner's quote about patience. doubleaught's sly
way of telling us "it'll be ready when it's ready"?<< <<
and responded:
>>Perhaps. But "Aim for the legs, and shoot twice. Covet your life,
not your bullets." doesn't seem to carry too much of a personal message.
Not for me, anyways.<<
was referring to the NEW quote--they change them periodically (phforrest,
you're keeping a log of all of them, right?):
"Patience never killed a man, only darkness and fear." Miner's proverb
sounds to me like a hint that the boxes haven't gone to the printers yet,
if you catch my drift...
From: pfhorrest@aol.com (Pfhorrest)
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Subject: Re: waiting for duality (or someone like him)
Date: 16 Sep 1997 05:44:34 GMT
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>was referring to the NEW quote--they change them periodically
>(phforrest, you're keeping a log of all of them, right?):
uh... um... [digs through papers on desk]... lemme find it here... [opens
Note Pad, quickly flips through several 100 pages of virtual notes]... here
it is! My assignments sheet! [scrolls down large body of text]... uh...
odd-job man and anything else for Obsidian Software... coordinator /
mapmaker / shapes / sounds / everything for Project More... story guy and
big dude in charge of telling Svy what to do with Rameses.... guy who's
memorised all the little tiny knick-knacks from Bungie/DoubleAught
stories... nope, I don't see "logger of text on Duality page" anywhere
here. What gave you the idea that *I*, little Forrest of Nowhereville,
would be in charge of suck a big, important task?
-Forrest John Cameranesi
pfhorrest@aol.com, <users.aol.com/pfhorrest>
Ideas Dude / Co-Webmaster, Obsidian Software
Project More Guy, <users.aol.com/pfhorrest/fm.html>
Rameses Thinker Dude, <users.aol.com/obsidiansw/rameses>