Welcome To Hellville - Part 13 By Rich Mills

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From: "audioally" To: "Black Star" Subject: BASF C90 tape transcribed and identified Date: 28 Nov 2040 12:09:06 Hello there,

Thanks for the opportunity to investigate the origins of the BASF C90 tape that you forwarded onto me. As I understand you found this in an open box with other items, it hasn't been too badly damaged by the elements and general aging. After running it through some filters I have managed to digitise the content and have included these as attachments. From listening to the tape I would personally conclude that it was once used in an old answer-phone machine, as the 3 sound files it contains are spoken messages. I hope they help you in your investigations.

Best wishes. Ally Attachment(s): audio1.mp4 audio2.mp4 audio3.mp4

28th November 2040 I listened to the audio files that Ally sent me, and for the sake of record keeping I have transcribed them. As Ally said these are most definitely answer-phone messages. The first is the outgoing message from Alan, the second is from a friend of his calling himself 3-D. He sounds like he is panicked, deeply troubled for some reason. The last message is even more interesting, as the voice is scarily calm, almost ethereal in natural. Not that easy to make out however, as there is a lot of interference in the message which sounds like computer chatter.

File: audio1 Hello, this is Alan. Unfortunately you've reached my machine as I'm not in at the moment. Talk to it, as it's probably more interesting than I am to talk to anyway.

File: audio2 Alan mate, if you're in pick up... Fuck... Look mate it's 3-D... I think that I've fucked up, big-time... The fireworks were really flying last night, and I don't just mean in the sky... Give us a ring on me moby when you get this... [garbled noise]... Whatever you hear about me... Remember... Remember... [Message ends]. File: audio3

Hello Mister Miro... [High pitched whistle]... My name is Michael. [More whistles and some intermittent squeaks]... We need to talk... We will be in touch... [Short burst of white noise and then message ends].

I managed to isolate the chatter, it is computer language, in fact it decoded as a series of ASCII characters. It decoded as, The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started. A little digging around on the net and I have come across something that could relate to this, and all I can say is... The plot thickens! Blogging first became popular in early years of the 21st Century. There is still the famous blog site www.blogger.com, that people use to this day.

I found the above quote in the archives of Blogger whilst doing a net search. It is dated the 5th of November 2004, the following is the entry as it appears on the site.

Finding Inner Peace Hey Folks, this worked for me, thought I'd pass it on to you. The article I just read stated that The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started. So I looked around the house to see all the things that I had started but had not finished, and before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of red wine, bottle of white wine, the Baileys, the Kahlua, the Jack Daniels, the Prozac, some valium, some cheesecake and a box of chocolates.

You have no idea how freakin' good I feel. posted by Michael_the_Archangel @ 9:12 AM At first I tried to find the article that is referred to. I soon realised that the article doesn't exist, probably never did. This post is a joke, one that was doing the rounds at the time. Leaving me even more confused as to the meaning of all this than I was before I started.

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