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[parodeity]

hey so anyway
about the how we got here mystery im not sure any of us ever thought wed solve
time to praise me because i solved it
i got annoyed and backtracked
warper portals + warpers are the answer
and precurser tech or wtfever i guess
which
i guess warpers might be precurser tech anyway?
did we decide one way or the other re that
i cant fucking recall
but anyway
ill answer questions i you have them but i mean i literally just went back in time
and spied on us
because not knowing was stupid
it not having occurred to me sooner was also stupid but like
whatever
the more you know
pretty sure you cant avoid this bullshit nonsense when it occurs
given what i saw
but whatever
now were all aware of the inevitable possibilities huzzah for us

in other news
i will have been a mother for a year on the ninth next month
which is to say itll be the magisters birthday
what do you think alien fish want to do on their birthdays
because roses ideas so far wig me out ever so gently
which i assume is the purpose behind them so gold star for rose lalonde
you successfully creeped out your brother
actually no i dont want to give her a gold star itll only encourage her
and she doesnt *need* any further encouragement
anyway the topic was the magister and birthday things
i mean obviously ill ask him
but i feel like polling the populace cant go wrong
and i feel weird leaving this so short
there was like more to the first thing originally but i got informed that
basically the first part up there was what i needed and stopping there would be good

and now
i am not stopping there
shit ok im ending this bye

oh one more thing tho
egbert wtf do you wanna do on the 13th?
you have a week to decide jackass
ive had experience planning parties now i can make that a thing
w/out cake lest you have a mental breakdown in technicolor
i guess i could have just texted you this question but whatever
everyone else should know about your coming of age too just in case they somehow missed the alert

also @ everyone maybe be careful about handing nancy live samples
like
animals
im not 100% shes the most ethical scientist around so just like
strongly consider that as you do ig?
i could be wrong of course
but i think its worth being a little paranoid when it involves actual living creatures
and not just plants
although ig plants have souls here
so id be cautious about them too
dirk hurt a rock once it was sad
but it got better
but maybe that means we should also be cautious about plants????

also i think its fairly obvious by now and most people know but
my sleeping quarters are now @ hephaestus tower and have been for a few months
because best browser
but anyway no solicitors allowed not that itd be easy
b/c i didnt see a need to put in doors or accessible entries
but like
just so people know that tower is hella occupied
and to leave it be
tho i think most of them are still like free to take over if you really want

anyway later
i think i circumvented what editing was done to this mostly on accident
oops

edit: thats how we get kicked out too fyi
the precurser tech and warpers
for at least 2 people i checked
so hey

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[parodeity]

yeah the buddy system does have its perks shockingly enough
ive been following it for
several months now chronologically for everyone else

sweet
you should let me record some harp stuff sometime
i do turntables
i can play a little piano but i dont have one here so its like
moot point
and i guess i also sing???
what kind of music do you listen to

[ex_resound725]

What do you do non-chronologically?

Also, what are turntables and what is a piano?
I guess I have a lot of questions before I can answer yours! I like to listen to Fi's singing and what we play or sing in Skyloft. Many of our songs are important traditions.

[parodeity]

more than that
time travel adds up but i count it different so as not to give people heart attacks

piano is a stringed acoustic instrument
you use a bunch of keys to hit down on the strings
like
panels all in a row i guess?
and it makes some beautiful tunes
turntables are a sort of revolving plate technical things
that you can use to remix other sound things?
i do have those around

hm
here let me send you a piano piece

[ chosen mostly at random. ]

[ex_resound725]

Of course. It's difficult to know what to do with that.

I don't think I'm understanding 'remix' the right way. Our word troubles aren't over even now that we speak the same language! This one is much easier at least to talk about what we don't know.
Could you show me turntables?

That's a very strange song, but beautiful. Thank you.

[parodeity]

eh you get used to it

i can show you turntables sure
just lmk when to cart them to the base
but it basically means
taking a song someone does and doing a new thing with it
if you play me a song ill show you

its not my fave piano piece
which is actually this impossible to play thing
that
actually never seemed that impossible to play to me
but im also a little faster than average
mostly its done via like tech software for those of us who dont do that though
here

[ he would like this. ]

[ex_resound725]

I'm usually on the island base. Would that be easier?
I can sing something for you, but I don't have a harp.

Wow! I really like it!
It sounds very ominous. You might hear it approaching a Demon Lord.

[parodeity]

yeah that works
just pick a time and ill allot it to this
re: harp i think one should be easyish to make actually
well
by "easy" i mean "doable"
though probably easier than the other instruments
i think i could actually manage it based on haphazard schooling on my own tbh
tho it occurs to me there are like 50000 kinds of harps

haha shit yeah it does sound like boss battle tunes
i like stuff like that
faster and with weird turns and shit

[ex_resound725]

Can I see it now?
Ours look like this. [image attached]
I've never made one before.

It is very much unlike anything we have but our music has to be done by humans.
Do you have other songs like it?

[parodeity]

sure
meet me in the entertainment room i can set the turntables up there i just gotta bring them over
re: making said harp i think it would be easily doable?
we have metal stuff so the metal part is fine
the strings would take a bit of tuning and effort and im not sure how itd sound comparatively without work
comparatively to what you played i mean
but i dont see why it cant be done?

girl
i have tons of songs
oh shit youve never heard probably most genres i got if what youre saying tracks
this is too much power
ok try this one on for size while i get my ass in gear

[ he tries to pick something mostly inoffensive because he's pretty sure he's never heard her swear? ]

[ex_resound725]

I know enough of how the strings work to adjust them, I think. The pegs will help.
I would love to have one again.

My name is Zelda. Oh, and my bird is called a Loftwing.
This is so different too! The beat doesn't sound like it is played on drums?
I don't think I can name any of the instruments except the voice. It's really interesting!

[to be fair, curse words were not in the Precursor vocab. fires etc]

[parodeity]

ill see what i can do

dave strider
and i can probs tell you what the instruments are
for whatever
i like music?

[ what is his method for picking songs, but he sends her another track as he collects himself to leave the tower. as long as he gets back before six he's fine. ]

[ex_resound725]

This one is very strange. Does it mean anything?
Are the voices machines?

[parodeity]

i tend to take the stance that songs mean whatever they mean to you
as with most art
b/c the meaning you find probably means more than the meaning thats shoved in there
although theres always something to be found from the creator
it just depends on if you can find it i guess?
also theyre distorted actual human voices

[ edges towards rap ish LUCKILY THIS IS ZELDA AND NOT DIRK SO SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIS SONG CHOICES.

as he definitely is already setting up in the entertainment room. ]

[ex_resound725]

What was it used for? Did it record a legend or a story, or was it for celebration?

In this one the voices sound like machines again. So they were distorted? It also sounds like they spoke a lot of it instead of singing it.

[She knocks at the door of the entertainment room and steps in.]

Hello!

[parodeity]

Sup. [ dave waves a little, having set up the turntables dirk made him. he's going to have to redo the wire neatness when he gets home and dirk will probably ask why he moved everything since he can't do it as neat as dirk (doesn't care enough to) but whatever. ]

Music where I'm from ain't always for those two purposes. I mean, it can be, but it's also a lot to do with expressin' yourself and shit. Like...a way to talk if you don't have the words.

[ more or less. ]

Anyway, this is my setup? My bro made these.

[ he's casual and seems relaxed, at least. and blessedly can SPEAK NORMALLY again. or...speak dave-ly. whatever. ]

[ex_resound725]

Hmm! [It's a thoughtful hum in response. Music is beautiful just for its own sake, but it has a very important function culturally, as does all other art, so it's an interesting idea. Zelda clasps her hands behind her back, much more interested in inspecting the turntables.]

They look much more like a machine than an instrument.

[parodeity]

They kinda are, in a way, but I like 'em. I think they let you interact with music on a...different level? Not sure how to say it. Anyway, if you want to sing a song into a mic - recordin' device - I'll show you what-all I can do.

[ and remix it. dave strider style.

rip zelda ]

[ex_resound725]

Okay! [Zelda straightens up. She sings The Ballad of the Goddess because it's the only example we have of her singing and also hey it's a solid song.

When she's done, she turns to look at Dave with interest.]

How's that?

[parodeity]

I can work with it.

[ he has to hook the headphones of his ears, but he crooks a finger to get zelda to come closer, handing her a spare set. typically he reserves musical shenanigans for dirk - or rose, sometimes, since john and jade haven't had too much spare time - but it's not a trial to drop into that with someone else.

he doesn't explain what he's doing so much unless asked, but listens to the recording once more before digging through his various music files to start layering them under zelda's voice to the tune he kind of picked up.

she said she played harp and he has strings in his repertoire to fuck with, but let's just start with that and move into something more electric.

so here this is my favorite remix of it so far enjoy zelda. the process is kind of haphazard and very much instinctual rather than planned, and it sure is. a thing.

maybe he should have asked before remixing some super important song tho? also this might take a While so they can stop before he finishes if she says anything - or he'll let her mess with it too???? dave what even is your life ]

[ex_resound725]

[Whatever, if anyone has any right to let Dave remix that song it's her. SHE ISN'T GOING TO OBJECT although she feels like she's deciding techno may not quite be her jam of choice. She does decide to sit through the whole thing though? She wants to learn. Maybe it's the Wisdom thing.]

So the machine has the sounds and lets you add or change them, and you can adjust what I gave you too. Can you change anything into anything else?

[parodeity]

[ don't tell dave you dislike techno zelda he'll look betrayed. ok no he won't, but he nods. ]

I can, sure. What kinda feel were you thinkin'? Less techy, more instrumental?

[ he'd have to fuck with sound files and synthesizing shit, but he can. ]

[ex_resound725]

Can you do that? [That sounds interesting?] The sounds of the machine can be made to sound like they are acoustic sounds?

[parodeity]

Yeah. I have lots of recorded song files, and like - synth shit I just need files like that and to arrange the notes right...a lot of the stuff I have is holdovers from my friends - lots of bass and piano and violin rips - but I got other stuff too. I used to mess around with it a lot more - well, actually, I guess I mess around with it just as much as I did when I was a kid these days?

[ it's a surprising revelation and one he hadn't even noticed. on the meteor he'd kind of done other shit in addition to the occasional musical deviation, but he gets to do it a lot more here on a planet where everything sings. ]

Ok. Let's see, I know I have some woodwinds around here...

[ try two to impress the maybe time friend ]

[ex_resound725]

Oh, wow!! This is really amazing!!

[YOU DID IT DAVE YOU IMPRESSED HER!]

That sounds a lot more like what our music sounds like, with more people in it.

[parodeity]

[ SUCCESS...he can rest in peace now. ]

So kinda celtic-y folk stuff is more your jam, got it. I can send you music files like that - not by me, I mean, just stuff that exists - though it ain't really the main component in my music library.