a story told by Browallia/Nukleus
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Can you spot THE LIES before I reveal them on a silver plate? Happy Reading C=
April-April…THAT day of the year, when fake-news are peaking outside the demoscene bubble. But how about inside an online disk magazine? Today it’s 1st of April, but this article is no joke. Not at all. BUT, this story has a well-camouflaged set of three (3) hidden lies – or bended facts, far away from the truth.
“Come on, It’ll be fun. I promise” /DuJour
PARTY TIME
I was looking at the party flyer. Party-gathering in Spring, around Easter-time it said. It was a www-adress, or maybe more correct an announcement on Facebook. So maybe more correct was a digital party-banner was in focus of my gaze. But who cares about details? Message was simple and untold but spoke to me directly, a demand to drag myself out of the cage.
– Get dressed and get ready.
It surely was long time ago I used a crazy party-stash. Time. Priorities. Needs. I need a drink! How long does it take to empty a beer anyway, my thoughts were not in focus, as I looked through the wardrobe of something suitable tonight. The wardrobe looked like a [squared] time-boxed symbol of my Life. An ikea-based jar filled with small scheduled drawers. My Life in a nutshell, I whispered to my brain. I went outside the box, Black colors, a devotion for gothic genre, I left my angle wings at home. Come on, It’ll be fun. I promise.
– Lets go out, lets keep going!
At arrival, I spotted many people. 20, or double amount? The welcome entrance hall, with info desk and a snackbar. People queuing up with their cabin bags. Does a monitor fit inside? Situations like this, its more comfortable to look around for familar faces. Something to attach your arrival to, so to say. I saw some after a while. There was Balder, guokte, Saiibot, Cefa68000, & Smaugur. I counted to seven with myself counted twice. Seven? A guy with his laptop close to us, I didn’t recognize at all was eagarly tapping his keyboard. Could he be our lucky number 7 this Spring-event? A late afternoon worker, or doing scene things perhaps, or at least something that brings him forward, eventually. I pulled down my hands deep into my dark coat. In the pockets I felt three items simultaneously: a gameboy camera, a pikachu figurette and a harmonica. The last item I got from a second hand-store. I can not play good. But to quote myself with a recent invented-brilliant quote of my ego (yea really!!!!!!!!1 Feel free to use my quote!!!!!1):
“There will always be an audience for your melody”.
So with that in mind, I ordered a beer, sipped slowly. Sweat pearls on my nose tip can do faster pace, I think. Or thought. Suddenly, my beer glas was empty. Maybe I can drink and act like Finns after all, I thought. But I talk too much, so probably no.
This year, Mekka & Symposium moved away from country side to a bigger event area, and temporarily stealing the name ‘the Gathering’ as a flirt to outrule the Norwegian party in the former Olympic ice-hall (the Vikingship, Hamar). So, when I arrived at TG in a bus, we Nukleus-boys were eating noodles almost throughout the party with a fork made out of a 3.5″ floppy disk. Black clothes (after Black Symposium?) was replaced with a green jacket. I’m young and full of energy again. Spring, and hard to believe I was in Germany. Or was I? After all, it is ‘April in Paris’ where we were all gathered, lined up on chairs in a few rows, close to both stage and big screen.
So, how did this story end? Well, I was offered by (forgot the name, but doesn’t matter) to go up on stage and play the harmonica, just because (ok, here it comes again, get ready!!!!!!1):
“There will always be an audience for your melody”.
The end.
The lies will be relevealed in the comment field below. But go crazy with your guesses 😛
Sneak peak #1: Could you find the three hidden things, where the truth was bended, or could I fool you completely?
1) a place, 2) an item, 3) a sentence
Sneak peak #2: Maybe its not obvious, and not easy without knowing me, but maybe, you discover something else and will get full score.
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Ok, so far, I got a few comments after personal adressing some people, (are you shy or something? Nothing wrong to try your luck? :))
It seems to be very difficult, and it was well hidden. But we start with the most obvious lie – c) the sentence:
“This year, Mekka & Symposium moved away from country side to a bigger event area, and temporarily stealing the name ‘the Gathering’ as a flirt to outrule the Norwegian party…”
this is rubbish sentence, far from the truth: Mekka & Symposium never took the name “the Gathering”. Maybe you got that one?
The whole text felt like fiction partly thanks to that sentence 🙂 Are you saying that you, Balder, guokte, Saiibot, Cefa68000, & Smaugur actually were at M&S the same year? That sounds very unlikely but what do I know.. 😀
you are very right, we were not at same party (M&S that year), a true good inside-information! I think you cracked the main thing, making the two other lies a bit ridiculous 🙂 . But, Im not sure you are aware that you cracked it, maybe just reformulate?
and if someone else want to give it a try: no inside-information is needed for what Malmix said 🙂
No clue, tell us! 🙂
ok, time to reveal the lies in this article, but to do that, I must say that two of the things really suxx, but that that was never the take-home message of this text.
1) M&S take over TG label (sentence)
2) harmonica (item)
3) on a stage (place)
So how the f**k could you know lie #2 and #3? You couldn’t is the simple answer.
The true point was, that I mixed up 4 different places that made the text messy but were all true how it was written.
a) I talked about a hotel lounge that I tried to fool you with that it was a demo-party lounge (“At arrival…”),
b) I talked about a party I wanted to attend (“I was looking at the party flyer…”),
c) I talked about The Gathering demo party I have attended in Norway (“So, when I arrived at TG…”),
d) Last I talked about Mekka & Symposium, I also attended in Germany, also Easter time but not simultanously as TG of coz with an Up Rough demo reference (“After all, it is ‘April in Paris’ where we…”).
I used words like “gathering”, “spring”, “easter-time” etc to make it more blurry time-wise in the article.
Hope you enjoyed the read, that was at least the purpose of it (= /Brow
ps: so Malmix was correct in that way, that “…Balder, guokte, Saiibot..” were not at M&S the same year, we met up in the hotel bar. And the “nukleus-boys” at The Gathering were some other members, different year. ds