Hey all,
Chapter 6 of the audio book is finally complete! This chapter’s been pretty exciting — lots of new characters, a huge increase in both the Creep Factor (thank you, Touya) and the Horrible Factor, and the three longest, most complicated scenes in the book so far. When I first started this chapter, I was pretty worried about some of this later stuff — I looked at scenes with 11 different characters, 1 on the phone and 3 heard through bugs, and a ton of sound effects in the dialogue, and wondered how the hell I was going to get it done. Well, it seems that pulling ridiculous all-nighters was the answer to this one. I can only hope there aren’t any glaring mistakes that I was too tired to notice 
You can listen here. Thanks!
As usual, Excellent Work~! Things are only got get more action packed from this point on, yay~!
Thanks, Norma!
I’m collecting gunfire sound effects in preparation
Wow this is awesome! Great work again guys, especially you Rebecca! Can’t emphasize enough how great it is for you guys to have an audio accompanying your book, and also how well done it is compared to triple A listers and their audio books. There was something that caught my attention that I missed the first time reading through the series, Milan. Capital of Lombardy and second largest city in Italy. . . Makes me think of some secret ops like mission that has show cased in almost every single spy movie/series. Hehe. Now I was trying to find the comment by one of the fan base that talked about the various translations of Kiri, I think it was Kiri at least. All the different languages that had it and their various meanings. Not a great linguist and I can’t seem to find Kiri in Italian so I wouldn’t know better, but still. . .Milan . . . That should go up on the board.
Thanks Doreibo! I’m really glad you like the audio!
No comment on the whole Milan thing, as usual…but I do like the mental image you’re giving me of one of those boards they have in crime shows, with photos and newspaper clippings tacked up and connected by pieces of string, only it’s all Tokyo Demons plot points.
Actually, Lianne could probably use something like that. Right now, she has this ridiculous spreadsheet where she keeps all the important events and reveals — the “stuff that has to happen in chapter 3″ section just kept getting longer and longer.
That board is a great idea. I’m always forgetting shit and we don’t want to be a horrible series, now do we?
I actually do have a board in my room, but none yet of the TD reveals and story line. I’M SORRY!!!! I SHOULD REALLY MAKE ONE FOR IT!!
But seriously, I should. I just don’t have the room for it since my current board is covered with notes, scrawls, and post-its for another. . .organisation thing I have going. >.>
Hehe, appreciate the link there Lianne.
Milan… Wow… Totally missed that. Nice job noticing Doreibo! Now, what could that be about…
In response to your question, the link’s one of the last comments on Book 2, Ch. 3. Here is the Wiktionary page. Sadly, “kiri” doesn’t have a listed meaning in either Italian or Latin, though its Japanese meaning seems to be important. “Mist.” Hmmm…
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Hmm. . .thinking about it, Harikiri. Kiri is written with the kanji for cut and the hiragana “ri” Seppuku is written with the same kanji as Harikiri but in reverse order and without the hiragana. The meanings are the same but the Seppuku is used in writing where as harikiri in speech. The kanji is important, no doubt, but this is possibly one interpretation of it.
DEAR GOD!! I just listened to the prologue readings on youtube and realised something new. I was hoping to gleam more insight on Kiri but instead I found more info on Touya. His ability seems to manifest itself in a higher level of understanding. A conceptually based and graphic visualisation of things, time, items, people, connections. . .all of it. He can create a ‘board’ in his head. At least up to the 4th dimension of time. Imagine a hologram like the ones Tony Stark uses, being able to move them about with the flick of a hand or a voice command. It makes understanding things a lot easier and also allows a perspective devoid of connection, opinion and standard sensibility. This is how he is able to predict or understand things before other people do. He gathers what information he has and uses it to graph out the world around him. Once enough information has been gathered he can simply use an algorithm or some set of postulates to predict what will happen, what has happened and what is happening. The misunderstandings and the lacking preconceptions he had in the love hotel scene simply give us an insight into how limited it can be without proper information. . .or perhaps this is all just wild speculation. . .still it fits the bill. He can see things normal people can’t. . .by simply visualising them and using their connections, like Ayase’s board to Sachi, or the missing Lost Board to whatever the hell they were on about.
They say that in sleep the human brain or mind is able to make more connections and understand things better than any genius could in waking. . . It is why people have said they were able to predict the future through their dreams, or how we often experience things in dreams, lucid or not, that we cannot understand or explain when we wake. They are beyond our waking mind. . . Touya doesn’t sleep. . .but is this because he doesn’t need to since his brain is always in that state of thinking. . . Sleep has always been necessary for rest, but if the body can rest on its own through simply relaxing, and the brain is constantly capable of being in a state of dreaming, then does one need to sleep? Touya. . . Is this what you can do?
This is good. Very good. Touya’s brain is indeed weird, which should be coming up soon (probably in the next scene).
I really enjoyed listening to this chapter. Repeatedly.
Honestly, this audio is so damn good… I feel like everyone is getting more comfortable with their characters. Keep up the awesomeness, guys!
Thanks so much, Bamcakes! The whole cast has really improved a lot throughout this process, and the second half of the book has a bunch of great performances, especially once things totally go to hell. I love working on the screamy, intense, messed up parts the best
Yeah, seriously, the entire cast grew into amazing actors before we realized it, and some of the stuff coming later is INSANE. I remember this one time we needed to record some sad Sachi lines in a hurry, and Dov sat down, and recorded it with his voice shaking without a warm-up. We were like, DUDE. Actor sitting over here. And pretty much everyone reached that point by the end of Book 1.
Experience points and leveling up sometimes just happen in real life.
If only it were followed by triumphant music and/or coins, so that we’d know it was happening. In my experience, it DOES occasionally get marked by pizza.
Nothing stopping you from doing a little dance and singing yourself a fanfare, dude.
Except the knowledge that you would most certainly be nearby with a camera and a microphone to catch every excruciatingly embarrassing moment.
I would NEVER do such a thing…because I haven’t figured out how to use the camera on my phone yet. Lianne, on the other hand…
If Dov were to do such a thing, I bet you’d have it figured out within several seconds.