HELP! Last Ordos mission briefing lyrics needed!!!!

[Reactor]

Somebody please write down here what Edric O says at the very final mission, if y'play wit' the Ordos! I'm Hungarian, I can't understand what he mumbles, apart from minor sentences. Here'z what I know:

We seen the whole of it. We

[Reactor]

Okay okay I know  ;D Told you I ain't English  :)

Now please, write me down what Edric O says, I shall give you a  :-*

[Reactor]

Well, I don't have the savegame either. But I shall obtain it soon...so be a nice Dune 2000 fan, and 'and the lyrics over  ;)

[MrFlibble]

We've seen (or: we see) the whole of it. We

[Reactor]

Thank you for the response. I hope the missing parts can be filled with your help. By the way, I'll try to write down the Ordos mission 5 briefing lyrics to the corresponding topic.

[MrFlibble]

Thanks. I've listened a couple more times, it appears that after "We see the whole of it" comes something like "We break armies in ruins" or maybe "We bring armies in ruins". Still, it is one of the 'darkest' parts of the speech, as comprehension is especially hindered by buzzing and echoing of the sound >:(

[Reactor]

I know, those digital speeches and stuff ruins the whole lyrics, Edric O certainly oppose both Atreides and Harkonnen mentats, even in his voice. The "we break armies in ruin" appears to be correct, as the lyrics start to make sense.

As for Ordos mission 5 lyrics, it's also a hard task, but I think I can deal with most parts. I shall mark unundestandable parts with the usual symbol. I have the briefing lyrics in MP3, so listening it a couple more times may give me the results I (and of course...YOU) want. It's just that crappy digitized mumbling...

A great reason why you SHOULDN'T smoke!  ;)

[MrFlibble]

Here's a zip file with all the gamesaves for Dune2k (ver 1.06), except AT09, which I didn't get to yet ;)

Also, I've got two ideas on what can be meant by the "The Padisah Emperor can't

[MrFlibble]

After some more listening, I think it's said: "The Padisah Emperor can't

[Reactor]

Thank you! One more passed!

I think the missin' word from this sentence is somethin' like "protect", or "defend", at least in meaning. With such word, the sentence makes sense.

[MrFlibble]

I'm almost sure the word there begins with con-, and after some thorough guessing we may find the one that fits in.

[Reactor]

That's what I exactly think 'bout!

Damn Edric O, he shouldn't smoke that hard, I would understand what he mumbles!  :P

[gunner154]

... I had to mention this, but do you call that a transcript or lyrics?

Sorry if I'm poking fun. I just had to clarify this.

[Reactor]

Okay okay, I'm not the best on English, I just couldn't decide how to name Edric O's talking.

Please don't hurt me!  :O

[MrFlibble]

I think if we just call it "briefing text", no one will be displeased, right?

On the other hand, we can call it "in-can-tations", just because the word sounds nice and dandy :D

[Reactor]

What does "dandy" means?  :)

[MrFlibble]

Something like "cool", but stylistically it is on a higher level, of sorts. here as part of expression "to be nice and dandy", something like "to be okey-dokey" ;)

[Reactor]

Uh-oh,thanks for the describing!

One last thing, and we're all done. I heard this sentence lot of times: "What comes around, comes around!"

What does this mean? Could you explain it to me,pretty please?  ::)

[gunner154]

When it comes, it comes?

[Reactor]

Pardon? :)

[gunner154]

I'm explaining "what comes around, comes around" with my (often incorrect) interpretation?

[Reactor]

So this "What comes around,comes around" means there will be an event, which cannot be avoided? For example: You have no money, but you will need to eat shortly, since you'll get hungry. This is what "what comes around,comes around!" means? :)

[Reactor]

I know, more than 3 months have passed, but I wouldn't open a new topic for this...

You know, if you build the Harkonnen Palace, the background voice says something: "Death Hand missile ???????". Now, I want to know, what the hell the last word is! You know...you put the Harkonnen Palace to its respective place,and then the background voice says this "Death Hand missile ........" sentence. Please, will somebody answer what is that word?

Someone...

[MrFlibble]

Hi Reactor. Nice to see ya around :)

I think it says, "Death Hand missile prepping"; preparing, that is 8)

BTW, returning to the original topic of this thread, I believe I have deciphered one more phrase from Edric's briefing. He says, "Three great armires in ruins", referring to the Atreides, Harkonnen and Sardaukar.

Also, I'm less sure about this one, but it is possible that one sentence reads "The Padishah Emperor is the root of it". The root of all Ordos trouble ;) Not sure though.

A side note. Because of such problems in comprehension frequently arising (me being a non-native English speaker), I was thinking about modifying the speech files in question with a sound editor (like Audacity) to render them more comprehensible. However, I have found out that simply reducing playback speed or tempo doesn't help. And I think removing background noise and such stuff requires far more sophisticated equipment, which is unknown or unavailable to me ???

[Reactor]

Thank you! And it's nice to see you too! :)

Well, I was really curious about what are they doing with the Death Hand missile when the Palace is built, somehow I couldn't get it out of my head. Yes, I was sure it has something to do with the "preparing", but I never heard the word "prepping" so far, it sounded "rapig" for me, especially if I play wit' House Ordos.

And yes, the word "root" fits in the last Ordos mission cutscene very well (my first thought was the "whole" word, but it didn't make any sense). I think the last Ordos mission cutscene is completed now.

I don't know if these transition briefings can be modified, at least Edric O's voice is originally artificial, it's nice, but some words cannot be understood so easily. And yes,the background distortion noises are really disturbing.