Official "what are they saying in the auction house" thread

[Aldeld]

Ok, so I have listened to the conversation these people are having in various social spots in the game like the AH, craft halls, etc. for over half a decade, and it's always bugged me how their chatter is just barely on the edge of being comprehensible. So, today I took some time to really listen to it and try to piece it together. I wonder if Turbine knows that a chick drops an f-bomb in part of the conversation?

Fun fact: There's three different ways the audio plays back: normal, 1.5x faster than normal, and 1.5x slower than normal. What speed it plays back seems to be random, and you can try to get a different playback speed by exiting and re-entering the area which contains the audio track.

Anyway, here's my loose transcript based on what I could make out (I don't claim this is super accurate):
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Man 3: They're really serious.

Man 1: I should have known. Size of the goal, uhm...

(inaudible conversations)

Woman 1: We go there.

(inaudible conversations)

Man 3: Bloody well have to be a hero trying to get (inaudible)

Man 1: But you know the shepard, shepard's pie

Man 2: Yeah yeah

(inaudible conversations)

Woman 1: Oh yeah

(inaudible conversations)

Woman 2: Let me see, let me see, we need big ones. (inaudible) See I need bookshelves like that because when (inaudible) was born (inaudible). Special needs probably.

Woman 3: Suppose you have to be (inaudible)

Man 4: Neverending (inaudible)

Woman 2: (giggles) God I can see myself in the mirror, thank god (inaudible)... (laughs)

Woman 3: I don't know...

Man 3: Isabelle? Isabelle? I did come to see you at (inaudible).

Isabelle: Oh whoa, you come to see us?

Woman: And he doesn't move all the ashtrays (inaudible)

Man 3: And you guys were all in the ??? pub

Isabelle: Yes

(Woman laughs)

Man 4: That's 8 years later

Man 3: And I came into (inaudible) pub. I stopped by at 5:30 but I wouldn't go into (inaudible). Wouldn't go into (inaudible).

Isabelle: You wouldn't go into what?

Man 3: Wouldn't go into those (inaudible). Calculated maybe could hit them with the antenna (inaudible) calculated information (inaudible) fighter jets

Isabelle: Oh yeah?

Woman 4: ...about 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning and decided he was going to wake us up because they heard we ran off... they heard... what is this big blue (inaudible)? It's one of those atlas things. F***in' how (inaudible)? (couple of people laugh)

Woman 5: And he shows up in the wee hours of the morning...

Man 3: Anniversary... I had another anniversary (inaudible)...

(loops back to the start at this point)

[Aldeld]

P.S. I found an old thread regarding this topic here:
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...ackground-chat.

Also the above linked thread has a video where someone recorded the background AH audio:




Seems I'm not the only one who hears an f-bomb and shepard's pie!

[Lullz]

lol, the f-bomb! that's great!

[kickman77]

Mind = Blown