Description from original post (created 2016-03-06 02:19):
Sitting at home alone in his basement again, Leopold sat staring blankly at his computer screen.
(What to do today? Tetris? Pong? Nah, none of those, I need a new game, something more fun, more high tech.) He thought.
A small envelope image appeared on screen:
You have mail! it pronouced
(Mail? From who?) he thought again, double clicking to check his newfound message.
AOL opened revealing a message:
Talk Binary?
Talk Binary?
00001010 01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001
01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01101111
01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01110101 01110000 01101100 01101111
01100001 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110011
01100101 01101100 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100
01101000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010
01101110 01100101 01110100 00111111 00100000 01001001 01110100 00100111
01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100101
01110100 01110100 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101100
00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 01101110 00100111
01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00111111 00100000 01011001 01101111
01110101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000
01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010
01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01110011 01101111
00100000 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 01110011
00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01100101 01100101
01110000 00100000 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110101 01110000
01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101
01110010 01110011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00100000 01110011 01110100
01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101
01100101 01110111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100101
01101100 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100001
01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000
01110111 01101000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010
00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100011 01110101
01110010 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110011 01100101
01101100 01100110 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100101 01101001
01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100100 01100101 01101100
01100101 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000
01100111 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110010
01110010 01110101 01110000 01110100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00100000
01010011 01101111 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100
00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000
01110011 01100001 01111001 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101
00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100001 00100000 01010100
01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001
01110010 01111001 00111111
It reads: (What if you could upload yourself to the internet? It'd be pretty cool
wouldn't it? You could live forever, so long as you keep backups of
yourself stored somewhere else to activate whenever your current self is
either deleted or gets corrupted. So, what do you say, you wanna Talk
Binary?)
YES NO
(The heck? Who would waste their time translating an entire message into Binary for a prank?)
Looking to the sender's information the sender was identified as "The Future"
(Pfft, the future, big whoop, anyone can make a username.)
He clicked the yes button:
YES
01000001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 00111111
Clicking the new dialog box he yawned, before feeling a strange tingling sensation over his left hand which seemed to stretch up his arm
"WH01000001 01010100 01110100 01101000 01100101 00111111 00100001" He cast his gaze downward to see 0s and 1s scrawling over his hand and clothing changing him.
His arm slowly began to shrink in size, being sucked through the mouse somehow, he could see his arm re-appearing on the screen before his very weak eyes. Before he was full absorbed into the system he yelled:
"01001000 01000101 01001100 01010000 00100001 "
He opened his eyes once more, however everything was bright blue, and his eyes hurt, he removed his glasses and they seemingly faded from existence, a small text window appeared in front of him:
"01010111 01100101 01101100 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00101100 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100101 01101110 01101010 01101111 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101001 "
(Welcome, please enjoy and remember to talk binary...)
"01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100101 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101101 01100001 01110010 01100101 00101100 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100101 01101100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01101010 01101111 01101011 01100101 00100001 00100000"
Now Leopold walks the net, viewing picture to video to post accruing as much information as he can so one day he might return to being as he once was...
Still needs some texturing I think: The contest has ended, the skin made it to be placed 65th, which is still waaaay farther than I thought it'd go, I have everyone who gave a diamond the skin to thank, so from me to everyone who liked the skin:
THANK YOU! :D