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Ahhhh so the answer is simply:

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Ghost

Losing one's physical form (i.e: dying), but trapped in limbo (void) due to sins done in life.

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"void of sin" indicates to remove the letters s, i , and n from a word?

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After some time, the bus would fall and I would literally feel the pull of gravity. At that point, I would wake up and find my head pressed very hard to the pillow.

I think you were maybe a part of this team without even knowing:

Hahaha I got the same answer when I was thinking on it today at work but Baron beat me to it

Well done!

Does the answer have four letters, or is that just part of the formula (multiply by four)?

I'm thinking the former

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Yay, I certainly felt very clever.
I had previously tried playing around with 'semi' and didn't get the full answer. I can't quite pinpoint exactly what my thought process was for reaching that; it just kind of popped into my head. But once it did, I was preeeety sure I must be right. But actually there was a little bit of doubt. Like, I knew it was a clever answer and I'd have been pretty pleased with myself either way, but part of me wouldn't have been surprised if you'd said it was wrong.

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Thank you for the on-the-spot-interview reply to my question...

It has given me the information I need to develop an all powerful weapon to destroy the entire wor some puzzle planning for my current project...

[100% CORRECT!!!]

Oh shit! I think I've got it!

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It's ;
Or Semi-colon.
Semi being half and colon being part of the final stages of the digestive system.

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Firstly, let me congratulate you on being 100% CORRECT!!!

And then let me quote you on: "Oh shit! I think I've got it!"

And now let me ask you this: How did it feel when the answer clicked into place?

By which I mean that exact moment when you knew you had the answer and knew it must be correct:

These are the moments of ecstasy we play these adventure games for... and I'm trying to nail down the feeling of just knowing you are CORRECT without the game even telling you so ahead of time...

So...how would you express your feelings at that exact moment when you knew you had the right solution?

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Captain and Ponch, cheat away guys, you're the only people who ever played the game.

Oh, I thought that everyone not answering this one was just joking around :

OSD - LGS - Demo

And you're wrong about the 2 people because I totally played this game and had a great time with it!

Anyone else please take my turn if I'm right

I might be being Captain Obvious here but I noticed that if you pledge at least $20 then you have already bought the game...

I guess $20 is a bit over the asking price for an adventure game these days but at the same time you are buying it from guys who have built up their names and reputations from the very start of the genre. If you can't raise the price $5-$10 per head (the average price of a deluxe coffee purchase from Starbucks) after a few decades of experience in the field then...

So anyways, this means that a LOT of their post-production sales income has already been absorbed into their pre-production kickstarter fund. Which means they are probably just testing the waters to see how many sales they can expect before doing something as insane as exiting real-life employment for 2 years to work full-time on this project (yeah, I know they probably have royalties from past publications, and will most likely still be freelancing for companies on the side as consultants, but that's like high-wire performers using a safety net really)

Colour me all naive if you wish, but I actually believed their sales pitch about this being their dream to time-transport a forgotten Lucasarts adventure game from the late 80's/early 90's into a forgotten drawer in your dusty old desk...

And I wish them all the luck in the world!

* Mandle is -$20

This dude's wife is about to give birth and has promised that whatever you name your soundtrack as WILL be the baby's name!!!

What!? No, he never said that.

I know, but shhhhhhhh...

It will help motivate...

Is the letter in question an abbreviation of some sorts, like an element of the periodic table?

No it is not.

The science behind is, that you know that the sky is blue, leaves are green, sun is yellow... your brain just fills in the voids.

Except that it doesn't...Except when you are young and don't know the difference and your imagination does it for you...

Plato's whole cave thing I'm thinking...

I can't do it now: I look at a black and white image and, yup it's black and white.

I could only see the colours before they existed.

This is a great example, for those that don't believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8cXTHz_o2o

Naw...that's just a residual retina image retained in the eye cells before their chemical process is completed...It's the same as looking at a bright light for a bit and then closing your eyes and seeing an image: Notice how they reverse all the colours in your clip. I'm not an expert, but the residual images on our retinas see reversed colours. This is also why you need to stare at the dot...It's so you are looking at the same place with your residual retina image as what you were looking at beforehand...

Good metaphor for what you and I experienced though I guess...

This is very helpful. The bluntness is appreciated and I love the humor!

Yeah, sorry for a bit of the bluntness...

It's like when your Dad tells you the story of the dude that needed to eat and the guy taught him how to fish instead of giving him a fish...

And when you hear that you're totally like "Man...that guy was a dick to him...He was so hungry..." but then you can see the hungry guy a couple years down the line teaching the exact same thing in the exact same way to the next dude...

A hint serendipitously supplied by Baron:

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it has been laying out in front of our noses the whole time.

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What would turning the hot spot off after a conversation look like in code?

I totally understand your reluctance to open the forbidden tome known as the Necronomi AGS Online Manual and delve into its eldritch horrors so I will do it for you, despite fearing the resulting effects upon my sanity:

(1) You open the online maual in the link above and then you click on "Scripting" in the side menu.

(2) You scroll down on that same side-bar until you see: "Hotspot functions and properties"

(3) Then you look at "Enabled property (hotspot)" and it will say something like:

(just in case you want to skip ahead, but I promise you that reading the Online Manual will really help in most cases)

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Code: ags

hBrownTree.Enabled = false;

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I'm sorry for being a bit obtuse with this help but I also found the exact same kind of help to be very useful when I was new here...

http://duals.agser.me/Files/isthatit.ogg

Here's my entry and I suggest we run this till someone makes a new entry, so that I don't win by default.

I suggest exactly the same thing!

I have been watching this thread and have been so interested in what musicians might do with the theme...

I would have even jumped in with an entry except that I have zero musical ability nor software/hardware to do so...

COME ON MUSICAL PEOPLE!!! This dude's wife is about to give birth and has promised that whatever you name your soundtrack as WILL be the baby's name!!!

GET TO IT!!!

Sorry for double-post:

I just thought I would make a list now of theories already debunked:

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* It has nothing to do with donkeys, mules, or any other equine species.

* It has nothing to do with splitting words or (as in one very ingenious attempt) actual letters in half.

* It has nothing to do with any single characters that happen to look like half-an-ass, nor anything to do with (as in another very ingenious attempt) taking a character that looks like an entire ass and then halving it.

* The hyphen in the clue is not a minus sign.

I'm guessing that as soon as the conversation stops the game re-detects the hotspot and starts the conversation all over again?

I think you need to deactivate the hotspot at the end of the conversation.

Of course other solutions include setting a bool variable like HasConvRun or whatever, setting the initial value to "false" and then to "true" after the conversation has finished. You also need to put a condition on the conversation starting only if HasConvRun is "false". You could also set the conversation to be done only once.

But I think turning off the hotspot is the simplest way.

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Is it a French "H"?  That's the laziest most half-assed letter ever: it never actually makes a sound!(wrong)

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Nope, and it's not the Japanese hiragana "Mu" (half a Mule) either

I'm pretty sure that this is one of those where you already know you're right as soon as you hit upon the answer. Hard for me to say for sure of course as I thought it up, but I think if I did not know the answer and then the answer came to me, that I would immediately know it was the right answer...I think...

Ok, how about this?

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G?  Half of an ass (donkey) is a key, and I've heard that G is a common key....

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Sorry but no