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aNONradio show | |
September 07th, 2018 | |
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Yesterday cat posted on Mastodon that someone should jump on | |
openVOIP and monologue. That sounded like a great idea and | |
I wasn't busy, so I decided I'd go for it. My first thought was | |
that I'd read some Virgil or maybe Bronte. I walked into my dining | |
room which has the main collection of our books and looked over my | |
shelves for something good. Boy Scout Handbook... Nimzowitsch... | |
Harry Potter in Latin... ahh, here we are: | |
ZORK #4: Conquest at Quendor | |
Is there a more perfect book for the SDF crew than a choose your | |
own adventure ZORK? I snapped a quick picture of the cover and | |
posted it to mastodon, then walked upstairs to my office. A note | |
on IRC or two and I was dialing in to the openVOIP line. At first | |
there was some sort of text adventure being played out with | |
Daniel's robot voice narrating it. That wrapped up and I got | |
started. | |
It was awkward, silly, and entirely too much fun. Instead of | |
picking the choices in the book myself I tossed them out to the | |
crowd to chime in. The engagement from people in com, mastodon, | |
and IRC made the experience for me. I was riding a high afterwards | |
and talked myself into doing it again. This time, though, I'll do | |
it right. | |
The anonradio mailing list folks agreed that the show was worthy | |
of a time slot, so now on Thursday nights/Friday mornings at 0100 | |
UTC, or 9PM EST, I'll be continuing our adventures. This first | |
"real" show I'll finish up the ZORK story so I don't leave | |
everyone hanging, and then we'll start a new adventure. I don't | |
know that I'll make a point of finishing the adventures or not. If | |
time runs out I may just start a new one the next week instead of | |
trying to pick up again. On the one hand, it's nice to have some | |
completion, but these are books designed to be tried again and | |
again. Also, the authors aren't getting paid for this beyond me | |
buying a book or two, so I like the idea of enticing people with | |
the show so that they might go out and pick up a copy if they | |
enjoy it. That makes the whole thing seem much more legit, right? | |
To support the new show I've added a new section to my gopher | |
hole. You can find it on the root gophermap and here: | |
Choose Your Own Adventure (anonradio) | |
For those who want to check it out, details about the first real | |
episode can be found here: | |
Episode 001 (2018-09-14) | |
Please join me next week for the first show! |