---------------------------------------- aNONradio show September 07th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- 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: (DIR) Choose Your Own Adventure (anonradio) For those who want to check it out, details about the first real episode can be found here: (TXT) Episode 001 (2018-09-14) Please join me next week for the first show!