“Well, not really, because Mr. Jules was very, truly, and undeniably LATE , and their squabble could only last a few minutes.”
The CCN Staff met again this weekend to discuss further plans for the re-opening of the cavern. Now that it felt more “real”, the teams could get back to preparations for a re-entry into their offices in the CCN Hood. Tyion reported that construction continued and that he was, as ever, doing what he could do on the surface.
Our second meeting yielded some creative and seriously nonsensical ideas for a line of audio caverncasts. These would lead in to a full-sized CavernCast vidcast to be released sometime closer to the opening of the cavern. Ghaelen and Veralun offered to dig through existing video clips they had filmed while the cavern was still open. There are yards and yards of it; reels and reels in cans just collecting dust and wasting away, fearing they will never see the light in an explorers eye when viewed, never to become known in…
But we began to digress…..
Tyion jarred us back to the present as he shouted “I’ve got it!” and began typing furiously. What he’d gotten we never did find out, but he muttered something about “skit” and “Jules” and “water” and then “burn” all in quick succession, so we rather felt it was better left alone. Veralun and Ghaelen speculated that his outburst of excitement had to do with a sudden renewed burst of creativity that these meetings often produced. (Or it might have something to do with the dusty basement Veralun had spent so much time in lately. Ty and Mr. Jules had found him there, working like a madman, and it was only the promise of this meeting that had brought him out into daylight.) However, they did not wish to speak to him in his current state (for fear of unleashing a torrent of shouting that was the result of months of pent-up ideas) so they went on to talk about the website, which was beginning to take shape.
This fantabulous website application will allow all the CCN teams to send out their audio and video programming onto the ITunes and other feeds with a spiffy new plug-in. Ghaelen was becoming quite an expert in the “not having to write all the code” department, and felt a new-found sense of confidence in her web-siting skills. She was so confident, in fact, she nearly broke out into song. Fortunately, Veralun asked her a rather pertinent question at just that moment, and she forgot whatever melodic words had previously come to mind. They went on, then, to discuss the CavernCast section of the website, and Ghaelen said that yes, she was in the process of adding all of them to the site. The MiniCasts and old Shortwaves would be there too.
At this point Tyion shouted again. “Done!” What he had finished wasn’t clear, but we were certain it was something significant. It would also be something an audience could, at some point, enjoy. And they all agreed that since CCN had found a bit of funding and was able to afford a new, improved, zippy, fresh, sparkling, chrome-covered RSS feed and vidcast wiring, they all felt it was quite alright to say outloud that they could use the one site now instead of three to publish whatever the Done thing would be.
So they shouted in unison “One site instead of three!” and everyone breathed at last. Yes, it is true. Ghaelen had not actually taken a breath for 18 months together. Not only had she been sad, but she had also been, quite literally, blue.
What a revelatory moment.
No new updates on the location of any other Cavern Players. We hope to find them soon, and truly hope they are not trapped down their in the Cavern all this time. Ghaelen said that her Aunt Dolly was definitely back in the White Mountains, as her aunt had called her last week suggesting she stop trying to be so grammatically correct in her posts and simply “tell it like it is.” Ghaelen agreed to stop trying and went on in her usual way. Dolly went back to dusting the boulders near her home — quite satisfied she had eased Ghaelen’s mind.
Mr. Jules finally arrived, so late it wasn’t even properly fashionable. Tyion will assuredly not allow him to forget that. He was so amazingly frazzled he didn’t even have the words to present the staff a reasonable and clear report on Recent Complaints and Apologies. Truth be told, he didn’t even have the report. He muttered something about Ruby, then Madge, then Rita, then ran straight out of names and resorted to arguing with Tyion about a completely unrelated subject. We think it was squees and their usefulness in newsmaking.
Well, they aren’t. Useful, that is.
Fortunately for the entire staff, the Guild of Messengers’ Meeting was about to begin, so they all marched straightaway over to the rel.to/gome meeting room. The rapidly paced and relatively painless meeting agenda was peppered with humor from all corners of the Messengers’ D’niVerse. A great deal was accomplished, particularly in regard to the new GOMe Newspaper. It seemed that everyone involved was intent on moving along, or perhaps it was that Marten smiled gently at the lot of us and kept the meeting moving along. (Or it could have been the whip) That meeting log can be found in its serious and not-so-serious entirety at the Guild of Messengers Forum.
All in all, it was another productive and completely humor-ridden CCN meeting day. It would have to be to attend two of the darned things.
We continue to await reports from Mr. Jules and Ruby O’Degee. Rumor has it she has somehow avenged the loss of her office by confusing him completely with oxymoronic satire, but he would not comment.
For MORE information on CCN projects, please visit the CCN Forum (Or, perhaps it is better that you do not, for your peace of mind will most assuredly be affected. Or a piece of your mind will leave you. We aren’t sure which.)
