Special Announcement

[lonelysmiles]

Sender: Alastor
To: Everyone
Subject: Special Announcement

Hard to believe that at the end of this month, it will have been two years since this little dream world started pulling us all into it. Quite a marvel, isn't it? I certainly hadn't expected it to last this long!

Now I'd hoped to have a little surprise I'd had planned for Reverein finished by our two-year anniversary, but our rather rude guest a few months ago pushed back several plans!

Back in Hell, I was often-times referred to as "The Radio Demon" due to my powers over the radiowaves. I've been working with Miss Madhuri and her charming husband on perfecting a means of producing radios here in Reverein, but I ask you this: What fun is there in a radio with only one channel? None, that's what!

I've been working with some of the people at the Observatory to develop the technology for others to broadcast without having to rely solely on my powers, and we're ready to begin construction on a brand-new radio station specially designed for Reverein! One of the advantages to a world of magic and imagination: No need to make a radio tower look like hideous scaffolding! Absolutely delightful! Perhaps someday more towers will be built to connect us to Dragon Island or even places farther afield!

The project should be finished next month, so there's plenty of time to get your hands on a radio of your own to hear the inaugural broadcast!

Stay tuned!
~Alastor

Comments

[lonelysmiles]

I have no idea what "uguu" means nor do I have any desire for you to enlighten me.

I can see the general appeal of such an easy repository for information. My beloved radio did make it easier to get news out much quicker than newspapers, after all. However, I would prefer to use such a repository to narrow down where to find in-depth knowledge on a subject rather than trusting some random space that anyone can modify at any time. During my time, the wise man or woman would use the radio as a source to collect general information and then do research for themselves using more specialized sources if they felt so inclined.

After all, a glut of information can be just as bad if not worse than none to be found whatsoever. For example, one of my companions in Hell attempted to "better connect" with me by looking up New Orleans voodoo online and barely avoided offending several major loa by mixing and matching what she'd found on various conflicting pages.

[your_best_friend]

Oh, no, I'm not just talking about the places online with which anyone can edit. There's lots of things hidden behind random strings of characters. That's why ratted programs and social engineering exist!

Random question, but have you heard of someone named "Loremaster"?

[lonelysmiles]

I'm afraid you're venturing into territory I'm completely unfamiliar with. I know just enough about the internet and modern technology to know how to interact with it via radio waves if I had few other options.

[your_best_friend]

Ratted programs are like phishing websites in that they function almost completely similarly to normal programs except there's code in there to steal online-based credentials like a small file that tells a website you're logged in to that website, or perhaps even passwords that have been stored on your computer.

With phishing, it's just mimicing websites in order to fool you to input your password.

[lonelysmiles]

I appreciate you're trying to explain, but I really have no interest in the internet in whole or in part. I understand the broad strokes, but the specifics elude me. Nor am I all that interested in becoming more familiar with it.