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|| -------- -- ----- A E R I E O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- OSOAWEEK--ISSUE 210--8/4/98 <------- || OsoaWeek || Issues || Book 17 || -------> (Cup OWis210, Created v1 (4/27/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ------------------- OSOAWEEK Ezine of Obliviana Issue 210, 8/4/98 by Frank Edward Nora ----------- ------------------- LORD OF OBLIVIANA ----------- Well, here we are, already at the second week of Obliviana! Well, actually, it's the 210th week, but the second week of Obliviana being a real game! If you read the "Play Obliviana" page, you might not think that Obliviana is something that you can play, because there's not a whole lot to do. Well, don't worry. I'm hard at work, endeavoring to make all my plans into reality. Every week this Trick Sojourn, there will be something new to do. What is Trick Sojourn, you ask? I will tell you! A Trick Sojourn is a period of 13 weeks. There are four Trick Sojourns per year, but each set of four consecutive Trick Sojourns will span two calendar years. See, the first Trick Sojourn began on July 28, 1994--the 209th day of the year, Obliviana Day. So, these are the dates on which new Trick Sojourns start: July 28, October 27, January 26, and April 27. Leap years screw these dates up a little bit, but you get the general idea. So, what's new this week? Read on! ------------------- GAME NEWS ----------- New this week! [1] Obliviana School--Head on over to the coolest place of learning ever, and find out everything you ever wanted to know about Obliviana, and whole lot that you didn't even know that you wanted to know! Right now, there are only two lessons available, but I'm adding more all the time. Heck, by the time you read this, there might even be more! [2] Duffy the Soapsud--This is a feature that I'm really excited about. I like to call Obliviana a "Game and Entertainment System", and "Duffy the Soapsud" is the place where the entertainment side of Obliviana really starts to kick in! Each week, Duffy the Soapsud features a selection of my writing culled from the dark depths of the Obliviana website and beyond. Features include the sci-fi epic "Severe Repair", the adventures of the lovable, ne'er-do-well comic strip character "Zope", and the poetry-like, dark musings of "Superior". And hey! There are two issues online right now! Go check 'em out! [3] Shack Bluff--This town is now open, with actual Fonosta Listings! What, don't see yours listed? Read on, you'll find out why... [4] Conifer Town--Well, this new town in Obliviana is not quite open yet, but all of its 30 Fonosta Names are now listed in the "Establish Your Fonosta" section. Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Heck, tell people you don't care about one way or the other! IMPORTANT! In order to verify Fonosta Establishments, as well as to make this mailing list easier for me to administer, I am using a service called ListBot. You should have received a verification message from ListBot very recently. You have to respond to that message in order to be added to the mailing list, and in order for your Fonosta to be official. If you haven't responded yet, go ahead and do it now. When you respond you can type anything you want in the body of the message--it doesn't matter. Just hit "respond", type "ok" (or whatever) in the body of the message, and hit "send". That's it! This is the last OsoaWeek I'm mailing in this way--starting next issue, OsoaWeek will be sent to the ListBot list only. ListBot is a totally free service. It just makes my life a little bit easier. And, once you reply to the ListBot message, I'll be able to put your Fonosta listing up! Yeah! Okay! ------------------- LUCKY STORM ----------- I'll be telling you a lot more about Lucky Storm in the next few weeks. For now, I'll list the Lucky Storm for this week, as well as the one from last week: Lucky Storm 209: 27 (Flip 5, Dire 8, Storm Pelter "Classictronica", Arctahojast Segment 15) Lucky Storm 210: 126 (Flip 5, Dire 12, Storm Pelter "ParamusPark", Moodbruc Segment 3) Note: The Lucky Storm is drawn randomly, using a deck of 30 cards (called a "Storm Codex"), one for each Flip and Dire. ------------------- SONGS OF THE WEEK ----------- LAST WEEK: Ramones, "Judy is a Punk" (Album: "All the Stuff and More, Vol. 1") Tori Amos, "Baltimore" (from an MP3 site somewhere) THIS WEEK: Roni Size/Reprazent, "Brown Paper Bag (Full Vocal Mix)" (Album: "MTV Amp 2") Monkees, "Admiral Mike" (Album: "Justus") ------------------- CARNE'S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND Episode Two An OsoaWeek Exclusive Feature ----------- CARNE: You know Pacer, I think my Moisture Detection Friend likes your sister. PACER: Yeah, well, I don't know what to say to that. CARNE: Yeah, I don't know. Hey, how much further before we get to the abandoned ski resort with all the arcade video games locked in the basement? PACER: As soon as we turn this corner, you'll see it... yup, there it is! CARNE: And there are video games in the basement? PACER: Yeah, I told ya, I saw 'em myself! I looked in through the window. CARNE: Well, it's such a shitty day out, hopefully no one else will be around. Gray and cold and wet. I guess we need days like this in order to appreciate the truly nice days. PACER: Huh? Sorry, I wasn't listening. So look, I got the bolt cutter in the trunk, we'll break in, see if there's anything worth taking, and if there is, we'll go into town a rent a U-Haul. CARNE: Maybe we should just try and locate the owner and do it the legal way. I'm sure we could get all the games real cheap. PACER: Um, but we can get them for free this way. CARNE: If I was storing valuable games in an remote, insecure location, I might protect them with an airborne virus trap. But that's just me. ------------------- XAPPENSHARD An OsoaWeek Exclusive Feature ----------- Check out the Xappenshard page online, at... http://www.obliviana.com/new/xs.html ...and this will make sense! = XASH 1.1.2! -- awfully early = = XASH 1.2.2! my -- tis of thee = = XASH 1.3.2! subtract one = = XASH 1.4.2! elma = = XASH 1.5!.2! number of letters in alphabet = = XASH 2.1.2! bremme = = XASH 2.2.2! Denver/Burns film = = XASH 2.3.2! spin me around, take away my identity = = XASH 2.4.2! cowardly or ant = = XASH 2.5!.2! AL city = (Note: The "--" symbol represents "blank". So, for example, "-- Vegas" would imply "Las" as the answer.) ------------------- INFORMATION ----------- Obliviana is at "www.obliviana.com" Send all E-mail to "obliviana@aol.com" OsoaWeek is copyright 1998 Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana. It may be copied for personal use only. No part of OsoaWeek may be published, either digitally or physically, without permission. ------------------- END ----------- -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- ----- |