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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 213--8/25/98 <------- || OsoaWeek || Issues || Book 17 || -------> (Cup OWis213, Created v1 (4/27/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ------------------- PRE-PRE-SPECIAL NOTICE ----------- Well, none of you got on my mailing list since last week. This is the last OsoaWeek I'll be sending to you. If you want to keep getting OsoaWeek, you're gonna hafta get on my mailing list. All your Fonostas are still in limbo. Until you get on the mailing list, I can't make your Fonostas official. So, if you've decided that you definitely don't want to be on the Obliviana Mailing List for some reason, please let me know, and I'll cancel your Fonosta. If you DO want to get on the mailing list, please let me know this as well--and I'll help you get onto the list. You will most likely be receiving a new verification notice from ListBot soon. Remember, all you have to do is respond. You can also follow the directions below to get onto the mailing list. If I don't hear from you at all, I will have to cancel your Fonosta. Remember, if your Fonosta is cancelled, you can always establish a new one in the future, but your number will be lost, and someone else may have taken your name. So, I gotta have a deadline. I figure a month should be good. So, please respond one way or another by September 25, 1998. If I don't hear from you, your Fonosta will be cancelled on that date. I know Obliviana still kinda sucks, but I'm working on it every day, and it's gonna keep getting better and better! ------------------- PRE-SPECIAL NOTICE ----------- YOW! You still haven't gotten on ListBot! I gotta tellya, Xappenshard Craze begins today, and until you get on the Obliviana Mailing List, you won't be a part of it! So please, please, please, please, please join the mailing list! Just follow the instructions below. There are only seven of you left, and I want to get all of you joined up! If you're having problems trying to sign up for ListBot, please don't hesitate to E-mail me at "obliviana@aol.com". You know, I check ListBot just about every day, and it makes me very happy to see that another person has joined my Mailing List. I could just say the hell with all of ya, but I am the Lord of Obliviana and I love all Fonostas! ------------------- SPECIAL NOTICE ----------- This is the third issue of OsoaWeek to be E-mailed via the Obliviana Mailing List via ListBot. If you have received this special notice, it means that you are NOT yet on the Obliviana Mailing List. (I am mailing OsoaWeek with this special notice separately.) Do not fear, however, for I have a very simple way for you to get onto the mailing list. Just head on over to: http://www.obliviana.com/new/eyf5.html On this page (which is the final page of the Fonosta Establishment pages), you will find a button that says "Join Our Mailing List". Click on this button. The button will take you to the ListBot signup area. Most likely, it will say something like "Account Locked". This is because ListBot has already tried to verify your signup, but for whatever reason, you never responded to the verification message. All you have to do is click the "Send Verification Message" link that you will see on the page, and ListBot will send you a brand new verification message. All you have to do is respond to this message--it doesn't matter what message you send. You can just type "okay", or anything else. (The message will have the subject line "You have been asked to join Obliviana Mailing List". Make sure not to throw it out with a bunch of junk E-mail!) This whole annoying process is something you only have to do once. ListBot is a service that is totally legitimate--and totally free. Since I have to do everything in Obliviana myself, a service like ListBot makes my life a whole lot easier. So go ahead and sign up! It'll take you five minutes! Maybe less! And it will make me very very happy! I won't have to send out this "special (and very annoying) edition" of OsoaWeek ever again when everybody is on ListBot! Thanks. Now, enjoy the very latest issue of OsoaWeek!!!!! ------------------- OSOAWEEK Ezine of Obliviana Issue 213, 8/25/98 by Frank Edward Nora ----------- ------------------- LORD OF OBLIVIANA ----------- Last week I was quite exhilarated at having finished the initial implementation of Xappenshard Craze. But that exhilaration quickly faded when reality set in and I realized that it would take several months for Xappenshard Craze to heat up. I know Xappenshard Craze is a great idea, but it's going to take time to get people into it. This slow start for Xappenshard Craze has pushed me to yet again seek the creation of a new aspect of Obliviana which will help the whole thing get going. And I have indeed come up with a new idea--code named "Surface O"--look for it to debut in a week or two! In other exciting news, I'm going to start a letters section on the website! So, if you have any questions, comments, or thoughts on anything in Obliviana, go ahead and E-mail 'em to me at "obliviana@aol.com". It would be really great if you could read a few issues of "Duffy the Soapsud" (see link on homepage) and E-mail your responses to the content therein! See ya on the Xappenshard Craze Message Board... ------------------- GAME NEWS ----------- XAPPENSHARD CRAZE DAILY WINNERS [1] 8/18/98--EveningJane (Fonosta 20) [2] 8/19/98--DeepNotice (Fonosta 2) [3] 8/20/98--EveningJane (Fonosta 20) [4] 8/21/98--CrazyAvenger (Fonosta 4) [5] 8/22/98--CygnetThistle (Fonosta 22) [6] 8/23/98--CrazyAvenger (Fonosta 4) [7] 8/24/98--DeepNotice (Fonosta 2) It's very strange that three Fonostas each won twice in the first seven Daily Winners! I choose the Daily Winner randomly from a deck of cards, with each Fonosta's name written on one card. Oh well, congratulations to the winners! NO NEW FONOSTAS There were no new Fonostas established this week. I'm not too worried though. Obliviana is just getting started, after all. XAPPEN SOLVED Xappen 4 was solved by DeepNotice on 8/23/98. The answer is "Gibson". Xappen 5 remains unsolved. ------------------- NEW THIS WEEK ----------- [1] DUFFY THE SOAPSUD--A brand new issue. Do check it out! [2] STORM PELTERS--Presented in a new format. [3] FONOSTA UPGRADES--Check out Shack Bluff, and look at Fonostas 1 and 2. Your Fonosta listing can look like this too if you win a Fonosta Upgrade! (Note: The first upgrade will get you the typesetting. The next upgrade will get you color! And who knows what the third will bring!!!) ------------------- LUCKY STORM ----------- Lucky Storm 213: 170 (Flip 5, Dire 18, Storm Pelter "SnowHunt", Inhusto Segment 36) Previously: 209: 27 210: 126 211: 20 212: 140 Note: The Lucky Storm is drawn randomly, using a deck of 30 cards (called a "Storm Codex"), one for each Flip and Dire. Comment: Four even Storms in a row! Very strange, considering that odd Storms have a slight mathematical advantage. ------------------- SONGS OF THE WEEK ----------- Foo Fighters, "Floaty" (Album: "Foo Fighters") Beatles, "If I Fell" (Goran Sollscher, Guitar) (Album: "Here, There, and Everywhere: Goran Sollscher Plays The Beatles") ------------------- CARNE'S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND Episode Four ----------- CARNE: This is the strip mall you saw my Moisture Detection Friend at, isn't it? PACER: Yup. What was it, a few weeks ago? A month ago? I was going to buy that stupid action figure. And I wound up in the rafters of the Toy'R'Us, swinging around like a monkey, till I finally lashed myself to a beam and fell asleep. I slept all that night, the next day, and into the day after that. I don't think anyone saw me the day I slept, but the next day, I woke up screaming from some yellow and aquamarine nightmare, and the management team was all pissed-off that I was lashed up there. It was a real mess. CARNE: Uh-huh. You know, there's something peaceful about sitting at the spot where sidewalk meets parking lot. Very humble, very cool, very Zen. Maybe I'll create a computer game centered around the act of sitting in a place like this. PACER: Yeah? Cool. Um... What I just said? It's true. I know it sounds like a lie, but it's totally true. Just go to Toys'R'Us and ask them. I have to go to court in a week-and-a-half cuzza the whole thing. CARNE: I know you well enough to believe you. But how did did you get into such a hairy, zany predicament? And why didn't you tell me sooner? PACER: Ah, it was that damn health food store, the new one that just opened up on the strip? They have all these natural, legal drugs there that you can take. Damn expensive, by the way. Anyway, I took way too many of these drugs--they call them "herbs", but what's the difference, right?--so I took all this shit, and I went bonkers. I thought I was a monkey. I really did! Or an ape. Or a mandrill. Or something like that, I don't know. CARNE: How did you lash yourself? PACER: Um... I raided the back-to-school department. Backpacks? You know how they have those plastic clip-lock kind of thingies? I grabbed a whole bunch and connected them all together. It worked remarkably well. CARNE: And for an entire day, as you slept, no one noticed you? PACER: Oh, I'm sure people noticed me. But people are sheep. They don't want to get involved. People suck. CARNE: Yeah, they're pretty bad. So anyway, why have you been keeping this a secret from me? PACER: Um... I know this is gonna sound lame, but I didn't really remember the whole thing at first. And I wanted to have the full story before I told you. That's it, man. CARNE: Look at those birds over there. And the sub-sandwich wrapper. And the weeds. It all means something. I tellya, it all means something. ------------------- XAPPENSHARD ----------- Here are the Xappenshards for this week! Look for the other half on the Xappenshard Craze Message Board! =XASH 6.1.2! "n to p"= =XASH 6.2.2! "-- fox"= =XASH 6.3.2! "-- of the gods (bisaroam)"= =XASH 6.4.2! "Twin Peaks' Hawk, Michael --"= =XASH 6.5!.2! "hvo qbsu"= ------------------- 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. The Obliviana Mailing List currently has 15 members. 7 other folks have established their Fonostas, but haven't managed to get on ListBot yet. They'll each get this issue, along with a plea to get on the mailing list! No change since last week! ------------------- END ----------- -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- ----- |