|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- A ROAD MAP OF ARCTICA--CUP 9--"HULL TV" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  A Road Map of Arctica  ||  -------> (Cup SRrm009, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Daptin here. I've been in the real world for a few months now. The days pass by, and I am beset by the little annoyances of being normal. Like the PATH train I take into Manhattan. I really hate those trains. Sometimes I walk over to Hoboken and take the ferry to the World Financial Center, then the 1-Train up to Hull New Media. I have taken the PATH from Pavonia/Newport where I live to Hoboken, and then taken the ferry, but that takes a long time and in the time it takes to go to Hoboken I could have gotten to World Trade, or to work if I feel like walking or taking another subway. So you can see what I'm up against. Craving a normal life, I am now cursing its downfalls. But the thought of returning to my Warhome and continuing on with my adventure to save the universe is just too much to bear right now... I think I need a few more years of being real before I can even think about going back to that. I wonder about my memory. I created this current circumstance for myself and plugged myself into it. But I still remember perfectly what came before. So I have this dual set of memories--one the true memory, and one the fabricated memory of this made-up persona I am now playing at. I have considered trying to erase the memories of my real life, but I am still concerned over what happens in my Land, and I don't want to get stuck here forever slumming in normality. And how do I end this scenario anyway? I mean, I'm human now, and I don't have any special powers. I haven't tried my hardest to get out of here, cuz I don't want to risk losing the "charm" that's keeping me here. But without trying, I have to wonder whether or not I've locked myself in a cage and thrown away the key. And since I've been getting more and more annoyed with this way of life, I've grown ever more concerned as to the "out". But I got my answer. It was last week, and Comma called a meeting and told us about his new idea, of how the cyber-realm of Hull had to be supported by television. He said that online services were still viewed as a second-class medium, and that to really make a big splash on the mass mind, you have to do television. So he described his idea for "Hull TV". I paraphrase: "Hull TV has to be thought of as a cable channel, even though it probably never will be--it'll be delivered over the Internet. But we're talking a single-signal, 24-hour thing here. With commercials, but not the normal sort of commercials. The main idea is that there are not shows... or rather, just one show. Basically we're talking a soap opera, maybe a cross between 90210 and Dark Shadows--just to give you a general idea. We'll have a cast of the usual shockingly attractive and perky young folks, and it'll have these really cool storylines and stuff, could be real freeform at times. But then, and here's the twist, we feature the reality of the production of the show, I mean, it'll be like the MTV Real World, except that we're focusing on the production of the soap opera and the lives of the actors and other people involved in it... maybe even what's going on here and in the Hull cyber-realm... maybe the soap will even involve the cyber-realm. I don't know, I'm still working it out. But anyway, we'll have features of what it's like making the show, with the real people and everything, and the show itself, but there's a lot more than that. For one thing, there will be commercials, but these will be produced using the same actors that are in the show and the Real World part, either straight on-air ads like Howard Stern used to do on Channel 9, or produced stuff like a guy and a girl flirting with this instant coffee as a real big thing in their lives. (((We all laughed at that line--Daptin))). So that will be one thing, but it will also be like MTV in that the actors will also be like veejays, and will "host" the channel, announcing and showing various clips, and in a 24-hour broadcast day there will be a new episode, maybe an hour's worth, which will be shown several times, and then there will be selected clips from that show shown more times, and then classic clips from past shows, and also recaps of storylines and everything else. I want to make it so that you can tune in anytime and not feel lost--so that you're encouraged to tune in as much as you can, but not feel that because you're not tuning in enough you're missing something--the idea is that everything important that happens in the story--and in the Real World part too--will always be rebroadcast and stuff. This, my friends, will be the vital ingredient that has been missing--along with the Hull cyber-realm and your Hullself, there will be this TV channel always going, and the one will compliment the other, and I think we can make some pretty mean celebrities out of this experiment." Well, you see what I mean. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----