The small town of Tasik is an idyllic, seaside place. You would know, you grew up there. It's normal, as towns go. Fresh air, clean streets, and a constant connection to the sea. But something had to change. Adventure had to be found. As the month of Avenvas approaches, so too does the Seaglass Gathering, a month long festival Tasik holds every year. But people start to go missing without a trace. The only lead the town has are strange footprints in the sand that lead to nowhere. You've been called home, adventurer. Can your skills solve this mystery? Or is it something too strong for even you?
This Saturday, May 9th, at 10 AM Central time, can you and your party unravel the story waiting to be told?
The small town of Tasik is an idyllic, seaside place. You would know, you grew up there. It's normal, as towns go. Fresh air, clean streets, and a constant connection to the sea. But something had to change. Adventure had to be found. As the month of Avenvas approaches, so too does the Seaglass Gathering, a month long festival Tasik holds every year. But people start to go missing without a trace. The only lead the town has are strange footprints in the sand that lead to nowhere. You've been called home, adventurer. Can your skills solve this mystery? Or is it something too strong for even you?
Join me as I lead you through a 3rd level one-shot set in Kirandur this Saturday morning at 10 AM central. You'll need a third level character and your imagination. I can help you with the former, but the latter is up to you.
A couple extra things:
This will be streamed, live, on AudioPub. This is a test to see if it will work, but overall it's an excuse to play D&D with all you lovely people!
We will be using Dungeons And Dragons 2024 rules for this game. If you don't have the books necessary for 2024 rules, I will provide them, or you can find them at 5e.tools
The party size will be limited to a max of 7 player characters, and I want at least 4 for this to go forward. To sign up, just... well, say you want to sign up. Where you do it is no matter, just make me aware of your interest. For players above 7, I will set up to five on a waitlist, so if people either don't show or can't make it, you may have a chance, but this is first come first served.
If you have any questions, please ask them here, but in the meantime, join the Discord we'll be playing on: https://discord.gg/yuEkb4BcM
Last night, I saw The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring in concert. I was recording on my phone, in a packed theatre auditorium, so quality isn't the best, and these are not my only recordings, but I wanted to share a few of my personal favorite moments. One of these is the scene when the Fellowship travels between the Argonath, the great sentinels of Numenor. The movie scene can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlLC1kCH1ps
Last night, I saw The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring in concert. I was recording on my phone, in a packed theatre auditorium, so quality isn't the best, and these are not my only recordings, but I wanted to share a few of my personal favorite moments. One of these is The Council Of Elrond. In this scene, Arwen and Aragorn stand on a bridge over a small stream, quietly speaking in Elvish. That piece can be heard in it's original recorded form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6LfRXAuRD0
Last night, I saw The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring in concert. I was recording on my phone, in a packed theatre auditorium, so quality isn't the best, and these are not my only recordings, but I wanted to share a few of my personal favorite moments. One of these is The Fall Of Gandalf. That piece can be heard in it's original recorded form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXJQfR0oOw
The weird panning comes from the video itself, sorry about that. And yes... I will post something not ripped from YouTube soon enough, I just saw this one and thought people here might get a kick out of it.
Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jyduNCnFOs
And here we are again, my friends, with me rambling on about a movie, and kind of the book. The movie, and kind of the book, in question is The Long Walk. It releases in theatres officially tomorrow, but I went to a Thursday night showing. How was it? Find out in my rambly, no notes review for this movie. I did some things wrong here, but I'm always looking to improve, so each one will hopefully be better than the last. Thanks yall.
I was thinking today about things I've done in the past. No, this is not one of my long, introspective depressing posts. That comes after a few drinks and too much time to think. (Yes, I have a problem, yes I am working on it, no it is not debilitating.)
Anyways! I thought about the many blogs I tried to start a while back. Usually, they petered out due to one reason or another, chief among them being that I cannot stay consistent with them. But, Sir Howard Your Greatness, you may be saying, this is an audio sharing platform, why are you talking about blogs? Because, my friends, I was wondering how many of you would be interested in listening to me ramble on about my thoughts about movies?
I think my main issue with writing movie reviews is, there are things I miss out on or can't propperly convey because I want to keep the tone consistent or concise. When I just sit down to talk about the movie, I can really get into things, or not, I've never done this. I was wondering if you guys would find that interesting. I plan to review new releases, but every now and again I might just pop up with a classic favorite of mine.
For now, have a logo I made for a podcast I was supposed to make for The Media Wolf. You know, one of my blogs that actually went pretty strong until I burned out from posting 3 articles weekly. Enjoy, and let me know your thoughts on my proposal. Thanks everybody!
So, today, I was trying to put a couple of sounds together for something. Then I got distracted. This came out. This is a brief kind of introduction for an evil veil knight. Note: I made this in Goldwave and have no ear for the science of sound design. This is just a little fun project that took me an hour or so, and given the time of year we're in, have it for some early Halloween goodness. I'll write a description of the scene below as I picture it.
We begin in a forest clearing, somewhere that can be left to the imagination. Something feels wrong. Though it is summer, there is a bone deep chill in the air. Though there is sunlight, it is muted, filtered through the threads of a thousand souls that you can see from your hiding place in the rapidly rotting trees. As you stand, frozen, a cloud of crows rushes your way, and behind them, shuffling into view, is a figure in tattered old plate, with scratched out symbols you can't be sure of, though you think you perhaps see the symbol of Kuloran. Or some other great city, you're unsure. The figure stands, frozen, and then, shrugs the rusted chain flail it keeps on it's shoulder into it's hand, and strikes at a figure you hadn't known was there. There is no scream. Only blood. The figure stumbles away into the trees. Its hunt has begun.
I always loved the film score work of Thomas Newman. He did the score for Finding Nemo, but the score I'm highlighting today is from The Shawshank Redemption, one of my personal favorites. There is music that plays in this movie, which you'll see here, that reminds me of walking through farmland in the fall, which is ironic, given this plays in May, and one of the tracks used is called May. But there's something about it that I love. So, I combined the two tracks you'll hear in a moment, layered a nice nature ambience over it, and, while it may not sound technically perfect, I love how it turned out, and I thought I'd share it with all of you. So please enjoy this slapdash mix I made in Goldwave.
Original track links from YouTube:
May by Thomas Newman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kywocpqtIP4
Workfield by Thomas Newman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cve1zIW3OSU
Hello everyone. I recorded this message without much thought put into it, without a script, without bullet points or an agenda. I just followed a thread I had. The thread gets tangled. My thoughts get jumbled. I open up new threads that have no actual ending. But I try to have at least one through line, and I will share it here: Lift people up. Think about other people as people. And say you're sorry sometimes. (I didn't say that bit in the audio, I directed my apologies at others.)
Thank you all for listening. I might have some embarrassment over this later, but I ultimately think it's the best thing I could've done, because a message like this written perfectly is effective but less real than I was trying to get across. Thank you again, and may the dogs go with you.
An unedited take of me reading an exerpt from my next short story. I fumble some words, sorry about that. I'm liking my narration more and more though I know I won't be able to do character voices.
Welcome! This is a tour of my collection of statues and collectibles. I've for sure missed some, and this isn't even everything. I just don't have space for it all. Enjoy!
I forgot to add in my starting monologue here that I know I do a lot of songs by Charley Pride. He's just... IDK man he's good. Enjoy this and if you have ideas for stuff you'd wanna hear, I probably won't do it because scared but you can suggest them. Thanks yall.