Hear Ye, Hear Ye,

Strangely somehow Lord Baldrith is on vacation on September 5th. We are a bit confused as to how this as valid as no one in the New Britannia Theater Troupe seems to have signed his vacation request, yet he says he is on vaction. Their will be an internal investigation on this to figure out who gave him this authorization!

However the show SHALL go on! Asclepius had offered to do the show on his own but really now! When I think of many talk shows when a regular cast member is missing, they susuallly choose a “friend of the show” to fill in for the missing participant.

So it is with great pleasure I announce that for that weeks show Lord Jouten shall be filling in for Lord Baldrith!

Indeed!

*Crack goes its wippy tail!*

Lord Baldrith and Asclepius cracked the wip at me and said “Hey Stile, get off your arse and start having some of the community send us some news!!” So please help me out so they don’t beat me to badly! If you have news articles you see in the forums, on the net, that you are involved in, about yourself, your guild, advertisements, or anything else Shroud of the Avatar related drop us a note!

You can use one of these contact forms, although ideally send it to myself (Stile), and ill forward onto them – as that way I can also do it as a text post at the Caverns for you.

Contact | Caverns, Dungeons, and Beyond.

Contact Baldrith | Echoes from the Cavern.

Contact Asclepius | Echoes from the Cavern.

I Figured id put together a couple of topics together on this post though. I’m always looking for “reporters” for the Caverns, Dungeons, and Beyond also. Someone to help do news pieces. I empower the people I work with, I do not direct or dictate. Ask Lord Baldrith, Sir Iscyle, Gabriel Nightshadow, Timelord, Amber Raine, Asclepius, or any of the many other people I have or do work with! I do not take credit for your work and in fact I will help try to get you recognition for it! I am very easy to work with – its a hobby, its for a game, its supposed to be fun!

You can do news on:

• Specific topic(s) that you follow or that are important to you
• On things from certain places or locations (MMO web sites? The forums? etc..)
• On nothing particular just what you fill like when you feel like it.
• You can do one post a year or 20 a day.
• I can forward you stuff right to your email so you don’t even have to look for news!

If you have:

• WordPress experience that is great!
• If you do not its not hard, and ill help teach you as you need and want (I even have some instructional videos..)

If you want:

• Ill help make some custom graphics for you
• Ill give you an Ankh quill of your own color
• A Caverns.net email address if you want one (not required)
• A contact page on the site(s)

What I ask is:

• Try to be casual – don’t worry about being mr. stuck up professional
• Be yourself, have fun with it
• Put your life first
• Stay away from politics
• When criticizing something by adding opinions always be do it constructively
• Don’t do anything illegal or in violation of Portalariums TOS
• Don berate other people and treat them how you want to be treated
• Don’t public Founder, Dev+, or things told to you in confidence that are not public
• Disagree with Portalrium or someone else relevant to your topic but do it politely and don’t start a war
• Use common sense
• That you ask me for anything you need so I can try to help it, because otherwise ill leave you alone
• You let me thank you often
• That I can communicate with you be email – It is more powerful in that its not limited to any one platform

So I started putting the Echoes of the Caverns podcasts on Soundcloud recently. This is in addition to it going on Itunes, played on Avatars radio, Tumblr, your own faviorite podcast program, direct from the website, or download them!

So now that Soundcloud has been going for a few weeks – IS that an important platform to you? As here’s the deal: Soundcloud was a testing platform. As its only free for a tiny bit of space! So just getting a feel for how people feel about if they want to use it.

At this time what Ill be doing is deleting the older casts to make room for the new ones. If its a popular platform im going to run a fundraiser to fund it. It could be funded a month at a time at 15.00 a month or 135.00 a year. Don’t really want to put the fund raiser / financial tracking in place for it though unless people are using it! You can use it without needing to donate though.. Just want to know there is a need and if there is ill do a fundraiser. So if thats of value to you, leave a comment, drop me a note, etc. If i hear from a couple people they like that option ill set up a funding bar.

Thanks!

Have you listened to the howling’ly awesome news podcasts from Lord Baldrith and Asclepius?? WHY NOT?? These guys are amazing. Fantastic voices, great personalities, and they deliver the news to you by audio in a way that’s fun and entertaining!

The show has started adding Guest stars and planned for this Friday is a twofer! David Peters and Sir Frank! Now there is some contention as to whether this is a PvP intervention.. or an attempt to start some PvP *winks* so you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out!

The News cast is usually published by midnight Eastern Time (Give or take an hour or two in either direction based on various factors).

I’m truly honored to work with both these guys as they do an amazing job! So listen into them and their guests this week. They will cover the news AND follow that up with some interview questions!

Visit

Echoes from the Cavern.

To listen to it or get all your options. It can be downloaded, played online, grabbed from Itunes (Echoes from the Caverns on Itunes), obtained using any podcasting software, Soundcloud, Tumblr, AND Its played on Avatar’s Radio as well!

P.S. – Stay tuned for future guests! I am already in talks with several fantastic people to be on the show and will be marking the calendar as dates and visitor’s are confirmed:

Calendar | Echoes from the Cavern.

More importantly if you are interested in being on the show drop me a note! This is a community project for the community. You don’t have to be a community leader, dev, or high pledge or meet any other criteria to be on the show. What you have to be is… interested and willing, and that’s all! We want to hear the voices of the community and every voice is important! You might have to wait for an open date and they may be booking up fast), but beyond that were willing to work with anyone willing to be a constructive and mature “caller” on this Podcast show!

Have ideas or suggestions? Ill take those to!

A new feature on the Lord Baldrith and Asclepius weekly news show will be the addition of guests! Not every who may have a guest but we are gong to try to make that happen.

Are you interested in being a guest? Then I want to hear from you!

We hope that guests will of course sometimes be promimant. Community leaders, Dev’s, cool people from other web sites, and other cool stuff!

However this is a community show and we do not want to limmit our guests to just big name people. We also want community members on it!!

What to expect? The format is to basically allow the guest on the show to comment on the different pieces of news the team discusses. A guest if they wanted could bring a couple pieces of their own news. Finally at the end of the show a short interview will occur!

This is done by Skype (audio only) and lasts roughly an hour. A prominent guest (or long winded such as myself) that they team may have a lot of questions for could lead to a longer recording session if the guest would allow.

As we schedule guests we will be adding them to the site’s event calendar so you can see what guests will be on what week! We are willing to schedule out in advance if their is demand (keeping in mind we may need to make schedule changes based on needs. Sometimes we may need to bump someone to bring someone on that has a limited schedule, or a new memebr may not be able to be around, etc).

I appeared on the last show as a guest – NOT to just be a guest *winks*. My apperance was to test the format, give the news team a chance to try out the technical side of things, and to have a recording to use as an example. You can take a listen to this piece to see how the format is taking place:

I will be contacting people to request guest spots but beyond that if you are interested in being on the show – we are probally interested in having you! Please hit the contact form and we can go from there!

Thank you listeners!