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Planning to leave a town like Greenly is one thing, but making it happen isnât going to be that simple.
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(New art courtesy of Aaron Sailors)
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Voiced by Allie from Swingercast and Aaron Sailors.
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A couple teasers for Season Two coming August 1st.
Len's awesome YouTube vid of him creating the art for Season Two.
Ok so bad news good news. Alot to read here, bullet point is obviously no shows yet, new firm date for show starting is August 1st.
Bad News: New shows will not start till August 1st. I can't keep teasing you guys with deadlines I can't meet and it makes me feel like the worlds largest bag of douche to do so. We've got one recorded and another couple out of sequence written, but I've got nine days where I'll be out of the country coming up in July, so if I put it out there there's going to be a lot of time in between and that would suck.
Good News: To help meet my deadlines, we've added a new person to the crew. A few of you may have met Daphne Abernathy in Second Life, and she's the host of Going Broke With Daphne Abernathy and Daphne's Random Thoughts, along with a lot more stuff. She is also the hardest working woman in podcasting, and she's going to join as assistant sound engineer to help me cut down the "Main Voice Track."
To geek out for a bit, the MVT is the hardest part of the process, it's taking a 2-3 hour recording session and cutting it into two episodes and two blooper reels, and it eats about seven hours of editing time. It's not exactly difficult, but it pulls my focus away from writing and producing, and mixing sound. I brought Daphne on for a couple reasons.
Her work ethic is second to none, shes in love with the show, and we're good enough friends she can call me an asshole for not getting shows out without me being able to get upset. She's going to be half assistant and half fire under my ass.
Also, While I will be gone for nine days this month, they'll only be vacation in terms of my money job. I plan to use the freetime to write and edit the rest of season two and hopefully part of season three, to give me more time to work on editing in between shows.
Finally, we really want to thank all of you for your patience, and for how much you dig the show. I personally (Will) want to apoligize AGAIN for having gotten off track (also for lack of spell check on this computer :) )
-Will
Here are the teaser props we gave out in the goodie bags at the Otaku Omaha Anime convention. Props were made by our own Christian Haunton and attendees recieved just one page of the four cause we're evil like that. Just something to nom nom on while we're getting episodes ready.
Please note that if you read these you will go insane.
More fun stuff to come. (Also feel free to snatch these and do whatever with them, I just think they look cool as hell.)
Will Ross, Shiftless Vagabond
OneEighteeners,
I know you're in total shock but we're gonna be running about a week behind, and by we I mean me (Will.) If you don't already know we live in Omaha, NE which had like three tornados in a week and a half and between power outtages, sump pump issues and branch removal has kinda gotten me off track.
Yes, I am the Alan Moore of podcasting.
-Will Ross, Dangerous Sociopath
Season Two of One Eighteen: Migration starts June 13th, 2008 (the day the mess started!)
We decided to make Episode 9 the cut off for Season 1 because it seemed like a more logical place to seperate the arcs, and because it will make it less convoluted on I-pods based on our current labeling method. (Long story short, when you get to two digit numbers, my bad labeling would confuse your Ipod)
Blah blah blah summation, we hope you like Season 2 as much as you enjoyed Season 1 :)
-Will
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Guest Starring Laurence Simon as "the Goblin" and DuckyFresh Watanabe as Sadie.
Episode Recap by Christiana Ellis
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Hey guys, Will here, chief sound mucky muck. I spent some time yesterday fretting over two things.
1) I keep missing my deadlines by a day or two. Nothing serious, but if I dropped the SFX, and even some of the voice casting, I could much more easily hit deadlines.
2) The way we've been writing the story, it will not translate to paper form without a LOT of rewriting. Some sections are completely audio based. Some sections are underwritten because a layer of ambient or SFX becomes the second storyteller.
Then I remembered something I was told back in the days of webcomics. A very smart man once told me "Don't draw a page, draw a MONITOR. If you're doing webcomics as a back door into comics, you're half assing both YOUR chosen media, and the media you're hoping to get into. If you wanna draw or write paper comics, do that, and submit based on those rules. Don't try to take a shortcut."
He's right. Monitors aren't shaped like pages, and neither are iPods. Drawing a paper comic and making people scroll down to read it just so you can hopefully resell it later does a disservice to your reader, the same way that us altering the story to make the process easier or more book friendly does a disservice to all of you. It says your listener (comic reader) is a stepping stone to "legitimate" work. It takes all the audio format spice out of podcasting and just makes your listeners beta testers.
I'm not saying folks like Scott Sigler or JC Hutchins should rewrite their stuff, their novels were written with "legitimate" publication in mind, and when that didn't work out quite right they moved to podcasting (and Scott does a great job of adding a few SFX for spice, especially in Infection(Infested? Whatever it is now, chicken scissors FTW.)) But ours wasn't. It was meant to be a podcast.
When the three of us sat down for the first story meeting in a hamburger restaurant sadly named "FudRuckers" we talked about ways podcasting could tell the story BETTER. For me to puss out and start making adjustments so I have to do less work or to try to push a square peg into a round hole is both lazy and disrespectful to all of you who come here for audio horror that's different.
So, we may miss deadlines, maybe by a few days. But I promise, it will always be to make the story better. A voice wasn't right, a sound effect didn't sound like what I wanted it to, or what we wrote had so many continuity holes you could use it as a colander. If Christian doesn't like a voice, we don't drop the episode. If Chris isn't happy with his read, we don't release. I'll run myself ragged to get it done as close to every Monday morning as possible.
But I promise, it's to give all you guys the best story possible.
-Will Ross
Sound Guy.
Episode Recap by Karak Sindru.
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Guest Staring Caleb as Horrace Greenly, and Wayne as Jackson Tate.
Lise reads the Episode 5 recap.
Episode Recap by Leis Mendel.
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Guest Stars Mikey from Public Nuisance Radio
Kinsey reads the Episode Recap 4
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Guest Stars: Cupcake and Tea (http://www.youtube.com/user/CupcakeAndTea), Michael Spense, Kevin Erhart as Em Caulton, Sean Roberts as Willie Fetch, Barb Ross as Margaret Hess.
Radar Masukami reads the Episode 3 Recap
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Guest Stars: Catie Miller as Sarah Goodman, Christian as Alex, Will as Wendel, Michael Spense as the Analyst
Laurence Simon reads the Episode 2 Recap
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Guest Stars: Catie Miller as Sarah Goodman, Michael Spence, and Laurence Simon as Mr Hurley. Laurence's podcast 100 Word Stories can be found at http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/
Daphne Abernathy reads the Episode 1 Recap
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Guest Star: Michael Spence. More about Mike can be found at http://michaelspence.us
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Timezone by timezone the evil spread, bringing animated corpses and sowing the seeds of madness in the minds of mankind. Communication broke down as the signals went bad, flaying the sanity of anyone who listened to them.
The world struggled, tripped and died.
Greenly, a small town in South Dakota survived, but for some of it's residents it's the last place on earth they want to be.
Unfortunately for them, it may actually be the last place on earth.
A pretty cool nod to the show on the Podmafia Podcast
Will's Writing progress page at Escape Pod's Forum (Sort of the Defacto Production Blog)
Review by Podcast Fanatic
Continuity Police
A place for all the stuff that slipped by the writers, and to celebrate those detectives with the most finds!
Legend
* - You got us dead to rights. Nice work detective.
* - Questionable. We might argue symantics with you.
* - Wait a few episodes and see... :)
TVindy *
3/29/2008 TVindy - I noticed that Jonas dated his journal entry February 17, 2009 and said that he was talking about events of that same day. The interesting thing is that he described going to a weekly church service. Strangely, this date falls on a Tuesday, making me wonder to what degree his memories are reliable.
Will Says...
I hate you right now. Here's the story behind this. While recording the first episode, we decided that the story worked better as a future story than an alternative world story. So what could be easier than changing 2008 to 2009, right? Wrong! Totally screws up the days of the week. Luckily I think episode 4 is the only "Day Sensitive" episode. (To be fair though, we said he went to church, we never said it was Sunday.... but yeah, it was supposed to be Sunday.)
Laieanna *
4/23/08 - Laieanna confused on one thing though. Jonas killed the cat and said he waited several minutes for the goblin to leave, but I thought the cat would turn into a zombie after a minute and eighteen seconds. I thought to stop a zombie the head had to be fully severed from the body and the damage Jonas did would not be enough to stop the cat from turning. I think I missed something.
Will Says...ACK... Yeah that was supposed to be "for the next few seconds." We'll have to do a recut to fix that one because that's fairly serious. Give that woman a badge... dammit.
One Eighteen: Migration
An Original Podcast Adventure by LoopIT! Productions
Production
Written by Christian Haunton, Christopher Wiig, and Will Ross
Directed by Christian Haunton
Recorded and Produced by Will Ross
Assistant Sound Tech: Daphne Abernathy
Original Cover Art: Len Peralta
Cast (Alphabetical by Character)
Alex Wilks: Christian Haunton
Analyst: Michael Spense
Anthony Valentine: Cole Otto
Caroline Smith: MistressJett
Em Caulton: Kevin Ehrhart
The Goblin: Laurence Simon
Horrace Greenly: Caleb Bullen
Jack: Aaron Sailors
Jackson Tate: Wayne
Jeb Greenly: Barely
Jonas Waight: Christopher Wiig
Robert Valentine: Dillon Marr
Sadie: duckyfresh Watanabe
Sarah Goodman: Catie Miller
Additional Sarah Vocals: CupcakeandTea
Margaret Hess: Barb Ross
Mr. Hurley: Laurence Simon
Vanity: Allie
Willie Fetch: Sean Roberts
William Franks: Mike Taylor
Wendel Cooper: Will Ross
Episode Recaps
Episode 1: Daphne Abernathy
Episode 2: Laurence Simon
Episode 3: Radar Masukami
Episode 4: Kinsey Swartz
Episode 5: Lise Mendel
Episode 6: Karak Sindru
Episode 7: Christiana Ellis
Episode 8: John
If you use one of these promos on your show, send your 60 second promo to 118migration@gmail.com and we'll play your promo at the end of an episode.
Remember, it's first come first served, so it may be a few episodes before we get yours on!
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