Month: June 2014

Busby dubious about cat invaders

June 29, 2014 Brody No Comments

CAPE CANAVERAL, EARTH – Bob Busby, CEO of Spark and leader of a private-sector effort to accomplish faster-than-light travel, doesn’t believe the “rabid cat-people” theory dominating today’s conjecture-vids. “It’s way too soon to draw any conclusions about this message, man,” he said. “The only valid conclusion we can make right now is that the Pinnacle…

MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

Oracle AI Network: Rabid cat-people imminent

June 29, 2014June 30, 2014 Brody No Comments

NEW YORK, EARTH – Billions of users on Saturday night transmitted theories in contemplation of the message from the Pinnacle. Thorough analysis by the supercomputers that make up the so-called “Oraculars” indicates that the majority of Consortium inhabitants believe that the “they” that are coming are felinoid aliens with foul tempers who are bent on…

MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

OtherSpace Reboot: The Pinnacle Transmission

June 28, 2014 Brody No Comments

The event that officially kicked off the new OtherSpace reboot on June 28, 2014: Busby wanders into the bar, a hololens gleaming silver-blue over his right eye and a bronze-hued earpiece alight with amber telltales, speaking to no one obvious and perhaps not even physically present. Calmly, he seethes. “Look, man, I am *not* interested…

MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OS Roleplaying Logs, OtherSpace

Not your run-of-the-mill horse derby

June 27, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: Rose Sandler wants to gallop in the footsteps of a conqueror. Centuries before Pony Express riders thundered across the untamed American West, Genghis Khan established a long-distance postal system using horse messengers in the Mongol steppe. Since 2009, a group known as The Adventurists has hosted…

Non-Fiction, Sample Columns