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Hey everyone, two bits of news:

1. Getting busier, so updates on here will be once a week instead of twice a week.

2. I'm writing another episode of Kinbasket. I didn't have concrete plans after ep 1-we figured it very might well be a one shot thing-but this feels like a natural starting place...

Thanks, our pleasure!

Regarding the snippet: sometimes I like to write a little description of what’s going on, even if it doesn’t show up in the audio, for the actors' visualization. You generally won't HEAR someone turn their head to look at another person, but I figure it’s helpful in picturing the mood shift.

Sarah also gave me this snapshot of Garageband capturing their voices for posterity. Look at those digital dials!

Around the table is John Battye (PJ), Lee Savage (Aaron), Corben Kushneryk (Mike) and Andrea Cheung (she’s shot mocap for us, but her voice role is secret for now.)

Pictured: Chris Scott (voice of Steward and one of our composers) in plaid, high-fiving Kelly Turner (Gardener). Lee Boyes (Hearty) is the fellow in orange.

Hi everyone. Today: The tiniest snippet of an upcoming episode of the Concierge: Post Mortem, and a few pictures of our latest recording session!

Still no dates yet-until we get it all done, we just won’t have a real estimate-but it’s been good to see things start to come together. We’ll see where our band of spies lands up yet.

(Knocking on wood after saying that, to ward off instances of universal irony.)

Today’s news: we have officially begun booking actor recording sessions for the final five episodes of The Concierge: Post Mortem. The schedule is real!

Not to give it away, but anyone who can figure out where everything in episode 2 takes place, from context clues, wins a fabulous No-Prize!* (Note: without spoilers, this will become far, far easier once episode 4 drops.)

*Kids, ask your comic-reading parents about this one.

In season one, of course, Mary and Sarah showcased The Donut Mill. And in one of the interstitial mini-episodes, Aaron reminisces about the time they visited the Starlite Room. So when I was writing my season 2 episodes, I thought it’d be fun if the curling rink took place in a very specific area.

Hello everyone. Today’s Fun Fact™ about The Concierge: Post Mortem is that I snuck a few real Edmonton locations into the second season. MOSTLY for my own amusement, but also because it was kind of handy to have a real-world map to drawn on.

CURLING - A 2 Minute Guide YouTube video by World Curling

Also: while we really don’t go into the rules of the game, as someone who’s never been curling myself, I felt I should at least learn a little about it. This video was a huge help! It’s a 2 minute cartoon that lays out all the curling basics. Recommended!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk9...

Our second episode set in a curling rink. Instead of cobbling together something from internet sound resources, our audio team went above and beyond by recording an actual curling game at a local place. Those are authentic Edmontonian curlers whipping rocks along the ice!

Hi everyone!

As we turn away from discussions of our Unnamed Horror Project (for now), I thought I could trot out some Fun Facts about our audiodrama “The Concierge: Post Mortem.”

Thanks, glad you think so! It's all super early stuff so I have to haul myself not to go further into it, but hopefully one day.

But I’ll leave with this: I’ve got about three pages of exited ideas for this thing. Game development isn’t a smooth road, so who knows, but if things align? I’d be incredibly jazzed to try some of these out.

And since I’m coming to the end of what I can say about our mystery project here, I’m not sure yet what’s next week.

Do we have a rough length estimate in mind? We absolutely do, but that’s also under wraps until we can talk about the UHP in more concrete terms.

This answer is: since this is an experimental side project for us, it’ll be on the shorter side. This is our first foray into anything eerie, and we think it’s best to keep it punchy and focused.

Hello everyone:

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Sylvia, these process descriptions are all well and good, but what size is this Unnamed Horror Project, AKA the UHP? How long will it be?”

On Thursday: The thrilling topic of scope (Yeeeeeeeaaahh!)

(All images of the Fathomless Gulfs between Stars are straight from NASA, the rest were sourced from the Rocky Mountain Goat newspaper or various tourist boards.)

So having a well-defined place our characters can react to, even as things go strange, is great. If they care about what’s going on and how it deviates from the known? Hopefully you will too.

Cosmic horror always needs to balance the implied and the known. Too much encyclopedic understanding, and the mystery bleeds out; too little, and it's just an unsatisfying chain of events.

How much of Kinbasket’s history we directly touch on is TBD-it might be very light, in the end. But oooooh it's so useful. Even a touch of history enriches things.

Which is why I was so pleased that the lake Sarah suggested we use as a setting has a ton of human history around it. A drowned town, environmental upheaval, displaced people, treaties and debates around who benefits from the power generated by the dam...

I mean, horror often benefits when you can start from a known place and time. We all get this, we understand contrast.