Synopsis:Gail
O'Brien hates her life… Working at her dead-end job at the local
U-Store-Yer-Stuff, she is tasked with emptying a long forgotten storage
unit. Inside she discovers a mystic blade covered in rust and a puzzle
which offers her power, truth, purpose, and most importantly a life! The catch? She only has 24 hours to figure out the clues of the enigmatic poem and restore the blade to its full potential. Solve the puzzle or die. Simple terms.
The things she'll have to do to solve the puzzle will test her will and her sanity.
I
felt like releasing an audiobook format of The Rusted Blade. Here's
the second part (of two) for you to enjoy.
Synopsis:Gail O'Brien hates her life… Working at her dead-end job at the local U-Store-Yer-Stuff, she is tasked with emptying a long forgotten storage unit. Inside she discovers a mystic blade covered in rust and a puzzle which offers her power, truth, purpose, and most importantly a life! The catch? She only has 24 hours to figure out the clues of the enigmatic poem and restore the blade to its full potential. Solve the puzzle or die. Simple terms.
The things she'll have to do to solve the puzzle will test her will and her sanity.
I felt like releasing an audiobook format of The Rusted Blade. Here's the first part (of two) for you to enjoy. If you want to get the Audio only for it, just let me know.
STREAMTALKING.COM - brings sanity to the chaos of Live Stream
One of the problems with doing Live shows is audience participation. It's not hard to engage them and have conversations, but more a problem with the technology and also audience content cultivation.
The major problem is LAG... There's latency with live streams and to make it easy to follow, if I ask a question, "What's your favorite color?" It will take a few seconds to get to the viewer and then a few more for them to respond. In some cases this LAG will be around 21 seconds. This makes it difficult for a lot of new streamers to work with.
Then add in the problem of streaming to different platforms at the same time. Some streamers are lucky to have a staff of some sort to moderate and hand pick answers.
Add in the chaotic nature of live chat. Asking a question where you are trying to do any real data-mining is reduced to a majority answer of "Yes or No"...
That's where StreamTalking.com comes in. It allows Streamers to ask questions BEFORE the stream and then they can present the results in the live stream.
How do I use it?
With the Real-Time Storytime show, there was a huge time sink in the beginning of the show where users would chat their keyword or phrase and then I had to write it down and have it in a book. The users couldn't see the list in front of them to remind them. When I used the keyword or phrase, I would toggle "Keyword Used" on the screen but they had to remember the words.
You can see it in the video of the show embedded into it:
By using StreamTalking.com the users login and submit them, and then when the show begins I can choose which ones to display on the screen and it stays there for the show. Users can see it, and it also shows the world who has been providing these amazing keywords/phrases.
It has saved me about 10 minutes from what I used to do and that's an extra 10 minutes of actual content for the viewers.
I've also used it on the Angry Jackalope show where I ask questions like "What are some things you'd like to know about me?" and then I would activate only a single User Question at a time and it would show up on my Live stream.
On the Angry Jackalope show I also used it to test and ask questions like "Who do you think will be the next president?" and "How many people do you know who got Covid19?" both of those questions were good tests to see charts.
As a Viewer it is really easy to setup an account... Here's the explanation for Viewers:
You can be part of the shows by signing up as a Viewer at:
So after a break, the show will be resuming and will be streamlined with new technology to speed things up. Traditionally, the show would start and then we'd allow viewers to add a keyword or a phrase. Then as they chatted it into the show, I would transcribe into a book and then have it for reference. It could take anywhere from 5-10 minutes. Sometimes a little longer. Now there's a new way to handle the keyword/phrase submissions.
OK, this was the first experiment I did with trying to tell a real-time story based off of keywords given to me by my viewers... I enjoyed it so much that it became a regular series on my Robert R Ricks channel...
I do these now at least once a week (USUALLY ALWAYS on Sunday) but trying to squeeze a few more in during the week.
