98.3 - turn it on

[hard_talker]

[tonight's broadcast comes a little early, for the sake of the curious who like their sleep. Mark turns on his record player, and the broadcast picks up the scratch of the needle for a brief moment before Leonard Cohen's voice drifts over the airwaves. After a moment, he turns it down, but not completely off, and speaks over the music:]

So, not much goin' on in the halls of Castle Wonderfuck this week, besides the usual bullshit. The Host Club did their thing down in the ballroom, though yours truly didn't go. There's a poll up on page [this one] of the journal ... if you're bored and have a second, go check it out. We've only got one new guy, this week ... someone named Treebeard. I'll take bets on whether his parents were hippies or not, how 'bout you?

The real news tonight is a little on the self-promoting side. Yours truly, being of completely rational modesty, is holding an open broadcast forum down here in the ballroom! The accoustics are great, so if you're wonderin' how to work that brand-new shiny radio of yours, come on down and I'll show you the basics! And for those of you who know a little bit already, I've hauled down some of the more high-tech stuff you can add on to make things even more fun. So come down and spin some platters with me! Bring your favorite tunes and we'll get this castle up off its collective ass and rockin' out!

[and with that, he'll switch over from vinyl to CDs, and play this little number while he waits for people to show]

((OOC: There will be a specific section up in this post for anyone who wants to come down to the ballroom! Anyone replying over the journals can reply to the post as usual.))

Comments

[mal_addict]

...Eh, why not.

[And after a short while, being fashionably late as usuall, Mal shows up, peering at those radios]

[hard_talker]

Hey, Sarge! ... No imps in these. [he grins, twirling a screwdriver] Wanna see how they work?

[mal_addict]

Yeah, go on. Though I still think the lack of imps takes away something of the experience.

[hard_talker]

Honestly, if I'd been living with little dudes making all my stuff work, I'd think so, too. [he grins and pops the back panel off a radio]

[mal_addict]

At least with the imps, you have someone to blame when it breaks. [Peering inside, seriously, no imps at all, what even]

[hard_talker]

Oh, that's why people swear at inanimate objects all the time where I'm from. We don't give a shit if there are imps or not, but we'll usually be damned if it's actually our fault.

[it pretty much looks like this] ... see, that's the speaker, which is how the sound filters out. This bit underneath, here? That's the antenna, which picks up the audio signal ... kind of like how the journal picks up our voices. Only, it's a little more complicated.

[mal_addict]

Sounds like people are pretty much the same everywhere when it comes to that, then.

[She's trying to resist the urge to POKE THINGS] So what are the little cylinder-shaped things?

learning more about radios than I even needed to know....

[hard_talker]

[why? POKE AWAY, MALADICT] Those are diodes - they direct the electricity and tell it which way to go through the radio.

[he pauses, amused] I bet Nikola could explain this to you a hell of a lot better than I am.

lawl so committed to your art

[mal_addict]

Huh, how does it do that?

[She rolls her eyes a little] Yes, and do it while being smug and irritating, no thank you.

/bows

[hard_talker]

[sadly that part will be handwaved, as Ang is on the phone and has no wiki bookmarks]

-- so the current doesn't actually have anywhere else it can go. Kind of like a roadblock.

[mal_addict]

Huh...

It's be a lot easier with imps, if you ask me.

[hard_talker]

...maybe it would. [he chuckles] I'm just so used to going impless that it comes pretty easy t'me.

[mal_addict]

Well, sure, I guess. I mean, you don't have to feed it or anything, without an imp.

[hard_talker]

... What do you even feed imps? Wouldn't the crumbs or whatever get into everything and keep it from working?

[he's got the mental image of the time his cousin smashed grapes into his aunt's Nintendo]

[mal_addict]

Well, they can come out of the devices to eat. They're not stuck inside.

[hard_talker]

Yeah? They must be really fuckin' tiny - the hell do they eat?

[mal_addict]

Not a clue, I've never fed one.