Funny you should mention, I just did a bunch of lightning yesterday.

*looks at page*

...I really don't get superhero comics.

It seems like it must be the sort of thing where you either "learned" to enjoy the comic book format at a young age, or you didn't. Such a weird barrier to entry.

Damn. Well done.

First place I worked out here, this artist in the same room as me was telling a story about how he was in an elevator once at some convention-hotel, cracking people up with his Stan Lee impression — 'EXSH-SHELSHIOR" and shit — and the doors opened, and Stan Lee was right there.

This guy was pretty sure Stan must have been able to hear him, at least a little bit, through the elevator doors... but he just sort of prayed that that didn't happen. Stan gets on, smiles politely at everyone, and the elevator continues down to the ground floor. Awkward silence ensues. After a moment, the guy decides Stan must not have heard him.

When they get to the ground, the doors open, Stan pats him on the shoulder re-assuringly, and leaves.

Ha! The candle is actually not a feature of this rig, usually. I brought that over at the end of the last live session so could stack my microphone up on something.

See, usually the green mic is in the "nice" mic stand off to the left, with the pop filter... but for "talking at the Mac laptop" purposes, I need to put the mic on the other side of the piano, so it gets put on the little gooseneck stand for these live computer sessions. But then — with the mic on the gooseneck stand — it was too short for me to stand/sing at the piano, so I put it on the candle to make it taller.

And then I didn't put the candle back where I found it, because I'm messy.

This brings us to the present.

IT WAS YOU.

I knew I was forgetting someone. Yessir, thanks for reminding me.

Gonna get Owen in there vox-wise for sure, and probably gonna fill a lot of gaps with more Boter. Right now my priority is to fit everyone in there at least once, and once I'm past that I'll start doubling folks up.

You know, it's like dinner at the buffet. Or whatever.

I'm a little paranoid I'm forgetting someone entirely, though. Anyone come to mind?

I'll hang around on Skype chat until you have a chance to log on and we'll schedule sumthin.'

Everyone else, as you were.

Hm. I wish I had had the foresight to ask if there were games along these lines where you don't need to build a character first. "Just be yourself" sort of thing, to kind of one-thing-at-a-time the proceedings. First experience gameplay and see if it's up your alley, then expand on the experience by playing in character.

Oh well.

Cool. Sounds like you guys know what's gonna be happening now.

Just as a writing experiment, let's pretend someone has never done anything like this before. Give it to me in Captain Dummy talk, Kaylee.