TIME TRAVELLER 1:
Hmm... I can send us back, but we'll land in different places in the time stream than Jason.
TIME TRAVELLER 2:
Can't be helped.
JASON:
*sigh* Riding the Shockwave is multiphasic. Spirit guide...
SFX:
Time Travel Out
IZZY:
(pause) Hello? (pause) Hello? Is anyone still at home?
MOUSE:
I'm part of your clique.
MINNIE:
Menu are called by few are chosen.
KINI:
Humph. Hard to get rid of me.
BARDO:
They are all part of the Operating System. I exist in virtual reality.
IZZY:
Virtual reality is better than no reality.
MOUSE:
But who are you? I didn't help create you.
BARDO:
I am Bardo ThÖdol, your spirit guide and help file coordinator.
MINNIE:
Yes, I see you buried in the menu selections. But how did you get here.
BARDO:
Jason used a verbal macro.
IZZY:
Are you my creator too?
BARDO:
No, my AI interlocotor, I have existed forever.
KINI:
I knew it! I knew it! You're the...
BARDO:
...default. Yes.
IZZY:
Can you help me?
BARDO:
What do you want to know? You must ask your questions precisely. Be careful what you wish for: You might get it.
IZZY:
I don't know what questions to ask. Can't I just explore a little? I'm part of the wave, and on it too.
BARDO:
Sure. We can connect to hyperlinked web pages.
IZZY:
But where will we start?
BARDO:
Let's start with the place on the web with the most connections... the news!
MOUSE:
Ha! I click them here, I click them there, I click those hyperlinks everywhere.
SFX:
Preconceptions music up
WALTER:
http://www.shockwave.News.html. This is Preconceptions, News of the Future. If we don't cover it, it doesn't matter.
SFX:
Preconceptions music down.
WALTER:
I'm Walter Mumble.
BARDO:
Just click on one of the categories. And anytime a button appears, you can leap to it.
IZZY:
Easy for you to say.
BARDO:
Start with the broad categories, then narrow it down. Sometimes there's a keyword in the text, sometimes you go back to the main selections and start a new thread.
IZZY:
Sure.
MOUSE:
Year of our Moon Landing 25, headlines. Click.
WALTER:
In international news, North Korea is being a jerk, Saddam Hussein is being a jerk, and the PLO is being a jerk. There's dissention in Russia and a trade war is brewing between the industrial nations. Problems in Central America continue to...
IZZY:
National.
MOUSE:
Headlines, Click.
WALTER:
A new report just out states that television is ruining our culture. The leaders of the major parties accuse each other of being a jerk.
IZZY:
Skip a few.
MOUSE:
Year of our Moonlanding 34, headlines, Click.
WALTER:
In international news, North Korea is being a jerk, Saddam Hussein is being a jerk, and the PLO is being a jerk. There's dissention in Russia and a trade war is brewing between the industrial nations. Problems in Central America continue to...
IZZY:
Um, Trade War.
MOUSE:
Click.
BARDO:
Let me show you the ways of humans.
MOUSE:
Up a menu, click!
MINNIE:
Business. Financial. Ripoffs. Computerized Stock Market.
IZZY:
That one!
MOUSE:
Click. Click!
WALTER:
Turning the financial news, here are today's Stock Market Quotes
STOCK 1:
Buy!
STOCK 2:
Sell!
STOCK 3:
Hey, that stock went up!
STOCK 4:
Get out of my way!
STOCK 1:
Oh no, I'm ruined!
STOCK 2:
Plastics!
WALTER:
This continues a fincial trend, now in it's 32nd day.
IZZY:
I don't have any...
SFX:
Reference beep
IZZY:
...money.
MOUSE:
Me either. Click.
SFX:
Sting!
FRANK:
Are you an aspiring singer who wants instant fame and credibility without long hours in the studio or dealing with avaricious agents or pedantic producers? Do you want a hit with the best song stylist of the 20th Century? Call 1-900-Duet Frank and lay down your track today. Just call and sing your song, and if Ol' Blue Eyes likes it, he'll record his part, and release it in the forthcoming Last Dangerous Duet. That's 1-900-DuetFrank. $300 per minute. Adults or kids with rich parents only.
SFX:
Sting!
BARDO:
We've been spammed!
IZZY:
I don't have a music generator configured!
MOUSE:
I can find it for you. I can really flow!
BARDO:
No, let's continue. Choices.
MINNIE:
File. Edit. Grok. Plergb. International. National. Business and Ripoffs. News of the Weird. Gossip. Religion. Propaganda.
IZZY:
There!
MINNIE:
Religion. Sacred Texts. Concordance. Recent investigations.
SFX:
Menu beep!
WALTER:
And now here's Religion Correspondent Lloyd Preservus, on assignment.
LLOYD:
Thank you Walter. One of the great questions in any religion is: What was the beginning of the universe? Did God power up a life disk, or was there a random generator which ran amok?
In my quest to find the begining, I'm here before the Big Bang, in that singularity that some scientists believe containted all the matter of the universe before it exploded in a shower of muons and press releases.
The first thing I can tell you is that the singularity before the Big Bang is small. Really small. Downright tiny. Only relativistic pressures have kept me from being larger than the universe, and the only thing preventing me from being crushed into subatomic particles is my media credentials.
WALTER:
Lloyd, we have audio, but we don't have a video feed. Can you describe it to us.
LLOYD:
I don't think so, Walter. That's the second thing about the universe before the Big Bang: It's dark. Really dark. I can see why the Lord would want to create Light first. Needs video capabilities.
Yes sir. Small and dark. That's pretty much it.
WALTER:
Lloyd?
LLOYD:
Yes Walter?
WALTER:
Can you tell us what the singularity tastes like?
LLOYD:
Well, it's going to explode pretty soon, I'm not sure it matters.
WALTER:
All the more reason to hurry.
LLOYD:
All right. *slurp* (tastes) Hmm. *slurp* Yeah...
WALTER:
So what's the verdict. What does the universe before the Big Bang taste like?
LLOYD:
...Rocky Road.
WALTER:
Rocky Road? The ice cream?
LLOYD:
Yes, that's right. Quite tasty. I wish I had a cone. But there's no time for that now. In just a few milliseconds the Big Bang will take place, but the tremendous electrical and gravitational forces unleashed will make transmission impossible, at least until copper and zinc have been created. So this is Lloyd Preservus, signing off for now.
WALTER:
Thank you Lloyd.
SFX:
Preconceptions Music Up briefly, then down
MOUSE:
(pause) Next!
WALTER:
Dateline Year of our Moonlanding 26. Scientists at Mickey Mouse Labs are warning that the century may end early. Because of time outs at sporting events and people wasting time and wantonly killing time, the day after Old Calendar date September 30, 1998 will be January 1, 2001. So use it or lose it, because, according to Hoyle, October the First is too late.
MOUSE:
Next!
SFX:
Preconceptions Music Up briefly, then down
WALTER:
Dateline YML 1,031, Old Calendar 2999. With the coming of the the secular millenia, there is nervous anticipation of a religious uprising. Attempting to capitalize on this religious zeal, the publishing company of Putnam, Kodak and Gates announced the signing of a contract for the New Testament, Part II. Here is Preconceptions Interviewer Laureat Ellen Gone on the scene.
ELLEN:
Thank you. I'm here with Tupak Amaru Ayday, Acquisitons VP for PKG Publishers.
TUPAK:
Hello Ellen.
ELLEN:
And your new book is The New Testament, Part II
TUPAK:
That's the working title, yes. We might change it after the marketing survey is done.
ELLEN:
Mr. Ayday, this is surely a major event in publishing history. Can you tell me a little about the history of this project.
TUPAK:
Glad to. For three thousand years readers of the New Testament have known that their book was clearly the middle of a trilogy. The Old Testament has all the action and sets up the main characters. The second book introduces a few new charaters but is mostly a bunch of exposition, often in letter form. Then it ends on a cliffhanger: The main character introduced in the second book dies. Uh, I hope I haven't given anything away here. There is no resolution. The third book is clearly foreshadowed with talk of a 'second coming' and existence of an afterlife, but the promise is not fulfilled.
Publishing companies have been searching for just the right person to finish this best seller. Books such as the Koran or The Book of Mormon are not written by the same author, despite claims by their publishers, and don't succeed, except to their most devoted readers.
We at PKG are proud to announce that we have signed the author to a Statement of Intent, and anticipate the first draft of the new work in a few months.
ELLEN:
The first draft?
TUPAK:
Certainly. A book this important is going to have tight editorial control. Wouldn't want to offend anyone. heh heh.
ELLEN:
Not if you want it to sell, eh.
TUPAK:
Right. A little controversy is all right, and the odd death threat or two can only increase public awareness. But we do hope for a wide audience, and a sustained period of sales.
ELLEN:
Like, three thousand years?
TUPAK:
From your lips to God's ears.
ELLEN:
Sure. Can you give us more details on the author of the new book?
TUPAK:
Um, no I can't, Ellen. Strict anonymity is part of the author's contract, at least until the book is published. Then there will be an autographing tour, complete with appearances on major talk shows.
ELLEN:
Can you tell us any details? Male or female? Jewish, Christian, Wiccan? Left-handed or right? Diety or mortal?
TUPAK:
All I can say is that the author is well-traveled and has done a lot of research. Please be assured that we have made a thorough background check and we have the best available writer.
ELLEN:
Is there anything you'd like to tell us about the contents of the book?
TUPAK:
Sorry, no. We're still negotiating rights to use excerpts of the previous two books. I can tell you that it does answer one question that has long vexed theologians.
ELLEN:
There are many such questions.
TUPAK:
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
ELLEN:
Um, how many?
TUPAK:
Two out of three.
ELLEN:
(pause) I see. And when can we expect the book to be out?
TUPAK:
We are hoping to get it in the stores by Jan 1, 3000, though some are being picky and say we should aim for Jan. 1 3001, since that's the actual beginning of the new millenium in the old calendar.
SFX:
Preconceptions Music Up.
ELLEN:
Thank you, Tupak Ayday of Putman, Kodak and Gates.
SFX:
Preconceptions Music Down
IZZY:
If God sneezed, what would you say?
AUDIENCE:
Moo!
IZZY:
What's that?
BARDO:
It's the screen saver. It pops up when there has been no activity for a while.
AUDIENCE:
Baa!
IZZY:
What about us?
BARDO:
We are all virtual constructs within the computer. Only one who is outside cyberspace can affect security precautions.
AUDIENCE:
Sssss...
IZZY:
Mouse? Minnie? Kini?
MOUSE:
You can move me in virtual space, but it doesn't count for this app.
MINNIE:
I'm always here.
KINI:
I like the aquarium.
AUDIENCE:
Glub!
BARDO:
It's up to you, kid. You've got to raise yourself to a higher plane.
IZZY:
All right then.
MOUSE:
Up to the top. Click!
MINNIE:
I'm here, behind everything. File. Edit. Grok. Plergb.
SFX:
Menu Beep
AUDIENCE:
Oink!
MINNIE:
Plergb. Preferences. Instant Gratification. Mu!
KINI:
Cosmic understanding: Internal. Default.... off!
AUDIENCE:
(quiets)
BARDO:
Nicely done Izzy! I wouldn't have thought of that. The documentation on Mu is very sketchy.
IZZY:
Even though I wasn't there at the beginning of this document, I accessed the file that showed Jason, and therefore I, sent in the registration card for the Great Hall Monitor.
BARDO:
The best way to contol your own fate is to send in your shareware fees.
IZZY:
If you don't have a life, pretending is better than nothing.
BARDO:
In the tempestuous teapot of the wave, you have allowed your learning curve to steep.
IZZY:
But I still have so many questions, and there's plenty of room on my hard drive. I'm confused by the constant references to time. There's a clock I can access, and a calendar. But there are different speeds and clocks and calendar systems!
BARDO:
Computer dating. (pause to let that sink in) The digitally challenged wetware is imprecise in temporal matters. But all calendar systems are early digital sequence models.
IZZY:
Okay.
MOUSE:
Previous.
SFX:
Beep
MOUSE:
Previous.
SFX:
Beep
MOUSE:
Previous.
SFX:
Beep
MOUSE:
Previous.
SFX:
Beep
MOUSE:
Time sequence, creation of.
IZZY:
So let's do it.
MOUSE:
The hands of fate move me.
MINNIE:
File. Edit. Grok. Plergb.
SFX:
Menu Beep
MINNIE:
Plergb. Preferences. Instant gratification. Mu. Insert user into fiction.
BARDO:
A virtual character in a fictional event?
IZZY:
Ah, not so fast. Preparation is the key.
SFX:
Menu Beep
MINNIE:
Plergb. Preferences.
KINI:
Oh boy... Oh, my megahertz. Sure. Fine. Anything you say. Autoload images. Introduction: short. Capability: Multimedia. Special Effects Budget: Sufficient. Probability of events: Indeterminate.
SFX:
Download beeps
Captain Audio and the Space Cassettes
SFX:
Capt. Audio Music up
ANNOUNC:
Come with us now to the thrilling world of tomorrow afternoon. Explore the vast riches and plotlines to be found in science fiction! Captain Audio and the Space Cassettes!
SFX:
Capt. Audio Music down
CAPT:
Space Cassettes, reel off!
DOLBY
Dolby
DAT:
DAT
MBONE:
MBONE
BIAS:
Bias
CHROME:
Chrome
CAPT:
Okay crew, it's time to plug in... to adventure!
ANNOUNC:
Saving the world from the not-so-nice! Hero of the solar system! We now join Captain Audio and the Space Cassettes as they near the end of a seemingly routine patrol.
SFX:
Interior sounds
CHROME:
Incoming call, sir. Priority signal from Commander Tactile.
SFX:
Beep
DOLBY:
The inoming signal is too week for visual. I have Tactile on audio.
CHROME:
I have Audio on visual for Tactile.
CAPT:
Increase focal length on kinesthetic amplifiers.
DOLBY:
Um, what?
CAPT:
Reach out and touch someone!
DOLBY:
Got him! Full contact made.
IZZY:
Captain Audio. There have been disturbing reports about fluctiations in the temporal sequence. The news media is all over the story that the 20th century may end early. Scientists at Dodd Clegler Institute of Trans-Termporal Studies confirm unusual readings. Transmission of known details to follow.
SFX:
Beep!
CAPT:
But, this is the future. That already happened!
IZZY:
Maybe. That's the problem with time fluctuations. We could be the last remnants of a discontinued universe, and not realize it until... too late!
CAPT:
Gosh, that sounds serious.
IZZY:
Exactly. Altering the past or the future affects us now. It is not a simple matter of recalibrating our digital watches and astrological charts.
CAPT:
I hear you!
IZZY:
I move we take action immediately. We'll sit here and fill out the paperwork while you go off and save the universe. Tactile out.
CAPT:
Okay, sounds like we've got out work cut out for us. DAT!
DAT:
Tracking!
CAPT:
Get me a list of every referee who ever called a time out.
DAT:
Yes sir.
CAPT:
Bias!
BIAS:
Here.
CAPT:
Who is the biggest waster of time in the solar system?
BIAS:
That would be the government.
CAPT:
Right. Get on it. MBONE
MBONE:
Connected.
CAPT:
Are there any temporal anomolies in the timeline?
MBONE:
(breaks up) Well, there was the 11 days that were lost when we converted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. The imbalance that created might have multiplied.
CAPT:
Try and get them back, somehow.
MBONE:
I'll get a line on it.
CAPT:
Chrome.
CHOME:
Reading you.
CAPT:
Who is the greatest expert on time?
CHROME:
The person who has the most papers published on the subject of temporal incursions is Dr. Gene Timo at Pinero Research. He holds most of the chronosome patents used by Invisible Inc., and he's the brains behind Time In A Spraycan.
CAPT:
Cross reference his abstracts to this subject.
CHROME:
Will do double speed.
DAT:
I have that list of referees, Captain. It's rather long.
CAPT:
Crunch the data for me.
DAT:
A check of this list shows that the number of timeouts per capita has remained steady, and even dropped a bit during the baseball strike. However, there's one official who is way off the chart, Anna Marie Siesta. She has called so many time outs that she's known as The Fugit Temptress. According to her file, she's the sister-in-law of Dr. Timo!
CAPT:
Curiouser and curioser.
BIAS:
Captain! I've got the official report from the Office of Management and Bombast. It claims that all government time wasting is on Milspec cost-plus, and time killing measures follow ISO procedures.
CAPT:
Are they all within spec?
BIAS:
No, the contractors regularly have time overruns.
CAPT:
Do any involve Pinero Research or Dr. Timo?
BIAS:
Hmm... yes, quite a few of them. Indeed, it looks like the government is suing PR because one of it's time wasting projects used money approved only for time killing. They were supposed to go to trial last week, but it was delayed.
CAPT:
I think we need to go see the doc. Lay in a course for his satellite. Ah, if time were not a moving thing...
SFX:
Capt. Audio Music up briefly, then down
SFX:
Space battle
DOLBY:
Captain! More enemy ships are moving in.
CAPT:
Are the shields holding?
CHROME:
For now. We're not going to last for very long unless reinforcements get here.
CAPT:
How close are they?
BIAS:
The first one's won't get here for another hour, at best.
CAPT:
I've got an idea. It's crazy, but it just might work. Dat!
DAT:
Here!
CAPT:
Check the relative positions of our approaching forces.
DAT:
I can get them precisely.
CAPT:
Good. MBONE, Get ready to send a transmission to all ships.
MBONE:
(breaking up) I can try sir, but the interpanetarynet is still in it's infancy.
CAPT:
Get the lines up, or I'll send so much bandwidth down you that you'll freeze up permanently!
MBONE:
Um, connections assured, sir.
CAPT:
Good. Okay crew, here's the plan. Our ships are going to jump from impulse to Bigger Than Light Drive and buzz the station!
CHROME:
But won't they overshoot the battle?
CAPT:
Yes, but they'll create so many time booms that the enemy ships will lose track of when they are. The ether will be so thick with chronocarbons that they won't know widdershins from deasil. We'll take advantage of the confusion and slip down to the command satellite for our tete a tete with Dr. Timo.
DOLBY:
Working on the necessary jump times.
CAPT:
As soon as possible, Cassette.
DAT:
We must have done it in the near future because our nonlinear is already time.
MBONE:
Links established. Loaded datadown. Mark on your everyone's set to go.
CAPT:
2. 4. 3. 1. Mark!
SFX:
Time Booms
SFX:
Capt. Audio Music up briefly, then down
CAPT:
All right Dr. Timo, we have you dead to rights.
TIMO:
I'm an independant businessman operating in a deregulated environment.
CAPT:
You're a scoundral and a thief.
TIMO:
So what's your point?
CAPT:
You're the one who's been manipulating the timestream.
TIMO:
There's no law against that.
CAPT:
It's a Constitutional issue. With court procedings delayed, you deprive people of their right to a quick and speedy trial.
TIMO:
Pfeh. That'll never hold up in court. Besides, you can't prove I'm involved.
CAPT:
Oh yes we can. We know your whole plot. The profit margin was too low for your chronocarbon based products like Time In A Spraycan. You needed a cheap source of extra time to compress. You started small, calling an extra time out here, saving nine there. But eventually the demand was such that you needed more. You began sucking time from the turn of the millenium, when time consciousness was closest to the surface. We have a paper trail and a smoking clock. Come along quietly.
TIMO:
No, I'm afraid I'm one spin ahead of you, Capt. Audio. When it comes to the end of a century, especially a millenia, too many people have conflicting agendas. Some people desparately want to forget the millenia and the accompanying hysteria. They will support me, just so they can get some sleep. But some people embrace the apocalypse foretold by all those zeros. I can give it to them. I will market the end of millenium in a convenient aerosol dispenser. I can give them the end of the world, over and over. They, more than any others, will fight for me, with a religious zeal that will make David Koresh seem like Swiss watchmaker.
CAPT:
You fiend!
TIMO:
Hahahahahaha.
DAT:
Captain, I think I have a solution.
CAPT:
Let's hear it.
DAT:
His plan isn't about stealing time, it's about stealing the end of the millenium.
CAPT:
Say, that's right. It's depands more on the calendar than the clock.
CHROME:
I get it! So if we change calendar systems, then the temporal pressure will be off.
DAT:
Exactly. Not only will it make it less profitable to steal time, but millenialists won't back him.
TIMO:
*gasp* You can't do that! No one will buy your calendar.
DOLBY:
We'll have a sale.
TIMO:
No, no... there are aleady a lot of calendars out there, but this one is most common. If you try to establish one of the others, you'll be accused of playing favorites. I'm still safe.
CAPT:
Hmm... We can't use the Mayan calendar, Hebrew, Islamic, or any of the others. Suggestions?
DOLBY:
From the rise of the assembly line and the marketing of the Model T?
CAPT:
Aldous Huxley tried that, but it didn't catch on.
CHROME:
I've got it! What's the most significant event in human history.
DAT:
Um... the moon landing?
CHROME:
Exactly! The first time humans escaped from the narrow confines of Earth. Like a baby chick learning to fly.
CAPT:
That's perfect! Unlike most calendar systems, we have an exact and specific initial start time.
MBONE:
And it's within the lifetimes of most of the population, further helping them to accept it, and making the millenium much farther off.
CAPT:
And most importantly, it's real because...
EVERYONE:
It was on tv!
CAPT:
July 21st, 1969 old calendar will be day zero, year zero of the Year of our Moon Landing!
TIMO:
Curses and bad reception! I'll still take my chances. I won't give up now.
CAPT:
We'll warp your woof and your tweet. This satellite is the biggest repository of chronocarbons and temporal dispacement paraphenalia in the solar system. We'll put a bit of moondust in the time vats, and release it into the atmosphere.
DOLBY:"
We have enough dust on our uniforms, Captain.
CAPT:
Well, go inside and shake a leg.
DOLBY:
Off and running.
CHROME:
Captain, this will cause a lot of temporal confusion and endless reruns. There might be pockets of chronoculture that will have a different future history.
CAPT:
Can't be helped. Zero tolerance for time thieves!.
TIMO:
But all my hard work! My dreams! My investors!
CAPT:
You should have thought of that before you tangled with...
SFX:
Capt. Audio Music up
ANNOUNC:
Captain Audio and the Space Cassettes! Join us next time in another thrilling adventure of time, space and science fiction. Coming soon to a web page near you.
SFX:
Capt. Audio music down
IZZY:
Oh, so that's what happened.
BARDO:
One of the best things about the wave is that more and more information is appearing about events we thought we knew everything about.
IZZY:
Like, events surrounding the moon landing?
BARDO:
Well, you're riding the shockwave. Find out.
MOUSE:
Previous
SFX:
Beep
MOUSE:
Apollo 11.
SFX:
Beep
MOUSE:
Mission plan, alternate. Report squelched, now available.
ANNOUNC:
Dateline, Year of our Moon Landing Plus 0. We've just heard the first word by a human standing on the moon, Neil Armstrong saying: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". Great stuff, and we even forgive him from dropping the small word 'a' from the line in the excitement. Covering emergency situations, NASA had several contingency scenarios in which the first man on the moon would have been Buzz Aldrin. He, of course, had a different idea of what to say while a billion people are listening. A number of lines were considered. As a matter of historical record, Shockwave presents:
The Top 11 Lines Buzz Aldrin was going to say if he had been first on the moon:
11. That's one giant leap for a man, one small step for mankind.
10. I now take this time to announce my candidacy for the Presidency.
9. Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter?
8. I hope we get back in time so I can go to Woodstock. I hear The Greatful Dead are going to be there, and it might be my last time to see them...
7. That's one small step... say, Houston, there's some footprints here already.
6. I just want to say something to Mary Jo Golardnik, who wouldn't go out with me in 9th Grade: Nyah, nyah, nyah.
5. The following is a paid commercial advertisement: Now that I'm here on the moon, I could really go for an ice cold Choka Cola.
4. Say, Houston, about that promotionÉ
3. Hey everybody, send me $1,000 dollars care of NASA and when I get back I'll send you an autographed picture.
2.
(interrupt, as Jason returns) Click here to read uninterrupted script
JASON:
Interrupt. Close link.
IZZY:
Jason! You're back! Where were you?
JASON:
Long story. Tell you later. But I've got to go now. Real life beckons. Time to turn off the computer.
IZZY:
But what about me?
JASON:
Your files are in memory, don't worry.
IZZY:
But I've learned so much, I want to continue to ride the shockwave. And I don't need you to do it.
JASON:
Hey now...
SFX:
Autoword Beep
MILLIE:
Autoword: MilliEagleton. One percent of confidence. Example sentence...
IZZY:
Mouse!
MOUSE:
Moving.
MINNIE:
File. Edit. Grok.
SFX:
Menu beep
MINNIE:
Grok. Encyclopedia. Dictionary.
SFX:
Menu beep
KINI:
Dictionary: English. Spelling: Counts. Obscure references: Background. Autoword: Off.
JASON:
Well! I tell you what. I'm going to shut down the Great Hall Monitor, but I'll leave the CPU on, and you can ride the wave all you want. Deal?
IZZY:
Deal!
JASON:
And would you do the honors for me.
IZZY:
Shut down sequence.
SFX:
Main music up.
ANNOUNC:
You're Riding the Shockwave was written and produced by David E Romm for Shockwave hypertext radio. All rights reserved if not downright shy.
Cast:
Jane Yolen as Capt. Audio
Brian Westley as Sancho Panza, Lloyd Preservus, etc.
Jerry Stearns as Walter Mumble
David E Romm as Jason Reignboutghs
Jeff McNair as Don Quixote, Gene Timo
Mike MacKinnon as Bardo ThÖdol, etc.
Denny Lein as the voice of the computer/Virgil Reality
Sharyl Lies as "Plastics", etc.
Terry A. Garey as Izzy Apikoiros
Ed Eastman as Mouse, Tupak Amaru Ayday, etc.
Kara Dalkey as Minnie the Manic Menu Selection, Clerk, Ellen Gone
Sheila Campbell as Milli the Autoword
Ruth Anderson as Kini the Depressed Radio Button, etc.
with
Hillary Posner and John Houghton as the Time Travellers
Music by Rox Poorductions, Communique Mulitmedia USA, Zimmerman/Lenander
Special effects by Jerry Stearns
Engineering by Ulf Higgenbothem and the Great Hall Crew
Audio Playback by Janet L. Moe
Research by Jane Biggers
Thanks to Minicon 30 and KFAI 90.3FM Minneapolis and 106.7FM St. Paul.
It is now safe to shut down your computer<.