{"id":680,"date":"2005-01-29T20:41:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/01\/29\/dr-wesnick-vs-the-brigadier\/"},"modified":"2005-01-29T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T01:41:53","slug":"dr-wesnick-vs-the-brigadier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/680","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Wesnick vs the Brigadier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2005\/01\/28\">Mario<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\">Anacrusis<\/a> reminds me of when my niece Kristi sponsored an interactive story at a defunct site called boards2go.com. I started an SF tale that lasted only 3 segments, without anyone else taking interest, before the whole thing imploded. Somehow I never mangaged to save any of it, but the directory still loads from the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010903101005\/www.boards2go.com\/boards\/board.cgi?user=celestial2000\">Wayback Machine<\/a>, in case there&#8217;s a wizard out there who knows how to get deeper into the archive (if it even exists). I still remember that an embryonic plot idea involved the conflict between the commander of a secret brigade and a pompous Dr. Wesnick, the lead physicist on a government project to perfect the &#8220;Quantum Coil,&#8221; which could inject a paramilitary team into &#8220;the Outer Zone.&#8221; Wesnick presumed the Brigadier was being paranoid when he questioned the randomness of the energy profile captured by the coil&#8217;s &#8220;wave discriminator.&#8221; Why of course, reader, the signature was being proffered by sinister lifestreams, and the fun was about to begin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario at Anacrusis reminds me of when my niece Kristi sponsored an interactive story at a defunct site called boards2go.com. I started an SF tale that lasted only 3 segments, without anyone else taking interest, before the whole thing imploded. Somehow I never mangaged to save any of it, but the directory still loads from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,26,18,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}