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VL: This is HallaCast, brought to you by administrators of HallaStar forums. Check us out at www.hallastar.ca.gs.

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VL: …And now, on with the show.

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VL: Okay, welcome to HallaCast… this is episode one.

[Fralf yawns]

VL: [Laughs] This is really informal. It’s probably not going to be the best episode ever: it’s going to suck… but it’s like what? Ten o’clock here? And we’re really… we had to get this episode out so Fralf signed on and I signed on and I said, “We need to get this episode out.” And… that’s exciting. I’m VL.

Fralf: I’m Fralf.

VL: But I’m known as… [Laughs] Yeah. I’m Brett in real life. And…

Fralf: I’m Taylor.

[Pause]

VL: And your forums user name is?

Fralf: ‘Fralf’. I said that…

VL: No you didn’t.

Fralf: Okay then…

VL: Whatever. We’re so cool that we’re here podcasting to you. Anyway, there’s not that much Pendragon news recently. I would just like to let everyone know that we’re going to do the news just to start every episode. Just to let you guys know what’s going on in the Pendragon universe. If in case you don’t know because the Pendragon fans that we all are… But today there’s really no news. So we’re going to go onto HallaStar news. Like today, well not today… But HallaStore is now open. You can buy stuff from that; and that’s a pretty cool place. You can go over… I’m just looking now… There’s shirts, there’s a mousepad, there’s a mug…

Fralf: There’s the ‘133k pin’.

VL: There are pins. The ‘133k pin’. Ugh… It’s a thing of beauty, I want to buy one, I swear. I wanna buy one so bad, you know. Two dollars and fifty cents… It’s just too much for me to pay. I’m just kidding: if you want to go over there and buy a ‘133k pin’, I would strongly recommend doing so.

Fralf: Yeah, I don’t have a credit card so I can’t do it.

VL: [Laughs] Well that’s what mooching is for, Taylor.

Fralf: Exactly.

VL: There’s so some sweaters… we just added actually a new shirt: the ‘Dimensions shirt’… and if you want to check that out you can. It’s really, really awesome, I like it. It’s my favorite one. Anyway, you can check out HallaStore at Cafepress.com/hallanet. That’s Cafepress.com/hallanet. Sign up for our newsletter. You subscribe to our newsletter and you can get all the new stuff before anyone else. I actually just send out a new newsletter. So… hopefully by the time this is out you’ll all know that there’s a new newsletter. You’ll know what’s going on. What else…?

VL: We just appointed a new graphic designer: Doomy. If you guys don’t know who Doomy is, she’s the incredible person who designed our logo. And if you look at it… it’s really nice. It’s a great logo. And now she’s doing a HallaWiki logo, so… she can e-mail me when that comes in… and… I don’t know when that will be. This is a little poke in the back, Doomy: Work on your logo… Come on. Anyway… [Laughs]

VL: But there’s really not much for us to talk about – oh, HallaWiki. We have a new main page on HallaWiki… and round of applause to everybody who did that. I think that was mostly… Who did that?

Fralf: Bella Swan…

VL: Alohasoy, was it?

Fralf: He’s the one who actually started it.

VL: …And I’m really sorry if I slaughtered anyone’s name on here because… I really suck at pronouncing names. So… HallaWiki’s pretty cool. If you don’t know what HallaWiki is it’s the free Pendragon encyclopedia that anyone can edit. We now have more than 169 articles, which is just… I think it’s amazing. And… I really have almost nothing to do with HallaWiki, and I wish I could say that I did have something to do with HallaWiki, but I really don’t. They do they’re own thing and they do a great job at it. So… you can check out HallaWiki at Hallawiki.wiki-site.com, which is, because I know that might be hard to spell: H-A-L-L-A-W-I-K-I dot W-I-K-I dash site dot com. So, check that out. Make an account over there, help us make it bigger, you know? It’s good, it’s... somewhat recognized by D.J. MacHale although I don’t want to say that. He knows about it, but he hasn’t approved it, so we’re not actually technically allowed to say that. But, you know, he’s… D.J.’s a cool guy, we should…

Fralf: Right. We have a new URL.

VL: Oh, that’s right we have a new URL. Why don’t you tell them what the new URL is.

Fralf: Yeah, we switched from the crappy .tk to hallastar.ca.gs.

VL: Yeah.

Fralf: Yes.

VL: Which is a Canadian URL but you guys are just going to have to live with that because…

Fralf: We’re Canadian.

VL: We’re Canadians and we’re better anyway, so…

Fralf: Milk comes in bags up here.

VL: Does it?

[Both laugh]

VL: I have never had milk in a bag.

Fralf: Neither have I. Apparently according to Americans we have it though. [Laughs]

VL: Yeah, it’s… we drink our milk out of the little zip lock bags just so y’all know. There, I said ‘y’all’, I’m turning into an American.

[Fralf laughs]

VL: And this podcast is really going bad, very fast, and we’re going to lose all of our listeners quite soon, so… yeah.

Fralf: ‘The Write Way to do it’ is back…?

VL: ‘The Write Way to do it’ is back.

Fralf: Walt is…

VL: Walt, our writing specialist is back, and Walt is crazy. If you haven’t… if you want to read some of his stuff he’s an awesome write, you can check it out… oh, this URL is so long… Okay, I don’t want to say the whole URL…

[Fralf laughs]

VL: …But it’s The Writers’ Guild. I’ll actually post a link to The Writers’ Guild… somewhere… I don’t know

Fralf: The affiliates box?

VL: You’ll probably… hmm?

Fralf: The affiliates box at the bottom.

VL: What – The affiliates box… We’re not affiliates, that’s the problem.

Fralf: I don’t know…

VL: But I’ll see what I can do. Well anyway, it’s a great site and Walt has a lot of his stuff there and he’s an awesome writer. Like, I read a lot of works. So… If you want to check out his writing. And, If you want to check out ‘The Write Way to do it’, it’s a forum under the Creative Corner at HallaStar. And you can just go learn how to write from Walt. And, he has one lesson out now… and I’m really happy because I use this workshops a lot in my writing. So, you guys should check that out. Anyway, that’s the news. The news, the news, the news. Anything else to add to that?

Fralf: Nope.

VL: Okay. Well, if you have any questions, then you can e-mail us at forums dot – well, that’s… wait... Yeah, e-mail us at… not forums, I’m getting thrown. E-mail us at hallacast@gmail.com. Which reminds me, I should probably say this: We need e-mail helpers. We need people to answer our e-mail and re-send them and stuff. So if you’re willing to dedicate yourself to that then check out on HallaStar… check out the staff applications thread under the Administration Office and you can apply to be a staff member there. And just fill out the application… and if you do want to be the e-mail helper, click ‘e-mail helper’… and then below in the detailed answer box, just specify which e-mail address you’d like to use.

VL: And then if you want to be the HallaStar e-mail checker, then you would put in ‘forums.hallastar@gmail.com’. If you wanted to be the HallaCast e-mail checker, put in ‘hallacast@gmail.com’. If you want to be the HallaWiki e-mail checker – we’ve already got one of those, Alohasoy does that, good job, and that would be ‘wiki.hallanet@gmail.com’… and finally if you just wanted to check all of HallaNet’s e-mail, then you can put down ‘hallanet@gmail.com’. And someday we might get a HallaSore e-mail up, but yeah, that could be a while. HallaStore’s not very big right now. And… that’s about it. So… that’s the news.

[Pause]

VL: So, what… we really don’t have a plan for this show, you know. We should, but we kind of spontaneously decided to record it. We were going to record it yesterday… then we got sidetracked… and then today because I had something to do… It’s… you guys have no idea how hard it is to record these things. But…

Fralf: There are so many factors. I had strep throat last week.

VL: Strep throat… I had strep throat once.

Fralf: Not fun.

VL: It sucks. And today I had… if you know anything on HallaStar… I’m in a band and we… Taylor’s did, too… we both had a band concert today and it was just long and boring and took a long time… And we’re finally here now, and we’re recording.

VL: So, theories… I think we’re just going to talk about the Convergence today. The Convergence, dududu… Alright, and there’s a Convergence thread on HallaStar if you want to check it out. It’s under Third Earth. The Convergence… I’m going to open it right now and get some theory ideas.

[Pause]

VL: Let’s see… HallaStar user ‘ajas_my_girl’ says… he thinks the Convergence is all the Territories coming together to form one massive Territory, which will undoubtedly cause mass confusion and chaos. I think Saint Dane will capitalize on when he tries to rise to power, to take control of this new Territory and control of Halla… and I like that theory, I think that’s… that’s what I think.

Fralf: Yeah, that’s actually what I thought since the beginning of the series.

VL: I almost wrote a fan fic about that once. But that’s beside the point. It’s… it’s possible… I don’t know, it’s… because I’ve heard so many theories that I like but I think that one’s the most… that’s what it seems to imply, is the Convergence: all the Territories are converging and coming together… and I think that’s how Bobby’s going to get off of Ibara. I really do.

Fralf: I think there’s just going to be the flume –

VL: Am I saying that right? That could be the one in Rubric City.

Fralf: Exactly.

VL: That one was… that was really… I was reading, sorry, I was re-reading.

Fralf: I thought the flume was buried.

VL: Well it is because he mentioned it in Pilgrims of Rayne… because he couldn’t get to it because it was buried under all the rubble…

Fralf: Okay, I’m missing something…

VL: …in Rubric City. Well, you only read books once and I read it like three times.

Fralf: Yeah.

[Pause]

VL: Um, but… it’s a complicated thing. I don’t know… we know so little about it. But… and… we’re expected to talk… [Laughs] I think it’s defiantly going to play an important part in… Raven Rise?

Fralf: Yeah.

VL: But… [Laughs] We’re not very interesting talkers today.

Fralf: Yeah.

VL: But, yeah. It’s, I mean, what do you expect, it’s a podcast. Podcasts aren’t supposed to be interesting. You guys listen to this for the cheesiness. I mean, you know you do. You might be saying you aren’t but you know you do.

[Fralf laughs]

[Pause]

VL: Yeah, there’s really not much more… You guys really need to get talking, because like the Java Booth, sure. I mean, tons of talking. At the Jukebox, great. One of my favorite forums. It’s currently actually… it’s got the most posts in it, The Jukebox so far. Well, the most topics anyway. And…

Fralf: The most posts is the Java Booth.

VL: The most posts is the Java Booth. The bottom line is –

Fralf: 500.

VL: 500, are you kidding me?

Fralf: No. [Laughs]

VL: We better sell some Java Booth stuff soon. But really, I mean, it’s… this is a Pendragon site, right? It’s not just a bunch of ‘talk about anything in the Coffee Corner’ or whatever it’s called – Java Booth.

[Fralf laughs]

VL: So…

Fralf: You can’t even remember the name of it.

VL: Yeah, shut up. So you guys need to, I mean, I wouldn’t want to lock the Java Booth, I mean, that would be terrible.

Fralf: Scare tactics.

VL: I know.

Fralf: We’ll lock the Java Booth if you don’t post more often in other forums!

[VL laughs]

VL: You know it’s a hollow threat. You know I wouldn’t do that. I mean, I don’t know, you need to… The forum The Flume. Zero posts. It’s the only one –

Fralf: … and zero topics.

VL: … on our entire site that has zero replies.

Fralf: This fandom is boring.

VL: What?

Fralf: Not the fans, though.

VL: Yeah, this fandom is interesting, I mean we’re interesting… right? We’re interesting… yeah, we are.

[VL laughs]

VL: Yeah, so you need to post in the ‘Halla Awaits…’ category, because really, that’s what this site is about and I see Alohasoy said under Third Earth in the Convergence. He said that we need to get discussing. That’s the kind of stuff I like to see, is the motivational ‘you need to talk’… and that’s what moderators are for. Moderators know what they’re doing, but you other guys… you better get cracking.

[Pause]

VL: Oh, the chatbox is back. The chatbox was gone for a while, it’s back now.

Fralf: You mean for like a day. [Laughs]

VL: We’re really not very interesting, so… how about if we read some fan fiction. How’s that sound?

[Pause]

VL: Hello?

Fralf: Oh, sorry. Yes.

VL: Hello?

Fralf: I think your mic cut out.

VL: Hello? Oh, it sucks when that happens. Alright, let’s read some fan fiction. I really hope D.E dosen’t mind that we’re reading her fan fiction on HallaCast. I don’t think she will. But… I’ll PM her right now telling her that we are. But yeah, why don’t you do that, Fralf, and I’ll just start reading.

VL: Alright this is D.E’s fan – Oh… is this the Saint Dane / Nevva fan fic…? I really hope not…

[Both laugh]

VL: Oh, I like this one, I’ll read it. Alright, this is ‘Just Like the Fairy-Tales’ by Defying.Expectations from HallaStar.

[VL begins to read]

“So you see,” Nevva concluded, “the only way we can stop Saint Dane now is if we use his own methods against him. That’s why I’ve come to you, Mark – I cannot do this alone, and I need someone who is more familiar with the Earth territories than I to accompany me. I wouldn’t want to do anything drastically ignorant or dim-witted.”

“Of course,” he whispered. He was falling into her trap without hesitation. She was playing her part well.

With a quick, almost imperceptible glance at ‘Andy Mitchell’, who was watching her with the perfect expression of strange shock and confusion, she continued. “The turning point for all three Earths is drawing nearer, and Saint Dane is preparing to tip them into the wrong direction. But if we change the direction of the Earth territories ourselves, we can trick him, and thus keep things right.”

“So what can I . . .?” Mark Dimond trailed off uncertainly.

“You’ll have to forgive my – imposing,” she said delicately, “but I have been following what you and your friend Andy have been creating recently, this Forge technology. If you bring this to First Earth, you will change the future of all three of the Earth territories, which would throw Saint Dane entirely off-balance.”

Dimond bit his lip. “This all sounds great in theory, Nevva. But . . . changing the future of all three territories . . . I know we’re trying to stop Saint Dane, but this doesn’t seem . . . what if something backfires?”

“I know this is a lot to take in, but you have to trust me. Not only will this chain of events cause Saint Dane to lose your Second Earth – not only will your home territory be safe – ” she paused for a moment “ – but your parents will also survive.”

[VL stops reading]

VL: So, if you want to read the rest of that, you have to check it out, the ‘D.E’s Pen Scribbles’ section on the Pendragon fan fiction forum. So… that’s the fan fiction. That’s an excellently written fan fiction, by the way.

VL: Hello?

Fralf: Yeah, I actually really like her work.

VL: Yeah, I really like… I can’t write fan fiction, myself. So… I try but it dosen’t work. Like my ‘Lost Territories’ fan fic. Someday…

Fralf: Speaking of which, you have to update that.

VL: What?

Fralf: Speaking of which, you –

VL: Oh yeah, I should update that sometime. It’s a hard thing to write… We kind of just went off the deep end on this episode… because you guys are probably expecting structured Pendragon discussion but you’re not going to get that if you’re listening to this podcast. This is…

Fralf: We kind of winged it.

VL: We’re just winging it this time, next time –

Fralf: That’s what I said.

VL: …will probably be more structured.

Fralf: Next time we do it.

VL: Yeah, next time we will be a little more structured. But this time, I mean, it’s just what we want to talk about. That at any given time. I mean, we’re kind of devoting this, this is sort of our HallaStar episode, and we tried talking about the Convergence. At least give us that. We tried to talk about the Convergence for a bit. [Laughs]

Fralf: Yeah, we just don’t have much on it.

VL: No. There’s not enough material; you guys need to get posting… Yes… I would love to devote an entire show to the Convergence but it’s not going to work if you guys don’t give us some material to work with.

Fralf: Oh, and post what you think we should talk about next week.

VL: Yeah, in the HallaCast forum just talk about what you think we should talk about next week. Just hit my nice litter ‘New Thread’ button.

Fralf: Oh yeah, I forgot, there’s new buttons.

VL: Oh, those are awesome! Did you not see those? I made those myself on Microsoft Paint.

Fralf: Oh, good job. [Laughs]

VL: I have better programs, I just didn’t feel like it right then, so…

[Loud typing]

VL: [Mutters] Ideas for future episodes…

[Loud typing continues]

VL: [Mutters] Topic description… what do YOU think we should talk about?

[Typing continues]

VL: [Mutters] With the release of HallaCast number one, what do you, in all it’s informalities [Stops muttering, typing continues] - See I’m great at writing posts - Tongue smiley. I use too many of those smiles.

Fralf: Yeah, I use the ‘XD’ thing too much.

[Typing continues]

VL: I’m pretty sure the smiley…

Fralf: I don’t think I can get through a post without that ‘XD’ thing.

VL: [Continues to type] What do you think… we should talk about on incoming episodes?

[Stops typing]

VL: I’m all mad because ‘Family Guy’ is on. You guys are lucky because I’m missing ‘Family Guy’ to do HallaCast, so… [Continues to type]

Fralf: Oh! We should probably put in our question.

VL: [Stops typing] Oh! The Quillan Games! Oh, I had that all thought up! The Quillan Games.

Fralf: We should put it in every one –

VL: Okay guys, this is our question for The Quillan Games: Alright… I should probably think of a question for The Quillan Games…

[Both laugh]

VL: As you can tell, we put a lot of work into this. Alright, here’s what we want you to do for the Quillan Games. We want you to tell us… the first person to post this message in the Quillan Games thread in the HallaCast forum will win a shout out on the show next week. So, the first question is: On HallaWiki… let’s see… wait a minute…

[Fralf laughs]

VL: Popular pages… Which page other than the main page has the most views on HallaWiki? Alright, remember that. Which page on HallaWiki has the most views other than the main page? Alright, so that’s your question for this week, and you can answer that on the Quillan Games thread on the forums. And Alohasoy, you’re not allowed to answer because I know you probably know this off by heart.

[Fralf laughs]

Fralf: I don’t think he’s that into it, is he?

VL: Oh no, I’m not like making fun of him or anything. I’m just saying… you’re… not allowed to answer because you’re too good. Let’s see who else… Ruler. Well, Ruler can answer I guess, he’s not the HallaWiki sort of…

VL: I’m sorry guys, I’m really stuffed up tonight, and… yeah… I’m kind of sick. But that’s okay: I still managed to record HallaCast! That’s how devoted we are… Well, what else can we talk about, there’s really… It just kind of sucks.

Fralf: Yeah.

VL: [Sighs] This is the stupidest episode I’ve ever heard. We’re done.

Fralf: Actually, right now I’m making a sub forum under –

VL: Oh, you are?

Fralf: …HallaWiki for the Quillan Games.

VL: You mean HallaCast.

Fralf: Yeah, HallaCast. Yeah. Just so it’s not fluttering up the main part of it.

VL: Yeah, that’s probably a good idea. Right… So you hear that? Go to the sub forum. Don’t make a thread, go to the sub forum. [Sniffles] Oh my God, I’m sick. Oh… let’s see… What else Pendragon related can we talk about? I don’t know… we really don’t have much to talk about because you guys don’t tell us what you want to hear us talk about. So, if you have any ideas, post them in the thread on HallaStar, e-mail us at hallacast@gmail.com. You know, I mean… gosh darn it… because I’m not allowed to swear on the air.

[Fralf laughs]

VL: We have young listeners from what I hear. Well, I don’t know how young. We have some… probably.

[Pause]

VL: Anyway, also from next week on, we might be doing a Featured Fan segment. How’s that sound?

[Faint clicking]

Fralf: Yeah.

[Clicking continues]

VL: Taylor?

Fralf: Yeah. We’ll do it next week.

VL: Just a little thing to tell our members how much we like they’re work… I was going to say ‘love’ but that would sound bad, so… yeah… How much we love them in a completely non-sexual and friendly way.

[Clicking continues]

Fralf: Yeaa – [Laughs] I like it how awkward we just got.

[Both laugh]

VL: Awkward silence. I like awkward silences. Anyway, we really don’t have much more to talk about. [Laughs] This really sucks. If you’re still listening to this at this point, I mean, you’re a trooper.

[Pause]

VL: If you’re still listening to this at this point, send us an e-mail at hallacast@gmail.com, and just tell us what retards we are.

Fralf: [Laughs] Yeah, we’re actually accepting any criticism.

VL: We do, we do. I actually love being criticized. Taylor knows I love being criticized.

Fralf: Mhmm. [Laughs]

VL: Don’t even talk. Hopefully soon if you guys are interested, we might get some HallaCast merchandise up in the HallaStore. Like, tee-shirts maybe. Who knows. Fralf: Yeah, maybe we could get some inside jokes for it.

VL: Inside jokes… We need to use some inside jokes. There’s not enough of those.

Fralf: Well, there’s 133k, we have that.

VL: Hmm?

Fralf: Well, we have the 133k ones.

VL: The 133k one… “Are you 133k?!” I like that, it took my so long to make, too.

[Fralf laughs]

VL: No, it actually did because you have to make the… you guys don’t even understand these things you don’t just go onto MS Paint and throw some stuff there. There’s templates you have to go on and there’s image size regulations and… I have this program called Gimp and it’s just… hard to use. That’s how I make all my stuff.

[Pause]

VL: I really like that new tee-shirt, I want one. They come in three colors: I want a blue one. I like the color blue… or maybe gray, grays better, grays a cool color, too.

Fralf: I don’t think I’d ever actually buy something on there.

VL: I’d buy one, I just wouldn’t wear it to school because I’m not going to wear a forum thing to school. I mean, my internet lives and my real lives are, like, completely separated. I might buy a mouse pad, I want a mouse pad… and a cup. I want a mug.

Fralf: I actually need a mouse pad so I might as well get a HallaStar one.

VL: A mouse pad?

[Pause]

VL: Hello?

Fralf: Hello.

VL: Hello? Yeah, you cut out for a second. I want the sweater sort of, not really that much… I want the mouse pad, and I want a 133k pin. So… that’s what I want. That’s my wish list, I want there to be a wish list on this thing.

Fralf: Can we have a 133k shirt?

VL: Can we have a 133k shirt? No, I mean, you may have just spoiled something that’s in the progress. [Fake cough] Cough, cough.

[Fralf laughs]

VL: Thank you, Fralf. Word is out, word is out!

Fralf: Well I didn’t know…

VL: The 133k shirt is coming… someday…

Fralf: I hope there’s an explosion on the HallaStore.

VL: What?

Fralf: I hope there’s like, an explosion on the HallaStore.

VL: Hello?

Fralf: Yay, 133k shirt!

VL: 133k shirt… no, like the day the 133k shirt comes out, we will have like 50,000 new members because that shirt is going to be so… 133k. That shirt is going to be so 133k, it’s 133k. That’s right…

[Pause]

VL: Well, we’re just kind of babbling now so everybody, this has been HallaCast episode one. I hope you’ll keep listening after this disaster. But, I really doubt it. Next episode will be better, more structure, more discussion, more awesome stuff… Maybe even some fan fun interaction stuff, I don’t know. Just fun stuff like that. So, we’ll be back next week with another episode of HallaCast. This is VL signing off.

Fralf: …and this is Fralf.

VL: Alright, see you next week, guys.

[Silence]

Fralf: [Laughs] So, should I stop recording right now?