A Land Far Away

I rented a Ventrilo server for us to share. Think of it as a lounge where you can come and chat with ALFAns, not unlike the IRC channel that runs, except of course it is a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) rather than text medium (although you can also do text there as well). Ventrilo is pretty much standard (along with Teamspeak) as the virtual gathering that most modern gaming communities use to interact. Voice communication is quicker and less ambiguous than text, and adds a level of closeness. There are a number of rooms in there where you can separate and have smaller groupings of people (I will rename the rooms tonight). You also can just listen if that's how you're most comfortable. It has a text-to-voice feature where you can type and the words are "spoken" for others to hear. Things to do while you're there:

Meet the people in the community. Learn about the players as people.
Do all of the out of game coordination (when and where to meet next)
Have administrative meetings
Have all-hands meetings
Collaborate on building
Work out problems (DM / Player / administrative investigations and problem resolution)
Group as DMs to cooperate on a quest
go to private rooms as adventuring parties to handle all OOC communication
Talk / work through technical issues (installing, debugging, etc)

I really think this could go a long way to bringing the community together. Looking forward to chatting with you all.

Hostname
vent131.light-speed.com

Port
15095

Password: player password


You can get the client here:

http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

Thank you. You have an idea that you are interested in and are pursuing it to see if it will add value. The emotional investment in ALFA that is shown is appreciated.

Got on!

Heard Duck's RL voice.


Pretty cool toy!

Along with this, (I will be downloading along with all my replacement stuff after installing win 10) I for one have had skype conversations with groups of ALFAns and had great fun with it.

Anyone who wants to add me to their Skype contacts, just look for Gonz.0. Add me to your contacts, but identify you are from ALFA and handle or I would deny. Too many randoms to accept everyone.

I have trillian, and am also there as Gonz.0.

I greatly admire your effort to push community Duck. I'm glad to have you back with ALFA community, and ask only that you don't push so hard you burn out. One of the things I've found with ALFAn's is that many are difficult to stay in touch with, because we all have lives outside of ALFA. It can be frustrating when the ebbs and flows make it seem as if your effort is not proving fruitful.

Duck One wrote: Hostname
vent131.light-speed.com

Port
15095

Password: player password


You can get the client here:

http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

One should note, having set this up just now, that player password he is referring to, is the one used for getting into our servers that are still password protected. - found here - http://www.alandfaraway.info/servers

Ill get a mic this weekend sometime so that you all can hear the glory of my manly voice.