{"id":2684,"date":"2013-01-31T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2013-01-31T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:08:29","slug":"making-plans-for-dio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"Making Plans For Dio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laval Industries today announced plans for <a title=\"dio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dio<\/a>. &#8220;<em>We&#8217;re only making plans for dio, we only want what&#8217;s best for them, we&#8217;re only making plans for dio, dio just needs this helping hand<\/em>&#8221; Laval Industires chief development officer told me in a top secret meeting today. Three interactive fiction titles are already in the works.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Search For Hod Rumble<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hod Rumble, CEO of technology company Lendin Laboratories, has gone missing. Customers of Lendin Laboratories main product, Alternative Existence, haven&#8217;t seen hide or hair of Hod Rumble for months. In this compelling story you will get to choose a companion to help you in your search for Hod Rumble and this will determine which storyline you follow.\u00a0 Companions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former CEO and technology pioneer Philip Eladesor.<\/li>\n<li>Blogger and author James Amadeus Oh<\/li>\n<li>Industry superstar Harper Robins<\/li>\n<li>Ace developer and producer Little Bo Bargrass<\/li>\n<li>The Lord of Dee &#8230; this guy is like Hitchcock, he appears in all his own productions!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As well as different storylines determined by the character, plans are afoot for different storylines within the storylines &#8220;<em>This is confusing us too<\/em>&#8221; a developer at Laval Industries confided in me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>High Tier Anxiety<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this enthralling financial adventure you play a roleplaying sim owner struggling to make ends meet in an unnamed virtual world. Will you make new products? Improve your advertising? Spend too much time blogging or arguing in the forums?<\/p>\n<p>Can you fight off the terrifying Marketplace monster in time to generate enough income to pay your bill? Will you campaign for prices to be lowered by joining the activists in The Tier Is Too Damn High Party or will you simply end up being told &#8220;<em>It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.<\/em>&#8221; *EDITOR&#8217;s COMMENT &#8211;\u00a0 CAN WE GET AWAY WITH ZORK REFERENCES?* *BLOGGER&#8217;S COMMENT &#8211; SHHHHHH*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Third Title<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The third title hasn&#8217;t even got a title, although sources tell me it may involve grog, taverns, pirates, females with heaving bosoms and impossible cleavage. Plans for this title were apparently drawn up in a pub, which was full of pirates and females with heaving bosoms and impossible cleavage. An insider told me &#8220;<em>And all the world is football-shaped, It&#8217;s just for me to kick in space<\/em>&#8221; I informed the unnamed insider that I would get back to him when he wasn&#8217;t in a pub with XTC&#8221;s greatest hits in jukebox.<\/p>\n<p>dio, it&#8217;s cool!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>disclaimer<\/strong> &#8211; All of this could very well be tongue in cheek and never see the light of day, our advice is to not hold your breath waiting for these products to appear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2684\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-plusone\" data-annotation=\"inline\" data-width=\"300\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- Place this tag after the last +1 button tag. --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() {     var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;     po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);   })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laval Industries today announced plans for dio. &#8220;We&#8217;re only making plans for dio, we only want what&#8217;s best for them, we&#8217;re only making plans for dio, dio just needs this helping hand&#8221; Laval Industires chief development officer told me in a top secret meeting today. 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