Hello? HELLO?! can ... hear me? This is The Unknowable Conservatory! We're ....! Can you hear....I....adjust.... the red one.... Is....that..looks stable. Let me....ok. That's good. Hello! We're back! Whew....what a.. Where do I begin? Well, probably from the beginning, just to set things up. My name is Dan-..., Dre-...., Dante Pendragon. About a year ago, I was minding my own business in a place called New Jersey, when I was somehow magically transported here, to the world of Adstrata. But when I arrived here, I arrived trapped and imprisoned in the magically hidden remains of an arcane university that no one can find and I cant tell you about because of an ancient curse put in place to ensure that the evil, undead entity now known as Tony Pepperoni remains trapped inside these walls and away from the world. In the months since i have arrived, I have been exploring the confines of my prison, and, until a few weeks ago, was broadcasting out to Adstrata my goings on as well as sharing stories from others in your world. I have been calling the show "Escape...from Unknowable Conservatory" but you Adstrata, have come to call it....the News Im going to assume you can hear me. Im pretty sure this new equipment is working as expected. First. Everyone is fine. There was not a massive earthquake like I thought, it was ...well we'll get to that. Tony and I made it out safely, although the top room of the tower where we broadcast from got wrecked. Our equipment got destroyed, the whole space was just utterly...it was a mess. So I'm on new equipment! and I'm really excited about it. Everything got destroyed so I figured Id start over with something better! So I can walk around now and transmit from anywhere. Well, anywhere on campus of course. Still trapped here... But I made it myself! It's my first real creation here in Adstrata! I've really been working hard on taking advantage of the fact that I AM stuck inside, from what I understand, is the only facility of its kind to have ever existed. There are resources here that don't exist anywhere else in the world, and I need to keep looking for answers in them. Alright...time for the elephant in the room. Tony. Tony is still here but we arent really talking right now. In fact I MAY have left their head on a crate in the basement. The last time you heard from us, the last time we did a show, there was a massive earthquake. I thought the whole tower was going to come down so when I started to feel it I grabbed Tony and ran outside as fast as I could. The earthquake devestated our room at the top of the tower and almost killed us. Luckily we were able to get out, but everything else in there got destroyed. Or.....That is what I THOUGHT happened..... What ACTUALLY happened is that Tony has been hiding a massive egg in the basement of the tower. Apparently for a LONG time. Like... from when they still had a body time long time. So at the back end of the basement, behind a false wll there is a hidden room full that is FULL of Tony's old stuff. Dead center in the room is a giant freaking egg! That apparently is getting close to hatching....or close in a relative sense. It's been siting dormant for hundreds of years so there's no way to know how much longer it will be. Could be days, could be decades. Tony was trying to keep me from finding out, thats why they kept interrupting me every time I wanted to explore the basement. Listeners, let me tell you...This thing is freaking huge! Like it's too big. It must have grown considerably over the years because there is no way to have gotten it down there at that size. Whatever is inside of it...is going to be too big to get out. Or its really going to wreck stuff when it hatches... After getting the whole story out of them, I decided to leave Tony down in the basement for a while. I just cant with them right now. That thing almost killed us! They could have told me, we could have been not at the top of a ancient tower that might fall apart at a moment's notice. Sometimes I forget that they are an EVIL undead entity. When someone demands that you call them Tony Pepperoni, you forget that the whole reason you can't leave is because they were so evil that people basically gave up the academic study of magic for the entire world just to make sure that Tony can't get back out into the world. I don't know... It seems like they're regretful. Maybe they didn't think it would get that big or do that much damage. It's not like they can just walk down the stairs and go check on it. Now that I think I have gotten my new equipment working and we have had some time apart, I feel like I should probably go grab them. After this show. I think missing the show will be a good punishment. Also, I'm not sure I want to leave them alone for too long...for a number of reasons. Ok, so that's the deal with Tony. We ... are a little short of segments today, but for now at least, I can share a little bit about Life inside the conservatory As the seasons have started to change, so has life here inside of the Conservatory. To start with...I have moved out of the tower and into the old dormatory. Knowing that the egg might hatch any time now and cause the whole tower to crumble, I figured it would be safer to NOT be living there. The dorms were not as comfortable as the large rooms in the tower. I think it was probably faculty housing in the tower, where everyone had their own room amd their own space. I'm pretty sure the other building was dorms for the students. Really they were nothing more than barracks. There were a few large rooms that each had a few sets of bunks with a pair of footlockers near each one. Ive started dismantling the bunks and piled everything into one of the rooms. I'm tying to set up one of the rooms into a bit of a grande suite, like an 80s college movie. If I can ever figure out how to get a hot tub and a foosball table up in there, I'll be set. Do you have anything like foosball? its a table with a bunch of little guys all attached to a several sticks....and you spin the sticks so the guys kick the ball...probably not... Down the hall from my room is the library. I have slowly begun trying to read some of the books in there. I have gotten pretty good about like...reading the letters and figuring out the sounds they make, but I dont know all of the words. Some don't really translate well. Some of it...just kind of makes sense in your head. Like... I look at it, and its not translated for me, but...it...gives me an idea. One book helped me build my new recording equipment, one taught me how to start a fire using magic, which I anticipate being handy as things are starting to get colder here as winter approaches. Overall my magic has been improving. Last time I could make a bubble, now I can do all kinds of practical stuff like lighting fires. Magic here doesn't work like it does in the stories back in my world. Anyone can do it, but it often is just as difficult as different way. To a poinless degree sometimes. For example, lighting a fire with magic you basically make the same movements as using a flint and steel, you just don't need the flint and steel. It doesn't even catch on the first try! You still have to try it 3 or 4 times. or at least I do...maybe that gets better with practice? All the stories in my world, magic users can just wave their hand. I'm...a little disappointed honestly. Reach out and let me know if you have any interesting ways that you use magic where you are. Downstairs is the 'grand' hall. I think it was probably a mess hall/all-purpose type room. Food keep showing up. The spirit thing that also lives here makes a nice spread. As much as I want to get out of here...food wise, I'm pretty well taken care of. What else.... I guess that is really it. I'm sorry, I haven't been able to receive any messages or anything from anyone, but I'm back now so please start reaching out again. We need some community updates, some ideas on how to bring Tony back, and please let me know about some Adstrata winter traditions or festivities that I should know about. Maybe I'll share some of mine or we can create something new. Thanks for coming back everyone! I'm happy to start things up again! It can get really lonely here alone...I get why after a few hundred years someone might be... Next time we will be back, with Tony....and...I'm really hoping not anything else. I have been Dante Pendragon. This has been the news, and as always...please....help get me out of here!