WTF? Where'd he go?

The reason this is so late is that it's so late.   Make sense?  Basically, I had plans to just take a week off in August and come back with a season ender. 

Then the next week came and I just couldn't work myself up to it, because at that point I really felt like there would be no more City of Stories, and I didn't really want to say "good bye."  I could write a long post about why the 'cast didn't work out, but really, I'm probably the only one who cares.  FWIW, I'm actually on a hiatus from the game as well.

Now for the good news.  Mint Condition Studios is not going away, and I'm going back to podcasting.  You heard me talk about wanting to get beyond the CoX only world of City of Stories, as it was limiting the podcast and me personally.  Additionally, it was a lot of work to produce a solo show once a week.  So this week we're recording the pilot for a show I'm producing and co-hosting, a new podcast called theScrape which will be a news scan and personality podcast.  Think somewhere between Diggnation, Wingin It and TWiT.  The pilot for that show will hopefully go out on this feed in the next week or so, and hopefully I'll have a website at "theScrape.com" soon.

The fact that the show will be all ours (no NCSoft/Cryptic IP to worry about) also means that we can market it and accept sponsors and/or other compensations if we need to to make up for the long hours we'll be working on it.   Stories always had to walk that fine line waiting for a Cease and Desist from the IP nazis. 

Alright, so there it is.  Thanks for your patience, sorry I wasn't able to explain sooner and I hope you enjoy theScrape as much as you enjoyed City of Stories.  In fact I hope you enjoy it more, tell all your friends, and help us build the audience to levels we only dreamed of with Stories.