First off, Sooraya and I want to wish you all the best for 2009! May it bring you gil, levels and adventures all over Vana’diel!
We’ll be kicking off HS/SS 2009 soon enough again after a short holiday break. You have no idea how busy it’s gotten with Hyozan and all the new transfees! We’re very honored to welcome many new adventurers into our linkshell, solely from the HS/SS listeners. I have some exciting news for you HS/SS fans, though!
To prevent the episodes from getting TOO long in the future, we’re introducing a new segment that’s a seperate release from the main show. “Vana’diel Says..!” will cover the emails that have more in-depth backstories. We’ve been getting quite a few of these elaborate e-mails that are very long and take some time to edit (both the actual e-mail as well as the audio). Most of the stories are facinating, though, and to preserve the core of each letter, we’ll present them in this seperate release with two or sometimes three adventurers per episode where we’ll read their personal stories.
It’s a way for us to alleviate the main show from potential lengths, but still go through the letters sent in. We understand that as the show goes on, we will get more and more e-mails (hopefully!) and we can’t always fit them all into one episode. Considering we’re an e-mail show, we don’t think cutting e-mails is an option at all (unless it’s just in an incorrect format for the show).
We have a good backlog for this so keep an eye for “Vana’diel Says” after the next episode of “He Says, She Says”! Please understand that we cannot fit all e-mails in one show, and if your e-mail is not read on air, just wait it out. We will get to them!
We’re also thinking of an extra segment, but we’ll have to see how we want to do that first.
As usual, thank you for your support and keep them coming!