Angelique Radio Drama CD: Farewell, Labyrinth - download + synopsis

[indigozeal.livejournal.com]

No, it's not the metal angels, but it's pretty interesting on its own.

OK, I think we've all seen this image:


(Image ganked from neo-romance.net; my scanner finally had the good grace to brick itself completely.)

Have you ever wondered what's going on in it, though? It looks like at first glance like the Guardians are taking a desert holiday. What's with Sturgis angel Oscar, though? And a holiday wouldn't explain this:



Clavis. Smiling. While standing next to Julious.

It's more unusual than you'd expect - sort of a Fushigi no Koku no Randy and Marcel, except riffing on RPGs instead of Alice in Wonderland. It eventually, though, takes a left turn into the unexpected.

You can download the CD here. A synopsis with partial translations along the way is available here. Please let me know if this translation/synopsis format works for you folks; if so, I'll use it to cover Gaiden 1: Metal Angels with Assault Weaponry A Scale of Infinite Notes. Any suggestions on how to improve matters are welcome.

Note: if you can understand Japanese well enough to follow a drama CD, then please take a listen instead of reading my synopsis to find out what's going on; it's a quickly-paced drama CD, and part of the fun is discovering where the story is headed.


On other business: you'll forgive me if I use this opportunity to ask the comm some advice on a few tangentally-related, actually-OT matters:


1) I just got a PSP. The glass screen collects dust horribly, even when it's tucked away safely in its box in a drawer. I'm scared that, eventually, some of those specks are going to work their way beneath the screen through the seam between the screen and the casing and muck up my view of the game permanently. Is there any way to prevent this? (Screen protectors, in my experience with a DS, don't prevent dust from entering those seams, and since I'm keeping the PSP in its box, I doubt a carrying case would be of any further help.)

2) I need to touch up an old website, and I'd like to get my HTML out of the early '00's. I know the basics of frames etc., but I'd like expand my knowledge beyond that to create an actually good-looking website by modern standards. Would anyone be able to recommend a site that has good upper-level HTML tutorials (and, while I'm at it, perhaps one for some basic Photoshop)?

3) Coincidentally, I just learned yesterday that my webhosting service is pulling the plug in about a month. Recommendations for a replacement host? (I don't have videos or anything bandwidth-gobbing on my sites; just text files and some images.)

Thanks again.

Comments

[indigozeal.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd seen that pic before listening to the summary, too, but I didn't think the truth was anything like this; I thought it was just a little fantastic "desert holiday" idea, myself.