Welcome to Schmeldritch

In October 2006, we started laying our plans for an episodic, immersive narrative experience: a thriller about security, nightmares, suffering, hopelessness and Pandora's boxes all rolled together through the lens of H.P. Lovecraft's "weird fiction" legacy. In April 2007, Eldritch Errors launched with a flurry of strange packages, cryptic Craigslist ads from a goth psychic plagued by nightmares, and a bickering community of Internet security experts. By the time you encounter this blog in early September 2007, we'll have reached the end of the "first book" in this on-going series, "The Providence Prophecies," and be entering the "first interlude" -- the less narratively intense breathers in between books.

Schmeldritch is something that happens in between the episodes of Eldritch. It is an opportunity to share some tidbits from behind the scenes and some "how to" tutorials for other immersive narrativists dissecting the production. It is a place to discuss intent and theory with the participants, the audience and the broader community of other experimental storytellers. We have a substantial two-year arc sketched out for Eldritch, so there will always be a huge number of topics that we choose to keep tight-lipped about (we don't want to ruin any surprises.) What we post here at Eldritch, though, is meant to stimulate discussion (don't be shy at striking up conversations with us in the comments!)

Interludes aren't particularly long, though. And once the interlude is over and the more intense action starts unfolding again, Schmeldritch will be a quiet place until the next interlude.