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RailWalker News: The animated series Keys is finally done! That's right, Chapter Five is now finished and uploaded, concluding the series at last. The final chapter is a big one - it clocks in at 8 minutes, 45 seconds, almost 5 MB - twice the length of any of the previous episodes. Hey, there was a lot to cram in there, but I promised I'd finish with Five, and I did... consider it the equivalent of one of those two-hour television season finales.
I've also made watching Keys a little easier, especially for those on slower connections. The annoying crow calls which seemed to go on forever while the movies were loading have been removed. Now the crows only start cawing when the movie is loaded and ready to run.
Hey, where's the intro animation?
NOTE: Clicking on the titles or pictures below will open a new browser window (a "popup window" - it is not an ad). In most cases, this new window will have no toolbar or menubar, but it will have it's own interior navigation.
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The previous chapter ended with Brick recounting the first time the Crows ever spoke to him - now we finally get to experience that encounter, and the first steps Brick took on the path toward becoming the Urban Shaman we know today.
The final chapter is a big one - it clocks in at 8 minutes, 45 seconds, almost 5 MB, so please be patient.
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| Keys: The Complete Movie
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For those high-bandwidth folks who want their Keys experience uninterrupted by chapter breaks, I'm making a couple of options available. You can watch online, or download to your own home machine, in either Flash or Quicktime form. If you're going to watch online, even with a fast connection, I'd suggest going with the Quicktime version - there may be lags between chapters in the Flash version.
I was hoping the Quicktime versions would allow pausing, but alas, Quicktime inherits Flash's method of handling sound, so pausing will still cause the sound and image to get out of synch.
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| A Good
Night to Die |
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 Long
out of print, the very first RailWalker story has now been reformatted for the
web.
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| The Call: 9-1-1
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 Part
of the Shaman's job is to conduct the dead from this world to the next. Sometimes
that's even tougher than it sounds.
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| RailWalker at Rites
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 Shamans
and witches and psychics, oh, my! Brick discovers there's a whole sub culture
of people who walk paths as strange as his when he attends the pagan festival
called Rites of Spring.
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Where's the intro?
Flash intro pages have been done to death. They were cool when we first started using them - even if many of them were overdone. New to animating, I got caught up in the enthusiasm, and initially opened the RailWalker site with an 870K animated intro. But I noticed that after the first few weeks, even I bookmarked the second index page, so I could skip the animation. I decided enough, already. If you want to see the original intro, it's here:
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