Myers House Pre-Show 1 10/30/2002

Neo_Geo_84: 07:32:00

First check-in of the day. Anyone know if they officially announced the final six yet? The audition lines yesterday at the student union were insane.

Buffering_God: 07:42:20

Testing the connection from my office T1 line. If this stream lags on a corporate network on Thursday, I'm demanding my $15 back from Freddie.

SpookyGirl_02: 08:02:00

Good morning!! I heard a rumor that a girl named Sara from the psychology department made the cut. She's super sweet, I hope she wins.

GoreHound_Y2K: 08:24:10

Psychology department? Great, so she's gonna try to analyze the ghost of Michael Myers instead of running for her life. Boo. Bring on the screams.

Haddonfield_Local_02: 08:46:40

The student union should have never allowed Harris to hold auditions on campus. This entire town is treating a massacre like a carnival. Disgusting.

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:51:50

@Haddonfield_Local_02 Dude, why are you even lurking on the Dangertainment site if you hate it so much? Just turn off your monitor lol.

X_File_Guy: 09:15:30

Did anyone see the local news broadcast this morning? They interviewed Freddie outside the motel. He looked like he hadn't slept in three days. Nora must be riding his ass about the hardware.

Chas_M: 09:26:40

My buddy tried out yesterday. He said Freddie made him do his best 'scared face' on camera while shouting about oatmeal. The guy is a total trip.

Scream_Queen: 09:54:00

I just want to know what the prize is. Is there a cash reward for staying the whole night or do they just get their fifteen minutes of AOL fame?

Freddie_H_Official: 10:00:00

Morning internet! 😉 @Scream_Queen The real prize is surviving the house of the Boogeyman! (And maybe a very juicy corporate sponsorship contract with Dangertainment LLC, stay tuned!)

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 10:04:10

Oh snap, the man himself is awake. Hey Freddie, give us a hint on the other contestants. Did that guy with the tripod camera make it?

Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 10:15:10

MOD NOTE: Cleaning up a batch of duplicate spam comments. Keep the chat focused on the event setup, please. Server logs are hitting peak limits.

Myers_Was_Framed: 10:28:20

I bet the whole thing takes place on a soundstage. There's no way the county let them inside the actual house after what happened in '78 and '88.

Sk8r_Boii_02: 10:37:10

It's real. I skated past the Myers lot last night. They have massive floodlights and three generator trucks parked in the alley. It looks like a movie set.

SpookyGirl_02: 10:45:00

Ooh, floodlights! That sounds so professional. I can't wait for Thursday.

Darkness_Falls: 11:05:00

Enjoy the lights while they last. When the sun goes down in Haddonfield, the shapes in the shadows don't care about internet bandwidth.

X_File_Guy: 11:10:00

Wait, what happened in '88? I thought Myers was locked up in Smith's Grove from 1963 until he broke out in '78, and then he vanished after the hospital fire. The house has been sitting empty for almost forty years.

Scream_Queen: 11:13:40

^ Yeah, lol, @Myers_Was_Framed what are you talking about? Nothing happened at the house in 1988. Did you make that up?

Myers_Was_Framed: 11:17:30

My bad, my bad! Deleting my brain cell. I got the timelines mixed up with a local true-crime article I was reading about a different case in Indiana. Don't eat me alive.

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 11:21:40

LMAO 'Myers_Was_Framed' out here acting like the ultimate authority on Haddonfield history and doesn't even know the baseline facts. Stick to the conspiracy theories, dude.

GoreHound_Y2K: 11:25:40

Standard internet expert right there. 'Trust me guys, I know the county zoning laws' *proceeds to invent a fictional massacre* 😂

Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 11:35:00

SYSTEM NOTE: Thread locked briefly for automated database indexing... Re-opening now.

Neo_Geo_84: 02:50:00

School's out! Back on the board. The computer lab at Haddonfield U is completely buzzing right now. Literally everyone is talking about the casting call results.

SpookyGirl_02: 02:55:20

Omg, it's official!! My roommate just saw Freddie Harris and Nora walking out of the 2400 Court Motel with a bunch of college kids holding folders. The final six are locked in!

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 03:01:50

Who made the cut?? Tell us! Did that loud guy from the theater department get picked? The one who was doing the fake screams in the hallway yesterday?

SpookyGirl_02: 03:05:50

I don't think so, thank goodness! I heard a guy named Rudy got in, and this really pretty girl named Jen. And Sara! I knew Sara would make it!

GoreHound_Y2K: 03:15:00

Rudy? Is that the guy who was bragging in the cafeteria that he could take Michael Myers in a fistfight? Please let him encounter a locked door on Thursday night.

Chas_M: 03:22:00

I give them two hours before someone cries and begs Freddie to let them out. That house is infested with black mold and bad vibes. Fame isn't worth lung disease.

Freddie_H_Official: 03:30:00

The rumors are TRUE, internet! The Chosen Six have signed their waivers and their orientation is officially complete! 📝🔥 Get ready to meet them on the blog tomorrow morning. They are hyped, they are brave, and they are ready to break the internet!

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 03:35:40

Hey Freddie, are you giving them weapons or flashlights or what? What happens if a ceiling collapses on them? That place looks ready to fall over.

Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 03:43:20

@Matrix_Reloaded_02 The house has been structurally reinforced by our production crew and vetted by a licensed contractor. Safety is our top priority. The contestants will have high-output LED tactical flashlights and custom helmet-mounted camera rigs.

X_File_Guy: 03:54:10

LED flashlights? Dang, Nora is pulling out the high-tech gear. Those things are expensive. My dad just got one for camping and it looks like a lightsaber.

Sk8r_Boii_02: 04:05:10

Still sounds like a setup. I bet Freddie is gonna be dressing up in a jumpsuit and jumping out of the pantry to scare them. $15 to watch a producer do a prank show.

Scream_Queen: 04:16:40

@Sk8r_Boii_02 Even if it's staged, the drama between six college kids locked in a dark kitchen together for 12 hours is gonna be pure gold. It's like MTV's The Real World but with ghosts.

Haddonfield_Local_02: 04:28:20

It isn't 'The Real World.' It's exploitation. Three teenagers died down the street from that house in '78. Real people with real families who still live in this county. Shaving their memories down for a dot-com subscription model is vile.

Darkness_Falls: 04:40:20

Let the city people have their fun, Local. They think because they have fiber-optic cables and digital video cards, they've conquered the dark. Haddonfield always remembers. October ends the same way every time.

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 04:49:10

Whoa, 'Darkness_Falls' getting super poetic. Did you print that out from a goth poetry forum? Creepy.

Buffering_God: 05:00:00

Is the server lagging again for anyone else? Trying to download the promotional wallpaper package from the main page and my download speed just tanked to 4kbps.

Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 05:08:30

@Buffering_God We are transferring a massive batch of contestant audio-profile files to the public mirror right now. Bandwidth should stabilize in 10 minutes. Thanks for your patience.

Neo_Geo_84: 05:17:30

Man, I can't wait until Thursday. I'm stocking up on Surge soda and Doritos. Turning off my phone, turning off the lights, just pure internet horror.

SpookyGirl_02: 05:28:20

Me too!! My whole floor in the dorms is splitting the cost of a couple web-passes so we can project it onto the common room wall. It's gonna be a giant party.

GoreHound_Y2K: 05:32:00

Just don't let the RA catch you or they'll shut down the feed for 'unauthorized media distribution' lmao. Keep it underground.

Buffering_God: 08:00:00

Finally!!! Is the chat room actually working again? I've been getting a 'Connection Timed Out' error since 5:30 PM. Nora, your servers are absolute garbage.

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:03:40

Yeah, the whole domain went completely dark for like two and a half hours. I thought my cable modem fried itself. I kept power-cycling my Motorola Surfboard for nothing.

Neo_Geo_84: 08:07:30

It wasn't just you guys. Freddie posted on his IRC channel that the server hosting the new contestant image galleries got absolutely slammed by traffic around dinner time and it choked the chat database daemon.

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 08:10:10

Lmfao I spent my entire night shift at the computer lab hitting F5 over and over. Great job, Dangertainment. If this happens tomorrow night during the live feed, people are going to riot.

Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 08:15:00

MOD NOTE: We apologize for the outage. The database server experienced a massive influx of concurrent connections when the contestant bios went live. We have allocated additional bandwidth segments to the chat cluster. It should remain stable now.

GoreHound_Y2K: 08:18:50

Thanks for waking up the servers, Nora. Now that I can actually see the contestant photos... wow. Rudy looks like a total tool with those frosted tips. I hope he goes into the basement first.

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 08:19:45

Rudy is the black guy. And he has virtually no hair.

Chas_M: 08:20:40

And literally none of the contestants have frosted tips.

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:21:35

Haha. GoreHound has been trashing Rudy all day and he's not even looking at the right website. What a dufus.

Scream_Queen: 08:22:30

Honestly, the site crash just made me more hyped. It means thousands of people are trying to watch this thing. It's going to be huge tomorrow.

X_File_Guy: 08:25:00

Did anyone manage to download the contestant video clips before the server melted at 5? My download kept getting corrupted at 90% on RealPlayer.

SpookyGirl_02: 08:28:40

I got them! 🙋‍♀️ Sara's video is so cute, she talks about how she's doing this for a college thesis on group psychology. She's so smart, I really hope the internet votes to help her out tomorrow!

Chas_M: 08:33:20

@SpookyGirl_02 Keep dreaming. The internet isn't voting to help anyone, we're voting to make their lives miserable. That's the whole point of interactive TV.

Pentium4_Power: 08:38:30

Testing connection... Ok, chat seems responsive now. Ping is hovering around 120ms. Not great, but at least the text is scrolling again.

Sk8r_Boii_02: 08:42:20

I still think the server crash was a publicity stunt by Freddie to make the show look more popular than it actually is. Classic dot-com hype tactics.

Myers_Was_Framed: 08:46:40

Exactly. 'Oh look at us, we're breaking the internet!' It's so transparent. I bet the servers never even went down, they just pulled the plug to create artificial demand.

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 08:50:20

@Myers_Was_Framed Dude, take off the tinfoil hat. A webcam site running on Windows NT servers crashing from traffic isn't a conspiracy, it's just standard 2002 technology lol.

X_File_Guy: 09:00:00

Alright, late night crew check-in. Anyone still awake? I'm deep down a rabbit hole reading old scanned microfilm articles about the '78 Haddonfield case. The police files are completely sanitized. It makes no sense.

Darkness_Falls: 09:10:20

They sanitized them because the truth doesn't look good on a state budget report. A flesh-and-blood man doesn't survive a six-story fall and walk away into the dark without help. The town elders knew what he was.

GoreHound_Y2K: 09:21:50

Oh great, the cult theories are back. Look, Myers was just built different. He was a psychopath who didn't feel pain. It happens. No need to bring magic or runes into it.

Matrix_Reloaded_02: 09:35:50

Did anyone else notice that Camera 3 (the old living room feed) had a weird flickering light around midnight? It looked like a flashlight beam moving across the ceiling from the outside.

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 09:43:50

@Matrix_Reloaded_02 Probably just a security guard or one of Freddie's interns checking the locks. Or some high schoolers trying to peek through the boards before the lights go on.

Chas_M: 09:55:20

If I was a local kid, I'd throw a brick through the window just to mess with their stream. Freddie is charging $15 for a web-pass, he can afford to replace a pane of glass.

Tech_Nora_Dangertainment: 10:01:40

MOD NOTE: Trespassing on the Myers property is a federal and state offense. The perimeter is fully monitored by active private security and local law enforcement. Don't ruin the show for everyone else.

Neo_Geo_84: 10:11:40

Dang, Nora stays up late. Get some sleep, tech girl! We need you awake on Thursday to keep the servers from melting.

Scream_Queen: 10:33:20

I'm looking at the contestant profiles Freddie posted glimpses of. That girl Donna looks like a total diva. I give her twenty minutes in that dusty house before she complains about her outfit getting ruined.

GoreHound_Y2K: 10:41:50

Wanna bet on who chickens out first? My money is on Bill. He looks like the classic nerdy guy who thinks he's brave until a floorboard creaks.

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 10:50:50

Nah, Rudy is gonna fold first. The loudest guys always cry the hardest when the lights go out. He'll be begging for a cell phone signal by 9 PM.

Myers_Was_Framed: 11:02:00

The real joke is that you guys think any of this is real. It's a controlled psychological experiment. Freddie is probably paying actors to pretend to be scared so Dangertainment gets stock options next quarter.

X_File_Guy: 11:15:00

@Myers_Was_Framed Stock options for a webcam company? Dude, the dot-com bubble burst two years ago, nobody is getting rich off stock options right now lol. Freddie is scrambling for hard cash.

Buffering_God: 11:27:00

My Winamp just crashed while I was listening to an MP3 and trying to keep this chat window open. The memory leak on this site is insane. Nora, fix the Java code!

Darkness_Falls: 11:40:00

The house is a vacuum. It draws in exactly what it needs. Six fools looking for internet fame... they are just fuel for the fire. History repeats because nobody listens.

GoreHound_Y2K: 11:51:50

Okay, Darkness, we get it, you're very edgy. Go back to your graveyard. Hey X_File_Guy, did those old articles mention anything about the sister's grave? The one that went missing in '78?

X_File_Guy: 12:04:10

Yeah, Judith Myers' tombstone was stolen straight out of the cemetery the night he broke out. The cops found it inside the house later next to one of the bodies. Absolute psycho behavior.

Scream_Queen: 12:13:20

Ugh, that is actually vile. Imagine using a real headstone as a prop. If Freddie hid a fake one in there for the contestants to find, that's incredibly tacky.

Sk8r_Boii_02: 12:25:10

Freddie would absolutely do that. The guy has no shame. Did you see his blog post today about 'destiny' and 'shining a light in the dark'? He talks like a cult leader himself.

Neo_Geo_84: 12:37:00

It's 2 AM. My eyes are burning from staring at this CRT monitor. I'm hitting the sack. See you weirdos tomorrow for the official contestant reveal.

Linkin_Park_Dirge: 12:47:30

Same. Heading out. Leaving my PC on to download a movie on Kazaa overnight, hope it doesn't give me a virus.

Chas_M: 12:49:10

But seriously. Frosted tips? Who the hell was GoreHound talking about?