Interview: Internet Marketing Manager Lyman tells all!

Hello!

​Bit of a different blog post than usual today. I'm joined by Lyman, Moonrabbit Industries’ Internet Marketing Manager, of high Twitter esteem. Below is an interview transcript from a few weeks ago, up just in time for Lyman’s birthday, and coincidentally the three year anniversary of the great Moonrabbit Haven reboot. We talk about human/rabbit cultural differences, his path to Moonrabbit Corporate, and adventuring. Thanks for reading!
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​[SECURE CONNECTION ESTABLISHED.]
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HENRY: Are we, uh–

LYMAN: Hello?

HENRY: Oh [EXPLETIVE] I can hear you now.

LYMAN: Hello?

HENRY: Yeah, can you hear me?

LYMAN: Naw.

HENRY: …What do you mean, “naw”, you just–

LYMAN: Naw, barely, I can’t.

HENRY: Okay what about–

LYMAN: [INAUDIBLE]

HENRY: Can you hear me?

LYMAN: Yeah I can see you too.

HENRY: Okay good I can see you.

LYMAN: [WAVING]

HENRY: Alright, well thanks for–

LYMAN: Hold up can I cuss?

HENRY: Uh, no, I’m gonna have to, uh, bleep it out.

LYMAN: You just said [EXPLETIVE] though.

HENRY: Yeah, I know, I have to take that out now.

LYMAN: So I can say [EXPLETIVE] but it’s not gonna be on the website or–

HENRY: If you could just keep it at like a PG rating that would be cool.

LYMAN: I don’t know what that means. I don’t know PG. What is that?

HENRY: Oh right, it’s like… you don’t have age ratings for TV there?

LYMAN: Ohhh yeah I get you. I’ve heard of that.

HENRY: S–

LYMAN: No, we just have a rabbit. Sometimes he’s… Sometimes he’s, um…

LYMAN: If he’s, I think, green, and he’s smiling, then there’s no cusses and it’s for little kids. And if it’s blue and he has glasses, I think, that’s the, uh, older kids one. And then–

HENRY: Okay, clearly that’s more confusing than what we have here.

LYMAN: How is a baby supposed to know about PG? Babies don’t spell, colors are… Like, cognition…

HENRY: I think it’s for–

LYMAN: [INAUDIBLE]

HENRY: I think it’s for parents.

LYMAN: Yeah, I dunno.



HENRY: Well thanks for getting online today, man, I know it was… What’s your setup again? 

HENRY: Or– could you tell us where you are right now, first?

LYMAN: Yeah, well, I’m at the big wall computer in… Web Services.

LYMAN: [LOOKING AROUND]

LYMAN: It’s pretty buried. No windows… you have to put your name on a sheet to get in. That’s from after I took the net down last year. [LAUGHING]

HENRY: Let’s get into that. So, setting the scene, what’s your position at Moonrabbit Industries been for the past… year, almost?

LYMAN: Yup. Uh, my uncle Larry works over in Fulfillment but he’s in with the IT guys, you know, they chill after work, that kind of thing.

HENRY: OK.

LYMAN: A guy in Web Services is saying we’re ready for a social media push, so Twitter, um… he said MySpace, too, I think… But my uncle got my name out there as a youth and they ended up just picking me to use this rickety hub in the woods pretty much when I wanted. And all the logins to the corporate accounts, our web client, everything. I just had to log it all for tests purposes.

HENRY: Wow, damn.

LYMAN: Yeah, I know. So I started hauling this minifridge, ancient brick computer to the terminal and posting all this random stuff, and then, uh, when I sent that render you made through our end, that’s when the same guy found out and got heated.

HENRY: Right.

LYMAN: But it was on him cause I wasn’t official talent or anything, not paid, just some guy that got let onto the servers.

HENRY: Okay, I was wondering what that was about.

LYMAN: So now I am hired, I’ve had the laminated pass for a minute, and I gotta generate real stuff or else the account gets taken. That’s the bad part. But the good is at least I get to do it inside. The connection’s better. The web content plan got approved, the old heads like Twitter, nobody’s fired.

HENRY: Which is how we’re talking face to face, right now. At like 3 frames, by the way.

LYMAN: You look like an SNES render, I don’t even wanna hear it. I’m out on an uncharted island, you got no excuse for having worse WiFi than me right now.

HENRY: It’s all on your end, I’m in the basement right now and the Mac–

LYMAN: Wait. Wait, can you take the part out about how I got job security, that’s not supposed to be, uh… That guy might get fired. If that leaks.

HENRY: Oh yeah that’s off the record it’s cool.

LYMAN: Web Services beat the case.

HENRY: The people will never know.

LYMAN: Yeah.



HENRY: So let’s talk about why we’re here today.

HENRY: With this recent push for web content… A lot of work’s falling into your hands– er, paws.

LYMAN: Uh-huh. 

HENRY: Tell us about the hats you’re wearing at Moonrabbit Corporate.

LYMAN: Hats? What–

HENRY: It’s a saying, like–

LYMAN: Cause you’re wearing a hat.

HENRY: No, yeah, it means what role you’re playing.

LYMAN: Not a lot of hats here, y’know, all ears… [GESTICULATING]

HENRY: [NODDING] OK.

LYMAN: Sure, well, the first thing I had to start doing after we got serious was the social media promo stuff, and that’s fine. Not much to say really, I’m the mouthpiece and I… interpret the big messages from the office, to the people.

LYMAN: You should see the memos I get, they’re funny.

HENRY: Yeah, I bet. Congrats on the ten follows by the way, that was a couple days ago.

LYMAN: Double digits!

HENRY: [SOMETHING OFF CAMERA IS DISTRACTING HIM]

LYMAN: Uh, then there’s the music column. Corner. And that’s really both of us. Getting to play music through the computer is sick, that’s new.

HENRY: Hope it comes out better than your mic.

HENRY: We’re actually talking through two cans and a piece of string right now.

LYMAN: [INAUDIBLE]

[LYMAN IS SPEAKING TOO LOUD FOR HIS MICROPHONE, AND HIS AUDIO IS CRACKLING. HE LOOKS PERTURBED.]

LYMAN: …The big thing we’re all really excited about is me getting to interview some creative types on the news feed. 

LYMAN: Without giving anything away, I gotta couple people lined up already to let us know what they’re all about. I’m siked to get started.

HENRY: Cool, man!

LYMAN: Yeeaah.

HENRY: So there’s the reveal. Before I hand over the reins for real, let’s talk about Lyman the, um, rabbit.



HENRY: You’ve had a steady online presence for a while, but maybe a few of our few readers are still unfamiliar. D’you have any words of introduction to this blog?

LYMAN: [TO BLOG READERS] Whatsup I’m Lyman. Welcome to my crib.

HENRY: Moonrabbit Industries’ ten Twitter followers know from the bio you’re an adventurer. What kind of adventures are we talking?

LYMAN: Oh pretty crazy stuff. Haunted houses, government test sites…there’s this big flight of stairs going nowhere in the woods I climbed with a couple friends. It’s been a fat minute but I think I have a picture somewhere.

HENRY: I love that sorta stuff. Hope you find the proof.

LYMAN: Well, I’m actually mostly in the woods for photo ops now [LAUGHING]. I’ve been adventuring on the world wide web instead.

HENRY: See anything crazy yet?

LYMAN: For sure dude, there’s one website I found with these videos of people that get hit by trains… and this message board that’s all [EDITED FOR EXTREME CONTENT]

HENRY: I don’t think I’ve… I haven’t seen either of those, uh, damn.

LYMAN: Nooo blocked stuff here. They haven’t figured it out yet.

LYMAN: Me and Fred beat that fire boy Flash game too.

HENRY: Nice.



HENRY: Well OK man, we ran a little bit over–

LYMAN: I might get booted in a sec, yeah.

HENRY: Sorry it took so long to get set up, I think it was pretty ambiguous whose end the problems were–

LYMAN: That was most definitely all you.

HENRY: OK stop interrupting me so we can close out.

HENRY: It was great getting to sit down with you again, and f–

LYMAN: [BLOWS RASPBERRY]

HENRY: …

HENRY: I was gonna say for the sake of the blog, I hope you’re better at this than I am… but naw, whatever.

LYMAN: Aw I didn’t mean it, I’ll live up to all the hype. Hey thanks for having me!

HENRY: Yeah yeah. Thanks for coming on!

BOTH: [NODDING]

LYMAN: I need a catchphrase for this part of the show.

HENRY: Well it’s not really a show, is it…

LYMAN: Who left the fridge open! Let’s all close the… I think I heard that somewhere.

HENRY: I don’t think you need a catchphrase, necessarily.

LYMAN: I’ll keep workshopping it.

HENRY: OK.

LYMAN: How much do you get paid–

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[SECURE CONNECTION TERMINATED.]

That was something! I think it worked. Did you learn a little about Lyman, our new interviewer, at least? Hm. Anyway, thanks for reading, and thanks again to Lyman for joining the team! 

Another thing, while we’re here…
I’m trying to take things bigger this year, while focusing in on smaller, more easily finish-able stuff. Starting this series is a part of my plans to grow out the Moonrabbit world, which um, for the moment, sadly does not include the game. Or the big drawing and writing project, the Twine & Godot pixel art masterwork thing, whatever I used to call it. Rabbits, that was the working name, but I don’t think I ever said it anywhere. I’m so invested in those Rabbits and their stories, that bizarre summer, but realistically, the whole thing isn’t something I think I can make right now. I have so many skills to improve, and a body of work, I guess, to build, that spending hours a day plugging away at something people can’t see for years just can’t be the right move, at least for the time being. So things in that department have been on ice for maybe nine months now.

But…
Clare, Allie, Virgil, Lyman, and friends are still around, and they’ve all been good sports about our morphing promotional ideas. Especially with the photoshoots and merch stuff. I’m still interested in interactive multimedia storytelling, and working with pixel art, that’s not going away. I gotta few OK things in the reserves from the past couple of years that work outside the game, and they’ll probably go up at some point too. 

Thanks for sticking with me through this weird, meandering experiment. I’ll make it worth your time at some point. For now, check out this new signature:
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