(Picture courtesy Storylink Radio.)
Storylink Radio, which has been presenting dwell oral storytelling in digital worlds since 2008, has launched a free 24/7 audio stream that landowners in Second Life and OpenSim can use as parcel audio for his or her Halloween areas, hunts, and neighborhood venues this fall.
The syndicated stream, a pilot for the 2026 autumn season, performs a steady broadcast of professionally narrated ghost tales, basic haunts and darkish ambient audio. It runs on a ReliaStream server that may deal with as much as 5,000 listeners directly.
Storylink Radio isn’t charging for the service, and venue managers who use the stream are inspired to host their very own “Campfire Story Nights” across the broadcast — and preserve all the ideas and donations these occasions herald.
“We wish to convey the normal artwork of the Seanchaí — the oral storyteller — instantly into the neighborhood’s yard,” mentioned Shandon Loring, founder and lead storyteller at Storylink Radio. “By syndicating the audio, a venue proprietor anyplace throughout the metaverse can drop a couple of chairs, gentle a digital campfire, tune their land to our stream, and immediately host a dwell, professionally narrated story evening for his or her guests without having a dwell avatar presenter on web site.”
Along with the round the clock recorded tales, Loring will break into the stream for dwell, unannounced “guerrilla” storytelling classes all through October, in addition to hour-long scheduled dwell broadcasts on Thursdays at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. SLT.
Find out how to add the stream to your land
To make use of the stream, open the About Land window in your viewer, go to the Sound tab, and paste this deal with into the music URL discipline:
http://s7.reliastream.com:8044
Based on Storylink Radio, the stream doesn’t require any in-world objects or scripts. Land homeowners who don’t need ghost tales enjoying throughout a whole area can carve out a small parcel — a graveyard, a haunted lounge, a campfire circle — and set the stream because the audio for simply that parcel.
Full schedules, an online participant and extra setup ideas are on the Storylink Radio stream gateway page.
Storylink Radio additionally runs a storytelling estate in Kitely, and Loring will be reached in-world in each Second Life and Kitely or by e-mail at [email protected].
Hypergrid Enterprise beforehand lined Storylink Radio’s fall events and its exhibit at the OpenSim World’s Fair.
