Restricted Access Contingency Podcast
To authorised D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. personnel:
Policy dictates that we do not make use of modern technology for internal communications, ensuring a high level of security through anachronism. The following audio files are therefore unusual, in that they have been made available via standard twenty-first century podcast protocols.
These files are for your ears only, to be used in various contingency scenarios. Unauthorised ears will be removed.
Further context and instructions may be sent to you via your secure communications channel. In extreme circumstances, this may include a cover story of providing “bonus material” to “backers” of a “Kickstarter project”. For more on this cover story, see this “blog post”.
Programs will be delivered in “seasons” of varying length, described under the titles below. Only one season is guaranteed: the Stage 4 Training Module.
Accessing the Contingency Podcast
To make this information easily available to agents in the field, we have taken the further unusual step of publishing this podcast to publicly accessible directories. This includes those run by the big G, forbidden fruit, green singularity and so on. To find it, search for “Night Terrace: For Your Ears Only” in the podcast application that makes the most sense for your equipment and alias.
Note that there are many podcasts using the name “For Your Ears Only” – this additional degree of difficulty should put off casual observers, providing additional cover. If anyone should ask about the podcast, tell them it is an obscure spin-off from a radio drama called “Night Terrace”. That should put an end to their interest.
In the event of data centipedes from Antares interfering with the podcast feed, you can also listen via the playlists for each “season” embedded in this page, below, or listen via Bandcamp.
Stage 4 Training Module
A short series of audio instructions prepared by Agent Susan Denholm to ensure personnel maintain physical and mental fitness during lockdown procedures (e.g. government mandated isolation during a pandemic, sheltering in the hollow earth from an invasion of mutant inter-dimensional wasps etc).
Each short episode of the Training Module will include one or more instructions. Some will be delivered in a cryptic manner to ensure you are training your mind as well as your body. You will also be set tasks during instructions; if these include sending information to the D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T., do so via the public social media channels indicated, using the hashtag #TerraceTo5k. While you will not receive direct feedback, be assured that D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. personnel will be monitoring your communications. As always.
You may wish to monitor communications from others, as well.