On one day, there is an incident in Limetown happened and caught police\u2019s attention. The incident that happened in Limetown was the disappearance of 327 people, including men, women, and children. The incident gained attention from global and became heated topic. However, the tragedy of Limetown happened to be a tragedy among a series of big events took place during that time. A reporter called Lia Haddock arrived the Limetown and interviewed the people of Limetown to witness the tragedies over the disappearances of people in Limetown happened 10 years ago. According to the reporter, it seemed Dr Oscar Totem, uncle of Lia Haddock, was possibly linked to the incident of Limetown. Later on, Terry, a local reporter of Tennanse, joined case with Lia and gave her the overview and deterioration of Limetown. Strangely, R. B. Villard, who funded the Limetown, had gone missing during the incident as well. It was also revealed that the creator of the town, Oskar Totem, was found dead.
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The podcast used the introduction of background and other contemporary events in the story to make sure that tragedy of Limetown becomes irrelevant due to other ongoing events across the globe happening at the same time. The podcast used reporter\u2019s perspective to interview the transformation of the people who left in Limetown. The changes in Limetown, according to the descriptions of people and by the reporter, raise questions on why police took such a big scale intervention and why people of the town insist that the people they care and know about can still feel the people who disappeared during the incident 10 years ago. The anecdotes of people who remained in Limetown give audience a sense of tragedies and the stakeholders of the events despite the disappearance of Limetown was just a news among other big news that followed afterward.
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\u201cAnd then, just as suddenly as the story of Limetown landed, it evaporated back into the 24-hour news cycle, swallowed by the first legal same-sex marriage in San Francisco, the announcement of successful human cloning in South Korea, war in Iraq, or Afghanistan, marriages, scandal, weather, drugs. The story of Limetown became a tragedy among countless other tragedies. A ghost story you can barely remember.\u201d
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The podcast also had a great uses of music and sound. For instance, when interviewing the tragedy of Limetown, the music became more somber, and similar gloomy music also played when Lia took a close look around the ruin of Limetown since the disappearance incident, showing the flow of time and how the tragedy impacted the Limetown. On the other hand, when showing flashback, the melancholy music no longer played in the background. There was also part of podcast that did not play any music at all, especially in the introduction and before the start of Lia\u2019s interview. Those parts were probably played for transitions to other more emotional or more complicated parts of the podcast.
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Another technique this podcast used was the raise of stakeholders of the event in Limetown. During the earlier podcast, it was stated the disappearance of people in Limetown became obscure after time has passed. However, when Lia came to interview and report the incidents after 10 years, it showed that the losses of people still left saddened the people who still remain in Limetown. The detorations of the Limetown also gave the audience a glimpse of the underlying stories of the project that was addressed during the podcast, which may connect to the reason why people disappeared 10 years ago. The disappearance of R. B. Villard and his connection to all the citizens of the Limetown further complicated the whole issue because the relationship between disappearance incident and disappearance of R. B. Villard remained unclear. The later part of the story decides to go deeper into the mystery, the story can just go deeper into Lia\u2019s family and lay out more background. Also, the mystery was revolved on the disappearance and the project that was held in Limetown, and those two events implied to have some levels of connections. The mystery became murkier when there was a 10 year time skip, meaning there could have many possibilities and explanations on what can happen. The death of Oskar Totem (creator of the town) perplexed the entire issue because there was no direct confirmation or proof after the incident, and because the disappearance of Villard happened, made the reporter had no clues or evidences on piecing the puzzles.
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Perhaps the biggest disadvantage this podcast had so far was the slow buildup. The buildup was necessary to push the story forward. Also, to the audience without much background in sci-fi, so the sudden introduction of certain tropes such as people mysteriously gone or conspiracies among police or higher up can be confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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