Hey there,
Welcome to Troyale.
Before you waste any time wondering, it’s a nonsense word. Doesn’t subtly mean anything clever. We frankly don’t love it, but it’s what we started with, so we’re gonna stick with it.
If you decide you want to subscribe, and be a part of this project, you’ll get an email on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays most every week with a link to our little five-question game we embed on our site, and, every other Wednesday, we put up a short little overview of something we think is interesting like, for instance, the story of how Roald Dahl seduced a bunch of rich and powerful American women on behalf of Mi6 during the Second World War, and how Goldfish crackers were created to be a birthday present for the head of a snack company’s Pisces wife.
At some point in the weeks that follow, the stories get added to the fast growing archive we have on on our site:
That’s where you’ll find all the stuff we’ve ever written about that’s actually worth anyone’s time, nicely sorted and organized into a slick little grid you can scroll through for however long you may want. There are pictures everything. It’s way, way cooler than this much more limited ecosystem you’re passing through now, but, like we said, all the new things we eventually add to it get put up here first, save for the games.
On Fridays we send out a much longer pay-walled post about something that takes a little bit longer to run through properly like, for instance, the story of how Elvis personally lobbied Richard Nixon for a DEA badge he could use to get his guns through airport security, or the time a guy poisoned himself on live TV during his trial at The Hague.
We generally don’t feel great about making people pay to learn things, but we don’t ever run any ads, because those are disruptive and irritating and silly, and we have to keep the lights on somehow.
We do our best to keep up with the schedule consistently, but sometimes we need to take short breaks to recover, or refill the vault with material that doesn’t make you roll your eyes with apathy. It’s a small outfit we have here, and we don’t want the quality of the stuff we put up to drop, whatever the reason.
We’ve been doing this for quite a while now, so we’re very much aware that we’re going to make mistakes, and we have no doubt that many of you, from time to time, will think some of the things we post or ask about in our games - like we ourselves often do looking back on our old work - is trivial, or stupid, or meaningless, or all three. If you do, we’re perfectly fine hearing all about it. If you have any suggestions or corrections or scathing, merciless criticism of any sort, feel free to fire it off. We can take it.
We hope you get as much out of this as we put into it, and if you do enjoy being here at all, you’ll like our site much better. It’s way cooler. No ads on there either…
Troyale Team
