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This is DNN.

Dragon News Network

Serving the most delicious little cinematic niblets. Really.

DNN was Camp Cacophonia's satirical newsroom at Dragonburn. Live editorial, cheerful chaos, a cast of characters, and a running joke that made it across the days. The core segment was Hanover Fist, anchored by Buya Milton Hanover — dispensing the real news about the burn, in flagrant disregard of any competing outlets.

Remember: paper covers rock, but we cover the real news. Really.

The Episodes

Episode 1 — The Controversy of Bok

December 2018

Dragon Burn is too small for two news outlets. In our first-ever broadcast, Buya Milton Hanover discussed the ongoing investigation and accusations made against Bok.

Episode 2 — Rinky Dink or Ronky Donk?

January 2019

Is roller-disco doomed at Dragon Burn? Buya Milton Hanover took a deeper look, and had a few choice words for our rival news lead, John Lizard.

Duan Day At A Time — A DNN Family Special

February 2019

Duan Duan and her friends are just a couple of modern city women trying to get by in these crazy times. Check it out, right here on DNN Family. Pei!

Episode 3 — RE: Bomb Selleck, the Terrible Weather Reporter

March 2019

Buya Milton Hanover kept us up to date on all the hottest stories from the Dragon Burn community — dogs, fractals, and a special weather report from the Candy Wizard.

Episode 4 (Kiwi Edition)

February 2020

Standing in for Buya Milton Hanover, our superstar new anchor Hanover BucketBucket tuned us in to the drama happening in the Kiwi Burn community.

Episode 5 (Kiwi Edition)

February 2020

The plot thickened. Hanover BucketBucket, forced into hiding by the notorious criminal gang 2C1R, reported live from a remote island, unveiling newly leaked footage.

Camp Fyre — Dragon Burn's FIRST For-Profit Theme Camp

March 2020

The hype was real. Tickets started at just 28,800 RMB. Camp Fyre offered a top-of-the-line, first-class luxury experience for Dragonburners with a taste for the finer things in life. Special performances for members only.

Stills from the Broadcasts

Recovered from the first version of the archive by way of the Wayback Machine. What survived of the tapes, in frames.

DNN anchor Buya Milton Hanover on the parody news set, with the caption JOKE superimposed.
Buya Milton Hanover at the desk. The chyron editorializes.
Title card for Duan Day At A Time showing three smiling women against a blue background.
Duan Day At A Time. The DNN Family title card.
Split-screen DNN broadcast: the anchor and a correspondent lifting flip-up sunglasses.
Live cross. The flip-ups come up for the hard questions.
Split-screen DNN broadcast: the anchor and a correspondent in a straw hat and hockey jersey, over a satirical news ticker.
Field correspondence in regulation dress.
Satirical news anchor with a bucket over their head at a Shanghai Raccoon Society desk, beside a crashing stock chart labeled Shmacks take BIG hit.
The market desk reports: Shmacks take a big hit.
Two men in knitted raccoon-ear hats salute at the camera in a living room.
The newsroom salutes you.

What Made It Work

At a regional burn — surrounded by desert, disconnected from the outside world, everyone slightly delirious from heat and sleep deprivation and whatever else — a shared voice does something particular. It tells you where you are. It reminds you that you're not alone. It gives the whole camp a running joke that carries across the days.

DNN was that. A shared voice telling the community what it was doing while it was doing it.

The Archive

Surviving broadcasts are held in the private archive. To request access to the tapes, get in touch at shcacophony@protonmail.com.

Stay tuned.