XDROM (Pirate Poetry, Drama and Music)

XDROM stands for "Extreme Drama" and is the result of collaboration of a number of crazed artists who extend their work (well, their current work, anyway) by augmenting their tale weekly in a dedicated chat room.  The "tale" is an "ongoing saga of a captain and his pirates as they venture through the universe headed forever toward the heliopause ... [and] .. includes original music and is told through poetic verse and prose composed spontaneously online."  The dramatis personae include:

1. Reece, the Maya's monkey-poet
2. Amp, the stolen mermaid
3. Throwend, fallen angel/second in command
4. Xx, the beautiful woman warrior
5. Captain Xdrom, whose non-pirate life is his knife
6. Loki the Necklace
7. God, playing himself

and a number of other diverting characters too numerous to mention.

What's a heliopause, you may ask (I did)?  It's not in my online Webster's, but NASA says that it's the boundary that separates Earth's solar system from interstellar space.

Participants in XDROM includes musicians, dramatists, writers, poets, and amateur astrologers.  One of them, Thom Williams of Captain Xdrom fame, has actually published haiku on the side of a Japanese tea-can: 

sleet falling
on page of braille
changing the story

which I think is pretty good.  The current production is accompanied by original music, downloadable for your pleasure.  They even sell XDROM tee-shirts.  You can join in too -- just go to the bottom of their main page and subscribe.