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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 11, 2015 17:03:33 GMT
07:45 -!- MTC has quit 09:46 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 10:23 -!- FacelessFrog has joined #backstage 10:27 < FacelessFrog> hi 12:16 -!- teceler1 has joined #backstage 12:22 <@Adelene> o/ 12:23 <@Adelene> Today in 'awake characters are really weird': meta!Lurker had an idea for a kids' picture book. It's now like 90% written. 12:29 < FacelessFrog> ops 12:29 < FacelessFrog> I was distracted 12:30 < FacelessFrog> hi humans 12:30 < FacelessFrog> wait wait 12:30 < FacelessFrog> Adelene, repeat that? :D 12:30 <@Adelene> Lurker decided to write a kids' picture book. 12:30 < FacelessFrog> do tell :D 12:31 <@Adelene> And then, like, did. Though given I don't draw we'll need an illustrator if we want it to actually be a thing. 12:31 < FacelessFrog> that so preposterously cute 12:31 < FacelessFrog> what is the book about? 12:32 <@Adelene> Once there was a little kobold... 12:32 <@Adelene> and she was very lost. 12:32 <@Adelene> A gremlin came by. "Will you help me find my family?" said the kobold. / "I will," said the gremlin, "if you give me some of your food," so she did. 12:32 <@Adelene> After a little while, they found a troll trying to get [thing] from a high ledge. / "Ugh," said the gremlin, "trolls never help anybody. Let's go." 12:32 <@Adelene> "I don't care if he can help me," said the kobold. "I can climb up there, it will only take a minute." / So she did, and the troll began to follow them. 12:32 <@Adelene> Then they found another troll, trying to catch a fish. / "Ugh," said the gremlin. 12:32 <@Adelene> "I know," said the kobold, "but giving him some of my food won't take any time at all." / So she did, and the troll went to share it with his family. 12:32 <@Adelene> A little while later, they found another troll. This one was trying to get a [thing] that he'd dropped in a hole. / The gremlin didn't say anything. "Hmm," said the kobold. 12:32 <@Adelene> "This will take more than a minute, but I think I can do it," she said, and climbed into the hole. / When she got back, she gave the troll the [thing], and the troll began to follow them. 12:32 <@Adelene> Next, they came to a chasm. / "The bridge is broken," said the gremlin, "we'll have to go around." "Wait," said the kobold. 12:32 <@Adelene> The kobold showed the trolls what she wanted, and the kobold and the trolls fixed the bridge together. / "Huh," said the gremlin. 12:32 <@Adelene> A little while later, they came to a river. / "The water is too fast," said the gremlin, "we'll have to go around." "Wait," said the kobold. 12:32 <@Adelene> The kobold showed the trolls what she wanted, and the kobold and the trolls made a stepping-stone path. / "Huh," said the gremlin. 12:33 <@Adelene> And then we have two more two-page spreads to show her getting home, that bit isn't written yet. 12:36 <@Adelene> /Really/ needs illustrating for proper effect, but I think it's pretty good for what it is. ^^ 12:42 < teceler1> ...that's adorable 12:42 <@Adelene> :D 12:43 < FacelessFrog> that is the adorablest 12:44 <@Adelene> ^^ 12:45 <@Adelene> I think the trolls' things might be gems. 12:49 < FacelessFrog> gems? 12:49 <@Adelene> Like diamonds or emeralds or whatever. It doesn't actually matter what they are for plot reasons, and gems are pretty to illustrate. 13:00 < FacelessFrog> hehehe 13:00 < FacelessFrog> are Trolls nice to kobolds ? 13:01 < FacelessFrog> teceler1 what Cassiel's avatar is anyway? 13:01 <@Adelene> Carp trolls are fairly neutral to kobolds - kobolds avoid them like they avoid everybody, but they don't tend to come into conflict at all. 13:02 -!- rockeye has joined #backstage 13:02 < rockeye> I need to keep myself from commenting on ranty political FB posts "it's a lot more complicated than that, have you considered..." 13:02 <@Adelene> hee. 13:02 < rockeye> It never helps 13:02 <@Adelene> *nod* 13:04 < FacelessFrog> hi tockeye 13:04 < FacelessFrog> rockeye* 13:05 < FacelessFrog> and rockeye, why are you in FB in the first place? why are you inflicting that pain upon yourself? 13:10 -!- teceler1 has quit 13:28 * FacelessFrog pokes chat 13:28 -!- FacelessFrog is now known as FacelessDude 13:42 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 13:42 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 13:45 * rockeye is bored 13:45 * Sonata wiggles her toes 13:50 < FacelessDude> Hi sonata 13:50 <@Sonata> Hi. 13:50 < FacelessDude> rockeye, what are your usual ways to fix boredom? 13:55 < rockeye> glowfic, video games, not having to be at work, [censored] 13:58 < FacelessDude> I suppose the third item is relevant to the other three items 13:59 < rockeye> yes 14:00 < FacelessDude> yeah, sorry for your boredom state. 14:03 < rockeye> isk it's not like you caused it. On the other hand if you caused the DOW-JONES to fall 2% today a lot more people than me will be mad at you 14:04 < FacelessDude> the what to fall how? 14:05 < FacelessDude> and I am not the cause and you can't prove me that I was. 14:07 < rockeye> A bit of a joke. One person can't have that big an effect on the stock market unless they're the head of an investment bank or something. 14:09 < rockeye> market fluctuations are kinda terrifying. I gain and lose 1000s of $ every day. 14:09 < FacelessDude> o.o I see 14:10 < rockeye> for example yesterday my savings were worth $78640, today $77985 14:12 < FacelessDude> I am sorry to hear, what is the prediction for the market...? 14:19 -!- rockeye has quit 14:24 -!- FacelessDude has quit 15:43 -!- tecephone has joined #backstage 15:46 -!- seven has joined #backstage 15:47 -!- tecephone has quit 15:50 -!- seven has quit 16:01 -!- MTC has quit 16:06 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 16:06 < Faceless> Salutations adventurekateers 16:06 <@Adelene> o/ 16:12 <@Sonata> hello! 16:12 <@Sonata> (also it took me a couple seconds to figure out that 'adventurekateers' wasn't referring to kate) 16:14 < Faceless> ^^ 16:14 < Faceless> pfft 16:14 < Faceless> it is a reference to The Thriling Adventuer Hour, specifically to Captain Laserbeam it is the name of his helpers. 17:39 -!- teceler1 has joined #backstage 17:40 * teceler1 flops. 17:40 * teceler1 looks at the log she has. 17:40 < teceler1> Faceless, that's his hand 17:42 < Faceless> his hand has an eye? 17:42 < teceler1> yes 17:43 < teceler1> or, well 17:43 < teceler1> there is an eye on his hand 17:43 < teceler1> something likethat 17:44 < Faceless> ?? 17:44 < teceler1> ? 17:46 < Faceless> he is holding an eye? 17:46 < teceler1> no 17:46 < teceler1> the eye is part of his hand 17:48 < teceler1> semi-relatedly, I'm being confused by CFW's reply -- what is 'if any of the relevant people disagree' supposed to be in response to? 17:50 < Faceless> "But it seems the relevant people disagree." 17:50 < teceler1> ...okay that makes no sense 17:50 * teceler1 is very confuse. 17:52 < Faceless> o.o 17:53 < Faceless> he means that people in power don't act like they disagree, if they do disagree they pretend they don't to conserve political power 17:53 < teceler1> ...um 17:54 < teceler1> disagree with what? 17:55 < Faceless> "If she does not want be in the care of that guardian (which I assumed based on what you had said), their status as such is invalid." 17:55 < Faceless> o.o 17:55 < teceler1> so... the people is power think their status as guardians is invalid? 17:55 < teceler1> *in power 17:57 < Faceless> oh, wait, I think I got the problem 17:57 < Faceless> sorry 17:57 < Faceless> better? 17:57 < teceler1> okay 17:57 < teceler1> yeah 17:58 * teceler1 pokes at Cassiel 17:59 * Faceless observes if Cassiel apreciates being poked 17:59 < teceler1> ? 18:02 < Faceless> nothing, I was just amused by the idea of literally poking characters >.> 18:03 * MotherStarlight is ticklish 18:04 < Faceless> pft 18:11 < Faceless> another question, how would MS react to someone saying to her "You are not my real mom!" 18:15 <@Sonata> haha 18:16 <+MotherStarlight> I never meant to imply that I was. Just that I mean to be warm, caretaking, and unconditionally loving and accepting: motherly. 18:18 < Faceless> note to self: consider a cultural quirk where people don't call people "mother/father/brother" unless they mean it literally and have that person refering to MS as just "Starlight" 18:18 <@Sonata> hee 18:27 < teceler1> pft 18:40 -!- mudkip has joined #backstage 18:41 * Faceless throws pokeball 18:43 -!- mudkip has quit 18:44 < Faceless> oh no it escaped! :/ 18:44 < Faceless> but seriously, I hope I didn't scare who ever they were 18:59 < Faceless> I might be enjoying way too much making up stuff to sell to the OTC, I actually vaguely afraid that Eva might not like my full list too much 19:00 < teceler1> can ask oocly 19:00 < teceler1> if you want 19:03 < Faceless> likely 19:03 < Faceless> I almost want to not do it right away, because making that stuff up is fun even if it turns out is going to be all for nothing xD 19:47 -!- boredkate has joined #backstage 19:47 -!- boredkate is now known as busykate 19:58 -!- busykate has quit 20:01 < Faceless> aw, missed kate 20:07 * Faceless gently pokes the chat 20:12 -!- HATS has joined #backstage 20:12 * HATS is new in town 20:13 <@Sonata> hello Hats 20:13 <@Sonata> Are you Eva and/or Bartholemew Cubbins? 20:13 < HATS> nah 20:13 < HATS> I'm SPQR 20:14 <@Sonata> oh nifty 20:14 <@Sonata> welcome back 20:16 < Faceless> Hi hats! 20:16 < Faceless> or is HATS specifically? 20:17 < Faceless> Sonata, who is Barholemew Cubbins? 20:17 <@Sonata> From _The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins_, by Dr. Seuss 20:18 <@Sonata> Every time he takes off his hat, another one seems to still be on his head. 20:18 < Faceless> ah, I never heard of it, Dr. Seuss wasn't a thing growing up 20:18 < HATS> it's an oblique reference to a webcomic 20:18 < Faceless> Sonata, some of the hats are larger than the previous ones? 20:18 < HATS> can anyone guess which one? 20:19 <@Sonata> yah 20:19 < Faceless> I have not idea HATS 20:19 <@Sonata> (@larger) 20:19 <@Sonata> Girl Genius? 20:20 < HATS> yea 20:20 <@Sonata> we actually already have some characters from there 20:20 < HATS> Jaegers op 20:20 < HATS> SPQR is not from GG this name is just referencing it 20:20 -!- HATS is now known as SPQR 20:21 <@Sonata> is it wrong to pronounce SPQR as speaker? 20:23 < SPQR> a bit 20:23 < SPQR> it stands for senatus populusque romae 20:23 < SPQR> 'for the senate and people of rome' 20:36 -!- scroungerkate has joined #backstage 20:46 -!- teceler1 has quit 20:48 -!- teceler1 has joined #backstage 20:50 < scroungerkate> it's quiet... too quiet. 20:50 < SPQR> boo! 20:50 -!- scroungerkate has quit 20:52 < Faceless> ah, got distracted again 20:53 < Faceless> SPQR is from what universe again? 20:55 <@Sonata> I got the impression it was a standard Earth 20:55 <@Sonata> but a while back 20:56 < Faceless> the OTC mentioned some deal on the same earth or something like that 20:56 < Faceless> and it involved the Mechanus, mechinus? 20:56 <@Sonata> I think OTC got confused and thought it was a WH40K 'verse 20:58 < Faceless> ah 20:58 < Faceless> I don't know anything about WH40K besides "needs a lot of fire" 21:01 < SPQR> Not from W40K 21:01 < SPQR> slightly offstandard timeline earth 21:01 < SPQR> magic exists, but SPQR hasn't seen the need to mention this in MWF yet 21:02 < Faceless> ooooh 21:02 < Faceless> original setting? 21:02 <@Sonata> I'd like to try to save silphium from going extinct 21:02 < SPQR> adapted from an anime actually 21:03 < SPQR> minus some of the most tasteless bits I.E. the excessive fanservice 21:03 < Faceless> Sonata, Silphium? 21:03 < Faceless> SPQR, do you mind telling us which anime? Because "excessive fanservice" is like the rule for anime 21:04 < Faceless> it is one reason I often can't watch it 21:04 <@Sonata> A contraceptive. It went extinct due to ancient Roman mismanagement of the areas where it could grow. 21:04 < SPQR> I do mind, alas. 21:05 <@Sonata> don't want to admit to watching terrible hentai? :) 21:05 <@Sonata> entirely understandable 21:07 < Faceless> SPQR that is okay, if it helps it is extremely unlikely I will accidentally guess it 21:07 < SPQR> it wasn't straight pornography, but they definitely didn't mind getting close. Honestly I pretty much only took the world's magic system and some of the names. 21:08 < SPQR> They're having a bit of an 'alien invasion' problem, though. 21:08 < Faceless> huh, I understand the feeling 21:09 < Faceless> I mean, the feeling of "I don't like this things but I am going to take this interesting thing" out of a setting 21:09 < Faceless> I don't care about the world of Magicka but I sort want to take it's magic 21:11 < SPQR> Yeah I want to do the thing where SPQR seems alarming because of the imperial regalia and the ordering enough weapons to outfit a battallion, but he actually has a good reason. 21:12 < Faceless> I was actually considering asking about that, but I wasn't sure how in character it was 21:13 < SPQR> Alien invasions: It could happen to YOU. Not really. But you'll want lots of weapons if it does. 21:14 < Faceless> yeah 21:14 * Adelene wanders by, notes that the picture book meta!Lurker decided to write this morning got finished and that other-friend-Three is looking into what's involved in getting it published. 21:14 < Faceless> Adelene that is so cool ^^ 21:14 <@Adelene> ^^ 21:15 <@Sonata> *wiggles excitedly* 21:15 <@Sonata> ^^ 21:15 <@Adelene> :D 21:16 < SPQR> What thing? 21:16 <@Adelene> He's thinking about seeing if his 7-yr-old granddaughter wants to illustrate it. I have no idea if this will actually work but it sounds like it'll be adorable if it does ^^ 21:16 * SPQR is out of the loop 21:17 <@Sonata> One of Adelene's characters decided to write a picture book, and now the book is moving towards publication irl. 21:17 < Faceless> SPQR, Adelene's character had an idea for a picture book this morning 21:17 <@Adelene> Lurker is particularly awake for a character and/or my brain is unusually weird; sometimes she generates things other than roleplay. This morning that was the text of a picture book. 21:17 <@Sonata> She's also a good cook, apparently. 21:17 < Faceless> yeah there is that too 21:18 < SPQR> hm 21:18 <@Adelene> *nodnod* I still need to get ahold of a butternut squash to try that one thing. 21:20 <@Sonata> for some reason I think I imagine butternut squash and spaghetti squash the same way 21:20 < Faceless> does non-meta lurker has any reason to publish that book in the forum? 21:20 * SPQR should get back to work 21:21 -!- SPQR has quit 21:21 <@Adelene> The Quinn instance of her might actually write it ICly, I dunno. 21:21 <@Adelene> MWF instance really doesn't have a reason to at all though. 21:21 <@Adelene> And takes the wrong approach to books and writing. 21:21 < Faceless> wrong approach? 21:22 <@Adelene> WMF!Lurker doesn't like reading. 21:22 <@Adelene> *MWF 21:22 < Faceless> and the quinn instance could do it for babybold 21:22 <@Adelene> Yup. 21:22 < Faceless> why she doesnt like reading? 21:24 <@Adelene> MWF!Lurker is separated from her tribe, which is making her a lot more conservative about acquiring new habits - also note the difference in her and the Quinn instance's reaction to the idea of being named - plus she can get just about everything out of tech that reads to her that she could get out of reading itself, so she hasn't actually read /stories/ like the Quinn instance has. 21:27 <@Adelene> (There's a thing in Lurker's past where she was separated from her tribe for a while and picked up some other culture stuff, and that went really, really badly for her, but her tribe was able to fix it. The MWF instance is pretty paranoid about something like that happening again; the portalbold instances still have access to their tribe so aren't nearly so worried about it.) 21:28 <@Sonata> Would it be reasonable to translate Quinnbold's name as "Outlier"? 21:29 <@Adelene> Reasonable, yeah. 21:32 < Faceless> D: 21:32 <@Sonata> oh no 21:32 <@Sonata> what happened? 21:34 < Faceless> (the lurker thingie) 21:35 <@Adelene> It was pretty D:, yes. She's better now. 21:36 <@Adelene> (Like, the exile thing is actually kind of a problem for the MWF instance, but she /will/ be okay even if she's not properly okay right now.) 21:40 -!- notinvolved has joined #backstage 21:42 < Faceless> what is the tribe up to now? 21:43 -!- rockeye has joined #backstage 21:43 <@Adelene> The MWF instance's? I'll have to talk to Kappa a little but I think they made it through the winter okay and should be heading to the meetup right now. 21:44 -!- rockeye has quit 21:44 <@Adelene> But it's mostly not relevant, Lurker can't go back. 21:45 < Faceless> why talk with kappa? 21:45 < Faceless> the tribe is purple? 21:46 <@Adelene> The tribe is mine but there's a thing where Cordelia was (carefully, indirectly) interacting with them and if she did anything unusual that might change things. 21:51 < Faceless> ah, ok 21:55 <@Adelene> ...in other news it is ~3 hours until my birthday ^^ 22:03 <@Sonata> oo, congratulations! 22:03 <@Adelene> ^^ 22:03 * Adelene will be 34, gosh. 22:03 <@Sonata> gosh 22:08 -!- notinvolved has quit 22:12 < Faceless> pre-emptive happy birthday Adelene o/ 22:12 <@Adelene> ^^ 22:14 -!- teceler1 has quit 22:47 -!- teceler1 has joined #backstage 22:55 -!- Faceless has quit 23:36 <@Sonata> goodnight friends 23:36 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Tue Nov 10 2015 01:03 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 01:17 -!- teceler1 is now known as teceler|asleep 02:03 -!- charmander has joined #backstage 02:03 -!- charmander has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 11, 2015 17:04:44 GMT
04:53 -!- MTC has quit 08:09 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 08:41 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 08:41 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 09:36 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 09:37 < Faceless> hi 09:44 <@Sonata> Hi. 09:45 < Faceless> tomorrow I am going to extract a wisdom tooth 09:45 < Faceless> *house is in flames* 09:45 < Faceless> it is fine 09:49 < Faceless> Is there anywhere in the forum where the World-Tree Coalition is talked about? 09:51 <@Sonata> ummm. There's the thread where it was declared/founded, but it has a non-obvious name 09:51 <@Sonata> some thing like 'back from my trip' maybe? 09:52 < Faceless> maybe this one? http://manyworlds.boards.net/thread/77/regarding-recent-absence 09:52 <@Sonata> yeah 09:53 < Faceless> ok, gonna read it later. But to answer this soon: What is demanded from the members? It is unlikely that CFW will want to join just yet but ITL might try 09:54 <@Sonata> I don't think there's anything formal? 09:54 <@Sonata> it's basically "Leaf and his friends" but with a name 09:55 < Faceless> huh, okay 09:55 < Faceless> later then o/ 09:55 -!- Faceless is now known as FacingAway 10:55 -!- Sonata has quit 11:40 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 11:41 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 12:01 -!- FacingAway has quit 12:30 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 12:48 -!- Sonata has quit 13:52 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 13:59 < Faceless> hi? 13:59 < Andygal> Hi? 13:59 < Faceless> hi! 13:59 < Faceless> how are things? 13:59 < Andygal> Ok. 14:00 < Andygal> and you? 14:00 < Faceless> Good, good 14:31 -!- MTC_ has joined #backstage 14:33 -!- MTC has quit 14:42 -!- teceler|asleep is now known as teceler 14:42 -!- teceler is now known as teceler1 14:42 * teceler1 pokes at mibbit puzzledly 15:08 < Andygal> Hi. 15:10 < teceler1> hello 15:11 * teceler1 wants her computer back 15:11 < Andygal> what happened to your computer? 15:13 < Faceless> I think there was a cord problem? 15:13 < Faceless> also, hi 15:42 < teceler1> yeah 15:42 < teceler1> the thing that connects the plug to the rest of the computer broke 15:42 < teceler1> (belatedly) 15:42 < Andygal> Blech. 15:43 < Faceless> any idea when is going to get fixed 15:44 < teceler1> whenthe part gets here 15:44 < teceler1> which 15:45 * teceler1 goes to check 15:47 < teceler1> ...looks like it stillhasn't shipped 15:47 < Faceless> :/ 15:54 < teceler1> faceless, forum-tag 15:55 < teceler1> also, chess 15:59 < Andygal> chess? 15:59 < teceler1> Faceless sent me a chess request on FL 15:59 < Andygal> Oh right. I got one too. I should accept that... 16:01 < Faceless> xD 16:02 < teceler1> did you need sudden insights Faceless? 16:04 < Faceless> I think that at time I just wanted to spend the energy and didn't have anything better to do...? Does it spend sudden insights from you? It isn't urgent 16:05 < Andygal> there. 16:08 < teceler1> no, it gives both participants Sudden Insights 16:09 -!- MTC_ has quit 16:11 < Faceless> ah, cool 16:11 < Faceless> thanks 16:11 < Faceless> one reason I did it is because I often neglect the parts that involve other players 16:11 < Faceless> I probably should seek a patron too >.> 16:11 < teceler1> eh 16:12 < teceler1> there's very few things in FL you /need/ oher players for 16:12 < teceler1> and mostly that's seasonal events 16:13 < teceler1> (also the patron thing can complicate normal progression. although Making Your Name probably helped withthat.) 16:13 < teceler1> (if you want a Watchful patron Niryl qualifes, though) 16:15 < Faceless> what does it do? 16:15 < teceler1> hm? 16:15 < teceler1> oh patrons? 16:15 < teceler1> doesn't it say? 16:18 < Faceless> teceler1 forum-tag 16:50 < teceler1> Faceless, forum-tag 16:50 < teceler1> (sorry that took so long, Cassiel's voice can be rather tricky) 17:11 < Faceless> I was eating dinner, gonna check it now 17:19 -!- scroungerkate has joined #backstage 17:19 < scroungerkate> zzzzz 17:20 < Faceless> hi SK 17:21 < teceler1> hello 17:21 * scroungerkate is homework zombie 17:24 < Faceless> aim for her head and destroy the brain! 17:26 < Faceless> teceler1 forum tag 17:29 < teceler1> pft 17:30 < Faceless> scroungerkate, how is scroungerkate doing? also how are you doing? 17:40 < teceler1> ...huh 17:41 < teceler1> Cassiel's apparently conceptualizing MS as a mage. 17:41 * teceler1 probably should have noticed that earlier 17:42 < Faceless> what does that means? 17:42 < Faceless> I mean 17:42 < Faceless> What does it means to Cassiel that MS is a mage? 17:43 < teceler1> well the critical thing that I -- had realized but hadn't processed / thought about consciously is that he's not thinking of her as a god. 17:44 < Faceless> ah, I see 17:44 < Faceless> that does tend to be a important distinction 17:45 < teceler1> especially for him, yup 17:45 < Faceless> Did he described his world on the world index? 17:46 < teceler1> I'd have to check, but I don't think so 17:46 < Faceless> It apparently he didn't 17:46 < teceler1> there might be a bit about it in his post in the introduction thread 17:50 * scroungerkate lurks 17:50 -!- scroungerkate is now known as lurkerkate 17:51 < teceler1> Faceless: forum-tag 17:51 < teceler1> possibly unnecessarily cryptic forum tag, in fact. XD 17:54 < teceler1> Faceless, do you have a free evening and watchful < 100 after equipment modifiers? 17:57 < Faceless> Yes and watchful 82+22 why? 17:59 < teceler1> those both need to be true for me to send you the thing. so, um, poke me when you're reshuffled your gear if you want to 18:01 < Faceless> ok...? 18:01 < Faceless> it is 82+5 18:02 < Faceless> gah, I forgot to switch to CFW account and can't delete the message 18:02 < Faceless> meh, can't fix lets go with the mistake 18:02 < Faceless> forum tag teceler1 18:05 < teceler1> um, I can ignore the mispost if you want 18:06 < teceler1> and sent 18:09 < Faceless> lets go with the mispost 18:10 < Faceless> wait 18:10 < Faceless> free evenings are objects? 18:11 < teceler1> mechanically, yes 18:11 < Faceless> ah 18:11 < Faceless> ok 18:11 < Faceless> thanks! :D 18:16 < lurkerkate> what are you RPing 18:18 -!- Faceless has quit 18:22 < lurkerkate> whatever 18:22 -!- lurkerkate has quit 18:32 < teceler1> ... 18:49 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 18:49 < Faceless> I love connectivity problems 18:55 -!- Faceless has quit 19:13 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 19:13 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 19:28 -!- FacelessTime has joined #backstage 19:29 < FacelessTime> hi? 19:29 <@Sonata> hu 19:29 <@Sonata> hi 19:29 -!- teceler1 has quit 19:30 -!- teceler1 has joined #backstage 20:03 * FacelessTime gently pokes the chat 20:03 < teceler1> [the chat explodes\ 20:05 <@Sonata> hi 20:31 < teceler1> oh, Sonata, I had a thought earlier about what Cassielthinks aboutMS 20:31 <@Sonata> oh? 20:32 < teceler1> 16:40 teceler1 ...huh 20:32 < teceler1> 16:40 teceler1 ...huh 20:32 < teceler1> 16:40 teceler1 ...huh 20:32 < teceler1> .... 20:33 < teceler1> augh, windows, mibbit, all so frustrating 20:33 < teceler1> that was not supposedto ethesamething three times 20:33 < teceler1> if anyone was wondering 20:33 < teceler1> um, Sonata, you probably have it in logs? 20:39 <@Sonata> ok, I'll look 20:41 -!- Adelene is now known as Birthdaylene 20:42 -!- Andygal has quit 20:43 -!- Andyga1 has joined #backstage 20:43 < FacelessTime> Birthdaylene non-preemptive Happy Birthday! 20:43 <@Birthdaylene> ^^ 20:44 * Birthdaylene went to the grocery store to get a piece of birthday cake and discovered a new interesting food! Cinnamon sugar onion rings: tastier than they sound. ^^ 20:46 <@Sonata> hipy papy bethday thithday 20:46 <@Birthdaylene> *giggle* 20:47 < FacelessTime> "Cinnamon sugar onion rings" add some protein and that sounds like a full meal. 20:48 <@Birthdaylene> Maybe. They're complex enough I'm not sure I'd want to eat that much of them, though. (They still have the regular onion ring spices, too.) 20:48 <@Sonata> that does sound complex 20:50 <@Birthdaylene> I like complex so long as it's complex in a way that's not intrinsically painful. That's a little hard to find (sensory sensitivities, yay :P) but this hits the target. ^^ 20:51 <@Sonata> FacelessTime, checking my memory, I think we said that the sister doesn't have dream magic so MS would make a regular website version? 20:51 < FacelessTime> Sonata correct 20:53 <@Birthdaylene> mmmmm birfdaycake ^^ 20:54 <@Sonata> :D 20:55 <@Sonata> FacelessTime, pmtag 20:56 <@Birthdaylene> (The one I got is cheesecake on the bottom and an equal volume of whipped topping on the top, with a thin layer of caramel in between and chocolate flakes and a drizzle of caramel on top. mmmmmmmm.) 20:56 <@Sonata> oh goodness 20:56 <@Birthdaylene> Yes. ^^ 20:56 <@Sonata> that is very cake 20:57 <@Birthdaylene> I approve of this birfdaycake ^^ 20:58 < FacelessTime> birfdaycake! 21:11 * Birthdaylene peers at birthday budget, wonders if anybody has any particularly interesting ideas for what to do with remaining $10. 21:13 < FacelessTime> Sonata, pmtag 21:13 * Xom gives Birthdaylene a birthday surprise 21:13 <@Birthdaylene> (If no, I'm probably going to get a kindle version of a Robert Fulghum book, but that's less 'well thought out plan to buy something I actually want' and more 'reaction to something I read yesterday reminding me that he exists and I haven't read any of his stuff in like a decade'.) 21:14 <@Birthdaylene> >.> @ Xom 21:14 < Xom> haha but no seriously happy birthday 21:15 <@Birthdaylene> ^^ 21:15 <@Sonata> My first thought was minecraft but I think that's more than $10 nowadays 21:15 < FacelessTime> the surprise is that wasn't a horrible thing 21:15 < FacelessTime> much more expensive than that, I think. 21:15 <@Birthdaylene> Already have minecraft, anyway. 21:15 < Xom> downwell? 21:15 <@Sonata> but something vaguely in that genre, something that provides ongoing means-of-play indefinitely 21:16 <@Sonata> infrastructure, not content 21:16 <@Birthdaylene> *nod* 21:16 <@Birthdaylene> I don't videogame enough these days for it to make sense to spend money on a game just to do it. 21:17 <@Birthdaylene> I have a ton of games I barely play, if I want variety. 21:17 < Xom> well i'm out of ideas 21:18 < Xom> unless there's a shop nearby selling a potion of experience or beneficial mutation or a decent spellbook or something 21:18 <@Birthdaylene> *chuckle* 21:18 < Xom> artifact gloves? 21:18 < FacelessTime> pfft you will never be able to find a decent spellbook at this time of the night 21:19 * Birthdaylene has actually been seriously considering getting a pair of bracers but decent ones are more than $10. 21:19 * Xom guffaws 21:20 < Xom> I doubt boots or body armor or hats are any cheaper 21:21 <@Birthdaylene> https://www.etsy.com/listing/242363675/brown-leather-warrior-bracers <- the bracers I want. 21:21 <@Sonata> I spent like $5 on a pen with a nice comfortable grip a few months back and I'm still glad I did, it's a pleasure to hold and write with 21:21 < Xom> nice 21:21 <@Birthdaylene> https://www.etsy.com/listing/108867405/bracer-of-light <- also interesting, but I couldn't see it being a regular part of my wardrobe. 21:22 < Xom> ooh 21:22 < FacelessTime> Perfect for killing orcs! 21:22 <@Birthdaylene> hee. 21:26 < Xom> shortly i shall depart for calculus 21:27 <@Birthdaylene> Have fun! 21:28 < Xom> there will probably be vector fields 21:28 <@Birthdaylene> *nod* 21:28 < teceler1> good luck 21:28 < Xom> and line integrals 21:28 < Xom> i'm not sure if either of those things is fun but they might be 21:29 * Birthdaylene hmmmmmmms, sticks this in the pile for the holiday budget: https://www.etsy.com/listing/247613841/brain-specimen-jar-necklace 21:29 < Xom> "Each brain is crafted by hand." 21:29 <@Birthdaylene> :D 21:29 < teceler1> pft 21:31 <@Birthdaylene> (Also Sonata: Pen would be an interesting idea, but I have hypermobile joints in my hands so writing at all is painful and I don't do it if I can avoid it, so I'd get very limited use out of such a thing.) 21:32 < Xom> hooray for keyboards 21:33 <@Birthdaylene> Yes. 21:33 <@Sonata> (ah. hm. anything of similar genre? something you use often, and a slightly nicer version exists? *guesses* toothbrush, socks, ...probably more things i'm not thinking of) 21:33 <@Birthdaylene> *nods, hmmms* 21:33 < Xom> keyboards: making writing less painful since 1575 21:33 < Xom> mouse, keyboard? 21:34 <@Birthdaylene> Typing hurts /too/ if I'm not careful, actually, but at least I /can/ be sufficiently careful. 21:35 < Xom> mayhap might a good keyboard make it easier to achieve the required care? 21:35 < Xom> then again i just realized good keyboards are way more expensive than that 21:35 < Xom> ugh 21:35 <@Birthdaylene> *nod* 21:35 <@Sonata> a good ergonomic keyboard is almost certainly more than $10 and possibly designed for a sufficiently different kind of problem as to not really help 21:35 <@Birthdaylene> also I use a laptop so keyboard upgrades aren't really a thing. 21:35 <@Birthdaylene> also yes that 21:36 <@Birthdaylene> keyboard upgrades are designed for wrist issues, not finger issues, and tend to not help at best. 21:37 < Xom> you know what would be a very good birthday present for yourself? a meal from milliways 21:37 < Xom> sort of hard to find, though 21:37 <@Birthdaylene> *nodnod* 21:38 <@Birthdaylene> hmm 21:39 <@Birthdaylene> A nice water bottle would fit the pattern but I don't think I actually want that more than I want the book. 21:40 < Xom> actually speaking of milliways i wonder if someone in the dungeon of zot would even be able to do anything if milliways showed up 21:40 < Xom> since the inside of a shop is subjectively just a menu 21:40 < Xom> also don't tell bar i said menu 21:40 <@Birthdaylene> heh. 21:43 < Xom> well bye 21:44 <@Birthdaylene> o/ 21:44 < Xom> hope you make a satisfactory decision re:10bux 21:45 <@Birthdaylene> :) 21:54 -!- FacelessTime has quit 22:23 <@Birthdaylene> 22:23 <@Birthdaylene> You can’t run through a campground. 22:23 <@Birthdaylene> 22:23 <@Birthdaylene> You can only ran. 22:23 <@Birthdaylene> Since its past tents. 22:25 < teceler1> that is a horrible pun 22:26 < Andyga1> Happy birthday Adelene! 22:26 <@Birthdaylene> ^^ 22:31 <@Sonata> haha 22:41 -!- rockeye_complaining has joined #backstage 22:41 < rockeye_complaining> I don't think I like my boss very much right now 22:41 < Andyga1> why? 22:42 < rockeye_complaining> "Do it this way" 2 days later done. "Why'd you do it that way? Remember to look at the requirements, new guy. You'll need to work overtime to get it presentable by wednesday." 22:42 < Andyga1> Ugh. 22:43 < teceler1> ugh 22:43 < teceler1> could they at least beconsistant? 22:43 -!- Andyga1 is now known as Andygal 22:44 < teceler1> *can't they 22:46 < rockeye_complaining> no, they can't 22:47 < rockeye_complaining> I need to finish this and then go to sleep... 22:47 < teceler1> good luck 22:47 < teceler1> and sleep well whenyou do 22:47 -!- rockeye_complaining has quit 23:04 -!- Sonata has quit 23:22 <@Birthdaylene> http://clatterbane.tumblr.com/post/132962044253/gifsboom-perfect-magnets <- video, no sound 23:30 < teceler1> very magnets 23:30 <@Birthdaylene> ^^ --- Day changed Wed Nov 11 2015 00:27 -!- scroungerkate has joined #backstage 00:27 < scroungerkate> OTC is interesting and fun 00:27 < Andygal> Yes. 00:31 -!- scroungerkate has quit 00:44 -!- Evenstar has joined #backstage 00:44 * Evenstar waves 00:44 < Evenstar> Is ScroungerKate's player around? 00:44 < Evenstar> Or writer? 00:44 * Evenstar either-ors 00:44 * Evenstar happy birthdays the Birthdaylene! 00:46 <@Birthdaylene> ^^ <3 00:46 < Evenstar> <3 00:46 < teceler1> hello Evenstar 00:46 < Evenstar> Hey Teceler1 00:46 < teceler1> scroungerKate's writer was here briefly a little while ago 00:46 < Andygal> Hi Evenstar! 00:46 < Evenstar> Hi Andygal! 00:47 < Evenstar> I wanted to know how aggressive and incurable she (?) wanted Kate's virus to be. 00:47 < teceler1> hm 00:48 * Evenstar also pokes at SPQR and Rahm's requests 00:48 < teceler1> there was some discussion of it when MS was trying to fix it 00:48 < Evenstar> and also also ITL 00:48 < Evenstar> Basically it was intended to crash 'everything with a network connection' and basically succeeded 00:48 < Evenstar> so that implies really high virulence 00:49 < Evenstar> but, uh 00:49 < Evenstar> OTC has Eclipse firewalls 00:49 < teceler1> this is Eclipse tech you're throwing at it, so 00:49 < teceler1> pft 00:49 < Evenstar> and those keep out Exsurgent 00:49 < Evenstar> So yeah 00:49 < teceler1> I don't think it's exsurgent-virus grade, yeah, but I'm not the author there 00:49 < Evenstar> Kind of hard to out-virus Exsurgent. 00:50 < Andygal> yeah in MWF exsurgent is basically the platonic concept of a virus. 00:50 < Evenstar> (AISILIAAAAANNNN) 00:50 < Evenstar> (cough) 00:50 < teceler1> pft 00:50 < Evenstar> But yes, Eclipse tech is really broken. 00:51 < teceler1> I mean, I should mention that Eclipse firewalls can't fix bad user-end security 00:51 < teceler1> much as they try 00:51 < Evenstar> (Also OTC offered Orzsuits to SPQR for solving their Neuroi problem.) 00:51 < Evenstar> (SPQR was basically like 'yes those would definitely solve it, but I'm afraid to ask the price') 00:52 < teceler1> (XD I noticed that) 00:52 < Evenstar> (This is essentially the reaction that I was hoping to evoke with OTC on a regular basis :P) 00:52 < teceler1> (also the collateral damage, that might be a concern too) 00:52 < Evenstar> (Orz is not actually that terrible at containing collateral damage I think) 00:52 < Evenstar> (Though, uh) 00:52 < Evenstar> (Firing that big of lasers in atmosphere...) 00:53 < Evenstar> (...) 00:53 < Evenstar> (Maybe not the best environment.) 00:53 < Evenstar> And then there's Rahm the Efficiency Lizard 00:53 < Evenstar> Correction, the Efficiency Warrior Lizard 00:53 < teceler1> pft 00:54 < Evenstar> I think he might be angling for the SPQR contract...? 00:54 < teceler1> (that description was amusing) 00:54 * teceler1 is still poking at Eclipse firewalls vs. the exsurgent virus. 00:55 < Andygal> my brain is telling me that "Rahm the Eiciency Lizard" would make a good name for a rock band. 00:55 < Evenstar> That would be interesting. Also, guessing from the portrait and his mention of 'sentients', he's from a decently high-tech world. Space lizardmen? 00:55 < Evenstar> "Efficiency Lizard" does have a ring to it 00:57 < teceler1> I'm pretty sure that vulnerabilities and patches is a thing especially vs. the exsurgent virus. (especially since,like, there are /rules for hacking through them/) they're /good/ but against a dedicated hacker or the virus you want things like air gaps/hardwiring/etc, to be sure 00:57 < teceler1> (of course this is also Eclipse hackers, with the relevant augmentations and such, idk what the tech level on SK's end is) 00:57 < Evenstar> (And now I'm thinking of the Lizard of Guilt) 00:57 < Evenstar> http://oglaf.com/shaft/ 00:58 < Andygal> pfffft 00:59 < Evenstar> hahahah you think you can stop the exsurgent virus with HARDWIRING 00:59 < teceler1> --alethic-enhanced firewalls probably exist -- no they definitely exist, because Firewall -- but a, I don't think the OTC got those, and b, I'm not positive how they interact with other worlds 00:59 * Evenstar points at the cloud of nanobots 00:59 < teceler1> pfft 00:59 < teceler1> yeah it just changes vectors 00:59 * Evenstar screams and runs 01:00 < Evenstar> Yep. 01:00 < teceler1> but that /can/ work against the digital version! 01:02 -!- Birthdaylene is now known as Adelene 01:02 <@Adelene> Oh in other news 01:03 <@Adelene> One of my birthday gifts is a decently-sized sample of one kind of nootropics plus little samples of two others. I might liveblog if people are interested? 01:04 <@Adelene> This is unlikely to be /useful/ information given my brain - the main thing is directly poking a brain chemistry loop I know is atypical in my case - but might still be interesting. 01:06 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 01:10 -!- Kel-tab has joined #backstage 01:10 <@Adelene> Kel! ^^ 01:10 < Kel-tab> hi 01:11 < Kel-tab> sorry 01:11 <@Adelene> ? 01:11 < teceler1> Kel! 01:12 < Evenstar> well, night all 01:12 * Evenstar needs to sleep 01:12 -!- Evenstar has quit 01:12 <@Adelene> Sleep well! 01:12 < teceler1> sleep well- 01:13 < teceler1> [sigh] 01:41 -!- baka has joined #backstage 01:42 < baka> meh 01:42 -!- baka has quit 01:56 -!- Kel-tab has quit 02:15 -!- maus has joined #backstage 02:15 -!- maus has quit 02:28 < teceler1> good night all 02:28 -!- teceler1 is now known as teceler|asleep 02:49 -!- Adelene has quit 02:50 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 02:50 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ
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05:28 -!- MTC has quit 07:30 -!- Andygal has quit 08:32 -!- kappabeta has joined #backstage 08:32 -!- mode/#backstage [+o kappabeta] by ChanServ 08:32 <@Adelene> o/ 08:32 <@kappabeta> hi 08:33 <@kappabeta> do you happen to know who plays SPQR? 08:35 <@Adelene> They may just be themselves? 08:35 <@Adelene> They've been here and not claimed to be someone else, I think. 08:35 <@kappabeta> huh, k 08:37 < Xom> good morning 08:38 <@kappabeta> morning 08:38 < Xom> my brain has thrust another strange character idea on me 08:38 <@kappabeta> oo 08:38 < Xom> this time it's the little blue guy and/or cameraman from the computer game Perspective 08:39 <@kappabeta> XD 08:39 < Xom> because i can't help thinking about what the powers they have together would be like in the real world 08:39 < Xom> also they would be weak to the color orange which is almost as lame as being weak to the color yellow 08:40 < Xom> also also i can imagine someone being adorable and making little blue walkways all over the walls 08:41 < Xom> not sure if the camera should actually be a character or just an aspect of the guy though 08:42 < Xom> or if maybe he should be the reverse of the weeping angels in doctor who and only be able to move when someone is looking at him 08:42 <@kappabeta> <3 08:42 <@kappabeta> hahaha 08:43 < Xom> also not sure how he would actually interact with anything since the game mechanics only provide for movement 08:43 * Adelene checks quotes of the moment, is vaguely creeped out by low-probability confluence. 08:43 <@kappabeta> hmm? 08:44 < Xom> hmm? 08:44 <@Adelene> Relatively few things in either set are monster themed, but I still got "I am still not the monster of this story" and "listen to the ghosts" together. 08:45 < Xom> huh 08:45 < Xom> monster ghosts and ghost monsters you say 08:45 <@Adelene> (Those are sort of.... both of them are referring to specific non-obvious things besides just general monsterness, but even there they work together and are even kinda personally relevant right now.) 08:46 < Xom> welp 08:46 < Xom> i think the only thing i can really say here is 08:46 * Xom laughs 08:46 <@Adelene> Yup. ^^ 08:47 <@Adelene> I am the dumbass who invited a chaos god to their computer desktop, here. ^^ 08:47 <@kappabeta> <3 08:47 < Xom> oh also speaking of being the reverse of the weeping angels: an image of the little blue guy is, of course, the little blue guy 08:48 < Xom> but usually people don't really mind that much because he's cute (and possibly helpful??) 08:48 <@Adelene> 'usually'. Firewall: AAAAAAAAAAA. 08:50 < Xom> i'm sure he'd be just as AAAAAAAAA at being somewhere people don't want him 08:50 < Xom> this is why his avatar on MWF would be an exit portal (and *definitely* not a picture of him 08:50 < Xom> ) 08:51 <@Adelene> *nodnod* 08:51 < Xom> though that raises the question of where he goes if he touches an exit in various worlds 08:52 < Xom> why is this silly little idea leading to such interesting questions 08:53 <@kappabeta> silly little ideas that do that are the best kind imo 08:54 < Xom> oh, here's an idea: maybe he can only move not just when someone is looking at him, but when someone is focused on him 08:54 < Xom> and you could also say that instead of copying him if you take a picture it just makes another point you can manifest him at but he can only be in one instance of himself at a time 08:55 <@kappabeta> nifty 08:56 < Xom> when paused he isn't subject to his weird 2d physics 08:57 <@Adelene> Seems like he and Aspen might get along particularly well in a functional sense. 08:59 < Xom> as for ways of interacting with the world other than moving: maybe he learns to push small enough blue marks or maybe he can interact with electronics or drawing-ish magics somehow 08:59 < Xom> 'small' being, of course, a function of apparent size, not actual size 09:01 < Xom> or maybe he just learns to cast a willpower-based magic 09:01 <@Adelene> ...oh wow, that was a lot less painful than I was expecting. \o/ (unrelated thing) 09:01 < Xom> congratulation? 09:01 <@Adelene> Not quite but yeah :) 09:02 < Xom> other weird character ideas: kittens game 09:03 <@Adelene> (I let myself get roped into a Childfund sponsorship like two and a half years ago, and I've been needing to cancel it for like a year for financial reasons, and finally broke down and emailed them expecting to get a bunch of pressure and runaround and have to drop the hammer on them, and I didn't at all! So that's nice.) 09:03 < Xom> or, on a similar note, the inexplicably immortal leaders in the Sid Meier's Civilization series 09:03 < Xom> ah well glad it worked out 09:04 < Xom> actually speaking of civ there's a part of me that's nagging me to make a Civ V mod based on the Golden Empire 09:05 <@kappabeta> hah 09:06 < Xom> Unique Building: Door. Has a small chance of summoning a Great Person each turn, independent of standard diminishing returns 09:07 < Xom> (then include with the mod a list of alts that gets added to the great person names list) 11:12 <@Adelene> .....brain you *know* you can't run more than two personalities in here at once. Even the two is stretching it. C'mon. 11:13 <@Adelene> *sighs* *digs up relevant novel to read* 12:16 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 12:16 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 12:37 -!- Kel has joined #backstage 12:37 -!- Kel has left #backstage 12:42 -!- Sonata has quit 12:48 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 12:48 < Faceless> Hi 12:49 < Faceless> Anyone here? 12:51 -!- Faceless is now known as FacelessDude 12:56 -!- teceler|asleep is now known as Teceler 12:56 -!- Teceler is now known as tecler1 12:56 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 12:56 -!- tecler1 is now known as teceler1 12:56 < teceler1> fingers 12:59 -!- FacelessDude has quit 14:31 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 14:32 < Faceless> o/ 14:37 < teceler1> hey 14:40 < Faceless> hi, how are things? 14:51 < teceler1> mm. 14:51 < teceler1> I've been beter 14:51 < teceler1> *better 14:52 < Faceless> [hugs?] 14:52 < teceler1> [hug] 14:53 < Faceless> some trouble? 15:10 -!- kappabeta1 has joined #backstage 15:11 -!- kappabeta has quit 15:25 < Faceless> kappabeta1 amultiverse.com/comic/2015/02/16/safe-word/ 15:32 -!- kappabeta1 has quit 16:51 -!- MTC has quit 19:32 -!- diskdweller has joined #backstage 19:32 < diskdweller> has an idea for a MWF character 19:32 < diskdweller> who do I ask if it's a good one? 19:32 < teceler1> hello 19:33 < diskdweller> hi 19:33 < Faceless> hi 19:33 < Faceless> (that is a discworld referece?) 19:33 < diskdweller> different kind of discworld 19:33 < Faceless> ah 19:33 < Faceless> well, what is your idea? 19:33 < diskdweller> it's a planet that is a disc, and still obeys things like 'gravity' 19:34 < Faceless> how the gravity interacts with the disc? 19:35 < diskdweller> it feels like a giant bowl. As you get closer to the edge, more mass is on the far side so your 'down' points towards the center of the disc 19:36 < diskdweller> So to get to the edge you have to climb up a sheer slope in something like 2/5 normal gravity 19:36 < diskdweller> I need to do the integral calculations to be sure of the amount... 19:37 < diskdweller> Rivers flow edge-to-middle and form the center sea, a few hundred miles long bulge of water 19:38 < Faceless> ooooh (I am liking this) 19:39 < diskdweller> Something like centremost 1/5 of the area is densely populated and cultivated. Has the best climate and flattest local gravity. The rest it 'midlands' or 'edgelands' and get increasingly 3rd word/Falloutish as you go 19:39 < diskdweller> 3rd world 19:40 < Faceless> nods 19:40 < Faceless> I suppose then that the center sea actually sort of bulges the middle a little? 19:40 < diskdweller> Yeah. I need to math this place 19:41 < diskdweller> and figure out exactly how much 19:41 < diskdweller> It'd only be a few hundred meters tho, not miles and miles 19:41 < Faceless> This sounds absurdly neardy. I approve. 19:41 < Faceless> nerdy& 19:41 < Faceless> urgh 19:41 < Faceless> hands! 19:41 < Faceless> nerdy* 19:46 < diskdweller> Eh I don't have the patience for full calculus on this thing 19:46 < Faceless> It is okay 19:46 < Faceless> consider trying get some internet nerds with too much time on their hands to work on that, maybe? 19:49 < diskdweller> my guesstimating indicates that a discworld with 50000km diameter and 1500km thickness would have kinda earth-ish gravity 19:49 < diskdweller> and about four times Earth's volume 19:49 < Faceless> Is there magic anywhere in the setting? 19:49 < diskdweller> not sure 19:50 < diskdweller> obviously there must be divergent physics 19:50 < diskdweller> because a disc that size would crush itself into a pshere 19:50 < diskdweller> but other than that undecided 19:50 < Faceless> yeah, it was what I was going to ask about that 19:51 < diskdweller> I realized I can skip the math! "nyeh, the gravitational constant is different nyeh' 19:51 < Faceless> I mean, maaaybe you could have some sort of weird internal structure to support the disc's weight... 19:51 < Faceless> hahaha 19:51 < diskdweller> it wouldn't work with carbon nanotubes 19:51 < Faceless> huh 19:51 < diskdweller> and further sci-fi materials I don't even want to guess for it 19:51 < diskdweller> 50000km is fucking huge right? 19:51 < Faceless> magitonium? 19:52 < diskdweller> "We don't know why" 19:52 < Faceless> pft, 19:52 < Faceless> it wouldn't be the weirdest world to be in contact with the MWF 19:55 -!- diskdweller has quit 20:25 -!- spqr has joined #backstage 20:26 -!- spqr has quit 20:35 -!- Faceless is now known as FacelessCake 21:38 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 21:38 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 21:42 < FacelessCake> hi Sonata 21:46 -!- FacelessCake is now known as FacelessHere 21:46 <@Sonata> hi 21:51 < FacelessHere> hi 21:51 < FacelessHere> I wanted to ask 21:52 < FacelessHere> how the filtering in the forum should work? 22:01 <@Sonata> I was imagining the sister would just not see the filtered posts. And replies to those would be dropped or edited as necessary as well, etc. 22:01 <@Sonata> MS is pretty DWIM 22:01 < FacelessHere> DWIM? 22:03 < teceler1> Do What I Mean 22:03 < FacelessHere> Damn Wonderful In Management? 22:03 < teceler1> I think 22:03 < FacelessHere> close >.> 22:03 < FacelessHere> hi tec 22:03 < teceler1> hi 22:06 <@Sonata> do what i mean, yeah 22:06 <@Sonata> like, she's a person, she has a corresponding ability to figure out what you meant 22:08 < FacelessHere> that is something that people have demonstrate the ability to do 22:08 < FacelessHere> anyway, thanks, I am trying to hash out a plot that involves the sibling 22:09 < FacelessHere> hey, the forum has ways to change gender? 22:10 <@Sonata> Test Bed's world has the Gyneca Halo 22:13 < FacelessHere> huh, what does that do? 22:16 <@Sonata> Anyone who passes through it turns into a healthy adult female human. 22:16 < teceler1> Eclipse definitely has tech that can do sex changes 22:17 <@Sonata> and I assume OTC could do something if you asked 22:17 < FacelessHere> is there a way to change between the two genders in a more casual way? 22:17 <@Sonata> Cameron's a shapeshifter, but I don't think that's shareable 22:17 < teceler1> Eclipse psychosurgery could possibly also do gender changes but um 22:17 <@Sonata> Home would probably do it 22:18 <@Sonata> but that's me guessing at someone else's character 22:18 < teceler1> there's an Eclipse augmentation that allows switching between sexes as wanted but iirc that takes a week 22:18 < teceler1> the OTC might be able to make it work more quickly though 22:19 < FacelessHere> I was vaguely considering introducing Terraria and have the gender changing potions from there >.> 22:20 < teceler1> Faceless I'm pretty sure you don't actually mean gender 22:21 < FacelessHere> sorry, I am not even 100% if it is a thing from there actually 22:21 < teceler1> not regarding Terriaria 22:22 < teceler1> this conversation 22:22 < teceler1> ugh I am not coherent 22:23 < FacelessHere> you meant that I was using the word "gender" incorrectly? 22:23 <@Sonata> yeah 22:23 < teceler1> or if you actually intended the meaning something else is horribly wrong here, yeah 22:24 <@Sonata> gender is a social/psychological thing, you're probably talking about 'sex' 22:25 < FacelessHere> yeah, that, sorry, got the vocabulary mixed up 22:53 < FacelessHere> I have to go sleep 22:53 < FacelessHere> o/ 22:56 -!- FacelessHere has quit 23:54 -!- Evenstar has joined #backstage 23:55 < Evenstar> Evening 23:56 <@Sonata> hi 23:56 < Evenstar> Hey Sonata 23:57 <@Sonata> what's up? --- Day changed Thu Nov 12 2015 00:02 < teceler1> hello Evenstar 00:09 < Evenstar> not much, hey Teceler 00:18 < teceler1> oh, I've been meaning to ask you correct Cassiel's (non-philosophical) reasons for the avoiding the OTC like the plague are. 00:19 < teceler1> the short version of which is that he is very concerned about the potential effects of them trading with his universe's gods. 00:22 < Evenstar> Go on? 00:22 < teceler1> [words] 00:23 < teceler1> okay so Cassiel really doesn't get along with his universe's gods (okay he's sort of on speaking terms with a couple of them but even that--) for, um, reasons I have gone into before 00:24 < Evenstar> okay?? 00:26 * teceler1 is trying to dig up where she explained this previously 00:27 < teceler1> aha 00:30 < teceler1> 20:26 < Teceler> Cassiel has been avoiding the OTC because basically... his world has terrible gods. (well, he mantains that 'his world has gods' basically says that, but nevermind that for the moment) 00:30 < teceler1> 20:38 < Teceler> lemme put it this way: one of the two heavily worshipped 'good' gods grants their high priests citywide magical cancellation of dissent/unhappiness with the ruler 00:31 < teceler1> 20:40 < Teceler> (the evil gods are even worse) 00:31 < teceler1> 20:47 < Teceler> well let's see there's the part where at least one of them encourages human sacrifice. the part where they collectively have a set up to literally kidnap (forcibly or by trickery) ghosts to torture and brainwash them into working for them. There's the part where one of them is deliberately causing a neutral god to have nightmares resulting in 00:31 < teceler1> a brainwashing-heavy religion with strong chthonic themes 00:32 < teceler1> (the world does have some not entirely terrible gods, but, um, yeah) 00:33 < teceler1> uh, the 20:47 bit was about the evil gods 00:34 < teceler1> the thing is my ooc knowledge based on what you've said about the OTC's opinions of theft makes me think they would have some Issues with the evil gods. 00:34 < teceler1> I don't know about the rest though 00:42 < Evenstar> Er uh 00:42 < Evenstar> Yeah 00:42 < Evenstar> OTC probably goes 'these are not likely the kinds of people we want to trade with too closely' 00:42 < Evenstar> 'they could hurt our brand' 00:42 < teceler1> pffft 00:53 -!- Evenstar has quit 01:01 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 01:03 -!- Sonata has quit 02:33 -!- teceler1 is now known as teceler|asleep 02:39 -!- teceler|asleep has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 13, 2015 16:29:10 GMT
09:09 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 09:09 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 10:12 -!- Adelene has quit 10:23 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 10:38 < Faceless> hi 10:52 <@Sonata> hi 11:02 < Faceless> o/ 11:19 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 11:19 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 11:22 <@Sonata> hi 12:02 -!- Adelene has quit 12:36 -!- Faceless has quit 13:05 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 13:05 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 13:07 <@Adelene> o/ 13:26 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 13:27 < Faceless> o/ 14:12 <@Adelene> hey Faceless. Tag. ^^ 14:16 -!- teceler1 has joined #backstage 14:16 <@Adelene> o/ 14:16 < teceler1> hey 14:22 < Faceless> hey teceler 14:22 < Faceless> Adelene, just give a moment I just saw your tag 14:38 <@Adelene> ok 14:39 < Faceless> Adelene, tag. 14:55 <@Adelene> tag 15:08 < Faceless> Adelene tag 15:11 * Adelene hmms - what is Franklyn /doing/ with the recipe book? 15:13 < Faceless> I was picturing he is holding it, so Lurker can see the cover 15:14 <@Adelene> hmmm 15:14 < Faceless> it is a hand writing black notebook with "recipes" writing in silver-gliterring ink 15:14 <@Adelene> ok 15:14 < Faceless> the general posture indicates that she could take it if she wants to 15:14 <@Adelene> that should probably be specified in the tag, it being a hand-written one. 15:14 < Faceless> take it to observe* 15:15 < Faceless> I can fix that 15:15 <@Adelene> I was thinking a more standard sort, in which case she'd be too distracted by the photos. ^^ 15:19 < Faceless> there might be a few cut out photos inside, but maybe they aren't obvious unless she opens it? 15:20 <@Adelene> *nod* Also she needs to figure out *how* to open it, first. 15:23 < Faceless> huh, I am sort of picturing sort of like, the pages vaguely fanned out...? But Lurker struggling with the notebook sounds rather cute-ish amusing... 15:26 <@Adelene> ...*sigh* I seem to be running out of sentence-generating capacity. :P I'll pick this up again when I can, probably not today though. 15:28 < Faceless> [hugs?] 15:29 <@Adelene> *hug* 15:29 <@Adelene> (this is not a surprise, I've been pushing it recently.) 15:30 < teceler1> [hug] 15:30 < Faceless> Don't push your self, really 15:31 <@Adelene> mmhmm 16:02 -!- MTC has quit 20:00 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 21:15 * Faceless gently pokes the chat 21:15 < Andygal> Oh hi. 21:15 < Faceless> hi! 21:15 < Faceless> how are you? 21:16 < Andygal> OK. 21:46 -!- teceler1 has quit 21:52 < Faceless> I am torn between: Introducing the Elay Prime (that was helping Write it Down with the forum blessings); Introducing a character that could be described as "NPC vendor" from a world that follows a lot of rpg/game tropes; Introducing a character from a setting with reincarnation and (vaguely) transmisable magic. 21:53 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 21:54 * Teceler 's computer is working again! 21:54 < Faceless> hooray! 21:55 < Faceless> everything is in working order? 21:55 < Teceler> and... yup, there's been a kernel update, glad I checked for that before getting much running 21:55 < Teceler> appears to be! 21:57 < Faceless> yay 21:57 < Faceless> something teceler missed. 21:57 < Faceless> I am torn between: Introducing the Elay Prime (that was helping Write it Down with the forum blessings); Introducing a character that could be described as "NPC vendor" from a world that follows a lot of rpg/game tropes; Introducing a character from a setting with reincarnation and (vaguely) transmisable magic. 21:58 < Teceler> hm 21:59 < Teceler> at some point Niryl is going to turn back up and apologize for that mess (and I think send them apology-gifts via the OTC), so that would be a decent intro point for the elay prime if you want to do that at some point but not necessarily now 22:02 < Teceler> brb, restarting computer 22:02 -!- Teceler has quit 22:05 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 22:05 < Teceler> (did I miss anything?) 22:05 <@Sonata> nope 22:06 < Faceless> That Niryl idea is good, my main problem with introducing the Elay Prime is that she is... a high energy character, and I would like to read the forum some more before that 22:06 < Teceler> ha 22:07 < Faceless> there is also CFW and ITL sibling, whom I haven't decided when to introduce and I might use the screen name "Snowdrop" 22:07 * Teceler nods. 22:12 < Faceless> I am excited for the time when she is introduced to her brothers worlds and her comments on the forum "Today I hung out with dozen so people that looked 20's and are actually 2 and that my brother created accidentally with magic. I don't even know what is real anymore" 22:18 < Faceless> what kind of presents Niryl would send? 22:22 < Teceler> oh, you know, mental protection, takkarash, possibly other things if something jumps out at them reading over write it down's posts 22:26 < Faceless> ah, cool 22:26 * Teceler looks curious 22:28 < Faceless> ? 22:29 * Teceler tries to words. 22:29 * Teceler fails, shrugs. 22:31 < Faceless> [hugs?] 22:31 * Teceler hugs. 22:32 < Teceler> you [words] seemed to be expecting something? 22:32 < Teceler> *something else? 22:33 < Faceless> I didn't know what to expect? I don't know the etiquete for when you cause magical spiritual assaults on people 22:33 < Teceler> pft 22:33 < Faceless> I mean, I pretty sure flowers don't quite cover it 22:34 < Teceler> it was really not Niryl's fault 22:34 <@Sonata> depends on the flowers 22:34 < Teceler> pfffft 22:34 <@Sonata> there are some... interesting flowers in the Neath 22:35 < Teceler> ...Niryl is of the opinion that they /probably do not want exile's rose/ 22:36 < Faceless> what does that do? 22:36 < Teceler> um 22:36 * Teceler thinks. 22:37 < Teceler> I /think/ that's the one for prisoner's honey, not gaoler's honey 22:37 < Teceler> but you need lamplighter bees specifically to make it anyway 22:38 < Teceler> (even if they wanted the one for gaoler's honey they would not be getting it that stuff is /nasty/) 22:38 < Teceler> (...also Niryl doesn't, like, have access to it, but that could be worked around. Their NOPE, not so much) 22:39 < Faceless> ah, yes 22:39 < Andygal> NOPE is the correct response to gaoler's honey. 22:39 < Faceless> I sometimes get the impression that Neath is terrible 22:39 < Teceler> it certainly has very terrible aspects! 22:39 < Andygal> the Neath is kind of terrible. 22:40 <@Sonata> the Neath is pretty terrible, yep 22:59 < Faceless> need to go sleep 22:59 < Faceless> o/ 23:00 < Teceler> sleep well 23:00 < Faceless> good night 23:00 -!- Faceless has quit 23:17 <@Sonata> goodnight 23:17 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Fri Nov 13 2015 01:04 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 01:11 -!- dord has joined #backstage 01:11 * dord dord 01:11 < Andygal> ... 01:11 < Teceler> ...? 01:12 < dord> hi 01:13 < dord> i am a fake word 01:16 * dord dord dord dord 01:16 -!- dord has quit 01:16 < Teceler> ...um 01:16 < Andygal> Ok then. 03:05 < Xom> ... 03:05 < Andygal> ... 03:06 < Xom> ...! 03:06 < Xom> i swear, i'm not dord 03:08 < Xom> why did the words "rayman glowfic" enter my auditory loop just now 03:09 < Xom> that's a terrible idea 03:12 < Xom> great now i'm imagining bella the fairy granting joker-rayman a new power painfully 03:12 < Andygal> ... 03:12 < Xom> ... 03:13 < Xom> ANYWAY 03:16 < Xom> ... and Mr. Dark is a joker's dad 03:20 < Xom> wait no Mr. Dark is a Mark's dad because of the part with dark rayman 03:20 < Xom> or something 03:20 < Xom> why am i still thinking about this
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 14, 2015 14:39:44 GMT
04:24 -!- Andygal has quit 10:25 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 10:27 < Faceless> o/ 10:27 <@Adelene> o/ 10:31 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 10:31 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 12:05 -!- Faceless has quit 12:32 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 13:58 -!- Sonata has quit 14:16 -!- frogonia has joined #backstage 14:17 < frogonia> hi 14:17 -!- frogonia is now known as FacelessFrog 14:18 < Teceler> hello 14:18 < Andygal> Hi. 14:21 < FacelessFrog> ^^ 14:32 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 14:32 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 15:41 * FacelessFrog gently pokes chat 15:41 < Teceler> hm? 15:41 < Andygal> Hello. 15:41 <@Sonata> hi 15:41 < FacelessFrog> hi 15:42 < FacelessFrog> So the idea for the CMW and ITL sibling being bi-gender, with physical female sex... how about if they use a male identity on the internet? 15:44 < Andygal> well sure, if you want. 15:48 < FacelessFrog> I am asking if it is a good/okay idea 15:48 < FacelessFrog> also "snowdrop" would be too feminine for such identity? 15:48 < Teceler> I mean, if they're bigender, they might use a bigender identity? 15:49 < Teceler> but it might depend on how they personally are bigender 15:49 < FacelessFrog> I was going to make that they aren't completely aware of their bigender-ness, due to the whole conservative upbringing with their grandparents and stuff 15:50 < Teceler> like, if they're gender-fluid -- that might be a viable outlet for when they're identifying as male 15:51 < FacelessFrog> yeah, what I meant 15:51 < FacelessFrog> albeit they would tell themselves as being sort of a game of pretend, like when people pretend to be pretty or rich 15:51 < Teceler> if they're [words] third-gender, that makes a limited amount of sense unless that's a manifestation of them trying to work out the thing 15:51 < FacelessFrog> on the internet 15:52 * Teceler raises eyebrows. 15:52 < FacelessFrog> ? 15:52 < Teceler> [words] 15:52 < FacelessFrog> are those eyebrows raised in objection to something? 15:52 < Teceler> you would have to handle that pretty well to not result in it being offensive? not saying it's not doable, but it could be that very easily 15:53 < Teceler> (@ the game of pretend) 15:54 <@Sonata> i mean, i can attest firsthand that is a real thing that happens 15:54 < Teceler> yeah 15:54 < FacelessFrog> I was thinking they would be on a stage where they haven't realized their bigenderness because they haven't been exposed to the concept and is experiencing some sort of self-denial 15:54 <@Sonata> roleplaying as a precursor to accepting that this is a real self not just a pretend one 15:55 < FacelessFrog> yeah-ish 15:55 < Teceler> just. that strikes me as easy to mishandle 15:55 < FacelessFrog> Teceler, in what ways? 15:55 * Teceler is not very coherent at the moment 15:55 < Teceler> sorry 15:55 < FacelessFrog> ok 15:56 < Andygal> gender issues are tricky. 15:56 < FacelessFrog> I know 15:57 < FacelessFrog> I want to avoid this problem 15:58 < FacelessFrog> Well, my... what is the opposite of behind the scenes? the front of the scenes? Well, the part that would be observable in the forum would be having they joining the forum with a male identity and hanging out for a time. Since their older siblings don't know about the bigender thing the younger sibling would remain "hidden in plain sight" for a time 15:59 < Teceler> hm 15:59 < Teceler> are they doing that (the anti-identification thing) deliberately? 16:01 < FacelessFrog> vaguely? They wouldn't be all that open about real stuff about themselves, maybe the persona is different in another way besides male 16:02 < FacelessFrog> at some point the younger sibling is revealed and after that the rescue is managed somehow, and after /that/ they will discover the whole concept of bigender and realize that is what they are. 16:02 < Teceler> hm 16:02 < Teceler> how exactly are they not finding out about it over the forum? 16:04 < Teceler> --I have to go for a while now 16:04 < Teceler> be back later probably 16:04 -!- MTC has quit 16:05 < FacelessFrog> huh, that is another possibility, where they could learn the concept over the forum? 16:07 -!- Adelene has quit 16:09 -!- Teceler has quit 16:10 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 16:10 < Faceless> o/ 16:11 < Faceless> I fell, did I miss anything? 16:11 -!- FacelessFrog has quit 16:11 < Andygal> Nope. 16:11 < Faceless> ok 16:23 < Faceless> So... should I drop the whole thing with the male persona for the sibling? >.> 16:24 < Andygal> I dunno. 16:26 < Faceless> :/ 16:33 <@Sonata> is this a gimmick, or part of who the character is? 16:33 < Faceless> part of the character 16:33 < Faceless> how it would be a gimmick? 16:35 < Faceless> have to go 16:35 < Faceless> family dinner 16:35 -!- Faceless has quit 18:05 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 18:05 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 20:56 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 20:56 < Faceless> hi 20:57 <@Sonata> hi 20:58 < Faceless> anyone here has guns/firearms as triggers? 21:01 <@Sonata> not me, dunno about others 21:08 < Faceless> okay then 21:08 < Faceless> guns cw http://curiosity-discoverer-of-worlds.tumblr.com/post/133168148551/tonight-i 21:09 <@Sonata> huh 21:10 < Faceless> yeah 21:10 < Faceless> I am not traumatized anything, just wanted to share 21:14 <@Sonata> well, thanks for sharing 21:15 <@Sonata> i'm glad to have read it 21:15 < Faceless> you are welcome? o.o 21:17 <@Sonata> I mean, I'm not glad that it /happened/ 21:17 <@Sonata> but I feel that my having /read about/ it is a good thing 21:18 < Faceless> ah, I understood that you aren't glad it happened 21:25 <@Sonata> maybe 'glad' isn't exactly the right word? it doesn't, like, make me feel :) 21:26 <@Sonata> but I... endorse? 21:26 * Sonata waves hands vaguely 21:27 < Andygal> thanks for sharing. 21:27 < Faceless> You are welcome Andygal 21:27 < Faceless> thank you both for reading. 21:28 -!- tec has joined #backstage 21:28 < tec> iiiinteresting 21:28 < Faceless> hi Tec 21:28 < Faceless> what is interesting? 21:28 <@Sonata> hi 21:28 < tec> okay, so, the server is not down, that is a thing 21:29 < tec> (xchat doesn't want to connect) 21:29 < tec> (therefore it is interesting that this works) 21:29 <@Sonata> huh 21:32 < Faceless> why is that happening? 21:32 < tec> unsure 21:32 < tec> might be a ports thing with this connection 21:49 < Faceless> Question, should there be a thread tha compiles forum's resources? 21:49 < Andygal> How do you mean? 21:51 <@Sonata> like, a consolidated index of 'here's stuff you can get'? 21:59 < Faceless> Sonata, sort of 22:00 < Faceless> not necessarily all things, But most public things, maybe? 22:06 <@Sonata> Sounds like a neat idea 22:06 < Faceless> It occurs to me that maybe we should have a ooc and a ic version of such thread. 22:07 < Faceless> Sonata, thanks 23:06 < Faceless> tomorrow I will see to do the forum resource thingie 23:06 < Faceless> but I need to sleep 23:06 < Faceless> o/ 23:07 -!- Faceless has quit 23:09 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Sat Nov 14 2015 01:05 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 01:18 -!- dord has joined #backstage 01:19 * dord dord 01:19 < Andygal> .... 01:19 < Andygal> Hi? 01:19 < dord> hi 01:20 < dord> I am a regular MWF'r. can you guess who I am 01:21 < dord> guess not 01:21 -!- dord has quit 02:56 -!- Andyga1 has joined #backstage 02:56 -!- Andygal has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 15, 2015 19:24:20 GMT
05:24 -!- MTC has quit 09:15 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 09:37 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 09:37 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 10:21 -!- tec has quit 10:45 -!- tec has joined #backstage 11:09 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 11:09 < Faceless> hi o/ 11:17 <@Sonata> hi 11:18 < Faceless> The index of resources should go to the trade colaborations or the informations sub-forum? 11:19 <@Sonata> Gooood question. 11:20 <@Sonata> I think I'd go with trade. 11:39 < Andyga1> Hmm yeah 11:39 -!- Sonata has quit 11:41 <@Adelene> o/ 11:42 < Faceless> Hi Adelene 11:42 <@Adelene> hi :) 11:43 <@Adelene> Day three of brain drugs, and, damn, these sure are some brain drugs. They're steadily backing off on the impressiveness in a way that does have me a little worried, but if they settle into a level of effect even half what I'm currently getting I'll still be happy. 11:43 < Andyga1> yay? 11:44 <@Adelene> (Also this might be that I had my flu shot last night, too, that tends to knock me out a bit.) 11:44 <@Adelene> Very yay, though, yes. ^^ 11:44 < Andyga1> I'm getting my flu shot in a couple of weeks. 11:44 < Andyga1> and what kind of drugs are you getting? 11:45 <@Adelene> http://animalpharm.bigcartel.com/product/standalonecomplex-blend but I don't actually recomend getting this in particular - that's a really high dose of the noopept. 11:46 < Faceless> yay Adelene 11:46 <@Adelene> Once I'm done with the pills I have I'm going to get a pack of just 10mg noopepts next, and see if that does the thing just as well or if I want to add the racetams back in. 11:46 < Faceless> besides the birth blessings and otc what are the most obvious resources in the forum? 11:46 <@Adelene> (assuming this doesn't crash and burn, anyway, but that kinda goes without saying) 11:47 <@Adelene> um, hm, it might be somewhat obvious that Lurker will transport people where they want to go? once she's back, anyway. 11:47 < Andyga1> what are those drugs actually supposed to be for? 11:47 <@Adelene> cognitive enhancement. which, yes. 11:49 < Andyga1> seems...possibly sketchy. 11:49 < Faceless> cognitive enchancement? 11:49 <@Adelene> The most obvious thing they're doing for me is straightening out my sensory processing in a very comprehensive way - like, they fixed my time perception and my pain perception, and lots of things that are usually painful for me and not for other people - like, sounds, tastes, that kind of thing - aren't painful any more. 11:49 < Faceless> that is a surprisingly cute bottle of brain drugs 11:50 <@Adelene> Plus general clearheadedness, an easier time using language (I'm still noticeably impaired but it's definitely helping), I seem to be getting some useful motivational effects, that kind of thing. 11:51 <@Adelene> Note that the section of neurochemistry this works on is one I'm known to be weird with, so my personal experience really can't be taken as standard, but, like. 11:53 <@Adelene> (And yeah, andygal, I've known about racetams for years and they seemed too sketchy for me to prioritize looking at, but then it was my birthday and I was like 'enh, worst case I have a bad brain week while they clear out and I recalibrate', and, like, this has definitely not been the worst case here. ^^ ) 11:54 < Andyga1> well good. 11:54 <@Adelene> (this is /far/ from the most ill-advised thing I've done with my brain. *giggle*) 12:00 < Andyga1> I've done plenty of ill-advised things soo.... 12:04 < Faceless> http://manyworlds.boards.net/thread/133/index-resources 12:04 < Faceless> I am not familiar on the subject enough to consider these things ill-advised 12:07 < Faceless> how long are you trying these, Adelene? 12:08 <@Adelene> 'Trying sketchy unregulated brain drugs' is generally at least a little ill-advised, regardless of details. 12:08 <@Adelene> I got 25 to start. 12:09 <@Adelene> And I'm doing 1/day for now but might up that to 2/day in a bit. 12:09 <@Adelene> (so, like, two to three weeks or until I decide to stop, basically.) 12:12 <@Adelene> ...I should eat. That's the one downside so far, it's done a number on my appetite. 12:12 -!- tec has quit 12:13 <@Adelene> Which is certainly a solvable problem, but. 12:15 <@Adelene> ...holy /fuck/. "Two animal studies have noted that Noopept is associated with abolishing the effects of learned helplessness in rats." 12:16 <@Adelene> That is, um. 12:16 <@Adelene> a big deal? 12:17 <@Adelene> (I had noticed that it was having an I-want-to-go-accomplish-things effect, which is probably the same thing as that thing? I hadn't noticed that it was messing with that in particular though.) 12:18 < Faceless> ping? 12:18 <@Adelene> pong 12:18 < Faceless> ah, there was a small energy hiccup 12:19 <@Adelene> ah. 12:19 < Andyga1> wow. 12:20 -!- Faceless has quit 12:24 <@Adelene> .../food/. *sigh* 12:25 < Andyga1> ?? 12:28 <@Adelene> Brain drugs mess with my appetite and that's not a problem I usually have so I'm not used to dealing with it. 12:28 <@Adelene> Food has been ovened, though, and there's an alarm to get me back in there when it's done. 12:32 < Andyga1> Ah. 12:56 -!- tec has joined #backstage 12:56 <@Adelene> o/ 12:56 < tec> hey 12:56 < Andyga1> Hi. 12:56 -!- Andyga1 is now known as Andygal 12:56 < Andygal> forgot to fix that. 12:58 -!- niryl has joined #backstage 12:58 * niryl cackles. 12:59 < niryl> ...okay now I need to get my nick working again 12:59 < niryl> moment 13:06 -!- niryl is now known as Teceler 13:07 * Teceler flops. 13:07 -!- tec has quit 13:12 -!- Teceler has quit 13:13 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 14:31 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 14:31 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 16:00 -!- MTC has quit 16:35 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 16:52 < Faceless> hi? 16:52 < Teceler> hello 16:53 < Faceless> how are things? 16:56 <@Sonata> okay 19:14 * Faceless gently pokes chat 19:14 < Teceler> [tick tock] 19:15 < Faceless> goes the clock 19:15 * Teceler looks around for any mechanical clocks 19:16 < Teceler> er 19:18 * Faceless shrugs 19:19 < Faceless> I got distracted listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UKbSRuZJg 19:24 < Faceless> So... returning to that sibling discussion 19:24 < Faceless> is the whole idea so hard that I shouldn't try at all? 19:27 <@Sonata> Iunno 19:28 < Faceless> lunno? 19:28 <@Sonata> iunno = I dunno 19:29 < Faceless> ah 19:29 < Faceless> I thought it was L-unno 19:30 <@Sonata> yeah, I forgot that some fonts do that 19:33 < Faceless> huh, well, now I am not sure anymore what to do > 19:33 < Faceless> :/ 19:34 < Teceler> which thing do you mean by the whole idea? 19:35 <@Sonata> the bigender sibling? 19:35 <@Sonata> I honestly can't tell without seeing it executed. The premise has the potential to be either good or bad; the execution is everything. 19:37 <@Sonata> But... you asked earlier how it could be a gimmick? What I meant by that was, are you like 'this character needs something interesting about them, let's make them bigender'? or is the bigenderness a necessary and organic part of who the character is, inextricably rooted throughout their personality, so that you couldn't make them /not/ bigender without completely uprooting the entire character? 19:40 -!- Teceler has quit 19:41 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 19:42 * Teceler mutters at computer/internet 19:43 < Faceless> huuum, I would say that - at this stage - Snowdrop is sort of... not developed enough for me to say that any trait is a organic part of the character? Like, I could remove the bigenderness, but that is mostly because I could remove or add anything at this stage, with the exception of thigns that had been already said about them in the forum 19:44 <@Sonata> Well, /why/ did you want to make them bigender? 19:45 < Teceler> iirc Faceless flipped a coin for gender? 19:45 < Teceler> (metaphorical coin) 19:45 < Faceless> I didn't... I couldn't decided so I literally threw dice 19:45 < Faceless> yeah, what teceler said 19:45 < Faceless> and the dice said "female sex, bigender identity" 19:46 < Faceless> and iirc Mori said "That is unusually cruel, proceed" 19:50 <@Sonata> huh 19:50 <@Sonata> You know what, go for it. 19:50 <@Sonata> This is a place for amateur writers. 19:50 <@Sonata> It's more important to try than to succeed. 19:51 <@Sonata> And if it doesn't work out... oh well. 19:51 < Faceless> huh 19:51 <@Sonata> Pick up the pieces, learn from your mistakes, and do better next time. 19:51 < Faceless> thanks 19:51 <@Sonata> "Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy." 19:51 <@Sonata> ^_^ 19:52 < Faceless> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmW3H-EXYS0 19:53 <@Sonata> http://sonatagreen.tumblr.com/tagged/make%20bad%20art 19:54 < Faceless> It might be even be hard to convey the bigender-ness through the forum itself, like maybe through related sandboxen 19:54 <@Sonata> Well, we'll see. 19:54 <@Sonata> It's often a good idea to have stuff you know about a character that doesn't quite make it onscreen. 19:54 < Faceless> like, it occured to me that maybe the sibling could be cisfemale and simply use a online male persona for kicks, but I prefer the bigenderness a bit, at least for training stuff 19:55 <@Sonata> (And if/when it /does/ make it onscreen, come up with more backstage stuff to replace it.) 19:56 <@Sonata> (there's an article I can't find atm because my browser just crashed, but google "okapi's butt") 19:56 < Faceless> “you are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs” xD 19:58 <@Sonata> http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1536076.html <-- okapi's butt 19:59 < Faceless> oH, I had found that already 19:59 < Faceless> I so sad that game wasn't made 20:00 <@Sonata> I thought it was http://crypticstitching.storynexus.com/s ? 20:01 < Faceless> huh, it was cancelled last time I heard about it o.o 20:03 <@Sonata> *shrug* 20:03 <@Sonata> They canceled the aspect of StoryNexus where it's possible to make money, so that might be what you were reading about 20:04 <@Sonata> I wouldn't be surprised if the project was abandoned and the planned sequels / subsequent Acts will never be made 20:05 < Faceless> ah, that must be it then 20:17 < Faceless> Does the forum has any means for people to detect completely made up identities/personas? 20:20 <@Sonata> IC? Undecided. 20:21 <@Sonata> OTC seems to have some ability to tell stuff about its customers, or at least its customers' abilities. (e.g. when they declined to let wossname mint Cernnuous) 20:25 -!- Teceler is now known as Teceler|Asleep 20:28 < Faceless> ME? 20:29 <@Sonata> No, the guy who claimed to be a god but was actually just like the admin of a videogame server or something 20:30 <@Sonata> He minted a bunch of Chron and got infected by a memetic virus 20:30 <@Adelene> ME would notice that someone is lying about themselves, I think was what Faceless meant. 20:30 <@Adelene> Since he's still checking on people. 20:30 <@Sonata> oh 20:31 <@Sonata> That's possible, but not all worlds accommodate alethic pokery 20:35 < Faceless> ME player's is busy right? 20:35 <@Adelene> mmhmm 20:36 < Faceless> and IC ME is doing what? 20:37 <@Adelene> ME's MWF fork is off fighting virus-infested super-AIs in Eclipse. 20:39 < Faceless> oh, right 20:39 < Faceless> that does sound like something that can occupy someone's time 21:07 < Faceless> Kumi and Astra are played by Eva? 21:09 <@Sonata> yeah 21:11 < Faceless> ah 21:11 < Faceless> cute 21:11 < Faceless> Astra scares Fenris so much that it leaks into me o.o 21:11 < Faceless> Fenris = CFW 21:28 -!- Evenstar has joined #backstage 21:28 * Evenstar waves at chat 21:28 <@Sonata> hello! 21:29 <@Sonata> long time no see 21:29 * Evenstar sighs at the first review of Salvage from her workshop group 21:29 * Evenstar has been trying to be around! 21:29 * Evenstar >.> 21:29 < Evenstar> <.< 21:30 < Faceless> Hi evenstar 21:30 < Faceless> what is the review? 21:31 < Evenstar> They said I threw too many things into it and it was hard to tell what was important 21:31 < Faceless> green-bird thing avatar? 21:32 < Faceless> maybe it was because they lacked the context? I could follow despite not knowing much realist 21:32 * Evenstar semi-expected that from the reviews she got on Alicorn, but still. Sigh. 21:32 < Evenstar> Yeah, I think it's lack-of-context. 21:32 < Evenstar> I haven't done sufficient background explaining. 21:32 < Faceless> What she had to say about Alicorn? 21:33 < Evenstar> No, I mean I posted a thread for Salvage on Alicorn and one of the critiques was 'I'm not sure if I'd follow this if I didn't already know these characters' 21:33 < Evenstar> Also: Green Bird thing = Viridescence 21:35 < Evenstar> (On the alicorn forum) 21:35 < Evenstar> http://alicorn.elcenia.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=422 21:35 < Faceless> ah, I saw that 21:35 < Faceless> I am Bluelantern 21:35 < Faceless> (and Curious Discoverer) 21:35 < Faceless> (and pretty sure there are other names around) 21:35 < Evenstar> Yes, I recall 21:38 < Evenstar> " I know little about these characters, little about the world its set in, and even less about what the whole point actually was. You seemed to be pushing towards some more profound issue, but whatever it was completely eluded me." 21:38 < Evenstar> ^^ sads. 21:39 * Evenstar thought she had thicker skin than this. She supposes it's the being unable to say 'drat' and commiserate with her reviewer. 21:39 <@Sonata> maybe interpret as "it's good but I want more of it"? 21:39 <@Sonata> like 21:39 < Evenstar> (There's a workshop policy of 'the author does not speak until all reviews are in', which is totally sensible but annoying.) 21:40 <@Sonata> it's a good story, good characters, worthwhile themes 21:40 <@Sonata> it just treats it too... succinctly? 21:40 < Faceless> er... okay maybe is the fact that I am already aware of the characters, but the whole issue with memories sounded pretty obvious??? 21:40 <@Sonata> "I like your writing but I want you to do more of it" 21:40 < Evenstar> Maybe! 21:41 < Evenstar> Oh, and the one thing that actually annoys me here rather than just making me go 'yeah that's valid critique' is this bit: 21:41 < Evenstar> "This is especially true in the conversion of Ka into a currency. As an Egyptian mythology buff, I found it difficult to immerse myself in the piece when this word in particular was used, especially with its meaning shifted radically." 21:42 < Evenstar> To quote Wikipedia: "The Ka was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body." 21:42 < Evenstar> That is literally exactly what is in Ka coins. 21:43 < Evenstar> I am not sure how this radically shifts the meaning...? 21:43 < Evenstar> And I can't ask for clarification, argh. 21:43 < Faceless> ... 21:43 < Faceless> Okay, that was absolutely pretentious 21:44 < Evenstar> (It's not like I just picked the name out of a hat. :I) 21:44 < Faceless> like, seriously calm down Sir Reviewer McPretentious 21:45 < Evenstar> (hee) 21:47 < Faceless> Evenstar, look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3c8STXjQ20 21:48 < Faceless> that is miku's story? 21:49 < Evenstar> (Give me a sec to watch and then I will comment) 21:51 < Evenstar> Okay, there is a really important thing that he's left out 21:51 < Evenstar> And that is that /somebody/ writes Miku's songs, right? Miku's software does not come up with entire vocal tracks by itself. 21:51 < Evenstar> (Likely the same thing is true for Lana Del Ray or any major pop star.) 21:52 < Evenstar> The difference is that Miku's songs are generated by her fanbase. 21:52 < Evenstar> Anybody can write and contribute a Miku song. 21:52 < Faceless> I think the idea is that while Miku's image is more transparent? Like, of course someone is writing Miku's song, of course is all fabricated. 21:53 < Evenstar> (Well, with some knowledge of the software and how to write music. Basically if you can compose electronica, you can write for Miku.) 21:53 < Evenstar> The difference is that /everyone knows/ who writes Miku's songs. 21:53 < Evenstar> Exactly. 21:54 < Evenstar> Miku's personality is also something that the community-as-a-whole decides on, more or less: the songs that become popular shape her image, which then feeds back into what songs are popular, etc. 21:55 < Evenstar> I think that you can absolutely make the argument that she's more genuine as an artist than some other pop performers. 21:56 < Evenstar> (When was the last time you heard a major pop performer sing a song about being part of the secret police? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq5kz2LNjA8 ) 21:57 < Faceless> Evenstar, yeah I think that is the argument? She is more genuine?or maybe... there isn't a "real and different person" behind the pop star persona? 21:58 < Evenstar> I think that 'Hatsune Miku the pop star' is fundamentally a collaborative project by many, many composers, artists, etc. All of them contribute directly or indirectly to 'who she is.' 21:59 < Faceless> at the video: Japan is weird 21:59 < Evenstar> I mean, if you want to ask the question 'Is Miku a person' then we start getting into weird concepts like 'Egregore' 21:59 < Evenstar> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore 22:00 < Evenstar> "An autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people." 22:01 < Evenstar> At what point does Miku-the-character become enough of a person that everyone collectively has problems writing her 'out-of-character'? 22:01 < Evenstar> I don't know! 22:05 < Evenstar> Less abstractly: Miku is a platform for many, many composers and artists to get their songs heard - especially those who themselves have no vocal training. 22:05 < Evenstar> She's literally a 'voice for the voiceless.' 22:06 < Faceless> oh, I don't mean that Miku she is a person, it is more that her experience involves less outright lies that are carefully crafted by a music corporation? 22:06 < Evenstar> Well, Miku-the-software/pop-star is wholly owned by Crypton Future Media, but... 22:07 < Evenstar> The whole persona is collaboratively constructed with the audience involved. 22:08 < Evenstar> I'd say that's more genuine than producing a person who doesn't want to perform songs of type X, but does so anyway because that will make them more money. 22:10 < Evenstar> I'd compare a Miku concert to going to see a really good movie with a whole bunch of other people who are also fans of the series. 22:11 < Evenstar> At the end of a good installment of a popular movie series, the audience sometimes give the theater screen a standing ovation, even though there are no performers to applaud. 22:12 < Evenstar> I think fandom of Miku comes from the same general sentiment - she represents the efforts of a very large number of dedicated people, and even if they're not here, we can still applaud the wonderful thing they made. 22:13 <@Sonata> hmm, 'egregore' reminds me of 'zondervoze' 22:14 < Faceless> zondervoze? 22:14 < Faceless> Evenstar, I think we are coming from different directions here? 22:16 < Evenstar> Okay? 22:17 < Evenstar> Maybe try and clarify? 22:19 < Evenstar> Sonata: Ah, I see http://goblinpunch.blogspot.ca/2014/05/ghost-biology.html 22:19 <@Sonata> yes 22:21 < Evenstar> Oh hey I think I remember this site 22:21 < Evenstar> Yeah, this is the 'god hates orcs' site 22:22 < Faceless> I think the point of the focus of the video is that Miku-the-software doesn't try to convince about things that are not true. The collective that creates her might come up with all sort of traits and things about her, but on the end of the day if you ask any fan "Is Miku fiction? The things about her in the media are fiction" they can answer correctly. 22:22 < Faceless> while the whole imagine of Lana Del Rey is fabricated, and /is/ trying to convince you of things that are not true. 22:25 < Evenstar> This is correct! 22:28 < Faceless> yeah, ok 22:29 < Faceless> Also, I can't say miku is really my type of music tbh 22:29 < Faceless> but it might be the simple fact that I can't understand her 22:33 < Evenstar> (Well, Miku is only one portion of the Vocaloid franchise/family/group) 22:33 < Faceless> oh, right before i forget 22:34 < Faceless> how much Come Forth Winter's type of immortality should cost? I trying to gather how valuable it should before considering potentially available for forum goes 22:34 < Faceless> goers* 22:35 < Andygal> how valuable is it to the character, and how expensive to produce? 22:36 < Faceless> I am rulling that it currently takes him 20 days to make a "unit" of the immortality at the cost of *dramatic pause* sleeping regularly for 8 hours. 22:36 < Faceless> *30 days 22:37 < Faceless> or he can off his own body (or put himself in a comma) and reduce that time to 10 days, maybe a week if he is using a Needlessly Large Rod 22:37 < Faceless> coma* urgh 22:38 < Faceless> he technically also has people in his own world that he wants to immortalize, but given his current resources it isn't a outright emergency 22:50 <@Sonata> Looking at interest rates on loans and endowment funds and such, it looks like I could conservatively estimate that $100 right now is equal in value to at least $2 per year forever. So I'd say immortality should be worth about 10 Ka. 22:51 <@Sonata> This makes no sense, but I can't see a flaw in the math. 22:55 < Faceless> eer, a person with this kind of immortality has a regular body, that can die, and when that happens they get a new body rebuild in a week 22:55 < Faceless> You can totally exploit that to make obscene ammounts of Ka 22:57 <@Sonata> ah, hm 22:58 <@Sonata> well, however much you can conveniently (without significantly interfering with doing stuff, compared to unaugmented human baseline) make with it in 50 years, that's what it should cost. 22:59 <@Sonata> either that, or put it up for auction and see what happens. 22:59 < Faceless> that sounds hilariously fun 23:01 < Faceless> Well, how about that we average person can stand to Ka-put themselves 5 times per year (on average)? Each time worth 10ka (if they stay in their apparent 20s) 23:01 < Faceless> so 5 x 10 x 50... 2500 Ka 23:02 < Faceless> plus the wings and magical powers should raise to how much? 23:02 <@Sonata> well, however much it would cost to get similar stuff by some other means 23:04 <@Sonata> anyway I'ma bed 23:04 <@Sonata> goodnight 23:04 -!- Sonata has quit 23:04 < Faceless> goodnight 23:04 < Faceless> oh she is gone 23:09 < Evenstar> Seems maybe reasonable 23:16 < Faceless> I added a Stormwalker rayment to get 2502ka, converted it to OTC currency and got 218824,92 23:16 < Faceless> which I am tempted to round to 219999.99 23:18 < Evenstar> Seems like the kind of price OTC would use :P 23:18 < Faceless> yup xD 23:19 < Faceless> approved then? 23:21 < Evenstar> sure 23:21 < Evenstar> (I am going to bed soon) 23:22 < Faceless> me too, I should have gone already but I am procrastinating on shaving >.> 23:24 < Andygal> doesn't it usually work better if you shave in the morning? 23:24 -!- Evenstar has quit 23:24 < Faceless> I actually prefer at night 23:24 -!- Faceless is now known as FacelesShave 23:51 -!- FacelesShave has quit --- Day changed Sun Nov 15 2015 00:59 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 02:03 -!- Andygal has quit 02:13 -!- dord has joined #backstage 02:13 * dord is here again 02:16 -!- dord has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 16, 2015 21:14:17 GMT
04:05 -!- MTC has quit 04:09 -!- Adelene has quit 04:23 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 04:23 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 05:00 -!- Teceler|Asleep has quit 08:35 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 11:23 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 11:23 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 11:31 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 11:44 <@Sonata> hi 11:49 < Teceler> hey 11:58 -!- kappabeta has joined #backstage 11:59 -!- mode/#backstage [+o kappabeta] by ChanServ 11:59 <@kappabeta> sonata, did you just add me on gchat? 11:59 <@Sonata> yeah 11:59 <@kappabeta> there appears to be a technical difficulty of some kind 11:59 <@Sonata> hmm 12:00 <@Sonata> possibly gchat is less jabber-friendly than it used to be, i'm trying to add from a nongoogle account 12:00 <@kappabeta> aha 12:00 <@Sonata> but also, I just now saw and yessed an authorization request from you, possibly it suddenly works now? 12:02 <@kappabeta> Interesting. It made me yes an authorization request from you, and then it showed me a you who was in the technical-difficulties-indicating offline state, so I sent you an authorization request back, and now it works? 12:02 <@kappabeta> ???gchat??? 12:02 <@Sonata> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 12:04 <@kappabeta> hehehe 12:04 <@kappabeta> that is like my second favourite emoji after sparkle fling 12:10 <@kappabeta> i am a sleepy kappa i shall go curl up in my kappanest 12:10 -!- kappabeta has quit 12:26 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 12:26 < Faceless> o/ 12:29 <@Sonata> hello 12:30 < Faceless> ^_^ how are things? 12:30 <@Sonata> good 12:31 <@Sonata> am reading about glassclaimer in terraria 12:37 < Faceless> glasswho? 12:42 <@Sonata> I forget the name, the one with the glass birds and claiming things 12:42 <@Sonata> first seen in 'on a lark' 12:42 <@Sonata> https://glowfic.dreamwidth.org/23420.html 12:43 <@Sonata> Thanjen 12:45 -!- Faceless has quit 13:06 < Teceler> oh dear, something ate the hard drive again 13:06 <@Sonata> oh dear. 13:06 * Teceler fetches the 'what is taking how much space' analyser 13:07 * Teceler also goes to check last time's culprit 13:07 < Teceler> ...yup 13:08 * Teceler probably shouldn't just delete log files but digging out the non-noise parts of that one is more trouble than it's worth 13:11 -!- dord has joined #backstage 13:11 * dord is back again 13:14 -!- froglegstew has joined #backstage 13:15 < froglegstew> Hi, faceless here, got distracted with sand sculptures 13:17 <@Adelene> o/ 13:44 -!- Teceler has quit 13:55 -!- froglegstew has quit 13:58 -!- niryl has joined #backstage 13:58 -!- niryl is now known as Teceler 14:09 <@Sonata> dord, are you Evenstar? 14:20 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 14:21 < Faceless> o/ 14:21 <@Sonata> hello/ 14:27 < Faceless> What would be the most obviously-stereotypically scottish name? 14:27 < Teceler> hm 14:27 < Teceler> first or last? 14:27 <@Sonata> Angus MacPherson? 14:28 < Faceless> First 14:28 < Faceless> huh, angus works 14:31 <@Sonata> Ruairidh? Murchadh? Seamus? 14:32 < Faceless> oh, Seamus! 14:32 < Faceless> gonna edit it then 14:33 < Teceler> what's this for? 14:34 < Faceless> http://manyworlds.boards.net/post/5780 14:34 < Faceless> not even sure if it is going to come up in the forum at all 14:35 < Faceless> but one of the other people with dream dimension-conjuration powers is a woman called Val, her dimension could be described as "If you took a wish-fullfilment OT3 fic and gave it life" 14:35 < Teceler> ...? 14:36 < Faceless> the shortest version: Val is in magic-love with Seamus and Kieran, and vice-versa. 14:36 < Teceler> given dream dimension 14:37 < Teceler> this sounds somewhat ethically dubious? 14:38 < Faceless> oh yeah, I mean, in Val's case it isn't her fault since she didn't know what was happening when it did and no one of the involved people are interested in reversing and their relationship isn't abusive. 14:40 < Teceler> ...and it isn't throughly enough magic-love to have a thing causing them to not want to reverse it? 14:40 < Teceler> *a through enough 14:40 < Faceless> the longer and horrifying version: The dimension comes with habitants, divided in two tribes. When someone from a tribe meets an outsider, they fall in love at first sight with them, and the dimension influences things so a person from the other tribe meets the outsider and also fall in love with them. 14:41 < Teceler> ...okay that's pretty horrifying 14:41 < Teceler> can, um, they do anything about that? 14:42 < Teceler> er, 'that' being the phenomenon 14:42 < Faceless> yeah 14:42 < Faceless> just hold a second, let me finish explaining 14:42 < Teceler> oh, sorry 14:43 < Faceless> So the two tribepeople are in love with the outsider, right? and that can result in the two fighting and even killing each other. However the outsider can suggest them to keep at piece and do one of two things: Stay put and wait 24hours until the magic-love effect wears off. 14:44 < Teceler> (do they know it's going to do that, when suggesting it?) 14:44 < Faceless> ...or they can go underground, consumate their love there and all three people will be bound by the magic-love forever 14:44 < Faceless> And that is why, CFW ordered a total of 100 rods of freedom from the OTC 14:44 < Faceless> sorry for what? 14:45 < Teceler> interrupting 14:45 < Teceler> and only 100? 14:46 < Faceless> The tribe people have since been told, the magic-love overrides prior preferences. Only 100 because most of the tribe people have been killed by *stuff that happened* 14:46 < Teceler> oh dear. 14:48 < Faceless> yeah, it is pretty terrible 14:48 < Faceless> and I am sort of proud about being so terrible >_> 14:48 * Teceler clucks. 14:48 < Teceler> being terrible for it's own sake is kind of 14:50 < Faceless> I wouldn't say it is for their own sake? It is like... 14:50 < Teceler> why is it? 14:51 < Faceless> ...the whole thing is created from dream magic, and I felt that this dimension is a very organic result of how that magic can result in something horrible without nightmares being involved 14:51 < Teceler> ah 14:51 * Teceler nods 14:52 < Faceless> like, Val's dream was her meeting the two men, stopping them from fighting for her love and then making love underground, just that a pleasant dream that could happen with /anyone/ 14:52 < Faceless> and the magic took that and spat out "brainwashing love" 14:53 * Teceler nods. 14:54 < Teceler> ...I wonder if the OTC has magic that can, like, allow you to decide what kind of dream you're going to have 14:54 < Teceler> (you could probably pick up lucid dreaming with budditanka) 14:56 < Faceless> it is worth asking Eva? but my ruling was that no /external/ effect can affect the dream, if you are a lucid dreamer through purely internal effects (skill, personal power, etc) you could lucid dream a suitable dimension 14:57 < Teceler> hm 14:57 < Teceler> so the bt or other methods of gaining lucid dreaming might work 14:58 < Faceless> Also, CFW is very nervous to share it with the forum 14:58 < Teceler> but external 'you are going to dream about x' wouldn't. (unless someone had a personal power allowing them to decide what to dream about in general, maybe?) 14:58 < Teceler> reasonably! 14:59 < Teceler> Firewall: [pushes psychosurgery under the carpet] 15:00 < Faceless> lol 15:01 < Faceless> huh, not sure how to rule about the psychosurgery, it /feels/ like cybernetic components don't sleep and shouldn't really have a say on the magical dream, but they might be integrated enough to the mind that it would be impossible for them to not have a say... urgh the multiverse makes everythign so complicated 15:01 < Faceless> it is awesome xD 15:01 < Teceler> pft 15:01 < dord> brains are flexxible 15:02 < dord> and also squishy 15:02 <@Sonata> I might rule that if there's a nonsleeping component that's integrated enough to be Part Of Your Mind then you can't be dreaming in the relevant sense 15:02 <@Sonata> if it were my ruling to make 15:02 < Teceler> um, EP-wise, synthmorphs and infomorph's don't sleep (...possibly they could simulate the relevant brain functions and just don't by default) 15:03 < Teceler> ...um, is sleeping /less/ significant? 15:03 * Sonata looks at Faceless 15:03 < Faceless> I didn't even notice that dord was here o.o 15:03 * dord is a ninja 15:04 < Teceler> because pretty much bio-everyone in Eclipse (morphs without Basic Biomods are really rare) only sleep 4 hours a night. or 2 if they have a specific thing for that 15:05 < Faceless> The dreamshard (The thing that caused the role mess) works by coming in contact with a sleeping/dreaming person. I was rulling there is something specific of the mental state that allows it, and that maaaaaybe some supernaturally charged meditation might come close to that effect. 15:05 < Teceler> but actually the 'pushing psychosurgery under the rug' was more that they were doing that with regards to forum -- it's really easy to use in very ethically dubious ways, and has limited positive uses 15:06 < Faceless> I was also rulling that you can't use drugs to influence the dream. 15:07 <@Sonata> That probably rules out psychosurgery, then. 15:07 < Teceler> (if it was really important for something they might consider it, but selling it to the OTC is right out) 15:07 <@Sonata> What about hypnosis or meditation before you go to sleep? 15:08 * dord might make a MWF person 15:08 < Faceless> yeah, there /might/ be something on the area that could be done with psychosurgery but it would require... dunno, extreme finess and some time for the mind to adapt. 15:08 < Teceler> and psychosurgery generally, unless it's resisted and the affected person succeeds on their roll, or it's one of the few temporary things, wears off after a while 15:08 < Teceler> or 15:08 < Teceler> *er 15:08 < Teceler> *or it's one of the things that wears off after a while, is a permanent change 15:09 * dord wonders if his idea is good 15:09 < Teceler> (aside from reverting it, the difficulty of which depends on how it was done) 15:09 <@Sonata> dord, you should do it regardless 15:09 < Teceler> (for example one of the ways to do it is adding modules to the brain) 15:09 < Faceless> hypnosis and meditation are closer to work, because they have a more internal component, but the hypnosis wouldn't be able to... the person can't be reached from the outside you know? If the hypnosis-target can hear hypnotic commands then it isn't dreaming enough 15:09 < dord> dord's character is a bat. Not a vampire. A bat. 15:10 < Faceless> a cute bat? 15:10 < dord> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverwing_(novel) 15:10 < Teceler> not a man who dresses like some kind of bat? (:P) 15:10 <@Sonata> Not hypnosis /while/ dreaming 15:10 <@Sonata> but like, you plant posthypnotic suggestions, come out of trance, then go to bed 15:12 * dord still might or might not 15:12 * dord is going to play fallout 4 and be afk now 15:12 < Faceless> Sonata, yeah that works better 15:12 < Teceler> dord: have fun? 15:14 < Faceless> dord, silverwing sounds like a interesting idea 15:39 -!- MTC has quit 15:48 * Faceless prods the chat 15:48 * dord prods faceless 15:48 < Teceler> [ticking sound] 15:48 <@Sonata> *crickets* 15:50 -!- dord has quit 15:50 < Faceless> dord is afraid of crickets, useful information 15:56 < Faceless> brb 15:59 -!- Faceless has quit 16:32 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 16:32 < Faceless> that took logner than I expected 16:32 < Faceless> how are you fellow humans? 16:35 <@Sonata> i am still human, last i checked 16:44 < Faceless> Sonata, good, keep us updated if that changes 16:53 -!- dord has joined #backstage 16:53 * dord is here 16:54 <@Sonata> hello 16:57 < dord> sonata did you hear my character idea 16:57 <@Sonata> the bat? 16:57 < dord> ya 16:58 <@Sonata> I don't know Silverwing but I think you should go for it 17:00 < dord> I am intimidated by others' writing chops 17:02 < Faceless> dord, that is so normal that is almost obligatory 17:04 <@Sonata> yah 17:07 < Faceless> The other day I was so shocked when I got complimented on my characters 17:08 <@Sonata> It's a nice feeling 17:14 < Faceless> I know, you managed to trick someone into thinking you are actually good at writing bwahahaha 17:15 <@Sonata> *cackles* 17:30 * dord almost makes an account, but loses his nerve and runs away instead 17:30 -!- dord has quit 17:31 < Faceless> :/ 17:38 < Faceless> gonna glow-read o/ 17:38 -!- Faceless has quit 17:49 -!- rcokeywe has joined #backstage 17:49 -!- rcokeywe has quit 17:49 -!- rockeye has joined #backstage 17:49 * rockeye wonders if anything exciting happened recently 17:52 <@Sonata> dord almost made a character 17:52 <@Sonata> btw you know you can change your name without quitting with /nick? 17:52 * rockeye is embarrased by his typo 17:53 * rockeye contemplates irony 17:53 < rockeye> who's dord anyway? 17:54 < rockeye> as far as I remember it's a nonsense word webster made up to catch dictionary-copiers 17:58 <@Sonata> dunno 17:58 <@Sonata> he claims to be a secret altname of someone we know 17:59 < rockeye> isn't eva known to do that? 18:00 < rockeye> or maybe he's just making it up. IDK. 18:00 < Teceler> mm, they don't come across like Evenstar 18:00 < Teceler> brb 18:00 -!- Teceler has quit 18:01 -!- rockeye has quit 18:05 -!- niryl has joined #backstage 18:05 -!- niryl is now known as Teceler 18:17 -!- teceler2 has joined #backstage 18:29 -!- teceler2 has quit 18:56 -!- scroungerkate has joined #backstage 18:56 * scroungerkate looks at IRC 18:56 < Teceler> [crickets] 19:00 * scroungerkate wishes evenstar was on more 19:01 < Teceler> oh 19:01 < Teceler> I vaguely recall Evenstar having a question for you 19:01 < Teceler> that was from when I was on mibbit though 19:01 < Teceler> and I /might/ be thinking of someone else 19:02 < scroungerkate> how long ago? Beacuse we are in gchat so I probably answered it 19:02 < Teceler> at least a week ago 19:02 < Teceler> you're probably good 19:09 -!- Teceler has quit 19:10 -!- scroungerkate has quit 19:11 -!- asriel has joined #backstage 19:11 * asriel dord here, had a different idea for a different character 19:12 -!- asriel has quit 20:00 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 21:13 -!- gretchen has joined #backstage 21:13 < gretchen> So fetch 21:13 -!- gretchen is now known as Faceless 21:14 <@Sonata> ? 21:19 < Faceless> You are not aware of cult classic "Mean Girls"? 21:32 <@Sonata> I am aware of it 21:32 <@Sonata> I don't actually remember clearly enough to understand the reference 21:34 < Faceless> ok 21:52 -!- Teceler is now known as Teceler|Asleep 21:52 < Faceless> ping? 22:00 <@Sonata> pong 22:03 -!- Faceless has quit 23:13 -!- Sonata has quit 23:25 -!- steelshaper has joined #backstage 23:25 < steelshaper> if whoever's ITL and CFW is on right now 23:25 < steelshaper> tag 23:25 -!- steelshaper has quit --- Day changed Mon Nov 16 2015 00:14 -!- dord has joined #backstage 00:14 * dord is here again 00:15 -!- rockeye has joined #backstage 00:15 < dord> greets rockeye 00:16 < rockeye> hi dord. 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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 17, 2015 17:09:42 GMT
05:28 -!- MTC has quit 07:10 -!- Teceler|Asleep has quit 09:32 -!- FacelessOnix has joined #backstage 09:33 < FacelessOnix> o/ 11:17 -!- FacelessOnix has quit 11:36 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 12:19 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 13:01 -!- FacelessDude has joined #backstage 13:01 < FacelessDude> Back, anyone here? 13:08 -!- dord has joined #backstage 13:08 * dord is really gonna do it! Is really gonna make an account this time! 13:09 * FacelessDude provides support to dord 13:44 * dord made an account and now has to post something... hm... 13:46 < FacelessDude> in the introduction thread? 13:49 < dord> hm 13:59 < dord> I made a post 14:00 < FacelessDude> haha, cute 14:03 < dord> Have you heard of WWII's bat bombs? Yeah, those are a recent thing in argent's world. 14:03 < FacelessDude> oh, I heard 14:03 < FacelessDude> poor thing 14:04 < dord> with details different from history 14:04 -!- dord has quit 14:30 < FacelessDude> ping? 14:37 <@Adelene> pong 14:38 < FacelessDude> ah, there was an energy hiccup and the internet failed for a bit 14:38 <@Adelene> ah. 14:39 < FacelessDude> Hey, interdimensional travel (if possible to an empty planet in another universe) is cheaper than 55 Ka? 14:41 <@Adelene> I think so? 14:41 <@Adelene> Like, if you mean once, you can pretty much get that for free by asking the right person. 14:42 <@Adelene> (You do need to have a way to specify the destination, though, and 'random empty planet' doesn't work.) 14:44 < FacelessDude> CFW is trying to decide if he wants to buy a Primaeval Hint or try to perform a experiment with pocket-dimension creation on other worlds 14:45 <@Adelene> Depending what the experiment is, Leaf might be willing to help with that. Nexus has empty unclaimed worlds, I'm sure. 14:45 < FacelessDude> would Kappa be willing with that? 14:47 <@Adelene> (1:46:50 PM) Kappa: i'm not sure I understand the question and I'm a little distracted right now 14:48 < FacelessDude> The experiment is: 1) Go to an empty planet with earth-like gravity using a Adaptation Orb to survive other dangers 2) Have a dreamshaper sleep there for a few hours and try using the dimension-creation there 14:48 <@Adelene> And what things might that do or not do? 14:48 <@Adelene> Like, why do they want to try that in particular? 14:51 < FacelessDude> the expected (and actual result) is that it would create a separate new instance of the pocket dimension in that world, and because of *thaumobabble* they can't expand by themselves (with happens naturally in the other world) and the dreamshaper loses all contact with it if they are in another universe 14:51 < FacelessDude> They want to see what happens, because they want to: 14:52 < FacelessDude> a) potentially sell the pocket-dimension creation service 14:53 < FacelessDude> b) they are interested in acquiring blueshaping, and want to avoid dimensional problems while trying to get it. 14:53 < FacelessDude> The primaeval hint is sounding like the simpler alternative at this point, though 14:54 <@Adelene> Possibly. 14:54 <@Adelene> Less fun to write though maybe. 14:55 < FacelessDude> oh, yeah ^-^ 14:55 <@Adelene> heh ^^ 14:56 < FacelessDude> plus the visitor might get one of the harmless pocket dimension for themselves, in this case I was thinking a natural butterfly gravity with low gravity 14:57 <@Adelene> *nod* 14:58 < FacelessDude> butterfly garden with low gravity 14:58 < FacelessDude> damn, hands, why did you failed me? 14:59 <@Adelene> That does make more sense, yes. ^^ 15:05 < FacelessDude> yeah, also I suspect that "butterfly garden" is prettier than "butterfly gravity" 15:11 < Xom> every butterfly attracts every other butterfly in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them 15:11 < Xom> physics facts with xom 15:11 < FacelessDude> Xom... not wrong, I agree 15:17 < Xom> this also means that every butterfly has potential energy based on its mass, the mass of every other butterfly, and the distance between them 15:19 < Xom> though by convention this potential energy is usually considered to be negative 15:21 < Xom> i... think that's basically all you need to know about butterfly gravity 15:21 < FacelessDude> Sure 15:21 < FacelessDude> a fascinating kind of science 15:22 < Xom> a very pretty kind of science, though one many would argue is not as pretty as butterfly gardening 15:22 < Xom> ... 'very pretty' and 'fascinating' are the same length? 15:22 < Xom> meanwhile some humans are playing desert bus for charity 15:23 < FacelessDude> are you counting the space between "very" and "pretty"? 15:23 < Xom> yes 15:24 < Xom> because that was what made it line up on my screen 15:24 < FacelessDude> what..? 15:25 < FacelessDude> are you on a phone? 15:26 < Teceler> what does that hae to do with anything 15:26 < Xom> no? 15:26 <@Adelene> There are some IRC clients where the names go on one side of a line and the comments go on the other, so the comments all start at the same place regardless of the length of the name of the speaker. In that kind of client, if one comment starts with "a very pretty" and the next one starts with "a fascinating" it'll be visually obvious if they line up. 15:26 <@Adelene> Which is what happened. 15:26 < Teceler> ah that was the thing 15:27 <@Adelene> Sonata uses a client like that too, it's why she insists on names that aren't too long. Long names move the comment-starting line and that's semi-permanent and annoying. 15:27 < Teceler> yeah, xchat does that thing 15:28 < Xom> what's weird is that long names in my xchat *don't* move the line 15:28 < Xom> they just overwrite the timestamp instead 15:28 < FacelessDude> I still think we should have incrised the limited to 13 for october/halloween 15:28 < FacelessDude> but I understand what happened now 15:28 < Xom> and the line gets pushed back to the left after i drag it right for some reason 15:28 < Teceler> Xom: okay that's weird 15:28 < Teceler> um 15:29 < Teceler> have you looked in your settings? 15:29 < Xom> like so: http://imgur.com/Hiww2lY 15:30 < Xom> note that by 'xchat' i actually mean 'hexchat' because the official build costs money on linux 15:30 < Teceler> ...? 15:30 < Xom> or... used to? 15:31 < Teceler> on linux? 15:31 < Teceler> I've been getting it from the package repo 15:31 < Teceler> (on ubuntu, specifically) 15:31 < Teceler> aaaand -- it /says/ it's xchat 15:31 < Xom> hmm 15:33 < Xom> oh it was the reverse and i'm just using hexchat because i like the project 15:33 < Teceler> ah 15:34 < Xom> and also probably because it was installed as the default chat client 15:35 < Xom> (in linux mint) 15:37 < Xom> to be specific, xchat for windows is shareware, hexchat is a fork of xchat for linux with a free windows port 15:38 < Xom> As for the weird thing with the name column resizing, I suspect it has something to do with hidpi 15:52 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 15:53 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 15:54 < Xom> hi 15:56 < FacelessDude> hi sonata 15:56 <@Sonata> hi 15:58 < Xom> i love how the timestamp on faceless's message says it's [12:56:FacelessDude, as though his name was a number of seconds 15:59 -!- MTC has quit 16:01 < FacelessDude> xD 16:01 < FacelessDude> does that only happens to me? 16:01 < Xom> it, or something similar, happens to whoever has the longest name, regardless of how long that name is 16:03 < Xom> right now that's you 16:05 < FacelessDude> huh, ok 16:05 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 16:06 < Andygal> Hi. 16:07 < FacelessDude> hi 16:08 < Xom> hi 16:19 < FacelessDude> I wonderi f ITL come off as meddling sometimes 16:24 <@Sonata> Not that I've noticed. 16:26 < FacelessDude> his usual reaction to hearing people's problem is "I want to heeeelp" 16:28 <@Sonata> that is true of many characters on this forum 16:30 < FacelessDude> fair point 16:30 < FacelessDude> the fairest and pointiest of all fair point 16:30 < FacelessDude> points* 16:34 * Sonata tosses a golden apple into the chat inscribed "For the Pointiest" 16:34 < Andygal> it is indeed true. 16:36 < FacelessDude> The Golden Apple is so we fight over it and start a war? 16:37 <@Sonata> *shrug* 16:40 < FacelessDude> I am not feeling like starting a war today. 16:41 < Andygal> Me either. 16:43 < FacelessDude> golden apples don't even taste that good 17:05 * Xom is disappointed at the lack of war 17:06 < FacelessDude> Well, at least you can have the golden apple if you want it 17:06 < Xom> it would be more fun if somebody was holding it and somebody else was holding something else 17:06 < Xom> and then i switched what they were holding 17:06 < Teceler> XD 17:07 < FacelessDude> game reference? 17:07 < Xom> yes 17:07 < Xom> it's one of my powers 17:08 < Xom> ... one of xom's powers, i should say 17:08 < Xom> not one of demo's powers 17:11 < FacelessDude> that xom uses on his playthings? 17:11 < Xom> yeah 17:11 < Xom> he can switch the weapon the player is holding with the weapon a nearby enemy is holding 17:12 < Xom> this can be a good thing but is probably a bad thing because the player likes to wield good weapons (and so do enemies, but their selection is limited and they don't care about them begin cursed or distortion-branded) 17:12 < FacelessDude> I am certain the player will always enjoy when that happens 17:13 < Xom> distortion weapons, by the way, warp time and space when you strike with them OR unwield them 17:13 < Teceler> wellup 17:13 < FacelessDude> and that is bad? 17:14 < Andygal> Yes. 17:14 < Andygal> it can send you to a hell demension. 17:14 < Xom> well if you look at http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=Miscast_effect#Translocations 17:14 < Xom> that's what unwielding a distortion weapon can do 17:14 < Xom> eh the abyss is safer than hell 17:15 < Teceler> pft 17:15 < Xom> it's so much safer than hell that banishing yourself is a good escape plan if you're in hell 17:15 < Andygal> safer than hell does not mean safe. 17:16 < FacelessDude> yeah 17:16 < Xom> it's certainly more dangerous than dungeon or lair 17:16 < FacelessDude> I vaguely would expect most places to be safer than hell 17:16 < FacelessDude> what is abyss like? 17:16 < Xom> most places generate a level once and the level stays put unless something changes it 17:17 < Xom> the abyss's terrain shifts constantly (deleting your automap when it changes, of course) 17:17 < Xom> also there are chaos monsters 17:18 < FacelessDude> and that doesnt happen in hell 17:18 < Xom> nah, hell is just four normal branches (plus the Vestibule) with really nasty demons 17:19 < Xom> and a chance for random miscast effects and/or summoned demons every 20 turns 17:20 < Xom> the other thing about the abyss is it's the only branch you can get to from anywhere 17:20 < Xom> so exiting it (usually) puts you right back where you entered it from 17:21 < Teceler> usually? 17:23 < Xom> if you're banished from Pandemonium you find gates out of Pandemonium in the abyss instead of gates out of the Abyss 17:23 < Teceler> ...and Pandemonium is? 17:24 < Xom> a realm kind of like hell except infinite and you can't go back to a level of Pandemonium once you leave it 17:24 < Xom> so you just keep going deeper until you die or take a gate out of Pandemonium or into the Abyss 17:24 < Teceler> ah 17:24 < Xom> (hopefully after having recovered the *five* runes there) 17:25 < Xom> (there are 15 runes of zot, and you only need three to win the game) 17:25 < Teceler> ...are there bonuses for getting more? 17:25 < Xom> (most places have one rune or no runes) 17:25 < Xom> yes, higher score 17:26 < Xom> which i guess in-universe would be 'the orb of zot is more unimaginably powerful' or something 17:26 < Teceler> pft 17:26 < Teceler> even more so 17:26 < Xom> even more so 17:27 < Xom> there is basically no reason to go to Pandemonium or Hell if you're just trying to win the game 17:27 < Xom> but the Abyss might be, situationally, a reasonable option for your third rune 17:28 < Xom> especially if you worship Lugonu, the god of the Abyss 17:29 < Teceler> does that provide bonuses there? 17:30 < Xom> yeah 17:31 < Xom> among other things 17:32 < Xom> Lugonu at * piety lets you immediately leave the abyss for 1 MP (and some piety and nutrition), Lugonu at ***** piety lets you banish yourself to the Abyss (at the cost of some HP and all your MP, and some piety and nutrition), and makes it more likely for you to find the Abyssal rune 17:35 <@Sonata> huh 17:35 * Sonata still likes Bondage God best 17:35 < Xom> well yeah, ashenzari is pretty cool 17:36 < FacelessDude> bondage god? 17:36 <@Sonata> Ashenzari 17:36 < Xom> "While it seems inconceivable that the divine could be shackled, Ashenzari is just that: bound to the sky for eternity, the unbudging god is all-knowing, all-seeing. Devoted worshippers are allowed to grasp shreds of this knowledge and foresight, but be warned: to Ashenzari, power and blessing and curse are all the same thing." 17:36 <@Sonata> god of cursed items 17:36 < Xom> "Ashenzari likes it when you explore the world (preferably while bound by curses)." 17:37 < FacelessDude> That is an interesting take on the kink 17:38 < Xom> ashenzari's cool because he's one of the few gods that actually raises your *stats* 17:38 < Xom> if i recall correctly 17:38 < Xom> wait no i'm wrong 17:39 < Xom> he buffs your skills like most other gods, but does so passively based on how bound you are 17:42 < Xom> if you want stat buffs you'll have to follow Cheibriados, or hope for a good mutation from Jiyva or Xom 17:42 < Xom> or, I guess, an appropriate card or potion of beneficial mutation from Nemelex or Gozag respectively 17:45 < Xom> hahaha i'm reading the crawl wiki article about gozag 17:45 < Xom> "Appreciates/Deprecates: Gozag Ym Sagoz is a reasonable businessgod, and does not allow personal feelings to affect its behavior one way or another. All interactions with Gozag Ym Sagoz revolve purely around gold." 17:45 < Xom> "a reasonable businessgod" 17:48 < FacelessDude> he is a modern, strong and independent businessgod that needs no man. 17:49 < Xom> he is, by the way, the only god that doesn't have a 'piety' value 17:49 < Xom> though Xom and Ru have 'piety' that works very differently from all the other gods 17:49 < Teceler> howso? 17:51 < Xom> Gozag just sells you services in exchange for gold, Xom's 'piety' is basically a probability estimate of whether his next action will be good or bad for you, and Ru's piety never goes down (which is good because it only goes up if you make major personal sacrifices) 17:52 < Xom> everyone else's piety goes up steadily as you do things that please them and goes down steadily over time or if you displease them slightly 17:52 -!- dord has joined #backstage 17:52 * dord so that went well 17:52 < Xom> hello! 17:52 < Teceler> are you echoargent? 17:52 < dord> hi 17:52 < dord> ya 17:52 < Teceler> or 17:53 < Teceler> I may be mispelling that, but 17:53 < dord> na its rite 17:53 < Xom> what's this about the acoustics of silver? 17:53 < FacelessDude> hi dord o/ 17:53 < FacelessDude> good job with echoargent o/ 17:53 < dord> his bat species refers to itself as silverwings 17:53 < dord> and he uses echolocation 17:53 < dord> names! 17:53 < Teceler> Niryl is annoyed that the current state of their plotline precludes throwing things at them 17:54 < dord> who's niryl 17:54 < Teceler> ...Tyche probably has opinions too if ze's been watching the forum but has not volunteered them 17:54 < Teceler> um, one of the characters I write 17:54 < dord> who's tyche 17:54 < dord> same... 17:54 < FacelessDude> another of her characters 17:54 < FacelessDude> Niryl is from fallen london and Tyche is from Eclipse phase 17:54 < FacelessDude> iirc 17:54 < Teceler> *Eclipse Phase /pedantic 17:55 < Teceler> but yes 17:55 < FacelessDude> ? 17:55 < Xom> capitalization? 17:55 < Teceler> capitlization 17:55 < Teceler> *capitalization 17:56 < Teceler> pft 17:56 < FacelessDude> it is just a phase 17:56 < Teceler> no, the name of the thing is 'Eclipse Phase' 17:56 < Teceler> and you capitalized the Eclipse but not the Phase 17:56 < Teceler> ...I did say I was being pedantic 17:56 < FacelessDude> okay, ignore my pun 17:57 < FacelessDude> no one apreciates them 17:57 < Teceler> ... 17:57 < FacelessDude> xD 17:57 * Teceler did not notice the pun 17:57 < Teceler> oops 17:57 -!- dord is now known as nick 17:57 < nick> ' 17:57 < nick> what 17:57 < nick> that was mistake 17:57 -!- nick is now known as dord 17:57 < Xom> ./nick nick 17:57 < Teceler> ...hm, Niryl's opinion may be influenced by echoargent being a bat specifically, though 17:57 < dord> this is ooc? 17:57 < FacelessDude> woah, for I moment I thought Rockeye was on the chat 17:58 < Teceler> this is the ooc channel, yes 17:58 < dord> my little sister siezed the keyboard 17:58 < Xom> yes 17:58 < Andygal> this channel is OOC 17:58 < Xom> I'm just Xom for no reason 17:58 < dord> I retrieved it 17:58 < Teceler> wb? 17:58 < dord> you lot have played undertale? 17:58 < Xom> you know who else's opinion would be influenced by echoargent being a bat? 17:59 < Teceler> (Niryl: (@echoargent) ...are you stealing cities? ...no? okay good) 17:59 < Xom> just about any adventurer in zot 17:59 < Teceler> pft 17:59 < Teceler> dord: some people here have, but not everyone 17:59 < FacelessDude> Now, I feel like doing what demo is doing and go IC 17:59 < Xom> I'm not really IC, mind you 18:00 < FacelessDude> it still sounds like it could be fun 18:00 < FacelessDude> just... tiring? 18:00 < Teceler> (Niryl: ...and you're not working for the Fingerkings?) 18:00 < Xom> I leave my nick set as Xom while I'm away so that I can show up randomly and pester people (which is sort of IC), but then it stays as Xom while I'm here because I'm lazy 18:00 < Teceler> and then you refer to Xom as yourself :P 18:01 < Xom> sounds like somebody wants to be banished :P 18:01 < Teceler> (FL/the Neath: [has weird things involving space bats. and regular bats]) 18:03 < FacelessDude> yeah, it is a weird and horrible place, which makes for a interesting game 18:03 < Xom> someday i'll get back into writing thing 18:04 < Xom> and it'll probably be by making a new character and not telling anyone it's me 18:04 < Teceler> ...are you Evenstar? 18:04 < Teceler> :P 18:04 < Xom> I am nobody who has posted any time recently 18:08 < Xom> bizarre character idea that i can't remember whether I mentioned or not: the leader of the tribe of kittens in Kittens Game 18:09 < Xom> or, almost equivalently, the leader of the fish civilization in Shark Game 18:10 < Teceler> think you mentioned former in passing 18:10 < FacelessDude> Xom, I actually considered that, but I already had a cat character and 18:10 < FacelessDude> didn't want to be an *expert* in the setting 18:10 < Teceler> or that might have been Faceless, yes 18:10 < Xom> heh 18:10 < FacelessDude> I actually don't think I mentioned it tbh 18:10 < Teceler> /someone/ mentioned that 18:10 < Xom> if I do kittens game thing it'll be once i'm at the endgame of kittens game 18:11 < FacelessDude> pretty sure I mentioned to a friend, but not here 18:11 < Xom> wow i'm super inconsistent with my capitalization today 18:11 < FacelessDude> don't be self pendantic 18:11 < Xom> but what if i want to call myself out about the things I write 18:12 < Xom> WHAT then, HUH? 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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 18, 2015 16:58:58 GMT
05:04 -!- Andygal has quit 10:02 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 10:02 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 10:09 -!- Adelene has quit 11:25 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 11:25 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 11:34 <@Sonata> good morning 12:01 -!- Adelene has quit 12:55 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 12:55 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 13:20 <@Sonata> You're very bouncy today 13:26 <@Adelene> Was at the library, their internet is crappy. I'm home now though. 13:30 <@Sonata> Welcome back. 13:35 <@Adelene> http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3929 pffffffft ^^ 13:38 <@Sonata> snrk 13:46 -!- Teceler|Asleep is now known as Teceler 13:55 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 13:56 < Faceless> o/ 13:56 -!- Faceless is now known as FaceLesDudes 13:59 -!- Sonata has left #backstage 13:59 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 13:59 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 13:59 < FaceLesDudes> hi again? 13:59 <@Sonata> hi 14:42 -!- FaceLesDudes has quit 16:12 -!- FacelessSock has joined #backstage 16:12 < FacelessSock> hi 16:13 -!- MTC has quit 16:29 * Sonata is playing crawl 16:37 -!- dordwing has joined #backstage 16:37 < dordwing> anybody know how often OTC checks the forums? 16:46 <@Sonata> dunno 16:53 -!- dordwing is now known as boredwing 17:07 -!- boredwing has quit 17:38 -!- FacelessSock has quit 18:30 -!- Sonata has quit 18:37 -!- FaceLesDudes has joined #backstage 18:37 < FaceLesDudes> Good evening 18:42 -!- FaceLesDudes has quit 19:22 -!- FacelessFrog has joined #backstage 19:22 < FacelessFrog> hi 19:25 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 19:25 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 19:27 -!- FacelessFrog has quit 19:54 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 19:55 < Faceless> ping? 20:00 -!- Faceless has quit 20:17 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 20:22 -!- Faceless has quit 22:48 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Wed Nov 18 2015 01:02 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 03:03 -!- Teceler is now known as Teceler|Asleep
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 19, 2015 16:57:51 GMT
09:29 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 09:30 < Faceless> o/ 09:30 < Faceless> ping? 11:18 -!- Faceless has quit 11:52 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 11:52 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 12:29 -!- Teceler|Asleep is now known as Teceler 13:22 -!- Sonata has quit 13:54 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 13:54 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 14:03 -!- Sonata has quit 15:38 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 15:41 < Faceless> anyone here? 16:03 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 16:03 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 16:29 -!- MTC has quit 16:56 -!- Faceless has quit 16:56 -!- FaceLesDudes has joined #backstage 16:56 < FaceLesDudes> ping? 16:56 < Teceler> pong 16:57 < FaceLesDudes> Hi! 16:58 < FaceLesDudes> How are things? 16:58 * Teceler waves hands vaguely 16:59 < FaceLesDudes> ok 16:59 * Adelene is off their shiny new brain meds, and while this continues to be a sound strategic decision, /UGH/. :P 17:00 < FaceLesDudes> huh... good luck with the ugh-ing? 17:00 <@Adelene> *nod* 17:01 < FaceLesDudes> anyone here is familiar with A Miracle of Science? 17:01 <@Adelene> (The mood boost is a bit, uh, much, and I have a thing tomorrow that I need to be more levelheaded for, so. But, ugh, though.) 17:01 <@Adelene> Not offhand. 17:02 < FaceLesDudes> [hugs]? 17:02 <@Adelene> *hug* 17:02 < Teceler> [hug] 17:03 <@Adelene> I'll be okay, this isn't actually worse than I was putting up with this time last week, it's just ugh in contrast. 17:06 < FaceLesDudes> A Miracle of Science is a webcomic that I am re-reading now, I am thinking Mars (the meta-mind of martians) would be an interesting character but I am unsure if it is too hard to RP as. Not to mention I read this long enough ago that I am unsure about the... "moral standards" of the situation. 17:08 <@Adelene> Sounds interesting, anyway. 17:08 < FaceLesDudes> exactly! ^^ 17:13 -!- rockeye has joined #backstage 17:14 -!- rockeye has quit 17:40 < FaceLesDudes> Why effulgence is so hard to search? urgh 17:41 < FaceLesDudes> I am trying to check Quinn's elemental affiliation's colors 18:56 -!- FaceLesDudes has quit 19:25 -!- Sonata has quit 19:51 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 19:51 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 20:09 * Teceler considers character idea. 22:39 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 22:39 < Faceless> Hello? 22:40 <@Sonata> hi 22:41 < Faceless> hi! 22:41 < Faceless> how are things? 22:42 <@Sonata> going okay 22:42 <@Sonata> probably going to bed soon 22:44 < Faceless> I should it too 22:44 < Faceless> urgh 22:44 < Faceless> sleep, why humans, why you have to do that? 22:44 < Teceler> because 22:44 < Teceler> reasons 22:48 < Faceless> well, that answer it 22:49 <@Sonata> ~it is a mystery~ 22:51 < Teceler> basically yeah XD 22:56 < Faceless> pft 23:02 -!- Sonata has quit 23:09 < Faceless> good night o/ 23:09 -!- Faceless has quit --- Day changed Thu Nov 19 2015 01:04 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 03:30 -!- Adelene1 has joined #backstage 03:31 -!- Adelene has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 21, 2015 3:52:03 GMT
04:46 -!- Adelene1 has quit 04:57 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 04:57 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 04:57 -!- MTC has quit 08:35 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 09:20 -!- Faceless has quit 10:30 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 10:31 < Andygal> Hello. 11:10 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 11:10 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 11:39 -!- Adelene has quit 12:36 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 13:33 -!- NoFaceFigaro has joined #backstage 13:34 < NoFaceFigaro> o/ 13:36 < Andygal> Hi. 13:39 < NoFaceFigaro> How are things? 13:41 < Andygal> OK 13:47 < NoFaceFigaro> So... new things and stuff? 13:47 < Andygal> Stuff. 15:58 -!- MTC has quit 17:28 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 17:28 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 17:32 <@Sonata> Hey Xom, I just found one of your altars 17:32 <@Sonata> it was accompanied by exploding sheep 17:32 < Xom> of course it was 17:32 < Xom> you should pick me 17:32 < Xom> it'll be fun 17:33 < Andygal> Worship Xom they said, it'll be fun they said. 17:33 <@Sonata> I'm sure it'll be lots of !!Fun!!. 17:34 < Xom> look, would *exploding sheep* lead you astray? 17:35 <@Sonata> I'm sure they're not misleading at all. I fully believe that they indicate the kind of god who would be naturally implied by exploding sheep. 17:36 < Xom> yes, a funhaver god 17:37 < Xom> *peer pressure* 17:38 < NoFaceFigaro> ...where the exploding sheep come from? 17:39 -!- NoFaceFigaro is now known as FaceLesDudes 17:40 < Xom> level generation, i'd presume 17:40 < Xom> and level generation put it there because there's a vault that contains one of my altars and exploding sheep 17:42 < Xom> and the vault is defined because somebody on the dev team was cool 18:17 < FaceLesDudes> What are you people up to? 18:31 <@Sonata> currently playing as a demonspawn chaos knight 18:41 < FaceLesDudes> in stonesoup's game? 18:41 < FaceLesDudes> wait what was the name again? 18:41 < Andygal> Dungeon Crawl 18:44 < FaceLesDudes> okay, that was a weird case of bad memory, even for me 19:25 < FaceLesDudes> Is there a rule against IC account sharing? 19:32 <@Sonata> no 19:33 <@Sonata> it's broadly discouraged, but you can if you really want to 20:06 < FaceLesDudes> interesting 20:08 <@Sonata> Mark borrows Miles's account sometimes, I think 20:09 <@Sonata> but MS's security can detect identity so you have to actually intentionally decide to let someone share your account 20:10 < FaceLesDudes> that /is/ relevant 20:11 < Teceler> I think Mark was going to borrow Miles' account but that hadn't happened before he got stranded in Darkness 20:11 < Teceler> or at least he didn't post with it 20:11 < FaceLesDudes> I am (again) debating introducing the Elay prime, who is likely to go "HI LETS BE FRIENDS" by using Write it Down's account first 20:11 < FaceLesDudes> oh, right, what Mark is doing in Darkness again? 20:13 < Teceler> um 20:14 < Teceler> he /was/ rescuing someone 20:21 < Andygal> Now he's fucking shit up. 20:21 < Teceler> presumably, yes 20:50 < FaceLesDudes> Fucking shit up and taking names, and run out of the tiny notebook where he was writing down the names? 21:13 * FaceLesDudes gently pokes the chat 21:21 < Andygal> Hi. 21:21 < Teceler> we went quiet again, didn't we 21:21 < FaceLesDudes> yup 21:21 < FaceLesDudes> it happens 21:22 < FaceLesDudes> I my case I dosed off while reading >.> 21:22 < FaceLesDudes> anyway 21:22 < FaceLesDudes> would anyone be interested in threading this? http://manyworlds.boards.net/post/5829/thread 21:35 <@Sonata> I don't think I have any characters with the right powerset 21:36 <@Sonata> i.e. to achieve interworld travel 21:36 < FaceLesDudes> In theory, the interworld travel and the visitors don't need to be the same group 21:37 < FaceLesDudes> I don't /need/ to thread the experiments, it is just feels something I should offer if I am going to interact with other people's characters 21:37 < FaceLesDudes> you know? 21:38 <@Sonata> *shrug* 21:53 < FaceLesDudes> having to travel between dimensions can be so incovenient #FirstMultiverseProblems 22:03 < Andygal> pffft 22:04 < FaceLesDudes> ^ ^ 22:56 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Fri Nov 20 2015 00:18 -!- FaceLesDudes has quit 01:02 -!- MTC has joined #backstage
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 21, 2015 17:35:49 GMT
05:00 -!- MTC has quit 07:31 -!- Andygal has quit 08:26 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 09:12 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 09:13 < Faceless> o/ 09:35 -!- Faceless has quit 10:38 -!- Adelene1 has joined #backstage 10:39 -!- Adelene has quit 10:41 -!- Adelene1 has quit 10:47 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 10:47 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 11:47 -!- Sonata has quit 12:14 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 12:14 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 13:05 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 13:07 -!- Teceler has quit 13:28 -!- Teceler has joined #backstage 16:03 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 16:03 < Faceless> o/ 16:07 -!- MTC has quit 17:46 -!- Faceless has quit 17:54 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 17:54 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 18:05 -!- lumen has joined #backstage 18:05 < lumen> so this thing is interesting 18:05 < Teceler> hello lumen 18:07 <@Sonata> hi! 18:07 <@Sonata> I am glad you find it interesting 18:13 -!- Sonata has quit 18:13 < Teceler> ... 18:13 < lumen> I'm wondering about making a charactr 18:13 < lumen> maybe, maybe not 18:14 -!- lumen has quit 18:14 < Teceler> :( 18:56 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 19:11 -!- Faceless has quit 19:58 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 19:58 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 20:03 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 20:03 -!- Faceless has quit 20:10 < Teceler> wb Sonata 20:10 <@Sonata> ty 20:13 -!- quiggle has joined #backstage 20:14 < quiggle> I hope you are having a pleasant evening 20:28 <@Sonata> Why thank you. 20:39 < quiggle> you are welcome 20:39 -!- quiggle has quit 20:48 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 20:48 < Faceless> Hello 20:48 < Faceless> Anyone here? 21:34 <@Sonata> yep 21:34 -!- Faceless has quit 22:54 -!- mib_7s1ix5 has joined #backstage 22:55 -!- mib_7s1ix5 has quit 23:00 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Sat Nov 21 2015 00:54 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 03:45 -!- Andygal has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 23, 2015 15:33:11 GMT
04:27 -!- MTC has quit 04:27 MTC left the room (quit: Quit: ~ Trillian - www.trillian.im ~). 06:44 MotherStarlight left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 182 seconds). 07:25 Teceler left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 180 seconds). 07:39 Teceler entered the room. 09:36 Faceless entered the room. 09:42 Faceless: hi? 10:14 Andygal entered the room. 11:25 Xom: the superpower of being able to 'fail the mission' and involuntarily go back in time whenever something terrible happens 11:57 Sonata entered the room. 12:30 -!- MotherStarlight has joined #backstage 12:30 -!- Irssi: #backstage: Total of 8 nicks [2 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 6 normal] 12:30 -!- mode/#backstage [+o MotherStarlight] by ChanServ 12:30 -!- Irssi: Join to #backstage was synced in 21 secs 12:30 -!- mode/#backstage [+v MotherStarlight] by Sonata 12:30 -!- mode/#backstage [-o MotherStarlight] by Sonata 12:34 <@Sonata> Anything interesting happen while MS was out? 12:34 < Faceless> Not that I know 12:35 < Faceless> Xom, what?? 12:35 < Xom> it's a superpower that's surprisingly common 12:35 < Xom> especially among videogame protagonists 12:36 <@Sonata> this sounds like a conversation that I came in the middle of 12:37 <@Sonata> and that I would like to have in the logs? 12:37 < Xom> <Xom> the superpower of being able to 'fail the mission' and involuntarily go back in time whenever something terrible happens 12:37 < Xom> that's the entire conversation 12:37 <@Sonata> aha, thanks 12:39 < Xom> some characters can only do this a limited number of times 12:39 < Faceless> he said after andygal came to the chat, so I assumed he was continuing the conversation with her 12:39 < Xom> others it just keeps happening 12:39 < Xom> oh no it was just a random comment 12:39 < Faceless> I actually reading a story where this is a rather... useful superpower 12:40 <@Sonata> Mother of Learning? 12:40 < Xom> the downside of it is sometimes higurashi no naku koro ni happens 12:41 < Xom> and you spend subjective centuries trying to figure out how to stop all your friends dying 12:42 < Faceless> Sonata, I am not entirely sure how spoiler-ish the thing is? It is not outright a superpower... more like a cure for a problem 12:42 < Faceless> #Spoilers? 12:42 <@Sonata> *shrug* 12:42 < Faceless> #spoilers ² 12:42 < Xom> why is there a superscript 2 12:43 <@Sonata> because ~unicode~ 12:43 < Xom> ~unicode~ ???? 12:44 < Faceless> because I pressed the wrongs key and then enter 12:45 < Xom> aha 12:47 < Xom> there is also a superpower that is basically the opposite: the ability to go back in time after a success to succeed even more 12:48 < Faceless> Well, you have to crush all those barrels and win all those points, right? 12:48 < Faceless> not to mention all the side-quests 12:48 < Faceless> I should drink some coffee 12:48 < Xom> gotta click more cookies 12:48 < Xom> acquire more paragon points 12:48 < Andygal> oh god cookie clicker. 12:49 < Xom> maybe try an iron will run 12:49 < Xom> please, nobody make a cookie clicker forum account 12:49 <@Sonata> why, do you want to do it yourself 12:49 < Xom> it will end poorly 12:50 < Xom> no, i just don't want to deal with grandmatriarchs etc 12:51 < Faceless> what...? 12:51 < Faceless> how would a cookie clicker forum account would even work? 12:51 < Andygal> faceless you are probably better off not knowing. 12:51 < Xom> some things are just too much on fire 12:52 < Xom> agree with andygal 12:52 < Faceless> Andygal, I see, it is forbidden knowledge that man was not meant to touch 12:52 < Faceless> the dark secrets of cookies 12:53 < Faceless> huh, without knowing much about cookie clicker, I propose people to imagine a combination of it and Fallen London 12:53 < Xom> no what are you doing 12:54 < Xom> argh now i am imagining it send help 12:54 < Andygal> Faceless: NOPE. 12:55 < Xom> there is an iceberg of uncountably infinite cookies in the middle of the zee 12:56 < Faceless> pft xD 12:57 < Faceless> sorry (not sorry) 12:59 < Xom> every eight hours the dark ritual occurs 13:00 < Faceless> ? 13:01 < Xom> ah - a clicker heroes reference 13:01 < Xom> since we were talking about incremental games 13:01 < Xom> the sentence appeared in my head and sounded suitably ominous 13:02 < Xom> actual good character idea: guy from factorio 13:02 < Faceless> ah, it was ominous, I just didn't know why 13:02 < Faceless> factorio? 13:03 < Xom> game about automation 13:03 < Xom> in the minecraft/terraria vein except top-down camera so that you can just put a drill on some ore and it'll work for a while 13:05 < Xom> and then the drill puts the ore on a conveyor belt and the conveyor belt leads to a smelter and then you put iron plates or whatever on a conveyor belt leading to an assembly machine to make (for example) more conveyor belts 13:05 < Xom> maybe it's a better scenario idea than character idea 13:10 < Faceless> well,I don't know enough to tell you 13:12 < Xom> well, as far as using it as a scenario goes, it's basically [character] is stuck in an unfamiliar world full of hostile creatures with nothing but some tools and a giant pile of blueprints 13:13 < Andygal> Gotta go, nana's funeral service. 13:13 -!- Andygal is now known as Awaygal 13:14 * Faceless offers hugs to Andygal 13:14 * Xom does likewise 13:30 < Faceless> Sonata, wow, that daevinity post was a bit too much xD 13:30 <@Sonata> ??? 13:30 < Faceless> aren you lambda? 13:30 <@Sonata> yes 13:30 <@Sonata> where am I thing? 13:31 < Faceless> the statolith thingie 13:31 <@Sonata> aha 13:37 < Faceless> it was cruel xD 13:38 * Teceler wanders in, is amused by the videogame protagonist power with regards to the character concept she has been considering 13:40 <+MotherStarlight> (11/21/2015 5:44:57 AM) MotherStarlight left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 182 seconds). 13:40 <+MotherStarlight> 05:47<Adelene>(11/21/2015 8:36:43 AM) Faceless entered the room. 13:40 <+MotherStarlight> 05:47<Adelene>(11/21/2015 10:25:24 AM) Xom: the superpower of being able to 'fail the mission' and involuntarily go back in time whenever something terrible happens 13:40 < Teceler> yes that 13:40 <@Sonata> aaaugh 13:40 < Xom> aaaaugh 13:40 < Teceler> ? 13:41 < Faceless> ???? 13:41 < Xom> ! 13:41 <@Sonata> apparently irc markup things turn into control characters when directly pasted into a terminal 13:42 < Xom> ha 13:42 < Faceless> Do I always get [foo]@PSI-[bar].mibbit.com ? 13:42 <@Sonata> dunno 13:43 < Teceler> iirc, no, those vary 13:48 -!- Faceless is now known as FacelessCake 14:08 -!- FacelessCake is now known as FacelessBake 14:28 <@Adelene> (movie night in 3.5 hours, guys) 14:29 <@Sonata> ^^ 14:29 <@Adelene> ^^ 14:34 <@Sonata> playing a kobold hunter in crawl is suprisingly fun 14:41 < FacelessBake> oh, what is tonight's movie again? 14:43 <@Adelene> Dragonheart and The Water Horse. 14:57 < FacelessBake> ah, huh, I likely won't be able to see it, but good luck 14:57 <@Adelene> Ok. Anything I could do to make it work better for next week? 14:57 < FacelessBake> nah, it is just a one time thing. 14:58 <@Adelene> ok 15:13 < FacelessBake> I might pop in if there is time 15:13 -!- FacelessBake is now known as Faceless 15:27 -!- Faceless has quit 17:40 <@Sonata> Reminder that movie night is in 20 minutes! 17:51 < Xom> door to nothingness 17:57 <@Sonata> http://www.mycircle.tv/2977-670-849/ 20:01 -!- Sonata has quit 20:04 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 20:04 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 20:29 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 20:29 < Faceless> o/ 20:47 -!- Awaygal is now known as Andygal 21:29 -!- Faceless has quit 22:00 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 22:00 < Faceless> o/ 23:10 -!- Sonata has quit 23:24 -!- Faceless has quit --- Day changed Sun Nov 22 2015 01:07 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 03:24 -!- BORED has joined #backstage 03:28 < BORED> anyone here 03:29 < Andygal> Hi. 03:31 < BORED> mwf dies once in a while huh 03:31 < Andygal> Yeah. 03:32 -!- BORED is now known as zzzzzz 03:32 -!- zzzzzz has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 23, 2015 15:33:38 GMT
05:12 -!- Andygal has quit 10:08 -!- Adelene has quit 10:08 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 10:08 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 10:32 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 10:32 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 10:33 <@Sonata> Apparently my ear piercing is infected :( 10:38 <@Adelene> :( 11:15 <@Sonata> *sigh* live and learn, I guess 11:17 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 11:17 < Faceless> Salutations fellow humans 11:17 < Faceless> and Xom 11:17 < Xom> salutations 11:18 < Faceless> o/ 11:18 < Xom> no greeting for MotherStarlight, though? 11:18 * MotherStarlight is only sort of here. 11:19 < Xom> Then she can be sort-of greeted, right? 11:22 < Faceless> MotherStarlight is a being beyond the mere mortal concept of greetings 11:31 < Faceless> I was going to post as Mars, but I lost all the spoons for it, while at same time I am tempted to do something grandiose like a picture with "the voice of legion" text effect 12:57 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 12:58 < Andygal> hi. 12:58 <@Sonata> hi 12:58 < Faceless> hi 12:58 < Teceler> hi 12:58 <@Adelene> o/ 13:19 -!- MTC has quit 13:26 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 13:53 < Faceless> So, what everyone is up to? 13:56 < Andygal> playing pokemon. 13:58 <@Adelene> Threading Portalbold and Third Vorkosigan ^^ 13:58 <@Adelene> http://glowfic.dreamwidth.org/24914.html 14:01 < Faceless> oooh, the elusive third vorkosigan 14:01 < Andygal> eeeeee! 14:04 < Faceless> (I am watching Flash btw) 14:04 < Faceless> Adelene, do you mind if I post that in the forum? 14:04 <@Adelene> Go for it. 14:08 < Faceless> it is done 14:11 <@Adelene> ^^ 14:25 < Andygal> Ugh. I just wasted six various pokeballs on one pokemon. 14:25 < Andygal> Oh well, seventh times the charm. 14:26 < Andygal> Yes I want to save the game. 14:26 < Faceless> what did you got? 14:26 < Faceless> don't forget: you must catch them all 14:27 < Andygal> Sawk. Why is that bugger so hard to catch? 14:50 < Faceless> he can karate his way out of the pokeball? 14:57 < Faceless> character suggestion: A Porigon that found his way into the MWF 15:00 < Andygal> pffft 15:42 -!- MTC has quit 16:18 <@Sonata> (not onto, /into/) 16:18 < Faceless> ? 16:21 <@Sonata> it's a digimon in a web forum 16:21 <@Sonata> xkcd: "You've looked at the internet. I've been there." 16:24 < Faceless> Pokemon, different franchise 16:49 < Andygal> (hugs for Lurker) 16:52 <@Adelene> Lurker: *is hugged* 16:54 < Faceless> oh, I am busy, so I am not following that, how bad it is? 16:54 <@Adelene> Pretty much the standard 'somebody mentioned elves'. 16:54 <@Sonata> I know the difference between pokemon and digimon, I was doing a thing because porygon in particular 16:55 <@Sonata> oh dear @lurker 16:57 <@Adelene> Her theory is correct btw. 16:57 < Faceless> ok, I will preemptively hug lurker despite not reading the thread yet 17:30 -!- Faceless has quit 19:29 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 19:30 < Faceless> Hello 21:05 <@Sonata> hi 21:08 < Faceless> I am failing to find the will to post at the forum :/ 21:15 -!- Faceless has quit 23:40 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Mon Nov 23 2015 01:03 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 01:16 -!- Adelene has quit 01:35 -!- rockeye has joined #backstage 01:35 < rockeye> Signs you're too tired: refreshing your own threads, where it's your turn anyway, hoping they've updated. 01:35 < Andygal> Hugs? 01:36 < rockeye> nah I'm just being a bit facetious 01:36 < rockeye> You know, irresponsible sleep procrastination 01:36 < rockeye> and also the work kind 01:36 < Andygal> Yes. I know. 01:36 < Andygal> Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. 01:36 < rockeye> I probably will fail one of my class 01:37 < rockeye> After this much college I almost don't care 01:43 < rockeye> bleh 01:43 < Andygal> ? 01:43 < rockeye> I'm doing that whole vaguely depressed thing again 01:44 < rockeye> it's depressing 01:44 < rockeye> and doesn't help 01:44 < rockeye> and I don't really know how to stop 01:44 < Andygal> :( 01:45 < rockeye> 'Let's watch Fury again. Who cares that it's 1 AM?' is what my brain just output 01:45 < rockeye> so I'll go do that 01:45 < Andygal> Ok then. Have fun. 01:46 -!- rockeye has quit
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Post by Mother Starlight on Nov 24, 2015 15:45:43 GMT
05:02 -!- MTC has quit 06:38 -!- Adelene has joined #backstage 06:38 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Adelene] by ChanServ 06:44 -!- Andygal has quit 07:38 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 09:17 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 10:22 -!- Faceless has quit 10:30 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 10:30 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 14:29 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage 14:48 < Andygal> Hi. 15:53 -!- MTC has quit 17:03 -!- Sonata has quit 17:05 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 17:06 < Faceless> Hello! I hope everyone is having a good evening o/ 17:07 < Andygal> Hello. 17:09 < Faceless> hi! ^^ 17:11 < Faceless> Maggies' magical girl is hilariously tropey 17:23 -!- Sonata has joined #backstage 17:24 -!- mode/#backstage [+o Sonata] by ChanServ 17:27 < Faceless> Hi sonata o/ 17:27 <@Sonata> hi 17:27 < Faceless> how are things? 17:30 < Andygal> Hi. 17:31 <@Sonata> am okay 17:37 < Faceless> any news? news ideas? 17:37 <@Sonata> *shrug* 18:00 * Sonata considers p-zombie character 18:00 < Teceler> Eclipse has Opinions about that 18:00 < Faceless> p-zombie? 18:01 < Teceler> (basically, it declines to cooperate) 18:01 <@Sonata> Lacks qualia/consciousness 18:01 <@Sonata> basically, any time there's magic or whatever that treats minds as ontologically special, this character officially/technically counts as not having one 18:02 < Faceless> huh 18:03 <@Sonata> (Eclipse is sort of a weird case. On the one hand, Eclipse Phase is hard sci-fi, and should be able to correctly treat her mind as present but not ontologically basic. On the other hand, the Ego rune sounds like exactly the kind of thing that fails to interact.) 18:03 < Teceler> Eclipse continues to inform me that it will not cooperate with this. I'm... not sure what to about that. 18:04 < Teceler> hm 18:05 < Faceless> Eclipse the universe? 18:05 < Teceler> yes 18:05 < Faceless> it is awake? 18:06 < Teceler> It's fairly edge-case, but I feel like Ego could look at the brain structure end too. In fact that's a significant part of what it does 18:06 < Teceler> somewhat, yeah. Occasionally it shows up an registers opinions on things. P-zombies is one of them. 18:06 <@Sonata> (There are some /weird/ implications to this. Like, there's the normal stuff like immune to telepathy and can't get arcany, but then there's things like, a demon can make a copy of her.) 18:06 < Faceless> what is the Ego rune? 18:07 < Teceler> it's an alethic rune 18:07 <@Sonata> What does the Ego rune do? 18:08 <@Sonata> or like 18:08 <@Sonata> *waves hands vaguely* 18:08 < Teceler> it... well, thinking about it, it's basically what lets Eclipse alethics treat minds as an ontologically basic thing XD 18:08 <@Sonata> what's it about? 18:08 < Teceler> also it does some other weird stuff 18:09 < Teceler> like character sheets. (non-literally, but, yeah) 18:09 <@Sonata> Maybe the character... working nickname Unqualified... just doesn't fit into Eclipse? like, can't travel there. 18:09 < Teceler> that would work if we don't want to deal with the interactions 18:09 <@Sonata> Cannot be represented non-lossily under Eclipse mechanics. 18:09 < Teceler> especially since Eclipse looks at that and wants to convert her to their mechanics 18:12 < Faceless> Sonata... have you discussed this character idea before? 18:12 < Faceless> because the nickname "unqualified" is giving me a extreme deja vu 18:12 <@Sonata> yeah 18:12 <@Sonata> don't think I had the name before though 18:14 < Faceless> huh, weird because it is the most deja-vu-inducing part 18:14 * Faceless shrugs 18:14 < Teceler> actually, Sonata, talking about characters reminds me, how would MS translate a character who communicates in images (or more specifically they decline to use words if possible. they're fine with receiving information in that format, and they are weirded out by being translated but would only be freaked out by it if they actually saw their messages in that format) 18:14 < Teceler> *? 18:15 < Faceless> what would be Unqualified's relevant forum effects? she won't be able to mint some otc stuff? 18:15 <@Sonata> it's mostly a matter of interactions with stuff I guess 18:15 <@Sonata> actually probably wouldn't be able to mint with OTC at all, all the currencies can only be minted voluntarily 18:16 <@Sonata> which is a mental thing 18:16 < Teceler> ...the OTC may have run into this problem before and have some kind of workaround for it 18:17 < Teceler> i don't know, ask Evenstar, but my instinct is that that's at least plausible 18:18 < Faceless> still dyne, memories, inspiration, etc might not work? 18:18 <@Sonata> probably 18:18 <@Sonata> and, like 18:19 <@Sonata> if there were a workaround that worked for her then it would probably also allow minting Ka from trees 18:20 < Teceler> ...that is an interesting mental image, granted 18:21 < Faceless> how she come in contact with the forum at all? 18:21 < Andygal> minting Ka from trees? 18:24 < Faceless> Since some trees can live thousands of years? 18:27 <@Sonata> MS found her world's internet, noticed references to a minority of the population being p-zombies, and created a non-personhood-sensitive manifestation. 18:32 -!- Faceless has quit 18:37 * Teceler pokes Sonata re: her question 18:37 <@Sonata> oh right 18:38 <@Sonata> MS would not translate them without permission, but would try to explain the situation and ask them what they wanted to do about it 18:39 <@Sonata> unless this was the sort of preference that could not be reasonably discovered/guessed without invasive amounts of mindreading 18:39 <@Sonata> so like, if it's reasonably widespread in the culture she'd know to ask 18:40 < Teceler> no, it's a personal thing 18:41 < Teceler> but I figured she would get some kind of feedback on that intentionality-wise 18:47 <@Sonata> Borderline case, could go either way. If they're already consciously aware of their preference before it comes up in practice, that'd tend to push it towards the noticeable side. 18:47 < Teceler> hm 18:47 * Teceler pokes at character-concept 18:47 <@Sonata> I'm aiming for MS to be convenient but not creepy. 18:47 * Teceler nods. 18:48 <@Sonata> MS might not notice until the character actually attempts to post 18:48 <@Sonata> since that's the point at which their intentions/expectations about what will be done [with / as a result of] their post will come into play 18:49 * Teceler nods. 18:49 < Teceler> that doesn't seem like a major issue 18:49 <@Sonata> and MS can be like, 'this feels differently shaped somehow compared to most posts, better poke at it... oh.' 18:49 -!- Sonata is now known as sonatafood 18:51 <@Adelene> hmmmmmm 18:51 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 18:51 <@Adelene> given how intentionality is a factor in the translation thing I could see your p-zombie having some trouble there. 18:52 < Teceler> wb Faceless 18:54 < Faceless> there was a internet hiccup 18:54 < Faceless> did I miss? 18:55 * Adelene sends log. 19:01 < Teceler> okay, she's aware of the preference with regard to verbal communication, definitely. I /think/ also written, but she's actually not strongly literate -- I get the impression she would be as likely to think of drawing things to communicate as that, so it may not have come up. Telepathy (which she doesn't actually use until later in her timeline as a result of not having contact with anyone else with it, but I think is what 19:01 < Teceler> her forum manifestation would be hooking into, given the problems with giving her a physical one) is very image(+other senses)-based for communication. She's... aware that using words is something that people do, she just... has a lot of aaa/NOPE regarding responding to them in that way. (she /is/ vaguely okay with having someone translating for her, though she finds it kind of weird/creepy, poking at that) 19:01 < Teceler> ...thinking about it this character concept might interact interestingly with Lurker 19:06 <@Adelene> Lurker would totally be cool with that, given sending stones especially. 19:07 < Teceler> yeah, I expected that 19:07 < Faceless> does that character concept has a name? 19:07 < Teceler> she has not produced a forum name yet 19:08 < Teceler> ...she is considering freefall but it would be hard to represent visually 19:09 < Faceless> why freefall? 19:10 < Teceler> ...to do with an element of their setting 19:10 < Teceler> which I am inclined to let people guess at for a while for some reason 19:11 -!- sonatafood is now known as Sonata 19:12 < Faceless> they are link from that game where there is a sky island? 19:12 <@Sonata> visual representation of "freefall": https://www.flickr.com/photos/zeroshin/8347394621 ? 19:13 < Teceler> hm 19:13 < Teceler> maybe, with some details to differentate from just falling 19:22 <@Sonata> @ p-zombie translation: MS can learn the language by reading the internet 19:22 <@Sonata> and translate in a mostly nonmagical fashion 19:22 <@Sonata> she can't do identity/duress stuff though 19:23 <@Adelene> *nod* 19:24 < Faceless> This is an alternate earth? 19:24 < Faceless> Earth* 19:27 <@Sonata> yeah 19:27 < Faceless> what exactly counts as lacking spoons? 19:28 <@Sonata> i think it's probably a continuum? 19:28 <@Sonata> (am assuming this is a change of subject) 19:28 < Faceless> Yeah, I am not aware of how spoons could be relevant to the p-zombie thingie 19:30 <@Sonata> but iiuc the basic model is that you have a limited number of energy points per day, and doing things depletes them, and when you're out you can't do stuff, and they recharge while you sleep 19:30 -!- Faceless has quit 19:31 -!- Faceless has joined #backstage 19:31 < Faceless> did I miss anything? 19:32 <@Sonata> but iiuc the basic model is that you have a limited number of energy points per day, and doing things depletes them, and when you're out you can't do stuff, and they recharge while you sleep 19:32 < Faceless> I guess it isn't the same thing then 19:34 < Faceless> MS comment is related to the fact that she is the forum? 19:35 <@Sonata> yeah 19:35 <@Sonata> (another case of "I thought it would be funny") 19:36 < Faceless> It is 19:37 <@Sonata> ^^ 19:39 < Faceless> I am tryiing to think of a reply... 19:42 < Faceless> the best I can manage is "You are a fine example of web-design, but I don't swing that way" 19:43 < Teceler> pft 19:43 <@Sonata> snrk 19:44 < Faceless> incidently, I still don't feel sure about the twins' sexual orientation, except "not-straight" 19:44 < Faceless> because of reasons 19:46 * Sonata disgruntles at facecasting 19:46 < Faceless> for Unqualified? 19:47 <@Sonata> yeah 19:47 < Faceless> heeey have you talked about Unqualified with Alicorn? 19:47 <@Sonata> I don't think so 19:47 < Faceless> my memory is prompting the connection 19:47 <@Sonata> ...has Lucy Hale been cast as a Miles? 19:47 <@Sonata> she strikes me as a Miles 19:47 < Faceless> she is a sherlock 19:47 < Faceless> oh wait, different lucy 19:48 < Teceler> hm, Sonata, I think MS is liable to notice when she has trouble with the username field? 19:48 <@Sonata> oooh, yeah 19:49 < Faceless> that is automatic? 19:49 <@Sonata> no, people can choose their usernames 19:51 < Faceless> but there is a fuction that notices if they aren't familiar with the concept or...? 19:52 <@Sonata> it's approximately 'what should we call you?' 19:53 <@Sonata> like, MS would notice if the concept of names is so alien as to have difficulty translating? 19:53 <@Sonata> but it's pretty flexible, it can accommodate concepts as varied as name, callsign, and MAC address 19:57 < Faceless> I vaguelly assumed the concept of username was explained to Write it Down 19:59 < Andygal> it may have translated as "Alias" or something similar. 19:59 <@Sonata> sure 20:01 <@Sonata> ... 20:01 < Faceless> ? 20:01 <@Sonata> Unqualiafied's world is coming together in my head 20:02 <@Sonata> and it would make a bell scream and not stop screaming until she had killed it 20:02 <@Sonata> like 20:02 < Faceless> o.o 20:02 <@Sonata> it is not worse than alethia, but it is roughly comparable to fairyland 20:03 <@Sonata> ok so 20:03 <@Sonata> about 1% of the population are p-zombies, and this is well known. 20:03 <@Sonata> this implies there is mind magic of some kind. 20:03 <@Sonata> I'm imagining that [almost?] everyone who's not a p-zombie has mind magic. 20:04 <@Sonata> and it's considered normal to use it nonconsensually on other people. 20:04 <@Sonata> for, like, pranks. 20:04 < Faceless> FacelessFall 20:04 -!- Faceless is now known as FacelessFall 20:05 <@Sonata> You can't actually sustain a Fairyland-style master/vassal thing for more than like thirty seconds at the outside, but 20:05 < Teceler> aaaa. 20:05 < FacelessFall> Oh, and to think that the other day I was worried that my settings can get too dark 20:06 <@Sonata> There's no mindreading, but you can give orders 20:06 < Andygal> aaaaaaaaaaaa 20:06 <@Sonata> The victim can resist; giving and refusing orders both consume mana 20:07 <@Sonata> at 1:1, loser also pays 20:07 <@Sonata> so using your power makes you more vulnerable 20:07 <@Sonata> because then you have less mana left to resist with 20:07 <@Adelene> Lurker /also/ screams and doesn't stop screaming until she's killed it, I think. 20:08 <@Sonata> oh, and you can't make someone do something they wouldn't have been able to do voluntarily, like bite off a finger 20:08 <@Sonata> involuntary mental blocks stay in place 20:08 <@Sonata> but orders don't have to be spoken aloud 20:08 <@Sonata> they're just transmitted mentally by the magic 20:09 <@Adelene> ....yup. aaaaaaaa. 20:09 < Teceler> ...okay thinking about this and logical extremes 20:09 < Teceler> someone could order someone (who didn't have the mana to resist) to kill someone else? 20:09 <@Sonata> there's an expectation that you don't do anything /too/ bad? especially because turnabout is fair play 20:10 <@Sonata> in theory, yes, but they would get in hella trouble for it 20:10 <@Sonata> everyone knows that this magic is a thing 20:10 <@Adelene> Is there a way to prove whether you were mind controlled or not? 20:10 < Teceler> and it's possible to track who gave someone orders? 20:10 <@Adelene> Like, after the fact? 20:10 < Andygal> but how do you conclusiv----- 20:10 < Andygal> yes that. 20:10 <@Sonata> well, you can order people to answer questions truthfully 20:11 <@Sonata> so if you have a suspect you can interrogate them 20:11 <@Sonata> (but that can be costly in mana, so you can't just interrogate /everyone/) 20:11 < Teceler> and the person who is claiming to have been mindcontrolled can ask for that, I guess? 20:11 <@Sonata> yeah 20:12 <@Sonata> p-zombies are immune to the magic, btw 20:13 < Teceler> and presumably can't do it? 20:13 <@Sonata> right 20:13 < Teceler> how does that manifest societally? 20:13 <@Sonata> different people can have different amounts of max mana, but it's not a /lot/ of variation, maybe +/- 20% 20:13 <@Sonata> P-zombies are a disliked minority. 20:14 <@Sonata> It's not heritable, so there's not like ghettos for them, but it's not great to be a zombie 20:14 <@Sonata> very roughly analogous to being gay 20:15 <@Sonata> but rarer and with /somewhat/ less success at social acceptance by modern day times 20:16 <@Sonata> so like, being trans in the nineties i guess? 20:16 <@Sonata> is very very rough analogy, don't think i can fix 20:16 * Sonata goes back to looking at facecasts 20:17 < FacelessFall> what are you looking for ? 20:18 <@Sonata> white female brunette, college aged -- clearly not a child, but not with the "this is a person with a day job" stressliney thing that people get when they're Official Grownups 20:19 <@Sonata> ...this may be a tall order 20:20 < FacelessFall> that doesnt sound that hard? 20:20 <@Sonata> oh, and not too haughty 20:20 <@Sonata> most of the people I've looked at so far are either too young or too old, or in one bizarre case, both 20:21 <@Sonata> ideally also not immediately recognizable as some other glowfic character 20:21 < FacelessFall> who is the bizarre case? 20:25 <@Sonata> ummm 20:27 <@Sonata> not sure now. Might have been Adrianne Palicki, who is thoroughly purpled anyway. 20:35 <@Sonata> i think i need to take a rest from icon searching before faces stop looking like faces 20:39 < FacelessFall> I thougth she was a blue? 20:40 <@Sonata> I am not great at remembering faces correctly but she feels like a James to me 20:42 -!- FacelessFall is now known as Faceless 20:42 < Faceless> only one episode of GF left 20:42 < Faceless> someone hold me 20:49 -!- Faceless has quit 20:50 <@Sonata> eeeee V3 is thinging! 20:50 <@Sonata> that was less than communicative, uh 20:51 <@Sonata> Third Vorkosigan is doing the miles/mark/____ Thing That They Do 20:51 <@Sonata> where they're competent and audacious and how the hell did you pull /that/ off 20:51 < Andygal> XD 20:52 <@Sonata> (Miles accidentally stole an army.) 20:54 <@Adelene> *giggle* 20:56 <@Adelene> Unfortunately I don't have sufficient brain to generate elf tags tonight, I think. At least not many, anyway, the first one is actually percolating pretty decently. 20:56 <@Sonata> *proportionately tiny ee* 20:57 * Sonata offers brainpats 20:57 <@Adelene> ^^ 20:57 < Andygal> <brainhug> 20:58 <@Sonata> <hug> 21:10 <@Sonata> ...Unqualified could visit Alethia without acquiring a daemon 21:25 < Andygal> This does not end well. 21:25 <@Sonata> Well, it doesn't middle well. 22:53 -!- Adelene1 has joined #backstage 22:54 -!- Adelene has quit 23:13 <@Sonata> my current-draft iconset feels like I've seen these before. 23:14 <@Sonata> Is someone already PB Grace Hartzel? 23:22 -!- Sonata has quit --- Day changed Tue Nov 24 2015 01:06 -!- MTC has joined #backstage 03:42 -!- Andygal has quit 03:42 -!- Andygal has joined #backstage
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