TTL: The Final Hazard OOC

[mdk]

......aaaaaaaand shit, I messed up. I read that part where Donny barked orders "while he was moving," and in my head, that said he got out already. Now I'm... uh, well, do I want to edit my post with watchful Terminal right there looking?

[Terminal]

......aaaaaaaand shit, I messed up. I read that part where Donny barked orders "while he was moving," and in my head, that said he got out already. Now I'm... uh, well, do I want to edit my post with watchful Terminal right there looking?

@mdk

You have permission to edit to conserve continuity.

[mdk]

Sweet. Preserved the old version in a hider, in case that's a thing you'd like to have available.

[shylarah]

Dear gods. I think I'm glad that motivation prevented me joining this round because two sentences in I was miserable. I could read it. I could understand it. But it wasn't any fun, and I rp expressly for fun. Replication of errors is one thing, putting them in at every possible opportunity another. So @Terminal, I'm out. I will be ceding my life/lives (depending on how the ownership of the one given me by Aria works) to others, but I'm going to wait to do that for the moment. I'm trying to decide if I should give them to those with only a few, or wait to see who survives the first few rounds.

I'm open to being persuaded. And I would appreciate being pinged when each adventure comes to a close, just so I can check in if I forgot to. I'll be cheering you all on, guys! SMUSH THE TERMITE (not really but hey, it fits).

[Terminal]

Just to clarify again (I answered this previously), the doors were unlocked.

Emphasis on were with Luca's fumbling.

[Terminal]

Dear gods. I think I'm glad that motivation prevented me joining this round because two sentences in I was miserable. I could read it. I could understand it. But it wasn't any fun, and I rp expressly for fun. Replication of errors is one thing, putting them in at every possible opportunity another. So @Terminal, I'm out. I will be ceding my life/lives (depending on how the ownership of the one given me by Aria works) to others, but I'm going to wait to do that for the moment. I'm trying to decide if I should give them to those with only a few, or wait to see who survives the first few rounds.

I'm open to being persuaded. And I would appreciate being pinged when each adventure comes to a close, just so I can check in if I forgot to. I'll be cheering you all on, guys! SMUSH THE TERMITE (not really but hey, it fits).

@shylarah

The only and brief persuasion I will attempt - consider, from a character perspective, modes of thought and behavior that occur when metacontextually the universe makes no sense. If errors keep racking up at the current rate, eventually poster uncertainty is going to have to bleed across to their characters.

That is all.

[shylarah]

@Terminal Not you. Persuasion from people who want lives. You don't need any more. *swats* =P

[PlatinumSkink]

... And now, because I can't edit without causing havoc to the contextual reality, I am not even going to read my post again. I will simply assume that the numerous times I have read through my post and the posts of others shall do. Yeah. Hah...

[Cruallassar]

@Terminal Not you. Persuasion from people who want lives. You don't need any more. *swats* =P

@shylarah

May I please have your lives?
I'll give you virtual cookies...

[Terminal]

The next post is going to be up in around ten hours or so. Anybody else who wants to post or post some more before then - that window is closing.

[Terminal]

Ding. Right on the mark.

@Bright_Ops, you still are not tagged - but very bad things are happening. You might want to post soonish.

Some news: You are all making far more mistakes than I had anticipated. '-'

I currently have six pages worth of notes detailing the nuances of those mistakes.

An example:

...Agitated, as Penny had promised her death yet not ==how this was going to happen==...

A particularly sophisticated error of tense, grammar, and possession. It is almost impressive really. Poses serious technical issues in implementation, but I am thinking of replacing every instance of the word 'it' with 'this.'

Notes

I am spending approximately 1000% more time checking and inserting errors than I am writing the posts, and if I were to include all of them what we currently have would be an unintelligible mush. So new policy, at least for the moment, is for me to only use the most egregious errors. In particular, errors made more than once. This will be effective as of right now.

Edit: I also now find myself in the surreal circumstance of realizing I forgot to insert a particular error or else missed proofreading a valid word that needs to be corrected to a mistake.

Edit the Second: In further regards to the current accumulation of errors, I am contemplating setting aside all errors currently accumulated other than those made more than once. This may be a merciless sudden-death bonus round, but I can be occasionally generous. What do you all think?

[PlatinumSkink]

Geh. Now I'm feeling inept.

I can't see the error. "This" can't be used there? It is referring to her supposed future death. Sure, "it" does sound better now that I consider it, but "this" can also be used to refer to a thing. Saying "have this" while giving an item works. Ergh.

Myum. _{^{I refuse to have my confidence be shaken! I will keep writing as I always have while I try to learn! *poses dramatically*}}

Edit: That is, at least in cases when we know what "it" is, then it can be "this"... Right? ... Er... "We will confront this monster"->"we will confront this" (when they know we're referring to the monster), um... ... ... Geh...

Edit 2: I am extremely concerned as to what error caused Amelie's name to be replaced with Penny's...

[shylarah]

@PlatinumSkink I'd go with "that", not "this" -- "this", to me, implies it's something present or fairly immediate, and it feels more like a tense/perspective error than anything else, but it doesn't seem particularly egregious. I would accept "this" here, as a stylistic choice. I don't remember the specifics of when you use which, but it does make sense. "This"/"that" is specific, and emphasizes something more than just an "it". "It" is just a fairly generic sort of word, and if you want to highlight the death, I wouldn't use "it". In terms of replacement, you should be replacing "that"s, not "this"es, @Terminal.

I am going to surprise you, but I'm not telling you how this will happen.
Put that in past tense:
I was going to surprise you, but I didn't tell you how this would happen.

...Actually, maybe it should be a matter of correcting "was going" to "would"? Honestly English is rather flexible, and there's always half a dozen ways to say anything and any one of them might not feel quite right to someone but fine to others.

@Cruallassar How many do you have right now?

[Cruallassar]

@Cruallassar How many do you have right now?

@shylarah

I've got four.

And as to the question...well, I'm not really struggling to understand what's going on yet, but I'd like to know if I've been making any errors. I'm feeling pretty good right now, and I'm hoping I have reason to.

[shylarah]

@Cruallassar@Terminal SURE why not. Cru may have one of my three lives. <3 That puts me downs to two (one to give away, assuming I can do that with a life I was given by someone else). Good luck!

[Cruallassar]

@Cruallassar@Terminal SURE why not. Cru may have one of my three lives. <3 That puts me downs to two (one to give away, assuming I can do that with a life I was given by someone else). Good luck!

@shylarah

Thanks! I'll try not to need it. Here, have some virtual cookies!

[Holmishire]

@PlatinumSkink, if you'd rather take the window with Luca and Andy, just state as much in your post and Ariett will let you you go. ;)

[PlatinumSkink]

@Holmishire Noted. Thank you, but I believe this works out excellently with a predicament that Amelie was going to face.

... With that said...

Edit: On a second thought, maybe that is cheating. ... Eh.

[Bright_Ops]

Working on a post now. I'll get it up shortly.

[Cruallassar]

Working on a post now. I'll get it up shortly.

@Bright_Ops

I think reality might be in trouble...