BBeast

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

I'll let Emily the adjudicator respond how she sees fit before making a response for the guards.

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

I have no idea how to respond to the evil overlord attempting to be apologetic and reasonable. I may have to mull that one over a while before I can concoct a realistic response. (Until then, I'm sure Emily would have something to say)

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

Good to see you back and well again, Cale Tucker. You haven't missed too much while you were gone, at least not pertaining to your character. You've got a new nearby Keeper though, who you might meet at some time in the not-too-distant future

Mahz's Dev Journal

Oh yeah, to clarify, migrating data over from archive.org is going to be very limited.

If you can't find what you want on archive.org, then neither can I.

My main goal is to un-break as many 404 page-not-found results as I can when people stumble upon old-guild links from the tens of thousands of links on the internet that point to old-guild. Some topics are lucky enough to be fully-preserved by archive.org, many have only their first page preserved, and the vast majority of topics were not preserved.

@Mahz

Perhaps it might be best to have some form of redirect system, so you don't have to load all the related files from archive.org onto your databases. I am unable to comment on the feasibility of such an option, though.

In regards to the unread post system, I would be most appreciative if a go to unread posts button was placed in the subscriptions, considering that is where I (and many other people I imagine) go to access my main threads.

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

When the door swung open to reveal the imposing red demonoid form of Naoto, Tybalt recognised him immediately. "That's him!" he called to his companions. As Naoto charged, he and the three other pikemen braced themselves and strengthened their grip on their pikes for the impending collision. The musketeer leveled his musket and aimed down the barrel, lining up the ironsights with the demon's head. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, the ground shook and threw his aim off. The earsplitting crack of the gunshot was accompanied by the scattering of small shards of rock as it struck the door-frame.

Then, by magic, Emily's stone wall put a barrier between the demon and guards. The guards were uncertain as to what was going on, and they were further disarmed when a young girl climbed atop the wall and berated them. Unsure whether to feel ashamed or angry or confused, the guards lowered their weapons for the time being. Tybalt, however, was not so easily placated. "That beast," he cried, pointing at Naoto, "killed Gunter!"

One of the bowmen stepped forwards and put his hand on Tybalt's shoulder, gently restraining him and indicating for him to calm down. With no further response from Tybalt, the bowman said to Emily, gesturing to Naoto, "This, umm, being, is charged with murder, assaulting a guard, theft and kidnapping. These are very serious offences. We are tasked with eliminating threats to the safety of our town and kingdom."

Mahz's Dev Journal

Mahz, did you or someone upload a virus to the site because the Mac* here at school is flipping the Hell out whenever I visit this site.

To make everyone comfortable: there's nothing going on I needed to pay attention to at this time.

*Yes I know this seems almost contradictory because "lolMacsDon'tgetViruses", which is surprising me.

@Dinh AaronMk

Given that it is a school computer, it is perhaps more likely that your school's firewall is not liking the Guild, probably for reasons tied to the Guild's content.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Fair points, @Shienvien. I'll give you the theme.

About the buttons, I put some more thought into it. What changing the tab read counts to display UNREAD posts, similar to how the PM counts were changed from total to unread. Then the numbers could take one to the newest post, while the IC/OOC/CHAR title can take one to the OP.

Goes to OP --> [IC (#unread count)] <-- Goes to first unread post

@Captain Jordan

The trouble with that would be communicating that to all users. You know the trouble we had with the 'go to last post' buttons which nobody could figure out. A system like that would probably confuse people.

Mahz's Dev Journal

<Snipped quote by Aeonumbra>
So far I've just been lightly wrapping HTML's elements (like lists) thus inheriting their behavior. I'm super reluctant to introduce exceptional behavior without strong consideration for how it will affect everyone else that doesn't want newline-insertion.

Can you give me an example in the test forum (or existing post) of the kind of lists you're trying to build? This goes for @BBeast too who also wants to put newlines between list-items. Margins between list-items don't really make sense to me since I've been writing HTML lists for years, so I'd like to see what yall are going for.
*snip*

@Mahz

My example: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2317817

But I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, I could avoid hacks or requiring to change the Guild's parser by putting [/list][list] between each item (ie. close the list and open it again). It's only a small piece of effort to pay.

@Aeonumbra, by tab he means make an indent, not some keyboard shortcut.

Dungeon Keepers (This one's done. Go to The Horde of Evil instead)

Tybalt ran into the guard post, short of breath and looking very frightened. His fellow guards who had been idling looked at him in curiosity. Once he had caught his breath, he spoke. "There's, there's, there's a demon! It's kidnapped a family and killed Gunter and ransacked the warehouse!"

The others were about to mock him for being so silly as to believing there was a demon about, when what Tybalt had said caught up with them. "It killed Gunter?" Tybalt nodded solemnly. The rest of the guards immediately became serious and went for their weapons. Not only had one of their number been slain, but whatever this threat had been was enough to fell one of them, despite being quite used to handling the wild animals from the jungle.

They headed out immediately for the warehouse, taking torches with them to light their way through the light of the setting sun. They found the warehouse partially looted, a wall scorched, a path burned through the undergrowth and the body of Gunter lying in a heap some distance away from the warehouse. He was clearly dead, for his skull had bled, his neck was bent as it shouldn't be and his skin was quite pale. The guards gathered around solemnly, sharing a moment of silence and consoling each other. The looked to the ashen path into the jungle, and back to Gunter.

"We'll get Gunter back to the town first. Get him dealt with," one of the guards finally said, "The tracks left by this, demon, won't be disappearing any time soon." There were nods of agreements from around the group, and so they picked up the body and began carrying it back to town.

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It was a little over an hour later when the guards set out again after the demon who had attack their town and killed their friend. There were eight in the group going out hunting. All the guards bore their standard arms of a short sword and chain-mail armour. Three were also equipped with polearms, including Tybalt, three were equipped with bows, one was equipped with a musket and the last carried no extra weapon but was instead a spell-caster, specialising in manipulating plants to ensnare and bludgeon opponents. This was also the order in which they advanced along the charred trail.

As they traveled, they identified the tracks in the trail, marked clearly in the ash. Those of a wheelbarrow were very distinct. There were also a few footprints of shoes, about five unique sets they eventually reckoned, which clearly correlated with the family Tybalt had mentioned. There was another set of footprints, although trampled somewhat they were distinctly larger, heavier and not shoe-shaped. This, they reasoned, must be the demon. This meant they knew to expect about five prisoners, or hostages, or at worse corpses.

The party soon made it to the end of the trail, which revealed a strange stone door which was sitting in the middle of the jungle. None of them had seen it before, and they were unsure how long it had been there. Baffled by this mysterious door, one of the polearm wielding guards approached the door to inspect it more closely. There was no handle to open it by, and it did not yield to a firm push. Markings on the ground clearly indicated that the door had been opened recently, so this must be the entrance. The guards began looking nearby to see if there was some hidden switch or something, but they stopped their search when the spellcaster approached the door and observed, "It's a magic door, I can sense that. I can't tell how to open it, though."

Tybalt stepped forwards. "Well, there's only one thing to it." He raised the butt of his polearm and bashed it against the door three times before shouting, "Open up! We know you're in there!"

Meanwhile, the musketeer loaded his musket and readied it, as did the archers. The polearm wielders stepped back and formed a defensive line between the door and the ranged guards. And the spellcaster identified the plants in the area which would be useful to him. Unlike last time, these guards would not be so easily frightened or intimidated, and were in fact feeling rather vengeful.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Aeonumbra, That is actually really useful. More practical than having to close and open the list tags if I want a line break.