Shienvien

The Prophecy

It feels as though the crawlers were decidedly skipping over CSs... Thaler's was missing (although the next few pages including Jack's initial comments were there), Ixion's was missing, with a handful pages being present both forward and backward... I briefly looked for I'onriyi's, but that appeared missing, too... Might check the other sources later.

Also posted Aemoten in the collab; Etakar/Koraakan will follow after I've actually had breakfast. Edit: Did Etakar.

Word count rather than character count?

RadioActivity: No. One post, RadioActivity. It was indeed one post (well, several in a row by the same person, because old RP had characters-per-post-cap, too, I think somewhere around 300k) which contained info about the races and beasts and magic and places of the world.

(The RP's IC was... 1030-ish posts long, 1500-4000 words per post average. We hit 1000 posts two months before the old RPG went down . For the record, I usually do 2-4k words per post. Nation sheets are more to the 25k words-range.)

Set backgrounds for thread/posts?

Oh dear... My eyes will bleed. (The spacecats image is already borderline painful to read, and it is at least mostly nice and dark.)

Word count rather than character count?

65k words is way less than 15k words. It is only 11k-12k words (I know because of my posts). I have hit the character limit on several occasions (though only once with IC post; most is sheets/world info stuff). Long live multiple-posting due to lack of space!

As for posts containing 65k in words - *points at a certain RP world info Compendium, currently at 104'344 words (592'201 characters) and still growing*

The Prophecy

It was more the long speech she gave that would be interjected before it could really begin - the rest is perfectly fine. Well, granted, I should have reconstructed Koraakan's whole last addressing to her rather than just summarized it... Here I am asking Jack to elaborate on the summary because it omits some of the important details (such as the Yths apparently rather impressive jumping-skills; wouldn't have expected that from something structured like that, so I pretty much imagined it getting the pikemen's shins or something) and not bothering to rewrite a few sentences of my post just so you had something substantial to base your post on. Oeh.

(Thaler sure goes back and forth between standpoints... Indecisiveness/confusion? Guess I can't really blame her...)

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Edit: Ouch. *hugs*

The Prophecy

Uhh... She's making false presumptions. Koraakan CAN handle the sword (whether she hands it over or it simply gets taken wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference); the one told her that the one's going to assume a physical form to retrieve it since he can only move it when holding it, and cannot just dematerialize it from distance like does with usual offers. Also, Aemoten will freak out and go all oh-damn-you-can't-say-those-things-Rilon-will-hear-and-just-finish-us-off and cover mouth with his free hand or something, so she really won't get any farther from "Your god will -".

Question about text limits, and post deletion.

A note about users deleting posts: It can be problematic under certain circumstances, so perhaps make it so that a post can only be deleted if it is the last post in the thread or within, say, three hours of posting? I did see a few cases on the old RPG where an user said quite some unpleasant things, then went back, deleted everything, and then denied there ever been anything.

(I am not sure whether there would be a means for you/other higher-ups to see deleted posts and/or edits made. I like the system of one of the forums I mod wherein mods can view both deleted posts (deleting leaves a line with "X has removed their post" that is only visible to mods/admins and will display the deleted post's content upon being clicked) and the previous forms of the post (the "last edited" notion is clickable and leads to a mods/admins-only page with one copy of each prior-to-editing post). The system was implemented because users going back and editing/deleting posts to get out of accusations became very rampant...)

Edit: I figure the jump to 65535 characters happened happened after this post? In any case, it is less than you'd expect, since we've already run into a number of occasions when nation sheets, world infos and even some character posts simply do not fit... (How did I first find out the limit? Why, by trying to paste background-info and only a fraction of it appearing...)

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Ixion's latest post was him fleeing the Church of Reina and stumbling off somewhere into the City - Merc said he can basically be encountered anywhere within the city walls.

And yeah... Happy new year! (Somehow, it never occurred to me that it had been so long that a new year had arrived since we last spoke...)

On another note, Mahz said he wants to add to post length limit, but can't do so easily because of the architecture (might ask him to specify afterwards when I've more time, see whether I can suggest a way to circumvent it). And there would eventually be more formatting options available...

The Prophecy

I think it would be better to put the old IC posts somewhere else but the beginning of the new IC... Especially since a few posts are missing from in between, too, here and there, and might be filled in later. As for formatting, then I could easily retrieve it - but *not* the BBCode associated with it (in other words: I could easily paste the posts as they were to somewhere which used and allowed pasting direct formatting, but I can't get the BBCode tags for the formatting to carry over, so only plain text could be transmitted directly to the forum). Never mind that tags for all of the formatting used in the old posts haven't even been added to the new RPG yet...
(I think restoring formatting would be easiest to do for me, since I can actually see them in their original formatting / paste rich test where applicable? I tried to copy the pages directly over to rich text editors, but those tended to freeze upon that - it copied over, but then it stalled for several minutes before letting me edit something -, which was why I initially went with plain text as the faster solution.)

- I am preoccupied till Saturday, but from then on I should have plenty of free time. Will be able to throw some quick posts in for the collab meanwhile, though.

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@Hymusia: Not sure. I did break my last post on the old RPG where I did just to give Thaler a chance to react, but I figure you'd need a slight recap now that my post has been dissolved? In any case, in the last paragraph Koraakan told Thaler that the request is OK, but that the one would also be arriving in physical form to retrieve the Black Thorn... Aemoten is still holding her, has drawn his sword, and is holding it ready to defend them both if need be.

(Jack, I understood you actually had a full-length post, rather than just a summary? I personally would like to see the full-length version, too - as compact as the summary is, it also feels like it is cutting out a large portion of things others around would be using to determine what they would do.)