The Found Arcana - Twelfth Interlude - Seattle [OOC] Options

[Tecumseh]

We'll use this for the prelude and the upcoming interlude.

Here’s what we currently know about our Touristville: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...is/touristville

Here is Redmond lifestyle for SIS HQ, plus some of our shared assets: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...ervices-redmond

This is the new lifestyle for Bellevue: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...rvices-bellevue

Chapter 1: Sunday, September 18, 2078
Chapter 2: Monday, September 26, 2078
First Interlude: Saturday, October 1, 2078
Chapter 3: Monday, October 10, 2078
Second Interlude: Sunday, October 16, 2078
Chapter 4: Sunday, November 6, 2078
Third Interlude: Wednesday, November 23, 2078
Chapter 5: Thursday, November 24, 2078
Fourth Interlude: Sunday, November 27, 2078
Chapter 6: Thursday, December 22, 2078
Fifth Interlude: Sunday, January 1, 2079
Chapter 7: Friday, January 20, 2079
Sixth Interlude: Wednesday, February 1, 2079
Chapter 8: Sunday, February 5, 2079
Seventh Interlude: Wednesday, February 8, 2079
Eighth Interlude: Tuesday, February 14, 2079
Chapter 9: Thursday, March 2, 2079
Ninth Interlude: Saturday, March 11, 2079
Chapter 10: Monday, March 20, 2079
Tenth Interlude - San Angelo: Tuesday, March 21, 2079
Tenth Interlude - Seattle: Friday, March 31, 2079
Chapter 11: Saturday, April 8, 2079
Eleventh Interlude: Saturday, April 15, 2079
Chapter 12: Monday, May 15, 2079 to Friday, May 19, 2079

[Tecumseh]

Ugh, Thanee, I messed up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleepy.gif)

Would you please rename this topic and make it the Twelfth Interlude instead of the Eleventh?

Please, and thank you!

[Thanee]

I was wondering, already, when I saw the topic... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I think, you can actually change that, too, when you full edit your first post.

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

I had some post write but I decided to put it at the main thread rather than the prelude because I wanted to write about the reunion with Trouble.

[Tecumseh]

Got sick. I'll try to get the Interlude started tomorrow.

[Thanee]

Raven will do some Summoning and Binding, while there is time. You never know when you need some backup.

Spirit of Man F8+1 (Limit 10|15 (Summoning|Binding) with Reagents)
Summoning 9 hits +1 (Shaman Tuxedo) vs. Spirit's Resistance 2 hits - Drain Resistance vs. 4S (buy 4 hits)
Binding 6 hits + Edge 7 hits vs. Spirit's Resistance 5 hits - Drain Resistance vs. 10S 8 hits (2S Drain; rest off)

Guidance Spirit F8+1 (Limit 10|15 (Summoning|Binding) with Reagents)
Summoning 3 hits vs. Spirit's Resistance 4 hits - Drain Resistance vs. 8S 12 hits
Summoning 4 hits vs. Spirit's Resistance 4 hits - Drain Resistance vs. 8S 9 hits
Okay, last try...
Summoning 10 hits vs. Spirit's Resistance 4 hits - Drain Resistance vs. 8S 7 hits hits (1S Drain; rest off)
Binding 8 hits + Edge 6 hits vs. Spirit's Resistance 5 hits - Drain Resistance vs. 10S 8 hits (2S Drain; rest off)

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Sorry, I actually meant to add that Rachel is masking her spell and focus to my last post. Must have gotten distracted, when I wanted to edit it in. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Masking Roll: 3 hits only, though.

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Security also gets 3 hits. The masking rules require the observer to generate net hits. In this case it's a tie, so no net hits, so Raven remains masked, so the IC comments are directed toward AM.

She doesn't seem as concerned about Bobby, unless Bobby is sustaining a spell I don't know about.

[Jack_Spade]

Bobby doesn't have any active spells, but habitually masks as a mundane

Masking: 13d6t5 4

And just for security, he has made himself forget his lawbreaking actions of the last year for the next two hours

[Tecumseh]

Well I was working on a good post but the site ate it. That's almost happened twice in the last week, so it looks like the third time finally tripped me. I need to be better about copy-and-pasting into something offline at regular intervals.

I don't have the time to rewrite it now. Hopefully by the morning my annoyance will have passed and I can knock it out.

[Gilga]

Well I was working on a good post but the site ate it. That's almost happened twice in the last week, so it looks like the third time finally tripped me. I need to be better about copy-and-pasting into something offline at regular intervals.

I don't have the time to rewrite it now. Hopefully by the morning my annoyance will have passed and I can knock it out.

I feel you...

google docs works for me.

[Thanee]

Well I was working on a good post but the site ate it.

That is really annoying.

That's almost happened twice in the last week, so it looks like the third time finally tripped me. I need to be better about copy-and-pasting into something offline at regular intervals.

Just hitting CTRL+A and CTRL+C here and there will keep it in the Windows clipboard also. Unless your computer fully crashes, that should also work as a temporary save.

Another option is to put "Work in progress" at the top and spoiler-tags around everything else, and just post partial and re-edit a few times.

Or write long posts outside in Editor or something, and copy it over here to post.

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

At times just hitting the back button can bring you back to your written input also

[Tecumseh]

At times just hitting the back button can bring you back to your written input also

This is what I do and most of the time it works for me. It's what saved the two posts from earlier this week. But for some reason it didn't work for me yesterday.

I was writing the post and I hit Enter twice to move down a couple lines. Pretty normal thing to do. In this instance, the site - or my browser - took that as instructions to skip forward a couple pages. By the time I got back, my post was gone. (I went to the History section of my browser to open up all the previous page views on the site, but that didn't work either. They were blank when they reloaded.) Now why would hitting Enter cause that while I'm in the middle of writing a post? I can speculate but I don't know.

Maybe it's habit but I like composing the text on the site rather than offline. It's probably because I like adding color and formatting as I go. If I write the post out and try to add the formatting all at the end, I almost always miss something. And it's one of those things I'd rather do on the fly than all-at-once at the end.

In the past I've been good about using Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C to save works-in-progress to the in the clipboard area. I didn't do it yesterday though, and now I'm paying for it. It was a shame; it was only 80% done but it was a pretty good post. I'll see if I can recreate it.

(Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Add Reply)

[Thanee]

Now why would hitting Enter cause that while I'm in the middle of writing a post? I can speculate but I don't know.

The focus wasn't on the text area then.

You can see that, if you pay attention. The text cursor is blinking and the text area is highlighted subtly with a narrow border, if the focus is there.

But it's easy to miss that, if your mind is elsewhere. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Maybe it's habit but I like composing the text on the site rather than offline. It's probably because I like adding color and formatting as I go. If I write the post out and try to add the formatting all at the end, I almost always miss something. And it's one of those things I'd rather do on the fly than all-at-once at the end.

If you use the buttons for formatting, I get that.

I just type out all the formatting code, so it wouldn't make a difference for me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

You type out the color codes too? Wow.

The focus wasn't on the text area then.

That is my theory as well. But I was actively writing at the time, so why would the text editing area suddenly not be active? My only theory is that the trackpad on the laptop was brushed ever-so-slightly and selected something outside of the text editing area. The timing must have been just so that it happened between the previous keystroke and hitting the Enter key. Seems unlikely but that's all I've got.

Separately, I did the Ctrl-C thing while writing the replacement post and it was a good idea I did because the first three times I tried to post, the site returned an error.

[Thanee]

You type out the color codes too? Wow.

You can also use words for the colors. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Red

Well what do you know. I've been on this site 13.5 years and never knew that.

[Tecumseh]

This is from a year and a half ago, so it may not be top-of-mind, but here is the assensing you did during Chapter 11. (Of course, it's up to you whether you would assense in this situation or not.)

Assensing:

[ Spoiler ]

The mayor is in good health, at least by Redmond standards. She probably doesn’t enjoy the same diet as the mayors of wealthier districts, and she’s probably exposed to more pollution than other mayors (except the Puyallup mayor), but she gets three meals a day and regular health care. She’s mundane and has a few select pieces of headware, nothing major. Her mood is weary. She doesn’t appear deceptive, at least not yet.

The man at the rear of the room is another matter entirely. His aura – or at least the aura that he’s presenting – indicates that he’s a dragon, one whose Magic is many multiples of your own. From personal experience you know that some magicians have the ability to alter their astral appearance, but few would have the temerity to mimic a dragon, nor so effectively as this. The dual-natured man (?) stares back at you, his eyes drilling into your auras.

Anyone assensing during the current encounter would see the same things.

[Thanee]

Rachel is not currently active on the astral.

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

That's certainly fine, but she was during Chapter 11. Just a reminder of what she saw.

[Thanee]

Thank you! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Beta]

Latest twist on accessing Dumpshock for me is that if I try and go directly to the forums (forums.dumpshock.com) I get an error message, but if I just go to the main page (dumpshock.com) and then follow the link to the forums it works. So my apologies, I thought we were down again. I'm catching up on the reading now, and I still owe an prelude story.

[Tecumseh]

Preludes are optional if you're feeling too far behind.

Speaking of sites being down, has anyone been able to go to the official forums for the past week or two? When I try to go, I get a generic message that, "The domain has expired." The place was a ghost town, but I hate to see it go out with a whimper like that.

[Thanee]

The shadowruntabletop one? Yeah, I noticed that, too. Couldn't reach it for some time now.

Bye
Thanee