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Portius · Likes big books, cannot lie

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  • List of Snuggletastic Cuties:

    1. Sylandra
    2. Arix
    3. Aruin
    4. Zitto Scum, Eliminated on D2
    5. Shaddus Town, Eliminated on N1
    6. Kistan T…
  • Signups are now closed and I am sending out role messages!
  • Ok! I will start sending out roles after I get home this evening, so any stragglers can have a little longer to sign up. If we don't fill by then, I'll cut a few roles.
  • Ok people, here's the deal. My wife caught me eying mafia threads and wondering if we had people for one. So she wrote up a Snuggletastic Animal mafia game, and I will run it for you if there are people for it.

  • (Quote) This, and some revision of library policies/scoring criteria. A broader culture pass would be nice but is probably unrealistic.
  • Well, that was an utterly charming event to log in to. Good thing those amulets were in my other pocket, too.
  • I think it's pretty clear that there is a good faith effort to improve the game. It remains to be seen how much that effort accomplishes. If I was feeling fancy, I'd insert a gif of Picard going on about making all the right moves and still los…
  • Glad you opened this up for us to nab the honors. Are you guys planning on extending the Newton access artifact for oldbies to get them later on, or is this the only chance at it?
  • I am very pleased with a guild request. Not just for getting what I asked for, but for the little details that I didn't think to ask about that our patrons put in anyway.
  • Fastest growing library is black magic. My basic advice is to take it as a nice bonus when it shows up, but not to worry about getting it. I do have educated guesses about how it works, but I don't know it and I'm not really confident in my g…
  • How much work is it to implement a new design template? I've gotten the impression that it's much more than it is worth, but is it difficult or just a bunch of busywork? Or a coding thing that most admin can't actually do?
  • There's a cool thing that Halliadmin have been doing with guild requests. They often bring up mechanics that I could not know exist and suggest using them when they think that it would be better for getting what the Consortium wants.
  • We occasionally slipped culture-based or other non-combat envoy reports into the old system. Is that still going to be OK?
    in Hello Comment by Portius October 2018
  • Am not combatant, so I do not know if this is actually a thing they might want: If people are concerned about the impact of artifacts and such on combat, there might be interest in an arena setting to disable them? Just to have fights without artis.…
  • Re: Events

    Maybe do shorter events more often instead of having ones that last months at a time? At a personal level I'd also prefer lower scale things. Less basin-shaking threats, more crimes, NPCs having feuds and s…
  • I feel like a tentative solution to people not seeing behind the scenes stuff might be dev diaries. I vaguely remember you posting some ages ago? Havens Hangout or something like that? It might help, as long as the things that get mentioned mat…
  • Right, let's talk about the library. It was the main mechanical thing that I cared about, and I am annoyed with it to the point that I just can't do anything with it anymore. That took out my main reason to do anything in Lusternia, and with fr…
  • I can pull random setups out of my folder of used games pretty much whenever if people want them, but you're liable to get weird and obscure themes based on tiny tabletop games and such. I just kind of assumed we had little to no interest.
  • I'd appreciate a full list of the places you can access with Trailblaze, if it isn't too much trouble. I think it'd be useful to add that to the documentation so people can make informed choices.
    in Wonderboots Comment by Portius July 2018
  • Can we have a config option to hide hunger messages now that demigods can get them? I don't care about the buffs, but I'd rather not have to remember to eat just to avoid those messages showing up.
  • Yeah. It's downright ecruciating to make it.
  • Well, if the problem is not having people around to PvP, that comes down to scheduling. Other low population games tend to solve this issue by arranging specific times to play in order to concentrate the population. You can see a pretty decent …
  • A ruby-lit experimental laboratory.
    A soft wash of natural light filters in through the smoked-glass windows of this hall to dimly illuminate the chamber in a low-lit glow ideal for quiet research. Receding into the gloom, lon…
  • I am thrilled with the new stuff in the guildhall! Also pretty pleased with the release event for it. Log will go up when I get around to cleaning it.
  • Going through Shadowrun Returns again because it is free in the Humble Store right now, and it seems only fair if I am bullying others into playing it.
  • This is Portius' wife. He fainted this morning and got a concussion from it. It looks like he's going to be too fuzzy to do much here for a while, I don't know how long. I think I have volunteers to cover everything that he was doing already, but re…
  • I think we have to play as though there is no jester. We're very unlikely to have one. Even if we were likely to have one, we still have to lynch at some point, and absolutely any scum tell can be taken as a deliberate fake if we're thinking jester.…
  • Because Tremula endorsed it. I think most of us are leaning 5/1, but Trem specifically said that he thought it was 4/2. That should make him very averse to doing this sort of strategy, since it is an instant-loss according to his suspicions. That so…
  • Oh, good. I'm glad I'm not the only one whose first thought was 'Trem is clearly a jester. Wait, no. There can't possible be one of those. But he looks like one.'

    Hm. My intuition says that this feels more like Tremul…
  • There really is a strong case for lynching Trem now that Sylandra brought it up. My initial argument is only really valid when we have ilttle to nothing else to go on, which ceased to be the case as soon as serious discussion started.