Scene Archives

: “What the hell of ass, the problems I -was seeing- on the audio player on here last session even on my end, I can no longer reproduce / can’t reproduce in dev, what in the hecking dang”

perhaps it has something to do with the number of simultaneous connections then???

: “There’s a -different- problem I was worrying would happen and I hadn’t tested for related to that but no, that one’s just fine, I actually thought ahead and worked around it, haha”

Oooh music

: “Troubleshooting.”

NOTHING MAKES SENSE

NOTHING MAKES SENSE AND EVERYTHING IS STUPID

(padfoot’s music is working now)

huzzah

teakwood start typin’

Hello

hmmm i didn’t see anything, what it you put a few letters in and then just let it sit

oh it shows up… over there

I am typing, can you see me typing. I stopped typing for a while and then started typing again. Are you looking in the right place? I can see YOU typin– yeah ok

lmao i will never see that but i also don’t particularly care if anyone else is typing or not so

still cool you got it working tho

: “Yeah part of why I hadn’t done it previously is I was struggling to find a good place to put it and I explicitly did NOT want it somewhere super super visible within the main frame.”

nods

makes sense since there’s already A Lot

I if WERE to make one suggestion, you could probably put the ‘someone’s typing’ dots undernearth the post button where there’s a tiny bit of space? wouldn’t have room to indicate WHO, just that someone is

tho probably not super duper important

OH YEAH ONE OTHER THING i was thinking about last session b/c i do ocassionally need to scroll up but

: “Hmmmm, that’s not a terrible idea. I don’t want to discourage people from typing while other people are also actively working on a post and I wonder if that would have that effect but I’ll think about it / people should tell me if they think that would be Cool or Bad”

would it be possible… to NOT auto advance the chat and drop be down to the bottom of the page while I’m in backlog? it was making it VERY hard to check backscroll after i had to go mess with someone’s heater haha

oh yeah that’s a good point, people do tend to be a bit TOO ‘after you’ about that so it being hard to see and something you check only after a couple minute of silence could be ideal

frowns. “Wait like a second and then say something, okay? I don’t think it SHOULD be dumping you down to the bottom of scroll on new post, if it is I would consider that a bug outright.”

it definitely was last week at least

: “Oh that’s butts. That’s totally unacceptable UX, I’m so sorry. Thank you for letting me know that was happening.”

yeah I think it only came up in testing like… once…? and was such a nothing burger at the time i didn’t even think about it

but when there was 7 people typing into OOC chat at once it got hella noticable lol

: “deploying a fix”

But Will It Blend

: “Docker why are you being liquid shit.”

hmm maybe i needed to reload

: “It takes a truly alarming amount of time for a deploy to actually finish deployment, but the page should automatically reload when new code lands.”

: “It should be working now, though.”

It Works!

Hell Yeah

damn that was fast as hell dude

blows smoke off fingertips

oh yeah randomly, there’s mention of an ascend tab on the landing page..

• idk if you still plan on splitting it into it’s own tab or not tho*

wait what

huh

hmm

• was it the space?*

yes it was ok

: “Oh that’s… a relic of a MUCH earlier version of the system where all the Ascension mechanics were on their own page completely and interacted with a Discord bot, haha. Also how did you do that?”

yeah i figured. also to get the dot,

• you return to a new line, hit space, then continue typing*

(i just wasn’t sure how often YOU saw the landing page and might have forgotten a reference to something that doesn’t exist was there haha)

im trying to get the dot

• newlined and hit space. what happens*

:OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What in the absolute honey roasted fuck lmao why is that occurring.

and it doesn’t do that if i do

this, right?

oh i know what’s happening, butts

it’s such a small dumb little things that’s probably why no one could fifugre out what it was until I did it just now after doubling back to do a new line so it was a bit more obvious lol

> what happens

> if i put this in

whats the worst that could possibly happen from an accidental crash due to random variable injections 2h before the sessions, really

testing testing

newline and then a space, are we still fucky

eyyyy there we go

: “Thank you for helping me track down what exactly the Fuck™ was happening there, it was driving me genuinely insane.”

hahaha

some people are good at q/a b/c they have a deep understanding of the underlaying systems and know what things to stress,

and some people are good at q/a because they dont know shit and do increasingly random things for no reason

: “lmao”

: “are there text codes for bolding or italicizing text within quotes”

i believe bold is double asterisk flanking and //italics// is normal slashes with underlines being understores, like with wikidot editing

hmmm

: “Italicising text in quotes works like this, I think - surround the text with asterisks; this should be bold surrounding with double asterisks.”

yup

: “Wait if asterisks are up the //italics do work//???”

: “like ”this“?”

squint

lmao

: “also i was almost positive underlining worked before….”

but i guess not

: “what did //you// say”

: “oh wait okay I think I get it”

: “oh wair only a single pair of dots”

damn, that’s stupid as fuck

your face is stupid

thats beside the point

but also yes markdown syntax Made Some Choices and they were not choices I would have made lol

brb, washroom

Open The Gates

Release the Kraken?

: “Oh the new functionality makes it MUCH easier to do a ready check, lol.”

oh?

?

hewwo

: “I can just… scroll to the list of dramatis personae and the people who are Here will be on the top of the list”

Wha? Oooh.

Oh hell yes

!!!! oooh I see

: “Also I’m gonna play Sanctuary just to sound-check myself because my browser is having a nutty and I’m sure y’all won’t mind”

: “OK good”

sure are a lot of teakwoods in the DR

volume slider bug persists, but so do I

…wait, why can’t I hear it…?

I didn’t have to volume wiggle that time

I don’t hear it, again. =(

I’m not hearing it either.

Fen, also using Chrome?

: “WHAT THE FUCK lol. uhh. If you can’t hear it, refresh the page; if that doesn’t work, switch to Firefox and we’ll look at your console logs together again later.”

But we fixed the Chrome problem! …argh

I feel like at this point we need a diagetic reason for Pads’ music issue

hashtag this is why we’re friends, sword-saint.

Well it works NOW…

I mean, there kind of IS, I just haven’t had an excuse to talk about it

:3c

But yeah, I think we should start every session with the opening theme!

It’s still not working for me. LOL. Yeah, I’m using chrome.

(eyes emoji)

yeah it’s a good starter song

also agree to starting with opening theme. mood-setting and also can be volume check

title screen, load game

100 react

: “Yeah I’m super into that, honestly, lol”

yeah teak when are we going to be able to emoji react to stuff, huh??

build out an entire chat infrastructure, pls

(joke)

laughing face react

laughing irl for real

teakwood why does the save menu use the starting area theme you only stay in for like 10 minutes…………………………………………

bitch it is the motif of two of the four tracks you have heard already

teakwood why is the game called after the starting area you only stay in for like 10 minutes….

i am being aggrieved by a cat help

poor teakwood you just can’t create friendly NPCs without having your entire playerbase going “THERE’S SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT THIS GUY”

how can you expect me to recognize core litmotives without access to the entire ost

I feel like “aggrieved by a cat” also needs a diagetic explanation at this point

i mean it’s easier when i cannot shut the fuck up about my own nonsense and shake you and go HEY ICE DID U NOTICE…. THE LEITMOTIF

:D

: “why is every monster just a giant cat” pt. wev.

rite of the dragon where we fight a series of monsters that are just increasingly close pictures of zoë

also i would like to state for the record i DID spell leitmotif correctly initially, then stared at it for a second, didn’t like it, and decided to intentionally mispell it instead

i respect you and your life choices aurelius even if i do not agree with them

oh good because “litmotive” did cause 1d4 psychic to me

hahahaha

Some of us are gonna need to be careful in that rite. Zoe has the “Nut shot” card

: “Any time Ice typoes THAT severely it’s deliberately to hurt me.”

Iaklsdjflaksdjfsdfjlkasdjkfl

in Almachadta they call it a leafmotif

fgru88gt8treu8ghujteriuhuj

ayyyyy

glowers at the Awoken

nonono its a lightmotif there

a centrelightmotif

oh no

still enjoying the wildly disparate experience of Reibello-the-human and Reibello-the-Clockwork-Knight

Always happy to help :D

jury is still out on how different Hachi-the-human and Hachi-the-Awoken are. I suspect more overlap?

Ohhh no. VERY different.

hahahahaha

Hi my computer is being very silly today so I may end up needing to restart additional times (??) but for now I’m here and things seem to be working!

this may shock you but hachi irl is actually a mild mannered Giant and not a tiny sugar pixie

Hiiiii! Okay, fucking off to go write an opening

there is a similarity in how much of a go-ahead kind of guy I am

The Reibello / CK gap would be far less disparate if I wasn’t permastuck into villains/shenanigans when around all y’all. I swear I actually do nice things sometimes :D

I told Teak I want to do an icebreaker or some other silly activity to better understand my game-playing compatriots

Teo, you’re LITERALLY one of the kindest and most supportive people on the server.

^^this

BUT I AM ALSO THE MOST ANNOYING! IT’S GREAT!

You’re NOT ANNOYING

Only because you like the puns

jokes on you they’re intop bad puns

lol

You are not annoying, shut your word hole!

: “banjaxing”

that’s a thing we can do?????

it’s new as of a day or three ago

yooo

Yep. Ctrl+up/down arrow moves between chats

I just have all my scenes open on different tabs lol

that was my previous behavior as well

Banjaxes are the preferred weapons of many a bardbarian

i, being an enlightened individual, simply use my mouse

I would play this game with my controller if I could

sins, you are (with love) a nightmare WHAT EVEN

or no Hachi

gotta implement Hold Square To Talk To Text for hachi

Hachi is awoken

hahahaha

<3 u 2

Hello comma fellow adventures

I was about to be like “I thought I just learned everyone’s (nick)names but I was wrong” sob**

gaslit

No, you did, I fucked up because I am dead

you’re dead?

Hi dead, I’m Dad.

(would me compiling all the website updates Teak posts in the discord into a codex page help or would anyone actually look at that?)

do what brings you happiness

hmm i wonder why it never gives a notificatino about the first message in a new channel

Jokes on you, teak, I already don’t breathe!

It did for me…?

It did for me

Also, I can’t remember–is that the “more text is coming” symbol or the “I’m done”?

that’s the ‘done’ marker

i wonder if it’s because i’m usually here before the new channel gets made

Real quick - where am I supposed to be seeing the “is typing”, if that feature has been rolled out? I’m not seeing it, not that it matters right this second

Also, would I roll for what Wolf is doing, as well?

If you scroll down to the list of users in the channel, there’ll be a little “…” symbol next to anyone typing, and, iirc, a little pen/pencil thing next to someone that has text queued but not sent

Hey, God. Should I roll? To hear the Song?

(sorry, didn’t realize you were answering it…)

also do we spend arete before or after rolling

I cannot cope with the fact the Ice brought out the sunglasses in the void.

coolemoji

aurelius is always prepared, as is ice

oh this is

another track I remember!

funny I don’t hear anything

ggghhhhh WHYYYY. refresh the browser and see if that fixes it ._.

yeah it did

god i feel like the answer to the question you asked me about this was REALLY FUNNY but cannot entirely recall the conversation since it was so long ago

I didn’t at first, refreshing the browser now shows the song where it is in its current play but it’s not progressing and I’m still not hearing anything

anyways spend after rolling if you beefed it and/or want to force an explosion, but that was a success

is it paused?

Sins, volume wiggle?

Is there a little pink-purple gradient progressing and you just can’t hear anything, or is it greyed out?

I had to actually press “play” before I’d get audio! xD

for me it showed that it was queued up but the progress bar was dark and I had to refresh to hear it

How much leeway do I have to just…do something weird and see if it works?

Go for it.

Initially it was greyed out, after refreshing I saw the gradient but it wasn’t progressing as if it were stuck, after refreshing, jiggling the audio bar, and changing the volume on my laptop I can hear it now :D

am i gunna recognize the next song too teakwood

i feel like one of them might’ve been water-world but have NO idea what order you wrote them in and it seems hilariously chronological so far

‘a song not heard of before in the world… and yet aurelius swore it sounded familiar’

Teak had me give feedback on like…. five of the initial song sketeches he wrote for sanctuary around 6(?) years ago lol

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pads I love that crying shaking throwing up

and i am surprised i learn i still remember them

<3 <3 <3

(especially since i did not know they were for sanctuary until the first session happen, given it was just something that randomly came up at 2 in the morning on night and he was like ‘hey what do these songs make you think of’ lol)

Gods above and below, Saint!

nice teamworks

:3

Teak gave me Ideas

Y’all are wonderful!

those are some good ideas

what is the code for the little [end] symbol?

[.]

x

X

oh boy its time for the obsidian themes locale in the teak game Already

they’re Fun Themes, ice

[x] and ⁂ just for codex reasons

RUDE 🙧

[x]

h0nk [x]

oic 🙧

very amused at rolling a 1 while trying to use dice to argue in my favor btw

lolf

hahah

when people have a second, if you can remind me what else I should add. Also if the Dragon would be so kind as to add blockquote styling that would help me format muchly: https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/content/website-updates-and-mechanics

what a threatening question

TRICK QUESTION

TRICK QUESTION NOT ANYMORE

:D

remember folks, always wear thick, practical shoes when dipping your toe into maybe-reality-acid

> drink the goop

also that probably covers the jist of it? i am probably not allowed to know how to make the 7dot icon yet and that’s the only other one i can think of >_>

ACTUALLY

hachi no dont drink the mud

hachi drink the mud

cackles at that OOC comment

archivist living up to title

I feel like “Meh, didn’t eat you” is the most Wolf response to anything ever.

Archie definitely has Opinions about that being his metric but he’s not gonna bring them up right this moment lol

Listen, he comes from a green mana world. Everything is trying to eat you.**

sometimes you are trying to eat it?

Back in Old Country, mud try to eat -you-…

WAIT

NO I FUCKED IT UP

TEAK I FUCKED IT UP NOOOOOO

I SHOULD HAVE SAID PLINITH NOT OBELISK HE’S LITERALLY A WOLF

sobs

looks very confused

i don’t even remember the context tbqh just that that was like, a very canadian esq dry punch line of sorts

is “identifying gnosis” a thing that can be done in the vein of something like Detect Magic in D&D? I probably would have studied gnosis pretty extensively but idk if that translates to making educated guesses in the field or generally Doing Magic About It

how ziggurat-shaped is this ziggurat? like are we full on like. tower of babel-ing it or are we talking about like. the anu ziggurat?

I’ve been doing it since session one though admittedly mostly during combat, so I reckon you probably could too haha

apologies! iasodfjasldf dying. love it

I was gonna see about rolling about the frame, but now Wolf is more in “threat mode”

don’t worry. I have decided you guys have it Handled and I am going to fuck with the frame instead

• no no hachi you need to go around the lamppost 3 times*

knight is Wonderful

• oh god how did i do that*

I feel like they deserve a cat at some point

hmm

test

ice u broke it again

:

test?

: toast **

lmao space on the first line borks it now even if the newline doesn’t

• borked?*

oh yeah ope

call .trim?

Sins, made a node on map for ziggurat, just in case we forget

(every time I open a new page on the website the sound in the music player cuts out)

same

Yes. switching to a new tab requires hitting the play button

‘you don’t have context for this guy’ I SURE DIDN’T TEAKWOOD

question: how do we know if/when our Starlight powers are active?

(tho there are a lot of weird parallels with uh, whatshisname lol)

Hey, God? What governs when I can remember something? About who I was?

iirc archivist was… Lantern-and-Eye, so…. “When finding correlations in data, seeking new information, processing narrative, putting pieces together.”. dang you got easy starlight lol

yeah that’s the thing is that it’s literally everything I’ve rolled for so far but that feels like cheating somehow

I’m the kind of player who wants to make full use of the mechanics but also not abuse them if that makes sense

teakwood likes his mechanics to be abused

what’s he gonna do, kill your character?

just think of it as playing the rogue in a D&D part, unreasonably good at skills for no real reason

archie is smart he’s got a good reason

haha

huh didn’t wanna play that time

I had to refresh

Hmm i wonder if that track ends in a weird spot, felt like it should have continued a lil longer

would you say the song is… incomplete

:OOOOO

yeah be hard to imagine anyone in this group wouldn’t be haha

:3

also everyone is killing me. rolling on the ground at the life-affirming feelings here.

wolf got his voice back!

:O

Ma’am, this is an Arby’s

oh someone did already add Ember to that nod gg

back

what does wc mean?

Water closet. They took a bio break

Water closet / Washroom I assume

OOOOOH

it’s been used a couple of times and I’ve never thought to ask

lolf

glad I’m not the only one

It’s like leaving the God mic on in the studio

as if shakespeare was not Thee Shitposter

well but of course.

I do like instead of just saying “water closet” you went immediately to “takin’ a piss” though

the duality of teak

Yeah, like, we were trying to maintain the appropriate dignity, but noooo

You so rarely have inappropriate dignity. Hm.

Dragon should I exposit here (briefly) or should we go onward

lmao my Guard Was Up

esp with the pile of flesh laying there

yeah the FLESH PILE was a thing

hunter brain gonna hunter

name ONE time obsidian has not been bad news other than this time

idr that one

ff11

shadowlord’s castle

yeah i figured that much just not, like, the place - THERE WAS A FUCKING SHADOWLORD THERE

our friend emmett became the next shadowlord and he was an okay guy

emmett DEFINITELY never erased anyone from the timeline

holding fire when I see THE DRAGON typing lol

a thing I’m trying to do with the Archivist is play a thinky character who isn’t getting excessively tripped up in considering things? I like playing characters who like to know things about the worlds they inhabit and the people therein but I’m sensitive to the fact that overthinking literally everything makes the game pace go fucky so I’m trying to build in a dash of curiosity-driven impulsivity too

i heart react that statement archie

hollow earth theory being canon wasn’t on my bingo card for this campaign

it’s not hallow there’s very clearly a sun there :D

oh

lmao it wasn’t water world it was green world??????????

lol I have this track on my phone from years back

STRATUM 1

holy syncopation batman

wtf you mean ‘it wasn’t waterworld’ where the heck did you think we were going

i don’t think the tracks HAD names when I heard them

thought I knew where the beat was and then had to rapidly reconsider

oh lmao yeah no i was talking about music spoilers i did know we were going to donut planet

(I absolutely love that beat about the Archivist, Sins)

sorry my internet got a lil funky

I can’t believe the sunglasses turned out to be plot relevant

I should learn that funky little bass lick

hahaha

having a Concern at the giant ball of fire suspending in the sky equidistance from every possible fire-catchable bit of plantlife in the entire world

did santuary have a sun or was it just Mysteriously Lit

thats gotta be an osha violation, and you KNOW we got loose regulations

‘wtf is GRAVITY’

The enemy’s gate is down?

yeah I was gonna ask if Samudra has physics because Archie would definitely have Thoughts about the implications of this topography

that’s 100% what I was thinking when I was orienting myself in the between-gnosis hahaha

I both hate and love you for the EG reference

(EG was…formative. For me. thin smiles)

LUCKY FOR YOU AWOKEN THAT’S EASY TO EXPLAIN grabbing and throwing motions**

grabs a plot bomb and throws it into the middle of the group…

me: “welcome to our loverly world. have a blackberry.”

wolf: “apocalypse”

The temptation to just eat everything that isn’t food, because I can.

after all, why SHOULDN’T you eat anything remotely food shaped in front of you

Because I’m not actually hungry

It would be a Reibello shaped bit, but not a CK shaped one.

alas

go to new worlds, drink their water

Samuudra gonna be a problem for you, eh?

you don’t have to drink ALL of it

Spicey Water

I truly do need us to dunmeshi something at some point

hopefully multiple somethings

IRON CHEF

hachi all ‘oops almost forgot to be creepy in this session for a second’ and had to get that in there huh

ye we eatin’ EVERYTHING when we get to beast

minus that ‘be’

just came here to also say I love the awoken too

archie had a really good line of thought to follow up on too and then the little shit’s just like “what if we destroyed heaven”

gahahaha

and immediately distracts everyone lmao

I would say…if it’s about to be “night” then camp, if there’s daylight left then settlement.

I’m going to leave the deicion to daina who still has a story to tell

Hmm.

and to where they would like to tell it

if that’s a thing daina still wants to do ofc

Daina is about to mcfuckin lose it, but will tell her story when we camp

I think probably we should say We Are Tired from the Strange Paths and leave introducing the first actual civilization for next time

Yeaaaah, getting around other people is just going to invite more stuff happening

just so it doesn’t feel rushed

I didn’t mean to presume that it was still a thing they wanted to do at this time so sorry if it felt like that haha

oh no! I’m fine as a person I just think poor Daina is not having a Good Time with the Apocalypse Threat, you know

right-o

Wolf’s…blunt. I don’t think he saw much point in keeping the bandaid on. ^_ ;

‘your world is dead, sorry.’ ‘oh. damn that sucks’ ‘actually it’s fine!’ ‘…!’ “AND YOU CAN GO THERE.” go there first “ok actually it turns out the world isn’t dead but it IS dying’ daina is, admittedly, on a bit of a roller coaster*

hahahaha

yeahhh

I mean, we’ve all been kinda on the emotional whiplash train…but yeaaah

(Also, I’m imagining that Wolf meant that more along the line of “watch out for leeches” or something, and Archie is imagining, like…huge wyrm with TEETH)

oh that’s absolutely what happened

Archie is from Ocean World where most of it is water and that means that things can get Very Very Large, for as smart as he is I don’t think he’s grasped the concept that smaller water means smaller things living in it. He strikes me as the type of person who would get an irrational fear of sharks in the pool

Glass shark, glass shark…

I love it

please ignore any sounds of distant screaming, thank you

under different circumstances Archie would be tailing you from a distance sketching out pictures of which fruits you deem okay to eat and which ones you’re avoiding

time to run around mashing X at all the shiny spots

Under different circumstances Archie would be invited on the foraging trip

mfw all these fucking trees and fruits and no farms

real

There’s probably a few more-helpful warnings about avoiding dangerous flora/fauna, as he’s realized he has to be more…specific.

Thank you for the session! <3

I’m good

thumbs up

Aye, I’m good for the moment. I just want to check in, btw–am I giving everyone enough “air,” so to speak? I didn’t expect to take up quite so much of the “cool shit” opportunities…

let me roll red to fish so i can fail the roll and get more arete and also Frown

omg

let me roll red to get in the water and make happy Kushtaka noises at everyone despite the fear of whatever the hell a maw worm is

you are legally disallowed from implementing a fishing minigame while i am still playing a Trails entry ; ;

maw eel, sorry. So much better.

maw eel was inspired

: plays 30 trails games with fishing and fishes in every single one “buh buh dun wanna”

i need the rewards :(

and you need arete so I hope you like Santuary: Big River Catcher

nooOOOOOOOOOO

I love Wolf I think he’s perfect ty

iofdjsadsl;f sSANCTUARY BIG RIVER CATCHER

Wolf is extremely good and I like the precedent we’re setting of having players use their personal lore to start getting at the Big Things of each world

Aurelius totally has a dating profile where he’s holding an obscenely large salmon in his pfp

hahahahah

: dies**

hahaha

Probably like, a giant monster holding a giant salmon tho

also unless I missed it there’s nowhere in the codex that says how much arete is required to get a new techne - I imagine the number is Lorge and so it’s not the kind of thing I’m immediately worried about but it’d be good to know!

the monster takes up most of the picture. he’s there just proudly standing on top of it

PADS I literally laughed INSANELY loudly at the fish-judgement

(I imagine the 3~5 range is probably Feels About Right for most non-crazy skills)

I assume some of these various foragable fruits and berries have seeds, right

One would assume

seeds? in MY insanely dense jungle?

sometimes, it’s the silly obvious questions one has to ask

well blackberries have seeds

I’m bringing back some pears and apples once I finish my backchannel breakdown

I have been informed There Are Figs here

Don’t fruits and berries definitionally have seeds, unless humans have been screwing with them…?

nerd

(Big Fig Wasp by King Gizzard plays distantly)

you ENABLE it

alright I’m good now

Yeah I’m curious about the Almachadtan fig pollinators

sideeyeing you for seeing all these trees and going ‘definitely need more’

Bet you they’re huuuuge

yes they should be huge. I agree.

also always moar trees

I’m just helpin’ them out

I’m glad you’re as cute as you are creepy

they got all sweet and alluring because they wanted to be eaten and have the seeds spit on the ground

<3 u 2

or, well, run through a digestive tract to be excreted with some delectable nutrients

yeah though human waste isn’t ideal for that necessarily

yeah sounds like a problem… for humans………………

oh yeah teak, you were going to enable the lyrics on songs now that we’ve hit a non-theme song one with ‘em right?

TEAKWOOD CLOSE THE SESSION otherwise I’m gonna stare at it like an expectant dog

Please can I have the lyriccccs

yeah go nutsa

now open a side session…. to ring the bell for hachi

hahaha

and yeah wolf you’re doin’ fine

everyone’s gonna shine sometime

AAAAAAAAA HE DID IT ICE >:(1

lmaoooo

also i totally missed the pads posed the question but i will further confirm you’re Perfectly Fine (i actually prefer my fellow players giving me a run for my money wrt taking charge, and I’m also intentionally hanging back a bit at the start due to Hunter’s Dark Secret)

but also landing on Alma first gives you even more license to stay in the lime light longer anyway

WHERE THE I AM, ALSO, THIS LYRICS (i do see altan arslan tho <3)

There ARE no lyrics for that! -laughs-

i could of sworn….

There’s a little vague chanting but it’s not…worded

aaaah

That song was fire, though. (Pun intended.)

yeah that’s def what I was vaguely remembering

also okay THAT time it did the “grey bar” error for me what the fuck ass shit is causing that to happen

that worked fine

i wonder if ember will be more capable of communication when we get back there

what makes you think we’re going back?

:)

actually i have no idea if teak does the Teak Smile in the community you know each other from but that was definitely me doing an impersonation of it lol

I know precisely the Mood that was to be portrayed with that smile

Activity In The Camp !

idk if you had anything in particular planned but if you still wanted to bounce off some character beats I could be around for a bit longer (cooking dinner but that’s not really occupying much of my attention)

I just know I noped out, and I do have a Big Thing to post, since I promised Exposition, but I don’t know if I should wait or assume everyone is Present to hear it.

: “I think probably best to wait for that until either next session or an insert scene that anyone who wants to be around for, can be?”

hmm if it’s Big prrrrobably wait

side scenes are generally best for Smaller or more meandering things. like if someone just wanted to vent to another character that’s kinda w/e and not Super Important in the grand scheme of things if everyone’s there or not, but stuff you think might be a bit more Narratively Relevant’s probably best saved for sessions proper

yeah I was thinking insert scene. It’s not super … narratively relevant so much as information my character thinks everyone should know. I’ll throw it at Teak and get their opinion

WAIT

DOES AWOKEN STILL HAVE A FLASK OF MUD(TM)

since it sounded like it fell off archie’s boots when no one was looking

: “What an excellent question!”

yeah thats why i AXED IT

You ask good questions, it’s true! :)

:)

hACCHI WHATS THE FLASK STATUS

BESTROW UPON ME YOUR FEY SECRET

ok can you keep a secret

i can

SO CAN I

dont MAKE me ask you in a scene thus negating your reason for being catty

jfhfkjfhgkjfhgkfhgj

kiss kiss slap slap even in OOC channel

hahaha

after conferring with The Dragon, I’m just going to post my exposition and then people can respond at leisure.

right on

sou ka

done :3c

i am curious teak did you design the sword-saint before or after GoT lol

: long** before, lmao

ADMITTEDLY i don’t think ‘weird non-blood lineage Memory Keeper’ stuff is THAT hard to independently stumble upon and does crop up in the odd fantasy/sci fi story

GoT? not Game of thrones I assume?

but still kinda amused at “oh huh one of the stars is arya. ok” being my first reaction was Not At All Wrong

OH lmfao

honestly we need a rumor map just for Teak influences

fjhdksdhgkfhjg

god

especially because I’m missing myriad TeakReferents due to different fan spaces growing up

that’d honestly be kinda fucked since i’d have to make an entire ass galaxy of nodes out in the distance for all the really dumb teak-ice shit

someone needs to get me a wiki

I’d be here for that. It’d probably suck for you tho.

hahahahaha

: “there’s some stuff that’s just not even a reference, I don’t think, as much as alarmingly consistent specific semiotics. why does the smell of cinnamon mean a certain thing to me. why. why.”

i actually do have a wiki i could kinda point towards SOME context if you ever got REALLY bored and wanted to sift through dozens, possibly hundreds of hours of old campaign logs…………………………………………

see, if someone really cared for me they’d turn those campaign logs into a novel

i could not in good conscious do that b/c any sane editor would have cut the Random Insert Scene Me And Fue Did For 16 Hours About Nothing Once (which included the GM going to bed, waking up again and going ‘damn why are you Still Going’) but it was Very Important I Swear

looooooooool

I mean Victor Hugo is a respected novelist despite the digressions

they destroyed a man’s house :(

: homestuck scales swinging to JUSTIFIED immediately**

looooooool

endlessly amused that you did end up reading homestuck

now I’m curious who of the party has and has not

have you

Yes, though I dropped out close to after the timeskip

Teak Promised it would be worth it and I empties the backlog at that point

and really who am i to disagree, when the story so thoughtfully cast me as one of the main characters

gahahahaha

i swore a few Solemn Oaths to get a couple people to actually read the back half of act 6 and it was Worth It

… which main character?

im KARKAT

except when im pretending to be dave

in a single stroke, Saint’s player understands why you and I are friends suddenly

BUT WAY LESS GAY THAN THAT WOULD IMPLY

it was between Dave and Karkat

…………………………………..

gahahhahahaha

ice i have

lmao

some news for you,

teakwood i regret to involve you i have NOT actually made out with an alien irl before

: “way less gay” cites two Extremely Gay characters who end up together

yeah im just saying the two examples together kind of imply maximum

is that because a hot alien guy has not shown up and been, like, even just vaguely antagonistic towards you but in an interesting and compelling way though

so, clarification

lol

alas hachi only gave me pizza when he visited there was no sweeping off of feet or anything!!

tragic.

you don’t think being fed is part of being swept off your feet?

the great act of care that is ensuring the survival of another?

hahahah

the closest pizza hut was 25 miles away he couldn’t just WALK there!!

id fucking kill someone to get a real pizza place built in town ngl

where on earth do you live that pizza places are in such short supply? if that is not too personal a question

west cowfuck

I live in a VERY small town that is sandwiched between a lot of Larger Cities, which is not QUITE a Map Dot but isn’t much bigger than one either

is that north or south of goatfuck?

more importantly my eyes are kinda fucked up enough that I can’t get a drivers license and also live in america

D: yeah the car-centrism is pretty wretched

so hachi bringing you pizza was a profound act of love

i probably should have went with my parents when they moved up to vegas but otoh i do enjoy having a job i barely need to work…………………………………

the children Yearn For Fastfood Pizza its true <3

I almost ordered fastfood pizza tonight and did not and I am regretting it as I am Hungry, Again

I had a delicious meal but could use a second one

but what about second supper

truly the eternal mood

man now i’m thinking about all the dumb shit i could possibly reference completely out of context

lowkey dyin’ at the idea of calling uh…. shit what’s the Queen’s Canon Name

but it’d be funny to refer to her exclusively as Sonic & Knuckles and then refuse to elaborate

does one face the dragon’s wrath for breaking the fourth wall or is that allowed? also is this TeakIce lore or is it simply a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog?

OK so like

ice is being Silly you gotta bap him on the nose sometimes

the hunter would play dark souls not sonic

maybe the hunter played sonic when he was younger?

probably 80% of the reference teak makes that I near-exclusively will find funny and hachi Might Get are in reference to one very specific campaign run by our Good Friend Peter,

which then went on to like… become a series of campaigns, and also had three of the players run games ALSO in direct reference to it

Which are collectively referred to as “mana” due to conceptually being pitched as a Legends of Mana game with the serial numbers filed off and became increasingly neverending story levels of meta as it went on

and one of the big things was that all the players were pretty like, explicitly Chosen Ones but not…. really chosen to do anything in particular? I never read wheel of time but teak says that “pure hearts” (sometimes “Sparks”) were pretty similar to what uh…. i can’t remember the term, but what the main characters of WoT were.

: “there’s gonna be a brief blip as I push code btw in a minute or so”

and the GM was ALSO controlling three of these! and over the course of the series they were kinda reoccuring in the same way many of the players themselves were, sometimes playing similar characters, other times wildly different ones

ta’veren or thereabouts in WOT

ye those

: “also you know i’m having a good night when i title a commit ‘waving another dead motherfucking chicken at the audio player’”

Deep Magic

I am still waiting for the Sonic connection

ice had to start with the metaphorical Big Bang of loredrops here

i promise that was all building up to this!

he did not Gotta Go Fast to the punchline

: “OK we’re back, sorry about that if it ate any posts”

Possibly the relevance of Sonic the Hedgehog. We may never know.

So now you know there’s a few games and there’s Very Meta NPCs that exist between them that are also Pseudo-Players and exist in Increasingly Meta Campaigns. Two of them in particular we always went out of our way to harass in different ways, which were obsessively “Seye” and “Crimson / Stings and Kills”. And the thing about these two Sparks is that they ALSO hated each other because they were usually playing pretty ideologically opposed character concepts or trying to take over the world from opposite sides or w/e

Stings and Kills, of course, is way too many letters for lazy RPers to type out and b/c that was the name Peter and Teak In Particular liked to use for them, they were also commonly known as S&K

and from THAT point seye would, on ocassion, just to be an asshole, refer to the other one as “Sonic and Knuckles” because we are also all obviously stupid videogame nerds as well, and it’s just a really dumb and obnoxious way to unpack S&K incorrectly

‘how is this relevant to sanctuary tho’ so at some point peter went “man i do NOT think i have it in me to keep running mana games but ya’ll can go nuts if you want” and teak absolutely fucking jumped on that and did with gusto once already

and with THAT in mind i am Relatively Confident the Scorpion Queen is Strings and Kills (thusly names after the scorpion and frog fable)

see, this is why the TeakLore Rumor Map IS necessary

you make a compelling argument

:))))))))))))))))))))))))

AAAAAAAAAAAA SHE HEARD IT

: “get back in the box, you fucking weirdo, the party’s still in Almachadta.”

dont worry ill bring you a 50/50 flask i have one left over from ISI

also i fully forgot that i did the typeface/colour feature and jumpscared myself with it so, enjoy that

looooooooooool

hahahah

bruh we were JUST talking about the colors being inhereted from fucking EE like

last week

I walked away to get a snack and came back to the scorpion queen out of her box so

also jumpscared I guess

: “Yeah that doesn’t mean I can reliably remember how often I think about doing something incredibly silly and then Actually Do The Incredibly Silly Thing”

lmao

I need to get back into the habit of actually ending my sentences

anyhow I will likely have an IC reaction sometime during the day on sunday, right now I’m too busy mining at the edges of potential lore implications of things

:3c

return and commas are inexchangable thats how english works now god bless the internet

(eyesblur emoji)

-in

(too busy-> also mentally tired to be in character)

i mean

you DO have KP, hachi

someone do me a favour and cue up a music track btw?

thx. is there anyone for whom that is not working?

it worked for me perfectly

worked for me

im hearing it and it autoplays again

G-d willing I actually solved the fucking problem

paused when I opened another page in a new tab

but idk if that’s expected behavior

another strangepath pages? that’s intentional at least

It shouldn’t… pause, it should not play the audio in the new tab**

o-oh

it paused

and that’s not what it’s doing on my machine so I am Fucking Baffled but also I….. care less about that at this point

it did NOT pause for me rn at least

tho it was pausing during the session

I updated my permissions for allowing autoplay on this website

so maybe that will help?

: “That should help in general yeah, there’s… SOME of the behaviour that happens is autoplay being blocked and that’s why you have to manually hit the play button, and there’s very little I can do about that because browsers have Opinions about autoplay audio and they are Correct Opinions but they are opinions which are currently benighting me”

Firefox at least lets you allow autoplay for SPECIFIC SITES. I hadn’t seen that option until just now, so that might help

: “The really -bad- bug where it’s not getting to the play() invocation at all for some reason seems… like… it is not happening any more and if I can get it to ‘as long as you’re kind of paying attention and can see the audio player that a song started playing and wangjangle the volume slider or push Play manually or restart if you absolutely have to’ I will be Happy”

: “wangjangle”

: “wangjangle the banjaxed audio player”

Crimes against an already suffering language

man i really fuckin like this vocal render.

IT PARSES

yeah it’s a good it like

somehow manages to have that same vibe the nier vocal tracks do

dfkjfgjhgjkfghjkfhg the highest praise i can imagine receiving tbh

although this one might be a real langauge but if you’re ignorant enough all languages are conlags

lawl

who knows, maybe one of the songs IS in a one-off conlang i made just for the song

it def got that real specific

Emil Is Sad About Something vibe to it tho

How did almost everyone else manage to get that “On the Obsidian Road” was Nahautl?

there are some moments i’m really looking forward to JUST for the “teakwood what the fuck is wrong with you” when the song kicks in

Nahuatl. GDI dyslexia

google

oh that’s why you described The Ziggaraut as aztec like lol

idk about ‘almost everyone’, Reibello got it because Reibello is literally a language teacher and /t͡ɬ/ like, only happens in one language that I’m aware of, did anyone else actually call what language it was

i sure as fuck didn’t and if i was forced at gunpoint i would have embarassed byself by saying “idk something adjacent to french????”

lmao ilu

I felt like everyone was solemnly going “ah, yes, Nahuatl”

i think right before you joined padfoot put a sword to my throat sexily and demanded i tell him what language On The Obsidian Road was written in

but also I haven’t yet got good at telling voices apart consider that was the first time I had ever heard Reibello’s human voice

whelp I also very embarrassingly badly bonked the translation of the arabic song on the list, but in my defense I’m not used to reading romanization?

we need to like. have a jackbox games night just to get to know each other more or something

yes

there is like a 99% chance i totally fucked the romanization, also

haha

i don’t even remember what some of the titles properly translate to because the canonical titles and lyrics are almost all English and I’m taking hella poetic license in some cases because I didn’t want to do another vocal render or because my translation into the vocals language is embarrassing or something

I need to get Wolf and Archie around to test the audio player since they seemed to be having the most trouble with it, heh

FUN REMINDER THAT ONLY ONE LANGUAGE EXIST IN THE SETTING BUT ALSO WE SOMEHOW UNDERSTAND THESE SONGS DESPITE THEM BEING IN LANGUAGES THAT DON’T(asterisk) EXIST(double asterisk)

oh wait there’s two languages in sanctuary, but the second hasn’t come up yet

[primly] I have not claimed that only one language exists in the setting! I have claimed that the six of you and everyone you’ve met so far are all speaking the same language and can understand each other, and that your image themes and now Obsidian Road are in different languages which you can Understand Anyway.

i dont remember where we talked about this so i cannot adequetly refute this point

rolling liminal to brute force it with a cosmic noogie

lawl

dfjklasdfjsadl;

cosmic noogie

does he get arete for that?

:(

not just no but voice of god no’d

rekt

adds the Important Information to the ZitV node

We’re gonna tear through these worlds naming all sorts of lil guys

the children yern for names

Aurelius more like Adam going around naming things

ledges tell of a strange middle aged man that will show up out of no where, sigh, and randomly name you if you’re not careful………………..

teakwood

i gotta know

‘sup

how come the pog for the Beast has (10) moons showing, with space for (12) theoretically, despite having (15) In Actuality

Where are you getting the “15 in actuality” from?

i could have SWORN the wiki used to say 15

but it very clearly does NOT and has not been updated in ages

while the map node says 12

so i guess faulty memory

mystery solved i guess

(two not being shown is still a Little weird but it’s got space for them so not That Weird)

the two not being shown is probably some Teak-flavored fuckery

I did make a certain error which I have now corrected; thanks for bringing that to my attention.

now only one is missing!

this is

somehow MUCH more alarming

I’m sure it’s fine.

like, exponentially

funny how that works

that bitch never not have turned one into a fully operational battleship while i wasn’t looking

better not have

pffff

every time someone says “it’s fine” I definitely develop more concerns.

‘someone’ is a funny way to say ‘teakwood’

sometimes it’s hachi!

the awoken has a habit of going “don’t worry” whilst being in fact Very Worrying

remind me to ask the awoken if he’s a devourer of worlds next time

perhaps just moons

Teakwood DID just ruin my life tho so.

Hello =D

not that im saying he IS of course but i feel like i wanna figure out how to fill in that check box sooner rather than later

… check … box? implication SOMEONE is devouring worlds?

we DO keep running into a lot of azure eyed things in places where things ought not to exist, perhaps due to places that previously existed no longer existing

how do you do strike through with markdown

–does this work–

no thats wiki

it’s usually two tildes on either side

two tildes?

Yeah it’s two tildes

we know we’ve already lost one world after all

and the first one we landed on got some corruption/rot

yeah agree on the blue-eyed weirdness.

and it SOUNDED like the architect wanted to break ‘em down for parts……….. so……………………………… idk where im going with this

I mean is the beast often losing moons? is this a thing that happens?

i don’t. think so

scratches chin

shit now that you say that

i have a LOT of questions about constellations

especially on grassland

yeah actually I was wondering if Wolf and I would have a concept of “stars”

i’ve actually put a lot of thought into “what the fuck do the constellations mean in Almachadta” and the answer is something like “they’re a set of repeated symbols and motifs that have just always been part of Almachadtan culture and they’re just called ‘constellations’ because that’s what they’re called and have always been called the same way ‘coeurls’ have always been called ‘coeurls’”

very excited for someone else to notice that and go ‘hey what and how the fuck’

there might…? be like, fluctuations in the Centrelight during the Dim, actually, that like, visually resemble the constellations. that would make sense. the symbols tend to manifest in whatever pareidolic way they CAN

yeah that definitely happens, thank you for forcing me to nail that one down

yeeeeah

ok so do beasts moons set and possible have a rotation or are they Just There, i was definitely assuming the latter but

well one is clearly not just There anymore

in retrospect im not sure why, beast is probaly the planet most likely to actually be a planet

sorry just having hysterics

hahah

They rise and set and are rotating around the Beast (which is an entire-assed sphere, btw, I clarified this with the C-Knight earlier, just a sphere that you’re on the normal side of as opposed to the inside of. Samudra is the flat plane.)

(mu voted Most Likely To Be And Endless Flat Plane)

wow deconfrimed preemptively

I thought mu was inexplicable triangle

that’s valis

valais is more of a pyramid?

what is a pyramid if not a 3D triangle

,…on a square i guess

I’m going to be obnoxiously coy about Mu and Valaïs until you get there but from the art Mu is a giant ass desert with a big white pyramid in it, and Valaïs is a bunch of floating land masses in roughly a big upside down pyramid shape with the human city, like, built around and hanging off the point

admittedly me parsing Mu as an endless expanse is probably residue EE vibes that still linger in the mind

but

i wonder if we’re circumnavigated the globe on the beast or if we just Know It’s A Sphere Because We Can Do Math and no one’s actually bothered going that far out because there probably aren’t supply point / save havens set up and Infinite Giant Monsters

Queen probably got bored and did it at least once

that makes sense

‘what was on the other side’ ‘idk wasnt paying attention was fighting shit’