diff --git a/compiled/dat/ChisoPreniv.loc b/compiled/dat/ChisoPreniv.loc index 62ce22da..a0911e18 100644 --- a/compiled/dat/ChisoPreniv.loc +++ b/compiled/dat/ChisoPreniv.loc @@ -3094,7 +3094,7 @@ Marcus Aurelius <cover src="xplayerjournal-callogbook.hsm"><font size=16 face=Tricia color=a10000><margin left=62 right=62><font size=18 face=Tricia><p align=left> Calum's Field Report Journal ---- + 4/21/21 @@ -3117,76 +3117,58 @@ Once I get a chance to get out there and visit the place. YEP. - . . . Good grief, Calum, why can't you just stick to a single journal for this stuff? +. . . Good grief, Calum, why can't you just stick to a single journal for this stuff? + ---- Okay, let's see if I can find where this book is and get to there. ---- + Tiam is, uh. Quite sandy and bright on first impression. I can't tell if it's the sun or the glare. -Interesting initial area, structural foundations look well . . . locked door and a puzzle? Fascinating! +Interesting initial area, structural foundations look well. . . locked door and a puzzle? Fascinating! Handy link back to Chiso right at the getgo. Benches! Very nice. ---- + Past the first door, dinner time now, so I'll return later. ---- + Little eggy plant things! How cute. ---- + It always catches me off guard when I see my own stamp plastered somewhere. End of a book, And here it is! It's weird. I see it and go, "I didn't put that here!" But there it is. Literally left my mark in this age before I even visited it. What a paradox. ---- - Found a CD player! Very Retro. ---- - Well, that's a blinding surprise. ---- - -This is a perplexing puzzle. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to get past it. - ---- +This is a perplexing puzzle. I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to get past it. OH. CLEVER. ---- - Double clever. Dang it I'm going to need to watch this a few times arent I? ---- - Okay, that one door sensor needs fixing, it's staying open when it shouldn't, and closing in my face when it should be staying open. I think everything else is fairly solid. Not bad, not bad at all. ---- - 4/24/21 Korov'ev sent me some vases to refurbish. Well. Alright. ---- - 4/25/21 I THOUGHT those vases were a little weird. They may have been submitted as part of a contest by the DRC. Ugh. Nope. I'm leaving 'em be. No touchy and no replacey!!! ---- - 4/26/21 My recommendation for any immediate future adjustments to Ae'gura is: @@ -3199,12 +3181,8 @@ obsessive changes: actually clear the debris in the entry path as well The rest of Ae'gura is structurally clear as far as foot traffic is concerned. The remaining debris piles are just too large to do anything with in any reasonable span of time. ---- - KI errors refuse to connect to the Lattice for a vast majority of the population right now. Not Good. ---- - 4/29/21 Talking with Scharminius about the Lake light and the Er'cana ovens and he brings up an interesting possibility. @@ -3213,46 +3191,30 @@ Only the time value matches an exact bake time. With 10 notches for about an hou Going to need to talk with Mary Sue and see if she has any thoughts on the matter. ---- - Sent her a KI Mail. I have a feeling Time and Temperature remain scales of 0-to-50 but Power/Potency is the curious one. ---- - 5/2/21 - Heard back from Mary, she had no thoughts on the matter theory ways. Oh well. ---- - 5/5/21 Of COURSE the Clocks would haunt us. Or maybe, whatever's been going wrong with the hoods is striking out more? UGH. Idk. Fantastic timing either way. SIGHS. Why couldn't this release go smoothly? Why Nexus-to-Hood issues NOW of all times? ---- - 5/6/21 Adam seems to have found the cause of the Hood Link Issues, let's hope we can get it pushed to the Nexus in the morning. ---- - Hazado's taken over the charge on getting the Gahreesen Wall working, it seems. It seems like Dr. Blom left at some point before I joined up with the group. I'd been wondering, but never asked. Just being polite, I still won't. Still, I guess the Wall is getting put to working order. Should be fun to test, I guess. - ---- - 5/18/21 Hazado's taken to looking into the Watcher's Pub Imager table. Lots more talk about that danged locked door, too. ---- - 7/5/21 Well, this book's sat abandoned until now. Might as well repurpose it for Descent Work, such as it is. Looks like we're in the initial stages of surveying everything we have to work with, as it were. @@ -3261,13 +3223,8 @@ This might take a while. In the meantime, there's maintenance work to be done on elevators and other moving objects- part of which involves the repeated process of using these items over and over and noting any bad behaviors. ---- - - Folks, please. We're just doing our jobs when we talk about being safe. The Shaft doesn't have any railing. Safety is paramount here. I don't want another Phil incident! Wear your Relto Books when exploring the Shaft! ---- - 7/7/21 Last night: @@ -3281,8 +3238,6 @@ Safety is Paramount. I sound like the DRC- a broken reccord. I legit wrote that the other day. ---- - 8/17/21 After a few weeks of trying to rest after the, uh, rather disastrous nonsense that was my wifi boost experiment. (Thank you for the help keeping me sane, Kelsei!) @@ -3291,45 +3246,26 @@ Well. It's time to dive into another field dive for a new area. It's called "The Time to link. ---- - It's Definitely D'ni alright. A very stained glassy roof hangs above me. Someone's set up a bunch of bright spotlights for visibility while we work, hard to say how much light's coming through the ceiling just yet. -Lots of fountains, hallways . . . not quite sure where to go just yet. - ---- - -Of course someone's left that door locked. Okay, not going that way . . . +Lots of fountains, hallways. . . not quite sure where to go just yet. ---- +Of course someone's left that door locked. Okay, not going that way. . . Noisy buttons! No clue what these do. Pretty designs, though. ---- - Well now THIS is a ROOM! Is that a replica of Sharper's hat on a shelf over there? I think it is! Music seems to be the name of the game here. I could see some fancy parties being held here. Karaoke even? ---- - A phonograph/record player! That's adorable. Someone's definitely brought in a lot of retro stuff here. ---- - Hmm, the noises through this door sound familiar. Can't find my way through it, though. Dang D'ni locks. - ---- - -Hazado and Scharminius have joined me here. We're taking a group examination of the place . . . - ---- +Hazado and Scharminius have joined me here. We're taking a group examination of the place. . . Surface errands to run now. Bluh. ---- - 8/18/21 Apparently "Loft" is just a codename. According to Dulcamara, who worked on this place before passing it over to Ametist to bring it over the finish line, this 'loft' is a pair of homes separated by a garden area, and had this to say about the naming: @@ -3340,8 +3276,6 @@ Or you could just call it 'Elevated,' which would be a passive participle and wo So, the place is Elonin. ---- - Descent is still in Phase One. Patrick's had me check on some of the rugs near the elevator platform. You'd think he was patronizing me with such a menial task as ensuring something is still secured but- Eh. Kelsei and I both agree it's probably in my best interests to start small. @@ -3350,8 +3284,6 @@ I need to get back to work on the Island but, I'm taking it cautiously after tha Poor Jules looked terified for me when I told him about it today. I wonder why? ---- - 9/2/21 Managed to catch Serene during one of its errant snow flurries. They're getting more common now, evidently. @@ -3362,27 +3294,21 @@ I suspect soon that'll be two out of every three visits, and then every visit pe The fireflies also chose to make an appearance, too. I honestly didn't know there were fireflies here. -I never saw them during my earlier visits, all those many years ago when Andy first released the age. Did something change? . . . Actually, come to think of it, was that hut even here originally? +I never saw them during my earlier visits, all those many years ago when Andy first released the age. Did something change? . . . Actually, come to think of it, was that hut even here originally? The fireflies're rather harmonious sounding- a tad electricish too. I avoided touching them lest I wind up like those poor scientists in that one Stargate episode. ---- - Haz's fix for the Great Zero Marker Machines is in for first round testing, apparently. Need to get someone in to help test that at some point. ---- - 9/4/21 That snow storm i got caught in really messing with me. I might have to skip the AGM for sure. Patrick says we're nearing the benchmark for Phase 1 on Descent, though, so that's good. ---- - The Lattice has been acting up something fierce lately. Yesterday the KI network suffered repeated Net-2 disconnect errors, about 5 times in an hour or so. How frustrating for everyone. Might be related to the hood population errors going about too. We've done all we can on the KI-Side Client Code for that. Everything else is in the Lattice Server and thus in the DRC's hands still. @@ -3401,39 +3327,27 @@ Too much weight on one person's shoulders, that. And I've been burned by that we These concerns weigh heavy on my mind a lot of the time. ---- - 9/6/21 After some trial and error issues with the access point to Descent not working this morning, I've arrived at the Caldera, and making my way down through for some Initial Phase One checks of Descent. ---- - Mirphak's joined me for this run. Patrick's running late. ---- - Elevators are presently nonfunctioning, I'll be using my camera drone to survey the elevator rungs for damage. -Or I would be . . . If I remembered to charge the battery first, that is. Later, then, I guess. - ---- +Or I would be. . . If I remembered to charge the battery first, that is. Later, then, I guess. Linking to midpoint of shaft next. Rest area seems as secure as it always does. Glad to see Patrick's got mind to fix the ramp spirals where they've broken, though. ---- -After some initial safety concerns with the temporary rampway fixes, we're going at it solo for the moment. No more than one person on the things at a time. ---- +After some initial safety concerns with the temporary rampway fixes, we're going at it solo for the moment. No more than one person on the things at a time. Lift mechanisms for the grand floor seem to be malfunctioning. Can't get them to budge. I swear the lift had to be working earlier for one of these tunnel doors to be opened. ---- - Speaking of that tunnel, found a ladder down into the airvent systems, control mechanisms seem jammed into 'on' so atleast we've got air flow going, but still, something's not functioning right. Probably a power surge due to all the work. I noticed one of the hallway lights flickering. @@ -3444,8 +3358,6 @@ Still, initial checks for everything looks good, and I'm giving my stamp of appr I'm not project lead, after all. Hah! And what a relief that is. I can't imagine all the stress going through Patrick's mind right now. ---- - Proper walk down of path, surveying path stability next. 3 rings down- slight dip in pathway. Trip hazard? @@ -3454,41 +3366,31 @@ About 8 rings down now, it's surreal to be walking all this way and still barely Patrick called me braver than him for even attempting this, hah! -Some mild debris on track about 9-10 rings down, near elevator struts. Same, next row. Ditto next row . . . +Some mild debris on track about 9-10 rings down, near elevator struts. Same, next row. Ditto next row. . . Shining a flashlight and Peering over edge, looks like there's a lot of debris that's piled up near the struts of the elevators for the next several rows down, actually. Might explain why the first lift isn't working. ---- - I've lost count of the loops. I'm so far down now I can barely see the top of the shaft. -It's . . . surreal walking this path now. +It's. . . surreal walking this path now. Here I am, walking this path that Ti'ana walked. The path that Gehn and Atrus walked. Did Yeesha walk this path downwards? -I am water, seeking the roots, flowing downwards, always downwards . . . - ---- +I am water, seeking the roots, flowing downwards, always downwards. . . hark! i see an elevator's glow! beams of light spear through the fog below! - . . . And I'm nowhere near the danged thing yet. I'm not even going to *count* the rings I have left to go. - ---- +. . . And I'm nowhere near the danged thing yet. I'm not even going to *count* the rings I have left to go. Eight rings above the mid-way rest stop. Hoo, what a journey so far. Not done yet. ---- - -This climb is intense, and I'm near the end now. It's . . . man. When they say this whole trek is a two day journey i'd believe it after this hike down. +This climb is intense, and I'm near the end now. It's. . . man. When they say this whole trek is a two day journey i'd believe it after this hike down. Time to resume my descent. ---- - -I stand now at the very bottom of the Great Shaft, and despite being here earlier today (Yesterday?) via linking . . . +I stand now at the very bottom of the Great Shaft, and despite being here earlier today (Yesterday?) via linking. . . It's a difference having walked all this way down. @@ -3500,57 +3402,49 @@ I've spent so much time descending to this point, and now I want nothing more th The path seems stable, other than the bits and pieces I've forwarded to Patrick, who went to bed at one point. -This is a Journey. I can't describe how surreal it is to have done this. To have walked from the Surface to D'ni, even in part, and found myself somewhere grand and majestic . . . +This is a Journey. I can't describe how surreal it is to have done this. To have walked from the Surface to D'ni, even in part, and found myself somewhere grand and majestic. . . -The floor is so shiny, I can see myself in its reflection and I . . . do I even recognize my own reflection? +The floor is so shiny, I can see myself in its reflection and I. . . do I even recognize my own reflection? The me that stares back seems so different from the me that begun this climb, and yet here I am. Descent. There's so much more to this journey that I've yet to do, yet to see, yet to experience and yet being here. -Being Here. Having DONE this first step among many . . . +Being Here. Having DONE this first step among many. . . -I know I am not the first to have walked this path. The D'ni, Aitrus, Anna, Gehn, Atrus, Yeesha . . . +I know I am not the first to have walked this path. The D'ni, Aitrus, Anna, Gehn, Atrus, Yeesha. . . -Loftin, Elias, and Watson . . . the DRC . . . Who knows how many other Explorers over the years? +Loftin, Elias, and Watson. . . the DRC. . . Who knows how many other Explorers over the years? -And yet I feel that I am still experiencing this for the first time. This path, this journey, this . . . +And yet I feel that I am still experiencing this for the first time. This path, this journey, this. . . -This Spiral, yet unwalked by so many, yet seen by just as many, if not many more . . . +This Spiral, yet unwalked by so many, yet seen by just as many, if not many more. . . Descent. -Watson wrote about a leap of faith, but . . . this? This experience? This path this journey this-- +Watson wrote about a leap of faith, but. . . this? This experience? This path this journey this-- This goes beyond a leap of faith into the unknown. This is boldly stepping foot after foot into the dark, hinging hopes on there being something infront of you. -For so long you can peer down and not yet see the bottom, and yet once you get there- ONCE YOU GET THERE . . . +For so long you can peer down and not yet see the bottom, and yet once you get there- ONCE YOU GET THERE. . . This goes beyond the Books. Beyond Linking. Did the D'ni have any idea of what kind of portal they created here? ---- - 9/7/21 Got my Camera Drone working, going for some survey views of various things at a closeup distance. ---- - I found my way through a couple of the back node doors and found a river, plus a blown out bridge. Sent my drone out for a brief explore and the thing's night-vision camera went out of whack, blasting everything with an undetailable white haze. I almost crashed it into some kind of rock face. Gave it a recall, not going to try that again any time soon. ---- - Troubleshooting Networking issues today. Hoping we can get to the bottom of the Net2 disconnects. ---- - That's no real progress beyond having a few obscure code errors to sort through now. Break time for now. Ugh, having to go back over everything we DID in the last few months is such a headache, especially when it's such an off-chance variable that anything we did to the user-end KI operations is even responsible for it. @@ -3559,23 +3453,17 @@ Yet, there's a significant enough chance we're responsible for our own frustrati Better to be safe than sorry. ---- - 9/8/21 We've sorted out the Descent access issues, but the accursed Net2s are still plaguing us. How annoying. ---- - Suggested a fix to Patrick about how to best repair the broken sections of path near the Rest Area. Will see if it works out. ---- - 9/9/21 -Had a strange bug with the internal network KIs for a bit- it was, ah . . . +Had a strange bug with the internal network KIs for a bit- it was, ah. . . It was replacing every Space Character with the first letter of the line above it. KI looked bizzare for sure. Danged things even shifted text in real time as you messed with the interface. @@ -3590,47 +3478,33 @@ Was a good break after an evening of trying to sort out network errors, at any r Ehren knows his work when it comes to this Descent project. He's worked on D'ni tech stuff off and on, for a while now, so he's got a decent grasp of the machinery- better than I do, atleast. ---- - 9/10/21 Spent a good portion of the evening high detail surveying the tunnel between the Caldera and the start of the Shaft. Passed my efforts along to Patrick for review. ---- - 9/12/21 Spent a good chunk of today testing Heek Tables and building a model kit. Now to check on some Descent Things. ---- - Glorious! Patrick's gotten the oddities with the first fan node door sorted out! Works just fine now. ---- - Some path cleanup was done, looks good. ---- - 9/13/21 Had some interesting interactions with the lake light this morning during the usual morning tests. Could be something, probably nothing. Needs further testing. ---- - -It all comes back to the Overpop'd heek-Hoods, in the end. Chogon's dove through the Lattice server Backend, and we've dove through the KI client front end . . . +It all comes back to the Overpop'd heek-Hoods, in the end. Chogon's dove through the Lattice server Backend, and we've dove through the KI client front end. . . -In the end, this is the only conclusion that seems to make sense. And so we're testing some fixes, and . . . +In the end, this is the only conclusion that seems to make sense. And so we're testing some fixes, and. . . If things go well, we push it live this week or next. Then comes the unenviable task of shoving people out of the giant overpop'd hoods. Once again, I apologize, Mary Sue. I really hoped it didn't come to this. I'm going to end up stress building another model at this rate. Hahaha. Oh boy. ---- - 9/15/21 may have come across a small cause of the net2s. going to try a bigger test on saturday. @@ -3641,42 +3515,28 @@ hopefully we can stop the DRC hoods from auto growing larger going forwards also, apologies for the sloppy handwriting- hungry and waiting on dinner. ---- - Patrick's wanting to get a group photo op in Descent taken at some point. Well, that'll be fun, I guess. ---- - Saturday, huh? ---- - 9/16/21 No luck in collecting light samples from yesterday or this morning. Frustrating. It looks like the new hood sorting fix took properly though. That should buy us some time. ---- - Welp. My KI is thoroughly BORKED. How frustrating. ---- - And it's working again? Weird. :/ Oh well. I'll take it! ---- - Group photo's been postponed. Did several hours of testing though. Going to go get some chicken sandwiches for dinner. ---- - 9/20/21 More testing, trying to hunt down the Net2s. Not much luck, got some horrifying ideas as to the causes though. -Some polish work on Descent done- someone suggested we throw up some tarp nets around the shaft for safety reasons . . . Did a test. And Said tarps are just getting folks caught in them. Wind blows slightly and woosh!- trapped! +Some polish work on Descent done- someone suggested we throw up some tarp nets around the shaft for safety reasons. . . Did a test. And Said tarps are just getting folks caught in them. Wind blows slightly and woosh!- trapped! We're taking those down asap. @@ -3684,50 +3544,40 @@ Some doors are working better now, and things are looking snazzy. Patrick says w That's good. -Now to just try and figure out what's going wrong with the KI network . . . - ---- +Now to just try and figure out what's going wrong with the KI network. . . Hrm, interesting. Seems we should have had a Net2, but the KI system didnt push the bootoff notif? - . . . Weird. +. . . Weird. Dinner time now. ---- - Marker Games? We're floating potentially disabling them for a while just to see what happens. ---- - Apparently the disabling did nothing for system stability, so not the Markers. Dang it. ---- - 9-24-21 Update on the Serene Journal Sitch. It Looks like the *actual* Serene Commentary Book was left in a place called Neolbah, another of Andy's work projects. -A case of mistaken cover identity. Looks like we'll be swapping them out after giving it a proper review to ensure, well . . . +A case of mistaken cover identity. Looks like we'll be swapping them out after giving it a proper review to ensure, well. . . To Ensure we didn't mistake yet ANOTHER book for the Serene Commentary that should have been there. This is why we need to mark covers differently. -At this reminder, I'm going to poke Patrick again about the Heritage Doc's and their . . . Sameness. LOL. +At this reminder, I'm going to poke Patrick again about the Heritage Doc's and their. . . Sameness. LOL. At any rate, I hope this'll appease vid's repeated reminders about the present journal. We really should have caught that before it hit the public eye. Oh well. Hopefully nobody'll complain at a discrete swap. ---- - Reviewed the journal text. At first I was confused, though I understood why this Journal was in Neolbah and not Serene, originally. -The bit about the Shaft was interesting, but . . . not related? And then it got to the part about Serene. And Oh. +The bit about the Shaft was interesting, but. . . not related? And then it got to the part about Serene. And Oh. Oh, Chezahcen, what did that fool do? -Not Andy. Discovering Serene was entirely his own original work is . . . well, it's astounding. +Not Andy. Discovering Serene was entirely his own original work is. . . well, it's astounding. Except then someone modified the book. @@ -3735,71 +3585,51 @@ Serene got Link Shifted by someone else modifying the book. Oh, Andy. I can only imagine the hurt you felt on that discovery. ---- - Serene feels wrong. Knowing what I know now. -The stone under my feet. The trees hanging around . . . the 'temple' with the light . . . +The stone under my feet. The trees hanging around. . . the 'temple' with the light. . . -There's no fresh snow at the moment. Good for me, I guess, but . . . +There's no fresh snow at the moment. Good for me, I guess, but. . . This isn't the Original Serene. Did I *EVER* See the Original Serene? - . . . I don't know if I ever have. - ---- +. . . I don't know if I ever have. Veelay is quiet, and tranquil in a way Serene isn't right now. Jules is hammering to try and get some forums set up. -I just . . . +I just. . . Bluh. -My stomach churns. Between the Net2s in the KI network (Adam has some ideas he's investigating privately) and now discovering this? To think about how we look at an Age could change just because someone grabbed the wrong commentary journal . . . +My stomach churns. Between the Net2s in the KI network (Adam has some ideas he's investigating privately) and now discovering this? To think about how we look at an Age could change just because someone grabbed the wrong commentary journal. . . -If I ever meet this Quin guy, I . . . I don't know what I'll do. +If I ever meet this Quin guy, I. . . I don't know what I'll do. I need to talk with Patrick. ---- - Beginning another trek down the shaft. Cleanup crews did their job and cleared off the debris from the cluttered areas along the rail section, very excellent. ---- - Everything seems in order to me, beyond a few partially disassembled elevator mechanisms. Works in Progress! Not Done Not Done Not Done! ---- - And a Net2 while talking with Aurelias in Watchers about current situations. Lovely. ---- - Adam's working on trying to devise a way to test a data pull theory on the Net2s. Handshake codes are the worst things to write, though. Stupid magic incantations. ---- - 9/27/21 Got a call while examining Descent to help test the networking. Adam has an idea he wants to test. ---- - Did we find it? We might have just found it. ---- - - . . . It's the right exception code, but it handed down Net6s instead of Net2s. WOW. Okay. +. . . It's the right exception code, but it handed down Net6s instead of Net2s. WOW. Okay. More testing, but WOW. Okay. This feels like prgress! Woo! ---- - 9/28/21 Apparently we've had someone sneaking into Descent while using the official KI Network. Damn it. @@ -3814,13 +3644,11 @@ Is there any telling how long he's been poking around behind the scenes? I need to confer with Adam and Patrick. ---- - -Messaged Patrick, checked with Adam . . . This guy was visiting a bunch of unreleased, unworked on areas. -Places we've surveyed, but not really touched any . . . Kahlo, "Jellyfish," Todelmer . . . +Messaged Patrick, checked with Adam. . . This guy was visiting a bunch of unreleased, unworked on areas. +Places we've surveyed, but not really touched any. . . Kahlo, "Jellyfish," Todelmer. . . Among the worst offenders: Rebek and Noloben. The Disrespect!! The- The- -We haven't touched those areas for a MULTITUDE of reasons and this guy went and . . . GOD. The sheer AUDACITY. +We haven't touched those areas for a MULTITUDE of reasons and this guy went and. . . GOD. The sheer AUDACITY. This goes beyond Yeesha giving us access to areas the DRC had already vetted or restored. This goes beyond-- @@ -3828,25 +3656,19 @@ This is-- By Chezahcen, this fool could have gotten himself killed or worse. ---- - I'm not sure what to make of this situation yet. I'm still processing it. -I find myself more and more every day in the shoes of the DRC before us. Not just in terms of the locations, but . . . +I find myself more and more every day in the shoes of the DRC before us. Not just in terms of the locations, but. . . I've even notif'd the DRC rep for KI Network management on their end of things. I feel like a Honest To God ResEng. I just dont have the hat. ---- - I was confused by "Jellyfish" as an age designation and looked it up. Some small metal platform at sea with canons. Apparently, it's some kind of shooting gallery for the Jellyfish native to the age. -Fun. Not sure we'll ever release that, but fun. Going to have to do a Deep Dive and see what lore the DRC have stashed away . . . - ---- +Fun. Not sure we'll ever release that, but fun. Going to have to do a Deep Dive and see what lore the DRC have stashed away. . . 9/29/21 @@ -3854,24 +3676,16 @@ Well, we pushed the Fix for the Net2s. Fingers crossed to see if it works. Meanwhile, Adam, Briggs, Patrick, and a few others are talking football on Discord. - . . . Get Sharper in the mix and we'd have a real 'fun' time LOL. - - ---- - +. . . Get Sharper in the mix and we'd have a real 'fun' time LOL. KI network rebooted. Just in time for Fil Live in GoMePub. Time to see how things hold up. STRESS TEST TIME! ---- - Okay, so, Good News. Our fix took out a very trivially easy way to crash the KI Lattice system. Bad News, our fix did not fix the cause of the Net 2s. ---- - 10-1-21 Found some potential damage to the wall above the bottom of the spiral path. @@ -3883,57 +3697,38 @@ Still no work on the temporary walkways, either, but we're avoiding them for now Photo op this Saturday after AGM. Already got my hardhat on. ---- - In Net2 news, we've got more debuggers on the thing, and we're catching what seems to be the kill trigger flag. WHY our KIs are trying to send data requests well over the size their requests should be formatted in, I don't know. ---- - 10/2/21 Adam and I are doing some late night testing before the AGM tomorrow. Or rather, today. It's now Saturday, midnight. ---- - I'm getting some lake samples atleast while I'm here. Fortunately nobody else around right now. ---- - You can tell I'm exhausted by how I'm shouting out at the lake. No new light samples, alas. I am so going to regret this late night in the morning, even if we do manage a crash. ---- - "No? How dare you say No! ERROR? I ACCEPT NO ERROR!!" *KI client pouts* ---- - - . . . Well, we brought down the KI Server but that was decidedly NOT a Net2. IDK what the heck that was. +. . . Well, we brought down the KI Server but that was decidedly NOT a Net2. IDK what the heck that was. Filing it under "We broke it, but it wasn't what we were after." Calling it a night now. Will come back at it later with maybe fresh eyes. ---- - 10/5/21 - KI Update went live this morning. Made it through a Relaxation Session without issue. Good. ---- - Gave Descent a quick survey this afternoon. Nothing new worth reporting. I need to give it a more thorough checkover later today. ---- - Ran into Jules' friend Ed Kensington-James tonight by sheer accident in one of the DRC hoods when I went to check in on the nightly gathering. First time meeting the guy. Good to finally have a face to the name! Jules has talked a lot about him to me in private. @@ -3942,18 +3737,12 @@ Jules has told me Ed's a D'ni Translator, of some talent. I'd imagine he and Kel In other news, today's update to the KI systems seems to have stablized things finally. If this holds up through the week to the weekend, I think we've likely got the Network issues squashed. ---- - Gonna give Descent a more thorough trip now. Hopefully shouldn't run into any issues tonight. ---- - 10/7/21 I think we've finally fixed the worst offender of the Net2s. Things have seemed very stable since the system update. ---- - 10/11/21 Slept in late again after a long day yesterday. @@ -3962,30 +3751,20 @@ Helped a 'mrjmzack' with his Path of the Shell completion this morning. Always f Thinking I'll work on the Pod 12 area more this afternoon, if I can find the time. ---- - Calls for reviews of Tiam and Elonin just came in. Guess I'll take some time there today too. ---- - Tiam's good as far as I can tell. Though, that CD player may need replacing its batteries. Onto Elonin next. ---- - Work lamps are gone. It's much nicer in here, lighting wise. - . . . Can't recall how to open this danged door. - ---- +. . . Can't recall how to open this danged door. Had to remake my notes, lost them over a system reset at some point. Oh well. Got things open again now. Place seems stable, I can't see much issue except some of the lights seem to shine a bit too brightly in places. Place seems good otherwise. ---- - 10/19/21 Briggs was getting lake light samples down at the docks this morning when he fished out a soaked-through Relto Book. @@ -3994,30 +3773,20 @@ Busted, through and through. Bit rotten, too. Poor thing. I hope we don't have some poor unfortuante Explorer floating out in the lake somewhere. ---- - Trial runs on the Kirel Audio System running now. Some slight issues to sort out but I think it's getting there. Good to hear Watson's voice again, though. Occasional echoing issue while it plays, though. Infrequent, but slightly annoying. Hazado's already got an idea to fix it. ---- - Lost my Elonin notes Again. Bluh. I'm NOT remaking them again. ---- - The thought is bugging me more about that Relto Book. We should probably get a search party together and scour the lake for any signs of tragedy. ---- - Got a couple of volunteers together so far. Hannah/Annacat and Tommy Butler/DecafToaster. ---- - 10/20/21 Briggs is joining us on the search. I've got a few others from the Restoration crews too. @@ -4026,27 +3795,19 @@ Wayne Todd. I asked some of his friends and apparently he said he was going on a Probably safe on the surface, in that case. -Going out on the lake now . . . - ---- +Going out on the lake now. . . -Just got a message from Kelsei . . . Right. I'd forgotten we were supposed to hang out today. +Just got a message from Kelsei. . . Right. I'd forgotten we were supposed to hang out today. Sorry, Kels. ---- - mrjmzack has offered to join us. i've sent the requisite info. ---- - Several hours out now, not finding much of anything. My group has stopped at the Cathedral island for a lunch break. Hoping the others have had more luck so far. -Fil Live soon . . . shame I'm going to miss it this week. Ah well. - ---- +Fil Live soon. . . shame I'm going to miss it this week. Ah well. Well, that's disheartening. Found an old D'ni boat crashed up on some rocks, crewed by Skeletons. @@ -4054,18 +3815,11 @@ Survey looks like some kind of passenger ship, probably was ferrying folks somew Yikes, what a way to go. - ---- - Light levels out here are starting to dim. I'm advising the others to turn back now. -I'll be staying out for a bit longer. Just for today . . . got a few more places to check on this quadrant. - ---- +I'll be staying out for a bit longer. Just for today. . . got a few more places to check on this quadrant. Ok, I'm calling it a night. Will get back to the search tomorrow. ---- - 10/21/21 The Relto book's dried up enough Briggs took a look at its pages. @@ -4079,13 +3833,11 @@ That's an ominous sign to say the least. Talk with Gondar, Briggs, and Inunah on the discord brought up the idea that it might've suffered an industry accident of some kind. Thus, I'll be scheduling the search for the Industrial areas tomorrow, aiming near the silo, just to be cautious. ---- - 10/22/21 Wayne. Damn it, man. Tell folks when your camping trips are in the CAVERN and not the Surface. -Turns out the guy went to some pumping station and climbed around in some machinery, lost his Relto to the gears, and had it dumped into the lake . . . +Turns out the guy went to some pumping station and climbed around in some machinery, lost his Relto to the gears, and had it dumped into the lake. . . And then didn't contact anyone about it. @@ -4095,8 +3847,6 @@ Still, beyond that, it seems like we may have a lead on some lakeside machinery More projects upon projects. ---- - 10/25/21 I must just be seeing Ghosts. Wayne returned this afternoon. Beyond the name, even his face reminded me a little of my Grandpa. @@ -4105,44 +3855,32 @@ Man legit had no clue his Relto had washed up on shore, though. Had to ferry him Put in a temporary auto sampler for the Lake until we can get the Dalek in. ---- - 10/30/21 Hey, we've got forums now. Thanks, Keith! http://dniexplorer.com/forum/ ---- - 10/31/21 Happy Halloween. What a spooky party! Thanks to Minasunda, the NULP dance group, and Radio Free D'ni for the awesome show! ---- - 11/2/21 My temporary auto sampler for the Lake broke down pretty quick. I forgot to seal the wiring properly. WOOPS. Back to manually sampling, I guess. ---- - Looks like an evening of running network connection tests on the Minkata KI network. Lovely. ---- - Kelsei went running around, and saw a nice view out of K'veer on the lake tonight. Shared it with me. The Lake seems very healthy from some angles right now at some times of day. -Other views are very . . . not so bright. +Other views are very. . . not so bright. We're getting there, though. That's for sure. Just taking a while for the algae to synch up with itself. ---- - 11/4/21 An announcement was just posted regarding something J.D. Barnes is putting together. @@ -4159,24 +3897,18 @@ There'll be a stream on the Guild of Archivists twitch page, and a live chat on Event's to be held in Watchers Pub, it seems. ---- - 11/5/21 Had a dream of the cavern with the lake at a very bright light value, and was stunned. Can only hope it holds out in reality when it gets that bright. ---- - 11/17/21 Looks like we just passed the vote to move Tiam into Phase 5 testing. CONGRATS to Ametist for her first P5 area! Here's hoping Elonin follows suit soon. ---- - 11/18/21 In other news, apparently we had a spike in heavy metal content in the lake water today. @@ -4185,14 +3917,10 @@ I might need to visit the Overflow station. . . . Not today though, maybe not even this week or weekend. Bluh. Got too much on my plate right now. ---- - 11/19/21 Confirmed metal spike. Gonna have to take a trip to the facility on Monday. ---- - 11/20/21 Serene Journal swapout approved, and it's ready to go out with the book shuffle in Chiso. @@ -4205,9 +3933,7 @@ Cheap flights are nice! I certainly don't mind making the effort to go get them [a large splotch of ink splaters across the page] -I-- I need to rest tomorrow. - ---- +I . . . I need to rest tomorrow. 11/24/21 @@ -4215,8 +3941,6 @@ exhausted that's really all there is to say on the matter ---- - 12/19/21 Swapped out the Serene Journal the other day along with the rest of the Chiso Shelves Restructuring. Been busy with so many other things in the mean time. @@ -4232,45 +3956,37 @@ I'm exhausted and tired and it's only 10:06 A.M. right now. I wanna go back to bed. Can I go back to bed please? ---- - 1/7/22 Happy New Year, Field Journal! I just got back from an evening of testing the Gahreesen Wall with Scharm, CJ, Catherwood, and Hazado. Still some major issues with the suit applicator mechanisms- I got stuck in an applicator loop at one point, but HOO. BOY. I'm so giddy. It's like I'm a kid again! - Do you know how many years it's been since I climbed on this thing last? Easily 18! Eighteen years, and we're getting the thing working again. - Patrick's Voice Over work is great, though, the speakers are having issues with playing multiple lines at once. Hazado's working on it. - No telling on estimates on when it'll be ready, but I'll have something to tease at tomorrow's AGM, I think! Beyond that, it seems Kelsei's interest in Eder Naybree is nearly contageous. Folks in the Restoration Group keep asking about it with every picture I share among the crews. People want to see it, and honestly, I can't blame them. It's a very beautiful Garden Age. Overgrown, but beautiful. -I think it shouldn't take too much work to push over the finish line- just a lot of heavy trimming of the 'hedges' as it were, and a refix of the stone pathways . . . +I think it shouldn't take too much work to push over the finish line- just a lot of heavy trimming of the 'hedges' as it were, and a refix of the stone pathways. . . Ah, regardless. I'm happy tonight. Hopefully with this brought back into play we'll start seeing Wall Climbing Competitions like the Door Run competitions! Oh, that'll be a BLAST! :D -I know the Wall has worked in some limited, private capacity- folks with TOC Network KI's were running private Gahreesen Wall uses for years, and I believe that a majority of the work we're running on is based on that work- but to bring this thing to a full, public use after all this time . . . +I know the Wall has worked in some limited, private capacity- folks with TOC Network KI's were running private Gahreesen Wall uses for years, and I believe that a majority of the work we're running on is based on that work- but to bring this thing to a full, public use after all this time. . . Feels like we're coming full circle again. Harta Choylahnaytahv, Literally "Complete Cycle" in D'ni, or "Anniversary" as an idiom. -Honestly, I feel like 2022 is off to a good start here in the Cavern . . . - +Honestly, I feel like 2022 is off to a good start here in the Cavern. . . Now if only my Surface Life were as peaceful. ---- - 1/8/22 -Sometimes I have to wonder what Patrick is thinking. Announcing potential restorations like this . . . +Sometimes I have to wonder what Patrick is thinking. Announcing potential restorations like this. . . Todelmer, Tahgira, Laki? Sure, fine. Okay. @@ -4280,12 +3996,10 @@ For empahsis' sake: Tahgira is a frozen iceball- even more so than the DRC recor NOLOBEN. Is Bahro Central. And then there's the nasty stuff Esher got up to there. -Noloben- that a Bahro SHOUTED when Killing Wheely- It's--- +Noloben- that a Bahro SHOUTED when Killing Wheely- It's I need some time on this. ---- - 1/20/22 More Gahreesen Wall testing. Elevator is still not working right. @@ -4308,24 +4022,18 @@ Chezahcen damn it- please spare us from more fools! After that last idiot went t I need to talk with Patrick about this. ---- - More testing with the Maintainer Nexus Elevators. Freaking things keep malfunctioning. Last test it rose up, and got stuck there, so the next person who linked in got stuck underneath it. *lovely* Time to call it a night. ---- - 1/21/22 Successful 1v1 run. We've gotten the elevators working. Now to hope that a 2v2 or a 2+v2+ works. Gahreesen Wall is a GO GO GO! :D ---- - 1/25/22 Zaroth, Briggs, Hazado, Catherwood, and I ran a couple tests on the Wall. @@ -4338,23 +4046,17 @@ Though, my ears doth protest over having the same line from Patrick repeating on Ah well. We'll get it sorted out. ---- - 1/26/22 Well, more testing. Briggs, Scharm, CJ, and I in Gahreesen again. Purple team chute worked, but Yellow's didn't fire off. How annoying. ---- - Briggs and I did a second test at Hazado's prompting, purple chute didnt work that time. Lovely logic bugs. ---- - 1/27/22 Well, I'm about 30$ poorer, but atleast I'm not squished inside of a Maintainer Helmet. -We managed to replicate how poor Briggs kept getting caught in his Maintainer Suit tonight, and . . . then everyone left before I got out of it. Sooo . . . +We managed to replicate how poor Briggs kept getting caught in his Maintainer Suit tonight, and. . . then everyone left before I got out of it. Sooo. . . I went to ask Kelsei for help and decided, poorly, at the last minute to prank her by pretending to be a ghost. @@ -4364,14 +4066,10 @@ I'll admit it readily, I deserved it. And she rightly refused to help me get the Why the hell ground coffee costs 25$ or more, I don't know. I'm not a coffee drinker. Seems stupid expensive if you ask me. ---- - Briggs was asking questions about trolling in a tournament setting and Hazado came up with the idea to just reconfigure the wall FOR a Tournament mode. We'll see if that goes anywhere. ---- - 1/30/22 Well, that's a bust. Hazado updated the old Audio files Patrick had done for the previous version of the Wall code- he'd said something about having a better microphone this time around- and it seems the Wall doesn't like something with the line replacements, or maybe the extra lines, IDK. @@ -4382,14 +4080,10 @@ Speakers started to utter the line and then everything goes kablewy! Fantastic. I swear I heard someone else's voice garbled briefly over Patrick's New Wall Game announcement too, that second time. ---- - 1/31/22 More strange happenings in Gahreesen. Power fluctations across the second building. I'm afraid we broke something with that latest update. Good grief. ---- - 2/1/22 Welp. Hazado and I were heading into Building 2 tonight to do some more testing and I got stuck in one of the friggin airlocks between the bridge and mudroom. @@ -4400,41 +4094,31 @@ At this point, a more naieve me would say I was making all this stuff up if they What's next? One of the buildings stopping rotating entirely?? ---- - 2/5/22 Kelsei found me conked out on a cliff in Naybree this morning. Brought my attention to a Book she'd found. Descriptive. Hidden in Naybree somewhere. Didn't tell me where, but she must've gone hiking for it. Kelsei's got something of a nose for sniffing out hidden secrets, it seems. Can't blame her enthusiasm, at any rate. More and more I just feel exhausted to the point of colapse. -Naybree is a project. This Book, though . . . +Naybree is a project. This Book, though. . . More on that in another journal. ---- - Ametist got a couple of Elonin's exterior doors opened. It's not a Bevin/Seret Style Neighborhood like I'd thought it'd be. I suppose that makes sense given the layout of the place, but it's hard to get a grasp on *where* things are when you're inside a place and can't find the outside. Small, quiet courtyard. Strangely, makes me feel a bit more at ease seeing the outside and knowing it's there, and not just being confined to the inside. My sense of unease has lessened, somehow. Don't quite get it, but that's human emotion. ---- - 2/6/22 Slept in late and missed the opening ceremony for the Anniversary. When did they start setting the time for these things at 9 AM? My own fault for getting nose deep in that Descriptive Book, though. ---- - 2/17/22 -Well, now I'm certain there's a second voice in the narration system. Also couldn't get a Mainainer Suit out of the wall area like we did before, though, so. Eh. - --- +Well, now I'm certain there's a second voice in the narration system. Also couldn't get a Mainainer Suit out of the wall area like we did before, though, so. Eh. 2/18/22 @@ -4444,14 +4128,10 @@ It was outright SPARKING every time it failed to connect to the Lattice server. I wonder what else is going wrong in this damned building? ---- - 2/20/22 The hell did Kelsei order a crate full of fleece jackets for? ---- - 2/21/22 Checking out the GoMePub nexus terminal for Patrick- thing definitely has some damaged Lattice parts. @@ -4460,16 +4140,10 @@ Looks like the primary signal interfacer between the KI Network and the Terminal Patrick's done some good work repairing the terminal so far. ---- - Found a broken chunk. Seems to fit with the part I removed, but not quite perfectly. Gonna check for more fragments. ---- - Jules popped in. Had a bit of a chat with him. Felt good to get some of the thoughts in my head rattling around. ---- - 3/2/22 No luck securing new Lattice material for the Nexus Terminal yet. Then again, I've not been pushing too hard on it. Naybree's taken up a lot of my attention lately. @@ -4486,40 +4160,31 @@ Hm. I wonder if they just shoved them in a storage closet somewhere, or maybe th Or they put them somewhere else and I'm barking up the wrong tree. Still. Maybe later I'll go pry open UO Hood's Game room and give the place a check over. See if I can find anything useful. ---- - 3/6/22 Gahreesen Wall- baring the occasional D'ni interupt- is working as intended it seems. Once we finalize some things, we'll be arranging for a mass test of the thing. ---- - Had an experiment idea: Tried to seal up the broken lattice parts, and tried slotting it into the Nexus Terminal. It did not succeed. Electricity arced over the damage. I definitely need a fresh replacement part. ---- - Theo, r'Tay, Emor, Hazado, and I did some Gahreesen Wall testing. I got a functioning and non jammed up Maintainer Suit out of it too! More tomorrow. ---- - 3/9/22 I'm realizing this journal has meandered quite a bit from its supposed Descent Focus. I guess it really is just a field journal, eh? -Elonin's release is around the corner- so's the Wall. Naybree . . . maybe being held back until next Quarter with Highgarden and- potentially- Direbo. I guess we'll see how the DRC decides to handle things with that. +Elonin's release is around the corner- so's the Wall. Naybree. . . maybe being held back until next Quarter with Highgarden and- potentially- Direbo. I guess we'll see how the DRC decides to handle things with that. -Carl Palmner's back in D'ni, which is always a fun time for everyone. Had a few chats with him since he came back- about a lot of things. Wheely among them. I still can't get over the idea of Visitng Noloben in any official capacity, even with Maintainer Suits, the idea just . . . +Carl Palmner's back in D'ni, which is always a fun time for everyone. Had a few chats with him since he came back- about a lot of things. Wheely among them. I still can't get over the idea of Visitng Noloben in any official capacity, even with Maintainer Suits, the idea just. . . Well, that's a bunch of stuff to talk about at therapy tomorrow, atleast. Now I'm hearing talk that Patrick's planning on opening up the lower levels of Chiso? I suppose that cat's stayed patiently in its box, and we've left the explorers hanging for long enough. Time to complete that High Five, I guess. ---- 3/14/22 @@ -4527,59 +4192,41 @@ Spent the afternoon giving a tour of Naybree to Nosila and Scharminius. Basicall Went to Gahreesen after- some more Wall testing. Got Noslia a suit before she headed out for the night. Trying to get Scharm one now, but apparently my 20 blocker maze is a biiit too complicated. Just climb to the right side of the wall, Scharm. ---- - Yay! he got it! ---- - Wall looks ready to go from my perspective. Hazado says we're probably about 10 days out from release. That seems absurdly soon, but 10 days from now is the 24th, and that's basically the end of the month. Where did time fly off to this time? ---- - 3/16/22 Carl's got a web journal now like mine, heh. https://urucarl.wordpress.com/ ---- - Had a nice chat with Isa tonight. Was a nice talk about kind souls and kind hearts, among other things. She put me back in contact with Max with an email of his. I sent something off. Now to just go get something to snack on. I keep putting it off. ---- - 3/26/22 Grandma's back from her trip. Always good to have her company again. Kelsei doesn't have to keep me company anymore- though I think I kinda miss her being around so much already. ---- - -Had a nice chat with Jules this morning in the Pub. Discussed the upcoming Subtitle feature and how the KI manages the voice-to-text stuff. Potential in the idea of if the KI's record and save that audio- possibly whole years of important historical data locked away in some long forgotten KIs . . . just gotta figure out how to access it, if it's there. - ---- +Had a nice chat with Jules this morning in the Pub. Discussed the upcoming Subtitle feature and how the KI manages the voice-to-text stuff. Potential in the idea of if the KI's record and save that audio- possibly whole years of important historical data locked away in some long forgotten KIs. . . just gotta figure out how to access it, if it's there. 3/27/22 Tired. That's really all there is to say on the matter. -Haven't heard anything about the Wall, but I suspect we'll be pushing for another round of testing this week. Got a meeting to schedule once we know where that's going . . . +Haven't heard anything about the Wall, but I suspect we'll be pushing for another round of testing this week. Got a meeting to schedule once we know where that's going. . . Tired tired tired. ---- - 3/29/22 -I'm not the only one tired, it sounds like. Kelsei apparently has had a pretty rough week too . . . Hm . . . +I'm not the only one tired, it sounds like. Kelsei apparently has had a pretty rough week too. . . Hm. . . She's mentioned once or twice about wanting to get a motor scooter in a greenish color. I wonder if I can find a toy, atleast, with the right color scheme? ---- - 3/30/22 Claidi suggested this acyronym: @@ -4588,35 +4235,26 @@ RENEWAL: Restore, Explore, New Ages, Engage, Writers, Artists, Lore, Works for something of a mission statement for our group atleast. ---- - 4/3/22 We've lost DifferentDave now? :( ---- - 4/7/22 -Wall should be ready soon. Got the parts for the Nexus Terminal, just gotta get time to do it... +Wall should be ready soon. Got the parts for the Nexus Terminal, just gotta get time to do it. . . BLUH. Tired. I'm taking a break once the Wall goes live, that's for sure. ---- - 4/8/22 -Yay, somehow we borked the control consoles again. UGH. Just what we needed this close to release... +Yay, somehow we borked the control consoles again. UGH. Just what we needed this close to release. . . ---- 4/9/22 Think we've got that fixed now. Hopefully. Fingers crossed things don't break again. ---- - 4/10/22 Tati Masser and Fasyk Casing. Two workers from the Overflow Station whom apparently faked being sick two weeks ago and have since gone missing. They're the ones who "Sami" was apparently nervous around. I can't talk with them now, and that seems heavily suspicious. @@ -4625,20 +4263,15 @@ Honestly, given the apparent anagram that wasy Sami Lesgrandee, I'm willing to b I'm too tired for this nonsense. ---- - 4/11/22 Saw 'The Cavern Today' hood on the Nexus today. Talk about a blast from the past. Last time they did a podcast it was back in 2013. Picture Imager has a photo of Jeff Wise's name on the Kahlo Pub Memorial. Awh. -They've got a very flushed out light garden, and have a clock and a Tsogal. Neat. Hood seems to have been around for atleast two days, and a single pellet score upload from Dalkyn Starbyne. 9736 points. VERY new hood to be that low.... J'nathus is on the visitors list quite a lot... +They've got a very flushed out light garden, and have a clock and a Tsogal. Neat. Hood seems to have been around for atleast two days, and a single pellet score upload from Dalkyn Starbyne. 9736 points. VERY new hood to be that low. . . . J'nathus is on the visitors list quite a lot. . . - -I wonder if anything big will be happening? Seems strange to bring the hood back without the associated podcast. I can already hear that introduction theme in my head... Bwum, bwum, bwym... - ---- +I wonder if anything big will be happening? Seems strange to bring the hood back without the associated podcast. I can already hear that introduction theme in my head. . . Bwum, bwum, bwym. . . 4/15/22 @@ -4646,16 +4279,12 @@ Went to see Dr. Quinlan before the open house to get my head looked at. What a strange result from the tests. Somehow I don't have any signs of a concussion- at all? Not even healed over, like it wasn't even there. -Makes no sense. Even the results I got from the doctors visit after I got thrown to the ground was... I don't understand how this is possible, except unless the Vertigo Crystals have something to do with it? +Makes no sense. Even the results I got from the doctors visit after I got thrown to the ground was. . . I don't understand how this is possible, except unless the Vertigo Crystals have something to do with it? I'll be talking with Patrick and Kelsei about letting folks visit the age properly- possible suited up in Maintainer Suits. ---- - Of COURSE there was a break in and sabbotage. Of course there was. ---- - 4/16/22 I finished dredging up the data log from the hood imager. @@ -4666,9 +4295,6 @@ Tati's Work-crew networked KI was recorded on The Clinic's Hood Visitor Log imag I've tried pinging their KIs. I was unable to turn them on and get a location, but somebody certainly noticed. In response, it seems that someone targeted a hack at every networked KI I publicly have made known I own. I've been having issues with their projectors ever since- staying on when I've tried closing it and having to forcibly reboot the KI entirely. - ---- - 4/17/22 Had an argument tonight. Okay. Maybe less an argument, more trying to convey my thoughts to someone, and not getting through. Only so many times I can repeat myself. @@ -4681,19 +4307,14 @@ I might still quit if things don't turn around. Too much friction in the group r I can only repeat myself- the truth of my core and who I am- so many times. ---- - I've made a public notif of the situation. I can't keep quiet on this. ---- - 4/20/22 It's always SOMETHING. We released the Wall- and we forgot the explanation journal. We got the Pub Nexus terminal working- and now the KI is showing a mangled title in one of the view screen categories. - Minor issues. NOW the new generic DRC hoods people are being assigned to are missing GZ books, and have Imagers stolen, and fountains off, and Heek Tables missing, and freaking missing even FIREMARBLES. @@ -4702,27 +4323,21 @@ JUST what we needed. I have no idea what's happening. Sabbotage? Did someone steal the DRC's stockpile? I'm seeing shadows after everything with the damned clinic sabotage. ---- - 4/21/22 We got fountain water back on in the affected hoods. Will be seeing about sorting out the rest. ---- - Happy D'ni New Year. ---- - And everything should be in order again. I'm. Still not sure what happened. Have had too many other things to be concerned over. -I'm tired. Utterly. Got too much to do tomorrow. Also constant fire risks. Gonna be driving to airport. Gotta... deal with... BLUH. +I'm tired. Utterly. Got too much to do tomorrow. Also constant fire risks. Gonna be driving to airport. Gotta. . . deal with. . . BLUH. I'm tired of the Surface. Tired of infighting. Tired of stuff going wrong. Tired. -I'm tired of the situation on the surface. Everything that's happening feels like a constant slap in the face. It's depressing. I feel... depressed. Sad in general about stuff. All it takes is one little blow to just... +I'm tired of the situation on the surface. Everything that's happening feels like a constant slap in the face. It's depressing. I feel. . . depressed. Sad in general about stuff. All it takes is one little blow to just. . . take the wind out of the sails stuck on the equator without a breeze @@ -4749,25 +4364,18 @@ i call it folley while the warnings remain unread we wish for a storm to come even if it brings pain i can only pray that fire does not strike us dead ---- - 4/24/22 Apparently, TikiBear is missing a gnome. Traffic Cone Orange. ---- - 4/25/22 Iwonk helped me through a rough spot last night- helped me down from a dissasociation/anxiety attack. -I don't know what I would've done if she also hadn't had some excellent advice learned from paramedics regarding my cousin's alcohol mixing habits. Today was... not pleasant. - +I don't know what I would've done if she also hadn't had some excellent advice learned from paramedics regarding my cousin's alcohol mixing habits. Today was. . . not pleasant. What an auspicious start to my weeks break. ---- - 5/2/22 Elonin Released. Had a calming weekend. Monday was a Monday in all the stereotypical ways. @@ -4780,9 +4388,9 @@ I'm honestly wishing I wasn't living in one of those tumultuous chapters of a fu Running away and hiding isn't a safe move for everyone. I don't have the energy to fight- I'm so exhausted and I feel like I can't catch a break from it all. -Times like these I feel like... +Times like these I feel like. . . -Like the universe seems fit to keep me from catching a breath, catching a break. It's one horrid thing after another. I can bury myself in my work- that's my gut instinct and reaction- but that's not... going to last me forever. +Like the universe seems fit to keep me from catching a breath, catching a break. It's one horrid thing after another. I can bury myself in my work- that's my gut instinct and reaction- but that's not. . . going to last me forever. I'm already feeling burnt out on the work front even after a week's break that was more like half a week's break at that, and- I'm. I'm scared. @@ -4792,9 +4400,6 @@ I don't want to die. But that sure feels like what the world is trying to do. Ki I should stop dwelling and just go to bed. ---- - - hide, hide and cover your heads, hide, hide, duck and cover, hide, hide, hide beneath the rocks. @@ -4802,27 +4407,21 @@ hide, hide underneath your beds, hide, and wait until its over, hide until its last the clock tick-tocks. - ---- 5/4/22 Apparently I'm posting poems to my blog and not realizing it. The Crystals are definitely having some long-term effect on me for sure. I wish I knew what. I'm noticing that whatever this is tends to be cropping up lately when I'm especially stressed about something. -I'll have to talk with Tenny about it. If pattern holds up with how I'm feeling today compared to yesterday, and how late I seemingly slept in this morning... +I'll have to talk with Tenny about it. If pattern holds up with how I'm feeling today compared to yesterday, and how late I seemingly slept in this morning. . . If I post something tonight, I guess we'll have my answer, won't we? ---- - mourning soul climbing walls tears in her eyes a girl lost all ascends with chisels in hand neath moons overhead of blue and pink dyes she carves the face of her god's brand ---- - 5/5/22 WELP. @@ -4835,45 +4434,35 @@ It's Direbo. It's a nice garden. Lots of towering rock spires. A whole lot more Giant pliniths of stone; lots of benches. It's a Garden Age. There's not much else to say on the matter. ---- - It's Direbo. -I think my main concern at this stage is that the Age is a garden of giant stone pillars- with some very narrow bases in places. If someone accidentally leans against one, or chips away at the bases intentionally... one of these things could come tumbling down and cause a whole chain reaction of folks getting hurt. +I think my main concern at this stage is that the Age is a garden of giant stone pillars- with some very narrow bases in places. If someone accidentally leans against one, or chips away at the bases intentionally. . . one of these things could come tumbling down and cause a whole chain reaction of folks getting hurt. -With the close proximity some of these towering monoliths have to eachother, and how tall some are... It wouldn't take much. It really wouldn't. I know I'm being paranoid about it but after being shoved over, and having everything going on with the people harassing Tenny's clinic... +With the close proximity some of these towering monoliths have to eachother, and how tall some are. . . It wouldn't take much. It really wouldn't. I know I'm being paranoid about it but after being shoved over, and having everything going on with the people harassing Tenny's clinic. . . I can't stay here any longer. My brain is just- noping out of here. ---- - Bleh. Door to the downstairs area is jamming up again. Gonna have to remind Patrick to get someone to grease the mechanism ahead of allowing people in here. ---- - 5/6/22 Rarified got the door greased up, this morning. Had the first inaugural wall Tournament in Cody Herd's Gahreesen, today. Was an amazing bout of four matches, but the control console fritzed out a bit causing delays. Still- atleast we know the machine can handle a full 5v5 matchup! ---- - Everything went well, imho. Just, lots of other stuff to deal with and get done and so on and so forth. Time to worry about Naybree things and definitely NOT think about the sleep-writing. ---- - 5/7/22 -What a damnable day. Woke up super late- missed Fil's broadcast- almost backed out of AGM moderating due to exhaustion- had an argument with a guy about guild names... UGH. And then had to run the AGM anyways. +What a damnable day. Woke up super late- missed Fil's broadcast- almost backed out of AGM moderating due to exhaustion- had an argument with a guy about guild names. . . UGH. And then had to run the AGM anyways. -And THEN. Right as I close it down. Turns out an old friend of Jules was sitting in the audience the entire time. Psychic by the name of Madame Sophia. She had something to say but wanted to wait until after the AGM was over. Polite lady, that one. (Some folks around here could stand to learn some patience about not intruding on events, especially ones with rules about what to do during the event...) +And THEN. Right as I close it down. Turns out an old friend of Jules was sitting in the audience the entire time. Psychic by the name of Madame Sophia. She had something to say but wanted to wait until after the AGM was over. Polite lady, that one. (Some folks around here could stand to learn some patience about not intruding on events, especially ones with rules about what to do during the event. . . ) I'm not one to believe in prophecy. I really am not. -But Jules vouches for her- and she helped him get to grips with Echo's past-visions and- honestly. If my own nonsensical altered states are anything to go by... +But Jules vouches for her- and she helped him get to grips with Echo's past-visions and- honestly. If my own nonsensical altered states are anything to go by. . . I'm not one to judge. I just think prophecies are too vague. Too vague and too open ended. @@ -4885,32 +4474,24 @@ I'm not one to judge. I just think prophecies are too vague. Too vague and too o This feels open ended. Too open ended if you ask me. But I can't dismiss it. Much as I want to. There's something to Prophecies and Dreams about D'ni. -I have my issues with Watchers Words. Too open ended. - ---- +I have my issues with Watchers Words. Too open ended. Apparently Echo's had a vision as well. Something of the Past. Two men in cloaks stealing a child away into a book and then falling into the canyon when the ground split. -I'd hate to say it's not connected but given the timing... +I'd hate to say it's not connected but given the timing. . . Survivors of the Fall lost out there somewhere. ---- - 5/11/22 Chogon, Briggs, and Hazado have gotten a bunch of DRC Cosplayers (Who I'm told are choosing to remain nameless, like ghosts) together for a video shoot in one of the hoods tomorrow. I'll be doing some flying shots with my drone camera to do some promotional work with later on down the line. Should be fun! ---- - 5/12/22 Nothing like a wall game after a day of filming. Hazado and I did some quick fix testing, looks solid to me. Hazado's work on the Watchers Pub Imager is finally getting put into play, it seems. Patrick's planning some work alongside his Nexus Book addition. Should be nice. ---- - constantly a soul marches onward downwards like the water flowing coils and coils, seeking downwards @@ -4933,7 +4514,84 @@ stare at the remains of a tree once proud a shadow looms beyond, holding a glare, and to the wandering soul, do i say aloud, 'you are the sun, and you are the heir.' -'breath not of the poisoned air.' +'breath not of the poisoned air.' + +5/17/22 + +I've just been contacted by Mystlander of The Great Tree. Now there's a group name I haven't heard of in a long time. Apparently our antics down here in D'ni have gotten attention from those first generation explorers back in 2003. They've even got a hood active on the Nexus. + +I'm honestly not sure what to make of the request in specific, something about the pub jackets? I've asked Marten about it, since he had one of them last I knew. + +Speaking of ghosts coming back, I just spotted Wayne Todd's KI online again. + +Apparently he's gotten a Relto book again from the Cleft- Yeesha or Zandi or a Bahro- whoever- placed one for him. Glad to see that system is still working for sure. + +I've taken the opportunity to warn him about Tati Masser and Fasyk Casing. Get him caught up with current events. + +5/19/22 + +Benavud? What a weird name. Not the weirdest I've seen down here in D'ni, but it stands out, and I've never heard it before today. Man apparently has amnesia, after Jules and Ed found him. + +Good grief. Someone's going to ask me to try data driving the man's borken KI, aren't they? + +5/20/22 + +Eder Bahvahnter? I was JOKING when I called this the Garden Quarter. In lieu of Direbo undergoing critical reviews, and Highgarden on its way in, I'm hearing word that Ametist is asking about potentially adding another Garden Age to the mix too. + +And if Direbo DOES make it through review. . . + +I was joking. I was really joking. Why is this the Garden Quarter? Why??? + +Also, it's SNOWING outside right now. Colorado weather at its finest. + +5/22/22 + +I write this late at night, yawning, and near ready to go to bed, wondering where exactly this month has gone? + +Gone into Naybree; gone into other tests of things like the Wall, or the KI; gone into. . . well. Putting Direbo on hold would be putting it mildly, I suppose. Those massive stone pillars are still a major concern of mine. One wrong nudge and they all come tumbling down. Why did the D'ni write ages like this? For the spectacle, I'd imagine. + +Prophecy is a thing I never thought I'd write much about. Sophia's prophecy earlier at the AGM this month was followed up by Echo Mckenzie having a vision of the past that very same day. It's been somewhat the talk of the Cavern, though with normal amounts of skepticism. + +Cue Jules and Ed-K-James finding a man in the Ae'gura Library, well past the usual stopping point. Guy wore a Yeesha Shirt, but had no memory of anything- let alone D'ni, or his name. It got pulled from the KI- wrecked as it is- one Benavud by name. + +Tiernan's got him on observation for the time being. I've had a poke at the KI a few times, seeing if I can atleast transfer the User ID, name registration, and age ownership to a new device. Had some mild successes with that. Just wishing folks would stay away from disaster, like Wayne. + +Kelsei ran a check with the community- nobody's heard of Benavud, and he's not been registered on any work crews or on any networked KIs. So, 'Benny' here is one of those quiet explorers who never interacts with folks, evidently. Scharm's run into a few folks like that from time to time, so I'm not surprised. + +Hazado's poking around Watcher's Pub's imager again- seems like we've got it working in testing states. If only the same could be said for the Nexus' population counter. Apparently there's a reason the DRC never hooked up the Guild Pubs or K'veer to read how many people were there- and the reason seems to be they never figured out how to do it, leaving us to pick up the slack, potentially never to figure it out either. + +Gotta love old D'ni tech, I guess. + +Naybree's probably getting close to completion, though folks are rightly worried over the cracks in the walls where the roots have burst forth from- myself included. Honestly, don't know what to do with any of that right now. Kelsei's Uncle's been over this weekend so I haven't been able to chat with her much about any of this stuff. Family takes priority, yknow? + +And speaking of Wayne, Wayne's back. Had a chat with him the other night. He's got a new Relto, courtesy of the Cleft. Apparently he's thinking of bringing folks down on tourist runs? Honestly, just what we need- more people running around down here when there's plenty of folks running around unknown. + +Something Jules said after Sophia's prophecy's been rattling around the back of my brain. Wavelengths. It's about Wavelengths. I think the Vertigo Crystals might have some kind of wavelength based communication system. I mean, duh- all sound is wavelength based so sound based communication would be the same, but I'm thinking about, like, the concept of energy wavelengths- light and electrical impulses. + +It COULD be possible the crystal experiments I was doing earlier last year resulted in some kind of. . . wavelength attunement in my brain, possibly? It's not exactly something we can check but considering the altered states of awareness I've had, plus the danged *Poems*! + +. . . And considering the concussion healed up implausibly entirely. . . + +But all of that aside, I'm not conducting any experiments until Murry and Tiernan are ready for such a thing- and Murry's still setting up his desk down in Chiso's basement, so. . . that *could* be a while, I suppose. + +We've all got a lot on our plates right now. + +5/23/22 + +I've got an idea. + +If the KI-Router experiment caused a resonant connection between my brain and the crystals. . . what else could trigger it? Sound waves? Musical notes? Some kind of harmonic reverberation maybe? + +This is dangerous and Kelsei will probably throw me in a maintainer suit for the very idea of it, but. . . + +I have to try this. + +beckoning the cat calls out like the bell doth ring +extending her paws towards birds that fly +she meows in question over what do they sing? +green eyes pierce like moons hanging in the sky +she who collects lost kittens under her wings +says to me, 'come to this garden of mine' <cover src="xChisopaperjournaljalak*1#0.hsm"><font size=10 face=Courier color=000000><margin left=62 right=62 top=62 bottom=48><pb>GAME: STAIRS @@ -5139,32 +4797,380 @@ IF FOUND ANYWHERE OUTSIDE OF THE CHISO PRENIV OFFICE: Contact Kelsei A. Taylor on the Beneath Forums. https://dniexplorer.com/forum/index.php ---- +1/1/22 + +Harta Choylahnaytahv! + +A 'Complete Cycle,' in D'ni. And a Happy New Year to everyone. + +I had to take a break to deal with some matters on the surface. Such a frightful couple of days. It's back to the book hunt for me. Got a new journal - which is you, my dear bright green clad tome. + +I'll probably just be using this to keep track of things in addition to the Naybree journal- should probably keep those thoughts separated. + +1/4/22 + +Spoke with X, Scharm, Nosi, and Mafasa about the Kirel Audio Podium recording, earlier. X thought I was pulling her leg over it, but, nope! I'd never pull anyone's leg over something like this! + +At PodHopper's Relaxation Session now. Should be a good few hours of peace and quiet. + +1/27/22 + +Saw some photos Semjay posted of her work in Kalamee, today. I'm thoroughly impressed! + +It looks amazing, and I can't wait to be able to explore it. From what little I know of the age, a D'ni Survivor also lived there at one point. I don't know if they still live there or not. + +I was working on more Caltauc translations for Patrick when I heard a series of heavy footsteps behind me at my desk. + +I heard heavy breathing and someone moaning like a ghost and I whirled around and splashed my coffee on them! + +Then Calum starts laughing his head off from the inside of that damnable Maintainer Suit! Apparently HE got stuck inside one after the latest round of debug testing in Gahreesen. + +Let it be known that Maintainer Suits protect against coffee just as well as they do any element. + +Good grief. That boy... I don't know what gets into him sometimes. + +Once he stopped laughing, he asked me to help him take the helmet off. Not happening, buster! Get yourself out of that thing on your own. + +2/5/22 + +Found Calum asleep on a cliff in Naybree this morning, near the Maintainer Marker. + +Why he sleeps in the strangest places I have no idea... + +Well, I woke him up, and told him about the Descriptive Book I'd found in Naybree. He wanted to take a look at it immediately. + +He's been poring over the Descriptive Book's pages ever since. Good grief, what did I do? + +Spoke with Minasunda this morning. I'll take a swing at hosting the AGM this week if nobody else steps up for it. + +Calum was still in the midst of reviewing the Book when I came to the Pub for Fil's broadcast. + +He seemed enthralled by it, to be quite honest. I can't blame him. A Genuine D'ni era Descriptive Book, just left in the open for all this time? He's taking extreme care with it, ensuring the pages aren't damaged, the writing is intact, etc, etc. + +He's already planning to link through it when he finishes his review. I've had to remind him that he's not to go alone, and not without a Maintainer Suit. + +Seeker's here now. Moved my stuff, heh. Fil's live now, and time to listen to some music. + +I should probably let Patrick know about the book. Or at least, Calum's interest in it. + +I feel like that may be a bad idea, though. This age is... Something special. + +Rei'schu- Exten-col- It's a potentially still inhabited age. Visiting it is a risky endeavor that might be perilous. + +Sounds like a door was opened in Elonin. I'm surprised I got a message about it, even. + +I'm not on the testing roster for that sort of thing, so why...? + +Oh good grief. I just had a perilous thought. Calum, please tell me you didn't set my KI as yours message forwarding? + +...He did. + +I sent him a message and it rebounded back to me. + +Oh good grief, he actually did. He set my KI up to receive messages from his. Why did he-? + +Head in the books, I can only guess. + +Good grief. + +Had a nice catch-up chat with Jules. I should check in on Calum, I think. Let's see now... + +Er'cana, hm? + +Well, Calum was certainly head deep in the book, waiting on an Er'cana oven cycle to cycle through. I asked him about the forwarding system, and he remarked that he didn't even remember turning it on. + +Good grief. + +AGM over. I've emailed Patrick. + +Someone trolled the damnable speaker button. How rude! + +2/10/22 + +I missed out on attending any of the anniversary events this week, alas. Surface life and translation work for Patrick had me busy. Speaking of, Patrick's talking about opening up the downstairs area of Chiso later this year. Sounds like an interesting time to be had eventually. + +2/22/22 +It's "Two"sday. :D + +And I've just served as a middle messenger between Taliana and Jules regarding a German translation of the Kirel Podium messages. + +'Tis what I get for going on stage at the AGM, it seems. That, and I need to check my KI more often. + +3/5/22 + +Woke up to the sound of fire engines rushing down the street, sirens blaring, at around 8 this morning. I am not a happy Kelsei. + +And Yay, an email from mother asking me to a family reunion with a family group I don't even recognize the name of. + +No Fil live today? Drat! What a day today is shaping out to be already! + +Calum's asked me to do his Er'cana Pellet run for this morning. I really ought to just copy his oven settings over to mine at this point. It'd save me the extraneous jog. He brought up that he thinks the Exten-col book is stable enough for a visit. I'll bring it up with Patrick later. + +There, that's done. The run from Calum's Er'cana plus a copy of his oven settings to mine. + +Thinking it over, though, I suspect that someone could probably climb the vines in place of the broken ladder. They're likely sturdy enough. I wouldn't risk it personally, though. Now to catch up on some work before the AGM. + +No Mina this week. Tweek, Korov'ev, Rehn. Patrick, Aurelias. + +Well, that was fun. A bit of mild stress at the end regarding questions I can't answer. But fun! Now to get some dinner. + +DEEP CITY LECTURE NOTES: +Overlap between religion and government laws isn't surprising. +Reactionary laws, yes, much like how the US limited Presidential terms to 2 after that one spree of 4 runs. +Illicit Ages being not vetted by Writers or Maintainers seems likely. Theft of books and even adultery being major crimes is a surprising note, though. +Imprisonment THEN Banishment from a family? The social stigmas of that makes me wonder about the Cathedral family. +Minor Crime laws: Reactionary to outsiders. Age trading. Coersion. +Things in D'ni tended to get more restrictive than loosened. Xenophobia/Colonialism/D'ni Supremacy drives behind these things. How aggravating. +Open minded people operating under systemic layers of aprehension. The isolation was definitely a large issue. + +I can only wonder how the laws and D'ni's isolationist culture impacted Rei'schu's civilization or culture, and what of the family that interacted with them. How much did they have to hide from the Maintainers Guild? + +KI # 258876 + +Wasn't expecting to run into Carl Palmner of all people at this Lecture. I'll have to message Calum. + +Talking about the Relyimah now. +"Security Theater" that's a good word for it, I suppose. Not all of it was theater, yes, but... it's a good phrase. +There's a lot of talk about D'ni culture being serious about family and oaths, too. + +Looks like we're wrapping up now. Time to head to Karaoke, and wrap up the night in a nice, musical bow! + +The conversation with Patrick this afternoon was a good reminder to to Calum that we need to deal with the inhabited Ages carefully. If we're going to be visiting it, it needs to be a full survey group, rather than just a few explorers - or just me and Calum like it was with Naybree. + +Inhabited Ages are a different risk compared to uninhabited - or "possibly" uninhabited- ones. The Caltauc in Chiso Preniv are a similar matter that I'm worrying over at the moment. Those documents I handed over to Patrick today... + +If the natives in that age become hostile to our presence once they notice it, much as they did with the D'ni back in the day, I don't know what to think of our future chances of using that Age. We'd need to try to engage in a peaceful first contact scenario- pray the locals have grown as a civilization since the D'ni abandoned Chiso. + +I have no idea what to make of the people of Exten-col, from what little we know, well enough to even try to predict what the people in that Age are going to be like in the present day. + +The Fall was over 200 years ago. Athsheba was just a child at the time. Ideally, if she's shared the usual D'ni lifespan and hasn't run into any issues that could have hurt her from her isolation, she'd probably be an old woman by now- possibly still a very traumatized one if new people suddenly show up in the Age. + +In a worst case scenario without meeting Atrus' people, she doesn't know what happened to D'ni. She'd be wary of outsiders. She'd pass that along to the people of the Age. And then there's the Chezahcen matter to consider. + +Let's say we're taking things literally. That she's a real, bonafied, mystical goddess. That the stories from the religious texts and the wall paintings are true. What is her reaction to our arrival? Has she foreseen this? Has she set things in motion? + +Let's say it's metaphor. That there's something in the Age the locals can ascribe to a Goddess- but she's nothing more than a story. How does our arrival upset things? How do they react? How does Athsehba react? + +There's simply too much to consider, and we're likely not going to know until we visit the Age. + +Translation is going to be an issue. Do they speak D'ni? Will we need someone fluent enough in D'ni to talk with them? Do they only speak the local language? How out of date is the text I have in comparison to their modern language? If I try to serve as a translator, will I be able to talk to them? Or will it sound to them like I would if I'm speaking Victorian Era old English to a modern audience? + +200 years is a long time when considering these things. Our information is so out of date it's not even funny. + +I know Athsheba left the book, along with a link back to the Cathedral, but why? For others to find, she implied in her journal. So does that mean she's told the locals to expect strangers to appear from thin air someday? + +3/6/22 + +I voiced these concerns to Calum this morning. He took one look, and said, "I sincerely hope one of us doesn't end up in a Doctor Jackson role." Good grief- always equating things to fiction! + +Ran into Carl again at the RFD show. Had a brief chat up, but got distracted explaining things to others before he wandered off again. + +3/7/22 + +Paid my respects to the Kahlo Pub Memorial. Been a while since I did that. Decided to hang out in Ae'gura after. Wound up speaking with [zane], TikiBear, HenryMikel, Dalken Starbyne, Lutra, and Opcode_ for a bit, too. + +Was an interesting conversation on drama, the past, and other things. Not much to say other than I ended up repeating myself regarding the Cathedral again- did that when Carl dropped by during Radio Free D'ni yesterday. + +3/10/22 + +Well, it'll be another busy day at work, it looks like. A shame, I'd have liked to have gotten to go to the Country Evening in the Cleft this week. Maybe I can swing some time and get tomorrow off for the last of the International Women's Week stuff. + +3/11/22 + +Got the day off, made my way to Kirel for the first talk... very early. I could use the rest though. :) + +Was a fun evening all around. Spoke a bit with Diranda while we waited. Kirel's next quarterly recording should be ready to go soon-ish. I did hand off the notes to Patrick to approve, though, last I'd heard it'd been cut down in time a bit. Something about trying to keep them under six minutes? + +Owly's talk about Yeesha was very interesting. And Iwonk's "Wonky Talk" Stream after was very entertaining and fun to watch. Iwonk is such a clever artist in addition to a witty pun maker and cookie baker. I'd watch more streams of hers any day! + +3/13/22 + +Time changes throw me off. Had to leave in the middle of RFD for dinner because it started an hour later. Also woke up an hour later than usual. + +Meanwhile, I see Calum has spent a sizable chunk of the day uploading old transcripts to the forums' new transcripts section. Where does he find the time? + +3/14/22 + +HAPPY PI DAY! Grab yourself a Pie of some kind! + +I don't have much to say except that it's Monday, and Mondays go as Mondays go. I'm hearing it's about ten days until the anticipated release of the Wall- though we'll see if that holds true. + +Apparently Calum gave Scharminius and Nosila a tour of Naybree today. Wish I could've been there for it. + +3/17/22 + +St. Patricks Day, and it snows at home. Calum's complained to me already about not being able to go to the store for groceries. I thought to shop ahead! + +...Is what I'd like to say, because, no I didn't. I'm in just as sorry of a state of food prep. Damned snow. + +This is on top of waking up late (Cursed time change) AND waking up after having had a dream that a snake bit me on the thumb! A glove I was wearing prevented it from penetrating skin, but it still hurt, and in the dream, my parents were heavily concerned... And then wanted to get me somewhere I didn't want to go, so I ran off? Ugh. Dreams. I swear, the nonsense within them sometimes. + +In reality, I suspect I was just lying on my thumb in my sleep a bit- or had it pinched between my knees maybe? Dreams tend to project those sort of physical sensations into ones imagined reality. + +I don't understand why I was wearing gloves at a shopping center, or why a snake would have bitten me outside of one, though... Though, perhaps the shopping center was because I knew I'd screwed up on groceries? If so, I don't know why I was shopping for non grocery things in the middle of spring/summer, or wearing winter gloves for. + +Dreams. What nonsense. + +Fun party times in GoMePub. Chatted with Doobes, Diranda, and Ereshkigal about some recent events. Calum has me worried right now- he's not answering my messages. I'm going to check in on him now. + +[Small tear stains mar the page's surface] + +Damn it, Calum! Don't scare me like this! You idiot! + +He's fine. For now. I'm keeping an eye on him overnight - Doctor's orders. Just in case. + +Calum hit his head. Says some woman breached security and shoved him to the ground in the overflow station. Just... What the hell? Why? Why this? Why would someone break in and-? + +I need to get a grip. Get myself calmed down. I'm not going to do anyone any good if I don't. + +3/18/22 + +Calum's been talking in his sleep again. At least he's not sleep walking, but it's just as disturbing hearing him ramble in his sleep. + +"Free floating seeds loose from the pot." + +"Gardener doesn't know where his seeds are sewing." + +"Wild oats and wild horses roam- gotta catch them before they take root." + +Other variations on those topics. I'm reminded of his stint with the Vertigo Crystals, talking about trains crashing. + +Honestly, this isn't the way I - + +Oh, no. I am NOT finishing that sentence. I do not have time to unpack that right now. + +3/19/22 + +With Calum sleeping now, I thought I'd take a break for the evening and relax at the Mid-Stairs Landing after the last few days of 'excitement.' + +Tomorrow I'll be heading down to the archives again to check on if we have any information regarding who wrote Naybree. It's a mystery that should keep my mind off of things. + +I still can't get over it! That someone would have the gall to just-! Push Calum over like that! How utterly frustrating. If I ever meet this woman, I'll- I'll--!! + +Apparently we have a Doctor down here now- some Irish fellow by the name of Tiernan Quinlan. That would've been handy to know a few days ago. Always seems like these things get rectified after an incident, somehow. + +Well, I was up far later than I intended to be. Calum's still asleep though, hasn't moved. Still breathing normally. That's good. + +That's good. + +Maybe I can sleep soundly tonight. + +3/22/22 + +I honestly have no idea what to write. My thoughts are a hurricane scale swirling mess of conflicted emotions right now. + +3/25/22 + +Calum's grandmother is back and I'm officially out of excuses to keep tabs on him. + +I can't say it. + +3/27/22 + +I'm going to be honest. + +After the last week of surface life getting on my nerves, I need a break. The sheer amount of back and forth talk about things is... Yes! We need plans at work. I get that. We need plans for what we're doing. + +Why do I feel like I'm the only one contributing to those planning stages? I know that's not the case. But. Ye Gods, I feel like I'm the only one contributing some of these things actively. Meanwhile, everyone else is talking about how we should do things without actually doing those things? I- oh. + +I Am just- + +Nearing my breaking point with some of this. And that's in addition to my worries over Calum, and this whole intruder business. Calum's been texting me and keeping me up to date on his thoughts. + +NOW he's thinking that the intruder must have thought him associated with someone who ALSO infiltrated the worksite, but did so *legitimately* and was genuinely trying to help undo sabotage? Honestly, where does he get these ideas... the woman shoved him to the ground! + +How can he be so sympathetic to someone whose only interaction with him was to push him to the ground when here I am and he doesn't *SEE* how I'm feeling about ANY of this?! I spent how many nights staying over with him!? Keeping tabs on him long after the doctor cleared him of injury!? + +And I'm- I can't even bring myself to write the words let alone TELL him- but HOW does he not SEE!? + +Plus yet another firescare yesterday. I'm. Tired. + +I'm tempted to call in sick tomorrow... I think I might, actually. + +3/29/22 + +Work needed me yesterday and I had to fill in for someone else who called in sick. So I beat them to the punch and did it today. I need the break. + +Visited an explorer's Relto... I was a little unnerved over the reclaimed Bahro Poles in their yard. I heard one scream even while I was there. Good grief. + +Going to take the time to relax at today's relaxation session. + +Some mild chatter between Carl and Tiernan and Ereshkigal while I tried to relax. Fortunately I think they got the hint I wasnt in the mood for much socializing after a bit. + +3/30/22 + +How sweet, Calum heard how tired I was yesterday and got me a cute little toy-scale motor scooter, with a little pull back and launch method too. I think I'll keep it on my desk in Chiso. + +Now if only I had a little doll or figure that was the right scale for it! Oh well, that can wait for another time. + +4/6/22 + +I'm seeing ghosts, I have to be. There's no reason for that 'Sami' girl to be stalking me on the surface, let alone looking terrified out of her wits while doing it. + +4/15/22 + +Busy, busy, busy. How has it been half a month already since I got that little toy from Calum? + +Patrick's officially announced planning to open up the lower Chiso Library area to the public- so who knows how long that'll take before it's officially open and what not. + +Dr. Quinlan had his Sanctuary Clinic open house today, which went off successfully, it seems. I couldn't make it due to work. Seems like we all missed one hell of a party afterwards- someone smashed up one of the patient rooms! + +The Doctor has also mentioned he's seen some folks hanging around the town he gets his supplies from. Suspicious. I've passed along Calum's reservations about those two awol employees from the overflow station, just incase. It's probably my own paranoia/anxiety speaking, born from a stressful two weeks at work. + +That's all it has to be. Honestly. + +In other news, Tenny's poked me to ask Calum about how his exam went. I've texted him now. I guess I'll see what he replies. + +What? That's impossible. It's - that's - + +Calum's latest scans show no signs of a concussion at all- not even healed ones. That's... Calum thinks it may be the Vertigo Crystals? + +Damn it all. + +4/16/22 + +Met up with Calum at the Island this morning before he went out on errands. I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't seeing the images infront of my own eyes. The scans taken when he was hurt versus yesterday are impossibly different. + +This can't be right?? How? How could this be possible? + +4/20/22 + +Repeat scans repeat the trend. Calum's head is HEALED. How in the world...? Not even showing signs of damage. This... This makes no sense unless the Crystals did something?? + +But... how? Why?? + +4/24/22 + +Apparently TikiBear has lost a Gnome? Poor thing. Who would *dare* steal a Garden Gnome!? + +Still, somehow I'd rather focus on the thought of a lost Garden Gnome over medical improbabilities. + +4/27/22 + +Calum's vented quite a bit about his cousin's visit. Honestly isn't my place to say anything, but he definitely needs the break from work, I'd say. Same for me, as well, given my own surface life's chaos. + 4/29/22 -A new journal, and appropriately, a new start. Elonin is released, and what a line! I could see it going on from the book clear to the link in! +Elonin is released, and what a line! I could see it going on from the book clear to the link in! Filming was a bit of a tedious task, though. Danged camera screen kept flickering at me. Fortunately, Calum says the video isn't corrupted. So, that's good. I'll have to check the video tomorrow. I'm quite a bit tired now, and I think I'll be heading to bed soon. What a day! ---- 5/5/22 Calum's posting vague poems to the internet again. This one sounds like something describing Naybree. I wonder why? - My thoughts come back to the age, considering it's soon-to-be-released nebulous status of the whims of restoration. The Age of Naybree, and Vertigo's crystals... It's a strange confounding mess of threads, tangling together. And I wish I could write if not for a constant string of TEXT MESSAGES! Damned Surface Work. ---- 5/7/22 You get stuck working on the surface for ONE DAY! And suddenly all kinds of PROPHECY breaks loose!!! How Jules knows two different psychics of the past and future seeing varriety, I don't know nor do I care to know just yet. I'll read up on the forums later. ---- + So. Jules knew Echo McKenzie, an apparent psychic who sees the future. He wanted to learn more about it, so he went to this "Astral Bureau of Circulation" place in Boston. Met this Madame Sophia there. She came to the AGM, and waited until after it ended to drop a bombshell of a prophecy. Then, not an hour after that, Echo herself showed up, did some chatting, and wound up getting caught in a trance and seeing a vision of some kidnapping event during the Fall. @@ -5172,7 +5178,6 @@ She came to the AGM, and waited until after it ended to drop a bombshell of a pr Honestly. Psychics. Vision seers. I'll believe there's some element of truth to it, but Prophecy? Prophecies. Just what we needed ontop of everything else. ---- "Danger comes to those who seek. A good tree grows in a far corner of the cavern. @@ -5181,7 +5186,7 @@ A malicious tree grows in a far corner of the cavern. The son of the lost empire must choose the tree." -Madame Sophia's Prophecy. ---- + Echo, at the Concert Hall Foyer: "Gettng to the Library during the fall was, pardon my D'ni, a complete cluster... @@ -5203,35 +5208,28 @@ Echo heads down the stairs, explorers follow. Echo reaches the large crack outside the Kadish Gallery and stops. "Oh." Echo McKenzie kneels down... "They fell. With both books. The ground split, and they fell." ---- + 5/11/22 Not much to say except I had a lovely afternoon break off for Fil Live. Work continues to hound me on the surface. Hoping Calum's not overstressing himself with Naybree work. ---- 5/13/22 Iwonk's Wonky Talk stream is today! I've managed to secure my afternoon off work for it. ---- Apparently that rascal Wayne has decided to come back down after getting a replacement Relto Book- I'm hearing talk that he's requested a desk downstairs in Chiso. ---- - Settled in at the Guild of Cookies hood. I'm an hour early but so what? ---- Was a good show! Glad I could catch most of it! Just sorry I had to leave early at the end to catch dinner. Oh well. ---- Had an interesting evening chatting with Carl, Tenny, and quite a few explorers tonight. Discussed the whole prophecy thing. Some interesting theories came up. Also discussed the nature of capitalism in the modern psychic industry. Not quite sure where I thought the evening would go. ---- + 5/19/22 Jules and his friend Ed stumbled on an Amnesiac Explorer earlier today. Behind the barricades in the lower library floors, name of "Benavud." I'm not familiar with the name, and I can't find a record of it in the work crew records. I'll have to wait for crowds to form in Ae'gura or the night-time hood gathering to ask folks. ---- Talked with the night-hood crowd tonight. Sia, Cody Herd, Captain Jericho, Root Beer, Malaclypse, Choupette, Jet Blast, D'ni Seeker 5, and Carl Palmner in attendance- among others I forgot to write down the names of. @@ -5239,7 +5237,87 @@ Nobody knows Benavud, alas. We discussed the events of the 'prophecies' earlier I'm tired. With my uncle flying in tomorrow, and things going crazy in D'ni... -May I please have a break? +May I please have a break? + +5/20/22 + +I wasn't asking for a literal snow storm in the tail end of May, by the way. + +5/24/22 + +I've had a few explorers reach out to me about Calum sleepwalking in the city last night. I've been given a chatlog that I'm pouring over now. Good grief, just what we needed now of all times. + +Calum's not responding to texts or KI messages. Getting concerned. I'll have to go investigate the usual haunts and see if he's anywhere... + +No? Nowhere? He's usually been after one of these sleep walking states? That's concerning. The only place I can't check is his Relto. If he had the book on him and linked away last night... Hrmf. + +At relaxing session now. Going to mull over my options while I think... + +Decided to visted Calum's grandmother- apparently she's out on another trip of hers- wasn't home. Did find one of Calum's journals, though, along with several pieces of sound equipment and fragments of Vertigo Crystals. + +I'm going to review everything... + +I've spent the meantime since then by wandeirng Naybree, and helping Moiety Jean with a pellet drop, and finding the last cloth she needed in Ahnonay. + +Still not sure what to make of any of this. Beyond the obvious fact that Calum's been recording how the Vertigo Crystals react to sound waves, and decided to do something foolish regarding his own previous exposure to the damned things: tried to see if there was a harmonic tone that was invoking his sleepwalking states. + +Given his notes and the equipment all point to a single frequency- A440, or A in C Major- and were left in that state for the better part of a day, I think his experiment was an unmitigated success in that single sense. + +Visiting again, I'm more concerned that he seems to have packed up quite a few things in a hurry, and vanished somewhere. Nobody mentioned he had a backpack on last night, so it has to have been after that. + +The last entry in this journal is another of Calum's Poems. + +Beckoning the cat calls out like the bell doth ring +Extending her paws towards birds that fly +She meows in question over what do they sing? +Green eyes pierce like moons hanging in the sky +She who collects lost kittens under her wings +Says to me, 'come to this garden of mine' + +Rei'schu: or Exten-Col, as I've called it. Extension. Collection. The Descriptive Book we found in Naybree. + +We were keeping it in my private Neighborhood along with other important documents, but of course I'd given Calum access. If he went home, packed up for a trip, and then made his way to the Book... + +I need to talk with Patrick in the morning about heading into this potentially still inhabited age. We may have already lost a chance at a controlled first contact scneario. + +5/25/22 + +Damn it all- *Calum Used The Book!* + +Jules and Tenny have volunteered to go with me- regardless of Patrick's decision on the matter. Looks like we've got a mission building. + +Patrick's advised that any expedition is taken cautiously, and in a group. +Well, that's good, I suppose. + +5/28/22 + +Had a mostly relaxing day after we got back from Rei'schu. Wrote up my report, spent time at Karaoke, and hung out in Ae'gura all night. Managed to get Sky caught up on events as well. + +What a damnable mess the last trip was. I have some priestesses to talk to tomorrow about some strange dreams. + +5/29/22 + +Strange, tiring day. Suited up again, and returned to Rei'schu. The younger Priestesses claimed no insight into the dream I'd had that lead me to find the Naybree book in the first place. The eldest Priestess- Karin'da, was her name- she told a different tale. + +"The Lady Chezahcen may sometimes reach out outside of the connections of the Crystals, across the spans of space and time and worlds, to encourage events into a favorable outcome. In this tale, I cannot say for certain whether the dream you had was one of these events." + +And why not? I'd asked. + +Priestess Karin'da replied: "For while you are not bound by them as young Calum was, you still have been touched by the Crystals in your own way. They've left their mark just the same." She gave smile I'm not quite sure was meant to be reassuring. "Sometimes, merely being exposed to the crystals allows you insight into things from neighboring realities, in places where the walls between worlds are thin, and the energy between universes is high." + +Which, while that is concerning enough on its own right, I had to ask, places like the Cavern of D'ni? + +Naturally, the Priestess just laughed in an inscruitable way, and said, "if you must ask, you already know." + +I said to her, Calum's research indicates the Cyrstals communicate with sound wave frequencies- how does that even transmit across realities? + +To which, Karin'da replied: "How then does one travel from one place to another through an object like your Books, or our Crystals?" + +Admittedly, I don't have a good response to that even now, let alone had one at that moment. + +Perhaps sensing my unsease, Karin'da redirected the topic to asking me- that she'd observed some things, and was curious if Calum was just being polite by ignoring the younger priestess's advances- the one who was taking care of him- or if he was just oblivious due to cultural differences. + +I told her, I don't know either. 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