Question 4

[Kobold King he/him]

I can't wait to hear her explain this one to Arvin.

 

He should be proud of her. A little girl who set up her own bobcat stand? That shows entrepreneurial spirit.

 

 

My younger siblings have been rewatching The Croods over and over the past few days. I keep hearing Belt the sloth's voice scream "Dun dun DUN!" whenever people say something remotely ominous. 

[Voidus]

The only reason I want to keep Synesthesia alive is so that all future battles can have dramatic theme music playing in the background. Or wildly inappropriate 'theme' music for the entrance of all future Epics into her presence.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Hey Mailliw, Now that Streetwise knows you know about him, He'll start looking for your spies. Should he find them or not?

 

And why can't you find this Forum when you're singed out?

[Kobold King he/him]

The only reason I want to keep Synesthesia alive is so that all future battles can have dramatic theme music playing in the background. Or wildly inappropriate 'theme' music for the entrance of all future Epics into her presence.

 

You have no idea how badly I want Synesthesia and Glamour to be a couple now.

 

 

And why can't you find this Forum when you're singed out?

 

Huh. I don't know. I noticed that on the first day the board was created--I viewed the site on a borrowed computer, and for a horrible moment I thought the entire WHIO board + content had been deleted.   Is it enough of an issue for somebody to file a report, do you think? Or maybe we just need for the cache to settle or something.

(Being entirely illiterate when it comes to computers, the phrase "the cache needs to settle" makes about as much sense to me as "it takes time for the Internet Gods to gather their fairy dust.")

[Voidus]

You have no idea how badly I want Synesthesia and Glamour to be a couple now.

 

 

 

Huh. I don't know. I noticed that on the first day the board was created--I viewed the site on a borrowed computer, and for a horrible moment I thought the entire WHIO board + content had been deleted.   Is it enough of an issue for somebody to file a report, do you think? Or maybe we just need for the cache to settle or something.

(Being entirely illiterate when it comes to computers, the phrase "the cache needs to settle" makes about as much sense to me as "it takes time for the Internet Gods to gather their fairy dust.")

Well it's certainly possible, she may flee to the Dalles along with Stitch after the attacks tonight (Potentially the bulk of the MEE could relocate there once the fighting begins in earnest and our need for canon fodder is reduced by all battling each other)

Being relatively computer literate I can confirm that the Internet Gods gathering fairy dust is exactly how the cache settles (I may have fallen asleep during the comp sci class where they covered caches)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

You have no idea how badly I want Synesthesia and Glamour to be a couple now.

 

 

 

Huh. I don't know. I noticed that on the first day the board was created--I viewed the site on a borrowed computer, and for a horrible moment I thought the entire WHIO board + content had been deleted.   Is it enough of an issue for somebody to file a report, do you think? Or maybe we just need for the cache to settle or something.

(Being entirely illiterate when it comes to computers, the phrase "the cache needs to settle" makes about as much sense to me as "it takes time for the Internet Gods to gather their fairy dust.")

 

 

Well it's certainly possible, she may flee to the Dalles along with Stitch after the attacks tonight (Potentially the bulk of the MEE could relocate there once the fighting begins in earnest and our need for canon fodder is reduced by all battling each other)

Being relatively computer literate I can confirm that the Internet Gods gathering fairy dust is exactly how the cache settles (I may have fallen asleep during the comp sci class where they covered caches)

 

I would ship it.  

 

I took a graduate-level coding class this semester, and I still barely understand HTML. I can write it passably well, and I can fix it if it's broken, but I still get a little nervous when I look at a page and see numbers and letters all swirled together like an algebra teacher's idea of alphabet soup. So, with that said, I believe the Internet Gods must first wait for the Full Moon of Destiny, after which adequate levels of fairy dust will be gathered and they can blow it into the face of Invisibletononmembersius, the Demon of Hidden Sub-Forums. 

[Voidus]

I would ship it.

 

I took a graduate-level coding class this semester, and I still barely understand HTML. I can write it passably well, and I can fix it if it's broken, but I still get a little nervous when I look at a page and see numbers and letters all swirled together like an algebra teacher's idea of alphabet soup. So, with that said, I believe the Internet Gods must first wait for the Full Moon of Destiny, after which adequate levels of fairy dust will be gathered and they can blow it into the face of Invisibletononmembersius, the Demon of Hidden Sub-Forums. 

Or there's a missing semicolon

[Kobold King he/him]

I would ship it.

 

I took a graduate-level coding class this semester, and I still barely understand HTML. I can write it passably well, and I can fix it if it's broken, but I still get a little nervous when I look at a page and see numbers and letters all swirled together like an algebra teacher's idea of alphabet soup. So, with that said, I believe the Internet Gods must first wait for the Full Moon of Destiny, after which adequate levels of fairy dust will be gathered and they can blow it into the face of Invisibletononmembersius, the Demon of Hidden Sub-Forums. 

 

I ship Neverthere with Altermind, just so there can be a pair of lovers who are never physically in the same room with each other.

 

I know nothing about computers.   The most I've ever learned about them is a few basic wiki markup tags. [[Links in brackets]], ''italic text in double apostrophes''... you know, that sort of thing.

[mail-mi he/him]

I took a robotics class, and now I know some simple programming. Really simple. Like, how-to-move-a-Lego-robot-forward simple.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Or there's a missing semicolon

 

*eye twitch* HTML and CSS are so touchy. And cranky. Like, "You put a semicolon two spaces over when it was supposed to be three spaces over. Prepare to have your entire page awash in source code!" 

 

I ship Neverthere with Altermind, just so there can be a pair of lovers who are never physically in the same room with each other.

 

I know nothing about computers.   The most I've ever learned about them is a few basic wiki markup tags. [[Links in brackets]], ''italic text in double apostrophes''... you know, that sort of thing.

 

The grouchiest, most murderous OTP ever.  

 

I'm fairly good at those, though I do wish all sites would use the same markup tags. For example, on this site, you need [brackets] to write in bold and strikethroughs, but on another site I used to frequent, *asterisks* around a word would make it bold, and simply using -dashes- around another word would strike through the text. 

 

It's very confusing. 

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Timeport hasn't been in the Dominion long. Maybe one or two in-game days. He joined around the same time as Quota, so Travis might have gotten that intel.

I kind of like Flashpoint. Maybe I'm not supposed to, but he just seems so earnest. His "why must I be so lonely" soliloquies make me an even bigger fan of the Panpoint ship.

 

I'll edit his name in, but he'll be one of the vague ones.

 

 

I like him too, so… He's the most human Epic I write, aside from maybe Edgerunner.

 

Hey Mailliw, Now that Streetwise knows you know about him, He'll start looking for your spies. Should he find them or not?

 

And why can't you find this Forum when you're singed out?

 

Would he really be listening to them? He can find some of the more permanent spies, but some, like Travis, sneak into the area and snap photos and info on minuscule cameras and mobiles.

 

I ship Neverthere with Altermind, just so there can be a pair of lovers who are never physically in the same room with each other.

 

I know nothing about computers.   The most I've ever learned about them is a few basic wiki markup tags. [[Links in brackets]], ''italic text in double apostrophes''... you know, that sort of thing.

 

Wow. That'd be a very…weird relationship.

 

 

I'm fairly good at those, though I do wish all sites would use the same markup tags. For example, on this site, you need [brackets] to write in bold and strikethroughs, but on another site I used to frequent, *asterisks* around a word would make it bold, and simply using -dashes- around another word would strike through the text. 

 

It's very confusing. 

 

Wow, I like those a lot better. That'd be so much easier. 

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Would he really be listening to them? He can find some of the more permanent spies, but some, like Travis, sneak into the area and snap photos and info on minuscule cameras and mobiles.

Is Travis no longer at the Dominion HQ's? If he is, Murphy will eventually find him. He'll just search for Monitoring Equipment in his vicinity.

 

This is exactly why I asked.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Is Travis no longer at the Dominion HQ's? If he is, Murphy will eventually find him. He'll just search for Monitoring Equipment in his vicinity.

 

This is exactly why I asked.

 

Travis stays in TT, but during the day goes around the city, taking pictures. Some in the Dominion, some outside. Timeport, for example, could've been photographed on his way to Chi.

[Voidus]

*eye twitch* HTML and CSS are so touchy. And cranky. Like, "You put a semicolon two spaces over when it was supposed to be three spaces over. Prepare to have your entire page awash in source code!" 

 

 

The grouchiest, most murderous OTP ever.

 

I'm fairly good at those, though I do wish all sites would use the same markup tags. For example, on this site, you need [brackets] to write in bold and strikethroughs, but on another site I used to frequent, *asterisks* around a word would make it bold, and simply using -dashes- around another word would strike through the text. 

 

It's very confusing. 

Java and C are the same.

Make sure you put a semicolon at the end of every line... NOT THAT ONE!

Oops now your program instead of creating a game of pong will destroy your computer while emailing your bank account details to everyone on your friends list.

Bugs are weird.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Java and C are the same.

Make sure you put a semicolon at the end of every line... NOT THAT ONE!

Oops now your program instead of creating a game of pong will destroy your computer while emailing your bank account details to everyone on your friends list.

Bugs are weird.

I took a tutorial on basic coding, and whenever I made a mistake, an error message would pop up saying something to the effect of "YOU DID IT WRONG. READ THE HINTS." Half the time, the hints would be helpful; the other half, I had to review previous lessons just to see what was going on.

And my prof wondered why I chose the project that didn't require extensive HTML use.

[Voidus]

Yeah, I use a program that auto corrects your last line of code if you hit the shortcut (Ctrl + enter for me) and its even odds whether it'll fix an error you made or create an error when your code was perfectly fine.

[Newan he/him]

Truthlock is an epic I've thought about for a while, and he's probably Chaos's most important agent.  I'll write him up here.  

 

Truthlock, reluctant agent of Chaos:

Personality: Truthlock can best be described as "intellectually scrappy".  He's physically weak and his powers are useless in a fight, but he is very good at getting out of tough situations.  Even before Calamity, Truthlock was skilled at figuring out a person's pressure points.  His personal philosophy is that if you know what somebody truly desires, you own them.  

 

Power: when his power is active, Truthlock can only hear or see the truth.  This is not another limited telepath.  Forgive my oxymoron, but if anything, Truthlock is a limited omniscient.  What he hears is what he would consider to be the truth if he knew all the information.  

 

This means that somebody resist interrogations through silence or careful Aes Sedai answers, but not through ignorance.  If he asks Dave if Dave's sister is alive, and Dave says he doesn't know, Truthlock will hear "I don't know".  However, if Dave believes his sister to be dead and says "no" but she is actually alive, Truthlock will hear "yes".  Also, if Truthlock asks Dave if Dave's sister is hot, Dave will obviously answer "no" because Dave isn't a weirdo.  However, if Truthlock would consider Dave's sister attractive, Truthlock would hear Dave's answer as "yes".  

 

The omniscience that this power accesses is actually not even omniscient.  It can only see the present, not the past or the future.  So if Truthlock asks about things in the distant past or the future, his answer would be based on all of the evidence that currently exists.  The information is also limited to things that are "observable" on earth.  So his power won't be answering questions about extra-terrestrials, sub-atomic particles, or Calamity, other than the information that has already been gathered on Earth.  It also cannot prove or disprove religions for the same reasons.

 

Goals:  Truthlock wants to destroy Chaos.  He serves Chaos for now because it is virtually unstoppable.  However, with a little bit of misinformation in just the right places, along with a healthy dose of luck, Truthlock believes that he can bring Order crumbling down.  

 

Truthlock is extremely potent, as far as information epics go.  He is Chaos's prime source of information about the world.  

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Truthlock is an epic I've thought about for a while, and he's probably Chaos's most important agent.  I'll write him up here.  

 

Truthlock, reluctant agent of Chaos:

Personality: Truthlock can best be described as "intellectually scrappy".  He's physically weak and his powers are useless in a fight, but he is very good at getting out of tough situations.  Even before Calamity, Truthlock was skilled at figuring out a person's pressure points.  His personal philosophy is that if you know what somebody truly desires, you own them.  

 

Power: when his power is active, Truthlock can only hear or see the truth.  This is not another limited telepath.  Forgive my oxymoron, but if anything, Truthlock is a limited omniscient.  What he hears is what he would consider to be the truth if he knew all the information.  

 

This means that somebody resist interrogations through silence or careful Aes Sedai answers, but not through ignorance.  If he asks Dave if Dave's sister is alive, and Dave says he doesn't know, Truthlock will hear "I don't know".  However, if Dave believes his sister to be dead and says "no" but she is actually alive, Truthlock will hear "yes".  Also, if Truthlock asks Dave if Dave's sister is hot, Dave will obviously answer "no" because Dave isn't a weirdo.  However, if Truthlock would consider Dave's sister attractive, Truthlock would hear Dave's answer as "yes".  

 

The omniscience that this power accesses is actually not even omniscient.  It can only see the present, not the past or the future.  So if Truthlock asks about things in the distant past or the future, his answer would be based on all of the evidence that currently exists.  The information is also limited to things that are "observable" on earth.  So his power won't be answering questions about extra-terrestrials, sub-atomic particles, or Calamity, other than the information that has already been gathered on Earth.  It also cannot prove or disprove religions for the same reasons.

 

Goals:  Truthlock wants to destroy Chaos.  He serves Chaos for now because it is virtually unstoppable.  However, with a little bit of misinformation in just the right places, along with a healthy dose of luck, Truthlock believes that he can bring Order crumbling down.  

 

Truthlock is extremely potent, as far as information epics go.  He is Chaos's prime source of information about the world.  

 

So….does Truthlock automatically have all the information about a question if the answer is found in the present? If he knows whether or not Dave's sister is alive if he says "no" and the answer is "yes," why would he hear "I don't know" if Dave doesn't know himself? It sounds like a cool power; it's just a little confusing. 

[Voidus]

So….does Truthlock automatically have all the information about a question if the answer is found in the present? If he knows whether or not Dave's sister is alive if he says "no" and the answer is "yes," why would he hear "I don't know" if Dave doesn't know himself? It sounds like a cool power; it's just a little confusing. 

Because the subject is still telling the truth so his power doesn't act on it I'd guess, it's definitely an interesting ability.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Currently working on my last class project. I think you all should know that it involves an alternate universe where Sam graduated college, went to grad school, got a teaching certificate, and became the librarian for a low-income public high school.

 

EDIT: On a whim, went back and changed the principal's name. Purple Phoenix is now the principal. 

Edited December 11, 2014 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Kobold King he/him]

Currently working on my last class project. I think you all should know that it involves an alternate universe where Sam graduated college, went to grad school, got a teaching certificate, and became the librarian for a low-income public high school.

 

EDIT: On a whim, went back and changed the principal's name. Purple Phoenix is now the principal. 

 

Were it not for Calamity, WHIO Oregon would be a very different place.  

 

(Good luck on your project. )

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Were it not for Calamity, WHIO Oregon would be a very different place.

 

(Good luck on your project. )

 

Indeed. Especially since we would've had to make up much more down-to-earth reasons for all of our characters to wind up in Portland together. (Unless we wanted to go with a one-size-fits-all origin story and have every single character accept a job at the exact same company around the same time. Which could be equally interesting—I for one would like to see how Funtimes and Lightwards handle a joint meeting with middle management. ) 

 

(Thanks! I hope I get a decent grade. Snarls with my other two projects put me behind schedule on this one, but it looks like I'll have it completed by the deadline. ) 

[Kobold King he/him]

Indeed. Especially since we would've had to make up much more down-to-earth reasons for all of our characters to wind up in Portland together. (Unless we wanted to go with a one-size-fits-all origin story and have every single character accept a job at the exact same company around the same time. Which could be equally interesting—I for one would like to see how Funtimes and Lightwards handle a joint meeting with middle management. ) 

 

(Thanks! I hope I get a decent grade. Snarls with my other two projects put me behind schedule on this one, but it looks like I'll have it completed by the deadline. ) 

 

All Oregon characters as librarians working at the Portland High School of Natural Awesomeness. Somehow I think we missed an amazing opportunity while laying out the game setting.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

All Oregon characters as librarians working at the Portland High School of Natural Awesomeness. Somehow I think we missed an amazing opportunity while laying out the game setting.

 

Or at the public library. That place is huge. I already know some of their departments….

 

Lightwards: Natural History Curator 

Funtimes: Children's Storytime Leader 

Saccharine: Homeopathy Program Manager 

Sam: YA Curator

Paladin: Security  

Nighthound: the only person ever to be permanently banned from a public library with the words "…mercy on your soul." 

[Kobold King he/him]

Or at the public library. That place is huge. I already know some of their departments….

 

Lightwards: Natural History Curator 

Funtimes: Children's Storytime Leader 

Saccharine: Homeopathy Program Manager 

Sam: YA Curator

Paladin: Security  

Nighthound: the only person ever to be permanently banned from a public library with the words "…mercy on your soul." 

 

Backtrack would be that guy who comes into the library every week to play World of Warcraft on the public computer and never checks out any books. 

 

(I've never worked in a library, nor do I know anything about the layout or management of libraries. But I do know that the public libraries I've visited in Texas and Illinois have been plagued by legions of teenagers playing video games on the computers. Honestly, I think I was the only teenager in town who actually checked out books.  )