Claincy

Hi! It's been a while. (*checks post history*..a year. Wow.) Anyway, I'm (somewhat) back! What've I missed? And today was better than I have been in quite some time. Still in a lot of pain, still got fatigue troubles etc. But I'm finally off the medication that's been making things so much worse (and it wasn't really hot today). So today I was actually able to do a (little) bit and still cope ok through most of the day. Unnecessary additional health details in the spoiler.

@Herowannabe Thanks This is one battle I intend to keep fighting as long as it lasts.

*hugs back* thanks Primarily chronic pain. It's reasonably severe in general but today it's particularly unpleasant. More details in spoiler if you really want to know. "Ow" is a pretty reasonable summary though With all that said I'm mostly managing "ok" mentally. I'm not having a problem with depression or anything at the moment and I feel blessed in numerous ways, including in the people I know/interact with online and in person, the work I have/had, etc.

Anyone up for a digital hug? Could do with one today.

*cough* *wheeze* "Avenge....me." x_x (Long live house Ffnord!)

I have been quite enjoying Discovery. I felt that the first bunch of episodes did a pretty good job of setting up and developing characters. That set up some great potential for the show but outside of that the individual episodes were mostly relatively unremarkable (except visually, the visuals were great). My overall opinion of it was going to depend on whether they would be able to execute on that potential in the later part of the series. Having just watched the finale I can say that I'm quite happy with what they did At this point I prefer it to other Star Trek shows I've watched. Though it's worth noting for context that as a general rule I have a preference for serialized shows over episodic ones. More importantly than that I have a strong preference for shows where there are detailed and interesting character arcs. A lot of (but certainly not all) more episodic shows have comparatively light character development. Often they'll have an episode centered on a single character which will have great character development, but that character won't change much throughout the rest of the season.

Personally I liked it well enough. I wouldn't call it great or bad. I feel it tried a lot more risky things than TFA and often when those worked it worked really really well. TFA didn't try nearly as hard to be original or interesting but was considerably more consistent in quality throughout, lacking some of the bigger slumps that Last Jedi has. If I had to pick I'd say I prefer the Last Jedi over TFA but I'm not sure I would overall consider it a "better" film, just one that better suits my tastes. Rian Johnson has confirmed that those were not the knights of Ren. I don't think it's been outright confirmed that the knights of Ren are the other students who left with Kylo but there is reasonably strong reason to think that they are and little reason to think they aren't.

A little while back I created a simple in character storytelling/rp & drinking game for D&D and played it with a couple of groups I run. (I don't drink, but characters in the world do and I've found the game can lead to some fun roleplaying.) In universe it uses a set of stones with dwarvish runic letters carved onto a flat side, but in practice I just used numbers or a set of very simple cards. Some of my players made a proper set and gave them to me as a Christmas present 0_o.

Thanks. Turns out it's not that hard to learn, just takes a lot of practice and a lot of dropped coins. It's a very nice way of fidgeting once you can do it though. I bought that boxing specifically for that purpose.

Mine just arrived, the FE boxing is just the right size and weight

Ah, let's see. 17s links that may be of interest: Stormlight Archive RPG question Stormlight Archive d20, or How to Turn Sanderson's Epic into a Homebrew D&D Game D&D- Desolations and Dustbringers Steelministry homebrew cosmere MAG links Home-brewed Rules Discussion Work in Progress: Stormlight Rules

Welcome back @Quiver

Wellll truth be told I think it might've been more a product of procrastination at the time

Put simply: if more people were like you the world would be a kinder, friendlier and more welcoming place. We're fortunate to have you as part of the 17s community/family

Nice! Mind if I ask what software you used to make this? (I used font forge but it was a bit of a pain to get the allomantic symbols in.) (Please note that with the below text I don't mean in any way to diminish what you've made.) If you're interested: the steel alphabet does actually have existing letter assignments. Some clever people translated it here There are a few changes and additions in the letters compared with English. -all double letters are removed -Certain letters are represented by the same symbol: o/u pewter e/i tin any "k" sound bendalloy (q included) -x is represented by "ks" -Ch and Sh have their own symbols This was my attempt at a font using those letter assignments: http://steelministry.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=501 The symbols in yours are a bit crisper though, mine start to look a bit wonky if you make them really large / look too closely

I do love the area around Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. It's really beautiful. I may have spent far more energy than I could really afford hiking around there and I'm paying the cost now, but I don't regret it. (images in spoiler) I didn't get any really good photos of the wombats. But they were there, and awesome as ever

That's good advice, thankyou I think he knows a good bit of it already from appointments with my sister and dad but I'll talk with my aunt too before I next see him and talk about it directly then.

Great work everyone involved Looks like I have some reading to do.

@A Budgie @Delightful @Caesura *hugs* thanks Firbomyalgia actually came to my attention as a possibility pretty recently. It does seem possible. The root cause of the headaches is probably the sinus issues but something else could be making them worse and the muscle pain is presumably not sinus related My sister and dad both have chronic fatigue syndrome and my aunt has myalgic encephalomyelitis and/or fibromyalgia (don't remember off the top of my head) so there's something of a track record of that kind of illness in our family.

I don't really know what thread to post in. Saw a doctor again today for test results and got good new and bad news. The good news was basically that the existing symptoms weren't pointing to something else seriously wrong. The bad news is that there wasn't really anything new to help with said symptoms. I don't have arthritis, which is definitely good. But there is no clear reason for the muscle pains I get or anything to really do to stop them. They'll "probably" go away in time and in the meantime anti-inflammatory stuff like Nurofen might help reduce the symptoms temporarily but otherwise I just have to wait and see. Similarly the CT scan showed that there isn't anything else wrong with my head. My brain is fine and there aren't any tumors or anything. There is inflammation and congestion in some of the sinuses and the interior of my nose is supremely wonky but that's nothing new. So basically that was exactly as expected and the thing to do for now is to continue with the nasal spray he gave me a script for last time. Hasn't been long enough yet to really tell if that will have any impact, but I have little reason to expect that it will when nothing else does. so...eh. It's definitely nice that there isn't something else seriously wrong causing these issues. But I was holding onto a small hope of actually finding a cause that we could really *do* something about. So for the time being I will have to continue to expend the majority of my energy and willpower coping with constant crippling pain. But hey! At least it isn't caused by something really serious, it's just the symptoms that are bad. (I am managing "ok" mentally, it's just really not fun.)

I would enjoy a nice quiet day at home It'd be like the time from 11pm-2am usually is but all day instead of just late at night. A boring answer I know, but true nonetheless Edit: I'd probably practice singing (loudly) at some point, maybe more loudly than usual while walking the dog, but that's not really that different.

There are some homebrewed Mistborn adventure game rules for assorted cosmere worlds on steel ministry that may interest you. http://steelministry.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=722 http://steelministry.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1119

Unfortunately to my knowledge we're all in different states :/ (And given our states are, on average, a fair bit bigger than the US that means quite a distance even for neighbouring states.)

Yeah, nobody active though. You can do a member search and sort by rep to look at members with high/low rep if you like.

Places that have hurt/do hurt today/last night: Head (of course), neck, left arm & hand, right shoulder & wrist & hand, right ankle, chest. Normally different parts of me take turns hurting :/ (Well, except the head of course, but the rest usually take turns.) Hums to peace.