I am waiting for us to transition back to the ship. It's important for what Alyn wants to do next.

This seemed to be the Alyn Reed Show, so I was just expecting you to keep going. Didn't realize you were waiting for me to say 'You're back on the ship now.'

I didn't want to force people to move if they weren't ready. :)

At this point im just the taxi driver that hauls you around. Its all out of Revonosses expertise.

I don't know the new gravatic screwdriver is likely to play a large roll in joining these pieces.

I've had no net since Friday, just got it back so will be trying to catch back up the next couple days.

Rest up as much as you can, and Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays! ;)

So here's what's been happening...

I've been 'ill' for about three months now, starting with getting COVID back in the beginning of October. Wasn't too bad and I got over it in a few days, but it left me with the typical aftermath symptom of being tired ALL THE TIME. I was slowly getting over it, and even had a few hours of energy every day.

I had a doctor's appointment scheduled for mid-October but then Hurricane Ian hit. The VA clinic took some damage and was closed for two weeks. I finally got the appointment rescheduled for Jan. 13.

December 1st, I had a minor chest pain on my right side. It felt like just a minor muscle strain but at my age and with my medical history, I felt it was prudent to check. Called the VA clinic to see about a walk-in visit the next day and the nurse I talked to went into panic mode with the 'chest pain' words, and told me to go to the ER. So, on Friday, December 2nd, that's what I did. More panic mode.

Spent 4 days being poked and prodded, inspected, detected, and injected and stuff, only to be told my heart was fine. More exactly, they couldn't find any cause for the chest pain... the obvious cause seemed to elude them.

Here's where it started going to hell. Getting out of the hospital, I had an extreme loss of appetite, shortness of breath, and NO ENERGY. Didn't have any of that when I went in!

Not only was I not hungry, but nothing tasted appealing any more. Could barely eat my favorite foods, and then only 2-3 bites. On top of that, I ran out of one of my diabetes medicines. Not eating and drinking much, I also wasn't taking my meds as regularly as I had been.

This went on for the next three weeks, so things probably grew gradually worse without me quite realizing it.

December 31st, I managed to pull a back muscle, and while the pain meds I took didn't do squat, I at least knew it'd go away in a few days. It did. And then I got hives!

Jan. 6 I went to the VA clinic to get bloodwork done for my doctor's appointment. No sooner did I get home than the doctor called to tell me my blood sugar level was 903! I needed to go to the ER pronto! That's where I've been for the past week. :-(

I still didn't feel all that bad (weak and no energy), but I definitely had some serious health issues. Turned out I had ketoacidosis and some kidney issues. After a few days treatment, the keto was gone, kidneys were all better, and my blood sugar was back to normal. Now I had to survive the 'recovery'. As long as I was stuck in that hospital bed, though, I knew I wasn't going to get better. So now I'm home.

Have a nurse helping me, and physical therapy should start tomorrow. And now I have to play tag with a doctor's appointment again...

Anyway, the reason I'm telling you all this is in case you, family or a friend should find yourself in a similar situation, you'll have a heads-up/warning about what's might be happening.


Now it's just recovery and rehab.

Holy shit you went all in with the bad health didn't you? Could have left some for other people you know ;-)

Sp0eedy recovery and take good care of yourself. We'll be around once you feel human again.

Amen reverend!

Sending you good vibes in the hopes of a speedy-er recovery. :/

Jeez louise, Starmaster! I'm so sorry to hear that! Thanks for checking in, but Please take all the time you need and just focus on recovering and resting. Sending prayers your way for a speedy and solid recovery!

So if I'm reading it right it's clear how the pieces of the device are supposed to fit together but they're not together. Is that because what we have tried to do to fit them together seems to be missing something or because the player actions have been interpreted as just looking at them rather than actually trying to fit them together?

It could just be my medication-fogged memory, but I 'interpreted' player posts/actions as not actually attempting to put the two pieces together yet.

Since each piece is supposedly a different geometric shape, the indentations on the cube would only allow one particular piece to go there.

LeAuil would have stayed away from fiddling with them, but I'm just being sure to not assume. Had some bad experiences with games shutting down because someone didn't clearly state their intentions... I'm not sure if it is right or wrong but merely acknowledge that people may have not wanted to try to put them together yet, maybe we hadn't been clear it was an option.

Misinterpreting is SO easy via text messages.

Exactly. Better safe than sorry.

If the potential using the cube as a power source gets shared Revonoss will see if and how its possible. Matching the things is sill a Phelar task.

Okay i was certain i made a post that had Revonoss take the power source to see how to make that actually happen but it seems RPol ate it and just left the ooc post.

Well who knows maybe some parts of the cube do different things for different people. But really I don't know much more about it than he's already shared so we'll have to see. :)

Sorry about my silence the last couple weeks.

Alright, now that I'm through 'the darkness' I'm getting caught up. Gotta say December through February is rough for me mentally with mental illness.

In reply to Phelar Morilla (msg # 382):

<3 - take care.

Believe Starmaster is out of commission for a bit though, so no worries. Heard he's not feeling well from another game I'm in.

Yeah I saw the massive bloodsugar post in the post he made in mid Jan the Secrets of Phandelver game I'm in of his, but he post for my character Feb 7th, but then nothing since. So not sure whats going on. I hope he's okay, because I know what it's like to have my bloodsugar to go through the roof like that. It blows.

I think a cyclone was involved... Folks we need to take care of ourselves. Now environmental phenomenon aside it does seem like a large number of games are delayed or hung up entirely because of health. Though I did recently experience when shutting down because the gym was super frustrated with players who tried to utilize the "rule of cool" perhaps overly so.