By the way, the character is too stubborn (selfish) to think that he needs more information than simply saying you have the skill. It may take a while to get there.

In reply to Dmitri Alvin Reslin (msg # 46):

Good to know. I was planning to pose a few questions to him already :)

It would be useful to be able to narratively convince everyone to open certain windows alerts as part of our posts. For example, if someone could write, "I tell them all to open up their Map, and once they do I describe the mountain we need to travel to."

But that also feels super presumptuous, so I figured I would ask before writing something like that.

A compromise would be to post something after the fact like, "Wow! There's some neat stuff to look at on this Quests page! See for yourself!"

In the future, once you are all comfortable with how I format the status screens and system alerts, I will not be posting the full thing every time unless there are major changes.

Spawnpoint is very spamtastic right now from my POV, but for you all it should look alright since you're only seeing the messages meant for you.

Also, if you guys don't make any major progress in a couple days, I will give you some hints on how to move forward. I don't really have anything SPECIFIC planned, but I can assure you there is a lot you are still not seeing.

Congratulations! You solved the second major problem I had planned!

The first, of course, was granting everyone the interpretation skill :)

Well done, Arjun :-)

Also, Emily, you were extremely close to solving this problem before!

In reply to Voice of The System (msg # 50):

If there was some kind of in-game prize for getting that, Emily should absolutely get it. I wouldn't have thought of it on my own, and the only reason I got to it before her was she logged off for the night.

Speaking of logging off,

Since you've all made a large amount of progress today, I'm thinking of not responding to any more posts until tomorrow. You are still free to converse, and even pre-empt tomorrow's actions.

I'm thinking in the future, in order to maintain a semblance of balance for players who only post once daily (unlike some of us, who are almost always online haha), I will cease my adjudications once you have all spent your daily expansions.

Thoughts on this? The intention is to not have anyone get too far ahead, chronologically and power-wise. It also keeps the pace reasonable, overall.

That's a good stopping point for today. Again, it's hard on pacing right now because we're not sure what the system can do.

We might want to think about some kind of self-imposed limit on interactions with the system. Or make these kinds of announcements about when we'll stop getting to interact with The System a regular thing.

Sounds good.

I figured this was all just part of the initial excitement phase, and that our pace will slow to something more measured over the next few days.

Sorry guys. I missed a whole lot on account of being in England and sleeping.

Sleeping? That was a major blunder on your part... unbelievable!

But really though, don't stress about it :) You didn't miss a lot, really.

Anyway, I'm not going do any adjudication right away. I'm going to take a couple hours to ensure I get all my college work done.

Have the spells that Arjun and Vladislav have been attempting had any visible effects, or only triggering System alerts?

In reply to Emily Khorashandi (msg # 55):

I thought it might be something like that. I definitely wouldn't have thought to drop things over the edge without the groundwork you had laid.

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By my count, the only person whose told me their name so far is Otto, so Arjun is coming up with names for all of you, like Node Guy, and Cleric Dude. And Emily still hasn't reacted to my character, so I'm currently playing like I don't know if she's real or visible to everyone else. That's not a complaint, btw, just how he's reacting.

He's not trying to be rude, just we're in a  strange, time critical situation here and so we're all being a bit brusque. I sort of love it, actually, along with worrying about things that we, as the players, know isn't true (like Emily being a ghost), but the PCs don't know.

Basically, Arjun is questioning everything he knows right now.

Yeah she has, post 107 was a reaction to your 106.  You talked about thinking about where to expand the disc and someone else talked about using the outside as a latrine, as long as no nodes are available today.  She made suggestions in response to both of you.

Just saw that :) You were typing that while I was typing OOC 58.

Again, out-of-character, no offense intended and I hope none was taken. IC, feel free to think my character is a jerk.

Aight, first adjudication of the day filled out!

Please tell me if I missed anything, there was quite a lot to cover :)

Otto was looking for vines dense enough to be used as a weapon, but you sort of covered it with Emily's post I think...

This never got answered from here in OOC:



Also, I had a question about the DINGs. I know sometimes we can hear other PCs get the audio notifications, but not always? How are you differentiating between those? Audible and mental?

I'm holding off on Valdislav reacting in character just yet, pending the answer about our spells.

edited my last post to include responses to what Emily and Otto said.

Edited mine to include conversation with Arjun and to remove the accusation.

In reply to Emily Khorashandi (msg # 66):

To be explicit, the accusation is perfectly reasonable in-character. My alignment is Romantic Turned Cynic (Selfish Sociopath), so apparently you all perceive him as selfish and shady. I am encouraging other players to find Arjun's behavior to be suspect.

So far, your spells have had no effect except for system alerts.

And yes, this DING effect is normally only audible to the recipient (it should come with every system interaction, but i think i've missed more than a few), except in some cases.

So far, the only case you've discovered where a DING is audible to everyone is when a player finds a new class option.

I think there was one other time I made a DING audible as well...

I will continue always noting whether the ding is 'mental' or 'audible' to prevent confusion.

Okay. So trying to use a spell to help Otto with making a fire won't do much... yet. Hmm.

In reply to Vladislav Chigrakov (msg # 69):

Not until we commit, no.