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Mysrai said:

Aerotan said:

Triggers already need to account for the possibility of both currently in-use sets of pronouns. Honestly, if I was coding a system I'd have an empty capture there so that I didn't have to manually account for both pronouns anyway. Because I'm notorious for making code-breaking typos that take WEEKS to sort.

Yeah, I'm not sure who hardcoded in the gender set in the code itself, but I'm not surprised by it. Smacks of old, bad code from way back when. 

IIRC, Rapture is at least a decade old. The older MUD code gets, the more outright weird shit is in there  - I'm reminded of the driver I saw with compile settings for UNICOS and direct calls to memory addresses. Gender is the least surprising thing to crawl out of the horrid heap that is MUD legacy code.

Rapture dev started back in 1999 I think, they released it sometime around 2001. It was Vortex before that and Hourglass back in the really early days. Guessing it's a holdover from Hourglass/Vortex that was ported into Rapture by the person who wrote Rapture. I remember it being released to a lot of fanfare. It definitely improved lag but then I was using GMud on a 56k connection back in those days so don't think I really noticed much...

Inquiring minds want to know: KEEL-inn. Or Kay-linn, depending on your accent.

Eve said:

This thread has been too quiet here recently. Inquiring minds would like to know:

1.) What is your favorite thing to do when you need a break from a project? 
2.) What do you miss most about being a mortal?  Like an activity or a quest that you could mindlessly do.
3.) What do you not miss about your mortal skin?
4.) If you could do one thing to bring the basin together as your Divine self what would it be? Would He/She ever do it?
5.) What FanFiction needs to be written about your Divine self and why?

1. Like, any kind of project or a Lusternia specific project? Ultimately the both are the same kind of thing, but they end up being done for different reasons--i.e. playing video games of some kind, haha. For Lusternia at least, I usually turn to them for some sort of inspiration or ideas to think through ruts.
2. I don't really miss being a mortal, but I do always going to Shallach and bashing the orcs. There was something very nice about the simplicity of that area. 
3. The feeling of guilt about not investing time or energy in an alt when my "main" was all equipped and good to go; the feeling that I didn't have much interest in my "main."
4. This is a hard question. I think the problem is, unless there are certain circumstances, Terentia (and maybe all Warrior Elders) would have little need to "bring the basin together." 
5. I don't really read fanfiction, so I have no idea what would need to be written about Terentia or why. 

(PS--take this meager post as a sign that I have passed through my exams--so expect Terentia soonish... hopefully 🙈)

Eve said:

This thread has been too quiet here recently. Inquiring minds would like to know:

1.) What is your favorite thing to do when you need a break from a project? 
2.) What do you miss most about being a mortal?  Like an activity or a quest that you could mindlessly do.
3.) What do you not miss about your mortal skin?
4.) If you could do one thing to bring the basin together as your Divine self what would it be? Would He/She ever do it?
5.) What FanFiction needs to be written about your Divine self and why?

1.) Other than taking a break from Lusternia and taking a breather? Building, usually. A lot of my favorite work I've done in Lusternia hasn't actually been under Lantra's IC domain, but things I've written anonymously as an admin behind the scenes. I like piecing together stories in Lusternia and answering "What if?" questions through quest and area building: not just for Celest, but for the game as a whole. It's especially rewarding if I can churn out creative goodies for other admin, giving them toys I know they'll benefit from being put into the Lusternia universe. Year arcs are fulfilling because they scratch this itch as well, but they have a stricter timeline. If I'm puttering away at a brand new area behind the scenes, it's done when I want it to be. Works well as a backburner if you chip away at it slowly in your downtime.

2.) Being able to goof around more easily and fly under the radar. Lantra is a very serious character and she has little room for joking around or levity. I love that about her, but it's a static dynamic; her responses to various types of characters are set, and she will have limited changes in how she reacts to the world. It can also be frustrating to have those reactions interpreted as how I, the admin, feel about a player rather than how Lantra feels. This is to say that I can't just hop on an OOC clan and say, "PS, I'm not Lantra IRL." And this isn't even including the fact that when a god shows up, many players go completely silent and don't know what to do! NPCs can give more options, but it's not the same as just logging in and chilling at the nexus as a fun, low stakes alt.

3.) The mechanics and combat. The reluctant obligation to participate in political drama. Revolts/aetherflares/etc etc.

4.) This is an interesting question. I'll just say that Lantra believes she is always right and the sooner everyone else agrees to it and stops being Just Another Disappointment, the better.

5.) Thax x Lantra fanfiction, one-sided: unrequited love turned to hate from the metal man in a suit for the goddess who views him as the embodiment of everything wrong in the world. Mm, angsty angst. Delicious.

Uilani said:

PS. Be sure to check out sarkipose art at the bottom of the website's version of the event post!

It's a trap.

@Eritheyl There's been a lot of debate over ugly vs ugly cute in the Havens over sarkiposes. 

PS. Be sure to check out sarkipose art at the bottom of the website's version of the event post!

Yay for Gaudi gauds! Zhush's fleshseeds are finally available, and the lil worm babies are so...so freaking CUTE???