'thul's story project...

['thul]

As 'thul had no time to start reading another book yesterday, they continued with the rewrite, making progress where it halted earlier this month. Now 31 pages have been rewritten and the story segment has grown to 77 pages. The expansion of the dialogue is right on schedule page-count-wise.

[Farseer]

That's FANTASTIC! Good on you, 'thul!!

['thul]

These beings may have hit a bit of a stumbling block now. The typing program suddenly decided to replace the file with a 0 byte file during a recent system crash. Hopefully it'll be in the recovered files somewhere, but it may be that 'thul will have to rewrite much of the story.

Oh the pains of an aging computer.

['thul]

*breathes out calmly, releasing a purple cloud of venom*

'thul were quite lucky. It was only the writer program that had lost the file containing the core story, not the computer. running through a recovery process dug up about 21gb of data spread over about 19,000 files, one of which thankfully was the latest edition of the story file.

Thus 'thul will not have to rewrite the story as a whole.

[fool-ish]

*breathes out calmly, releasing a purple cloud of venom*

'thul were quite lucky. It was only the writer program that had lost the file containing the core story, not the computer. running through a recovery process dug up about 21gb of data spread over about 19,000 files, one of which thankfully was the latest edition of the story file.

Thus 'thul will not have to rewrite the story as a whole.

Get the pen and paper out, it's safer! Then you can be like a certain Mr. Martin and make us wait donkeys years for installments!

Siriusly though, good luck with it (and the computer!)

[Farseer]

Oh the pains of an aging computer.

Oh the pains of ANY computer!

Glad to hear you beings are having a little luck go your way...

['thul]

computers that have not been mistreated and are considerably less than 7 years old are no pain (mostly at least), but the one used to write most of the story has both been mistreated and is very old computer-wise...

'thul still need to get it fixed, but that can wait. They simply switched to their main computer for the writing, as well as making multiple backups of the story text.

the problem with doing it on pen and paper is that people are supposed to be able to read it without aid from a trained cryptologist. Its bad enough for the readers that some sentences appear written in old Norse, making them need skills in decryption is not a good idea...

['thul]

well, story has now progressed quite a bit. 'thul have now finished up 56 pages of rewrite, with a current page total for this section of 89. With the current progression, 'thul will guess that it will be 110 or 120 pages by the time this rewrite is done.

next part of the rewrite will revise some of the system of magic. it was a bit too restricted so far. 'thul have already decided that mages should be slightly more common on the simplest levels, with most of those wielding magic only truly understanding one or two concepts in the language of magic.
It did not make sense for it to be impossible for someone to learn a magical phrase if told it. Instead the user has to truly comprehend it to use it. Not decided yet whether to change where magic takes its energy from, but 'thul do lean towards that. The most common magics will certainly be related to the typical things like fire, ice/water, wind/air, light and such. Those concepts are generally easier for most to understand. Its far harder for someone to truly understand the concepts related to disembowelment.

[fool-ish]

A typewriter! That's what you need.

Keep up the good work

[Farseer]

Keep up the good work

Yes. That.