The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Rock of the Fraternity]

After reading Yalenusveler's post, I have to ask: when do I routinely send people off on wild goose chases? o_o

At any rate, a little announcement: my central heater broke down yesterday for some reason, so I'm using a spare heater, which requires a wall socket I also use for lighting up my computer in the evenings. Ergo, I will unfortunately not be available for chatting until this matter is resolved -- I enjoy this campaign, but not enough to permanently fry my eyeballs typing away in the dark. I will, of course, be available for regular posting.

[yalenusveler]

Having been the recipient of a 5 hour power outage two nights ago, I appreciate the need for heating. Here's to hoping your central heat gets fixed soon!

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Barring a spontaneous regeneration of whatever's wrong with the central heating, Mr. Repair Man should be paying me a visit on Monday. This being a professional repair man, I am informed he doesn't like to say around what time he'll be arriving. ^^; Thanks for your good wishes.

Looks like those of us who went for a drink had some fun experiences ... Interesting. Things are afoot, my dear Watson(s)!

[NeoTiamat]

More like a-claw, a-shadow, and a-whisper, it seems.

Anyways! Raw 500 XP to all those people who put up the logs, and congratulations!

You are also able to conduct side-RPs with the other NPCs if you desire, I know one person has been asking about that.

[NeoTiamat]

The Witching Hour approaches here north of old Salem, Mass, where witches danced upon the air, and the spirits walk on All Hallow's Eve. And so, in commemoration, I thought I'd put up a little something for the general edification of all in the Cutscene thread.

[NeoTiamat]

Well, since it took Nathan about... three hours to crack my cryptograms from the time I posted it, I'll expand it to a general contest so that someone else gets to stretch the mental muscles.

Basically, anyone who wants to try their hand is welcome, and I'll award XP for successful translation, 500 XP per set of cryptograms.

I would also like to ask those of you who do solve it to keep hush-hush about it.

[Nathan of the FoS]

Charles is a professional, you know.

[NeoTiamat]

Charles is a professional, you know.

A professional what though?

Also, kudos to Lostboy for figuring out one of the cryptograms, and 500 XP to him. Anyone else want to step up to bat? I'll leave this open till, say, the end of the week.

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Also, looking over something recently, I'm going to ask everyone to engage in an Equipment Review.

Basically, I'd like everyone to go over what they have in terms of gear, try and remember what it costs (if possible), and send me an inventory. I'll pay 400 XP for it, and it will help me figure out what kind of gear do you people need and that Kuzan can't cover, which in turn means you're liable to get nicer and more useful stuff if you do this.

Sound fair?

[NeoTiamat]

Sorry about the delay, you guys do not want to know what the last two days have been like for me.

Off to post.

[NeoTiamat]

Hrm. Does anyone else feel we're operating somewhat under strength?

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Also, I updated the cutscene with the translations, in case anyone is interested.

[The Whistler]

Also, I updated the cutscene with the translations, in case anyone is interested.

Dang, wanted to take a crack at those tonight. Ah well, "he who procrastinates is lost," and all that.

Still going to get the equipment review in, though, so expect that.

[NeoTiamat]

Oh, also, when doing this, list any non-equipment bonuses or powers that you get, since I draw those from the same 'pool' of equipment-like powers.

So in Otto's case, he'd be listing his transformation abilities and the Heart-thorn, while Kuzan would be mentioning his new Luck-power, and Andre his repeated stat boosts and his Half-Fey-ness, Lia would mention her wings, and there might be a few other powers I've forgotten somewhere or other.

[lostboy]

ok so how did you encrypt the cat womans words? I spent a good hour trying various digraph ciphers in vain....

Also does Khalil get anythign form Loups barks?

And finally Im going to be away for 10 days from Sunday until the 19th November (NT you already know) so dont you crazy kids go getting into too many fights without me...

[NeoTiamat]

ok so how did you encrypt the cat womans words? I spent a good hour trying various digraph ciphers in vain....

*snickers* I'm rather proud of myself there, actually.

First I encrypted the words with the same kind of code as those of the Man with the Hole in his Head. If my notes are correct, the encryption key for the Man with the Hole in his Head were respectively Existence and Nullity, while the Cat Woman who Mutilates Herself used Pleasure as her code word.

Then I coverted that coded stuff into all-caps, then put a hyphen between every letter of each word. Then I went around and added a random lower-case letter to the back of every single capital letter, purely to confuse people. I also made sure that the syllables thus formed made sense as a language, and repeated them some, just to make people focus on the syllables and not the letters.

It's fun, but really rather time-consuming to do. I had something more elaborate planned with the Man with the Hole in his Head, but I was on a bit of a time crunch, so...

[lostboy]

First I encrypted the words with the same kind of code as those of the Man with the Hole in his Head. If my notes are correct, the encryption key for the Man with the Hole in his Head were respectively Existence and Nullity, while the Cat Woman who Mutilates Herself used Pleasure as her code word.

huh I didnt relaise you had a key. I actually cracked the hole in the head dude's ones by trial and error and looking at letter frequency. They were only substituion ciphers so not that hard.

I really thought you had gone all OTT and done some kind of 4 square or playfair digraph cipher on the other oen and spent ages trying to work out what the key was. I though it was the name of Devereux's book mostly, and thereforespent ages drawing grids and tryign to fit terrible and tombs in as keywords... dammit.

Eh it was fun, I havent tried to do anything like that for ages.