The following is a bit of development for a character I'll probably never use, but who sticks in my mind and dribbles scene fragments every now and then. His name is Wallace "Woolie" Wolsley, pronounced like "mostly" with a few bits turned around or corners knocked off. Yes, he does normally wear a knit cap and often a pullover sweater as well, he's not as young as he used to be and gets a chill all too easily. He's a retired officer of the British Army who's now a more or less successful private detective, depending on whether you look at his case record or bank balance, and a divination-specialized mage or psychic, depending on the setting. Sadly, psychic readings are not admissible evidence or he'd probably be a much better paid investigator. He's your wizard if you want to find out what your cat does during the day though, or your spouse last night. This is the part of his introduction that always comes right after his talents come up:

"And before you ask, you die. Sooner or later everyone does, that's the thing about the future. Fortunately, I only see a few seconds ahead at best, and have never sought for more as that's just enough to know when to duck without sucking all the joy out of life. No, seeing the past, seeing the present, those are far more useful overall. Know those and anyone with half a brain can predict the future at least as well as some riddle-spouting, crystal-gazing twaddle merchant, and more importantly plan for more than a single possibility that likely as not will change by the time you get there."

If he or someone vaguely similar or just the name seems like he'd be useful for something you're writing, go ahead and adopt him. I can consult further if you'd like, but really anything you come up with will probably be just as good and more likely to fit into your own story.

Another Green breakthrough leaves the party wondering what might have been

What's important here is the breakthrough: a legislature that has been two-party for over a century - pretty much its entire existence - just became three-party, with the new party holding the balance of power.

(There's also the bit about a Conservative government needing consensus from the Green Party to get anything done. This is going to be fun to watch.)

Way back in the first planning thread, we talked about adding Callahan's to the Metacontinuity. Here's a first draft of the wiki page... which I did completely from memory, so please point out any errors I made.

Just got back on the forums, might as well get back on the fic..  


Sylia's really worked up about Rule 11..  poor thing, realizing that people are people and you need them!  Very pleased with her characterization.

Lisa's about to bite off more Doug than she can chew..


More as I find 'em!

Edit: Lisa. Derp.

A Soviet camera lens
A Bottle of Guinness from 2003. (Still drinkable? My arse will tell in the morning)
A spare magazine for the Beretta gas gun
A figurine of Doug Sangnoir I made 8 years ago
A bottle of Bulleit. Half finished. I don't remember buying it. (Still drinkable)
A collection of US Quarters - a quarter of all States
A souvenir bag from my holiday in 2016 - unopened
A half-finished Misty May model
A half-finished Space Battleship Yamato
A Falco 45rpm single - Amadeus
A CD of The Wall, with Wish You were Here and Animals stuffed in the case.
Fifteen Euro in Change
2750 Yen
A half-finished Nakoruru Resin kit - that'd be worth about 200 euro or more if I hadn't started it since the resin version is so rare.
A set of microscrewdrivers
A Bottle of Teeling 23yo.
A paperweight with Lincolnm's emancipation declaration on it
A Tachikoma
A Tachikoma kit.
A Broken Dell Model-M clone
A con-bag from Eirtakon 2008, with conbook, and con-loot including the first five volumes on Seraphic Feather, a Dirty Pair novel, some Evangelion artwork.
A copy of the Illuminatus Trilogy
A receipt from the Soviet Union, unfilled out, for sale of a Soviet Lens.

....and it doesn't look any tidier.

I was sorting examples on some trope pages on ATT, and stumbled across Prom Is for Straight Kids.

Is this still a thing?

Yes, it's a serious question. As I added to the page when I sorted the examples, same-sex marriage has been legal since 2003 here. Nobody makes a fuss on Degrassi about someone bringing a same-sex date to the prom because, as far as most of us in the big cities are concerned, there's nothing to make a fuss over. I seek to understand whether this is still an issue elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

...but what do you want from fanfic?

Ayway, to start it off, kathryn518's Invincible has recived a fourth chapter, putting it at ~110k. I've honestly forgotten what happens in it, but it came up on my FFn list and reading a few pages into the first chapter shows it to be of acceptable quality, so here it is.

HP/DC crossover apparently, though I don't know who "Nolan" is in that context with flying brick and adaptation powers (as in, a thing that hurts him once won't hurt him again.)

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11779002/4/Invincible

I'm putting this here in politics because I'm sure that the discussion will end up there. Thoughts and prayers to Sri Lanka

For those of you who wont read town hall here is the CNN link
https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/s...index.html

So, there's extras floating around the server that're apparently Leos doing. Including an entire new class called Sentinel. Haven't tried it yet, and I suspect I might not get to before the devs manage to pull it out (Apparently they're aiming to restore it to an I24 state). This means that even if the code is as big a mess as all the old stories claim, improvements are possible. Which makes me wonder what people will come up with, and want we want. Personally, I want more weapon models.

Going to leave history, politics, blame and shame, all of that to other threads - and there SHOULD be those threads. 

But the short form is - there is a functioning City of Heroes server.  Right now. And you can get to it. 

Per https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/bf462j/a_guide_for_preparing_to_join_the_public_server/

Download magnet:?xt=urn:btih:606490b92fc35d249abff9f00360302d0552e735&dn=coh using the Torrent software of your choice.  This is the..  current..  CoH client (Issue 24 ish.)

Once that download is completed, Windows folks can get http://patch.savecoh.com/tequila.exe Tequila, Mac folks can get http://ir.powermad.net/islandrum-mac.zip IslandRum, and Linux folks can.. err.. I'll get back to you.  There _is_ a Linux native solution, but per the guy across the basement, Wine will do the thing.

OK, so you've got a thing! and it..  doesn't do much.

Head on over to https://score.savecoh.com/  and register yourself a forum account.  This is NOT related in any way to your old NCSoft account information.  Recommend using throwaway credentials.

Once that's up, https://score.savecoh.com/account/ Will let you create a game account. Again, nothing to do with your old account credentials - and it can be the same as your forum ones.