(03-27-2021, 09:15 AM)robkelk Wrote:

(03-27-2021, 08:18 AM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: Bit of a tangent, but I think it would still be a good idea if we used something like Google Docs for the live stories.  It'll make it a lot easier to avoid that awkward situation where two people are working on the same story on the Wiki and don't even know it, and then try to submit changes that happen to contradict one another.

With Docs, you can see the changes being made in real-time, so you wouldn't wind up with that situation.  Even better?  You can leave in-line notes and commentary for others.  Stuff like, "Are you sure you meant this and not that?" or "Don't you think this is a bit out of character for this person?"

I have a fundamental dislike of sharing information with Google for any reason. I know too much about how they use it.

And we started the wiki because we wanted someplace where we could all edit the live stories, and PiratePad was glitching on us. So far, we haven't had an edit collision.

(05-31-2020, 04:09 PM)robkelk Wrote: Now that we have a calendar, does anybody want to work on a map? I spent much of the weekend pulling all the named locations onto one list - all it's missing is the off-Earth locations planned for Arc 2. I think.

(03-27-2021, 08:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Oh, and checking out the new mapping stuff, I noticed the note about "wherever Eddard Stark ended up".

Well... according to Google Maps, there's allegedly a castle called "Winterfell" in upstate New York, on Lake Pleasant, but zooming in doesn't show anything of the sort... in our timeline.

There's also a Winterfell in Chihuahua Mexico...  and another in Converse, TX, just outside of San Antonio...

(03-27-2021, 08:04 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: And for maximum fun, there's a preschool called "Winterfell Academy" in the Bronx.

(03-27-2021, 07:48 PM)robkelk Wrote: Are you still logged in at All The Tropes?

Have you tried clearing your cookies before logging in again?

(01-18-2021, 01:07 PM)robkelk Wrote: Just tossed some more terms onto the Glossary page, including some that I don't expect we'll get to before Arc 2.

EDIT: And added a few more. ("A few" being bringing the count of glossary terms from 6 to 47.)

Quote:He awakened... somewhere, exactly where matters little... hale and hearty, alive in a body complete with working hands, and with the certain knowledge that his idle musings about possibly being a character in somebody else's story were correct. He is certain that this "somebody else" is [[Celestial supporting characters|either a goddess or a she-devil]], mainly because he awoke with a list, written by a feminine hand (he could tell), of the places in this strange new world where others like him, characters from other stories, had appeared.

If he is (as he assumes) to be a character in someone else's story, then it behooves him to be the best character that he can be, within the limits of his characterization and abilities. After all, he expects nothing less from his own characters; to fail to live up to his own rule would be rude.

And thus he walks the Earth, traveling from town to town (if one can call cities where over a million people live "towns"), adjusting the plots to create more interesting stories.

Quote:Drosselmeyer is often very Genre Savvy, particularly when it comes to fairy tales.