Today and Tomorrow

[thomryng]

This is my first weekend since July 21, and I think I might actually be starting to relax.

I just posted the latest progress report to the Cruenti Dei forum. Work is humming along!

Today's plan is more work on CD, a nice long walk, some quick edits on a book project, cleaning up the kitchen, perhaps some weed-whacking in the front.

I think Francine might go grocery shopping.

Ah, the bucolic life!

Tomorrow, we've got to tackle some wedding projects. And laundry.

I'd like to share something I read recently:

In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely "First Servant." All the characters around him -- Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund -- have fine long-term plans. They think they know how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such delusions. He has no notion how the play is going to go. But he understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it. His sword is out and pointed at his master's breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted. (C.S. Lewis, "The World's Last Night")

I've been ruminating over this for a couple of days now, and the idea appeals to me as a framing device for a story of this servant's life. Of course, if you buy the argument that Shakespeare was an underground Catholic, the life and death of the "First Servant" takes on a whole other light.

(... and therefore I believe the President and Vice President of the United States must be impeached.)

Comments

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

Yes but is this version of CD going to suddenly die or will you hand it off if/when it becomes too much?

Perhaps Chord with all his cool new programming tricks can figure something out to reduce the processing time and thus ease burnout/turnaround?

How many positions? Tarbyr style or Priban style?

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

Towards the end of CD, Paul made a Java applet to handle combat, which speeds up orders tremendously.

I do need to figure out some sort of electronic orders tool. A huge part of the issue with CD is the players' insistence on non-standard orders. I'd love to have an online tool that forced them to use correct formatting.

Hell, come to that, I'd like to have a tool that processes the electronic orders for me. :)

As for "style"... it's kind of a cross of both. The Pribani-style Empire is there, but it's a lot looser than Priban: no Senate, fewer Imperial powers, an elective monarchy.

There are also huge swaths of the continent given over to steppe and wilderness, more or less outside of the Imperial "system".

There will be some "historical" starts, and some free starts.

Starting QRs will be mostly in the 4-7 range.

And did I mention almost no Humans? No Elves or Dwarves, either.

erm....

[chordam7.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have an online tool that forced them to use correct formatting.

Hell, come to that, I'd like to have a tool that processes the electronic orders for me.


um. that would be a web page. with forms.

not to get all technical on you....

Re: erm....

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

That could do it!

Re: erm....

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

Sure. But I've never actually done one of those. It's on my list somewhere below finishing the rules and maps.

Re: erm....

[zator.livejournal.com]

oh, my. I have seen a developer blossom right before my eyes.

-grins-

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

Mostly Wombats/Bugs/Lizards?

[thomryng.livejournal.com]

Yep. There are a few Human islanders off to one side, but they're stone-age tech, whereas everybody else is late middle ages / early renaissance.

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

mmm. Wombat Chow.