Community Meeting: January 7, 2022

Below is a short summary of the latest Community Meeting, followed by its chat logs – which have been gently edited for formatting, to put questions and answers in bold for easy skimming, and to omit greetings and farewells and other such asides.  Meetings are hosted by Estate owner NeoBokrug Elytis at 2:00 pm on the first Saturday of every month at The Potato Farm in The Wastelands, and the discussion is typically divided into three main topics: Estate, Game, and Roleplay & Events.  Everyone is welcome to attend!


ESTATE:

➳ The purchase price of parcels – not the weekly price of tier – has increased by L$1 per LI that parcel supports.
➳ This will allow for the return of the referral program, occasional land sales, and will make it easier for owners who sell land to recoup costs.
➳ After a few months of evaluation, this LI premium may increase further if it doesn’t appear detrimental.
➳ Occupancy did take a dip, but not by a terrible amount.
➳ The inworld land sale hub is still being worked on, as is the Northgate Community Gateway and the roleplay wing.
➳ Neo plans to do less contract work this year in order to free up more time.
➳ The landing page for www.the-wastelands.org will be getting a refresh soon – hopefully before WL16B!

GAME:

➳ The Giftmas festivities have ended!  The Giftmas ’22 collectibles were an assortment of old 360° snapshots and unimplemented… implements.
➳ Neo hoped to make a thrice-daily cooperative boss battle to fight Sandy Claws in Cormac. Maybe next year!
➳ Fear not, hunters: Neo’s found sources of good, original animesh animals on the Marketplace – huntable rats are coming soon.
➳ Work has begun on HUD-based weapon rebalancing, but memory use is higher than expected so far; refactoring is needed.
➳ The new weapons hinted at a few years ago may still make it into the game.
➳ The racial modifiers are still in the works, as well.

ROLEPLAY & EVENTS:

➳ The Wastelands’ 16th Birthday celebration, WL16B, will take place January 20 – 22, 2023! Slots are filling up, but if you’d like to host an event, contact Neo or Apo with your preferred time slot and available time range ASAP!
➳ Linden Lab has refreshed our information on the Destination Guide and added us to the Editor’s Picks!  Expect some newcomers at The Bunker.
➳ Neo may set up a gallery parcel and share his slideshow script for residents to show off some things from the history of The Wastelands.
➳ After its long hiatus, Neo is hosting Fight Night again – but may alternate it with media events.
➳ The Oracle has also returned after a hiatus, interpreting fortunes from scavenged scrap on occasional Sundays at noon.

Reminder: The roleplay character template has been added to the Wiki – add yours today!  Or review it to see who’s who and get some ideas for interactions.
Giftmas Celebrations
➳ The boiler “TREE” has gone up in Fort Stygian! Everyone is welcome to decorate it with a 1-LI item – and to leave a gift for others!
➳ Irk the Mutant has rolled up Bleedy The Dirtman, a holiday ho-ho-horror everyone can help decorate, at his place in The Great Fissure.
➳ Apo will inflict this year’s iteration of a Burnt Oak Drive-In tradition on Friday the 16th.  A terrible, terrible tradition.
➳ The Apo’s Audio Atrocities Giftmas Craptacular, an extra-long gauntlet of holiday music from entirely too many genres, will descend upon The N on Saturday the 17th.
➳ In whatever fashion this year’s collectables become obtainable, they will start spawning on December 18.
➳ Gomi plans to deliver us some festively foresaken films at Burnt Oak Drive-In on Sunday, December 25th – if not on Sunday the 18th, as well.
➳ The “TREE” and any game elements will likely be picked up again late on New Year’s Day.

Weekly Event Summary:

(All Times SLT)

Sundays:

– Storytime with Wasteland Drifter – 2pm
– Gomi’s Garbo Cinematic Expulsion – 5pm

Mondays:

– Mutant Drum Circle – 6pm

Tuesdays:

– Film Night with Wasteland Drifter – 5pm

Wednesdays:

– HOSTILE BROADCAST – 7pm

Thursdays:

– Unstructured Playtime w/ Dia – 5pm
– Booze & Blather [RP Event] – 6pm

Saturdays:

– Sandling’s Evening Madness – 1pm
– Fight Night (or War Zone on the first Saturday) – 3pm
– Apo’s Audio Atrocities – 5pm

First Saturday: Community Meeting – 2pm

Second Saturday: Barrelhead Bazaar [RP Event] – 11am

Third Saturday: Wasted Raiders’ Raid – Noon

Fourth Saturday: Second Second Saturday Skull Ball – 2pm (holiday hiatus)

Want to host an event?  Let Neo know the event details by Wednesday night and he’ll add it to the weekly group announcements, Discord announcement, and Plurk feed!

If you want to keep in touch with other Wastelanders when you can’t be inworld, our Discord server is now public! The Unbridled Rage greeter bot can give a link.


I. THE ESTATE

NeoBokrug Elytis: IT’S… TIME.
NeoBokrug Elytis: As per the usual there will be three main categories of discussion for the community meeting. Estate & Land, The Game, Roleplay & Events; with time for questions between each category. RP & Events is sort of an open floor ordeal unless I have something important to say.
NeoBokrug Elytis: To start, occupancy had it’s typical winter dip finally — but not by all that much. Which is nice.
NeoBokrug Elytis: The initial purchase price of land has gone up by L$ 1 per LI for the parcel, not the ongoing tier price, but the purchase price.
NeoBokrug Elytis: This should allow residents a better chance at undercutting me, and hopefully recouping some of their investment.
NeoBokrug Elytis: Its also the start of allowing me to potentially bring back the referral program we once had.
NeoBokrug Elytis: And offering occasional sales here and there, to maybe offset the slower months of SL.
NeoBokrug Elytis: Since the land purchase price was reduced to just 2 weeks of tier, I’ve learned it’s not so much the initial purchase price of land that keeps people from buyin’, but the ongoing costs.
Sketchkat Blackflag: sorry for the lateness
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): firekingsale, all must go
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Hahaha
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): hahaha!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: lol
NeoBokrug Elytis: And right now our ongoing costs are comparable and cheaper than other themed estates. So we’re doing good there. :)
Sketchkat Blackflag: x3
Mutsy Kaligawa: oooh nice
NeoBokrug Elytis: Of course “just land” estates will always undercut us with razor thing margins, but w/e :)
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Heya, Sketch!
NeoBokrug Elytis: This month The Wastelands turns 16. I don’t know that my brain can comprehend that anymore.
Mutsy Kaligawa: hehehe
NeoBokrug Elytis: The estate has got to apply…
NeoBokrug Elytis: …for it’s drivers permit.
Mutsy Kaligawa: xD
Kismet (valene.bellic): I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
Sketchkat Blackflag: xD
Catori Mistwalker: bahahh
Aposiopesis Fullstop: VROOM VROOM, MOTHERFUCKERS
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Heheh XD
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): In germany the Wastes could buy beer and wine
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): haha and what’re you gonna do when she brings her first boyfriend home to meet you guys???
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Aye!
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): it can have sex legally in the uk :/
Mutsy Kaligawa: O.o
NeoBokrug Elytis: Be overly protective and judgemental, like all good parents.
Sketchkat Blackflag: yee~
Sheala (sheala.olivieri) wink wink
NeoBokrug Elytis: Haha
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): hahaha!!!
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): there yah go!
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Warn said boyfriend that she’ll probably pop off his head and eat it.
NeoBokrug Elytis: Any questions about estate stuff so far?
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Hahaha! Which head, Apo?
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Yes.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): XD
Sketchkat Blackflag: :P~
NeoBokrug Elytis: In about 6 months I will evaluate how that L$1 to LI is doing, and I may bump it up to L$1.5, and if that’s still okay — within a year I plan to bump it up to L$2. That’s the long term plan though.
Sketchkat Blackflag: okie dokie
NeoBokrug Elytis: That should allow me enough wiggle room to do all the little land related perks/sales we haven’t done in years.
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): wooHOO!!!
Aposiopesis Fullstop wiggles.
Sandling Honey: (woops, small hiccup, but fixed)
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): so buy land cheap now if you want to sell it expensive in 2 years .. or something
NeoBokrug Elytis: The small parcels are doing rather well, I am somewhat surprised. I may make more here in time, but that’s just a random thought that pops in to my head every so often.
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): dont think about it, just do it
NeoBokrug Elytis: Haha
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): ^^
Sketchkat Blackflag: XD
Aposiopesis Fullstop: :D
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): motto for everything
moo Money: Are there real estate agents here?
NeoBokrug Elytis: Nah.
NeoBokrug Elytis: That’s what the old referral program was for.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Imagine showing people around a burnt out cabin
Mutsy Kaligawa: what about that land hub idea? Is that still a go?
moo Money: My snarky partner in crime and I need a place to lay our trash
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): HAHAHA “and here you can see the lovely green glow we call the miasma….”
Sketchkat Blackflag: “this dirt patch good?”
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Heheh XD
Aposiopesis Fullstop: You can always check out https://land.the-wastelands.org/ to see what’s available and where!
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): go for it, moo!!!
Catori Mistwalker: “the previous owners left this rubble pile just for you!”
Sketchkat Blackflag: do the thing~
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): :D
Kismet (valene.bellic): I love my little patch. ^_^
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): dont mind the sound, it will be over once the neighbor is done with killing the other neighbor
Sketchkat Blackflag: haha
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): you clearly fit like a glove X-D
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): You have a fine hut, Veen!
NeoBokrug Elytis: The Orienatation Island, role play wing, and land hub, are all still projects that are being worked on. This past year has been bad for my time to work on it. I am going to stop doing one of my non-WL, SL activities to free up that time, once this final contract is done.
Kismet (valene.bellic): Aah, thank you!
Sketchkat Blackflag: :o
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Not that I’ve been nosying in it or anything
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): >.>
Kismet (valene.bellic): Hee. I like your style so, means a lot.
Mutsy Kaligawa nods
NeoBokrug Elytis: I spent more time chasing down contract work, than doing actual contract work this past year. :(
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): Neo’s giving up his gorian roleplay to do WL full time!
NeoBokrug Elytis: My time is better spent here.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Thanks! ^-^
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Hahaha!
Sketchkat Blackflag: xD
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): LOL
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): hahaha!!!!
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Hehehe XD
moo Money: That’s why I gave it up, Neo. I feel you.
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): the other wasteland is made out of silk and ropes
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): XD
NeoBokrug Elytis: I hope to update the landing page for the-wastelands.org , here before WL16B.
ミಠᆽಠミ Winnie (winston.chandrayaan): >.>
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Dune Trappers make silk, of a sort…
NeoBokrug Elytis: I think that’s about it for estate and land related things. Any final questions about that section?
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): sigh, the zpiders
NeoBokrug Elytis: Movin’ on to game stuff!


II. THE GAME

NeoBokrug Elytis: The Giftmas spawn is over, I hope you all liked the random old stuff I pulled from the bowels of my inventory.
Sketchkat Blackflag: \o/
Aposiopesis Fullstop: :D
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): haha at least you wiped it off first :-P
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Ewwww!
Aposiopesis Fullstop: It’s not too late for some of them to become a real boy, right? Right?
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): really? there goes the resale value
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): HAHAH face!!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: doh!
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Just wish, Apo
NeoBokrug Elytis: I had higher aspirations for this giftmas actually, but there was a lot of RL problems this past month. I was going to have a smallish event 3x a day where folks fought Sandy Claws in Cormac.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: :o
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): hey, just gonna put it out there – i found everything BUT #4, so if anyone has one to trade…
Mutsy Kaligawa: aww D:
Sketchkat Blackflag: aww
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): oooh THAT sounds like fun!! next year??
Aposiopesis Fullstop: #4 was an absolute assbutt to find.
NeoBokrug Elytis: I got pretty far coding it, but I saw I was just running out of time with scope creep. If I got time this year I will work on it more.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): That would’ve been something else
NeoBokrug Elytis: The idea was a cooperative staged boss-like fight.
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): HAHAH ok then, i THANKS ROCKIN!!!
moo Money: that sounds amazing, Neo!
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): i think i still have a 4 on hive junker
Mutsy Kaligawa: Heyyyy
NeoBokrug Elytis: We’ll see what happens, I may revisit the idea.
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): i just got one from rockin!
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): thanks face! :-D
RockinAngel: welcome
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): oh yeah rockin was a trooper this giftmas!
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): I barely had time this year to scavenge so only found one but what a one it is
Sketchkat Blackflag: don’t know how you keep up with all these requests and whatnot Neo x3
NeoBokrug Elytis: I also started buyin’ original animesh creatures from the marketplace. I can make them work with the game, and I’ve already started pulling them apart to test things.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Oooooh.
NeoBokrug Elytis: There’s probably going to be little huntable rats soon.
Sketchkat Blackflag: :O
Aposiopesis Fullstop: !!!
Sketchkat Blackflag: yasss
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Yes!!
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): alright!
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): mm tasty rat
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): YAY!!!
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): rats produce consumables?
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Stab, stab, stab
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): hot damn!!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: ooooooh
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): hahaha!!!
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): Can we eat them?
Mutsy Kaligawa: rat burgers? :D
Sketchkat Blackflag: rat-babs~
Kismet (valene.bellic): Mmm tasty.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Delish!
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): WL: Savory Rat
NeoBokrug Elytis: And, as I mentioned last month I had been working on the HUD some to rebalance the weapons without updating all the weapons using Linkset Data. I got a prototype HUD workin’ but somehow it’s using more memory. I’ll have to refactor it a bit, to see what I can do.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Rat Onna Stik
Sketchkat Blackflag: ♥
Mutsy Kaligawa: Always wanted to try one since I saw Judge Dredd eat one
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): ooooh i LOVE ratonnastick!!!!
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): It’s a proven delicacy
NeoBokrug Elytis: I have a big dumb spreadsheet of normalized weapon damage, and oh my god, some weapons are waaay OP
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): op? surely you jest?
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): Let me guess. the Butterknife?
NeoBokrug Elytis: Exactly.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Add some of that leafy stuff the bearded guy peddles and you’ve got a real treat
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): You know what needs to be better .. the knive .. for no particular reason
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): ;-)
Sketchkat Blackflag: xD
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): XD
NeoBokrug Elytis: Anyway, that’s my plans for the game stuff. Maybe rats before the rebalance, because they are probably easier.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Haha!
Sketchkat Blackflag: aww yiss ♥
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Awesome
Mutsy Kaligawa: Can we keep them as pets too? :o
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): ^-^
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): would be great to see more WL critters
NeoBokrug Elytis: If you buy them from Vaak, sure.
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): whispers: CAN E MARRY THEM
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): i want rat minions
Mutsy Kaligawa: omg lol
Sketchkat Blackflag: can vouch for Vaak’s rats, yup
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): ooh wait, i HAVE rat minions… what am i thinking
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): Heheh XD
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Vaak-things are great things.
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): The stabby candy cane :)
Kismet (valene.bellic): Oh I love Vaak’s stuff.
moo Money: Does this mean Nyte and I can actually be pied pipers?
NeoBokrug Elytis: It is very hard to find ORIGINAL and GOOD animesh things.
NyteWytch (lil.salty): lol
Sketchkat Blackflag: mhm
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): XD
NyteWytch (lil.salty) gathers my minion army
Mutsy Kaligawa: my gobbleroot is awesome uwu
Sheala (sheala.olivieri): This place is gonna be overrun!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: and my soilfiend
NeoBokrug Elytis: A crate spawned in the arena, lol
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): Rats and Lizards…
Sketchkat Blackflag: OHHH MYY GAHHH
Kismet (valene.bellic): Yay lizards!
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): And fissure crabs
Mutsy Kaligawa: Lizard Rats :p
NeoBokrug Elytis: Okay! Any other questions before we move on to — what is going to be a monstrous events and role play discussion?
Mutsy Kaligawa: You all met Scuttle right?
moo Money: =O
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): hi scuttle
NeoBokrug Elytis: I actually have some animesh lizards too, I will see what their LI is like though.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: A couple years back now, you’d said that there were a couple new weapons that were ready to go but for the coding – and then you were going to make them some kind of Burnt-Oak-based quest rewards. Has that changed?
Mutsy Kaligawa: oooh
Mutsy Kaligawa: lol
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): base quest!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: He’s at my warehouse in stygian RM :)
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): ok will visit
NeoBokrug Elytis: I almost put them out as giftmas rewards, but chose not to because I want to put them in.
NeoBokrug Elytis: *the game still.
Sketchkat Blackflag: hehe, good plan
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): WL: hotknife pl0x
NeoBokrug Elytis: Haha no.
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): :c
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): the claw?
NeoBokrug Elytis: That thing is like 150 LI
Mutsy Kaligawa: daw
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): i remember many an hour at the salvager trying to make the hotknife
NeoBokrug Elytis: Haha!
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): damn, this tune tho!!!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: better chance at making hot cakes~
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): i remember many hours to find a use for hose and empty can
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): maybe we shoulda helped the G man after all
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Hah!
Mutsy Kaligawa: haha
NeoBokrug Elytis: It’s quite refreshing to hear from some people who came back to discover all the things I’ve forgotten I’ve coded in to the game and took for granted. Like falling damage, drowning, and the NPCs.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Or at least stolen HIS Hot Knife from the tent.
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): @apo: YES!


III. THE ROLEPLAY & EVENTS

NeoBokrug Elytis: Anyway, time for Events & RP discussion, but before we start…
Aposiopesis Fullstop: What’s higher on the agenda: huntable rats or Playable Race modifiers?
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): if you asked me there be a shrine so we can marvel at the crystal all day and noone would have it
ミಠᆽಠミ Winnie (winston.chandrayaan): mmmmm rats
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): RATS
Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane): defn’ly rats
Mutsy Kaligawa: rats
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): oh i would like more info on what Apo just said please
NeoBokrug Elytis: Linden Lab reached out to me to check up on our destination guide, and if we wanted to update anything before they featured our WL16B as an editors pick leading up to the event. So they remembered us. :)
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): aye for rats
Sketchkat Blackflag: \o/
Catori Mistwalker: wooohooo! that’s great :)
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Yaaaaaaaay! :D
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): Cool!
Kismet (valene.bellic): Aww nice!
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): and we were on editors picks when i logged in btw
NeoBokrug Elytis: While working on the HUD I was poking at loading racial modifiers, maybe that’s where my memory creep came from.
Mutsy Kaligawa: ooooh :D
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Oh, were we? Dope.
Catori Mistwalker: I recall seeing the LL destination guide avi near The N during a reading a few weeks ago, so they were checking up on the slurls
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Time to step up my Bunker hangout game! :V
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): racial modifiers?
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique) stands in the miasma
NeoBokrug Elytis: Ahh cool. If we’re an editors pick already, anyone who’s really knowledgeable about the estate — please feel free to welcome new folks at the bunker.
moo Money: There’s a destination guide avi? Is that like a google maps car?
Sketchkat Blackflag: haha
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): at one point it should make a gameplay difference if you are mutant, ghoul or boring smoothskin
NeoBokrug Elytis: I know that we’re going to have at least 1 trouble maker.
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): yeah, no eating the guests cc
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): “here, wear this hud i kill u” kind of troublemaker?
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): like ghouls needing more water, mutants being more awsome and stuff and humans be just overal weak
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Hahaha
Mutsy Kaligawa: look to the left of you,then to the right. Both of those people are troublemakers
Sketchkat Blackflag: Seems Khajiit
NeoBokrug Elytis: Nah, last year it was trollish folks who don’t quite break the rules, but go out of their way to make folks uncomfortable.
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): “if you don’t know who the troublemaker is…”
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): im paraoid enough
NeoBokrug Elytis: I just don’t have the patience for that, not after this past month.
Catori Mistwalker: yes, moo, there are several avatars who are dedicated to hopping around the grid to check on slurls for the Destination Guide
NeoBokrug Elytis: My BS detector is fine tuned after 16 years.
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): can we get a brief summary on the racial modifiers? or is that still under wraps?
moo Money: If an event is public, it will be griefed any way it can
NeoBokrug Elytis: We’re pretty good about stayin’ on top of it though Moo
NeoBokrug Elytis: Face:
NeoBokrug Elytis: Modifiers will change how a lot of things affect you with the HUD on. You can be non-typed, which is what everyone is now.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: So far, we’ve been fortunate with that, Moo. I think an actual birthday event only got griefed once, that I can recall?
NeoBokrug Elytis: But if you chose a race you’ll get a bunch of +/- modifiers to certain things, with an overall 5% bonus, and a special ability probably.
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): awesome! thanks for the explanation
NeoBokrug Elytis: From things to metabolism, damage resistances, etc.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: …And then there was the 3rd Birthday, I think, where we kinda griefed ourselves, and the region was so full that the Arena wouldn’t load for Fight Night. :V
NeoBokrug Elytis: Haha, I think that was the 4th one.
Sketchkat Blackflag: aww xD
moo Money: Lucky for you guys, LL yoinked my lolcubes at some point, so sorting my inventory isn’t dangerous anymore
Mutsy Kaligawa: :>
Kismet (valene.bellic): Oops
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): least we dont get cages and anti fur hate particles now
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Sometimes I do miss a good shower of bouncing Marios, though….
Mutsy Kaligawa: ugh, cages u_u
Mutsy Kaligawa: hahaha
NeoBokrug Elytis: Let’s see. Yeah, we’re going to have our 16th Birthday starting in the evening of the 20th, and going all the way through Sunday. It’s a a constant barrage of events with time to ‘rest” between each day.
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): core memory unlocked
Sketchkat Blackflag: ^ this
NeoBokrug Elytis: Are there still available slots Apo?
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): IB this is my first birthday too, lol
Aposiopesis Fullstop: There are! Right now, we’ve got some openings on Sunday morning and afternoon, and Saturday morning. Here’s what we’ve got so far:
Beatrix (beatrix.washborne): Bun Bun BUUUUUUUUUN!
Aposiopesis Fullstop: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dBTSSqt2vmZE_xSqGg8JFIDjox9AdeHW5UCrgiDL4h8/edit#gid=0
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Still *verymuch* in progress.
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): haha oldest residents fewest wlbd celebrations
NeoBokrug Elytis: If anyone is feeling brave, we’ll help you host an event. We’ve got way more experience than we should have.
Sketchkat Blackflag: xD
NeoBokrug Elytis: Just let me or Apo know. It doesn’t have to be music, it can be whatever you want.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: DJ set, live performance, game show, bloodsport, strange ritual…
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): Charades!
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): lmao
Sketchkat Blackflag: xD
NeoBokrug Elytis: Is Slingo still a thing, or was that banned?
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): oh fuck
NeoBokrug Elytis: Haha random-half-dead-braincells go.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Haha, dang.
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): slingo
Mutsy Kaligawa: there’s a word I’ve not heed for a while
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): salvage sploder
NeoBokrug Elytis: That’s everyday RM
Mutsy Kaligawa: hahaha
moo Money: I tried so hard to buy a slingo machine that didn’t take money sigh
Mutsy Kaligawa: we could all go camping
NeoBokrug Elytis: Let’s see. Aside from that we have the regular events most days of the week
NeoBokrug Elytis: And for the first time in MONTHS, I will be hosting Fight Night.
NeoBokrug Elytis: Tonight.
Sketchkat Blackflag: cards against huge manatees is still safe
Aposiopesis Fullstop: I have missed Fight Night.
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): [NeoBokrug]
NeoBokrug Elytis: I hope there’s enough players. Don’t leave me hangin’
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): [Is]
Sketchkat Blackflag: XD
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): [Fight Night]
NeoBokrug Elytis: I think that for the next couple months I am going to alternate Fight Night with either movies, or Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): People are trying to kill you left and right!
Aposiopesis Fullstop: :C
Beatrix (beatrix.washborne): Sadly, this is my last available Sat for F/N. I’ll be working Tue-Sat after next week.
NeoBokrug Elytis: We’ll ease back into a regular fight night. Personally, I think folks may have been burnt out on it — every Saturday for 15 years.
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): I’ve missed it.
NeoBokrug Elytis: After this, Fight Night.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: :|
Mutsy Kaligawa: oh heck Bea :(
RockinAngel: yes we coudl watch the movie the postman”
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Just because people got busy at the end of the year, that doesn’t mean it’s something nobody wants to do anymore. Please stop taking it away from us?
NeoBokrug Elytis: Okay, open floor for RP and Events dicussion.
NeoBokrug Elytis: Chat lag.
Mutsy Kaligawa: FN should still be a thing, def
moo Money: Is there an evolution of WL event for the 16th anni? I’d love to see how things were in the olden days
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Sometimes Neo puts up things with slideshows of images people submit!
moo Money: maybe old photos or a retrospective?
NeoBokrug Elytis: I think Gui is going to do Game Show, which is a VERY old and special event.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Yar – they’re hoping to host a Match Game!
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): In the olden days there was only the prim. and it was glorious…
Beatrix (beatrix.washborne): Wheel of Misfortune?
NeoBokrug Elytis: Oh yeah, we … Hmm! Maybe I will make a gallery parcel, and give out my slideshow script, we can have residents rez stuff there.
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): i’ve recently dug up a crap tonne of nostalgia
Kurk (ironblood.mechanique): im sad i dont have my old screenshots anymore :c
Mutsy Kaligawa: nice
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Awwww
NeoBokrug Elytis: Moo: There’s a couple museums that have collections of old game assets.
Sketchkat Blackflag: I peek at the little gallery by the landing point sometimes, that’s pretty special
Aposiopesis Fullstop: I could put up the history of the terrible maps I’ve drawn. :D
Aposiopesis Fullstop: That doesn’t go all the way back by any means, though
Mutsy Kaligawa: and posters… not terrible but, just as important
Aposiopesis Fullstop: The top floor of The N has just about every poster there’s been.
moo Money: I look forward to checking all that out. Thank you!
NeoBokrug Elytis: Regarding RP, I think there’s the Oracle tomorrow, Barrelhead next Saturday?, and Booze and Blather this Thursday?
Rot rum: Mutsy Kaligawa tries out the finer stuff..
NeoBokrug Elytis: Plus the occasional congealing of dots.
Kismet (valene.bellic): Oracle seems neat, wish I wasn’t busy Sundays. I hope to be a more congealable dot in general though.
Mutsy Kaligawa: the dots need to be connected
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): mutsy monk
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Sounds right, Neo!
Kalia (serenatoybox): I was working on something.
Mutsy Kaligawa pairs her palms together and bows
Aposiopesis Fullstop: No worries!
NeoBokrug Elytis: Tell us. :)
alikomy (alikomy00): it look cool
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): heya
Aposiopesis Fullstop: My Best of 2022 DJ set is tonight – some multimashes of the year’s top hits, some of my favorite mashups from the past year, and tributes to those who’ve gone on to the great gig in the sky.
Beatrix (beatrix.washborne): yayyyyyyy!!!
Mutsy Kaligawa: wooooo!
Kalia (serenatoybox): How are you?
Aposiopesis Fullstop: (Where at? Dunno yet!)
NeoBokrug Elytis: Thanks again for the tunes Sandling!
Mutsy Kaligawa: put your hands up if you want Apo to DJ at your place~
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): cc has too many hands
Mutsy Kaligawa puts hers up
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): my JY dump is available
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): go Mutsy
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Oh! There are also posters for WL16B now!
Beatrix (beatrix.washborne): Will have a place again in March!
Aposiopesis Fullstop: wooo!
Mutsy Kaligawa: that’s right, posters!
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): has the excat right number of hands
Mutsy Kaligawa: not one, but TWO!
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): is also well armed
Aposiopesis Fullstop: I think mine up there may have bad perms; one sec.
Mutsy Kaligawa: Oh sheeet :o
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Fix’t! Hopefully! Or lemme know, and I can drop a full-perm one on ya.
NeoBokrug Elytis: Is your poster on the Flickr yet?
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Nope, was going to do that today after sending them out to confirmed performers (after putting their times a little more firmly on the scheudle.)
Aposiopesis Fullstop: I also need to shake a couple more folks down for confirmations / times.
NeoBokrug Elytis: In about 5 minutes I am going to ask folks to step just outside of the arena, so we can wet the walls again.
Aposiopesis Fullstop: wooo!
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Gotta keep the walls wet, y’know.
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): pitcat demands BLOOOOOD
Kalia (serenatoybox): So I’m guessing the meeting part is actually over and it’s just hanging out now?
Facemelt (facemelt.loon): feed the potatoes
Aposiopesis Fullstop: We’ve been discussing upcoming events, which is the last part of the meeting.
NeoBokrug Elytis: The last bit is talking about events, Apo will post the meeting logs on the blog in a week or so.
Tristan Kuramoto: woo the lagg
Sketchkat Blackflag: never witnessed a fight night before x3 this’ll be interesting
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): eat sweettooth
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): you need your energie
The Mutant Witch of the Wastes (ccindy.pfeffer): for today, we SCAVANGE!
Irk (shannonwilsonbell): see you all at FN!
Kalia (serenatoybox): Ah, fair. Sorry I missed most of it, mainly came by to say high since I haven’t seen too many people.
Kalia (serenatoybox): hi*
NeoBokrug Elytis: No worries!
Mutsy Kaligawa: Going to sort my flicker this year… I’ve not bothered with it for toooo long >_<
Aposiopesis Fullstop: I’ll get ’em typed up tomorrow, probably; they get posted whenever Sandusky or Anne get the chance to review ’em. (Both of whom are busy as all get-out lately, sadly. :c )
Beatrix (beatrix.washborne): going to afk s o Idon’t have to bio mid F/N
Aposiopesis Fullstop: Haha, smart.
RM Beedit (rmarie.beedit): see you zoon
Mutsy Kaligawa moonwalks off the stage
NeoBokrug Elytis: AFK for a bit, I will be back in a moment. If you folks could come up here, that’s be swell.