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reverienet2018-06-21 08:09 pm
bu773rfly) wrote in reverienet2018-06-21 08:09 pm
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Three things.
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I have a network-based service for task coordination up and running as of now. It's a BBS-style system hosted on a spare communicator. Project leaders can upload files, maintain contact lists, issue automated alerts to individuals or groups within the project, etc. Project members' permissions are set by the leader, but they can access the main board and receive alerts from the group by default, and have options to use the contact lists to send messages through the service, download and upload certain files, check in to report what they've done, etc.
Send "DOCS" to @bulletin for the manual. If you want to host one, send "NEW" and it'll take you through an automatic setup process. Right now it's set so each account can run one board, to keep traffic low, but if you need more I can manually set them up.
Credit to Haru Okumura for user experience feedback. It was designed for the garden, but should be customizable for any project.
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There's a calendar running on the garden board, but I didn't want to implement calendar functions across the service yet...because we don't know what year or month or weekday it is. The comms don't have dates, but there's a decently reliable timekeeping system based on computer ticks. Should the station reactivation be Day 1 and calendars just count up from that? Seven-day weeks? This is all a UI question, not a system one. I need some input.
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I found a manual for the VR hardware. The sets are still NOT confirmed safe for use. There's a lot to look through before that, probably more than checking over the sets themselves would cover.
But if there's anything from this you're interested in, I can look into it. Checking this against other device standards, salvaging useful parts, etc.
If there's any chance of modifying these so they're sure to fail to safe, and getting into the controlling computer, I'd like to make a zero-G training simulation. That's a lot of ifs, though. And it's a way lower priority than opening more doors and gaining control of the station control systems, so this won't cut into work for that.
[[ooc: if you have any questions about how this thing works, hmu, my technical knowledge is wobbly but i can at least say oh yeah it can/can't do that. It's a network-based system - like, you send a text to @bulletin with your project login info, it sends you a text back with the current project board in full ASCII glory and the keywords for viewing specific info, getting files, etc. Messages sent via the service come from @bulletin with the sender's name and the project name front and center. Alerts can be set up to be automatic but come in as texts. It's a BBS service by way of email groups by way of a massive stack of scripts running on one poor little communicator.
Also the security on it is diamond fucking hard.
If you want to lmk when someone sets up a board, so that I have an OOC tally of IC knowledge, that'd be swell.]]
1 -
I have a network-based service for task coordination up and running as of now. It's a BBS-style system hosted on a spare communicator. Project leaders can upload files, maintain contact lists, issue automated alerts to individuals or groups within the project, etc. Project members' permissions are set by the leader, but they can access the main board and receive alerts from the group by default, and have options to use the contact lists to send messages through the service, download and upload certain files, check in to report what they've done, etc.
Send "DOCS" to @bulletin for the manual. If you want to host one, send "NEW" and it'll take you through an automatic setup process. Right now it's set so each account can run one board, to keep traffic low, but if you need more I can manually set them up.
Credit to Haru Okumura for user experience feedback. It was designed for the garden, but should be customizable for any project.
2 -
There's a calendar running on the garden board, but I didn't want to implement calendar functions across the service yet...because we don't know what year or month or weekday it is. The comms don't have dates, but there's a decently reliable timekeeping system based on computer ticks. Should the station reactivation be Day 1 and calendars just count up from that? Seven-day weeks? This is all a UI question, not a system one. I need some input.
3 -
I found a manual for the VR hardware. The sets are still NOT confirmed safe for use. There's a lot to look through before that, probably more than checking over the sets themselves would cover.
But if there's anything from this you're interested in, I can look into it. Checking this against other device standards, salvaging useful parts, etc.
If there's any chance of modifying these so they're sure to fail to safe, and getting into the controlling computer, I'd like to make a zero-G training simulation. That's a lot of ifs, though. And it's a way lower priority than opening more doors and gaining control of the station control systems, so this won't cut into work for that.
[[ooc: if you have any questions about how this thing works, hmu, my technical knowledge is wobbly but i can at least say oh yeah it can/can't do that. It's a network-based system - like, you send a text to @bulletin with your project login info, it sends you a text back with the current project board in full ASCII glory and the keywords for viewing specific info, getting files, etc. Messages sent via the service come from @bulletin with the sender's name and the project name front and center. Alerts can be set up to be automatic but come in as texts. It's a BBS service by way of email groups by way of a massive stack of scripts running on one poor little communicator.
Also the security on it is diamond fucking hard.
If you want to lmk when someone sets up a board, so that I have an OOC tally of IC knowledge, that'd be swell.]]
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The rest, though. The rest is a cracked window on a world Erika might never get to see, but she can at least know, soak up mysteries like a sponge and populate her dreams with them. The Digital World sits lonely on a shelf, and wants company.]
What's the gold foil used for?
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[She answers, and settles in, smoothing her skirts down delicately.]
You place a gemstone out into the storm, and bond a spren to it. The kind of gem and the kind of spren and the arrangement of the gemstones impact what a fabrial can do. A firespren in a ruby might give off heat, simple enough. A windspren in a smokestone and an amethyst, which has the property of reversal- might be knotted to each other by a pattern of wire and set in a chimney to help draw smoke out of a room.
I don't think the metal matters much, except to connect the working stones. It's my mother's great interest, not my own.
[The knowledge she has of it is just the result of being an attentive and loving daughter.]
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Sounds like magic. [Which would be of very little interest if not for knowing now that magic is in fact real, in other worlds for other people. Which makes it not magic anymore, but alien science with questions and answers.] Or hacking, maybe.
[Anyways.]
Have you ever done any of that before? [The...uh...fabrication.]
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[Because;]
Alien in the literal sense. Humans colonized the planet Roshar millenia ago, and found the stones and spren waiting for us.
I've done a little, but I'm a better soulcaster than I am an artefabrian.
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But!]
How does that work? [The question comes immediately.]
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[She asks, and stretches her legs out, getting comfortable.]
You use stormlight to convince the spren of a thing to become another manifestation of itself. Metal into oil. Wood into water.
Would you like to see?
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I don't have enough opportunity to use these. They go done before I can cast with them, for the most part. So I don't mind demonstrating, that if a man rushed me I'd be inclined to use the zircon to turn air to oil, and the ruby to create a spark.
[And she does- Jasnah draws in a quick breath, lifting light from each with both gems, and then twisting her hand and creating a thin sheet of pitch hanging in the air, then lights it with a thought- it's such a small quantity that the liquid burns to nothing before it can fall to the deck floor, but a charging enemy coming through it would be in trouble.
It uses enough stormlight that the glow from both gemstones dims, the zircon a little more than the ruby.]