Sally-Anne

[stinaleigh]

has had her blinders ripped off.

It will be very interesting to see what happens after they meet again.

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[jenett]

If it helps, the indexing took me about 6 months of free time to do (I did it starting last March through last August, with some bits of cleanup after.) We have an *awful* lot of content. (Shifting it into the wiki is .. ok, I'm hoping it's a 4 month project, not a 6 month one, but yeah.)

One thing that might help you - because it's helping me a lot in tracking down random links when I know about when it happened, but not, say, whose journal it was - is doing a search in the handy PDF files. (Linked from http://hpalternity.com). It doesn't work as well if you can't narrow it down to a few months, but...

(I did a presentation on all of our data wrangling this spring for a library conference: the data wrangling is at a handy confluence of 'I enjoy this kind of stuff' and 'it also makes a handy project for my resume in several ways'. But at that point - as of the end of February, our indexing docs ran 150,000+ words, and we had something like 1500 named NPCs (non played characters) referenced. And there are a lot of places they're seriously imperfect, which is part of why the move to the wiki. One of the things it's giving us is more ways to crosslink data, which I'm finding fascinating.)

As to speculation: I am certainly deeply entertained, and commentary last night while we were watching you all trying to figure out what was going on makes me think that's true for our other players (though I won't speak for them.)

ETA: (because I just saw the previous edit). You're very welcome. And we *love* that y'all are reading along, and so amazingly engaged in what we're doing, and the details, and come up with awesome theories about where we're going. (And okay, we also love riffing on what you think we're going to do and going somewhere else, and setting stuff up three years before we're going to use it, and so on.) But every time we have Big Plot, we're all going "Is there anything in alt-fen yet? Is there now?"

[teceler]

Eeeep. Yeah. Yeah, I figured I didn't have the time, but wow.

Yeah, that might work considerably better than the 'hunting the journals' I was doing a while back trying to sort out--I think I was trying to sort out what we knew about Siz's friend Dai). That was interesting (It's not nearly so bad with the pdfs now, but I kind of wish people had kept tagging their journals. It made things much easier to find) Anyway. --Now I'm thinking about how to wrangle something together to search all of them. I don't think grep would work well on pdfs, but...hm.

(Okay, I am seriously impressed here. --and yeah, I could see how it would be enjoyable, and it's much more important writing something than reading it. --and this description is fascinating, and I am looking forward to eventually getting to see these.)

Good. I won't try to speak for anyone else, but I feel like it's the least I can do when you're providing us with all this. --even if you do occasionally drive me mad by waiting and waiting and waiting on updating us on statuses.
Plus, speculating is fun.

What I said above. --and, well, if you wanted engaged readers etc, you clearly are doing something right. (what precisely you are doing right--well, I would say it starts with, I think, writing such compelling characters and so well.)

Anyway, back on topic, yes, you clearly love setting things up three years ahead of time. ([cough]Brutka[cough]).

And, you know, I wondered last night if someone was trying to get discussion started. --well, if so, it clearly worked!