I liked the "may whatever sins she could have possibly sinned" in there. (It's actually "may whatever sins she has sinned" in the original.)
I should pull out a list of all Tosha's prayers; I had fun with them. (I had to dissect the rules to give Deb for when she was writing Barty's version -- he wasn't going to get all of it, because he didn't care for himself and he'd always just put it in the "Tosha's quirks" category, but by the Gods, Tosha believed, and that meant Barty was going to do his fucking best.)
(I don't know how clearly it came across, but: the names of the familial dead are written on a stele in the temple/chapel in the basement, because the belief is that as long as your name is still written, your souls will not die. Tosha woke up to find that Barty had carved his name in GIANT FUCKING LETTERS.)
Anyway, yeah. My favorite part of that whole interaction was Daph's last comment, to Tosha telling her he was coming to fetch her: "Is it time, then? Good. I'm ready."
I reread that exchange and Tosha's "I have it on the best authority that weddings are always a combination of terrifying and ecstatic for those involved, but chin up; it will be over quickly." choked me up.
I really liked the prayers for Daphne. Mostly because I think she was the most deserving of them in some ways. She is one of the few characters in our game (barring the Longbottom kids...and with Evelyn I'm not so sure, given the note she and Ginny ended on) who really hurt no one. Except maybe herself.
Also, I was thinking today that the Battle of Hogwarts would have very likely been lost, if not for Daphne. Because she stole the Roman Eagle horcrux, and Barty wasn't able to fetch it for the Inferi armies.
(Also, while looking I found this conversation between Barty and Tosha just after Daphne's murder, and oh, man, rereading that in the context of how things ended is just heartbreaking.)
I think this is a great summation for a lot of Alternity play, though: Now sleep. It will likely not be better in the morning, but at least it will be morning, and you'll need to be well rested.
Oh, man, yes. The number of times Tosha sent Barty to bed NEVER FAILED to crack me up.
(Other Tosha and Barty moments I loved: The number of times Tosha nagged him to FINISH HIS DAMN THESIS ALREADY so he could grant Barty his Mastery.)
(I think the first thing he does when he becomes Grand-Master of the Conclave is to enter Barty into the rolls of past Masters of the Conclave, finished master-work or no.)
I had this idea, when I started doing the wiki, that people would at least vaguely remember the stuff they did with their own characters.
First lesson for anyone taking on this kind of project: they won't.
I think every single person, we had more than one example of "Wait, where was this?" and then discovering it was one of their posts. (I mostly remembered my own stuff, but I had the advantage of reading it a couple of extra times in the indexing process, and a brain that holds on to random trivia like a steel trap, especially if it's something I've read.)
Yeah, for a long, long time I was able to hold a *lot* of that in my head - mostly because we didn't have the wiki. And I was doing the recaps, which meant I got to glance through every post to decide how to summarize it.
Once you took over the indexing, though, my ability to keep track of things started to fail. Not that I'm complaining! Because holy databases, they were getting unwieldy even in the G-Doc versions! But I definitely noticed a chance in my own steel trap for Alternity trivia once I had the thought, "Oh, it'll be in the wiki if I need it!"
Which was great. Unless it wasn't there for some reason. ;)
One thing, we started having a lot more posts as we went on (we were at 6,000 posts in March of Y5, when I did a conference presentation on managing data with free tools, and we ended at 11,000 and change, so almost half the total in the last 2 years.)
And, in my particular case, I had only the one character until Y5, and after that they were so clearly in different places in the game having different conversations it wasn't hard to keep track of.
One of the things in my draft folder for the wiki is an example of indexing. I am using a post from Barty, in honour of him winning the award for 'most tabs in the wiki I reliably had to open proportionate to words in the post'. (Lucius and Alice also reliably made me open a lot of tabs, but they had much longer posts.)
oh, ha, that "chance" up there should read "change" - specifically a decline.
But yes.
I was telling a friend about the game yesterday (we went to lunch and she let me babble) and she asked how many days we didn't post - which as you know, I tracked, but I haven't compiled the total for all-years, yet. That's on my to-do list in the next week or so, all the stats runs on the posting data.
Greater number of posts is definitely a factor; also a factor was a fragmenting of plot responsibility. As character groups branched, they took on aspects that didn't involve my characters as much. As a result, there were threads that I admittedly paid less attention to, other than a quick read just to make sure I didn't accidentally screw with continuity.
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Date: 2015-09-03 12:59 am (UTC)/it's all a blur
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:07 am (UTC)It's even worse than I remembered.
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:12 am (UTC)Rumours of my death have been greatly whatever.
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:20 am (UTC)I should pull out a list of all Tosha's prayers; I had fun with them. (I had to dissect the rules to give Deb for when she was writing Barty's version -- he wasn't going to get all of it, because he didn't care for himself and he'd always just put it in the "Tosha's quirks" category, but by the Gods, Tosha believed, and that meant Barty was going to do his fucking best.)
(I don't know how clearly it came across, but: the names of the familial dead are written on a stele in the temple/chapel in the basement, because the belief is that as long as your name is still written, your souls will not die. Tosha woke up to find that Barty had carved his name in GIANT FUCKING LETTERS.)
Anyway, yeah. My favorite part of that whole interaction was Daph's last comment, to Tosha telling her he was coming to fetch her: "Is it time, then? Good. I'm ready."
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:30 am (UTC)(Reread shortly after Daphne's demise, I mean.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:41 am (UTC)Oh God, I COULD NOT RESIST THAT.
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Date: 2015-09-03 03:30 am (UTC)Also, I was thinking today that the Battle of Hogwarts would have very likely been lost, if not for Daphne. Because she stole the Roman Eagle horcrux, and Barty wasn't able to fetch it for the Inferi armies.
Which led to this amusing exchange between Tosha and Barty.
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Date: 2015-09-03 03:35 am (UTC)I loved that thread. It was just like OH FUCKING BALLS, NOT ANOTHER FUCKING PROBLEM.
Daphs really did win them the war. They could've gotten the horcrux eventually, but it would have been really, really messy.
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Date: 2015-09-03 04:09 am (UTC)One of my favourite Tosha phrases (which I cannot now find) was along the lines of "This day did only lack THAT."
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Date: 2015-09-03 04:29 am (UTC)oh oh oh, I JUST SAW THAT THE OTHER DAY when I was going through things looking for something, ARGH. It'll come to me!
(Tosha and his world-weary resignation to the shitshow his life was, man.)
Okay, I have not yet found that, but I have found:
"Well. At least it will be a different set of intractable and exhausting problems."
"Difficult odds against a highly motivated force with our lives and our honour upon the line: it will at least be a familiar adventure."
And HA. I think I found the one you meant: "Oh, fuck a rusty duck, the night did only want for that." (Barty had just informed Tosha that Voldemort wanted the Inferi to fight in the Return of the Frost Faire Games.)
(Also, while looking I found this conversation between Barty and Tosha just after Daphne's murder, and oh, man, rereading that in the context of how things ended is just heartbreaking.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 05:19 am (UTC)And that last link. Oh, gods.
I think this is a great summation for a lot of Alternity play, though: Now sleep. It will likely not be better in the morning, but at least it will be morning, and you'll need to be well rested.
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Date: 2015-09-03 05:27 am (UTC)Oh, man, yes. The number of times Tosha sent Barty to bed NEVER FAILED to crack me up.
(Other Tosha and Barty moments I loved: The number of times Tosha nagged him to FINISH HIS DAMN THESIS ALREADY so he could grant Barty his Mastery.)
(I think the first thing he does when he becomes Grand-Master of the Conclave is to enter Barty into the rolls of past Masters of the Conclave, finished master-work or no.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 06:39 am (UTC)"I am of course delighted for the chance to be of service and entirely certain I will be able to integrate the necessary work into my already complex schedule without difficulty. Possibly I will first need to develop new methods of control over space and time, but that shan't take more than a week or two, I imagine."
(On being made Head of Hogwarts.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:07 am (UTC)First lesson for anyone taking on this kind of project: they won't.
I think every single person, we had more than one example of "Wait, where was this?" and then discovering it was one of their posts. (I mostly remembered my own stuff, but I had the advantage of reading it a couple of extra times in the indexing process, and a brain that holds on to random trivia like a steel trap, especially if it's something I've read.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:54 am (UTC)I put in Bill's bio that he has a close to photographic memory.
What a joke. Clearly, his player does not.
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Date: 2015-09-03 03:48 am (UTC)Once you took over the indexing, though, my ability to keep track of things started to fail. Not that I'm complaining! Because holy databases, they were getting unwieldy even in the G-Doc versions! But I definitely noticed a chance in my own steel trap for Alternity trivia once I had the thought, "Oh, it'll be in the wiki if I need it!"
Which was great. Unless it wasn't there for some reason. ;)
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Date: 2015-09-03 12:17 pm (UTC)One thing, we started having a lot more posts as we went on (we were at 6,000 posts in March of Y5, when I did a conference presentation on managing data with free tools, and we ended at 11,000 and change, so almost half the total in the last 2 years.)
And, in my particular case, I had only the one character until Y5, and after that they were so clearly in different places in the game having different conversations it wasn't hard to keep track of.
One of the things in my draft folder for the wiki is an example of indexing. I am using a post from Barty, in honour of him winning the award for 'most tabs in the wiki I reliably had to open proportionate to words in the post'. (Lucius and Alice also reliably made me open a lot of tabs, but they had much longer posts.)
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Date: 2015-09-03 12:26 pm (UTC)But yes.
I was telling a friend about the game yesterday (we went to lunch and she let me babble) and she asked how many days we didn't post - which as you know, I tracked, but I haven't compiled the total for all-years, yet. That's on my to-do list in the next week or so, all the stats runs on the posting data.
Greater number of posts is definitely a factor; also a factor was a fragmenting of plot responsibility. As character groups branched, they took on aspects that didn't involve my characters as much. As a result, there were threads that I admittedly paid less attention to, other than a quick read just to make sure I didn't accidentally screw with continuity.