00:18 * Schism soaks a reasonable amount of granola. Drains it, then adds some apricot yogurt.
00:21 * ThatAnonPony boops at Schism with a spoon. And also belatedly wonders about white tigers and affable supervillains.
00:21 <Schism> Well, the white tiger shows up in the latest chapter of The Gamer.
00:23 <ThatAnonPony> Only a turtle, a bird, and a dragon left to go? I think...
00:23 <Schism> Yup.
00:24 <ThatAnonPony> ... It makes me a little sad that my familiarity with that myth comes from the RWBYfic 'The Games We Play'. Knowing fairly prominent mythology only through fanfiction seems bad somehow...
00:26 <Schism> Allow me to reset your expectations: my first introduction to the firebird, tortoise, white tiger, and serpent was from Digimon.
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00:27 <ThatAnonPony> Not a fanfic though--that's a marginal improvement!
00:28 <Schism> I suppose. And it was from the cosmic horror Digimon series, too. o3o;
00:29 <ThatAnonPony> o3o;
00:30 <Schism> Poor, poor Jeri. Should never have been saddled with Leomon and his death curse.
00:34 <Schism> (Who knew that having a kids' show directed by the guy behind Serial Experiments Lain would result in scarring an entire generation?)
00:35 <Schism> Ahem, written and directed by.
00:36 <ThatAnonPony> Could maybe be worse. Could be Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The director for that one is now semi-affectionately known as 'the Butcher' by the fans.
00:37 <Schism> Heh. Considering the nature of Digimon Tamers, I think it was a pretty good lead-up to Madoka Magica.
00:38 <Schism> Hey, what a lovely quasi-magical girl shounen show about battling with monsters. Now let's add an eldritch abomination.
00:42 <ThatAnonPony> That sudden genre shift though.
00:42 <ThatAnonPony> Or rather, the moment you realised you aren't the show you thought you were.
00:43 <Schism> It was a little less sudden in Tamers, but from the moment Beelzemon killed Leomon, the show took a swerve right into the abyss.
00:44 <Schism> Up until that point, it seemed like a halfway lighthearted little romp. Aaaand then came the emotional trauma.
00:44 <ThatAnonPony> ... 'Beelzemon'? That's pretty blatant.
00:45 <Schism> Yeah, but up until that point, the character (Impmon) was practically comedy relief and a butt monkey.
00:46 <ThatAnonPony> That makes it sound like they kind of brought it upon themselves... In settings where sudden inexplicable power-ups are routine, it seems commonsense to be nice to others.
00:46 <ThatAnonPony> Y'know, just in case.
00:46 <Schism> To be entirely fair to the rest of the cast, he was a gigantic jerkface who pelted everyone else with fireballs on a regular basis.
00:47 <ThatAnonPony> ... In settings where sudden inexplicable power-ups are routine, it also seems common sense to avoid such people, but I guess 'avoid everything vaguely confrontational' doesn't make for a good story.
00:48 <Schism> Something something power of friendship.
00:48 <ThatAnonPony> But which power of friendship? Twilight's? Or Nanoha's?
00:49 <Schism> Besides, there's a difference between 'being a jerk' and 'being a power-hungry monster intent on stealing everyone else's lifeblood'.
00:49 <Schism> Eh, closer to Nanoha's.
00:49 <Schism> Heh, and if we're going to talk about genre shifts.
00:53 <ThatAnonPony> ?
00:53 <Schism> Nanoha started off all nice and lighthearted, even that bit with the giant kitten.
00:53 <Schism> And then we got to the point where Precia Testarossa punished Fate for her failures, and suddenly everything is just a LITTLE BIT DARKER.
00:54 <ThatAnonPony> True. Not sure I'd call it a total genre shift. Or at least, it's still thematically true to itself.
00:55 <ThatAnonPony> It's a show about a little girl befriending people with magical mecha-grade artillery. Browbeating the story itself back towards optimism is totally within her power too.
00:55 <Schism> True. There were hints, before that, that the show was a fair amount more than it let on, being a logical deconstruction of the magical girl bit in a lot of ways.
00:56 <Schism> Heh. Magic, in that series, is specifically intended not to harm living beings except in extreme situations. Which, uh. Really didn't work out so well for Subaru.
00:56 <ThatAnonPony> Wasn't that a bomb?
00:57 <Schism> Bunch of exploding kunai.
00:57 <Schism> Which, I guess, kinda skirts the line.
01:05 <ThatAnonPony> That's one of the Numbers, right?
01:09 <Schism> Subaru Nakajima was one of the main characters. The kunai were thrown by... I forget which Number, but she managed to get her siblings free of an unwinnable fight.
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02:05 <PinkieShy> Asked the local shops here about building me one on their layaway like program..
02:05 <PinkieShy> They said they require 50% down of the total cost of the computer before they do anything.. >_<
02:07 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Nightly Discussion #2050 [ http://tinyurl.com/wbt589g ]
02:44 <PinkieShy> ...
02:44 <PinkieShy> There is this one guy in this game mic spamming a duck noise and its beginning to annoy me.
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03:07 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Makenshi: Trixie Music: MelodyBrony - Trixie (feat. Djohn Mema) [Post-Hardcore] [ http://tinyurl.com/uufacev ]
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03:13 * PinkieShy licks DashedRainbows
03:13 * DashedRainbows barks and wags her tail
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03:44 * Golden flops.
03:45 * PinkieShy flips.
03:47 * DashedRainbows flips and flops
03:48 <PinkieShy> everybody do the flop! :D
03:51 * Golden flops face first.
03:51 <DashedRainbows> Flop party!
03:57 * DashedRainbows flops around rhythmically
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03:59 <Jackie> Eee
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04:05 * DashedRainbows boops Ali with her tennis ball and barks
04:05 * Ali is in too much pain to play.
04:06 <PinkieShy> :(
04:06 <PinkieShy> My brother told me news that scares me..
04:07 <DashedRainbows> Oof pain sucks
04:07 <PinkieShy> My nephew is sick and everything and the doctors think he might have a heart murmur as well.. (Fevers around 102.8)
04:15 * DashedRainbows is far too cynical these days
04:15 * DashedRainbows brushies Ali then
04:27 * DashedRainbows curls up on her doggy bed
04:29 * uni flops in
04:29 <uni> good morning everyone~
04:29 <uni> or afternoon, rather
04:30 <Jackie> Hi
04:38 <Golden> Ecening
04:38 <Golden> Evening*
04:44 * DashedRainbows licks uni a lot in greeting
04:52 <DashedRainbows> All ponies taste of candy except the earth ponies who just taste of horse
04:57 <Golden> Huh neat
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05:24 * DashedRainbows barks back
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06:22 <uni> !seen SugarWing
06:22 <DerpyBot> uni: The last time I saw SugarWing was 2016-11-08 12:05:24 UTC
06:22 <uni> hmmmph
06:22 <uni> wonder how she is now
06:26 <Ali> I've never heard of that nick before
06:26 <Ali> And '16 is a long time ago now..
06:26 <Ali> !seen straight
06:26 <DerpyBot> Ali: The last time I saw....will you cut that out already?!
06:26 <Ali> Never gets old~
06:31 <uni> hehe yeah
06:31 <uni> 2016 is like forever ago though
06:32 <Golden> Yup
06:32 <uni> !seen straight
06:32 <DerpyBot> uni: The last time I saw....will you cut that out already?!
06:32 <uni> hehe
07:47 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Episode Rewatch - MLP Season 2 Episode 1-2 - The Return of Harmony [ http://tinyurl.com/wmb43x6 ]
07:54 <Golden> Hm
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08:13 <Finwe> Good morning, my smallish pastel-coloured ungulates.
08:13 <Finwe> Mlles Ali, Sleeping_Nightmares and DashedRainbows; Messrs Cepheid, uni, Golden, Schism and Heartbreak.
08:13 * Finwe doffs his hat.
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08:16 * Filly_Nightmares nestles on Butter uni
08:16 * Filly_Nightmares lickies Finwe tummy
08:17 * Finwe squirms.
08:23 * Jackie pats
08:24 <Finwe> Miss Jackie.
08:24 * Finwe doffs his aht.
08:25 <Finwe> Aht þæt is hat.
08:29 * Jackie pets Finwe
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08:52 <Cepheid> Morning.
08:53 <Finwe> Bom dia, senhor Cepheid.
08:55 <Cepheid> How goes it?
08:56 <Finwe> Rather well, thank you.
08:56 <Finwe> I hope you're well as well.
08:57 <Finwe> Or, as one would formulate it in Ultima IV: The Quest of Avatar: name, job, health.
08:57 <Finwe> Rune, stone, mantra, axiom, word.
09:04 <Cepheid> Andrew, Student/Gamedev, and I am doing well. Been making regular use of cough syrup and asthma meds, so my lungs are clearing up well now. I almost have my sleep cycle back to normal, and my itchiness is also almost resolved.
09:04 <Cepheid> So overall, much better than usual.
09:05 <Finwe> The shrine of spirituality is reached by entering the gate of full moons.
09:06 <Finwe> And the black stone of humility is found by searching at the new moon moongate near Moonglow during double new moon.
09:08 <Cepheid> Alas I don't remember the mantras.
09:08 <Finwe> The mantra of spirituality is OM, the mantra of valor is RA.
09:08 <Finwe> The mantra of humility is LUM, because the mantra of pride is MUL.
09:09 <Finwe> The mantra of honour is SUMM.
09:09 <Cepheid> Does it ever bother you that even after all these years, you still remember these things?
09:10 <Finwe> The mantra of, erm, sacrifice is CAH, because you get it from a bard's song and the bard sang about a raven who said "cah".
09:10 <Finwe> And the mantra of justice is BEH.
09:11 <Finwe> The mantra of honesty is AHM and the mantra of compassion is MU.
09:11 <Finwe> Cepheid: I have to admit that I played Ultima IV last weekend.
09:12 <Cepheid> Ah.
09:12 <Finwe> But there was a lot I remembered from the first time I played the game.
09:13 <Finwe> I had a thick Ultima notebook with all the information I had been able to extract along my journey in Britain.
09:19 <Cepheid> That reminds me, I need to pick up notebooks. Doing worldbuilding/gamedesign is hard with just text editors.
09:21 <Cepheid> I
09:21 <Cepheid> I'll probably pick some up today.
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09:28 <Cepheid> Hum. I need to come up with a solution to the money problem in MHW. Simplest solution would be to go and hunt solo targets, using vouchers, and also selling all the stuff they get me for quest rewards.
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09:42 <Cepheid> That was not a good start to hunting.
09:42 <Cepheid> One faint. Ah well, still won.
09:50 * DashedRainbows licks Finwe and Jackie a lot
09:53 * Finwe is lichen.
09:53 <Finwe> Umm, licked.
09:55 <Cepheid> I dunno man, for all we know, you could be a sentient form of lichen.
09:55 * DashedRainbows also sniffs him for sugar cubes
10:18 <Cepheid> Man that video wasn't joking about Kirin just walking up walls vertically.
10:29 <Cepheid> Well that was fun.
10:29 <Cepheid> Hippity Hoppity Horsey.
10:33 <Cepheid> Finwe, random question, but you have a PhD, right?
10:36 <Finwe> No, I haven't enrolled in doctoral studies yet.
10:36 <Finwe> Be right back, I have to fetch a parcel.
10:36 * Finwe zooms off.
10:45 <Cepheid> Do you plan to do doctoral studies?
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11:08 <Cepheid> Oh, hey. Gold Crown Teostra.
11:16 <Cepheid> Geezus hells alive, Lunastra.
11:28 <Cepheid> Holy unbelievable hells alive that was difficult.
11:29 <Cepheid> What the hell is that attack? It's wide-range, it drains HP like nothing else, and she lets out various blasts of fire energy that deal a good chunk of damage.
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11:38 * Ali snugs on Cepheid
11:50 <Cepheid> Holy hell, Master Rank Uragaan rolls around ON FIRE.
12:04 * Cepheid guhs.
12:07 * Sleeping_Nightmares curls up on Ali and snugglies into warms and goes sleepies on
12:13 <Lumindia> Good meowning everyone!
12:13 * Lumindia licks Ali
12:13 * Ali hasn't even been to sleep yet...
12:13 * Lumindia pushes Ali into bed, drapes blankets over
12:13 <Lumindia> Go sleep then you silly pony
12:16 <Cepheid> How come, Ali?
12:17 <Ali> Just not tired, though starting to fade a bit as its 7am
12:17 <Cepheid> Ah.
12:17 <Cepheid> Yeah, I woke up at around 3:30. I'll probably start to fade at around 12 PM though, 'cause I've been pushing myself to stay awake these last few days.
12:19 <Ali> I'm sure the crippling lonliness isn't helping.
12:19 <Cepheid> Nah. It's driving me up a wall.
12:20 <Cepheid> Plus, I have to be quiet at night.
12:20 <Cepheid> Which peeves me off.
12:20 <Ali> I'm... refering to myself dear
12:20 <Cepheid> Ah.
12:22 <Cepheid> https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/259831623132905475/670322927245459456/Screenshot_20200124-163441.png?width=706&height=1256 If you use Discord.
12:24 <Ali> Sounds like its best to just turn it off huh?
12:25 <Ali> Then again, I'm about as important as a dead fish so yeah.
12:27 * Ali blehs and sorries to Cepheid, she's just in a beat herself up mode.
12:28 <Cepheid> Sorry, I'm distracted.
12:33 <Cepheid> Anyhow...
12:34 <Cepheid> Don't worry about it, Ali. We all get like that from time to time.
12:34 <Cepheid> Hell, I'm starting to enter one of my periodic episodes, myself. I'm seeing the signs of it build up.
12:45 <Cepheid> Ah, nevermind.
12:45 <Cepheid> Reports indicate it's a hoax.
13:01 * Ali flops over Cepheid as she's just not tired but extremely sore.
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13:49 <Cepheid> Time to code.
13:58 * Schism looks up. "Gold crown Lunastra? Is it smol or big?"
13:59 * Schism also preps for work.
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14:06 <Cepheid> Big.
14:07 <Schism> Noice.
14:07 * Cepheid does backups.
14:07 * Cepheid gets nosebleed.
14:11 <ADragonDreaming> been iceborning?
14:12 <Cepheid> Yes.
14:12 <Cepheid> I'm not advancing very far, but I have been MHing.
14:12 <Cepheid> Mostly just filling out collection stuff, and trying to get a Warrior's Streamstone.
14:12 <ADragonDreaming> might be up for some of that later today
14:13 <Cepheid> Sure, gimme a call if you're up for it.
14:16 <Cepheid> The Warrior's Streamstone is kind of important, for the record. Hard to get, though.
14:16 <Cepheid> Low chance of dropping in quest rewards from Threat Level 2 Tempered Monsters.
14:19 <Cepheid> Once you get one, the Smithy unlocks something called Augmentation.
14:20 <Cepheid> Through it, you can upgrade low-rank armors to stats more befitting of high- and master-rank armors.
14:20 <Cepheid> And high/master rank weapons can be upgraded to be even stronger.
14:27 <ADragonDreaming> nice
14:27 <ADragonDreaming> I remember in MH Tri my end-game Alatreon hunting armor was actually the Low Rank Lagiacrus set.
14:28 <ADragonDreaming> Because you upgrade it to High Rank armor values, and it had a better slot spread for my purposes than the High Rank version.
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14:32 <Cepheid> RIght.
14:32 <Cepheid> Here, augmentation basically allows you to upgrade defense stats to higher rank stats.
14:33 <Cepheid> Catch is, you need that damned stone.
14:33 <Cepheid> And it comes from Threat Level 2 tempered monsters, which aren't a walk in a park.
14:44 * Cepheid thinky thinks.
15:02 <Cepheid> Gods, game input is a mess.
15:06 <RazorSharpFang> Yours’ or theirs?
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15:26 <Cepheid> Implementing it, specifically.
15:27 <RazorSharpFang> Yeah, it tends to be a big cluster of if statements, switches, as well as flags
15:45 <Cepheid> ... Well, coding was shortlived today.
15:45 <Cepheid> My head is burning up and I feel a headache coming on.
15:49 <RazorSharpFang> Gotta pace yourself.
15:49 <RazorSharpFang> Sometimes that pace is a walk, other times a sprint. Today for me, my pace is sleep.
15:51 <Cepheid> My head hasn't been doing too well the last week.
15:52 <Cepheid> Lungs, yes. I've been applying treatment for that, and it's working magnificently.
15:52 <Cepheid> But my sinuses and nose? Hells alive.
15:52 <Cepheid> My usual treatment is doing ****-all.
15:52 <Cepheid> I get headaches regardless of whether or not I take aleve, now.
15:53 <RazorSharpFang> I'm doing fine, but I have my concerns about whether or not my workplace is doing fine.
15:53 <RazorSharpFang> It does worry me when people quit in succession.
15:53 <RazorSharpFang> I will also miss them.
15:55 <Cepheid> Yes, that is concerning.
15:56 <RazorSharpFang> We'll see how things go from here - I'm just taking it a day at a time, and it's sleep time for this day.
15:56 <RazorSharpFang> Good night.
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17:07 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Comic: Student Six 376 / Horseapple / Unmistakable Love / Twist of Faith 1 / TLA 104-106 [ http://tinyurl.com/qrx8ujw ]
17:09 <Cepheid> I hate Lavasioth.
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17:37 <Cepheid> Oh, hey. ADragonDreaming. Not sure about original version, but they added something new with the recent patches.
17:37 <Cepheid> A button to remove all unmarked investigations.
17:45 * Starlight_Glimmer collapses on Lumindia
17:45 * Lumindia squeaks, snuggle
17:45 <Starlight_Glimmer> I built the shelves, now it's time for some food
17:46 * DashedRainbows offers glimglam some hay
17:46 <ADragonDreaming> oooo, useful
17:52 <Cepheid> Yep. It's as useful as it sounds.
17:53 <Cepheid> I must warn ye though, ADragonDreaming. If you haven't updated the game yet, you MIGHT want to start it now. With the release of the patches involving Iceborne, everyone was required to do a complete re-download of the game.
17:53 <ADragonDreaming> I think I did that already but let me check
17:54 <Cepheid> 'Twas a massive 80GiB download for me, 'cause of HR textures.
17:56 <ADragonDreaming> mmm. nope. I think Steam might have been inadvertently off.
17:56 <ADragonDreaming> only 253.7 mb for me, though
18:06 <Cepheid> Oh, yeah, you got the large patch then.
18:06 <Cepheid> All patches past that one are smaller.
18:16 <Cepheid> There is a deity out there that thinks it is funny. Every single TL2 quest has been Lavasioth so far, and I keep spawning in front of it.
18:16 <ADragonDreaming> ouch
18:17 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Fanfiction: A House for the Holidays [ http://tinyurl.com/uv8lvto ]
18:26 <Cepheid> Finally!
18:28 <Cepheid> Got the danged stone. Now I just need to help you get yours.
18:29 <Cepheid> ... o.O
18:29 <Cepheid> There's an augment that lets you regain health for each attack you do.
18:30 <Cepheid> Ooof. Augments are expensive, though. Requires the appropriate streamstones for the weapon(In my case, I need Warrior's Streamstone: Hammer? I use a hunting horn!), regular streamstones, and gems of a monster.
18:30 <Cepheid> And 60,000z
18:31 <Cepheid> Armor is somewhat easier. Just requires a regular streamstone of the appropriate grade, and a bit of money.
18:33 <Cepheid> Let's see... Rathian Vambraces, for testing. Low-rank armor. I can bring it up to...
18:33 <Cepheid> Level 27, 74 defense. That's high-rank strength, alright.
18:35 <Cepheid> https://i.imgur.com/WHYiu0L.png ... O...kay then.
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18:46 <ADragonDreaming> space kitty!
18:54 <Cepheid> They added a new thing to do, too. You get something called the Surveyor's Set. It's basically a first-person camera tool. You're tasked with taking pictures of Lynians doing stuff.
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19:07 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Calpain: Rainbow Dash's Birth-Aversary on Feb 1st! [ http://tinyurl.com/u7ngv9q ]
19:17 <Cepheid> Right, let's see, what's next on the gathering list..?
19:35 <Cepheid> ... How did you get gunpowder from roasting Azure Rathalos' tail, Handler?
19:38 <Cepheid> Dangit game, do you hate me or something!?
19:38 * Cepheid lands in front of Nergigante.
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19:49 <Cepheid> https://i.imgur.com/vNzgPA1.jpg "It was at that moment Nergigante realized he f-ed up."
19:53 * Ali yawns and lays on Cepheid
20:01 * Cepheid twitches.
20:02 * Cepheid closes discord on the grounds that he doesn't want to argue with this one person anymore. They've got that elitist "play the game my way" tone about them.
20:02 <Ali> Always annoying
20:04 <Ali> So what was these changes to trains Cepheid. I know they 'fixed' something but the explanation made no sense to a person who doesn't code.
20:06 <Cepheid> The changes are mostly fixing bugs with pathfinding. Edge cases that break things or cause performance hits. Also, general optimization.
20:06 <Ali> Well what was it about pathfinding
20:07 <Ali> Cause it would show train taking the lower path cause its one tile longer.
20:07 <DerpyBot> New post on Equestria Daily by Sethisto: Drawfriend Stuff (Pony Art Gallery) #3231 [ http://tinyurl.com/ve2jh8j ]
20:10 <Cepheid> Essentially, in some cases, the presence of a train station, signal, or rail segment(A group of rails) might add an incorrect "cost" to the pathfinding, resulting in a less-than-optimal path, or worse yet, the inability to find a path.
20:11 <Cepheid> In one of the bugs, a signal was causing a timer to refresh too frequently, causing the train to simply lock itself in place, instead of taking an alternate path to it's destination.
20:11 * Ali nods
20:12 <Cepheid> Overall, pathfinding's a *****.
20:12 <Ali> As we've seen with biters attacking
20:12 <Cepheid> It's not exact. While you can most certainly get a path from point A to point B, it won't always be the optimal path.
20:15 <Ali> I would've thought maybe .18 would've had more changes to the game. Guess its more fixing than altering recipies now huh?
20:16 <Cepheid> At this point, it seems like they're mostly happy with the content. They're concerned more, at this point, with optimizing, fixing existing bugs, and polish, given that they are so close to "1.0" release, now.
20:17 <Ali> And they ditched the campain
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20:35 <Cepheid> "Tracking Whiz" "Located 3 monsters" *Fought in the Arena, where there's only one place for monsters to BE*
20:46 * Cepheid wanders off to take a shower.
20:46 *** Ali is now known as Ali|AFK
21:41 <Cepheid> Right. Too exhausted to continue at this point. Time for me to lay down.
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