Friday

[sinjun]

Yay!

It's not a long weekend for me, not really, but it still feels like one. I'll be off work this coming Tuesday, so it will split the week up very oddly.

Yesterday - I had a couple of very interesting conversations with friends. You know, those friends who are far away in a different country who you wish you got to talk to more? Yeah, those conversations. It was nice. Very nice.

In RP - Elyse talked to Eufimia, and go figure - Elyse is now more determined about the arches and such. Oceana had a nice little scene with Sorcha, Connor and Evangeline. Now of course, Cea wants to know how exactly Sorcha ended up being Nathael's daughter. Cause well, he's with Elyse, right? Oh, and Jen had an interesting conversation with Khyran, in which Khyran ended up heading to medlab. At the end of the scene, anyway. Good thing Cat started to convince her earlier. ;) Summer on the other hand got an invitation to go out to Signy and Sallir's farm and see the ponies, chickens, kitties and puppies. And she was there when Signy told Sallir she was pregnant. Whee! Gotta love being 5. Oh, yeah, I named Summer's babysitter Lobelia - and she was good enough to tell Summer that no she can't keep a pony in the back garden or in Daddy's forge. Momma should be pleased.

As for Harry Potter - still no comments from me - folks are reading. :)

It is supposed to be nice tomorrow, so I do think I'll make my way to War Practice. I want to enjoy some outside time, but then I'll come home for dinner, and relax on Sunday home alone. Yeah, that sounds like fun.

In other news, I volunteered to watch Mom's cat Merlin for her and Dad when they go on vacation the end of July. This could be quite entertaining, so long as none of the monster cats kill each other. It's Taliesin and Merlin I'm worried about mostly. Chey, Pach and Merlin all know each other.

Oh, and the severe weather for last night wasn't. All it did was change the pressure system so my head hurt, and it didn't even have the grace to rain. Darn it all - I'll have to water the plants tonight. Hrmph.

Comments

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you what happened in her arches? :) I can't remember if I posted the log back then or not.

And yes, it's definitely a perception thing. Eufimia doesn't really think back to the arches... enough stuff happened to make her want to leave after that. It's just that all of it may not have happened if not for the arches, but hey. :)

[damara.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

Well, I don't think you posted the log of her arches, or if you did, I didn't read it.

In any event, I still want to overhaul the arches, oocly and icly. So you know, I'm all for that.

This reminds me - can you give me some information on blood weaving? @mail it or email it to me, when you get a chance, but it is something that would come in handy.

Thanks!

Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Ouch, I'll have to look for it. It's somewhere in my logs from last September, heh. I'll send it to you and Horizon, I suppose. She'd find it useful too, I'm sure.

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

I've talked to Age, and she said no problem if Reshna and I are creating the file on weaves that must be icly learned. If you have info on any other weaves that folks shouldn't know unless they're icly taught, pass that along too, please?

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Sure. Which ones do you already have?

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

Balefire. Reshna's healing weave. Tower jumping. Travelling. Skimming. Scrying. I'd have to check the file to be sure about others, but I know for sure we have no info on Blood Weaving.

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Blood weaving isn't so much a single weave as it is a technique. (And Eufimia knows it. *grin*)

I'll think on what other ones should be on your list. Inversion comes to mind, but I can't remember if it's a common weave or not. If it is, it should probably be noted as such somewhere.

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

Ah, inversion does need to be on there! Thanks!

It's not a common weave either.

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

*grins* Cool.

Also, add all of anti-healing to the list as well. I think right now there's a grand total of two people on the grid who know it and it has to be learned ICly. It's pretty much Dark-only, too.

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yup. This is the thing that folks need to know is out there, even if they don't know how to do it. They also need to know they can't just claim to know it, without learning.

*grins*

Excellent. Oh, I think I'm going to add the bonding weave in there - nobody who isn't an Aes Sedai should learn it, at least at the tower. I'm not sure about dreadlords/Malkier. But then, this is the tower files. Course, they can be modified where required to fit both the tower and Malkier, if you all want.

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Some of them could probably become the common info for both Tower and Malkier. Some would no doubt be Malkier or Tower specific.

As for bonding... I think we can assume that the Aes Sedai know how to do it. Although putting it on the restricted list would certainly nudge people to RP at least one scene with someone other than their prospective bond that they're set to take right out of chargen.

Or it could be added to the list of Accepted lessons in +ap? That way I could make the code actually check for it and enforce it. :)

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

Mm - but if it's in the list of Accepted lessons, then we'd be teaching it to Accepted students. The idea is that it should not be taught to Accepted or Novices, only to Aes Sedai. and folks don't have to play that - they can assume they are taught it during the first month or so after they pass their Accepted test.

Well, that's how it works currently. I just want to be clear on the fact that teaching bonding to anyone not an Aes Sedai is a punishable offense if you get caught. ;)

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

I just had a thought... shocking as that fact may be.

What if we had lesson sheets for Aes Sedai akin to those of Novices and Accepted? Nobody says we can't. :)

On a completely random note, wolfcat got me addicted to limonade. Bah. Although the kind I got (President's Choice) isn't as sweet as the one she brought on the weekend. Works for me. :)

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Okay then. Limonade works.

And that's true, we could do that - it would make it easy to tell if folks actually know those weaves. Though, I think we don't want to put blood weaving on it. I'd put ... scrying, skimming, travelling, Reshna's healing weave (which needs a better name, really), inversion, bonding weave ... what else? Only the weaves that are permissable to teach/do. Though that does lead me to wonder - would we then have to do a tally to figure out who knows how to do these things? *grins*

Lots of work, but it might keep things straight. At least folks wouldn't be able to say they didn't know!

And it doesn't address the balefire/bloodweaving/anti-healing types of weaves. (If we put them on the lesson sheet, folks will decide they need to learn them, and they really don't.

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

And it doesn't address the balefire/bloodweaving/anti-healing types of weaves. (If we put them on the lesson sheet, folks will decide they need to learn them, and they really don't.

An excellent point. Hrm. We need a tally of those who already know the restricted weaves. We could have folks @mail the wizards and have us set /something/ on them that marks them as knowing the weave?

It's definitely something to think about. But in the meantime, let's see about creating a lesson sheet for the allowed weaves. And yes, we'd need a tally of those who already know them, too. I'll add that to my todo list.

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Or we can just trust them. I'll leave that up to you, frankly.

For me, I'm just going to keep on working on the file that explains what the weaves do, what flows they use, and whether you're allowed to use them, or they're stillable offensees, etc. ;)

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

You know how trusting I am... ;)

To be honest, I don't particularly care either way. It's just that if we're going to create a list of "restricted" weaves, then we should have some means of enforcing/tracking. Otherwise, what's the point of having the list?

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

Ah, I can answer that. The point of having the list is so that when someone claims to know such a weave, you can ask who they learned it from OOCly. Course, that won't stop folks from cheating, but it will give them the information that they should learn these icly on camera. So the honest folks will follow it, because now they know.

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if the cheating can be (to an extent) prevented by simply adding a lesson sheet that isn't even mandatory, then why not do it? :)

Honest folks will follow it either way and won't record lessons they didn't actually teach. =)

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

*grins*

True. It's definitely a good idea to consider. See what Age and Horizon think, maybe?

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

I will, of course.

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

*beams innocently*

See the beauty of not being a wiz? I can just start the ball rolling, and get out of the way. :)

Thank you, Alery!

Re: Blood weaving

[insaint.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't tempt me/us, lest you find yourself with a bit one day. :P

Re: Blood weaving

[eustacio.livejournal.com]

Geesh, I peel off LJ for a little while and you two go nuts posting.

Yeah, it needs a better name. And that reminds me to go put that shadowlore file together. Time to go dig around in the garage for my boxes of books.

Re: Blood weaving

[damara.livejournal.com]

*beams*

Go us!