YOU - [Keep going.]
LIMBIC SYSTEM - There is nothing left on this earth to keep you tethered. It all blows away as so much iridescent smoke.
Pouring from you in spades. A column of white trailing from every crack and fracture that runs through what's left of you, colors glinting from deep inside. The last dregs of life.
ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - There's nothing left to do, Harry. There was never anything you could do. You reached a hand out to the heavens, and they destroyed you in turn. What did you expect? You're just a man.
You were dead the moment you walked the path in the woods.
Tired.
- any
One day I'll have a profile description figured out. Until then, this space is intentionally left blank.
It's almost time! Only one day left until our first big title, Kandria, releases on Steam!
It's a bit of a weird mashup of open world, action RPG, and platformer. You are an android, awakened in a ruined future. Explore vast underground caverns, parkour your way through hazardous terrain, and hack and slash through any obstacle that stands in your way in an open world action RPG like no other. Or...just sit back and fish for a while, take in the atmosphere, and trade in your riches.
Make sure to wishlist it so you don't miss the launch: https://kandria.com/steam and join us for the launch stream on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/shinmera
SHELF OF CRIME NOVELS – These shelves are overburdened with books from the same series. You see the name "Dick Mullen" over and over.
YOU – Look through the display of books.
SHELF OF CRIME NOVELS – You see: "Dick Mullen on the Job", "Get Me Mullen!", "Dick Mullen and the Murder in the Orchard", "Crimes for Cascading Style Sheets", "The Sordid Affair of Dick Mullen", "Dauntless Dick"...
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] – Hold on, what was that?
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) – Among the monotonous rows of crime fiction, a large book catches your eye -- something other than Dick Mullen? It can't be...
1. - Hell yeah.2. - Pick up the book.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – "Radiocomputer Wizards: Crimes for Cascading Style Sheets." The cover of this heavy tome features some esoteric language.
LOGIC [Challenging: Failure] – You're not sure what to make of this.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] – Typical binoclard nonsense. Toss this thing in the trash!
1. - Open the book.2. - At least it's not Dick Mullen. (Open the book.)
YOU – Open the book.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – Flipping through the book you find a number of sections on what appears to be a radiocomputer language. A compilation of achievable programming "crimes" makes up nearly half of the book.
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] – Crimes? I don't like the sound of that.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – There's a chapter on tape computer imitation. Some programmers tried to replicate the visual interface of the machine onto a radiocomputer.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] – A tape computer was a folding mechanism of rollers and ferrotape ribbons, compact enough to be portable. One could write directly on the tape using a special chemical solution. The machine would then analyse the handwriting, perform operations and project output onto a white screen.
+5 XP: gained experience.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] – It was a beautiful, delicate thing.
1. - Where can I get my hands on a tape computer?2. - Hold on -- "was"?
ENCYCLOPEDIA – Only three prototypes of the tape computer were made. All were destroyed during the Antecentennial Revolution.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Easy: Success] – Ouch.
INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] – There has to be a fourth prototype out there...
1. - Continue reading.
YOU – Continue reading.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – You flip forward a few pages until you come upon a chapter titled 'Advanced Radiocomputer Development and Infra-Materialist Theory'.
RHETORIC [Easy: Success] – Now we're talking!
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – When a community has achieved a sufficiently high degree of revolutionary fervour, infra-materialists believe that second-level effects may be observed.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – At this second level, certain hyper-revolutionary individuals may develop the ability to extend their thoughts into material space and vice versa. But what does this mean for the Mazovian programmer? Graadian essayist Klara Semenova claims that these ideas are inherent to one another...
ENDURANCE [Medium: Failure] – Your vision starts to blur...
1. - No, I want to finish reading...2. - This might be too much for me.
REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Failure] – It's too late -- your eyes are already closed and your arms stop working. The book slips from your hands, landing sadly on the bookshop floor.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – Oh well. The book will still be here, if you want to continue...
1. - Yeah, that's not happening.2. - For another time.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Challenging: Success] – As you turn to leave, some small text on the back of the book catches your eye.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – STEAL THIS CODE
LOGIC [Medium: Failure] – Whatever that means.
1. - Leave.
YOU – [Leave.]
I've been running D&D games in the Eberron setting for years now. While the setting itself is really cool in that it has no meta-story, so the default starting year has been the same since its conception, people have still come up with a lot of lore to use for different places. So, I once made myself a search engine.
The funny thing about Eberron is that much of the canon lore is just there to inspire and ignore. Also some of the old books had to be pretty much rewritten because the folks WotC got to write their first drafts didn't really understand the setting at all and just went with the usual "good vs. evil" angles with everything and other weird little things. So they still have some of that left over in them that even the setting's creator ignores or rewrites if he uses it. All this has caused that there's canon, kanon (creator's canon), community accepted canon, and DM's personal canon that all have differences. But it's quite fun for DM's as they can feel free to customise and there's no Elminster to have to characterise correctly.
Anyways, yesterday I was finally inspired to actually fix up my server enough to put it up in there, but ran into issues so I took a bunch of shortcuts for things I couldn't remember how to do properly. Things like how do I make Radiance to give the proper external URL to links in templates with @\href and @\action. Instead I just hardcoded it and used lquery to set the href attributes. I was tired and had a headache and had a Disco Elysium stream to watch.
Well, it works. I made the public version unable to let you read the document or actually see the text content because I don't want to pirate community made content once I start feeding more of those in. (And I don't dare to do it with Hasbro's licensed products anyways. They're scary.)