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Chat Logs / KKChat -- 16 Feb 2025
Last post by Bynw - Today at 08:23:47 AM

[18:10] * web17 (43ae459a@CCN-39EF3B66.hsd1.va.comcast.net) has joined #Deryni_Destinations
[18:10] <~bynw> there was a time that i had 5 servers in the network but that was ages ago
[18:10] <~bynw> Hi KK
[18:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Is that our KK?
[18:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hello
[18:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Hello KK
[18:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Welcome home
[18:10] * web17 is now known as KK
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Hello
[18:11] <KK> Hello, it is I!
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Howdy, ma'am!
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> cheers
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> It is thou!
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I'm hoping to be able to stay through chat, but at some point tonight I will need to follow DH to the auto shop to drop off our van there and give him a ride home.
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hello, I
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Cheers? Isn't it early to be drinking? (considers poor bynw) No, no it isn't.
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I mean thou
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Or even thee
[18:12] <~bynw> it's been a heck of a week at the castle
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> In old prescriptive grammar, "to be" takes the nominative case. So "It is thou!"
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Poor Bynw has been your brave and true knight this week, KK
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> He really has
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Above and Beyond!
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> taking on the monster
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> The castle has been under siege, but bynw says he found the last sapper's tunnel in.
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Spear in hand
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Spear and magic helmet
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Mewing like a desert frog
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> And he is warding his shield
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Magic helmet *points*
[18:13] <KK> Aha! You found the invaders/
[18:14] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Someone needs to share that desert frog with KK. 😄
[18:14] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> https://youtu.be/HBxn56l9WcU?si=BZz8MiNXileMrjDE
[18:14] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> And now everyone giggles again
[18:14] <~bynw> yes the invaders have been finally repelled after 5 breaches of our walls
[18:14] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I do not dare turn that on, I don't want my puppy slippers to move.
[18:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Well, as I understand it, he seems to have found how they were getting in, but not the identity of the attacker.
[18:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Yes, that video is very squeaky indeed.
[18:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Pets will react.
[18:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Is there any way to find out the attacker's identity?
[18:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> My cats don't care, but they've learned to ignore any sound that comes from the computer.
[18:15] <KK> Squeaky frog is cute.
[18:15] <KK> Daphne is more interested in the moving cursor.
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> my dogs are clueless about computer noise and real outside noise.
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Too cute Daphne
[18:16] <~bynw> know they were using a Tor exit node so there is no way of tracing them back from that. it could be you know who but we will never figure it out.
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I used to have a bubbles screensaver on my old home desktop computer, but Luke liked to swat at the bubbles.
[18:16] <~bynw> first know = no
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Voldemort? 😄
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> He who shall not be named
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yeah, Voldemort.
[18:17] <KK> I need a screen decoy for Daphne. Invariably she sits squaely in front of the monitor.
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> STOP WITH THE NAMING
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> 😄
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Living dangerously
[18:17] <~bynw> no Voldemort wouldn't be able to do anything with a computer. he can't handle muggle magic
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "Fundraiser: Buy KK a laptop. Not to use, just to be warm and have a screen to distract a cat."
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Or a tablet. There are actually cat game apps for cats
[18:18] <~bynw> i was just gonna say that
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Daphne can paw fish or floating bubbles while you chat
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> set up a tablet and turn it onto cat tv
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Don't the tablet screens tend to get gradually destroyed?
[18:18] <~bynw> i know of a fish game that i had once for my kitties
[18:18] <KK> I killed my tablet and haven't bothered to replace it.
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I suppose you would have to change screen protectors fairly often
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Or get the glass sort
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Poor tablet *sniff*
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I hope it didn't give its life in vain
[18:19] <KK> Any of you getting elements of the big storm that's sweeping across the country?
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Sadly, no
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> We had a bad one come through here last night, so I was up until 2:00 am or so waiting for it to pass so I could sleep without worrying about being awakened by tornado warnings
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> And now there is a chance of snow sometime later in the week
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Though I suspect it will stay a little north of us
[18:21] <~bynw> this week is going to be bitterly cold .. most days high's in the single digits and lows below zero
[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Bad cold snap in central Texas starting Tuesday night.
[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Evie showed us her weather alert phone screen last night at 2am.  I have never seen that much lightning indicated.
[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> O.K., reword: cold snap that's bad in Texas terms. bynw "wins".
[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> We'll have nights in the teens this week, after it being warm enough outside yesterday for me to wear a lightweight top and sandals.
[18:21] <KK> My VDOT experts says they're preparing for up to a foot of snow....and they ran through their snow budget after the first big storm.
[18:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Yowza!
[18:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Wow
[18:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Sounds like a good stayin kind of day
[18:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Several days, I think.
[18:23] <KK> Wow, indeed.  I need to get a Walmart delivery tomorrow to lay in provisions, because it's shaping to be a nearly week-long event.
[18:24] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> yikes
[18:24] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I would post what my weather radar looked like last night, but my screenshot has a dot over my house, so I think that can wait for a time when the chat isn't going to be logged onto a public forum. 😄
[18:24] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Good idea
[18:25] <~bynw> yeah that's a good idea. can't have stuff like that on the interwebs
[18:25] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Especially with a hacker trying to get into the castle repeatedly
[18:26] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> any more attempts since you plugged the last hole?
[18:26] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> That person has a serious mental problem
[18:27] <~bynw> after we made our changes there were 4 attempts to breach the walls. and then i banned those ip scopes ... then 8 more attempts hitting that wall. but since then nothing. they could be regrouping
[18:28] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hm. Do you suspect one determined person, or more than one?
[18:29] <~bynw> i think it's probably just one determined person. but they have been stopped so far ... let's hope nothing happens overnight
[18:30] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> 🤞
[18:30] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> https://tenor.com/view/good-juju-gif-16922911951109702032 embed: https://tenor.com/view/good-juju-gif-16922911951109702032
[18:31] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Makes you want to do like Arielle Festil, but instead of a map of Gwynedd, have a diagram of their computer, so sprinkling water on the diagram makes it rain on their computer.
[18:31] <KK> What do you think has provoked the attack? Just random, to see if they can breach the castle's defenses?
[18:32] <~bynw> so true TM
[18:32] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My guess is that it's a disgruntled former member who tried to cause trouble before and seems to have a personal grudge against bynw for reasons known only to God.  But it's just a guess, no proof attached.
[18:32] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Heh, I was about to say "You want me to do my brother? Ewwwww!"
[18:33] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> EWWWW
[18:33] <~bynw> if it was random, i would say they would have stopped after the 2nd or 3rd rebuild of it. but they kept going and breached us 5 times. and when we finally had the information we needed to stop them. they still attempted a dozen more times but failed.
[18:33] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yeah, that's not random
[18:33] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Also, the purported reason wouldn't even make us a sensible target
[18:33] <~bynw> that's not random script kiddies out to see if they can cause havoc. that is a deleberate DoS
[18:34] <~bynw> which is against US Federal Law
[18:34] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> That is the crazyness that even after failing they kept flinging them selves at our walls.
[18:34] <~bynw> but i cant charge anyone because i have no evidence of who it really is
[18:34] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Well, can't hurt to rerun the script, I guess?
[18:34] <KK> I guess they're trying to find a way around our defenses.
[18:35] <KK> DoS?
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> disruption of service?
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Denial Of Service?
[18:35] <KK> Ah. Thank you.
[18:36] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Desecration of Sanctuary?
[18:36] <CambersGhost> [discord] <bynw> it's Denial of Service is DoS ... and there is DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) where the attacker does the attack from multiple locations at the same time
[18:39] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Right now maybe they're in Denial that they can't get back in
[18:39] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Denial of Satisfaction
[18:39] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Denial of Spamming
[18:39] <KK> Could one person do DDoS, or does it require multiple idiots?
[18:39] <KK> Duke of Stupid.
[18:39] <~bynw> one could if they had control of multiple computers through some kind of bot network
[18:40] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My hope is that we don't have that many villages missing their resident idiot
[18:40] <KK> Seems like a whole lot effort, just to disrupt someone else's pleasure.
[18:41] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> I KNOW! Right???
[18:41] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Some people are just nasty spirited that way
[18:41] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> What a jerk! Just like a yellowjacket!
[18:42] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> You can squash a yellowjacket, at least.
[18:42] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Hopefully Bynw has squashed this yellowjacket as well
[18:43] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> He's plugged up the hole letting him in, but he's still out there.
[18:43] <~bynw> so far it hasn't been defaced with their political message and profanity. nor have they tried to get in in a while that i'm able to see
[18:44] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> But it's kinda illegal to squash humans, at least unless they are trying to squash you first.
[18:44] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Awww man, I wanted bynw to squash him like a bug
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> He might have finally figured out the hole is actually plugged and that he didn't just make some mistake on his end
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> https://tenor.com/view/jason-mantzoukas-brooklyn-nine-nine-b99-brooklyn99-adrian-pimento-gif-13205977 embed: https://tenor.com/view/jason-mantzoukas-brooklyn-nine-nine-b99-brooklyn99-adrian-pimento-gif-13205977
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Just like that!
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> ewwww
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That's what Bynw looked like after a week of this crap.  😄
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Evie please save my eyes
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It's about to scroll off screen soon, or you can minimize the window size so you can't see it
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I do agree witht he B ynw look alike, hair everywhere, beard grown out.
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> The first cat I found: https://i0.wp.com/cutetropolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_0436_resize_50.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> don't know about Laurna, but *I* can't minimize...
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> You can't adjust your window size?
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Maybe helps by scrolling stuff off the screen.
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Gone now for me
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Oh, the window size
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> I thought you meant the gif itself
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That's a cute cat. Of course, most cats are cute, so that helps
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> https://tenor.com/view/ugly-cat-infiuenzas-iongtermed-reaction-gif-26839874 embed: https://tenor.com/view/ugly-cat-infiuenzas-iongtermed-reaction-gif-26839874
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> LOL
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> WT THE ???? IS THAT
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-funny-animals-insomnia-cat-tired-crazy-cute-gif-11458685 embed: https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-funny-animals-insomnia-cat-tired-crazy-cute-gif-11458685
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> HAHA  better
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Is that black beast what you get when you breed a cat with Yoda?
[18:50] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I am now hugging me soft warm sweet dogs and glad for the nice things in life.
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Speaking of nice things in life, KK, did you ever watch *The Chosen*? I asked about that several years ago, but I thought the answer might have changed.
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Hi Everyone
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hi Jerusha!
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Hi J-sha!
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Hello Jerusha  how is Florida treating you
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> are you getting those thunderstorms too
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Sorry to be late for the party; DH was determined not to burn the steaks.  For which I am very grateful
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> yumm
[18:52] <~bynw> Hi Jerusha!!
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> No storms so far, but very humis
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yum!
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Oh, unburned steak are high priority!
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> humid, I meant
[18:52] <~bynw> how can you burn steaks?
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> I did the  mushrooms sauteed in brandy
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hold them over the candle too long
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Now your are talking yumm
[18:53] <~bynw> only takes a couple of minutes to cook properly depending on thickness
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Burning at the steak or burning at the stake: both unpleasant.
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> ANothing wrong with a little grill line charr
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Bring the cow into the kitchen, show it the stove, let it scream in terror, then throw it on the plate and serve.
[18:54] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> If you haven't been trained in proper control of your powers, your early attempts at handfire might just incinerate the steak to a crisp.
[18:54] <~bynw> sounds good to me Nezz
[18:54] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Much better than beef jerky
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> So  how was your steak, Jerusha?
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I have a friend who will only eat a steak if it's well done. But we still sometimes eat out together despite her heretical notions.
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> It was good.  I'm not really a steak fan, but it was better than  normal
[18:56] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> How long will it take to transfer the castle to its new home, bynw?
[18:57] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Influenced by the steak discussion, I misread that as "transfer the cattle".
[18:57] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> *pictures lifting it with a forklift and setting it onto a new foundation*
[18:57] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "It's just a model", to quote the trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
[18:58] <~bynw> i've already uploaded the files. will have to do the DNS and that's what will take the longest, then redo the configuration on the new home and then we should be golden. i'll start adding back in our additional plugins
[18:58] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> DNS is telling the network "rhemuthcastle.com now goes over here, not there any more"?
[18:58] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Looking forward to a return to normal
[18:58] <~bynw> yes TM
[18:58] <KK> Re The Chosen, I've only seen a few episodes, but that I saw was good.
[18:59] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Will we be able to tell any difference on our end, or probably not?
[18:59] <~bynw> we were watching it then we stopped due to life being crazy. picked back up we are still about half way through season 3
[18:59] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Will this make it more difficult for our Festillic buddy to hack us? Or is it just about getting the assistance from the new host folks?
[18:59] <~bynw> probably not notice anything different once it's up and stable
[19:00] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Let us most devoutly hope. Pity we can't leave a message at the old site, "I'm sorry, but your target is in another castle".
[19:00] <~bynw> they have better security and easier access to log information which would have helped us way back in the beginning. but no one at the current host seemed to care that i kept asking for logs and they said either nothing was in them or they didn't exist. yet they did exist and i finally got some from one person there at least
[19:00] <~bynw> and service is supposed to be better too
[19:01] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Good
[19:01] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> And once the castle is safe and you've had the chance to kick back and rest for a day or two, bynw... any chance you might be able to, oh, I don't know... write?
[19:01] <~bynw> and i'm going to add a plugin that we don't currently have to make things more difficult for future breaches
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Airich is dying over here. Possibly literally. 😄
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> He will perservere
[19:02] <~bynw> my dear Nezz, if you take a good look at the site. We are back to the 7th right when i did my 3 posts in FS
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> in formaldehyde at the very least
[19:03] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> EEWW
[19:03] <~bynw> just before the first defacement
[19:03] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Dark humor from Laurna is rare as the elusive unicorn. I must savor this moment.
[19:03] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> I know... but *we* have gone an extra week without finding out what's going on. Today is the 16th, after all...
[19:04] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> ?me  rolling over laughing
[19:04] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> /me  rolling over laughing
[19:04] <~bynw> true everyone is on edge for the next chapter in the adventures of Airich and his gang
[19:04] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> We do seem to be heading toward gang warfare
[19:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> *Airich: "Not me!" Shakes his glass for the server to bring another mai tai*
[19:05] <~bynw> i know isn't it fun :)
[19:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Oh, mai tai!
[19:06] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Airich's been on vacation during the castle problems. He's perfectly happy where he is. 😄
[19:06] <~bynw> of course i seem to have a different idea of "fun" than most of those characters (or their players) isn't the right Wash? it was fun though 😄
[19:06] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> He has plenty of cookies?
[19:06] <KK> I've just had to clean up after a squeezie toy ruptured, dumping little round balls of many colors into my llap. I see a couple under my desk, out of reach, but most were recovered.  It was a piece of mesh with a sphere of very thin vinyl, about 2 inches across, inside the netting. And when you'd squeeze it, little smaller balls of the vinyl would
[19:06] <KK> pop through the net openings, and they also contained  a bit of liquid and a dozen or so of the little balls that would bounce around in the smaller spheres until you relaxed your hand, and then they'd reintegrate with what's in the larger ball.  I apparently squeezed once too often.
[19:06] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Oops
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> *Airich: tosses Jerusha a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie*
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I don' recall being offered mai tai's and cookies
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> No!  Not white chocolate!
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Ooh, toss me one too!
[19:07] <~bynw> white chocolate? is that really even chocolate??
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Any raspberry cheesecake cookies in there?
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> KK, I guess you had too much stress for your stress relief ball?
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> I confess to being a purist when it comes to chocolate, but thanks for the thought, Nezz
[19:07] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Technically, kindasorta
[19:08] <~bynw> like a Frosty from Wendy's that isn't chocolate .. is it really a frosty? no i think not.
[19:08] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Oh Dear, KK
[19:08] <KK> That's way long, but you hopefully were able to picture it.  Just found a solitary little yellow ball on my keyboard. Out of liquid, they dry up into much smaller little balls.
[19:08] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> No cocoa, no chocolate
[19:08] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Though I prefer dark chocolate
[19:08] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> *Airich offers an assortment of white chocolate macadamia nut, chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, raspberry cheesecake, and sugar cookies to everyone*
[19:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I will have...Yes.
[19:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Oh, yum
[19:09] <~bynw> girls and dark chocolate ... *shakes head* milk chocolate is sweet and yummy. which reminds me that i still have some fudge left ...
[19:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> One of each except the raspberry cheesecake. Two of that one.
[19:09] * ~bynw enjoys the snickerdoodles
[19:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> You deserve fudge, Bynw
[19:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> KK do not get any of the toy balls on you cookes they  do not sound eddible to me.
[19:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I don't dislike milk chocolate, it's just that it's usually a little too sweet. I prefer semi-sweet.
[19:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> My sorrow for the loss of the squeezie ball. Losing a nice toy to fiddle with can be annoying.
[19:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Airich: *slips Laurna a mai tai*
[19:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> What about ME?
[19:10] <~bynw> strangely i think most girls enjoy the semi-sweet or even more bitter dark chocolate over the sweet chocolate. but us guys like the sweet chocolate
[19:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Laurna happily hands it off to Washburn
[19:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My DH also prefers dark chocolate
[19:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> *Airich: OK, mai tais for everyone who wants one*
[19:11] * CambersGhost [discord] <jerusha2> has not had a mai tai in years
[19:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> He seems to have boy parts and a fuzzy chin last I checked, though
[19:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Bynw: *milk* chocolate for me. Every time.
[19:12] * ~bynw will stick to the strawberry kiwi snapple he is drinking right now
[19:12] * CambersGhost [discord] <jerusha2> decides not to ask
[19:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Dark Chocolate is the fundamental to living
[19:12] <~bynw> awesome Nezz .... milk chocolate for the win!!
[19:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> The building block of life
[19:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Yes, it is... just so long as you add extra sugar. 😄
[19:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I don't do sugar any more, unless it is in dark chocolate
[19:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I also prefer cakes and pies that are sweet but not too cloyingly sweet
[19:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> What kind of cookie for you, KK?
[19:15] * CambersGhost [discord] <stnezz> has an extra cookie for Darius.
[19:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Bribe? Of course not!
[19:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Whatever works
[19:15] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Then Do not forget to sneak one to Feyd
[19:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Maybe make that two
[19:16] * CambersGhost [discord] <stnezz> has cookies for Feyd and Lord Thane
[19:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Wash would be happy to add a drop of Merasha into the mixture for Feyd
[19:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Oh wait  this is a new chapter,  we are beyond that.  right?
[19:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Sir Iain is out in the cold, wet rain and wonders where his cookie is
[19:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Wash doesn't need merasha, he uses the natural method
[19:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "I asked ... for ... a little ... marshmallow ... not ... merasha" *thud*
[19:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> LOL  when in arms reach
[19:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> *Airich spriints over to Guardsman Jimmy, offers  him a warm, dark-chocolate chunk fresh from the oven*
[19:18] * CambersGhost [discord] <jerusha2> Iain give eternal thanks
[19:19] * CambersGhost [discord] <jerusha2> and licks the chocolate from his fingers
[19:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> I'm sure Airich will owe Iain more than Iain owes Airich before all's said and done.
[19:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> We all do what we need to do.  And no roasting cookies in the fire
[19:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> roasting chestnuts instead
[19:21] <~bynw> i cant wait until the adventuring party is all back together at the stables ... that's going to be fun :)
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Oh dear
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> I tried roasting chestnuts for a while. I found it to be just way too painful.
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Oh?
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> We've just about got that happening behind the scenes
[19:22] <KK> Well, those little balls scattered farther than I thought, so I need to sign off and make sure I've gotten them all before Daphne finds one and decides to eat it--and I have no idea what's inside them that might be poisonous to cats..
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Anytime the GM says FUN  i cringe
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Oh, good thought, KK! Best of luck!
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Oops
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Find them all, KK
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Oh my, yes, save Daphne
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Might be time to break out the vacuum cleaner
[19:22] <~bynw> yes find them before the kitty does
[19:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Have a great week. Stay warm
[19:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Have a good week, KK
[19:23] <KK> See you next week, provided we all survive the next storm. Be safe, guys.
[19:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Vacume time.  Take care KK and don't lean over to pick them up off the floor. just let the vacume do it.
[19:23] <~bynw> little furry creatures are like babies ... they put everything in their mouths
[19:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Goodnight, KK
[19:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Good Night KK.  see you when the castle is back to full garrison next week.
[19:24] * KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of purple sparkles.
[19:24] <KK> Nighters, all.
[19:24] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> nighters
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Chat Logs / KKChat -- 09 Feb 2005
Last post by Bynw - Today at 08:21:43 AM

[18:04] * web16 (43ae459a@CCN-39EF3B66.hsd1.va.comcast.net) has joined #Deryni_Destinations
[18:04] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> "15 seconds of violence followed by a committee meeting"... 🤣  One of the main reasons I have no patience for football
[18:04] <HoundMistress> Yep! How's everyone? Hi, stnezz & bynw
[18:05] * web16 is now known as KK
[18:05] <HoundMistress> Hi Evie
[18:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hi HM!
[18:05] <KK> I'm here.
[18:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hi KK
[18:05] <~bynw> Hi KK
[18:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> KK, Hello!!
[18:05] <HoundMistress> Hi, KK
[18:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Yay!
[18:05] <HoundMistress> Hi CG
[18:05] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yay, we'll have a log!  And hopefully our forum back soon so we can post it!
[18:05] * ~bynw is at a SuperBowl Watch Party .... go Eagles
[18:06] <KK> How's everybody? Bracing for the next storm?
[18:06] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It was in the mid-70s here today, I think.
[18:06] <~bynw> now there is the TD for the Eagles
[18:06] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Hoping for *any* good storm
[18:06] <KK> I kew that, Bynw. ;-)
[18:06] <HoundMistress> We have a cold week coming up after a week in the 70s and 80s
[18:07] <KK> We're due to get snow Tuesday/Wednesday, 4-6 inches.
[18:07] <HoundMistress> Wow!
[18:08] <HoundMistress> What about your neck of the wood, bynw?
[18:08] <KK> We had 7" two weeks ago, and about an inch last Thursday.
[18:08] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Looks like we're not very likely to get rain until Tuesday, but temps will only drop to the 50s, so that's fine
[18:08] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> We've got some cold coming up (lows in the teens), but mostly sunny
[18:09] <HoundMistress> Hoping for the rain next week.
[18:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Good evening!
[18:09] <~bynw> we are going to get snow on Wednesday ... maybe
[18:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> (BTW, for anyone not wanting to watch That Game, NEORSD has posted "1 hour of clean water flowing after treatment at a sewage plant". It's just that: a waterfall of clean rushing water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5bpxm1lWmA )
[18:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hi!
[18:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Hiya Marc!
[18:09] <~bynw> hi Marc
[18:09] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> How is everyone? How are you, KK?
[18:10] <KK> I'm good,
[18:10] <HoundMistress> I have the Super Bowl on in the other room, but since I don't have a dog in that hunt, I'm not really paying attention.
[18:10] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Yes, the snow... I would not be surprised is they canceled at least one day of school this week. But the kids already have Friday off for Valentine's, so we shouldn't give em too much freedom lol
[18:11] <HoundMistress> Hi marc
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> They gives kids time off for Valentines?
[18:11] <HoundMistress> So no one will be embarrassed by not getting any valentines?
[18:11] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Ha! That might be the reason
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> And yep.
[18:12] <KK> Time off for Valentine's.  Hmmm.
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Possibly because it's Saint Valentine's and it's a Christian school
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Missing Valentine's Day would have been so disappointing! That's when we used to get candy. 😄
[18:12] <HoundMistress> could be, I guess
[18:12] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It's literally SAINT Valentine.  😄
[18:13] <HoundMistress> Yep, all those little peppermint flavored hearts.
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Don't worry, they're well compensated. We're gonna theme the whole week around it until they are either lovesick or sick of love
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Just, you know, teach the little urchins about the history behind the holiday and then move on. 😄
[18:13] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Good idea!
[18:14] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Or big urchins, depending on age range. 😄
[18:14] <HoundMistress> I don't think I know the origin of it
[18:15] <HoundMistress> I know there was as St Valentine
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> https://www.nytimes.com/article/valentines-day-facts-history.html#:~:text=Valentine%20was%20arrested%20after%20he,Chaucer%20may%20have%20connected%20St.
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Legend has it he married Roman soldiers and women in a Christian manner, when that was not favored. I'd say it in more strong terms but I don't know the story well myself
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> There's multiple origin stories, but there's a couple
[18:16] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> And the cards were letters he received and sent
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> "A couple" heh
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> LOL
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Pun not intended but gladly welcomed, because Valentine's Day.  😉
[18:17] <~bynw> just so everyone knows i have clean copy of the database. and i'm working on replacing the files. but the SuperBowl will slow me down and work tomorrow will as well. but i'm working on it.
[18:17] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> They're middle to high school. It's amazing the differences in behavior I find in one building. But I like them. My new mission in life is to be the best teacher I can for them.
[18:18] <HoundMistress> What happened to the database?
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> We don't deserve such a king's champion as you. 😀
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> The site was hacked repeatedly.
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> We got hacked and defiled
[18:18] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Desecrated.
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> By political losers
[18:19] <~bynw> the website (Rhemuthcastle) was hacked several times on Saturday. so i had to clean it up.
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Oh, "defiled". Just got it. Good one!
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> We'll need to get our Archbishops and Bishops to reconsecrate the forum afterwards
[18:19] <HoundMistress> Oh, that's a shame! Nothing is safe anymore. They hacked the email of the Breakfast With The Beatles, too.
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> https://tenor.com/view/bishop-sy-younger-ramp-church-gif-22986132
[18:19] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I permaban thee in the name of the king!
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hi all. Not feeling well tonight so may not be here too long
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> So sorry for that!
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Sorry you are feeling unwell
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Awww, DFK, so sorry to hear that.
[18:20] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Aw man.
[18:20] <HoundMistress> Hi, DFK, and hope you feel better soon.
[18:20] <HoundMistress> Where's Duncan?
[18:20] <~bynw> if i knew where they came from by IP i would but unfortunately i cant find that information
[18:21] <KK> Good heavens. Hacked.  Who'd 'a thunk  it.Who'd 'a thunk it?
[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Maybe recovering from his birthday bash  😉
[18:21] <~bynw> and defaced with Profanity
[18:21] <HoundMistress> Right KK
[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> We wouldn't'a thunk it until we went to RC and found some lovely obscenities
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[18:21] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> There were more F-bombs on our forum than were overheard from the soldiers at Cardosa when Wencit invaded.
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[18:22] * web95 is now known as KK
[18:22] <HoundMistress> Is that KK?
[18:22] <HoundMistress> Oh, OK, thanks!
[18:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> So we've been patiently waiting while Bynw has been fixing it.
[18:22] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Of all the websites to bother with.
[18:23] <KK> I think aphne steppd on a key and locked me out, so I had to exit and renter.
[18:23] <HoundMistress> Glad you are back!
[18:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> We're just some chill folks who talk about books and writing, revolving around a very special writer
[18:23] <HoundMistress> Probably kids learning to hack.
[18:23] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Naughty Daphne! Your cat treats are in the mai--I mean, don't do that again!
[18:23] <KK> Iwas just thinking, Hacked?! Why us?
[18:24] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Because they could
[18:24] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> That is an excellent question
[18:24] <~bynw> yeah that's what i would like to know
[18:24] <KK> That's what I was thinking.  Some people are just destructive.
[18:25] <HoundMistress> Evil for the sake of evil
[18:25] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Your books prepare us well for this.
[18:25] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Lots of baddies beyond reason therein
[18:25] <~bynw> we aren't political .... i could understand if we were but we aren't
[18:25] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Yup. Just happy to make life crappy for everyone else
[18:25] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> It could have been people promoting the cause that the vandalism mentioned, or it could have been a false flag attack against the cause etc. (C.f. Javan versus the false Michaelines at the end of King Javan's Year.)
[18:25] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Well, we're pretty pro-Deryni, but aside from that.
[18:26] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Or they could have just been massive [bad words].
[18:26] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Yeah I thought it was pretty funny when I asked Nezz earlier today how my human P.C. would feel about being Deryni scanned and she told me "Deryni wouldn't think it's invasive" 😜
[18:27] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Marc that is really great . Best of luck with your new job
[18:27] <HoundMistress> Richard Cabesas?
[18:27] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Unless the Deryni mentioned it, the human might not even know he was being scanned.
[18:27] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Unless the Deryni was clumsy at it
[18:27] <HoundMistress> True
[18:28] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Thank you kindly! I'm sure the well wishes and prayers here helped
[18:28] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yeeeessss! Employed Marc can buy the next Deryni Trilogy now!  😉
[18:28] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> There's different levels of "scanning." This one wasn't really any different from a Human standing at the street, staring at a house. They can see the house, its color, its yard, and even what they can see through the window, but that's completely different from turning invisible and walking around inside the house, poking through your underwear drawer.
[18:29] <HoundMistress> They walked around inside and looked in our drawers and cabinets?
[18:29] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Marc, you aren't done yet? Drat! I forgot (again!) that people here might not have read the whole series yet!
[18:29] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> It could have been people promoting the cause that the vandalism mentioned, or it could have been a false flag attack against the cause etc. (C.f. [redacted too late])
[18:30] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> No. I'm currently sidetracked by the lodge of the lynx 🐈�⬛
[18:30] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Lodge of the lynx?
[18:30] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> No, I was just making the comparison of how invasive someone looking at your house from the street versus how invasive someone snooping around your house would be.
[18:30] <HoundMistress> OK, so they looked but didn't get inside really?
[18:31] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> No, I understand. It's just ... I asked how a human would feel and you told me how a Deryni would feel. 🙂 we all love the Deryni tho
[18:31] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I just thought it was funny
[18:31] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Like, you're a really good role player to be approaching it from the Deryni pov
[18:31] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Anyone going through my underwear drawer is gonna say "Weirdo, why do you have soap in here?!"  😂  (Years ago, a friend gave me some fancy bar soap that smelled good, so I put it in that drawer hoping the fragrance would permeate everything.  Then at some later point, I got another fancy soap, and did the same thing. Lather, rinse, repeat.  A few months ago, I reorganized that <clipped messag
[18:31] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt>  drawer, and kept fishing out soap bar after soap bar from the back corners, thinking "What the HECK?!")
[18:32] <HoundMistress> I used to do that with smelly goods.
[18:33] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Nezz is referring to what different levels of Deryni scanning might be like, not to the forum hackers, if that's what's confusing you.
[18:33] <HoundMistress> OK.
[18:34] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> It's the second KK and Deborah Turner Harris adept novel
[18:34] <KK> Bynw, I'm sure you had everything well backed up.
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Almost everything except the day of the attack, I think
[18:35] <KK> brb
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Thank goodness for Bynw. 🙂
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> So I think only one or two posts were lost
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Agreed!!
[18:35] <HoundMistress> That's good!
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Because St. Bynw saved the day
[18:35] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Who provides the Rhemuth Castle software and hardware? I'm in a group that might find a forum useful.
[18:36] <HoundMistress> Are we just in a HD or in The Cloud?
[18:36] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It's a Simple Machines forum, IIRC
[18:36] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> What is that?
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> It's funny but at some point in the first book I realized that it was heavily inspired by an intimate knowledge of freemasonry. Much more intimate than I possess. Then i reach the point in the second book where they start discussing freemasonry weathering controversies and having cool characters for members, the same week i reach the part of 1 Kings where Solomon builds the tem <clipped messag
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> ple, and I end up visiting a lodge for the funeral of a mason who was a friend of mine.
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> God certainly likes his rhymes
[18:37] <~bynw> the forum software is SMF (Simple Machines Forum)
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> https://www.simplemachines.org/
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> It's funny but at some point in the first book I realized that it was heavily inspired by an intimate knowledge of freemasonry. Much more intimate than I possess. Then i reach the point in the second book where they start discussing freemasonry weathering controversies and having cool characters for members, the same week i reach the part of 1 Kings where Solomon builds the tem <clipped messag
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> ple, and I end up visiting a lodge for the memorial service of a mason who was a friend of mine.
[18:37] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> God certainly likes his rhymes
[18:39] <~bynw> i think SMF is one of the better free forum softwares out there ... has the most features et all
[18:40] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Inspired by Valentine's Day I have question
[18:40] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Top five KK Book Couples?
[18:41] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Alaric and Richenda
[18:41] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Nigel and Meraude
[18:42] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Rhys and Evaine
[18:42] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> That's a hard question since there aren't a lot of couples whose relationship gets much focus.
[18:42] <HoundMistress> Alaric and Richenda, Alaric's father and mother, Rhys and Evaine.
[18:42] <KK> Cool, Marc.  Yeah, I did a lot of research for the Masonic bits, both for the Adept books and for Two Crowns.
[18:42] * ~bynw likes Two Crowns. My fav KK book that isn't a Deryni book
[18:43] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Well I'm from the time when you dialed numbers on the phone, if you wanted to change channels you had to get up and turn a knob, we had 5-6 channels all of which went off at MN. You told time by looking at the hands. It's quite a leap to today's tech. Fortunately bynw is patient with me
[18:43] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> It took me too long to realize that you didn't choose the Sinclair name because it sounds nice  🙂
[18:43] <HoundMistress> I'm from that time, too. Didn't have a TV till I was 6 or 7.
[18:43] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> There you go BYNW
[18:44] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> We had a TV when I was five, but it was a tiny black and white one
[18:44] <~bynw> INTercepted!!!
[18:44] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My grandmother's color TV was the first one I saw
[18:44] <~bynw> Fly Eagles Fly!!
[18:44] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Top couples: in terms of impact, Ian and Charissa? 🙂
[18:44] <HoundMistress> Oh, yeah, no color till the 60s
[18:44] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Man the Chiefs are getting stomped.
[18:44] <~bynw> yes stomp the Chiefs
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> If you count the anthologies, then Christian and Charissa
[18:45] <HoundMistress> And Brion's dad and the Deryni lady
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Though that's not a KK couple per se
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Brion and Jehana?
[18:45] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Anthologies count to me
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> lol, I'm not sure how good a relationship I'd consider Brion and Jehenna, all things considered.
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Alas that Brion and Jehana ... well ...
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> The same Brion she ... you know...?
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> KK didn't write that particular story, but it's in an anthology that she compiled, is what I mean
[18:46] <KK> We had a B&W tv when I was in about 6th grade. Used to watch Mickey Mouse Club, and can still sing most of the songs for the days of the week and what was on.
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> I think she made a better half-couple with the second guy.
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Ian Howell?
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> My Master's thesis was typed on a typewriter. Whee re n I did my dissertation I had a computer with word perfect. Thought I had died and gone to heaven
[18:46] <HoundMistress> I think Brion and Jehana lost some of the romance when she hated Alaric so much. But he still loved her.
[18:46] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Brion and Jehana started off as quite the love match, and she apparently never stopped loving him, it just became a strained marriage over the Deryni question.
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Sorry I confused her with Charissa
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I did my research papers on a typewriter also, though by the end of my studies it was an electronic typewriter.
[18:47] <HoundMistress> Who was Brion's father and who was the Deryni lady he had a son with?
[18:47] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Brion's dad was Donal (Blaine)
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Donal and Richeldis (his queen)? Or do you mean Krispin's mom?
[18:48] <HoundMistress> Yes, Donal! and the lady?
[18:48] <HoundMistress> Yes, Krispin's mom!
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> @Bynw what's the score
[18:48] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Jessamy? Or something like that?
[18:49] <HoundMistress> I think that's right, Jessamy or ie?
[18:49] <KK> I got my first computer between Camber the Heretic and Lammas Night.  An Apple 2-e with 2 external floppy drives. What a  joy to type up the final draft of LN and not have to retype pages where I made
[18:49] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I keep wondering who will be the one to sweep Adam Sinclair off his feet. With an urgency that's maybe more than KK intended writing such a leisurely gentleman 😅
[18:49] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I can't imagine typing a full novel on a typewriter. I wrote the first four chapters of a Star Wars fanfic on one, and that was enough
[18:49] <KK> You'll find the answer to that in a later book in the series.
[18:50] <~bynw> oooo apple 2e with AppleWorks
[18:50] <KK> I was WordStar.
[18:50] <HoundMistress> I didn't get my own personal computer till 1996, I think.
[18:51] <HoundMistress> It's amazing how adaptable we are
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I married into a personal computer in 1989
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> But it was a PCjr
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> I got my first one in 1987. The first "laptop."
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Do you remember how he lied about being sent by the lady doctor in charge of the little girl in the first book? I keep expecting her to call him and demand answers and for him to like her moxie 🤣 but it seems like too much time has passed in the story for her to be a candidate
[18:51] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It had a word processor, though, which was all I needed
[18:51] <HoundMistress> Had computers at work years before I got one.
[18:52] <~bynw> many work computers in the 90's and before were just dumb terminals to mainframe systems
[18:52] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My first job with computer access was the one I'm in now. Windows 3.1 with WordPerfect.
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> 1993, I think
[18:53] <HoundMistress> Yes, they were slaves to the mainframe
[18:53] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I loved 3.1 and the silly little Sheep.exe program
[18:53] <~bynw> sheep.exe was awesome
[18:54] <~bynw> totally forgot about that until you mentioned it
[18:54] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> lol, Sheep.exe!!!!
[18:54] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Little fiery sheep diving into the bathtub
[18:54] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> I was so thrilled to be able to make corrections and change things without having to retype whole pages
[18:54] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> We need those in Sims 4
[18:55] <~bynw> that was greak Evie
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> https://winclassic.net/thread/1723/windows-sheep-back-systems-esheep claims "Windows 95 & 98 Sheep.exe is back on x64 systems as 'eSheep'", but I haven't tried it and I can't say if it's reputable.
[18:55] <KK> Does sheep.exe still exist, and what did it do?
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I was even thrilled when I got an electronic typewriter that would let me edit two lines of text before typing them on a page!
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I have counted sheep in the sims
[18:55] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> So you can sleep
[18:56] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It just put a cute little animated sheep on your screen that went wandering around while you worked, getting up to stuff. Every so often it would catch on fire for no reason and have to dive into a bathtub to put itself out.
[18:56] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> LOL
[18:56] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> LOL
[18:56] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It was utterly pointless, but it was so cute
[18:57] <KK> Sounds....interesting.
[18:57] <HoundMistress> I remember little animanls and other stuff but not the sheep?
[18:57] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yeah, I think sheep.exe was the original, but others made variations
[18:57] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Do you remember Flying Toasters, bynw?
[18:58] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Yes
[18:58] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> You know, I don't remember hearing about anything like sheep.exe, or the Flying Toaster screensaver, or other little whimsical things since then. They were fun.
[18:58] <~bynw> esheep is in the microsoft store
[18:58] <HoundMistress> I remember the flying toasters
[18:59] <KK> There was something that had little cats wandering along the margins and batting at words.
[18:59] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I used to have an .exe file that if you clicked on it, everything on your screen turned upside down. You could cancel it by hitting Esc, but that was an April Fool's prank we would send around.
[19:00] <HoundMistress> Ah, me. I have to go. Haven't had anything go eat since breakfast and my empty tummy is complaining. Hope to see you all next Sunday!
[19:00] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Oh goodness, go eat!
[19:00] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> cya HM
[19:00] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Very clever tricks lol
[19:00] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I have Souperbowl Fundraiser soup waiting on me when we get done
[19:00] <HoundMistress> I am. Everybody be safe this week!!
[19:00] <~bynw> cya HM
[19:01] * HoundMistress (181b2262@CCN-2C8ABF5B.res.spectrum.com) Quit (Quit: Client closed)
[19:01] <KK> Same here, HM--though it was a far bigger breakfast than I usually do. Brunch, actually, at Waffle House, and they do indeed charge an extra $.50 for an egg.
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> I think I will go also as still not feeling great. Have a good week everyone., esp. Bynw for fixing out problems. Night all
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Bye DFK
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> night DFK
[19:02] <~bynw> night DFK
[19:02] <KK> Anyway, my tummy sez it's time to eat again, so I think I'll follow its prompting and go eat something.
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Have a great week, KK, hope everything is going well for you
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> good Night DFK.   Feel better
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Night all
[19:02] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Goodnight, Grand Exodus!
[19:03] * KK steeps onto her Portal, waves goodnight and blows everyone a kiss, and disappears in a shower of purple sparkles.
[19:03] <~bynw> score 0 to 17 Eagles!
[19:03] <~bynw> night KK
[19:03] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> have a good Week KK
[19:03] <KK> Nighters!
[19:03] * KK (43ae459a@CCN-39EF3B66.hsd1.va.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: Client closed)

#3
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by DerynifanK - February 07, 2025, 08:22:42 AM
Wow! That's a lot. Should really scare the Willimites.
#4
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by Bynw - February 07, 2025, 07:54:30 AM
Quote from: DerynifanK on February 07, 2025, 07:27:23 AMWonder how many of his people Feyd has there.

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#5
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by DerynifanK - February 07, 2025, 07:27:23 AM
It appears that Fyed has his own minions in Grecotha. I don't remember Lord Thane either. I thought Feyd was leaving the problem entirely to Iain but apparently not. At least I think he might also be working with Feyd. Wonder how many of his people Feyd has there.
#6
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by DerynifanK - February 07, 2025, 07:07:04 AM
She won't be the only one. Iain will be too
#7
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by Nezz - February 06, 2025, 11:10:27 PM
Quote from: Laurna on February 06, 2025, 10:15:45 PMYou are right, DFK, I do not think we have seen Darius before.  But I agree, you are also right that he might be Feyd's man. This is the first I have heard of him also. Amy is going to go ballistic when she sees No Airich, only a deep puddle of blood.
/me offers Amy a cookie
#8
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by Laurna - February 06, 2025, 10:15:45 PM
You are right, DFK, I do not think we have seen Darius before.  But I agree, you are also right that he might be Feyd's man. This is the first I have heard of him also. Amy is going to go ballistic when she sees No Airich, only a deep puddle of blood.
#9
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by DerynifanK - February 06, 2025, 08:42:14 PM
It appears that Darius is Feyd's man but where did he come from? I seem to have missed him.
#10
Forgotten Shadows / Re: FS Out of Character Chat
Last post by Nezz - February 06, 2025, 08:32:43 PM
Quote from: DerynifanK on February 06, 2025, 08:28:58 PMThank goodness for Darius. I was hoping for rescue but almost afraid to read it. Relief that help arrived!
And now you know just as much about Airich's fate as I do! I can't wait to find out what happens next! :)