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Post by zipp on Nov 25, 2008 4:23:19 GMT -5
Imagine my shock to log in today only to discover that aside from a few threads, the last message posted on the boards was nearly a week ago! Activity seems depressingly low these days at the Tower of the Sun. Have the fans finally drifted apart (electronically, if not in spirit)?
I know TOTS had been slowing down before the crash, and that we lost some people in the move, but it does seem sad, nonetheless. Why, I remember the days where one couldn't keep up with all the new posts!
Such is the way of forums, I suppose.
In any case, I hope everyone is doing well. I know my own participation has been poor in the last year, and for that I apologize. I suppose I have drifted away a bit from the world of Magnamund, though it continues to inspire me from deep within my sub-con.
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Post by eviltb on Nov 25, 2008 6:10:16 GMT -5
Secretly, yes. The NAK ultimate plan has worked and all Kai are now dead!
OOC, myself Ive been as busy as hell, so forum type has slipped away. I think it may just be that time of year dude...
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Post by Doomy on Nov 25, 2008 6:38:18 GMT -5
At least one dwarf still stands in Bor! Lots of folks have gone missing lately though, by the looks of it.  LWRPGoL is quiet as well, with just one game out of four actually active. Has anyone heard from EK/Crymson lately? |
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Post by Rune Dancer on Nov 25, 2008 8:32:29 GMT -5
I'm afraid I'm still spending too much time on work (they just keep on throwing new things at me to learn).
Luckily my current project has helped me to formulate an application of a vein similar to Statskeeper. I have two versions in mind depending on who will give me backing when I've finished prototyping.
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Post by Aguila Saber on Nov 25, 2008 15:20:05 GMT -5
The Kai seems to be gone yes.
Can only assume that the Dark God gave up trying to ressurrect Vashna and let the Agarashi in the deepest recesses of the Maakengorge rise up and wake with the Dead of the Maakengorge and take their vengeance on the Sommlending towards the end of the Great Agarashi War.
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Post by huntingmoon on Nov 25, 2008 23:23:45 GMT -5
I am still here. You think the Kai are missing, its a graveyard in the Brotherhood halls....
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Post by zipp on Nov 26, 2008 4:56:18 GMT -5
I am still here. You think the Kai are missing, its a graveyard in the Brotherhood halls.... You don't know graveyard until you've been a sage. I watched the rise and fall of that organization. Thankfully, we have the ever active, ever sagely, Maerin on our side. But he's the last remnant of a dead order. May he live long! |
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Post by Black Cat on Nov 26, 2008 12:30:16 GMT -5
You know what we really need? A website! Project Aon has one, Mongoose has one, and the original TotS had one. Now the main website is gone, so what we are left with is just a forum. What we need is a website that offers content: a real download section, some data and facts about the various works on LW, a link to that LW wiki, a link to this forum, a news section, etc. That will prompt people to visit us and maybe post in the forums. What we currently have is simply a forum with all the contents for a website being disseminated across it. We should not stay here, arms crossed, waiting for the original TotS website to come back online. Let's do something ourselves for us!  |
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Post by Doomy on Nov 26, 2008 12:35:19 GMT -5
I guess we could check who here has what skills and the will to use them. I'm willing to help, but don't know anything about website construction.
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Post by eviltb on Nov 26, 2008 12:57:21 GMT -5
I think we went through this route before on the fb pages when the original site went down. The main "problem" afaik, was who would host/pay for a server where we could put said content, or indeed, who has the time to properly maintain it. Hence proboards was chosen as it is "free" and all we have to do is moderate it.
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Post by Black Cat on Nov 26, 2008 13:11:38 GMT -5
What about Geocities? I know I can do something with this. It's free and it's simple to modify.
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Post by Maerin on Nov 26, 2008 14:42:45 GMT -5
Thankfully, we have the ever active, ever sagely, Maerin on our side. But he's the last remnant of a dead order. May he live long! Unfortunately, his pen only moves so fast, and so his PBP LW game takes up a profound amount of his free time. |
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Post by nahuris on Nov 26, 2008 17:55:56 GMT -5
Not all of the Brotherhood are dead....
At the moment, the only place I have internet access is work -- and not only is my boss firmly against any use of work time for anything specifically not work, but this is also our busiest time of the year. However, we should have our internet back shortly, at my house, and I and Nightraven should become a touch more active.
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Post by Rune Dancer on Nov 26, 2008 18:29:22 GMT -5
What about Geocities? I know I can do something with this. It's free and it's simple to modify. The main problem we would have with Geocities would be in the amount of space available in the free version. Only 3Gb of d/l would probably get used up in no time, and 15Mb of storage doesn't amount to much when you start racking up the content. Also, we would still have to have a separate forum site. I can't think of a solid solution off the top of my head, but I'll have a hunt for more solutions when I get chance tomorrow |
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Post by Maerin on Nov 26, 2008 18:50:56 GMT -5
Well, one thing I will point out in response to some of the comments that have been made. If people who want to make this project happen start out by setting too many conditions for themselves, the effort will die stillborn.
For instance, what does it really matter if we have a "seperate" forum site, so long as there is a link to the "home" site? I had no problems finding players here (and a few other places) for my online LW RPG game, which is on a different, "seperate" forum site to this one (as well as the other ones on which I advertised). It's all just a matter of following a link from point A to point B, nothing more. That works just fine. What does it matter if memory will eventually get eaten up? It will not do so to start with. Its all well and good to think sensibly about the future, but all that thinking is just mindless gerbil activity if it stops any productive effort at all.
Sensible thinking should include expectation management, both for the short-term as well as the long-term. Unless there is someone with a lot of ambition and, more particularly, a lot of spare time and money to throw at this (and I really kind of doubt all of the above), then we are not talking about another Tower of the Sun here (at least not to start with). Start with the simple "home" site that is being suggested here, as a website nexus that connects all the information and links to, say, this forum or the various file repositories where people stored fan material in the wake of the loss of the Tower. Build from that point. If the project outstrips Geocities capabilities, then it has become viable enough to justify getting upgraded at that point to something more formal.
In general, I would also point out that this is a good opportunity for people to create something new. The Tower was a good site, but like any site (and community), it had its good points and bad ones. It may be reasonable to say that we may never see its like again, but we will see something fresh and new now.
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