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... yeah. How do you propose to gut it without leaving a significant portion of our elderly either on the streets or further below the poverty line than they already are? There's... considerably more SS does, than that, but that's what you're going to have to solve if you want to "gut" the program before it does more harm.

... would... would that even work? I mean, you kinda' need some degree of cooperation and, well. Half that list probably wants to kill and/or eat and/or steal children from the other half. I guess you could base it on a naturalized slave group. One of those goblin/kobold nations that seem to have nearly as much <other race> as their own.

Alternately, you'd have a very interesting Sburb session. You'd have a lot of cultural animosity to work through/around. And cannibal elves. I mean, the trolls had enough trouble and for all they're from a notably inter-antagonistic species, they're still mostly the same one and generally fairly able to cooperate without killing each other. DF races, well. Beyond being several different ones, they tend to kinda' hate each other and actively try to murder each other. DF's a world where diplomacy occasionally goes, "You chopped down trees, now we're going to kill and eat your children." And that's, like. The extent of diplomacy. Most everyone else just kinda' walks in and starts the slaughter.

@ FD: Sounds like an interesting thing to run with. I'd probably read it once it got over 60k-ish words, heh. Main immediate, minor-ish, thought on reading your blurb was "How are you working with Irukuku?" She's, well. She has a human form, but from what I recall for all that she's physically mature in human form, she's kinda' mentally... not. Smart, but quite young.* Also not human, for all that she has a human form, which as per Green Sun Illuminates, ferex, is a definite thing-you-can-play-with.

* Most of cast is, actually, thinking on it. Last ZnT fic I read that included bits on age gaps and romance was American Geek in Halkeginia, iirc. Though you may be aiming for less romance more bookmance or something, which would be fine. But still, beyond the magical brand, why would a probably-notably-older (since the chances of a 16-18 year old managing to bugger about with Elder Scrolls diplomacy and whatnot is... possible but unlikely?) Dovahkin stick around at all?

... yeah, afternoon is after noon, but before the sun starts getting really low. From the point the sky starts getting fairly orange until the next day is evening.

Let's assume it's either for warmth or as a sockpuppet for entertaining guests. Maybe some sort of art project. Other considerations are paths to madness and depravity.

It's communications. Mandatory for most courses, that I know of. Basically like taking english again. Though it seems that my ability to pull sentences from my ass has waned since I left highschool.

... hrm. College level? Introductory stuff, though. Bleh. I remember there actually being word quotas you had to meet back when I hit that stuff, which I now know is goddamn stupid. If you've got time, you might actually ask the teacher for consideration re: brevity.* Since brevity is. Kinda' important. Everywhere, but business related stuff especially. If they're teaching you to pull sentences out of your nether regions instead of getting to the damn point they're just... not really doing a very good job

But intro stuff is frankly just another level of high school, generally, so. Meh. You'll probably have better luck later on.

I mean, sometimes it takes a lot of words to get to the point. And, I'll admit, it's definitely fun to play and given less than half a chance I will. But it's bad craft to bloat.

*Maybe ask if you can make three or four appropriately sized ones instead of just one piece of crap? Likelihood of something like that dependent on how large the class is, of course.

Wait wait wait...

...people send out job application rejection letters? Where's the two hundred or so I should have? Hell, I can count the number of rejection emails and phone calls I ever received on one hand. What madness is this?

I think they may have, like, decades ago or something? Still, even if you never send one, the technique of business communication is something that should be practiced. It's just... flyme isn't. In this case. That assignment is violently anti-commercial.

... do you actually need a full page? Fairly sure "Your application has been rejected", with an appropriate header and footer is, like. Less than a page. Might even been a whole, like, five or six sentences if you bother niceties (Thank you for your interest) and a reason (you didn't graduate high school, you twit, and this position requires a master's degree.).

And seriously. If you can make it less than a page, you have a very strong motive to. Ink costs money. As does time. You have an economic mandate to make that letter as short and as rote as you can. Teacher says something, note to teacher that a business has very strong motivation to make things brief.

Especially a job application refusal letter, since they're probably sending out hundreds of the damned things.

Two, actually, if my memory's not failing me. The big and definite one is Asherath, who rewards favor when you kill stuff that's higher CL than your level. Bigger difference, bigger reward. The lesser one, and one I'm less sure of, is the fact that, if I'm not misremembering, you gain more XP when you fight greater challenges (challenges being determined by difference between level and enemy CL.). If you hold off leveling for a bit, you can actually get more XP, overall.

But it's mostly Ash. Double checking the manual, at least Khasrach also has a CL component to sacrifices -- she only accepts (or, at least, is only supposed to.) kills that are equal or greater power than you. You can also tick Aiswin off if you level up before killing something that badly wounded you. So there's a few god-related reasons not to, basically, and one pragmatic one.

Google breakpad or whatever it is called, is integrated.  It might dump a minidump file when the game crashes, which should allow debugging of whatever caused the crash.  But a save game at the point where it can be reproduced with a series of attempts would be most cromulent.

Sure, sure. If no one beats me to it, I should be able to produce save files and reproduction steps sometime later tonight or tomorrow. Either one of them is very easy to reproduce in wizard mode.

Hnnyeah, m'fine with th'provisional teams. Nation choice wise, I... don't really have a preference. Not exactly picky when it comes to nations...

Communication is a question, yes. I'd probably be best with some form of IRC or steam, or PMs. Got skype, but no microphone and I've used the program all of once.