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@Nik: Yeah, my intention is basically *just* to split the walls of text. That's a lot of what Wiki organization is about, is splitting walls of text into readable and findable subunits. I need to do a pass on the Heph page with this in mind...

It's intended as a sort of 'triage' categorization method for new items. As in, if Steve were sending these things for research, how would you label them pre-research? Well, you'd label anything that required 'special handling' on mission an Artifact, anything else physical a Sample, and any data taken without an accompanying sample as Data. This gives you an at-a-glance impression of what you need to do to start research on each item, and you can always update their classification as things progress, or even use a different classification scheme.

I may change the 'materials' label to 'samples', though. That sounds more accurate to what I'd like it to be, but you may find it more useful to separate it out into a couple more categories.

Hmm... well, depending on the next black ops mission, I may want to talk to you about one of his projects as it applies to Joker. It can wait until we have more details, and I'd like to get cleared to return to work. Good day, Steve.

Skylar then leaves and heads to the infirmary, considering something on his datapad on the way. He approaches a doctor that doesn't look busy when he arrives.

Hi, I'd like to get a scan done? We had an... incident on mission, that led to me creating... something. We'd like to make sure nothing happened... or know what did. Either way, really...

talk talk, request scan

(( Seems to be a popular day for scanning!))

Yeah, and it is useful in the way it is, but maybe there should be a page more of a "TO DO" list - not all the artifacts/research prospects are mentioned on that page, and not all the artifacts/research prospects that are mentioned on that page bear new research possibilities (for example, I feel that perhaps Abyss sand or Hexplate are exhausted lines of research, at least for the moment). Conversely, there should also be created a page for "scientific developments" or somesuch - to mention all the new materials and their already working applications (like hexsand armor, invisible cover, heatsinks and, of course, "sandbag" itself for the Abyss sand practical applications already in use).
Just, when I finally have all the time, when I am finally allowed to do science (and things are settled on how science is done these days), when my character is freed from that long conversation... I'll try and compile the concise list of things to research into. And put it on the wiki.

Well, I'll try and help out a bit with that. Later this week, I'll copy the artifacts/materials I think Heph has from the list and drop them into some categories for some initial organization, then link that into the Heph page for you. I'll probably start with "Unexamined", "In-Progress", and "Completed" as the initial categories.
I probably won't be able to sort them accurately (that's why I posted here in the first place, I haven't been tracking exactly what Heph has been doing), but hopefully I can setup a framework that will let you update the information more easily.

Similarly, I can start a Scientific Developments page, maybe throw in a framework for hexplate, but I haven't the faintest idea what you guys have been making.

the logging bot inexplicably draws the ire of the channel admin once again

Oh, it's not inexplicable. Rem kicks the poor bot whenever someone brings it to his attention, almost as if bots draw his ire merely by existing. Someone should tell Steve.

abbradar is going to configure it to reconnect after a delay, when he gets some free time. So Rem can punch it and get some privacy. 

I've completed this stage of the Character Index reorg

You can find the new version here: http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/New_Character_Page

Looking for comments or last minute additions before it's good to copy over. I think it should be fine now.
My current complaint with it is that the re-org makes the status column seem redundant to me, especially for the stasis and dead categories. I can remove it altogether, or we can see if there is something else we'd like in a column.

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14:19   <Piecewise>: Someone tell irony that if faith doesn't start wandering around soon. particularly into the infirmary so we can get full body scans, I'm going to steal her body and use it for nefarious purposes

((Haha welp))


Wake up, everything is fine. Everything is perfectly fine. Just to be ultra sure that everything is perfectly fine, stagger into the infirmary and ask if everything is fine.

(( Everything is fine. Always remember. Everything. Is. Fine. ))

A few things... first, the Boss wanted me to get myself and what we brought back checked out after the... computer incident on the Heist. He'd like to figure out if something is wrong with me that allowed it to get created, given that all we bought was normal electronics. We brought back pictures of the device and as much of the data storage as we could salvage, in the hopes that it would help figure this out.

Chat with Steve about the device.

I think what's happening here is we're thinking in 3D, and PW is thinking in 2D.

I.E, PW is talking about the labelled sensor array on the map. He's thinking you're going to wedge yourself in there, and then drill in the same plane as the rooms.
Where as you are thinking of going out of the plane, and coming back down.

Now, I strongly suspect that the answer you're going to get here is 'Oh. There's 5 meters of crap and empty decks up there. You're not going to get through that without cutting the ship in two.'