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The apocrypha section seems like a bit of a mess that could use a cleaning up. A part of it is seemingly sorted chronologically while others are sorted to group up omake series, but it doesn't do so consistently. Think either sorting works, but using both intermittently ain't great.
 
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Isn't any metagaming based on the Sidestory/Apocrypha divide completely erroneous metagaming that brings no advantage? As long as you say that Sidestory doesn't mean "actually happened" or even "is definitely possible" somewhere in the collection of useful information, I think you could completely wash your hands off it and allow those of us who don't get it to shoot ourselves in the foot until we learn better.

You created that divide for a reason and I don't think that it's a bad one, fuzzy as it is. Personally I think that this problem is small enough and the salt it generates sparse enough that you shouldn't feel the need to change your policy around it.

Letting the thread step on as many rakes as it requires to generate a teachable moment isn't the kind of relationship I want this to be, and doesn't seem like it would be fun for anyone. It only takes one person being confidently wrong for an idea to take hold and the only sin the majority would be guilty of is having faith in their fellow questers. That's not something I'm comfortable punishing.

The apocrypha section seems like a bit of a mess that could use a cleaning up. A part of it is seemingly sorted chronologically while others are sorted to group up omake series, but it doesn't do so consistently. Think either sorting works, but using both intermittently ain't great.

AFAIK there's only one set that's not in chronological order, and that's been reordered because it was written out of its internal order.
 
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Letting the thread step on as many rakes as it requires to generate a teachable moment isn't the kind of relationship I want this to be, and doesn't seem like it would be fun for anyone. It only takes one person being confidently wrong for an idea to take hold and the only sin the majority would be guilty of is having faith in their fellow questers. That's not something I'm comfortable punishing.
I for one appreciate this. My bad memory and general inattentiveness would make me a massive victim of trusting others too much to know what's actually going on.
 
Well, the threat of people misremembering what they read in quest canon and what they read in an omake will still persist. And both of those can only be medicated with someone telling whoever makes such a mistake "that isn't actually canon, it's from omake so-and-so".
 
Okay @BoneyM , I believe I've got it. Special thanks to @Glau 's Soizic Series, which acted as a valuable signpost to help me get everything in the right order.
Thanks for that, I would have found that a pretty tedious exercise.
… With that said, is it appropriate to note a correction to ones own material?
If so, The Knight Witch Hunts (start of the Expedition) was 'published' after The Witch-Knight and her Vampire Hunter (around the Purge). In this reordering, I think KWH should link directly following Witch-Knight (Or looking again, maybe it's KWH, Grumbling In the Watch, then Witch-Knight).
Not a big problem, though.
 
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Okay @BoneyM , I believe I've got it. Special thanks to @Glau 's Soizic Series, which acted as a valuable signpost to help me get everything in the right order.

Thanks a lot for that, it's been on my to-do list forever.

Well, the threat of people misremembering what they read in quest canon and what they read in an omake will still persist. And both of those can only be medicated with someone telling whoever makes such a mistake "that isn't actually canon, it's from omake so-and-so".

I've explained my reasoning for retiring the Sidestory category as a courtesy, not as an invitation to debate.
 
I've explained my reasoning for retiring the Sidestory category as a courtesy, not as an invitation to debate.
I'm sorry. That last one wasn't an argument for not going forward with merging the two sections. It was a more general idle comment about the problem after Ericwinter brought up bad memory. I should have made that more clear.
 
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Letting the thread step on as many rakes as it requires to generate a teachable moment isn't the kind of relationship I want this to be, and doesn't seem like it would be fun for anyone. It only takes one person being confidently wrong for an idea to take hold and the only sin the majority would be guilty of is having faith in their fellow questers. That's not something I'm comfortable punishing.
I kind of doubt it would work anyway. There's a core of people who've been with the quest for a long time and read the thread. Those might learn it. But there's also plenty who pick it up later, or who just read the updates itself. Plus, memories fade and it's easy to mix up how it works when you're following a dozen quests and some do have 'sidestory' as canon content.
 
That was a job I wasn't looking forward to, thanks a lot.
No problem.

I do think that as the thread gets bigger you should start dumping copy and paste stuff like that, thread mark cleaning, and... time consuming?.. Stuff on members of the thread you can trust to not play silly games. (Maybe with Basic guidelines)

tidy time is just going to get longer if you don't.
 
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Oh man I didn't get notifications from this thread for over a week, maybe two. Checked in manually after realizing. What have I missed? :(
 
Oh man I didn't get notifications from this thread for over a week, maybe two. Checked in manually after realizing. What have I missed? :(
Your last post in the thread is over here, if that helps. And that was only five days ago so I don't think you missed that much, maybe the most recent two omakes. Ah, and @Redshirt Army reorganized all the omakes under the Apocrypha tab.
 
Your last post in the thread is over here, if that helps. And that was only five days ago so I don't think you missed that much, maybe the most recent two omakes. Ah, and @Redshirt Army reorganized all the omakes under the Apocrypha tab.
I meant if I'd missed any important discussion since I don't have time to backread the whole thing right now. Thanks for the omake and reorganization info :)
 
Boney I have a present for you.


I didn't feel Math's best toys got represented enough, so I decide to fix it with a painting. A very detailed painting that I, perhaps spent a great deal more time then is sane. Painting started the 1st of March and........kept working on it. Toss it in a new tab to look at all the details.

im going to go lay down now.
 
Boney I have a present for you.


I didn't feel Math's best toys got represented enough, so I decide to fix it with a painting. A very detailed painting that I, perhaps spent a great deal more time then is sane. Painting started the 1st of March and........kept working on it. Toss it in a new tab to look at all the details.

im going to go lay down now.
That looks absolutely fantastic. That said, since the sword is made of Gromril it should probably be coloured more silvery than gold/brass, or at least the blade.
 
Boney I have a present for you.


I didn't feel Math's best toys got represented enough, so I decide to fix it with a painting. A very detailed painting that I, perhaps spent a great deal more time then is sane. Painting started the 1st of March and........kept working on it. Toss it in a new tab to look at all the details.

im going to go lay down now.

This is astonishingly good. Her aura is dangerously smug but also plain dangerous. I love it.
 
Thank you. I am a sucker for gold metals, and will argue that spacial displacement probably has a color effect. I also had concerns a silver blade wouldn't stand out enough from the background.
I figure it would stand out well enough on the dark grey if you went for a suitably bright silver/argent on the blade. As it is, the runes meld in with the sword because they're both the same golden colour. And I feel as though the runes should be what stands out if anything, since they're what makes the sword truly one-of-a-kind, both in appearance and performance.
 
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