(02/01 13:00:23) Claidi Song: !shorah b’shemtee
(02/01 13:00:23) *Jodok*: yeah
(02/01 13:00:31) Claidi Song: Welcome to the 178th All Guilds Meeting!
(02/01 13:00:38) Claidi Song: By the D’ni calendar, today is Leevosahn 25 9680 DE.
(02/01 13:00:53) Claidi Song: If you are new to the Cavern or returning after being away for some time: Welcome! You have arrived at an exciting time in MOULa!
(02/01 13:01:07) Claidi Song: All Guilds Meeting (AGM) meets from 13:00 KI – 13:55 KI on the first Saturday of each month.
(02/01 13:01:18) Claidi Song: Times are shown in KI Time which corresponds to the Mountain Time Zone.
(02/01 13:01:25) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ AGM Rules ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:01:31) Claidi Song: 1. Keep chatter to a minimum while the speakers are talking. Be respectful and let the speaker finish.
(02/01 13:01:43) Claidi Song: 2. Hold all questions until after the speaker asks for questions at the end of their presentation.
(02/01 13:01:54) Claidi Song: 3. Speakers: please indicate when you are ready for questions. And indicate when you’re ready for the next question.
(02/01 13:02:02) Claidi Song: Questions may be directly messaged to me to be added to the questions queue for Q&A after each presenter is done. Keep DM’d questions brief and on the speaker’s topic.
(02/01 13:02:26) Claidi Song: 5. A summary and the chatlog of this meeting will be published within a few days on the Guild of Messengers website – https://guildofmessengers.org/
(02/01 13:02:36) Claidi Song: Of course, you can start your own chatlog by typing: /startlog
(02/01 13:02:55) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ CAVCON ~~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:03:00) Claidi Song: Latest CavCon funding update is December 2024
(02/01 13:03:06) Claidi Song: CAVCON=4.1 Donations covered 110% Reserve at 719%
(02/01 13:03:25) Claidi Song: CAVCON donations keep MOULa open. Link for donating to CAVCON is in the right column of the website https://guildofmessengers.org/
(02/01 13:03:37) Claidi Song: Great job everyone
(02/01 13:03:47) ShilohOBrien: Donate early. Donate often. 😀
(02/01 13:03:49) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Cooking with Sky ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:03:54) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:03:54) Claidi Song: Welcome to the stage, skyisblu!
(02/01 13:04:25) skyisblu: HI everyone! 😀
(02/01 13:04:36) skyisblu: I just wanted to remind you that every first Monday of the month, I host Cooking Sessions with Sky at 12 KI in the Guild of Caterers’ Hood.
(02/01 13:04:50) skyisblu: For this month’s session, I finally decided to tackle the mythical recipe for “Chor Bahkh”, the meat-filled roll mentioned in the Book of Ti’Ana, and the only REAL mention of food in the entire Myst trilogy.
(02/01 13:05:10) skyisblu: It was incredibly freeing to create something that has no recipe nor detailed description, but also possibly too much freedom for something that probably already exists in everyone’s imagination! I hope this recipe lives up to everyone’s expectations.
(02/01 13:05:32) skyisblu: We meet in the Guild of Caterers’ Hood, and online for the livestream at https://www.twitch.tv/skyisblu_is_me – remember that the audio commentary is done in both English and French.
(02/01 13:05:47) skyisblu: If you’ve missed any of the previous Cooking Sessions, all of the recipes and accompanying videos are available on my website, https://cookingsessionswithsky.blogspot.com/
(02/01 13:06:01) skyisblu: I hope to see you all there!
(02/01 13:06:09) skyisblu: Any questions?
(02/01 13:06:14) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:06:26) skyisblu bows
(02/01 13:06:31) Claidi Song: Thank you, sky!
(02/01 13:06:36) Emor D’ni Lap thanks skyisblu
(02/01 13:06:41) Dreamer3 sharpens his cutlery
(02/01 13:06:46) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Ancient Stories ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:06:52) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:06:52) Claidi Song: Welcome to the stage, Ereshkigal!
(02/01 13:07:18) Ereshkigal: Hi everyone! Have you ever wondered what it was really like to live in an ancient city like D’ni?
(02/01 13:07:30) Prad: for sure
(02/01 13:07:41) Ereshkigal: Then come to Ancient Stories on Tuesdays, where I read stories from the ancient world, and from varioous places!
(02/01 13:07:44) muumuu thinks
(02/01 13:07:57) Ereshkigal: We’ve been to Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Central Asia
(02/01 13:08:18) Ereshkigal: Now, I am reading a story from the days of Ramses II, in ancient Egypt!
(02/01 13:08:36) Dreamer3: Magic! Adventure!
(02/01 13:08:40) skyisblu: ooh!
(02/01 13:08:51) Ereshkigal: You can join Ancient Stories via Mirobot (we’re in Eder Gira for the current story), and you can listen to me via my stream on Urutunes
(02/01 13:09:01) Ereshkigal: And yes, magic, and also mummies!
(02/01 13:09:04) Ereshkigal: Any questions?
(02/01 13:09:11) Emor D’ni Lap: but…but…you mean we AREN’T living here in D’ni? :^(
(02/01 13:09:25) Prad: don’t tell mummy …
(02/01 13:09:31) Ereshkigal: We are in D’ni, but in modern D’ni, not ancient
(02/01 13:09:32) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:09:34) ShilohOBrien: We’re living in modern D’ni
(02/01 13:09:34) Ereshkigal: 🙂
(02/01 13:09:35) Dah’mpa: lol Prad
(02/01 13:09:38) Ereshkigal bows
(02/01 13:09:39) Prad: 😀
(02/01 13:09:45) Claidi Song: Thank you, Eresh!
(02/01 13:10:04) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Classic with Babbel ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:10:09) Claidi Song: Babbel sent me the following announcements:
(02/01 13:10:19) Claidi Song: On Monday, Feb. 17 at 12 Ki In the Hall of Kings there will be a Babbel’s with classical music , the topic will be composers from Scandinavia.
(02/01 13:10:47) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Music Show ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:10:54) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:10:54) Claidi Song: Welcome to the platform, Dah’mpa!
(02/01 13:11:24) Dah’mpa: Shorah everyone :))
(02/01 13:11:35) Dah’mpa: I’d like to announce that I’m about to start hosting a series of events on Brazilian music.
(02/01 13:11:46) Ereshkigal: Ooh, cool!
(02/01 13:11:49) Claidi Song: Yes!!!
(02/01 13:11:53) Dah’mpa: They will be strictly non-regular events, which means… I don’t even know when the second event will be held 😀
(02/01 13:12:06) Dah’mpa: (the first one I do know and I’ll tell you in a while)
(02/01 13:12:18) Dah’mpa: These events will be called Dah’mpa Waves and should mainly be normal streaming events, but from time to time I’ll be playing live instead.
(02/01 13:12:24) Prad: There was a test run and it went well
(02/01 13:12:32) Dah’mpa: thx Prad 🙂
(02/01 13:12:43) Dah’mpa: And that’s exactly the case with the first event.
(02/01 13:12:53) Dah’mpa: On Feb 14th, 16KI, somewhere in the Cavern (yet to be decided), I’ll be doing a live guitar and voice event on my Twitch channel (more info a few days before the event).
(02/01 13:13:13) Dah’mpa: Be aware, I’m not a pro musician, so please… keep expectations low 😀
(02/01 13:13:24) Dah’mpa: The streaming events will be far more interesting, for sure, but I hope we can have fun in this first ‘homemade’ event. You all are invited, I’d love to see you there.
(02/01 13:13:35) Dah’mpa: That’s it. Thanks. Any questions?
(02/01 13:13:41) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:13:50) skyisblu: Sounds awesome!
(02/01 13:13:53) Dah’mpa bows
(02/01 13:13:55) Dreamer3: Do we need to know Brazilian dance steps?
(02/01 13:13:59) Claidi Song: Thank you, Dah’mpa!
(02/01 13:14:03) Dah’mpa: lol Dreamer3
(02/01 13:14:22) Claidi Song: I suspect it will be an amazing event! 🙂
(02/01 13:14:26) ShilohOBrien: Anyone know a Brazilian Steak House that can cater in the Cavern?
(02/01 13:14:28) Prad: you learn them almost automatically while listening – you’ll become rhythm …
(02/01 13:14:38) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Celtic Night ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:14:43) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:14:43) Claidi Song: Welcome to the stage, PodHopper
(02/01 13:14:45) Dah’mpa: hopefully, Prad
(02/01 13:15:12) PodHopper: Shorah everyone 🙂
(02/01 13:15:22) PodHopper: Last year I held a Celtic Night event during Relaxing Session.
(02/01 13:15:30) PodHopper: During that event I was asked if I could do it more often.
(02/01 13:15:44) PodHopper: Now that I finished moving to a new house, I can slowly pick up where I left off.
(02/01 13:15:58) PodHopper: I plan to organize 4 Celtic Night events this year, so once every 3 months.
(02/01 13:16:12) PodHopper: It will no longer be held during Relaxing Session on tuesday but instead on a friday as a seperate event.
(02/01 13:16:31) PodHopper: The first Celtic Night event will be held on friday, februari 14 in Eder Delin of the Guild of Healers hood from 13:00-15:00 ki.
(02/01 13:16:49) PodHopper: That would be the same day as Dah’mpa’s event
(02/01 13:17:02) Dah’mpa: Celtic + Brazilian music, what a blend 🙂
(02/01 13:17:06) Prad: a day of music
(02/01 13:17:10) PodHopper: Any Questions?
(02/01 13:17:16) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:17:21) RedUhuru: Blessed Imbolc! 🙂
(02/01 13:17:26) PodHopper bows
(02/01 13:17:28) ShilohOBrien: We REALLY need to get some on-theme catering then!
(02/01 13:17:34) LividLiquid: That is SO in my calendar.
(02/01 13:17:35) IwonK: 😉
(02/01 13:17:38) PodHopper: yeah! 😀
(02/01 13:17:42) Claidi Song: The two shows don’t have a time conflict, right?
(02/01 13:17:50) Dah’mpa: no, they don’t
(02/01 13:17:52) Claidi Song: Thank you, PodHopper
(02/01 13:17:55) Thumbs up from Calum Traveler
(02/01 13:17:56) PodHopper: no an hour in between
(02/01 13:18:05) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ International Women’s Day ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:18:10) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:18:10) Claidi Song: Please, come on up Nosila!
(02/01 13:18:15) Calum Traveler: (i guess im not streaming that friday lol)
(02/01 13:18:21) Ereshkigal: clap
(02/01 13:18:26) Nosila: hi everyone 🙂
(02/01 13:18:29) Prad: lol Calum
(02/01 13:18:42) Nosila: I’d just like to quickly mention International Women’s Day will be celebrated in the Cavern next month, around the 8th March, as it has been for a number of years.
(02/01 13:18:57) Nosila: If anyone has any ideas for events, or is interested in being involved in any way, please get in touch.
(02/01 13:19:12) Nosila: Either send me a KI mail (Nosila/8961365), message me on Discord (Nosila.) or join the IWD Discord server https://discord.gg/mNffgGZwrE
(02/01 13:19:26) Nosila: Everyone is welcome to take part.
(02/01 13:19:38) Nosila: Any questions?
(02/01 13:19:40) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:19:45) Nosila: ok, thanks 🙂
(02/01 13:19:57) Claidi Song: Thank you, PodHopper
(02/01 13:20:05) Nosila: you mean Nosila 😉
(02/01 13:20:15) PodHopper taunts you
(02/01 13:20:19) Claidi Song: Thank you, Nosila!
(02/01 13:20:21) Nosila: haha
(02/01 13:20:28) ShilohOBrien: *gasp* Giving a man credit for a woman’s work?!?!
(02/01 13:20:36) shokhootahn Rehn: lol
(02/01 13:20:40) Prad: lol
(02/01 13:20:41) LividLiquid: Never!
(02/01 13:20:42) Phoenyx65535 laughs
(02/01 13:20:47) Nosila: ha, of all things
(02/01 13:20:48) Claidi Song: That is terrible!
(02/01 13:20:49) Calum Traveler: copy paste can be ironic
(02/01 13:21:05) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Miscellaneous ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:21:14) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:21:14) Claidi Song: Welcome to the stage, Calum!
(02/01 13:21:19) Calum Traveler: shorah, all!
(02/01 13:21:20) Calum Traveler waves hello
(02/01 13:21:34) Calum Traveler: couple of things, first of which are the usual Mysterium reminders
(02/01 13:21:39) Claidi Song is falling behind
(02/01 13:22:05) Calum Traveler: if you’re going to Mysterium in person this year, and you’d still like to avoid Riven Remake Spoilers,
(02/01 13:22:14) Calum Traveler: they’ll be giving little star stickers to put on your badge holders
(02/01 13:22:52) Calum Traveler: a further reminder, ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN currently, deadline set to: Feb26th for Shirts and Pins.
(02/01 13:22:56) Calum Traveler: more info here: https://mysterium.net/submissions/
(02/01 13:23:31) Calum Traveler: finally, Mysterium News Updates will no longer be posted on their Twitter/X account, but instead to their BluSky account: https://bsky.app/profile/mysteriumcon.bsky.social
(02/01 13:23:46) Dreamer3: : – )
(02/01 13:23:47) Calum Traveler: all facebook, discord, and website news posts will continue as scheduled
(02/01 13:23:50) Thumbs up from rarified
(02/01 13:23:53) Calum Traveler: no interruptions there
(02/01 13:24:10) Calum Traveler shuffles notes…
(02/01 13:24:46) Calum Traveler: if you missed the Town Hall this week, I announced that we have a few ages in the initial steps of review on Minkata Alpha,
(02/01 13:24:54) Calum Traveler: of them that I can talk about,
(02/01 13:25:12) Calum Traveler: we have the Rei’schu “Apartment” which will, on release, be instead called “Rei’schu: Vo’at Veknen”
(02/01 13:25:29) Calum Traveler: Or, “Gift House (on the) Stitch(ed) Cliff” in the native tongue
(02/01 13:25:45) Calum Traveler: and a quaint little project by Ametist called Sameehn.
(02/01 13:26:03) Calum Traveler: hopefully we’ll be seeing both of these sometime in the first half of this year and not the later half like last year ^^;;;
(02/01 13:26:19) rarified crosses fingers
(02/01 13:26:27) Calum Traveler: there’s a few other things in the works that haven’t made their way into official testing yet, though,
(02/01 13:26:32) Calum Traveler: so more to come in the future there.
(02/01 13:26:55) Calum Traveler: now then, the Big Thing
(02/01 13:27:10) skyisblu: ™
(02/01 13:27:13) skyisblu: lol
(02/01 13:27:16) Calum Traveler: last two AGM’s we’ve been loosely talking about the Rapid Age Development Contest for Pod Ages!
(02/01 13:27:25) Calum Traveler: i’m please to announce that we FINALLY have the actual dates set in stone
(02/01 13:27:33) Calum Traveler: Feb 7th to March 7th.
(02/01 13:27:59) Calum Traveler: a summary post is on the Guild of Messengers Website: https://guildofmessengers.org/2025/01/27/announcing-rapid-age-development-contest-2025-pod-age-edition/
(02/01 13:28:18) Calum Traveler: and there’s a discussion thread on the Guild of Writers’ forum.
(02/01 13:28:20) ShilohOBrien: Writers! Dip your quillpens!!!
(02/01 13:28:25) Calum Traveler: https://forum.guildofwriters.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7856
(02/01 13:28:38) Calum Traveler: i believe as for “submissions” go,
(02/01 13:28:58) Calum Traveler: the plan is to have a google doc for submitting your ‘completed’ projects at the end of deadline,
(02/01 13:29:04) Calum Traveler: Tweek is working on that as I understand it,
(02/01 13:29:38) Calum Traveler: you can, of course, download the Pod Blend template early, a link to it is provided on the Guild of Writers’ forum post,
(02/01 13:29:50) Calum Traveler: if you’re using 3ds Max, please contact Emor D’ni Lap
(02/01 13:30:07) Calum Traveler: i’ll give yall a brief rundown of the rules,
(02/01 13:30:33) Calum Traveler: the pod shell, based on Dereno, will be provided to you. This pod shell must be included in your entry to make it a “pod age”
(02/01 13:31:03) Calum Traveler: but beyond that? the only canon considerations to make is that if you set your Pod on the great pod age, that you do not include a moon.
(02/01 13:31:12) Calum Traveler: there’s. no moon that we can see.
(02/01 13:31:19) Calum Traveler shrugs
(02/01 13:31:32) Calum Traveler: whether there is or isnt one doesnt matter, functionally, there’s no visible moon.
(02/01 13:32:02) Calum Traveler: the only included outside terrain will be a sunsprite object and a skydome mesh,
(02/01 13:32:11) Calum Traveler: the rest is up to you!
(02/01 13:32:27) Calum Traveler: lore, story, location…
(02/01 13:32:48) Calum Traveler: as one of the judges, I can’t wait to see what yall come up with 🙂
(02/01 13:32:54) Prad: (pod inner wall side texturing)
(02/01 13:33:07) Calum Traveler: that’s it for me!
(02/01 13:33:11) Claidi Song: ShilohOBrian Q: Will only the winner be placed in Chiso? Or will we also have a runner up if it is good enough?
(02/01 13:33:27) Emor D’ni Lap thanks Calum
(02/01 13:33:30) Calum Traveler: ShilohOBrien, we are not looking for MOULa ready quality in this contest,
(02/01 13:33:39) rarified looks for a Jackalope in the port wiindows
(02/01 13:33:39) Dreamer3: Does the writer need to have their own blank linking book and ink?
(02/01 13:33:43) Prad: it’s unlikely to be able to have a shard-ready pod age created in one month
(02/01 13:33:56) Calum Traveler: speaking personally from my own ‘develop in a month’ challenge that was Naybree,
(02/01 13:34:04) Calum Traveler: …you’re not going to get an age MOULa ready in one month.
(02/01 13:34:08) Calum Traveler: believe me, i tried.
(02/01 13:34:17) Calum Traveler: yall saw how long that took me.
(02/01 13:34:20) Claidi Song: reply The GOME website
(02/01 13:34:44) Claidi Song: oops reply didn’t work. That is where to get info and template etc.
(02/01 13:34:54) Calum Traveler: we will only consider the RAD Pod winner for inclusion on MOULa *IF* the age creator wants it on MOULa
(02/01 13:35:34) Calum Traveler: any other questions?
(02/01 13:35:43) Claidi Song: No other questions in the queue
(02/01 13:35:50) Calum Traveler bows
(02/01 13:35:53) Claidi Song: Thank you, Augur!
(02/01 13:35:59) ural: sounds good
(02/01 13:36:00) Calum Traveler: wrong name again, calidi 😛
(02/01 13:36:03) Calum Traveler: claidi*
(02/01 13:36:06) Nosila: haha
(02/01 13:36:07) Claidi Song: Now I’m getting ahead of myself
(02/01 13:36:08) Calum Traveler: ugh, typo abhro must be about tonight
(02/01 13:36:14) Prad: taken ‘writer’ literally lol
(02/01 13:36:14) Calum Traveler: the typo bahro strikes AGAIN
(02/01 13:36:17) Claidi Song: Thank you, Cal!
(02/01 13:36:24) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ Book Club ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:36:30) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:36:30) Claidi Song: Welcome to the stage, Augur!
(02/01 13:36:32) Emor D’ni Lap: Calum, you mean Harbo
(02/01 13:36:49) skyisblu: lo Emor
(02/01 13:36:54) skyisblu: Lol
(02/01 13:37:03) Prad: tpo bahro
(02/01 13:37:05) Calum Traveler: huh? Hazado? What, emor? XD
(02/01 13:37:13) Augur: Oof, bear with me–copy and paste isn’t working!
(02/01 13:37:16) muumuu: Hi Hazado
(02/01 13:37:34) PodHopper: type one character before pasting
(02/01 13:38:05) Claidi Song: Appostrophe is a pain. Plain Courier is the only font that works
(02/01 13:38:18) Dreamer3: Does control v work for texting in chat?
(02/01 13:38:27) Nosila: yes
(02/01 13:38:30) shokhootahn Rehn: “=”, [backspace] Ctrl + V
(02/01 13:38:30) PodHopper: it does for me
(02/01 13:38:32) Theo: yes
(02/01 13:38:45) Augur: Hm, it’s giving a “must be text only” error
(02/01 13:38:54) Theo: But you need a text field first.
(02/01 13:38:55) Phoenyx65535: try pasting into notepad first?
(02/01 13:39:01) PodHopper: yes, tghen you have a special character
(02/01 13:39:05) Calum Traveler: Augur, you’ve got a “smart quote” somewhere.
(02/01 13:39:10) shokhootahn Rehn: Replace your apostrophes and quotation marks.
(02/01 13:39:12) Dah’mpa: this is an apostrophe issue, probably
(02/01 13:39:12) Korov’ev: font is not the problem, curly quotes are.
(02/01 13:39:13) Augur: Ah–thank you Calum!
(02/01 13:39:14) Calum Traveler: KI doesn’t recognize certain characters.
(02/01 13:39:24) Theo: Work with ascii in notepad?
(02/01 13:39:32) Augur: Shorah! I am Augur. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many of you, and I hope to get to know even more of the faces in this room better over time.
(02/01 13:39:35) Claidi Song: Yeah the KI is an ancient as D’ni
(02/01 13:39:46) Augur: (Calum was correct–smart quote was the issue!)
(02/01 13:40:13) Thumbs up from PodHopper
(02/01 13:40:40) Claidi Song: The floor is yours Augur 🙂
(02/01 13:40:49) Augur: There are so many wonderful activities haThere are so many wonderful activities happening in the cavern, and I’ve found myself wanting more and more to kick off something myself. I don’t know if others here are like me, but as much as I love to read, I struggle to set aside the time for it unless I have a social aspect involved as well.
(02/01 13:41:07) Augur: Bear with me–having to fix as I go!
(02/01 13:41:26) Dreamer3: Bears can be intrusive
(02/01 13:41:27) PodHopper: you’ll learn as you go…
(02/01 13:41:36) Augur: So! I’m starting up a speculative fiction book club! Speculative fiction is, per the Oxford dictionary, a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements. It includes traditional science fiction and fantasy, but expands further to also encompass alternative history, horror, superhero, steampunk, dystopia, and so much more.
(02/01 13:42:03) jtrigg: Drop Bears are deceptivly dangerous
(02/01 13:42:20) philipgr: Teddy bears are cuddly
(02/01 13:42:23) Dah’mpa: dystopia is real life…:(
(02/01 13:42:35) Claidi Song starts to laugh
(02/01 13:42:37) <sniffle> Phoenyx65535 is sad
(02/01 13:42:49) Ereshkigal: Oooh can I join the book club
(02/01 13:42:51) Augur: e’ll be meeting in Eder Delin (neighborhood tba), the third Saturday of every other month, starting March 15th, at 12:30 KI time. There’s a little overlap there with the latter part of karaoke, but with most time slots booked there’s very little temporal real estate left in the cavern! I appreciate everyone who assisted in walking me through what is happening when to determine the best option to not step on too many toes right off the bat.
(02/01 13:43:50) Augur: I certainly don’t want to be the sole decider of what we’ll be reading, so after each meeting, I’ll propose three novels for folks to vote on. These will be available to vote on (using reactions) in both Minasunda’s MOULa Events Discord and Isa’s URU Community Movies and Games Discord. There will be brief blurbs for each provided there as well.
(02/01 13:44:12) Augur: I’d ask that everyone only vote in one of the two places, for fairness’ sake. But! Please do vote for ALL books you are interested in, not just your favorite of the three. If you’re interested in all three, vote for them all!
(02/01 13:44:36) Augur: I’ll be making an effort to not duplicate “niches” between bi-months. If sword-and-sorcery is selected for one month, none of the three options the next will be sword-and-sorcery, to prevent us from falling into a more specific niche than “speculative fiction”.
(02/01 13:44:53) Augur: And don’t despair if a beloved book isn’t chosen! November’s choices will be all of those not picked from the list throughout the year, to give every book a second chance.
(02/01 13:45:11) Augur: As our first meeting will be during Women’s History Month, I’ve put together a selection of speculative fiction novels written by women to celebrate. 🙂
(02/01 13:45:25) Augur: So, without further ado, our first three novel options are…
(02/01 13:45:31) Augur: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
(02/01 13:45:38) Augur: One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
(02/01 13:45:44) Augur: Severance by Ling Ma
(02/01 13:46:24) Claidi Song: Just saw a reference to Severance
(02/01 13:46:32) Augur: Please feel free to reach out on Discord with any questions. You can find me as “augurdog” there. 🙂 Or you are welcome to send me KI mail or messages here. I’ll be around for a bit after the town hall to chat.
(02/01 13:46:45) Augur: Thank you again to everyone who has so graciously welcomed me into the cavern and I look forward to seeing y’all March 15th!
(02/01 13:46:55) Claidi Song: Thank you, Augur!
(02/01 13:47:01) BIG thumbs up from Emor D’ni Lap
(02/01 13:47:07) Claidi Song: ~~~~~~~~~~ D’ni Language Class and Story Night ~~~~~~~~~~
(02/01 13:47:12) Calum Traveler: sorry all ive got a quicki thing to say reall quick
(02/01 13:47:14) Ereshkigal: ‘I’d love to join, Augur!
(02/01 13:47:15) uru348: clap
(02/01 13:47:17) Calum Traveler: i screwed up the RAD Dates
(02/01 13:47:19) Claidi Song beckons you
(02/01 13:47:19) Claidi Song: shokhootahn Rehn, the stage is yours!
(02/01 13:47:25) Calum Traveler: it’s 8th to 8th, not 7th to 7th
(02/01 13:47:31) Calum Traveler: and on that I gotta bounce to do some chores.
(02/01 13:47:33) Claidi Song: This will end AGM today
(02/01 13:47:33) Calum Traveler waves goodbye
(02/01 13:47:45) RedUhuru waves goodbye
(02/01 13:47:48) shokhootahn Rehn: As always, I have two separate announcements. One is for the D’ni Language Class and the other one is for r’Tayrtahn’s Story Night.
(02/01 13:47:56) shokhootahn Rehn: First, the language classes…
(02/01 13:47:59) Claidi Song: No don’t leave
(02/01 13:48:06) shokhootahn Rehn: There are evening classes available on weekday evenings Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday starting at 20:00, 21:00 or 22:00 KI time, depending on the student’s schedule.
(02/01 13:48:20) Claidi Song: We will end after this announcement lol
(02/01 13:48:31) shokhootahn Rehn: There are daytime openings starting at either 10:00 KI time, 11:00 KI time, or 12:00 KI time, again, depending on the student’s schedule. Contact me by PM to set up a day and a time, KI mail me at KI# 80428, or on Discord at r’Tayrtahn.
(02/01 13:48:35) Prad: the ending has not been written yet
(02/01 13:48:51) shokhootahn Rehn: (Discord is best)
(02/01 13:49:00) shokhootahn Rehn: v
(02/01 13:49:05) shokhootahn Rehn: All classes are Monday through Friday, only. There are no weekend classes available.
(02/01 13:49:12) shokhootahn Rehn: If you are going to contact me by KI-mail, please remember to include your KI #.
(02/01 13:49:19) shokhootahn Rehn: As always, current students can find last-minute updates to class times on the left-hand imager.
(02/01 13:49:30) shokhootahn Rehn: Now for some exciting news…
(02/01 13:50:02) shokhootahn Rehn: Another victim… er… student has started taking the classes. 🙂
(02/01 13:50:13) Augur laughs
(02/01 13:50:23) shokhootahn Rehn: The Guild of Instructors’ Hood will be open and public unless a class is in session.
(02/01 13:50:32) shokhootahn Rehn: I have one request for visitors: Please do not post pellet points into the Hood imager…
(02/01 13:50:43) shokhootahn Rehn: Are there any questions?
(02/01 13:50:56) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:51:00) shokhootahn Rehn: Moving on…
(02/01 13:51:05) shokhootahn Rehn: The second announcement is about r’Taytahn’s Story Night.
(02/01 13:51:07) Dreamer3: Is D’ni your primary language?
(02/01 13:51:29) shokhootahn Rehn: Tonight, we will continue with the stories of the kings with the 29th king, King Adesh. The rest of the month we’ll talk about Kings Lanaren, Asemlef, and Jaron.
(02/01 13:51:59) shokhootahn Rehn: *My* primary language is Enflglish but I teah D’ni. 🙂
(02/01 13:52:08) shokhootahn Rehn: *English
(02/01 13:52:57) Brooketh: lmao
(02/01 13:53:00) Claidi Song: I type in Enflglish
(02/01 13:53:05) Phoenyx65535 laughs
(02/01 13:53:26) Dah’mpa: lol Claidi
(02/01 13:53:34) Korov’ev: English with a bit of Elvish?
(02/01 13:53:35) shokhootahn Rehn: Though, for Int’l Women’s Day, I am thinking of a special story… strong women in D’ni history.
(02/01 13:53:38) *Jodok* starts to laugh
(02/01 13:54:00) shokhootahn Rehn: Story Night covers the entire 10,000-year history of the D’ni plus all of the books and games, as well as the three human attempts at the restoration of D’ni!
(02/01 13:54:20) shokhootahn Rehn: Story Night is held in the public neighborhood of Tsahno’s Hood every Saturday.
(02/01 13:54:21) Dreamer3: Good idea
(02/01 13:54:37) shokhootahn Rehn: Original Story Night is held at 23:30 KI time on Saturday night. We start gathering at the hood’s fountain starting at 23:00 KI time.
(02/01 13:54:46) shokhootahn Rehn: Story Night – Europe is held at 14:00 KI time on Saturday afternoon. We start gathering at the hood’s fountain starting at 13:30 KI time except for AGM Saturdays, when it starts at 14:00 KI or 30 minutes after the AGM, whichever is later.
(02/01 13:55:10) shokhootahn Rehn: Today will be 14:30. 🙂
(02/01 13:55:17) shokhootahn Rehn: I also post changes on the left-hand imager in the hood.
(02/01 13:55:23) shokhootahn Rehn: Should I need to cancel one of the stories at the last minute, I will try to aprise one or two of my regular audience members of the situation so they can spread the news. 🙂
(02/01 13:55:34) shokhootahn Rehn: Minasunda is one of those members, as she runs the announcements channel on Discord.
(02/01 13:55:41) shokhootahn Rehn: The stories are told using voice so you will need to have your speakers or headsets on.
(02/01 13:55:50) shokhootahn Rehn: r’Tayrtahn announces the start of Story Night through buddy chat. If you would like to receive the announcements, please send r’T a KI mail (with your KI number included in the text) and he’ll add you to his buddies list. His KI number is 58324. KI mails do not identify the KI number of the sender. Though the sender is added to the Recents folder, it is still a good idea to add it to the body of the text. 🙂
(02/01 13:56:11) shokhootahn Rehn: We hope to see you there!
(02/01 13:56:15) shokhootahn Rehn: Any questions?
(02/01 13:56:18) Claidi Song: No questions in the queue
(02/01 13:56:24) shokhootahn Rehn bows
(02/01 13:56:24) Claidi Song: Thank you, shokhootahn Rehn!
(02/01 13:56:31) Prad: the ending
(02/01 13:56:34) Claidi Song: The next All Guilds Meeting will be Saturday, 1st of March 2025 at 13 KIT.
(02/01 13:56:40) ShilohOBrien: Thank you, everyone!
(02/01 13:56:42) Claidi Song: Thank you to all of today’s participants!
(02/01 13:56:48) Claidi Song thanks you
(02/01 13:56:48) Claidi Song: Thank you to everyone for coming to AGM!
(02/01 13:56:50) Dah’mpa: thank you Claidi
(02/01 13:56:55) Claidi Song needs a moment to breathe!
(02/01 13:56:55) rarified: Thank you Claidi Song!
(02/01 13:56:56) *Jodok*: thank you claidi 😀
(02/01 13:57:00) Emor D’ni Lap: excellent hosting as always, Claidi
(02/01 13:57:02) Babbeltje.40: Thank you Claidi Song
(02/01 13:57:02) muumuu: I’m Not In Love, no no
(02/01 13:57:05) Augur: Thank you, Claidi!
(02/01 13:57:09) Dreamer3: Thanks Claidi and all! : – )
(02/01 13:57:13) Claidi Song bows
(02/01 13:57:17) shokhootahn Rehn: Great job herding us kitties, as always, Claidi1