(11/26 14:11:42) Calum Traveler: shorah
(11/26 14:11:43) Calum Traveler:
(11/26 14:11:54) Calum Traveler: dont mind me, just getting my notes in order...
(11/26 14:12:51) uru348: Shuffle your cards but not your notes
(11/26 14:13:43) Calum Traveler: shorah NoMore
(11/26 14:13:58) NoMore: Lol I swear you like earlier when ALotOf and Indiahno Jones were argueing ...
(11/26 14:14:32) Calum Traveler: yeah, that can be annoying lol
(11/26 14:14:40) NoMore: Indiahno Jones like "but this map of Azcohotalotl you can't find in the internet yet, it's mentioned in the book of (...)" ...
(11/26 14:15:31) NoMore: and ALotOf like "See, I have found this huge database where they have scanned 25.798 ancient documents - sure I'll find it there"
(11/26 14:15:48) NoMore: *25,798*
(11/26 14:16:32) NoMore: so me like "sorry, guys, keep it cool, but I'm outta here ... going to join Town Hall, much more fun ... lol"
(11/26 14:16:44) Calum Traveler: yeaaah
(11/26 14:16:53) Calum Traveler: that sounds like a good argument to skip out on
(11/26 14:19:44) [BUDDIES] To Buddies: town hall in 10 min
(11/26 14:19:50) Calum Traveler: 10 min
(11/26 14:20:09) RedUhuru: Shorah
(11/26 14:20:41) Calum Traveler: shorah
(11/26 14:20:52) RedUhuru: enough time to get the tea...
(11/26 14:24:23) ural: Hello
(11/26 14:24:23) Calum Traveler: hello, everyone, the Town Hall starts in about 5 min
(11/26 14:25:00) NoMore: "T42 and 24T it's me and you and you and me" (Comedian Harmonists)
(11/26 14:25:20) NoMore: (tea for two and two for tea)
(11/26 14:25:24) Calum Traveler: hehe
(11/26 14:25:30) RedUhuru: I've seen that on stage decades ago in Amsterdam as well...eheh
(11/26 14:26:43) RedUhuru: I was thinking "Great Tree Pub" when I read the msg.
(11/26 14:26:46) Calum Traveler:
(11/26 14:26:50) Calum Traveler: close,
(11/26 14:26:53) Calum Traveler: but not the right place
(11/26 14:27:52) Diranda waves hello
(11/26 14:27:57) Calum Traveler: shorah, Diranda
(11/26 14:28:02) Calum Traveler waves hello
(11/26 14:28:11) RedUhuru: Hi Diranda
(11/26 14:28:34) Calum Traveler: alright, its almost 1430 ki,
(11/26 14:28:51) Calum Traveler: i hope everyones had a good last couple months since the last town hall?
(11/26 14:29:02) Calum Traveler: my apologies for the gap, but i had surface life matters to attend to.
(11/26 14:29:17) RedUhuru: Usually Ural tells me 'Town Hall was last night'.
(11/26 14:29:38) NoMore: Hi Diranda, Ahno's buddy being member of Guild of Authors and Artists
(11/26 14:30:03) Buddy: Shorah all!
(11/26 14:30:08) Calum Traveler: alright, its now 1430
(11/26 14:30:20) NoMore: (Afaik it's still NaNoWriMo for those who write on novels - but november ending soon)
(11/26 14:30:26) Calum Traveler: welcome, all, to the very rare, highly sought after NOVEMBER Town hall
(11/26 14:30:32) RedUhuru:
(11/26 14:30:40) Quill claps his hands
(11/26 14:30:46) RedUhuru cheers
(11/26 14:30:47) Buddy claps his hands
(11/26 14:30:50) uru348 claps his hands
(11/26 14:30:51) Calum Traveler: its been a hot minute since our last one, august, in fact,
(11/26 14:30:53) ural claps his hands
(11/26 14:31:07) Calum Traveler: not a lot has changed in some regards, but a lot has changed in others!
(11/26 14:31:36) Calum Traveler: primarily, im pleased to report that presently, Descent's restoration progress is moving along quite a lot faster than expected, even with the predictable sudden earthquakes
(11/26 14:31:55) Calum Traveler: before i dive into it, on that note, I have a Message from Ami,
(11/26 14:32:01) ural: Yay!
(11/26 14:32:15) Calum Traveler: for those unfamiliar, she's the Project Lead for Overflow Station that I've pulled off her and her team from to work on Descent
(11/26 14:32:21) Calum Traveler: Ahhem
(11/26 14:32:37) NoMore: one can see clearer through the dust - even the reflection of condensed water on the stalagmites and stalactites ...
(11/26 14:32:55) Calum Traveler: "Recently, we had an Earthquake that caused some minor damages, and only one injury- a broken arm. Our worker's life was saved thanks to the hardhat she was wearing.
(11/26 14:33:14) Securicor taps ppe
(11/26 14:33:16) Calum Traveler: "Please ensure that if you are going through the Descent Site as part of the Alpha Testing Group, that you are wearing a Hard Hat at all times."
(11/26 14:33:36) Calum Traveler: end message.
(11/26 14:34:11) Calum Traveler: so yeah, we had an earthquake a few fridays ago
(11/26 14:34:18) Calum Traveler: really shook the place up,
(11/26 14:34:37) Calum Traveler: took a bit to resurvey and find out what got damaged and what needed patching again, but thankfully it wasn't a major setback
(11/26 14:34:53) Calum Traveler: all operations were back in order by the following monday
(11/26 14:35:05) Thumbs up from NoMore
(11/26 14:35:29) Calum Traveler: im pleased to report that the sounding surveys of the route from the Caldera to the River Channel are now complete, and that the mechanical functions of various doors, elevators, generators, and fan nodes are all working mostly as expected.
(11/26 14:35:46) Calum Traveler: im told there's some issues with the node doors being hinky and startling folks into panic linking,
(11/26 14:35:59) Calum Traveler: but that should be sorted out in short order.
(11/26 14:36:18) Calum Traveler: Ami reported that rough sounding of the areas beyond the River and the Bridge has begun.
(11/26 14:36:35) Calum Traveler: nothing to write home about yet, but they are looking forwards to the future now.
(11/26 14:37:14) Calum Traveler: while i dont expect the whole river channel area to be ready when the first route from caldera to the channel is ready
(11/26 14:37:22) Calum Traveler: it would be nice if it was all ready to go
(11/26 14:37:40) ural: Yes:)
(11/26 14:37:46) Buddy: I agree!
(11/26 14:38:24) Calum Traveler: to that end, if you are a part of the Alpha Test Group, i'd like to request that you all take a look at the various mechanisms and give everything a thorough test and review, posted to the usual thread on discord.
(11/26 14:38:48) Calum Traveler: id very much like to give Ami and her crew the thumbs up of approval on those areas.
(11/26 14:39:00) Buddy claps his hands
(11/26 14:39:13) Calum Traveler: beyond the physical work of restoring machinery, and rough sounding of the areas beyond the bridge,
(11/26 14:39:19) Calum Traveler: general cleanup work is in the process.
(11/26 14:39:54) Calum Traveler: so things may look a bit messy in some areas still, but progress is commencing to clear up those parts
(11/26 14:40:27) Calum Traveler: i think one of the biggest issues remaining is just fine tuning the lighting systems
(11/26 14:41:09) Calum Traveler: we want to make sure things are 'historically accurate' to the area and its systems without being too bright and overpowering, or to dark and hard to see,
(11/26 14:41:18) Calum Traveler: a nice healthy medium
(11/26 14:41:47) Calum Traveler: beyond thaaaaat...
(11/26 14:41:51) Calum Traveler checks notes
(11/26 14:42:03) Thumbs up from NoMore
(11/26 14:42:06) Calum Traveler: i dont have anything more specific about Descent from Ami's group, so ill take questions in a little bit.
(11/26 14:42:12) Calum Traveler: i have one thing from Kelsei however
(11/26 14:42:55) Calum Traveler: recently she was reviewing all the historical documents recovered from Chiso Preniv, and found a strange object had fallen through the hole in the ceiling in the upper floor.
(11/26 14:43:14) Calum Traveler: we're not sure if it was just left up there from all those years ago when the locals first raided the place, or if someone specifically dropped it down there in recent times,
(11/26 14:43:27) Calum Traveler: but our attention and wariness levels are raised,
(11/26 14:43:54) Calum Traveler: while id like to believe that Chiso Preniv IS safe to inhabit and use
(11/26 14:44:09) Calum Traveler: we also are aware of the possibility the locals *might* not like us being around if they are aware of us.
(11/26 14:44:25) NoMore: If you ask Erich Daeniken it's some alien object ...
(11/26 14:44:27) Calum Traveler: to that end I'm looking into alternative library host sites *in the rare off chance* that we have to evacuate Chiso Preniv.
(11/26 14:44:44) Calum Traveler: like i said, i dont think it's going to be something we need to be concerned about
(11/26 14:44:55) Calum Traveler: i think the object was just left on the roof and just got blown over by wind finally,
(11/26 14:45:18) Calum Traveler: but better safe than sorry and have a potential alternate route in mind incase the worst case ever happens.
(11/26 14:45:44) NoMore: ah okay ... yeah an 'emergency vault' for books would be an idea - for sure ...
(11/26 14:46:01) Calum Traveler: less emergency vault, more 'backup library we can relocate everything to'
(11/26 14:46:15) Calum Traveler: a second Chiso Preniv, in technical terms,
(11/26 14:46:16) Thumbs up from NoMore
(11/26 14:46:20) Calum Traveler: again, i dont think its going to be necessary
(11/26 14:46:25) Calum Traveler: but its better to have redundancies in place.
(11/26 14:47:00) Buddy: Will we be able to climb out of the cauldera and go down the side of the volcano to Zandi's trailer?
(11/26 14:47:10) Calum Traveler: climb? no. those walls are too steep.
(11/26 14:47:12) Calum Traveler: there's an elevator.
(11/26 14:47:18) Calum Traveler: though, it's been a bit testy lately.
(11/26 14:47:37) Calum Traveler: we're trying to limit its use to freight only at the moment.
(11/26 14:48:02) Buddy: Oh, so there is a way to get out. Wow, that would be great!
(11/26 14:48:15) RedUhuru: And then run into the Bahro...
(11/26 14:48:24) NoMore: We'll have a bahro draw us from the cleft to the top of the cadera and then drop us in there - from there no escape than downwards ...
(11/26 14:48:27) NoMore starts to laugh
(11/26 14:48:39) Calum Traveler: alright, so, Descent Questions, since we're starting on that now
(11/26 14:48:44) Quill: Any timeline, however vague, about when Descent will be accessible to rank-and-file explorers?
(11/26 14:49:02) Calum Traveler: given we just got it up and started testing within this month,
(11/26 14:49:24) Calum Traveler: at bare minimum, assuming everything goes well, the first leg from the caldera to the river will be available in 3 to 6 months, assume later,
(11/26 14:50:11) RedUhuru: Any idea on how to make the KI light last a bit longer?
(11/26 14:50:17) Calum Traveler: we have a few ideas, yes,
(11/26 14:50:36) Calum Traveler: there seems to be a correlation between the battery power in the charging terminal and how long the light lasts.
(11/26 14:50:50) Calum Traveler: but im not sure how that's determined.
(11/26 14:50:54) NoMore: Is there kind of some match-making between the myst reader books map of route from volcano to cave and the cyan provided work? (not 100% of course)
(11/26 14:51:26) Calum Traveler: NoMore, what i will say is that neither depiction is exactly 100% to reality
(11/26 14:51:45) Calum Traveler: Myst V especially is... very curtailed and artisticly changed in many regards.
(11/26 14:52:17) Theo: Does the route change between the myst reader books, as originally published, and the recently, electronically-published versions?
(11/26 14:52:32) Calum Traveler: the Myst Reader map is a pull back view, and i have no idea how accurate it is to the now,
(11/26 14:52:44) Calum Traveler: Descent has had many earthquakes over the years
(11/26 14:52:56) Calum Traveler: the route from the surface to D'ni has changed as a result as old tunnels are blocked and new ones are opened.
(11/26 14:53:16) RedUhuru: Did they find any skeletons so far?
(11/26 14:53:21) Calum Traveler: skeletons, no.
(11/26 14:53:25) Theo: But you said, at the beginning, that the present earthquakes are predictible?
(11/26 14:53:37) NoMore: ah yeah the problem of 'accuracy of sources' - we Prads have strumbled upon that a lot since we got involved in that project lolo ...
(11/26 14:53:39) NoMore starts to laugh
(11/26 14:53:40) Calum Traveler: predictable in that its a volcanically activeish area,
(11/26 14:53:47) Calum Traveler: like, you can say
(11/26 14:53:58) Calum Traveler: its predictable that youll have an earthquake in california because you live on a fault line
(11/26 14:54:16) Calum Traveler: that kind of 'predictability'
(11/26 14:54:23) Theo: I see.
(11/26 14:54:34) Theo: I had hoped for more, of course.
(11/26 14:54:47) Buddy: How much time does it take to walk the entire distance from cauldera to the bottom of the shaft.
(11/26 14:55:03) Calum Traveler: on foot? last time I did that, a literal jog from top to bottom was roughly two hours
(11/26 14:55:17) Calum Traveler: id recommend the elevators
(11/26 14:55:21) RedUhuru: Oh that's good. I had heard two days.
(11/26 14:55:29) Buddy: LOL, agreed!
(11/26 14:55:42) Theo: Maybe two days is the other direction?
(11/26 14:55:44) Calum Traveler: two days is more likely for the total journey to D'ni
(11/26 14:55:49) RedUhuru: Oh
(11/26 14:55:51) Calum Traveler: depending on tunnels
(11/26 14:55:57) NoMore: the elevators escalate more quickly ... if that makes sense ...
(11/26 14:56:02) Calum Traveler: again, see earthquakes
(11/26 14:56:07) RedUhuru: Will you try to install some of the nets like we got in Eder Naybree?
(11/26 14:56:12) Calum Traveler: you may take longer if the shorter routes are closed up.
(11/26 14:56:23) Calum Traveler: RedUhuru, do you KNOW how many nets that would take?
(11/26 14:56:31) RedUhuru: No...
(11/26 14:56:34) Calum Traveler: too many
(11/26 14:56:40) Calum Traveler: we ran the calculations for it a couple years ago,
(11/26 14:56:45) RedUhuru: Just a few to 'catch' a stupid traveller I was thinking.
(11/26 14:56:48) RedUhuru: i.e. me
(11/26 14:56:59) Calum Traveler: as long as you have your relto book youll be fine
(11/26 14:57:05) RedUhuru: Oh right
(11/26 14:57:11) Calum Traveler: and dont do stupid things like stand on a moving door or under a moving floor.
(11/26 14:57:18) RedUhuru: lalala no
(11/26 14:57:26) NoMore: you mean a net every 20 stora or something ... what if somebody does a 'far jump' ...
(11/26 14:57:30) RedUhuru: climbing is fun though
(11/26 14:57:33) NoMore: *stores*
(11/26 14:57:49) RedUhuru: Well to make sure no one falls on top of someone at the bottom?
(11/26 14:58:03) NoMore: (doh
(11/26 14:58:05) Calum Traveler: you'd likely relto before hitting someone
(11/26 14:58:12) Theo: Climbing is fun, but people get tired and their performance becomes less predictable.
(11/26 14:58:17) RedUhuru: Oh right... 6 seconds
(11/26 14:58:38) Calum Traveler: again, i recommend the elevators
(11/26 14:58:46) NoMore: 'different persons emergency relto' still works ...
(11/26 14:58:53) Theo: After all, what's the standard number limit of stair steps between landings?
(11/26 14:59:19) Theo: Eighteen steps.
(11/26 14:59:26) NoMore: stair steps aren't standardized in Uru afaik ...
(11/26 14:59:28) RedUhuru: Yeah Ural taught me to never say "I dropped dead". :-p
(11/26 14:59:37) Calum Traveler: if you really want to climb the path on foot, you can, but again, its like,
(11/26 14:59:39) Calum Traveler: two hours
(11/26 14:59:45) Calum Traveler: dont get me wrong its an EXPERIENCE
(11/26 14:59:55) Calum Traveler: but bring a music player or something
(11/26 14:59:58) Theo: You're supposed to have a landing every 18. We surpass that in Uru in many places.
(11/26 15:00:09) Calum Traveler: the D'ni did not have OSHA
(11/26 15:00:19) RedUhuru: have WHAT?
(11/26 15:00:30) NoMore: you'd need resting spots for real for a two hour walkdown ... or be a marathon person ...
(11/26 15:00:32) Theo: A small town in Wisconsin? No.
(11/26 15:00:43) Buddy: Look it up
(11/26 15:00:49) Theo: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(11/26 15:00:59) RedUhuru: Abbreviations mean something else in different languagues. Just saying.
(11/26 15:01:06) RedUhuru: languages even
(11/26 15:01:11) Calum Traveler: ah, right,
(11/26 15:01:26) Thumbs up from Calum Traveler
(11/26 15:01:28) Calum Traveler: duely noted
(11/26 15:01:45) Quill: For those who choose to walk up the stairs will there be nurses stationed every three hundred steps to admister first aid to those having heart attacks?
(11/26 15:01:54) Theo: Basic on-the-job safety standards.
(11/26 15:01:57) NoMore says DOH!
(11/26 15:02:03) RedUhuru: Yeah like in the rest of Uru lol
(11/26 15:02:05) Calum Traveler: ...no, but i'll be sure to requisition some rest benches.
(11/26 15:02:17) Calum Traveler: maybe some cots,
(11/26 15:02:27) Calum Traveler: theres not a LOT of room on the path, mind you, space is limited.
(11/26 15:02:39) RedUhuru: One of your books here and there.
(11/26 15:02:43) Buddy: A pub midway along would be nice!
(11/26 15:02:43) Calum Traveler roars with laughter
(11/26 15:02:48) Theo: We are Explorers. We signed the waivers, agreed to the Terms and Conditions.
(11/26 15:02:51) NoMore: first-aid-kit boxes installed by the explorers
(11/26 15:03:07) Calum Traveler: alright, it's getting late for me. one more question
(11/26 15:03:29) Buddy: What's for dinner?
(11/26 15:03:36) Calum Traveler: dunno!
(11/26 15:03:42) NoMore: a VeryMac
(11/26 15:03:42) Calum Traveler: i had mac n cheese for lunch!
(11/26 15:03:42) RedUhuru: Thank you for your time
(11/26 15:03:46) Calum Traveler bows
(11/26 15:03:51) RedUhuru claps his hands
(11/26 15:03:51) Calum Traveler: thanks for coming, all
(11/26 15:03:52) Quill claps his hands
(11/26 15:03:57) Buddy claps his hands
(11/26 15:03:58) Diranda claps her hands
(11/26 15:03:59) uru348 claps his hands
(11/26 15:03:59) Calum Traveler: hopefully i'll have more news for you all in January
(11/26 15:04:00) Cpt.Jericho claps her hands
(11/26 15:04:04) ural claps his hands
(11/26 15:04:06) Securicor: Thanks, Calum!
(11/26 15:04:06) Calum Traveler: as always, no December Town Hall because Christmas
(11/26 15:04:17) Thumbs up from NoMore
(11/26 15:04:17) Thumbs up from uru348
(11/26 15:04:19) Calum Traveler: see you all around
(11/26 15:04:22) Calum Traveler waves goodbye
(11/26 15:04:22) RedUhuru: Byeeeee
(11/26 15:04:25) Buddy: Bye!
(11/26 15:04:25) Theo claps his hands
(11/26 15:04:26) Diranda waves goodbye
(11/26 15:04:30) Red Gunner: I'm off to watch the Champions League highlights.
(11/26 15:04:37) ...Chat.log stopped.