#ooc

👀 just lurking while I wait for a meeting to start

and here it comes :face_with_rolling_eyes:

Sorry, was AFK a second.

Hi?

morning D!

Heya, Mr. D!

Oy. Power down at 5:40 , not up till after Midnight Well, at least I don't live in Houston

What's happening in Houston?

And sorry you had power issues, Mr. D.

THousands without power after Hurricane Beryl... and the utility in Texas is , I beleve, largely owned by a corporation. The corporation routinely cut costs, causing a shit show whenever record heat waves or blizzards or... anything happens.

Yeah, Texas is a mess in terms of public services.

For example, the company decided that they ALMOST never used vegatation management (Tree cutters for fallen limbs etc) so ... canned most of the months ago. High winds come, trees fall over. The REGULAR guys restoring the power can't get to where they need to go to get the power again again because of.. drum roll please, fallen trees

Texas grid is a hotmess

I lived in Austin when I was a kid. Lived a lot of places actually. It was enough, good folk, but these days you would have to pay me a LOT to stay there and it would be within 5 miles of the border so I could escape again

looks at RV convo Now I feel bad for having Gerd worry Dagmar was Oathbroken .

Nah, likely consequence of birdie on shoulder

In theory, birdie behaviour & appearance will countermand that first impression. That, and books indicate that you can "feel" oathbrokenness

Brekke thought the same thing, Mr. D.

Why Vali told Gerd to look and feel again 🙂

nod That's why Brekke got that assessing look.

/roll 2d6

oh, pish and tosh, there are PLENTY of chimerical birds that aren't truehearts birds

Correlation does not imply causation!

D - Anne Marie doesn't know that there was anyhting going on with the relationship, AFAIK. All she has been told by Symon at least is that they were dating, and (per Dirk) now they are not

so unless somoene at the lodge spilled it...

Well... she did have dinner with the girl, made several successes?

But I can delete

Yes, but that is provides social cues, which would only have been surface level, nothing about any underlying cantrips

Okay I'll delete

But she does know (if Dirk told her) that they broke up, so she may be ready to help sooth the poor boys heartache

Altered 🙂

(The fewer that know the underlying story, the better, ESPECIALLY a boggan, even his own mother. Because if word gets around how easily he was bamboozled, well, it will be a dire hit to the sluagh's reputation)

"Guess he's not the DENIER when it comes to being a sugar daddy" Sniggering whispers

ha!

Ugh, work today is a lot of comparison research and it's so boring

But DUTY CALLS!

And Rae must answer!

Ride, Rohan RIde!

AI Chatbots for website engagement. This IS a very valid and useful use of AI. Let it scrape all the data from your website and documents and then answer questions. Much smarter than traditional Q & A based chatbots that leave people mashing HUMAN, HUMAN, GIVE ME A HUMAN

But the research is still tedious

I am totally a HUMAN HUMAN HUMAN masher

It has me wondering if I could integrate a GPT4o engine to read all the Archive history and answer questions "What was the name of the baron from sunnyside's wife?"

Symon would catch you. He would be crushed... or he might need to use a pully and winch, but he would do it, by god!

hee

Symon goes to a noble "You owe me., I need a pully and a winch" /Sidhe lord "it shall be done." / Symon turns to find a saucy woman grinning, carrying a 16 inch tall black dog with corded fur, and a tavern mug "Here we are love, lordship said you needed us, what's the fuss then? CHEERS"