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hadriel2016-07-07 05:55 pm
verinumeri) wrote in hadriel2016-07-07 05:55 pm
Text Notification/Report #1
Attention: Hadriel Residents
Subject: Additional Phone Applications
Please find attached two additional applications for the phones:
[1] Clock. I have spent the last 26 days timing the light intensify and de-intensify periods. Despite the imprecision of my tools (and the impediment of the fog for that period), I am 92.58% confident that the current settings are accurate. I observed 17 hours of light, 7 of dark. The light intensifies and de-intensifies at apparently the same time each day. The days are not getting longer or shorter, which is perhaps unsurprising, given the light does not imitate the movements of the/a sun. As such, I have set the clock such that light intensify ('sunrise') begins at 04:30 and light de-intensify ('sunset') begins at 21:30. I will continue to monitor and make updates as necessary.
Other features: Timer, Stopwatch, Alarm.
[2] Pedometer. The hardware of these phones contains composite sensors enabling step detection and counting, as reliant on the accelerometer. This 'app' when active will do as its title suggests: count your steps. It will also calculate distance traveled. That feature has been less accurate in testing, but suffices for an approximation. You may reset and/or save a record of both as you like. If you download the clock, it will reset each day at 00:00 and keep a record of the previous day's activity, with the number of days stored theoretically limitless.
Both applications permit user choice between constant background service and activity on selection alone. Obviously I recommend the former for the clock in particular, but it will sync via the network upon opening should you choose the latter and close then open it.
Final notes: If you have no use for either or both, then do not download them. There is no need to comment to that effect.
Admittedly, the daily reset and recording of steps and distance may be especially frivolous. I doubt any of you are on a fitness track. I added it because such applications tend to have that feature and for organization's sake. You may also turn that off. If for whatever daft reason you want that, but not the clock, too bad. I could do it, but at that point, you might as well download the clock.
Please do comment if you have any serious suggestions.
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Subject: Additional Phone Applications
Please find attached two additional applications for the phones:
[1] Clock. I have spent the last 26 days timing the light intensify and de-intensify periods. Despite the imprecision of my tools (and the impediment of the fog for that period), I am 92.58% confident that the current settings are accurate. I observed 17 hours of light, 7 of dark. The light intensifies and de-intensifies at apparently the same time each day. The days are not getting longer or shorter, which is perhaps unsurprising, given the light does not imitate the movements of the/a sun. As such, I have set the clock such that light intensify ('sunrise') begins at 04:30 and light de-intensify ('sunset') begins at 21:30. I will continue to monitor and make updates as necessary.
Other features: Timer, Stopwatch, Alarm.
[2] Pedometer. The hardware of these phones contains composite sensors enabling step detection and counting, as reliant on the accelerometer. This 'app' when active will do as its title suggests: count your steps. It will also calculate distance traveled. That feature has been less accurate in testing, but suffices for an approximation. You may reset and/or save a record of both as you like. If you download the clock, it will reset each day at 00:00 and keep a record of the previous day's activity, with the number of days stored theoretically limitless.
Both applications permit user choice between constant background service and activity on selection alone. Obviously I recommend the former for the clock in particular, but it will sync via the network upon opening should you choose the latter and close then open it.
Final notes: If you have no use for either or both, then do not download them. There is no need to comment to that effect.
Admittedly, the daily reset and recording of steps and distance may be especially frivolous. I doubt any of you are on a fitness track. I added it because such applications tend to have that feature and for organization's sake. You may also turn that off. If for whatever daft reason you want that, but not the clock, too bad. I could do it, but at that point, you might as well download the clock.
Please do comment if you have any serious suggestions.
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Awesome, that'd be great. If there's a way to send the logs to other people too it could also be used as a really slow and lame way to find someone, provided they can tell you where they started out.
[And although slow and lame it'd be better than nothing.]
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Saving, storing, and sending functionality should also be possible. Perhaps it might be linked to your emergency notification app?
For that matter, I've been discussing with Miss Maketh an application to compile information gathered. A sort of guide for the residents, especially the new arrivals, who won't have access to older posts. It may also save everyone the trouble of redundant questions, whether of the gods or one another. With limitations, of course, as not everything ought to be on the network, and though it would be open to submissions, they would be moderated.
Such logs might be collected there as well.
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[If it's useful even one time it's worth it.]
I think that's a really good idea. A few people have talked about working on one but I don't think anyone actually has, though I know Dean, Sam, and Ciri have been making some progress on a guide to the monsters we know are in the city that could probably be included in that info.
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I suppose before proceeding, I ought ask to confirm no one's begun one and to widely solicit those types of reports. I'm aware that Miss Maketh and the guard have reports, as well as Dr. Banner, and a man Miss Maketh called Carlisle. She hadn't mentioned that lot. A monster guide would be essential.
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I don't totally know for sure; the monster guide thing I've had some part in but not the rest so I don't know who's doing what, if anything. My girlfriend Ashley was is a great writer and has talked about helping with that part of a guide though; we've been too busy with other stuff to actually do anything, but you can message her and see if she still wants to help out?
[He imagines she does and would appreciate the distraction from everything else going on.]
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Is she tagged under 'Ashley'? I'll message. It will likely be a tedious task, given the screen size and the amount of information.
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So far the gods' stuff has been reliable but you're right that it's probably best not to totally rely on GPS from a god named Confusion.
She is; you can just call her though if you want. Or come over to the house?
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With the exception of when Miss Rage tampered with the food, correct? I suppose those 'events' are not unique to god provisions, if anything can be truly excluded from that category.
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He's comfortable with texts, initially Mr. Chris seems to suggest a phone call would be more appropriate for her, but then an actual visit, and it would be fine to meet Mr. Chris in person, perhaps sketch out how it might look and function, and oh, he should reply, and has it been two minutes, and isn't he a little old for this? Especially in this context? ]
Whichever suits you and her.
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Nailed it.]no subject
So he has a bit of a delay before he would've been able to reply as well, and then the second very short message comes through and kind of snaps him out of it.]
I mostly meant the things that we get when a god is revived, like the armoury and the bar. Definitely don't trust Rage to touch the food; a lot of the people here for that are still doing the vegetarian thing.
[Which sucks, by the way. And it really isn't difficult for him to tell Hermann is hesitant about the offer to visit the house, for whatever reason, so--]
Maybe just send her a message and see if it's too annoying to write walls of text back and forth, and if so and you want to come talk in person then you're welcome to.
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To date, in any case. Theoretically, she could tamper with the vegetables next time, if not with the same result. The frustrating compromise about this sort of place is the realization that nothing is guaranteed to be safe and avoiding everything isn't viable.
For example, in my last like prison, we later learned that the beasts in those tunnels, though appearing thoroughly monstrous and some recognizable from different worlds, had originally been human. At least some of them had. The corporation running things made a point of showing off the transformation process. Some had been using them as food sources. There hadn't been any subsequent effects, of those that did then turning monstrous, and as far as we presently know the Door brings these through -- but you never know. I cannot think at the moment of what a comparable plant affliction would be, outside of poison. Pod people? Wasn't that a movie?
[ It's stupidly relieving, that suggestion. Stupidly.
And of course, when he's ready to do it, the phone will be on the fritz.]You may be right about those walls of text. Though I hope you aren't making an indirect comment on this conversation.
[ That was meant to be a joke. ]
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[He knows Hermann is right, but at the same time at least you can't turn into a wendigo from poisoned vegetables. Something else horrible could definitely happen, but not that.
And wow, that whole second paragraph is unsettling and also too familiar in regards to the wendigo issue.]
That all sounds really not-great. But yeah, there was an old shitty movie about pod people, though I don't think I ever saw it. To be totally honest from what you said all I'm thinking about is soylent green.
[Why is this their lives? That last comment gets a small smile though, even though it can't be seen.]
Nah, I love walls of text. Reminds me of the internet.