| 15:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Welcome to Q&A With the Deans. |
| 15:03 |
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Aylaria (emberell) would probably suspect rather that they might not have! |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Let's start out with reports from the various deans. But first I wanted to announce, in case anyone had not already heard it, that Phrynne and Larky are going to be Co-Deans of Commons |
| 15:04 |
Lindal Kidd |
Yay! |
| 15:04 |
Lindal Kidd |
♥+*`*♥. APPLAUSE!!!!!.♥*`*+♥ |
| 15:04 |
Lindal Kidd |
♥+*`*♥. APPLAUSE!!!!!.♥*`*+♥ |
| 15:04 |
Lindal Kidd |
♥+*`*♥. APPLAUSE!!!!!.♥*`*+♥ |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Lindal still needs to replace Phrynne though :) |
| 15:05 |
Gronk Seriman |
Oh wow! Nice! |
| 15:05 |
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BadAss Fae (larkylouz) is still working on getting Phrynne to be a co-BadAss |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
So if you are interested in helping out in Information please get in touch with her. |
| 15:05 |
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Aylaria (emberell) applauds happily, "Yay!" |
| 15:05 |
Lindal Kidd |
not possible. But I will be on the lookout for Phrynnelike persons |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Let's start at the left with Larky and Phrynne for Commons. |
| 15:06 |
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Phrynne taps on a petal for Larky to go first |
| 15:06 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
I have been focused primarily on updating and researching the ban lists. they're rather out of date and some of the names are so old, none of us know why they are on there. But we're getting there |
| 15:07 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Dav2 is a keep :) |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
We want to take off the list people who haven't done things that were that bad, while leaving the griefers on. |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Larky got a perm ban list from Jayle. |
| 15:07 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
Yes, I do. |
| 15:07 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Good. |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
So right now it's a lot of research. |
| 15:07 |
Jayleden Miles |
At least the ones I know about. Which might be incomplete. |
| 15:08 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
And, of course, Dav2 is the first thousand we will take off. |
| 15:08 |
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BadAss Fae (larkylouz) ducks and runs for cover. |
| 15:08 |
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Lindal Kidd laughs! |
| 15:08 |
Lindal Kidd |
that boy is everywhere! |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
He managed to PO Kamilah and get a Caledon-wide ban eventually. |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
So he's out of our hands now. |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank god. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Anything else from Commons? |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
not from me |
| 15:10 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
I don't think so, at present. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Cool. Now it's Lindal's turn. |
| 15:10 |
Lindal Kidd |
Thank you, Carl. |
| 15:10 |
Lindal Kidd |
I've placed a copy of the "COU giveaways" box in the Hall of Avatar Customisation. This contains a number of skins, shapes, and basic clothing. You have it in your Faculty Kits, but this provides another means of getting it to our students. Kudos to Phrynne for suggesting it! |
| 15:11 |
Lindal Kidd |
I've continued to get comments and corrections on the Faculty Kit. Thank you, everyone, for your sharp eyes! I'll provide another minor update shortly. |
| 15:11 |
Lindal Kidd |
I'm sorry to report that there is something wrong with the seating in the Lecture Hall. Sitting on the benches has always been tricky, but even if you hit it right, you now sit about a foot above the bench. |
| 15:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Strange. This should be the same hall as this one. |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Is that an AO side effect? |
| 15:12 |
Lindal Kidd |
I don't believe so, it seems to happen to everyone |
| 15:12 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
I'll try to remember to check it. I don't use an AO most of the time. |
| 15:12 |
Lindal Kidd |
that's all for me, Carl! |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I can ask Ravelli if he can take a look |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We might just need to reset the scripts. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. On to me. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I have nothing much to say. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I was kind of under the weather the early part of this week and got little done |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Any Oxbridge participation planned for SLBB? |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Yes. Already submitted and approved. |
| 15:14 |
Lindal Kidd |
splendid! |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I guess I did get something done after all. |
| 15:14 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(and don't return any payroll received, Carl. It's correct for the times involved). |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. I will trust you on that. |
| 15:15 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wordsmith, on to you. |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I got class outlines from both Cymbal and Jasmin this week. It sounds like Cymbal had a successful beta test of her prim skirts class at noon today. |
| 15:16 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Excellent news. |
| 15:16 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Very crowded one... |
| 15:17 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Her class was very popular, and very well executed |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Josain, has been independently doing some beta testing on a inventory management class. We'll still need to talk about that but he had good turnout at 8am this morning. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
And yesterday morning as well. |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
At one point during Cymbals class, in fact, Phrynne had to call me inworld to eject someone, we were running at 19 avatars. |
| 15:18 |
Carl Metropolitan |
an inventory management class is a great addition.' |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And, I've still more people to talk to on classes as some of the infrastructure scripting winds down. |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Gronk was talking with me last night about an avatar show and tell workshop. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That's a good event. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Though from my experience, it is best to divide it by age range. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If there are going to be prizes |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And Barbara Collazo (sp?) had talked about an intro to dance and various dance poseballs and chims class. |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Chims? |
| 15:20 |
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Carl Metropolitan needs a SL jargon class |
| 15:20 |
Lindal Kidd |
Chimeras, a dance machine worn on the person |
| 15:20 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
kind of like a pose ball, I think? |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Prims containing self-induced dances. |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thanks. |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Ah! |
| 15:21 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Shifting to infrastructure, the class highlighter on the schedule that Aylaria requested last week is functioning on the Oxbridge schedules. |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Aylaria was able to look at my long ignored "Building with Full Perm Mesh" outline and make some improvements, but she didn't feel she was the right person to turn that into a class after reviewing it. So it's still open if someone else wants to take a whack at it. |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Yes. That Highlighter is really cool bit of scripting Wordsmith! |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It's now active on all of the Oxbridge signs under our control |
| 15:22 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I received some questions about mesh building this week; could not help them... |
| 15:22 |
Jasmin Jolbey |
noticed it today very nifty :) |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Oh, and back to classes, the weekly attendance is plotted on the board behind us. |
| 15:23 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
Speaking of scripting, we need a Dean of Engines and an Assistant Dean. Wordsmith is doing his job and that of the Deans of Engines. |
| 15:23 |
Lindal Kidd |
does that include the schedule kiosks in the Faculty Kit, Word? |
| 15:23 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Pass them on to the COUG group, Elfbiter. Someone will likely know the answer. |
| 15:23 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No, the one I own up here and the one's Carl owns below. |
| 15:23 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Or query me later, Elf. |
| 15:23 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Also, you can send them to Builder's Brewery too. They have lots of more advanced mesh classes. |
| 15:24 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I did. They didn't.. |
| 15:24 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Can we make it a part of the standard schedule we give out? |
| 15:24 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Talk about COug that is. |
| 15:24 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We can make the script "no mod" so no one can swipe it. |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We can, include it as part of the kiosks, although Tali is still working on the data end of doing two week schedules. |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Then we should wait for that. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So, while we dipped in class attendance for a while, I expect to see that rising with more classes. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Red had been out for a while and is back with three classes, and others are coming along. |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Any ideas by the way on finding a new Dean of Engines? I feel bad that you are doing two jobs. At the least can you lean on Samm a bit more for the Classes part? |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
How is the long-in-preparation Avatar Appearance class coming along? |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'll talk with Samm more and see what her schedule is looking like at present. |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Lindal? |
| 15:27 |
Lindal Kidd |
I'm still working on it, Carl. I think I will have something to beta test in two weeks |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Need anyone sent your way to help? |
| 15:28 |
Lindal Kidd |
no, I've had lots of input |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Organization or writing? |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I've heard that dragons can be good at such things. |
| 15:28 |
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Lindal Kidd smiles |
| 15:29 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I like to think I do good writing work! If there's any want for help there, please do let me know |
| 15:29 |
Lindal Kidd |
I shall, thank you Aylaria! |
| 15:30 |
Carl Metropolitan |
She will also need some help (if Aylaria can't do that already) with slides for the class, too. |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A final project. The free avatars we have are now instrumented (as of very early this morning) to collect information on touches. That's collected by a script in each avatar giver each of which sends the info daily to an accumulator which emails it all out. |
| 15:30 |
Lindal Kidd |
come to think of it, are there any good photoshop artists in the house? |
| 15:30 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Yes. |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I am good with Photoshop and Illustrator |
| 15:31 |
Lindal Kidd |
what I need are a basic man's and woman's skin, with the naughty bits covered. |
| 15:31 |
Jasmin Jolbey |
Im fairly good with photoshop |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Easy. |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I've done it already |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Let me find it for you. |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No. Wait. Only the mans skin |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I can get a woman's though. |
| 15:31 |
Lindal Kidd |
must be Transfer |
| 15:31 |
Lindal Kidd |
since it will be a handout |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That's fine. |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wordsmith's new counter script will be used by Phrynne as she does our freebie upgrade/pruning project. |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It will help us know what is useful to our users. |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Jayleden? Anything to report from you? Or has it been pretty much finals? |
| 15:33 |
Jayleden Miles |
I have lots to report! |
| 15:33 |
Jayleden Miles |
I've been arranging the Fall Event - and have had many volunteers come onboard with their own skill sets to help make it great. |
| 15:35 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Is there any remaining help you need for that event? |
| 15:35 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I need the dates on that please. |
| 15:35 |
Jayleden Miles |
So far Samm has volunteered to create a game HUD, Wordsmith the ghostly images, Aeval the building/decorating (with me), Aylaria and Marley the story, Jasmin is our prize mananger, Josain is looking into Machinima, and Stereo and Andrea are planning a co-event with the Harvest Festival and a costume contest. |
| 15:36 |
Jayleden Miles |
And!! I was speaking to Wordsmith about the need of donated land he said he thought Stonehedg would be willing to help with a location and she has volunteered to donate her SouthEnd parcels for our use! |
| 15:37 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wow. |
| 15:37 |
Jayleden Miles |
I can always use more volunteers, and there is always room for anyone who would like to take part. |
| 15:38 |
Jayleden Miles |
The Fall Event will take part for the full month of October and possibly for a week or less into November...that still needs worked out and decided. |
| 15:38 |
Jayleden Miles |
So the most I can say, Andrea, is October is open for co-events. |
| 15:39 |
Jayleden Miles |
That way folks have room to arrange things as needed to fit their own schedules. |
| 15:39 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
TY |
| 15:39 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Let's take question now. |
| 15:39 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Anything you ever wanted to know about Caledon, Oxbridge, or Second Life. |
| 15:39 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We have answers. Some are even right. |
| 15:40 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If no one asks, I may start asking trivia questions... |
| 15:40 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
No now, there's no need to be hasty! |
| 15:41 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Though, the crowd seems to have been replaced by crickets |
| 15:41 |
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Phrynne passes around a huge platter of Caledon chocolate brownies |
| 15:41 |
Gronk Seriman |
Has anybody heard about the status of the CATS airships? |
| 15:41 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No. I'm afraid I have not. |
| 15:42 |
Lindal Kidd |
the trains are running again, though! |
| 15:42 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Carriages are not. |
| 15:42 |
Lindal Kidd |
eek |
| 15:42 |
Phrynne |
The last I heard, Jorge Serapis was still working with a scripter to update the routes for the CATS. There are some technical difficulties that have not been fixed yet. |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Jorge had asked me to look at some of the scripts. Haven't had a chance yet and some of what was given to me (by a third party) was not readable (permissions) |
| 15:43 |
Carl Metropolitan |
So slow but certain progress |
| 15:43 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Good to know |
| 15:43 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Next question? |
| 15:44 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay... For 50L$, answer this: Which state (not a territory) contains the Easternmost point of the United States? |
| 15:44 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
Maine? |
| 15:44 |
Lindal Kidd |
Alaska |
| 15:44 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Lindal! |
| 15:44 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Semisopochnoi Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. |
| 15:45 |
Lindal Kidd |
one of the Aleutian islands is on the other side of the Dateline |
| 15:45 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
Ah. |
| 15:45 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The International dateline runs between it and the westernmost point of the US! |
| 15:45 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Lindal Kidd gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:46 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
I have a question. I ran into someone who had uploaded a picture to her Picks and it didn't load properly. I did a bit of troubleshooting, but really had no idea where to start. Anyone have any insight on that? |
| 15:46 |
Gronk Seriman |
I have seen a forgotten newspaper giver at the bandstand in the center of Oxbridge Village. It gives out a URL that is not good. It needs to be pulled, I thi9nk. |
| 15:46 |
Lindal Kidd |
distorted aspect ratio, Larky? |
| 15:46 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Was the photo full perms? |
| 15:46 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you Gronk. We need an EM at Oxbridge Village to return that. |
| 15:47 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
Ah, Carl - I wonder if it was that? I did talk to her about size and aspect ratio. Thanks, folks. |
| 15:47 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I met someone like that the other day, too. It had to do with the way they tried to upload it, they had used the in-viewer browser ro change their profile to the picture. IT was easily fixed by having her take it out and re-put it in inworld - I think that's the best place to start with advice on that problem |
| 15:48 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
I've never used the inworld browser. Might be a good thing to play with, Aylaria. thank you |
| 15:48 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Since SL only uploads dimensions which are powers of two, often on has to manually enforce an aspect ratio. |
| 15:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I don't trust the in-client browser. I'd rather go outside the client. It seems insecure. |
| 15:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
True |
| 15:48 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Sometiems it has turned out to be esier to let them upload the profile image using Sl website dashboard. |
| 15:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Limits |
| 15:48 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
that doesn't surprise me, Carl. One reason I've never used it. |
| 15:49 |
Carl Metropolitan |
This web link has the aspect ratios for various profile photos. |
| 15:49 |
Lindal Kidd |
the aspect ratio of Picks is 4:3. I make my crops that shape, then change them to square 256x256 before importing. |
| 15:50 |
Carl Metropolitan |
But if the photo is not showing up at all, rather than showing up distorted, I would suspect a permissions problem. |
| 15:51 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
It showed up as a black box. |
| 15:51 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Or that the Asset ID or photo in the DB has gotten corrupted. |
| 15:51 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If it is not permissions, then check to see if you can see the photo as just a photo or texture. |
| 15:51 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If not, then you need to reupload or retake it. |
| 15:52 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
It seemed with the person I talked to that their photo just wasn't loading - indefinitely. It might have been a different issue there, in that case |
| 15:52 |
Red Quixote |
the scripts in the benches of the main lecture hall are borked andneed resetting |
| 15:52 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
The profile picture did show up in her profile on the web - it just didn't load inworld for whatever reason. |
| 15:53 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
certainly some much more cogent thoughts than I had that night. I'll collect them and contact her later. |
| 15:53 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
thank you |
| 15:53 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you. I will see if I have the permissions to do that |
| 15:54 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
Permissions? I think I missed something, Carl? |
| 15:55 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Permissions to reset scripts in the main lecture hall |
| 15:56 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
On the benches. |
| 15:56 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Any more questions? |
| 15:56 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
For those of you trying out the translator, is it behaving itself? |
| 15:56 |
Phrynne |
It's doing well for me. |
| 15:56 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Most of the time |
| 15:56 |
BadAss Fae (larkylouz) |
I find it very easy to use and it becomes active the moment I turn it on. That said, I haven't had an opportunity to use it very much. |
| 15:57 |
Jasmin Jolbey |
I was wondering if you you can tell how well its managing with the limit? plenty of room? |
| 15:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I can look |
| 15:57 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
The translator works quite well, at least as far as I've been able to use iit. It might be worth looking into making it a bit quicker to exclude a language, though - a lot of times when I take folk to the Spanish or Portuguese help sims, it can be a little crowded with a lot of localities at once, and that can be really confusing to the person I'm trying to help. But it's not terribly hard to work around |
| 15:58 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I think I also need to get a little more familiar with the chat command for changing that, I don't know it off hand. But a lot of time it can take more time than the person is willing to sit still for to get input |
| 15:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We're actually into a new month as of the 13th. |
| 15:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
As long as we are not pushing the limit, all is well. |
| 15:59 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
But, as far as functionality, it's worked marvelously well - it does a lovely job, even amongst so many different folk |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And toward the end of last month, we'd used about 25k out of 2M chars. |
| 16:00 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Oh wow. |
| 16:00 |
Jasmin Jolbey |
so loads of room :) |
| 16:00 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Sounds great |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
1986256 characters remaining today. |
| 16:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Well, it's four pm now, so if there are no last minute questions, I guess it's time to adjourn. |
| 16:01 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Does "Are there any last minute questions?" count as a last minute question? |
| 16:01 |
Lindal Kidd |
farewell, all, thanks for a great week! |
| 16:01 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
only if it is the last |
| 16:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We consider it a meta question and thus on a separate symbolic level. |
| 16:02 |
Jayleden Miles |
Thank you for attending. |
| 16:02 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
That may count as the "first minute of the next hour" question... |
| 16:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
See you all soon! |
| 16:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all. |
| 16:02 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Hehehe |
| 16:02 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Thank you so much for working so hard, and keeping us all informed! |
| 16:02 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you, Deans! |
| 16:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I have to run now. Time to go do something briefly in RL! |
| 16:02 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Anyway, bedtime for me. |
| 16:02 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Gronk Seriman gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 16:02 |
Jasmin Jolbey |
thanks :) |
| 16:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Sleep well, Elf. |
| 16:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
But first I'm going to try to reset the scripts in the lecture hall |
| 16:02 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Be seeing you |