Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2016-06-26

15:06 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Talina, try standing right in front of the bench
15:06 Badass Fae (larkylouz) and face it. They're a bit cranky
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, at least Larky is talking about the benches and not the deans.
15:06 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) **xnorts**
15:06 RainyDayRecess :)
15:06 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) thank you 'ol
15:07 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Speak for yourself Dean Chancellor Scripter sir.
15:07 Samm Florian Sorry I ain't been 'round fer a while;
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen And welcome to the Oxbridge Deans' Q&A, although we seem in short supply today (and Samm is naturally shortstuff).
15:07 Samm Florian I'm th'supplier of short?
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Our roles are given at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/admin.php
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen That would work. Keeps things in balance.
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky, any info from commons that you're aware of?
15:10 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I was trying to think of anything, and I can't say I know of anything specific. Lots of time in the plaza, a few note cards, etc. Probably a fair amount I'm not aware of.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen As to the plaza, the rather gory poster has been replaced with one showing a vampire hunting kit via the British Museum.
15:11 Gronk Seriman Ooo! Classy!
15:11 RainyDayRecess Yay!
15:12 RainyDayRecess (thank you Carl :)
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen See http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/english-and-drama/2014/11/history-at-stake-vampire-slaying-at-the-british-library.html
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl comes through, when there's history at stake.
15:13 Badass Fae (larkylouz) He pinned this one to the wall!
15:13 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) **snorts** at stake
15:13 Samm Florian giggles
15:13 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) i am going to come out and say that i love the poster
15:13 Badass Fae (larkylouz) :^)
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's very Caledonian
15:13 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) **grins at COU DE Fae** Good one!@
15:14 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) Id want to hear what the StakeHolders say :)
15:14 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) munches Thalmori steak
15:14 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) That article is amazing :)
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm, anything from your adventures?
15:15 Samm Florian Naw, not really. I jes came by t'see what was up.
15:16 Samm Florian Sorry I ain't been 'round much.
15:17 Badass Fae (larkylouz) There's been some discussion of problems with seeing avatars in just one color. That has to do with a new feature in the LL viewer called Avatar Complexity. I wrote up a notecard last night, and Phrynne should have it available when she gets back online. In the meantime, there are blog posts to refer to.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Although Marion's statistics for new avatars are down a bit this week, we've been watching things fairly closely in the quad. Schools out and the dreaded boredom is setting in. The signs are there.
15:18 Badass Fae (larkylouz) https://modemworld.me/2016/05/18/avatar-complexity-and-graphics-presets-in-second-life/
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen One can either up your viewer's avatar complexity setting under preferences (at the risk of lag) or right click on a monocolor avatar and select "render fully".
15:19 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) it was bloody terrifying the first time i saw it
15:19 Samm Florian Oh no, it's th'Monochrome Plague!
15:19 Menta Black (mentadent) That's the JellyDoll project, right?
15:19 Samm Florian Sounds right.
15:20 Samm Florian It's yet t'come to Firestorm, looks like.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen I though maybe the artists were nabbing people and experimenting again.
15:20 Badass Fae (larkylouz) It will come to the next version of Firestorm, Samm
15:20 Samm Florian nods.
15:21 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Not the artists, this time, Word. It's all the aliens' fault. They're sick of us calling them little green mentadent
15:21 Menta Black (mentadent) I'll see you all as marshmallow men the - LMAO
15:21 Badass Fae (larkylouz) OOooops. LOL. Sorry Mentadent. Autocomplete
15:21 Samm Florian giggles.
15:21 RainyDayRecess :D
15:21 Menta Black (mentadent) heheheh - sounds nice, though
15:22 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) **xnorks**
15:22 Samm Florian wonders how t'xnork.
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen I asked Lindal to get some tutorial textures to Jorge so he can get going on translating.
15:23 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thank you, word.
15:23 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) pantomiimes coughing, laughing, and shooting water out one nostril in Samm's direction.
15:23 Samm Florian Oh ok, I get it.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm finally back into the depths of CAT scripting.
15:23 Samm Florian Meow's it goin'?
15:23 Menta Black (mentadent) what's CAT scripting, pls?
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen (hoped to get more done this morning, pre router blowout)
15:24 Badass Fae (larkylouz) It's closely related to herding cats, Menta.
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen Scripting to reimplement the Caledon Air Transport (CAT) airships.
15:24 RainyDayRecess Thank you for working so hard on that Word :)
15:24 Menta Black (mentadent) awww - yes
15:24 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) the airships are coming back :D
15:24 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) if you need a donor vessel i have one
15:24 Samm Florian Jes one at a time, I hope.
15:25 Samm Florian remembers th'multi-blimp pileups.
15:25 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) yes Thank yo ufor working on that wordsmith
15:25 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) remembers self-reproducing submarines
15:25 Badass Fae (larkylouz) raises three cheers (at least) for the multi-talented, multitasking Wordsmith Jarvinen
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's the engine script, a watchtower script that watches over its rezzed airship or rezzes a new one if necessary, a script in the airship that communicates back to the watchtower, and one for ETAs.
15:26 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) remembers the sky kraken that got lose and ended up outside the female changing rooms
15:26 Mae Best OH!
15:26 Menta Black (mentadent) I have a texture changing device that's using 6 scripts, too
15:26 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) nyree still doesn''t know how that happened
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) remembers being attacked by a kraken when using an airship
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's a gentle purple kraken. The orange ones are more aggressive.
15:27 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) he was lovely though we had a nice chat
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which does speak to travelers' warnings.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen A warning on where in the sky

If you fly the Middlesea skies,
Stay low or go really high.
For if you fly at cloud level, you'll meet an orange devil,
and look in an air kraken's eye.
15:28 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) dont go too high it gets really surreall at about 23'000 feet
15:29 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) course if you fly low you might trigger security systems if below 75m :(
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I've been working more with Rainy on horse levels of detail and affordable physics shapes.
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen She's far more adept at making a horse look like a horse, however.
15:30 Gronk Seriman Security orbs are not allowed on the ground in Caledon.
15:31 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) :)
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Have there been problems with such, Miss Gronk?
15:31 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) and ban lines?
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen No ban lines.
15:32 Gronk Seriman No. Lady Mei mentioned a hazaed in many places, but not in Caqledon.
15:32 Samm Florian Yah, if ya see ban lines, let somebuddy know.
15:33 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) one place to check then is one of the stops on the quest where the linden trees are i saw a sec orb there i think ((it could have beeen to do with groups))
15:33 Samm Florian New residents don't always know th'rules, or understand 'em.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Des doesn't allow those below 500m in Caledon.
15:34 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) i will go and have a look see if i am right and if i am i will let someone know
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Open for questions, announcements, befuddlements, .....
15:35 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) There will be a underwater pirate dance under the dockhouse this coming tues night the 28th at 6 PM. Caledon Oxbridge Village (209,209,22) So pirate, drowned pirate, mer or underwater gear is fine to wear.
15:35 RainyDayRecess Hi Carl :)
15:35 Carl Metropolitan Hi
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Carl.
15:36 Carl Metropolitan I am way late today. Sorry.
15:36 Samm Florian Hi Carl!
15:36 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) evening carl
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen But here!
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Andrea
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea's dances are never (mer-ly another party).
15:38 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) glub!
15:38 RainyDayRecess wow :)
15:39 Gronk Seriman oh geez.
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything you want to talk about, Carl?
15:39 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) oh and i have sharks you can swim with
15:39 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) can i call one steve
15:40 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) No lawyers?
15:40 RainyDayRecess Haha
15:40 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) they got eaten
15:40 Carl Metropolitan Just wanted to mention the graphic "no vampires" poster has run its course and has been replaced with a less graphic one now that it should have been clear to any remaining vampire RPers that that sort of RP is not allowed at Oxbridge.
15:41 RainyDayRecess Thank you for that Carl :)
15:41 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) oh there are free dive suit in a locker in front of the dock house.
15:41 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) worries though that new avatars in a vampire avatar may not understand
15:42 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) and feel unwlecome
15:42 Badass Fae (larkylouz) There is a clear poster near the entrance that says that vampire RP isn't allowed. And plenty of helpers to explain. I rarely have VP RP problems with the newbies who wear vampire avatars. I don't consider them an issue at all.
15:42 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) what if you are a non active vampire ... are you still not active
15:43 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) I mean not welcome
15:43 Carl Metropolitan We are banning vampire recruitment and RP at Oxbridge. What you do out of Oxbridge is not our business
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen In truth, vampires are okay, but acting like one at Oxbridge isn't.
15:43 Gronk Seriman I believe RP is OK. The biting and recruiting into groups is now.
15:44 Gronk Seriman *is not. dang!
15:44 Samm Florian I gotta say, a poster that says "No Vampires - We Mean It!" sounds a little stricter'n intended, 'specially fer newbies who won't know nuthin' 'bout the RP groups.
15:44 Badass Fae (larkylouz) We have vampires who come through to show someone through the orientation; that is not a problem. The problem comes when folks bring their RP to Oxbridge. And that's true of any sort of RP that is Adult. Escorts aren't particularly welcome, either, for example.
15:44 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) well I can understand that ,
15:45 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) what else is restricted at Oxbridge
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen And no role tags that say "1 qt low".
15:45 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Guns
15:45 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) guns out of holsters
15:45 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) I can think of a ton of things that could be banned
15:45 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) and shooting
15:45 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I have kicked out my share of triggerhappy minigun wielders.
15:45 Samm Florian Vehicles
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Weapons, Vehicles beyond arriving or leaving.
15:46 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Basicially, if it is against the Community Guidelines, it is against our rules.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Offensive physical or verbal behavior.
15:46 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) like sex request , recruiting for the world of gor the list goes on
15:46 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) no weapons and no vehicles?
15:46 Badass Fae (larkylouz) http://secondlife.com/corporate/cs.php
15:46 Samm Florian Those're the less obvious ones, yeah.
15:46 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) didn't they have weapons and vehicles in the 19th c? :)
15:47 Badass Fae (larkylouz) People can carry weapons as part of their costumes. They can't have them in thier hands.
15:47 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) why are they less obvious ?
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen No weapons in hand, okay as costuming.
15:47 Samm Florian Well, th'other stuff is more common-sense "G-rated region" stuff. Vehicles ain't generally outlawed in G regions. Dunno 'bout weapons.
15:47 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) :)
15:47 Carl Metropolitan The poster explains that in the next sentence.
15:48 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Yes, Lady Mei, but vehicles being driven tend to run over new folks just learning to walk.
15:48 Samm Florian Well, mebbe see if th'tutors report any complaints or confusion.
15:48 Samm Florian If I were a newbie vampire, that sign'd make me nervous.
15:48 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) well.... flying craft and watercraft are ok?
15:49 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Basically, we're trying to keep a peaceful, safe place for people to learn.
15:49 Gronk Seriman Arriving or leaving in a vehicle for effect is OK. Mowing down people is now.
15:49 RainyDayRecess Your typos :D
15:49 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Certainly, although we prefer that aircraft not land, except briefly.
15:49 Gronk Seriman My typos are sriving me crazy!
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Or having a chopper sit there and rv the blades repeadly is a distraction
15:50 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) wow
15:50 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Revving the loud engine for minutes an end...
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen It a university, and the sim is filled with buildings, not open spaces.
15:50 Gronk Seriman Plus, the Campus has a prim limit. Elaborate vehicles can eat up the reserve quickly.
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) best to jump and chute in
15:50 lovejoy2199 Julies Verne Time Machine????
15:50 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) or da Vinci craft :D
15:51 Samm Florian wonders if Tardises count as vehicles.
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Jules VErne did not have a time travel story
15:51 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) was thinking about the Iron Cloud etc
15:51 Carl Metropolitan We generally have hundreds of free prims, so that's usually not an issue.
15:51 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) Elf.... I think he did actually :)
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) H. G: Wells had
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And trip to the center of the Earth was not a time travel story
15:52 lovejoy2199 ou are right....Sorry. Not much sleep last night.
15:52 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:52 Badass Fae (larkylouz) To be clear about a frequent confusion, we are talking about Oxbridge Gateway - the campus. These rules are not the same as those of Caledon, which has mostly Moderate ratings.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen And more open space.
15:52 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) I stand corrected :)
15:53 Carl Metropolitan We are an anomaly within Caledon. Everywhere else the rating is M.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen And for those who can't get along, we have a two-step program. Get over it. Stay over it.
15:54 Carl Metropolitan I've often thought that the extra policing work of maintaining a G-rated Oxbridge might not be worth it, but since there are so few good places for teen players anymore, I don't want to give up our "G"
15:55 RainyDayRecess Good
15:55 Gronk Seriman Indeed.
15:55 Badass Fae (larkylouz) particularly during summer break.
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Almost everywhere else. Lions Gate is G. and I believe Templemore is G.
15:55 Badass Fae (larkylouz) may be a glutton for punishment
15:56 Samm Florian Oh they are…neat!
15:57 Samm Florian I best get goin'…dinnertime fer my typist.
15:57 RainyDayRecess K, see you Samm :)
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen tc Samm. Thanks for making it.
15:57 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) see you oon samm
15:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) see ya samm
15:57 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) soon*
15:57 Gronk Seriman Seeya, Samm!
15:57 Samm Florian waves and scoots.
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Her last 3 in-building steps were bounces.
15:58 Carl Metropolitan You are correct about those. I had not been thinking of the Duchies
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
16:00 Gronk Seriman Saved by the bell.
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, while I think of it, first Wednesday's of each month is Brace's salsa dance.
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) it is
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) week after next
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yep.
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen If nothing else, then we are adjourned.
16:02 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans :)
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming.
16:02 Gronk Seriman Yay! Thank you, Chancellors!
16:02 Fidget (fidgetswidgets) waves and poofs for a nap
16:02 тαℓıηα ℜoѕє (talina718) its been super awesome , yay
16:02 Heart Scorn (heartscorn1110) thank you for a good session chancellors
16:03 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thank you everyone
16:03 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight everyone.
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rest well, Elf.
16:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
16:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) BEdtime for me.
16:03 Lady Mei メイ Stone (maystone) thank you sir
16:03 RainyDayRecess 'Night Elfbiter
16:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
16:03 Mae Best Thank you :)
16:03 RainyDayRecess Sleep Well
16:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) night elf
16:04 Gronk Seriman We need a parachute dispenser at the doorway.
16:04 Gronk Seriman smiles
16:05 RainyDayRecess :)