The abyss of the darkness

Beyond the Beyond: Update 101: Something Lost, Something Forgotten (Loose Ends pt. 4)

When last we saw the team they had just unlocked and opened the Abyss's front door. Thanks to some hijinks though they aren't in a state to go Abyss diving. That's just as well. There's a little something to tie up first.

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Beyond the Beyond: Update 99: The Final Tablet (Tablet Shrines pt. 2)

With the shrine actually located the team finds out that the gate to the Abyss, which is inside the shrine, is locked and they don't have the key. Now I could have gone and fetched said key before ever setting foot in Quamdar but this way I get to grind some experience on the new guy. He needs it!

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While the start date for summer hasn't yet come in the US as I write this the heat has certainly arrived and with it all the "joys" of it being broiling outside.

But enough about that. I long put off getting caught up on Civ4 AI Survivor season 3 because the matches run for so long and Twitch is often a pain in the rear for me to access. That has been rectified which is part of the reason I got nothing done on Beyond the Beyond update 113 (#worthit!). For anyone who has seen season 1 or 2 but like me put off season 3 well let me just say many interesting things happened: Troll Kon is back with a vengeance, Justinian Trudeau wields the maple sword of justice, and De Gaulle actually managed to do something competent.

That said I'm just enjoying what I can of the season and progress in updating Beyond the Beyond will be slow. There's no reason to hurry anyway. It's all bonus content from here on out. I've got other stuff to tend to.

So again here I sit on the third day of February and it's in the low 40s (Fahrenheit - 5 degrees Centigrade for those accustomed to that system). That's pretty warm for February where I live. Tomorrow the forecast calls for snow then it'll possibly get above freezing on Monday just so the temperatures can plunge back to the teens on Tuesday for more snow.

Oh and California is back to continuing that drought they were having.

But rest assured that there's no climate change and pumping more money into our fossil fuel overlords (while doing everything possible to destroy other means of energy production) will totally have no harmful ramifications!

Yes, I am starting 2018 on a bitter, sarcastic note.

With Beyond the Beyond wrapping up I keep asking myself that question and getting nowhere. I'd prefer a game I've already played several times before. It has to be something I can play on my tablet.

Major Update as of 12/23/2019: For some reason the last few images for update 114 weren't in the folder as they should have been. That's been fixed! Also, update 115 is now available.

Major Update as of 10/7/2019: Well Photobucket is up to some new shenanigans in that every image hosted with them is appearing in my entries here but blurred to the point of uselessness. The repository has recently been updated but I see no point on posting new updates for the LP on the blog.

Major Update as of 8/1/2018: Images are displaying again and have been for long enough to make me think resuming posting to the blog might be worthwhile so this is now a repository for links to the GDrive folder. Updates will still be uploaded there with edits to this post to relay when they're available.

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Beyond the Beyond: Update 97: Final Village (Quamdar)

In our last episode the team ran across an old face and finally located the exit to the Sand Cave. I suppose they should find out what lies beyond it. Word of warning though: not much happens with the plot in this episode. This and the next episode are something of a breather where a whole lot of work getting the team ready for the end of the game has to happen.

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So I decided to go ahead and import my blog from LiveJournal over to Dreamwidth. I do a lot of internal linking so apologies if you're reading a series of posts and clicking a link shunts you over to LiveJournal. Or if video embeds are messed up. Or just general wonkiness. It will take time to get sorted out.

EDIT 1: Things are going slowly. I did get the Beyond the Beyond intro stickied and the links for act 1 in the ToC have been updated. Individual posts have been slow because I can't just edit the internal links. I also have to contend with the way the imported HTML is treated by the editor. Disabling auto formatting just means I have different problems, not that I avoid them entirely.

I went ahead and deleted all of the Ivory 9 entries. Those just aren't tenable for updating. There are better ways to handle that stuff.

EDIT 2: I got the Let's Challenge round-up post updated as well as all of the Rune solo write-ups. The video embeds for Rune should be working now. I had one issue with the CUT tag causing the tables in parts 4 and 4.5 to freak out when the entries are not viewed as single posts. Therefor I deleted those tags and the tables are no longer hidden behind a Read More link. I do that to save page space when viewing multiple entries and to save bandwidth. They're small posts anyway. it's all the coding for the tables that eats up the character limit.

As for Beyond the Beyond I've edited the links through act 2 in the table of contents and made it through update 20 in editing the posts themselves.

EDIT 3: Beyond the Beyond's ToC is up to date through act 3 and the posts themselves up to update 28. The Phantasy Star 4 solo challenge posts have all been updated. Video embeds should all work now.

EDIT 4: Beyond the Beyond's ToC is complete and I've edited posts all the way through update 64.

EDIT 5: editing Beyond the Beyond entries to update links (and fix errant typos) is now complete. I also forgot to mention in an earlier edit that the links in the Dark Wizard resources post have been updated. There might be some things scattered around the blog that don't work as they should but that's all the major projects.