one of us, one of us: chatter post

[theibitingman]

This is just to BS and start ballparking shenanigans, really.

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[totaleclipseofthemart]

If you could give a quick rundown on how things type out and work here that would be great, yeah!

[10_20_15_5_50]

strikeout just "s" between < and a greater-than sign. "/s" between the same signs to stop the strikeout.

small small between < and a greater-than sign. "/small" etc

big "big" and "/big"

italics "i" and "/i"

underline "u" and "/u"

And to insert a link, it's [a href text=""] and [/a] only with < instead of [

[totaleclipseofthemart]

I think I've got it.



"/big"
"/i"
"/u"

[totaleclipseofthemart]

And it did not work! I don't got it.

[10_20_15_5_50]

I'm sorry! It's weird to explain. To end an effect like italics, it's [/i] only in the less-than and greater-than alligators instead. I should have put it that way to begin with.

[totaleclipseofthemart]

Hoo boy, there should be buttons here or something to make this easier on noobs like me...

This is fun to figure out though!

[10_20_15_5_50]

There you go! Sorry about my poorly-worded explanation.

[totaleclipseofthemart]

I'll get the hang of it as I go, I'm sure!

[10_20_15_5_50]

Replying here because I'm on my phone:

I have a seed of an idea for something set in Deena's Walmart! It involves a construct from UA2: 'the loathsome lunchbox'

[totaleclipseofthemart]

Please tell me more because that sounds like something Lemony Snicket would name a book. And I am so curious now.

[10_20_15_5_50]

I meant to tell you more before I ran out of time! Loathsome Lunchboxes are clockwork constructs so named because they're about the size of a lunchbox, though they have little appendages that unfold. They do nothing except disassemble machinery and use the pieces to construct more Lunchboxes (and possibly defend themselves; I don't remember). You can imagine how quickly they can become a problem, given their drive to self-replicate... and what they'll cannibalise to do so!

What if an infestation occurred in Deena's Walmart? Imagine if Lunchbox Zero had gained entry to a shipment of roombas or lawn tools or what have you, and when the semi was opened the things SCATTERED: some into the store, some into the neighbourhood.

[totaleclipseofthemart]

OMG in a shipment of Roombas loose in Deena's Wal-Mart. I love this idea. Then you have these constant Roomba attacks all over the store and the potential in that scenario is so great.

[10_20_15_5_50]

We're going to have to do this.

You have the lunchboxes being chased, the lunchboxes doing some chasing, an effort to defend the machines in the store---from power tools to Power Wheels to exercise equipment and the electric pallet jacks back in the stock room, to the appliances!---from the lunchboxes, and heaven help them all if any get into the parking lot, and the whole disaster compounded by the need to get customers collected (I like your free fries at the McDonald's bit, that's a good idea) so that they can be quietly escorted out.

Darnell and Sam are probably only there for a few ingredients, but... Sam will observe for a bit, and then offer to help, because hot damn do these people have a mess on their hands. Despite his understandable uncertainty, Darnell'd be inclined to help, too. (BETH: AMRITE?)

Much later, there's the question of who built Lunchbox Zero.

[totaleclipseofthemart]

When they find whoever built Lunchbox Zero, Deena's reaction is basically:

"That wasn't very nice. I don't appreciate mean-spirited happenings in my Wal-Mart, y'understand? So we might have a problem here."

[neverasked4this]

Here . . . you can see the HTML tags with them ACTING like HTML tags because I've added underscores

This will be a strikeout

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<_/s_>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

Here . . . you can see the HTML tags with them ACTING like HTML tags because I've added underscores

<_s_>This will be a strikeout<_/s_>
<_small_>This will small<_/small_>
<_b_>This will be bold<_/b_>
<_em_>This will be italics/emphasis<_/em_> (HTML5 shifted to "em" over "i")
And to insert a hyperlink is <_a href="Link goes here"_>Text goes here<_/a_>

And remember, with VERY few exceptions (probably none you'll ever use/need), all tags need the opening and closing tag (the closing tag is the one with the slash). If you forget to close a tag, EVERYTHING after your opening tag will have the format you forgot to cut off. XD;;;

Also, this isn't just Dreamwidth. This is basic web coding, called HTML. ^,^ (I really should back on the ball with my own web dev stuff. 9,9)

[totaleclipseofthemart]

Ohh, this brings me back to the days of coding systems for the one MUD I played (name escapes me atm) so that combat could be at least doable.

[neverasked4this]

AAAaaand I just realized I kind of totally flubbed my comment up there and said the exact OPPOSITE of what I'd meant. 9,9

"Here . . . you can see the HTML tags without them ACTING like HTML tags because..."

But yeah, it's just basic coding.

[totaleclipseofthemart]

It'll work, I'll get it to work. Basic coding might not have been my friend in the past but it's basically just no slash thing and then slash thing to make it work, so I think even I can't mess that up!

[neverasked4this]

Also, the error message in my comment above is because the browser (at least mine, and probably ANY) recognized that I was "trying" to write HTML but also knew it was "bad" code (deliberately bad in this case so you could see it). Use those tags without the underscores and you'll be fine. =3

Also you can combine tags. Like for instance, sometimes you may have seen me add OOC-ish comments in narrative for Darnell that I wanna throw in for the other player to read but isn't actually part of the narrative proper, I'll use both the "s" and "small" tags. XD

That's not necessarily a DWRP convention, btw, just something I do. XD;;; But it's an example of combining tags.

[totaleclipseofthemart]

/thumbsup

It's starting to feel like I'm getting the hang of this! I'm SO EXCITED

[theibitingman]

I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE EXCITED

I'm just sorry it's going to be a few days before I'm on top of things enough for a thread, but that gives us a little more time to figure out what scenario we want, at least?

[totaleclipseofthemart]

No worries, no worries! You do you and we'll go from there when we have the time to do it.