Blog talk:Jemann/The Silver Tree/@comment-6042046-20130319031951/@comment-6042046-20130325064615

Thanks for the update. So...I suppose we wait another week before contacting Yasmeen again? Messages get lost, delayed or forgotten; it happens. I'm not sure if this matters, but I hear she's been recently working on a project with rogue members of an oddball club for the appreciation of cutlery and lighting. I wonder what she'll churn out.

By the way, if I abruptly disappear sometime during the next 3 months, that'll be due to Surface work. Before that happens, I'll try to play and record every Empress Court storylet related to "carving out a Reputation at Court"; the category needs some updating since it's now entwined with the Persuasive "Working on..." thingamabob. There's no longer a Story Quality such as "Shaping a Masterpiece for the Empress", but I'm still using its category page as a placeholder to catalogue progress. All the Court-specific compositions should eventually move to the "Working on..." page.

I've had another idea knocking about in my head for the past two weeks. Would it be possible to make new templates? Specifically, one that can create collapsible/expandible text and another that can create cells similar to an Excel sheet (e.g. category pages Items and Dreams)? Honestly, I think Varissaelle has the best aesthestic sense for making information charts and such. She has an excellent eye for deciding length and size. I'd be perfectly content with letting her chart everything she chooses, but I can't help thinking it's unwise to repeatedly rely on a single person for a major task. I also don't want to bother or stress her with excess work. Plus, it'd be cool if casual and code-clueless contributors could make attractive pages using such templates.

I can always look at Varissaelle's source code for cells, copy, paste and perform some patient fiddling to make similar cells on another page, but I can't create anything that deviates too far from her code. This all boils down to one thing: a flow chart for the Iron Republic Days page. How should I state my reasoning in a way most eloquent? Hmm... I could always make an ugly-ass MS Paint flow chart but nobody wanna look at that shit. ...Yes, that covers it.