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[andatsea]

Dusk lingers in your hand.

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[tracesindust]

🗡️ THE PALE PASS GAMBIT - Interactive Elder Scrolls Story 🏔️

What You Need to Know:

- Setting: Post-Skyrim, pre-TESVI

- Main Character: General Marcus Quintus and the XVII Legion

- Current Crisis: Empire fracturing, Skyrim in chaos, Thalmor moving

- Your Role: YOU decide what happens next

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📖 Where We Are Now (Quick Recap)

General Quintus commands 4,000 legionnaires trapped in the Pale Pass as the Empire tears itself apart. Three claimants fight for the Ruby Throne, Skyrim is leaderless after both Tullius and Ulfric died, and Thalmor "diplomats" are openly moving through Imperial territory.

In an unprecedented move, Quintus has asked his soldiers—not just officers, but the sergeants and prefects who know the troops best—what they think the Legion should do. Three factions have emerged:

🛡️ THE RESTORATIONISTS- March south, back a claimant, restore the Empire

⚔️ THE INTERVENTIONISTS - March into Skyrim, impose order directly

🔥 THE REFORMISTS - Break away entirely, build something new

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🎯 YOUR MISSION: Choose the Legion's Path

(actual poll on Discord ends in 4 days so if you join on Discord you get an extra day of voting)

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💬 Want to Go Deeper?

Beyond the main choice, share your thoughts on:

- How should Quintus handle the Thalmor envoys?

- Which province should the Legion prioritize protecting?

- Should they try to contact the Dragonborn in Apocrypha?

- What role should the surviving Great Houses of Morrowind play?

Every comment matters! Even if you're new to Elder Scrolls lore, your fresh perspective could lead the story in unexpected directions.

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📅 Timeline & Community

- Chapter timing I have a busy schedule so it's somewhat arbitrary, but I'll try and keep on a consistent schedule

- Voting closes: Saturday 6/7

- Discussion continues: Join our dedicated Discord server for deeper strategy talks and lore discussions: https://discord.gg/vnWrHUmg

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🏷️ Share & Tag

Help grow our interactive community! Reblog with #pale pass gambit and #interactive elder scrolls

New to the story? Start with [Chapter 1: Weight of Crowns](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-pale-pass-gambit-an-elder-scrolls-fanfic.143531/#post-35236730) - no deep ES knowledge required!

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🎮 Join the War Council

Want to dive deeper into strategy discussions and lore debates? Join our dedicated Discord server: https://discord.gg/vnWrHUmg

Real-time discussions and community world-building happen here and on SV! You are welcome to join and comment on either platform, but all voting happens in the server since I can't get a hold of SV's tally system.

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Remember: This isn't just my story—it's OUR story. Your choices shape not just what happens next, but how the world itself changes. The Empire's fate lies in your hands.

What will you choose, citizen? EDIT: I want to keep track of my votes so I will keep a vote seret from the rest of yáll, keep it in a notebook and subtract one from my vote.

[direfang]

Funny OC Smash or Pass. Because apparently I'm not allowed to know peace either.

Got tagged by Kestrel!

(Two in-game screenshots. First two art pieces are mine! Third one is done by @guildwuff2!)

Name: Windwalker Kress Age: 34 Gender: Masc Enby Pronouns: He/Him (Though any are fine.) Orientation: Gay/Demiromantic Profession: Monk (IC) | Guardian (in Game) Build: Runty, shorter than most of his kind. Muscular and toned. Occupation: Olmakhan ambassador to Amnoon, parkour instructor on the Sandswept Isles, former Durmand Priory diversity Hire.

Pros:

Pretty relaxed, hard to anger. Good at mediating.

Agile, reasonably strong, and athletic. No need to worry about high-up objects, or things that need moving, he's got you.

/Excellent/, borderline unnatural bodily control.

Super chill with nature. He'll catch those bugs for you, don't worry.

Cons:

Way too chill, just a LITTLE lackadaisical.

Monastic and childhood traditions have a real grasp on him, and he has trouble not imposing those on others.

That unnatural bodily control. Has the... uncanny, ability, to harden his bones and lengthen his claws. To unreasonable standards. Beware his backhand, and also maybe watch his claws, if you aren't a fan of 3 foot long blades.

Slightly tech-phobic. Struggles with less "organic" styles of transportation, as well as weaponry. Refuses to use Asura tech, most of the time, unless pressured.

Feel free to do this too, or tag me again for a second char or w.e. (Or tag me to show me ur polls too. That's fun too.)

Hokie thankie.

[westmeath]

i completely forgot about pillowfort LOL having a look at it rn and it looks and feels so much like really early tumblr (which makes sense since it's meant to be a tumblr alternative i think?)

i'm interested but since it seems to be so based around "communities" (basically groups) and around fandoms/fandom-y type people specifically i feel like it'd be hard to get into if you're not really into any of that and/or don't know anyone already on there...

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Ι saw your response to the ask about how you write your plots and just wanted to ask what program you use to write (and keep track of things) because seriously the fact that you are managing to keep track of 10??? plots is so impressive (and your writing is a gift!!!)

i switched to obsidian sometime after i finished cyanide! it has a lot of interesting stuff but quite frankly i only use it like a regular notepad just one that lets me open tabs and create folders. the only downside to leaving google docs is that i can no longer write on the go on my phone (google drive), but like- i hardly did that anyway. if i do come up w smth i just put it in the notes app n then transcribe it

i'm a pretty fast typer so that's never been an issue hahaha the perks of being able to type blind is that i can just look at the notes and type as i read LMAO

anyway yeah! obsidian has graphs and stuff, but like i said, i don't really use them? it's all notes and text. so if you're a bit wrong in the head like me you could just make do with google docs (or whatever else you use) and a notepad opened to the side tbh it's pretty much what i do

wrangling the 10+ simultaneous plotlines is more my brain knowing no peace than it is obsidian honestly even though it likely would be so much easier if i sucked it up and learned how the graphs work hahah;,,

[noisytenant]

i think i figured out my central issue with neocities. its primarily self-generated content. i dont want people seeing that much of me. i'm like a bagworm you need to discern my shape through the things i surround myself with

[incohearent]

Carnist woman gets hundreds of thousands of views for showing off how she is compassionate to a dog (I think her channel is sweet but i only just discovered it)

But when a vegan sanctuary (Nima Animal Sanctuary) gets five thousand views a carnist (I'm guessing..) emphasizes how human issues are more important

Ive been dealing with carnists interpreting animal compassion as an insult to human compassion for years, I tried to see the reason in it but it is insane. You see that they only want you to feel bad for being compassionate toward the animals that they choose to oppress: cows, pigs, chickens, geese, and well fish, too. But they wouldn't do this plea for human compassion if the beneficiary were dogs or cats.

[landofication]

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[hideyseek]

absolutely fascinating experience i just had (tried to edit my fic end notes so the banner post would open in a new tab, pushed to prod updated the end notes link four separate times and subsequently learned that ao3 link previews don't seem to support the target=_blank flag????)

[kittycatcarla]

:.|:;

UPDATED DISCORD FORMATTING ♡ updated reference sheet for those newer to discord (or those who aren't familiar with markdown in general) ! my last post didn't include links, headers, or lists. you can access the google doc version in the source link.

[unused-user]

is there a point where the amount of tags you put on a post is too much

[gloomglimmer]

𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐎   is   a   text   generator   designed   specifically   for   roleplayers   using   discord.   It   helps   you   format   your   text   with   ease,   ready   to   be   used   in   Discord,   making   your   roleplay   posts   stand   out.   This   is   my   first   attempt   at   a   generator.   If   it   has   any   bugs   feel   free   to   dm   or   inbox   me.   Please, like or reblog if it helps with your interactions.

›    𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒    :  

Bold,   Italic,   Strikethrough,   and   Underline    ›    Want   to   make   something   bold   or   italic?   You   can   click   the   B,   I,   S,   or   U   buttons   to   quickly   format   your   text   while   typing   in   the   editor.

Double-Spaced   Text    ›    Enable   the   Double   Space   checkbox,   and   it   will   automatically   add   extra   spaces   between   words. 

Markdown-Ready   Text    ›    Once   you're   done   typing   and   formatting   your   text,   click   the   Generate   Discord   Format   button.   Your   text   will   be   converted   into   Discord's   markdown   syntax,   ready   to   copy   and   paste   into   your   chat!

Copy   to   Clipboard    ›     After   generating   your   formatted   text,   you   can   quickly   copy   it   to   your   clipboard   with   a   single   click.

This   tool   uses   some   simple   coding   magic   behind   the   scenes.   Built   using   Quill.js,   a   text   editor   library,   and   some   custom   JavaScript,   it   allows   you   to   format   text   in   real   time.   When   you   apply   styles   (like   bold   or   italic),   it   changes   the   text   instantly,   and   when   you   hit   Generate,   it   converts   it   into   the   markdown   format   used   in   Discord.

[changes]

Friday, August 25th, 2023

🌟 New

On /search pages on the web, we moved the search bar from the sidebar to the center/main section of the page.

For folks in the aforementioned reblog header redesign experiment, we added avatars back to posts from group blogs when the option to show author portraits is enabled.

When blocking a blog via a submission in your inbox on the web, you can now block from both your secondary (if it was the recipient) and your primary blog.

On the web, we have made some improvements to localized number formatting across all supported languages.

On the web, logged out users browsing a blog view will sometimes be prompted to log in after scrolling for some time.

We are testing out showing the “You’re all caught up!” carousel to folks with “Best stuff first” enabled.

🛠 Fixed

On the web, we’ve made some improvements to the post header in compact posts (like when they’re displayed in a grid on the Explore page, for example). Long blog names, badges, and the follow button no longer break onto a new line in the middle of a word, and each element remains properly aligned in the header.

We fixed an issue that caused a bullet point to appear next to the Blogs menu item when using Safari.

We’ve made some headway in fixing various issues relating to undo/redo in the post editor on web. You should notice improved stability when using undo and redo in the editor.

On the web, we fixed an issue where avatars from anonymous asks were empty.

On the web, we fixed an issue affecting the HTML and Markdown modes in the post editor where select all would sometimes select text outside of the editor.

We fixed an issue affecting some users where starting a search with a hashtag (#) would return search results instead of results for that tag.

🚧 Ongoing

We are hard at work updating our docs. If you see anything confusing or out-of-date, please send some feedback!

🌱 Upcoming

Nothing to share today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with the community.

[akorah]

tumblr what now 🤨

Is this genuinely where developers' time is best spent? And I'm not asking this question of the devs or the person answering WIP asks. I'm asking the decision makers who still haven't figured out that this is not TikTok or Instagram or any other mainstream social media site where videos are a priority.

We want to piss on the poor, and if you don't understand that reference and how it relates to the fact *we want to write* and have conversations, you truly have no business making decisions for this community.

Hi! The bottom bar on iOS is feeling a little crowded. Is it possible to take it down to just five or four buttons again?

Answer: Hey there, @postcards-from-space-camp!

Thanks for this. It is a pertinent question, but we’re sorry to say there are no plans to change the navbar, and that is because of Tumblr TV.

We will be adding Tumblr TV there instead, and we will be doing so as it represents one of the obvious, and more urgent, areas for growth right now—and we want people to use it!

You will learn more about this in the coming weeks and months, but thank you for getting in touch. Keep the questions coming, folks.

[gender-trash]

come to think of it, it's been a hot minute since i posted my fic writing setup, hasn't it?

(feat. sneak preview of make no plans chapter 9)

my vim setups tend to terrify everyone because i LOVE splits but this is because i feel a deep inner need to see like eight different things simultaneously. most other text editors i've tried make this difficult and annoying to set up, but like... i want to see the outline and my notes file while i write? hello?? also i have a vim plugin that autosaves my session layout so it just automagically pops back up whenever i run vim in the fic repo root directory.

at the very top: tabs. i have all the fic i'm semi-actively working on open simultaneously in the same vim session because why not. to a first approximation, each project gets its own tab (and also a more or less incomprehensible working title).

the split layout: there's only really room for two columns on a laptop screen so that's what i go with for this; for coding on the Big Screen i usually use three. (this frightens my coworkers and makes me look extremely l33t.) for fic, i keep my various notes files, my outline, and anything i'm referencing open in the right column, and the chapter(s) i'm working on (and the author's notes file) in the left column. (when i'm writing code i usually do tests and header files in the right column, source code in the middle column, and config files in the left column, but this isn't a hard and fast rule.) often i'll have more than one split pointed at the same notes file (or chapter file!) so i can look at multiple bits of it simultaneously.

i write all my fic in markdown (and use pandoc to convert it to html for poasting -- i should probably write a makefile or something but rn i just use bash scripts sprinkled about my various fic project folders). my main markdown extensions are preservim/vim-markdown (syntax preview, like italics and stuff) and masukomi/vim-markdown-folding (collapses and expands sections of markdown, which i use heavily in my outline and notes files). i also put the wordcount in the statusline for markdown files, mostly so i know if a chapter is fooming out of control on me.

and the font is victor mono, which has very pretty cursive italics <3

[narastories]

trying out Obsidian, my first setup, my opinions, etc.

Okay, so this is going to be a long post. Earlier this week I decided to give Obsidian a go to see if it would work for my longer writing projects. I heard some of my mutuals use it and others would like to see my setup, so I'm making a post about what I learned so far. I downloaded it three days ago so I'm sure things will change, but this is where I am right now.

I'm shy about my WIPs so what you see there is the beginning of heart worth the trouble. But hopefully, this lets you see my folder structure and the links in the notes.

My wishlist and how I got here

I recently wrote a rambly post about writing software which got way more notes than I expected (bc the lovely @barbex reblogged it <3). After I made that post, I started using Focus Writer (again a recommendation from the writing discord) for my discovery writing in March. After more than two weeks of heavy use, I realized I needed a little bit more than that (but it's a great program).

Initially, I tried combining it with Wavemaker bc I liked that when I played around with it, but that completely pissed me off, bc it turns out it's just not compatible with other things I'm using. Like Firefox. -.-

Still, this whole ordeal made me narrow down what I really want and need from a piece of writing software at this moment. I think it's a good idea to start with such a wishlist if you are looking for a new software. Here is mine:

free

no account required, not stored on someone else's cloud, I can back it up wherever I want instead

Linux support

widely compatible file formats

focus mode, where it's full-screen, and ideally highlights the paragraph you are working on

I can make it look nice and calming on the eyes currently all I want is a cream paper background look, and a friendly monospace font changed to brown or something

clicky keyboard/typewriter noises - luckily I got this covered by Mechvibes already!

something like the card feature in Wavemaker, where I can have individual notes and choose to display them on the side. this might sound like it conflicts with the focus mode but I just want to have the option to have some notes without having to vomit them into the draft

easy to rearrange the order of the scenes

wordcount obviously

Tall order? Weird order? Maybe.

I think the most important is to figure out is how you work as a writer and find tools that match that. This is just honestly what is important for me right now.

It seems like Obsidian might just do this.

it's free

doesn't require an account

text is stored locally in markdown files

works on Linux I'm using the AppImage if you want to know

can be integrated with Github for backup & sync

tons of customization options to achieve the rest of my requirements

The Basics

If you want to use Obsidian for note-taking (or for writing fic but you're not very picky about the how), you can pretty much just download it, pick a pretty theme if you want and you're good to go. It's that easy. I promise it's not as hard as people make you believe.

This is a local-first software, which I love. However, this also means if you are not used to storing your writing locally, you need to get into the habit of backing your things up because if something happens to your computer, there is no copy of your files on the web.

That said, you can pay I think 4USD/month for the subscription and then you'll have an account, and your files will get synched to other devices, and you can restore your files. (And remember, if something is free and doesn't have ads and you have cloud storage space you didn't have to pay for... then you are the product and the company is paying for it with your data. So the fact that this is paid is actually a very good thing.)

The file structure works pretty much 1:1 as your file explorer btw

If you create a folder on the sidebar, it will create a folder on your computer.

If you create a note on the sidebar, it will create a text file on your computer.

If you drag the note into the folder on the sidebar, it will put the text file in the folder on your computer.

Each note is stored as a separate markdown file. Markdown files are widely compatible with various software so that's great. Also, you can even just rename the file to have .txt extension instead of .md extension and literally every text editor will open it for you (you will lose the formatting tho). The opposite also works. If you have a note in .txt format, you can copy it into your Obsidian folder, rename the extension to .md and it will appear in Obsidian.

That all makes it very easy to import things and switch between files to edit them.

There is only one downside to this that I found. You know how in your file explorer you can drag and drop files into folders but you can't drag and drop files to change their order? Well, your Obsidian side-bar is the same. You can choose to order them based on the name, last modified, etc. But if you want custom order, I suggest you number your notes and folders.

I feel like we're not that used to this anymore but again, this is literally like a file explorer, so it's not a big deal imo.

Another important basic concept is linking your notes. You can just right-click a piece of text and link a note, drag and drop the note into your other note, or do [[Note]] whatever you like. Then you can quickly access the other note by clicking on it, or see a preview while hovering over it (If you turned that feature on). Linking notes is also how you get those cool graph views.

I just wanted to mention all of this bc I feel like all the videos I came across on Obsidian intimidate people into thinking it's more complex than that lol

Appearance

I go a little crazy about visual optimization if you give me a chance. You can change a couple of simple things out the box. Light/dark theme, change the font, etc. I'm using a font called Code Saver for the editor (regular is free for personal use).

Then, there are the themes you can download. There are so many awesome ones! I'm using one called Underwater right now bc I liked the rounded edges.

Most themes come with a light/dark version. But if you download the Style Settings plugin, you might unlock more easy-to-customize options. It depends on the theme what you see there. The one I'm using has a couple of built-in colorways. I went with the "rose pine dawn" option and then I switched out some colors in the color pickers. If you want to mess with the colors I highly recommend finding some hex color palettes online, they make your life so much easier. You can find colors that look good together and look up a color and find lighter/darker versions instead of trying to blindly click around on the color picker.

For this theme, you can also add a background image if you want. (If you really want to make it look like Focus Writer for example ;)

Plugins

These are the plugins I'm using right now.

GitHub Sync: This is what I use to sync my progress and back up my files. I started with this before anything else, but I'm not going to go into what I did bc I don't want to make this post even more complicated. If you have a specific question about it, pls feel free to ask me :)

Focus Mode: This is a full-screen mode, very nice for writing

Stille: Dims everything but the active paragraph, again, very nice for writing. I found that the combination of these two plugins work best for me, but there are others like Typewriter Mode that can do both (I couldn't turn down the vignette mode on that one tho and it was annoying me)

Smart Typography: switches the straight quotation marks for curly ones

This is how it looks with Focus Mode and Stiille both on.

And lastly, a bit of a disappointment: Longform. This is the plugin that everyone seems to recommend for longer writing projects in Obisdian. Basically what it does is it can compile your individual notes into one file, and allows you to move the order of them freely, unlike the normal Obsidian sidebar. Here is a pretty good video on it.

Unfortunately, this plugin gets absolutely wrecked by synchronizing to another device.

From what I gathered, this happens regardless of what method of synching you use, meaning it happens even with the paid synching feature. You can read about this more here btw. It's a community plugin so I'm not going to be mad at the creators for not fixing this, however this means it just doesn't work for me.

If it worked on the one computer where I originally set it up, just not on the other, I would be fine with it. But I set it up on my Linux, and after I synched to my Windows, the scene list disappeared from both. (Not the actual files! It just doesn't get recognized as a Longform project anymore so it pretty much becomes useless lol)

So, I just decided to create the the same structure with folders and notes. Right now, this is a discovery draft and I don't have chapters. But I'm making a folder for an "Arc", and put the numbered scenes into them. I'm also making separate notes that I can link with stuff I want to remember/work on.

At the moment I don't require an extensive wiki where I note what each of the characters like to have for breakfast and such. But you can absolutely do that with Obsidian. You can create a folder for Characters, Worldbuilding, whatever you want, really. Put images there, links both internal and on the web and just go wild if you want.

Obviously, without Longform I will need to compile the files into one at the end by a different method, like copy-paste into one, turn them into .txt, and concatenate from the terminal, you know, depending on your comfort level xD. It will probably include more work than with this plugin, but it's not like you don't go through your manuscript about a million times anyways, am I right?

Word Count

Lastly, mentioning the wordcount options bc they are important

there is a built-in wordcount, about which the common agreement is that it's not very good lol

because of this there is a community plugin called Better Wordcount, which is self-explanatory. If you want to get the total word count, you can right-click the top folder of your project and ask it to count the words for you.

Longform also has a wordcount and it will display it like words of the scene/total words of the project if you are using that

if you don't want to have three different word counts displayed I recommend you only have one of these active (:

That's where I am right now. If you have read all this to the end, you're awesome, and also we both should stop procrastinating and go write instead :P But if you also use Obsidian for writing and have cool tips pls let me know xx