Argh

Apparently our data center was raided by Oorstemothian agents who confiscated our server under a search warrant pertaining to a group of demons and their henchmen who somehow sunk one of their official vessels.

Of course, I, Tizzy, know nothing about such demons. What is this world coming to when sovereign vessels of Oorstemoth can be attacked and sunk with no provocation?

Fortunately, Damien was able to negotiate the return of the server. I don't have a lot more details yet, I'm awaiting more information.

Tizzy

Well, yes and no.

There is some history that's not explained in the book, and that I'm not completely privy to all of it

However, it is my understanding that Asmeth and his crew have had many a run in with the Oorstemothians for their smuggling and a Warrant of High Justice had been issued for him and his crew. Under such circumstances, once they were able to positively identify and document he and his ship, they were authorized to execute the Warrant.

Which they summarily tried to do.

I should note that one of the more recent incidents involving Asmeth and his crew was in smuggling a group of tomb raiding rogues out of Oorstemoth with a valuable artifact that, at first, the authorities thought was given to Exador, but was in fact, given to Lenamare. There was quite a bit of legal wrangling on that as Exador had to extricate himself from the false evidence that Lenamare had planted on the rogues.

Now, the rogues are still alive, because they have to testify against Lenamare, but they require no testimony on the part of Asmeth's crew (or didn't until now) because the rogues had all positively fingered Asmeth and combined with Asmeth's long history of illegal activities, a court issued the Warrant of High Justice.

Glad to.

There's actually a fairly interesting backstory and forestory about that. I'm just not sure whether there will at some point be a prequel novel or simply some short stories. The rogues are currently in prison, but I'm thinking not for much longer. It's not clear if they'll show up in Book II or Book III.

That's a good question, the post tabulator and rank determiner is a bit weird, from what I've read.

I think it updates your post every time you login and post again.

My original sort of thought was that it would update every time you did a new post, but that has not seemed to be the case.

So I think it's tied to logging in and maybe posting again, and then it updates. Or perhaps it retabulates like daily and then updates you when you next post....it's something convoluted that I didn't get when I first read it. I'll have to read more to understand it.

He has two posts very close together, I'm betting one after the other???

My bet is that if he logs in again and posts, we'll see an update.

I don't recall now, but I think one is a shadow until one has 5 posts.

Still zero. There is a very big bug here. Have fun finding that.

OK!

Figured it out

For whatever reason, this particular Forum i.e. "This Website Forum" was set with "no count" on. Meaning don't count posts in this forum in the totals.

I think this was set because I may have renamed an existing/predefined "Help with the Forum" Topic and by default since the Forum is supposed to be about the forum, and not about "real" discussions it was marked to not count. Or maybe I just created the forum and was thinking that way and forgot.

That happens a lot. Your short term memory starts to go as you get older, I know after my first millenia I had trouble remembering what I'd done as recently as three or four decades prior...sheesh...talk about awkward!

Anyway, since NocandlE had only posted in this forum, he never got counted.

I'f changed that so from now on posts in this forum will get counted.

Unfortunately I have no way to restore those post counts (although maybe it will do it automatically)

I wish I could manually adjust post counts, because I'd be able to turn myself into a Demon Prince then...

Well somewhere there is a discussion, I think in this post of what the levels should be...haven't changed any yet...I don't think...

At the moment:

Astral Onlooker is not registered in the forum/is guest
Shadow is registered for forum but less than 5 posts.
Sprite is 5 to 49 posts
Imp is 50 to 99
Fiend is 100 to 199
Demon is 200 to 299
Major Demon is 300 to 399
Greater demon is 400 to 499
Arch demon is 500 to ?
Demon Prince is there but has no number to reach, yet...hence some of the discussion on what levels should be.

In the rankings they are called AO's but not sure when that would ever show up.

When in the who's online, they are showing up as guests, I probably need to change that somewhere. Will search for it tonight.