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GAMERS, THE 0.9 RULES DOC IS AVAILABLE
https://www.patreon.com/c/sentimentttrpg/posts

ayyyyy, amazing work, rod!

I already posted about this in the Discord, and then I spent a little while thinking about how I wanted to put it in the forums. But since I want these two spaces to be able to exist without each other eventually, I decided just to post it here, too.

Also originally I titled it a 7 win streak, but it was actually 8 lmao.

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I normally never want to bother y'all with silly stuff, but today I'm proud of something! I got a 7 game win streak while playing ranked in Tekken 8!

I've edited all the matches into one video if any of y'all want to watch!! The volume is a little loud, but I made it all by myself. :3

I know many of you don't know anything about fighting games, or play them, but if you have any curiosity or questions for me about what you watched I'm an open book! Happy to answer any question y'all have. Hawk will tell you, I could talk about Tekken for hours.

But just so you know who I'm playing, my main is a character named Lili. Normally she's a blonde girl in pink, but I customized her using the FF16 collab clothes (the women in the game got to dress like Jill) to look like Zero from Drakengard 3 (my nerd is really showing with this one). Although I realize now I put the flower on the opposite eye...gotta fix that. >.>

The forums will be unavailable for a series of undetermined periods of time today.

Impacted times
Today, 8/13/2025. Should only be down for a small period of time.

Reason
I am resuming work on migrating to a redundant server to reduce/eliminate downtime like this. I will [again] attempting to stand this today to allow me to do work with less interruption, but doing so will involve stopping all the containers to properly synchronize their content to the new server.

Update:
Forums are transferred and back up! Please let me know if you experience any issues, and thank you for your patience!

A new series in the Sentiment system has been announced!

Today we're going to talk about some of the major nations and geographical regions of the continent. There is more to the world beyond this continent, but I haven't been putting much brainpower towards anything else since it would only be relevant if players left the continent, and since I am very bad at actual storytelling this game hasn't started yet lmao. There is a lot to cover, so for the sake of ease I'm going to break this up into multiple posts.

I've already talked a bit about the Central Ackademy of Magick and the surrounding Guild Town. Guild Town is not the densest urban center on the continent, but it is the largest by area. The part of the city closest to the Ackademy proper is largely housing, apartments and townhouses originally built for students and faculty but open to anyone. Beyond the housing district is the general business district. Bakeries, restaurants, general stores, blacksmiths. As the population expanded, businesses moved in to meet the needs of that population, and those businesses brought their own needs. A lot of the storefronts in the business district double as homes for the people who own and operate them. The outermost part of the city is the guild district. Following a recent war, this part of the city has seen dramatic expansion as people from all over seek to become "heroes," founding or joining guilds and mercenary companies of like-minded hopefuls. The guild district is filled with guild halls where these companies sleep, plan adventures, and do the things that adventuring companies do when not out in the world. Interspersed between these guild halls are taverns and Hunter's Bars, the hubs through which news of the world at large flows and from which jobs of varying levels of importance are taken.

Directly east of Guild Town is Summel Forest, which acts as the western border of the nation of Elmgarde. Summel is the largest and densest forest in the world, and in the densest heart of the woods stands a singular massive tree as tall as a mountain. Beneath this tree slumbers the eidolon of Earth, the presence of whom has transformed most of the natural fauna of Summel forest into ambulatory flora. Many fae live in these woods as well, and between these two forces the forest is considered particularly inhospitable to mortal life. Those who wander in may never find their way out, as the trees themselves seem to shift to make navigation impossible.
Within the boundary of Elmgarde, nestled just at the forest's edge, the village of Summel is a relatively quiet town of farmers and loggers. The only thing that makes this village worth noting beyond any of the other villages in the region is its proximity to the forest. There are several towns and villages within Elmgarde, but the bulk of the population is within the capital city. Elmgarde is in the midst of a magic-industrial revolution. Generally speaking, magic and technology are fundamentally incompatible forces. The development of technology is predicated on a rejection of natural law, using alchemical processes to break down material into energy and trap that energy within a circuit from which it cannot return to its proper Circle. The nation of Elmgarde has developed technologies that tap directly into the cycle, bypassing the need to consume raw fuel. These technologies are still in their infancy, and not without flaw, but the hope is to someday fully bridge the gap between magic and technology.

Surrounding Elmgarde's northern, eastern, and southern borders are the Ember Mountains. These mountains glow and shimmer with energy as though perpetually burning, the natural mana forever altered by a mingling of the fire and lightning eidolons. The dense natural mana that pervades the land and air of the mountain range creates a sensation akin to catching fire, though it causes no such physical damage. Still, the discomfort is great enough that most avoid the area altogether. There is very little in the way of local flora, and the fauna subsist on the raw mana itself. A tribe of nomads roams the range, hardy people adapted to resist the burning sensation over generations.
I'm fully open to suggestions about what sort of creatures might actually live in the Ember Mountains. My main philosophy is borrowing only from the mythos of cultures with which I am familiar and can to some degree say I represent: that is to say, primarily european mythologies. I want to completely avoid using the aesthetic or folklore of east Asian, African, or Native American (North or South) cultures without consulting with someone who knows and represents those cultures.

The forums will be unavailable for a series of undetermined periods of time today.

Impacted times
Today, 7/27/2025. Will either be down for most of the day, or will be down for short periods throughout the day.

Reason
I need to redo the storage backend for the server hosting the server software, which will involve taking the server down, formatting and replacing disks, and copying and syncing files over. This will likely take a handful of hours.

I have also been configuring a redundant server to reduce/eliminate downtime like this. I will attempting to stand this today to allow me to do the above will less interruption, but doing so will involve stopping all the containers to properly synchronize their content to the new server. The downtime from this will be far reduced (assuming I can get it working).

OH HELL YEAH, I'm looking forward to listening to some of these!!

just gonna dump some music i have been obsessed with at some point

Hiccups!

Issue:
You may have hit some interrupted connections earlier today.

Root Cause:
IP address changed and DNS entries can be cached, so new value would need to propagate downstream.

Resolution:
Modem/Router work to ensure the DDNS scripts are working.

Additional Notes:
Where I'm hosting the server doesn't let me lease a static IP yet (grumble grumble). So I'm required to use scripts that update the DNS entries whenever the IP address happens to change.

However, a recent rework by me left them in a stale state and they weren't executing when they needed to. This resulted in downtime when I was away at AC a few weeks ago.

I just finished some tweaks and updates to try and debug and fix why they weren't executing properly, which required me actually testing that a change works. The scripts are now autostarting and executing properly.