For many years me and Fiona have provided an IRC server with Ellesmera.dragonaerie.de. However, since about 6 years we have seen a steady decline in people visiting. Only spam bots found it then and when. We kept the service up, even when the network split occurred and when the chat moved to discord.
Nothing much happened there for the past 3 years, so today has been the day, I have finally switched off the IRC server. Ellesmera is no more.
It has been with us for a very long time.
But how can anyone eat dormice? How is it even possible to debone them? It's really a good thing, that such aweful and blatant cases of crime against nature are still being worked on, it restores my faith in humanity somewhat.
Rasufelle very recently started a new group doing regular dungeon crawls which is an awesome idea. However, since most of that happens at late American times, it's a bit difficult for us Europeans to join. So, I'm considering organising a second group running at more European friendly times.
Unfortunately due to my day job, I'm not sure I can run this alone.
So if you are interested, please drop Sunshine a line on this discord channel.
I blog here again, because I hope someone can help us. Our friend who is know here under her nick crazypagangurl has gone missing. She suddenly didn't appear like she always did in our chat and when she missed the fridays D&D session, we started worring. That was 4 weeks ago. Since that time Dottie tried to call her numerous times, but only got to the answering machine.
We know her computer is online but that's about it. Unfortunately she doesn't live near anyone of us.
If anyone knows anything, please contact me or Dottie or Arwens Tears.
I'm really sorry about the end of yesterdays session. I didn't gave it the attention anymore that it deserved. I've been distracted by a very heated political argument with my partner. We've only had a few minutes left, but I still need to calculate XP and HP for everyone as well as creating the log. I'll try to make up for it next friday with another hopefully interesting round fighting the monk.
After all, this is only the beginning of uncovering one of the greatest mysteries of Fiddler's Vale.
those humans of the nevarious profession - if we want to call it so - the politicians, have bestowed upon us great confusion once again. First it have been daylight savings in America now the European continent was to follow down the road of stolen time and confused humanoid beings.
Until the day we finally will solve this matter, please be aware that we're starting an hour earlier again at 23:00 GMT.
after one of our friends and D&D group members went missing in action, we want to try to revive D&D roleplaying at the Dungeon (just left of the Mainroom ;) ) at fridays.
So, whoever is interested in some fun with friends and some intense gaming sessions should join us in the mainroom or dungeon on Friday at 23:00 GMT. Interesting characters are welcome. After all we we have our own quirks too ;)
If you have any information on the whereabouts or fate of our beloved friend Doc, please PM me, Stardraigh, Rasufelle or Arwen's Tears.
Unfortunately the text is in german, but it doesn't say much more than the video shows. I wonder however do they really not wake up when someone handles them?
after lots of work, sweating and swearing, very long nights and lots of coffee and brainfood consumed by me and Melanie_T I can proudly announce the irc chat is back online.
At the moment we're still running the old software, but we will update to a newer more secure version in the next days.
We will also setup a second webchat, so everyone else without an irc client can log in, should BCTS having issues.
while waiting for certain things to finish, I thought I give you a short update on the mainroom chat.
I've finally been able to get the base system running. That means, we can start copying and backup our previous system and starting to get the VMs running again. _if_ all goes well, we might be able to activate the mainroom chat again in the evening.
It seems the BCTS mainroom chat is somehow broken again. So, I believe many readers here might like another way to get to chat with their friends and help has arrived.
I reactivated the Narda java chat again. It's available here: http://narda.tor-der-traeume.de/index.php?action=chat
Please note, you will need a java capable webbrowser with the java plugin installed.
As if the hate sprouting from Trump and his Trumpettes aren't enough now some ludicrous doctors are attacking transsexuals rights on base of religious 'freedom' and believes again:
I'm very sorry about the current issues with our chat. Unfortunately there is an incompatibility between our providers upgraded network and the old hardware our server uses. This causes the ellesmera to disconnect from the internet.
We are trying to resolve those issues as soon as possible. Please bear with us for the time being.
I've been informed that our chat wasn't availabe from here. So I decided to reactivate an old site some people long ago maintened and make the mainroom available again.
I recently came across a petition of the Penmarris people wanting to rename their village for a good cause, namely to raise awareness of our oceans. Being a scuba diver myself and also loving decent fish & chips I agree to their case and though I'd link this petition here.
Let's stand by the Penmarrians and their support of our oceans.
Hello everyone out there, this isn't less blog but more a question. I'm a very active woman and I'm missing doing any kind of sports. I'm in the fifth week since my OP now and I feel getting that itch more and more. I need to do some workout. I can't do the usual stuff I do, since those are sports which would not be advisable to do so soon after that surgery, like cycling, sports climbing, inline skating or diving.
But I also need to do some less strenous sports to get back into shape again and getting my fitness back. I can't just lounge around.
When I was told by friends about the number of responses I got and the support I received, I had to come and at least take a look.
I was overwhelmed by what I found here.
Since obviously I'm rapidly losing friends due to my choice in friendships and partners I don't feel welcome here anymore.
Therefore I want to say thank you for a very nice time I had here.
well, today is a very happy day for me, so I thought I might share some news with you. First for the fans of the Gabyzone IRC channel on Cyberbrats Network - Fiona and me will moving the European hub to a less expensive and more powerful server. We're taking every precaution possible to avoid any service disruptions but... we can't guarantee for anything, so there might be short disruptions in service.
The other even better news is: The court in Potsdam decided about my name change application and from today on my name is official :) One of the best xmas gifts I ever had.
as Piper is rebuilding her main server, she will have to take some sites offline. Those include tgfiction.net, gabyzone.com, maddybell.com, storysite.org, reluctantpress.com, cyberbrats.org/net/info/us/ws.
having to live in Germany made me very frightened since some days. Germany is going to be an unlawful country it already has been in Nazi-times and that with obvious best intentions.
Checks can be made out & sent to:
Joyce Melton
1001 Third St.
Space 80
Calimesa, CA 92320
USA
Note: $6000 is the operating, maintenance and upgrade budget. Amounts received in excess of the $6000 will be applied to long term debt accrued over the last 19 years.
