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Post by Gelquie on Jun 25, 2017 17:09:35 GMT -5
Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday. I went to an event thing and came back exhausted and just didn't want to do anything for the rest of the day. I'll try to get an RP post up as soon as I can.
As for cell phone connections, that seems to be what people are taking so far. I kind of wonder, though... (Though this may be my brain overthinking things. Since unless there's some internal service that neglects the use of satellites, if cellphone connections shouldn't work on the outside, then logically, shouldn't it not be able to work on the inside either? I suppose there could always be some weird construction to handle that thing, though, but that's just my brain trying to make sense out of it. Unless someone has something else.
But then someone could always go outside the dome if they want to make a phone call to someone on the outside. xD Seems like more of an inconvenience than anything.
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Post by June Scarlet on Jun 25, 2017 17:28:34 GMT -5
I was sorting of guessing there's cell phone towers in Wrighton? Like most towns? So satellites aren't really needed? Maybe?
I think this is starting to get way outside my knowledge of telecommunication.
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Post by Tiger on Jun 25, 2017 17:31:05 GMT -5
Okay, I'm gonna stop proposing random supernatural-ish happenings that affect more than my characters because it seems like anytime I do, it just causes confusion and people getting upset over it not making complete scientific sense. So, if y'all think it makes more sense for signals to get into Wrighton, go ahead and disregard my attempt at that plot point and we'll say Harper's phone was busted =P
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Post by Gelquie on Jun 25, 2017 17:35:21 GMT -5
I'm not upset about it, just trying to make sense of it. I'm completely okay with it if people can only communicate within Wrighton. I just can't ever fully turn my science brain off for an explanation.
I'm not an expert at telecommunications either, though, and there could always be a supernatural reason for it.
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Post by Shinko on Jun 25, 2017 17:43:38 GMT -5
Honestly, at least in terms of the cell lines, it makes more sense then it doesn't.
Cell phones work by transmitting radio signals through the air, which are picked up and redistributed by the local tower. They don't operate via satellites at all- satellite phones are a completely different technology.
Most of the time, phones can get their signal past a solid object such as a wall or trees by bouncing and reflecting off of it, or being absorbed by it. However, if the obstruction is dense enough- say if you're underground in a basement- the signal might not be able to escape. Or if it does, it's so distorted that the person on the other end can barely make you out. The wall around Wrighton is permeable, but dense enough that it presents a resistance to being crossed, and the narratorpost explicitly says it goes at least ten feet underground, so we know it's a continuous obstruction with no obvious openings for signals to escape through.
So, yeah, it's not out of the question to be able to make calls inside of Wrighton and hear radio channels in Wrighton via local radio and cellular towers, but not to be able to communicate with the outside.
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Post by Tiger on Jun 25, 2017 17:44:26 GMT -5
My thinking was that the dome had something to do with it, and that it was enough of a "we don't know how this works and the goderators probably aren't going to go into technical detail on it" that it could be assumed it was somehow blocking or messing up some sorts of modes of communication. I really intended for it to be that vague.
But this same thing happened several times in Hero City, too, and I dunno, I'm just exhausted with random little things I threw into the roleplay being debated/nitpicked to death (and every sciency-explanation I see just seems to point out why it shouldn't work, so, feels like critique whether that's intended or not (well, except Shinko's just now)) when I just threw them in because I thought they'd be fun or interesting story elements X'D
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Post by Gelquie on Jun 25, 2017 17:56:05 GMT -5
Thank you for the explanation, Shinko. I was under the impression that cell phones largely worked via satellite, but if there's distribution via tower, then that can work too. I also would've been completely fine if the whole thing was a handwaved "it's supernatural; just go with it" thing. But the thing is that which one it was wasn't clear to me. I realize how it may look like critique/nitpicking, and I'm sorry it came across that way. That was not my intention. I only wanted to clear up something that's been confusing me so that I wouldn't make mistakes later and to keep my mind clear. I really don't mean any malice or nitpicking behind anything. Just things weren't clear to me.
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Post by Shinko on Jun 25, 2017 18:02:15 GMT -5
Thank you for the explanation, Shinko. I was under the impression that cell phones largely worked via satellite, but if there's distribution via tower, then that can work too. I also would've been completely fine if the whole thing was a handwaved "it's supernatural; just go with it" thing. But the thing is that which one it was wasn't clear to me. I realize how it may look like critique/nitpicking, and I'm sorry it came across that way. That was not my intention. I only wanted to clear up something that's been confusing me so that I wouldn't make mistakes later and to keep my mind clear. I really don't mean any malice or nitpicking behind anything. Just things weren't clear to me. You're welcome. I don't think Tiger intended it to be clear if the signal disruption was supernatural or not though- at this point none of use know yet if the dome itself is some mechanical construct or magic or what, so it's impossible to say for sure what it'll do.
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Post by Tiger on Jun 25, 2017 18:36:44 GMT -5
Thank you for the explanation, Shinko. I was under the impression that cell phones largely worked via satellite, but if there's distribution via tower, then that can work too. I also would've been completely fine if the whole thing was a handwaved "it's supernatural; just go with it" thing. But the thing is that which one it was wasn't clear to me. I realize how it may look like critique/nitpicking, and I'm sorry it came across that way. That was not my intention. I only wanted to clear up something that's been confusing me so that I wouldn't make mistakes later and to keep my mind clear. I really don't mean any malice or nitpicking behind anything. Just things weren't clear to me. You're welcome. I don't think Tiger intended it to be clear if the signal disruption was supernatural or not though- at this point none of use know yet if the dome itself is some mechanical construct or magic or what, so it's impossible to say for sure what it'll do. Yeah, and I was also leaving it vague so that if, say, someone was writing a post about hearing an outside radio broadcast, or did it later after only reading post summaries, there wouldn't be this big issue of retconning or someone having to rewrite their post or whatever, we'd just say at the time "oh, it was Harper's phone having issues". Only the local radio station was working. Everything else was static. It might be the phone. Or the app. Or the little tube of an orange liquid that made the app actually work. It might also have been the dome encapsulating the city like a god’s dropped contact lens, but Harper was a little hesitant to blame it for everything. I meant for this to imply that the dome was causing problems. Maybe it was too vague. ...Also looking back, I don't think I'm the one who suggested phone calls outside weren't working. Pretty sure that was decided on the OOC thread, because I'd implied radio signals might not be working.
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Jun 25, 2017 20:17:24 GMT -5
Hey, guys. I'm sorry about this, but due to personal reasons, I don't think I'll be participating in the game anymore. I just don't have the head for it right now. If anyone had plans to interact with Itzel, you have my permission to control her. If you do, I'd appreciate if you linked me or tagged me in it just so I can read it, because I think it'd be fun. But I'm fine with whatever you have her say or do. Thanks for understanding, and I hope you all have fun! <3
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Post by ♥ Azzie on Jun 25, 2017 21:15:19 GMT -5
I feel like this hardly merits a post but I was playing a game and I found Wrighton!
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Post by Fraze on Jun 26, 2017 5:22:06 GMT -5
You're welcome. I don't think Tiger intended it to be clear if the signal disruption was supernatural or not though- at this point none of use know yet if the dome itself is some mechanical construct or magic or what, so it's impossible to say for sure what it'll do. Yeah, and I was also leaving it vague so that if, say, someone was writing a post about hearing an outside radio broadcast, or did it later after only reading post summaries, there wouldn't be this big issue of retconning or someone having to rewrite their post or whatever, we'd just say at the time "oh, it was Harper's phone having issues". Only the local radio station was working. Everything else was static. It might be the phone. Or the app. Or the little tube of an orange liquid that made the app actually work. It might also have been the dome encapsulating the city like a god’s dropped contact lens, but Harper was a little hesitant to blame it for everything. I meant for this to imply that the dome was causing problems. Maybe it was too vague. ...Also looking back, I don't think I'm the one who suggested phone calls outside weren't working. Pretty sure that was decided on the OOC thread, because I'd implied radio signals might not be working. Pretty sure the first person to mention phones not working within the roleplay was actually Thundy, in this post. It's pretty much something we the GMs are willing to go with, and if it needs an explanation then we can give it one sometime in the future. Fraze, Huntress, would it be possible to get the solutions to puzzles we have already solved posted somewhere on the front page or in a separate thread, perhaps, so we don't have to look through the whole OOC thread looking for them? Thanks! ...Quite late to answer, sorry. But yes, I was thinking of putting the puzzle solutions up for you guys. As well as the puzzles themselves, if anyone wants to try to solve them on their own. Not sure when I can get around to it, but I'll try to make it happen.
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Post by Huntress on Jun 26, 2017 7:36:44 GMT -5
Shinko , here, I halp =D Fraze: "Okay, we need a chapter header for tomorrow, and some arts for this puzzle and that puzzle and-" Me: "LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY SUDDEN INSPIRATION TO DRAW CUTE LITTLE KIDS." My life, every time.
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Post by Celestial on Jun 26, 2017 7:46:17 GMT -5
Huntress, darnit, you beat me to the punch. xD In my defence, I was waiting for my live model to come back from seeing her extended family on the other side of the country.
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Post by Shinko on Jun 26, 2017 7:54:22 GMT -5
Huntress Oh my god, that's adorable ahaha. That's pretty darn close to my head-image, I imagine her eyes a little more almond-shaped but I can easily attest from my own attempts that getting Asian eyes to look right on a child is haaaard. (My poor anime-fan brain is hardwired to expect smol cutes to have giant shiny eyes.) I wish I could draw curly hair that well, my attempts at making hair look curly always devolve into "I DUNNO DRAW SOME WAVE LINES AND CALL IT GOOD." Also dem overalls, ahaha. That is such a throwback to my own childhood, where all my dresses and pants were overalls. I grew up in the 90s, can you tell? Funnily enough, Twillie mentioned to me privately that she was doodling Esther as well. And Celes also was/is planning on it? I did not mean for that post to be a cry for art, but I am not complaining about these developments. =DDD
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