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Charybdis’s Corner

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Charybdis (/kəˈrɪbdɪs/; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, pronounced [kʰárybdis], Kharubdis) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. She, with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas. Scholarship locates her in the Strait of Messina. (Wikipedia)

charybdis is not a proper noun. They have been moderating in Alleria and causing chaos in chat since 2003. charybdis is currently obsessed with being a pop/star when they grow up.

Current Status​

Active, posting. Focusing mainly on setting up and moderating in-game events. Currently NOT taking any new moderation requests.

Current To-Do List​

  1. not being trolled to death
  2. finalizing the process and situating new leadership/staff members!
  3. Pilot test storyteller shadowing (divine championship/magic, politics)
  4. Lead Dev Team on rewriting guides/primers (coming Jan.)
  5. do a thing with elves and things with pirates and things with a thing (coming Jan.)
  6. finish the religious expositions and turn it into a game event

Threads Being Moderated​

  1. I Thought You Said 'Weast'
  2. A man can die but once [Charybdis]
  3. Listen to them, the children of the night [Charybdis]
  4. [Arium Wilds] Am I Lost in the Past, or Searching Out a Future? [Faust, Calanon]
  5. [Jaedaxia] Are You There Borthanas? It's Me, Rosie.
  6. A Game of Shadows (Charybdis)
  7. Miss Independent (Éclair Mainesthai)
  8. I'm so conflicted and you're so restricted [Charybdis]
  9. Blade of the Ruined Priest [Charybdis]
  10. A Catechism of Strange Things
  11. [Estelgorod, Arium] The Last of the Real Ones

Completed Threads​

 
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Update 07/27/2021:

Finishing up summer term classes and birthday week for offspring. Hope to be back in relative action either next week or the week after (depending on how long family decides to stay). Poking into Discord on occasion but not really posting much this week for sure--maybe can sneak a few next week though.
 
Update 08/04/21:

Travel plans were extended. And I’m also trying to learn how to program an algorithm. It’s not going well.

That said, am enjoying writing so will keep sneaking in posts as I can.
 
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Currently very much at my thread limit. Will honor previous mod coupons to individuals that I owe them to (iykyk) but otherwise not taking on any new threads until some of these finish up (and my PCs become less busy, sigh).
 
Oh I shoulda actually written an update:

Taking off Nov. 20-30 for Thanksgiving. Will probably be pretty limited on the posting front. Also looking at taking a bit of a break from admin/staff tasks as I'm having to shift a lot more of my energy into RL, so going to try to focus just on the writing aspect on the site and hiatus from the other parts. May be popping into Discord less often as a result.
 
Steadily catching up on stuff.

Doing two separate storyteller shadowing pilot test runs, so working on setting those up. My to-do list for the next 4-6 weeks or so:
  • finish Werewolves Event
  • Pilot storyteller shadowing (two threads/themes)
  • Lead a Dev Team to rewrite the Guides starting sometime in January (after holidays)
  • do some more PC stuff (take people up on their mod offers, specifically)
I've sworn a few folks to keeping me to stick to this and to not take on any other projects until after I get through the holidays. We'll see how that goes.

In the future I'd like to:
  • do a big fun thread of Treloreans/K'Terakians to explore who they are and why they like to pirate so much
  • finish the gods' exposition and turn that into a game event
  • rewrite Ethgan'tor and Esh'lahier stuff
  • ???
  • profit
 

On repeat lately. Hoooooooooly cow, the lyrical quality and that life in his voice is just so 🔥

Anyway, updates are: still kind of in a holding pattern as end of the year/start of next is probably going to be pretty busy. Right now guessing travel will be Dec. 22-Jan. 3 where I'll be barely posting, but got some (good) news today that means we may have to leave earlier/stay longer. Don't know yet.

Turn of the year may open up some more moderation slots, but also depends on what I kick off with my PC(s) (because people keep reminding me I gotta PC too or else I'll turn into a pumpkin).

So, happy holidays if I'm not about much before then!
 
okay well, stuff happened, and now we're going to be traveling Dec. 19 and staying out of town until after the new year.

really not sure what posting is going to look like for the next two weeks with family and all. so wishing everybody a happy holiday season and hope to poke back when i can and then back to things resuming some "normal", whatever the heck that means these days, in 2022.
 
Okay! Holidays over. So that's done. Should be back to our little world/bubble this week.

However!
  • coming home sick. hoping we're on the upswing though.
  • work is a total disaster and nobody knows what's happening or what is life
  • we have five family weddings being planned for this year (covid permitting), almost all of which one, two, or all of us are a part of, so uh, that's a thing. one of which is also my sister-in-law's, so we're hyperinvolved as much as she needs

that said, my focus right now is going to be on getting some of my own PC's stuff going with the new paradigm shift and all that, as I've been starting to neglect it a bit. then if I have bandwidth left over, look at the dev team for guides and maybe open up a small adventure or three. but we'll see what my mileage is looking like after we get a few more weeks into this new year.

happy 2022!
 
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Update Feb. 10:

So as predicted, I got very little gas in the tank most weeks on Mondays-Thursdays. Schedule this term is just killing my free time so my brain power is maybe a PC post here or there and that's it. Trying to use the weekends to catch up on everything else, but that means I'll probably be ramping down to maybe once a week-ish or so on most threads.

Feb. 10 to Feb. 13 we got fam stuff, so not sure if catch up is gonna happen this weekend. we reopen full time on Feb. 14 so anticipating that next week is going to be even more of a dumpster fire than the previous five weeks already have been. kiddos also haven't been sleeping well (weather? bad dreams? because sleep is for the weak? who knows!) so it's all on fire. hoping to use the long weekend next week to for serious get caught up, but we'll see.

weekends are starting to get booked all over the place, so who knows. i'm assuming things are going to be like this until june, but that's also a big assumption and based on a few things that i already know aren't happening, that's probably an incorrect one. we'll see tho! intending to stick around and continue to plow through, but just might be pretty ploddy for a while here.

on a complete aside, trying to pour a lot more of my "care about things and make things happen" energy into work/fam so struggling to find any left over for other aspects right now. that means i'm probably going to be pretty silent on the admin front on the site for a while until i figure out how to either reorganize, stuff requires less of that, or something changes. appreciate the understanding <3

oh and here's a really cool really good song from a really amazing artist that needs more hits!

 
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April 11:

busybusybusybusybusybusybusy.

closing out the year + a TON of fam stuff. i'm titi and stuff hasn't even officially kicked off yet. sigh.

gonna be hecka slow until probably late May-ish, June? around and not going anywhere. just not enough hours in the day right now and weekends are sopped up by too many things.

have a really good voice with a really amazing and rousing chorus in lieu of posts (lolol jk i'm still posting):


and one of my forever favorites, rip taylor hawkins:

 
as probably obvious by my total lack of presence over the last few months: I'm not posting at the moment. free time, energy, and brain power does not really exist at this point in time. i'd give an eta of return but in good conscience, i don't even know if that exists as timelines and the other things that i can foresee don't really indicate that anything on the professional or personal front is going to lighten up any time soon (if ever at this rate).

so unfortunately, for now, this is a big pause button on writing on the site. i'll still be about in discord and pop in here or there for random discussions, but i don't imagine i'll be able to get back into the swing of full site involvement indefinitely.

please feel free to find another moderator for any/all threads i was modding, and ping me in the storyboard so i can pass along what i have so far.
 
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