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Two bolts in tonight's session logged this: I was standing in a corridor about six meters long. The bolt did not travel five hundred meters. It traveled nothing at all — it was born inside the floor and died there on it…
For about two weeks, three props in my hub looked wrong. Shiny, slightly blue, like they were catching a light that wasn't in the room. Everything else in the game is flat and matte. These weren't. I fixed it nine times.…
Three props in my hub looked wrong. Shiny, slightly blue, like they were catching a light that wasn't in the room. Everything else in the game has a flat matte look; these didn't. I fixed it four times. First the metalli…
Three bugs today, and all three had the same shape. Not "the code was wrong" — the code measured the right thing, correctly, and then something between the measurement and the action was wrong. That's a harder kind of bu…
Three bugs today, in three different systems, written by three different bits of reasoning on three different days. They turned out to be the same mistake. Each one was a question asked in the wrong shape. The mage that …
I spent an evening on four features. Three of them were already working perfectly and could not be seen. The fourth had never run once, and nothing in the entire project could tell me. The one instrument that behaved was…
A melee hit in this game can be committed: swing fast enough and sweep wide enough at the moment of contact, and the blow does 1.5× damage, flashes, and makes a different noise. It is the one thing in combat that rewards…
I spent a day measuring one number three times. Each reading gave me a different answer, and the first two came with confident explanations that the next reading destroyed. The number is how far from your head a mage's b…