Indonesia Journeys, ABC and Mailman, Gaming Updates

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This weekend booked flights to Indonesia; journey is from the 4th to 18th of August, with planned journeys throughout Bali and into central Java at the very least to visit Yogyakarta, Borobudor, and Prambanan, along with the Indonesian Unitarians (who have a different name for political reasons). Would also like to visit Komodo Island, but caseopaya doesn't like to rough it that much. Appropriately I have put up another Bahasa lesson; now that tickets are booked I should do a lot more of these with regularity. One day I should also do the same for Tetum, seeming that the dictionary I transcribed is still one of the most commonly referenced materials of its sort.

Kudos to crankynick for having a spot on the ABC's program Inside Business last week. It must have been a week for it as a couple days prior to that airing I was helping out their science program, Catalyst, and CSIRO put together some material that will be screened in a couple of months. Most "interesting" task recently at work has been dealing with email archiving issues in an older version of Mailman (which is, I hasten to add, excellent software). The initial bug, required a patch which then led to a new bug in multipart/alternative MIME, specifically, base64 encoded text/plain and text/html. There seems to be no immediate way around this with the version of Mailman we have.

RuneQuest game on Sunday saw the conclusion of the "Cradles" scenario and with that, the end of part II of this three part campaign (it's only taken a year so far). Received feedback for Rolemaster Cyradon; some minimal changes required and then it's off to print (yay!). Last Tuesday ran the regular "Fantasy Australia" D&D/Pathfinder game, for which I've been appropriating a great number of plot ideas from Dark Sun. Giving serious consideration to releasing it as an OGL product in its own right.

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Mainly the plots of the scenarios; Freedom, Road to Urik etc., but modified for northwestern Australia with the flora, fauna and climate of the Würm glaciation period but with early modern settlements.

Basically, the Kimberley region is heavy woods and jungle with an epic battle for control between the Iberians and the Zeelanders with the indigenous fae getting the short end of the spear from everyone...

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he Würm glaciation period

Beyond my ken.

Basically, the Kimberley region is heavy woods and jungle with an epic battle for control between the Iberians and the Zeelanders with the indigenous fae getting the short end of the spear from everyone...

We're post Rodina? 'cause I am confuzzed by the Iberians and the Zeelanders (dutch?).

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Beyond my ken.

Basically between 10,000 and 70,000 before present. Lots of megafauna. Giant wombats, some real scary lizards and the like.

We're post Rodina? 'cause I am confuzzed by the Iberians and the Zeelanders (dutch?).

Think of the big fight that the Portuguese and the Dutch had over the Malay archipelago in the 16th and 17th centuries. Move it a bit further south. Make sandalwood genuinely magical.

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Basically between 10,000 and 70,000 before present... with European seafarers?

Interesting, but strange.

Think of the big fight that the Portuguese and the Dutch had over the Malay archipelago in the 16th and 17th centuries. Move it a bit further south. Make sandalwood genuinely magical.

Sandalwood is magic,Basically between 10,000 and 70,000 before present.

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Interesting, but strange.

Just the climate for that part... Würm is really just a cute little river in Bavaria, no bigger than a creek in many parts.. But it's picked up some recognition because it was the site of the last big European glaciation. Also, it's got an awesome name :)

Sandalwood is magic

That's the idea.

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Würm is really just a cute little river in Bavaria, no bigger than a creek in many parts

Aha.
My pre-history extends only to Australia.... Centralian super-basin and all that.