Do you have newbie statistics? Specifically, how many of them stick around?

This is so professional. Instead of taxes and whatnot, though, we discuss Munchkin and Plort.

Speaking of Plort, I imagine that one day I'll find context for that story, and it'll be so dramatic that I'll fall off my seat and smash my head open on the floor behind me. I'm fine for now.

I first posted my join date on April 27, 2015.

... Now I'll have to go re-read that thread to remember why we needed it. ^^; Was it to see whether there were enough stories to support the awards? ... Or, the number of categories, was it?

In any case, my horrible memory aside, thank you for doing this. And also for doing things, which I initially typed instead by mistake. ^^;

Speaking of things, I was actually sort of hoping there might be another Ardolindi so I'd have an excuse to show you something, but I'll do it anyway. I recently discovered that there's an official soundtrack to go with the 1981 BBC radio dramatization of LotR, and it's all right here on YouTube. Dunno about anybody else, but that intro is instant nostalgia to me. Hearing the music in full is really, really awesome. Kinda reminds me of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

One of the things they did really, really right was to include a lot of the poems and set them to music, so there's bound to be something Dafydd might want to comment on, for better or worse. (There's a lot of good, but also some rather odd, if I'm being honest.) At least, I hope so. {= )

(Also, speaking of music, I finally got McCaffrey/Opland/Freeman's Sunset's Gold and listened to it yesterday, and it's great—even better than the Masterharper of Pern CD, I think. If any Pern fans out there do not have these yet, they need them, stat.)

~Neshomeh, who will try to comment more on this stuff.

Guess introspection is the better course of action for the Baron right now. Having been a politician and a schemer since the moment he appointed the new barons was really too much.

Thhat much Permission attempts?! This Board is really far larger that meets the eye. And Iximaz... This 100 missions objectves is comiing close at light-speed.

Rose Potter is pretty much perfect, and in a good way for once. Now, we only need the card combinaison for Rina and Zeb when they put her down...

I did not expect to be sixth on stories published. Not at all.
Also, a 2:3 yes:no ratio. Wonder what that says about me.
Last but not least, reading the Plort piece made me sad. And feel bad for Baron Huinesoron.

Things I can actually see! (And are short enough for me to read before passing out.) What a surprise.

Plort

There's nothing wrong with introspection. I rather like this piece, and all the floatful rumours within.

It definitely makes sense to me, and strikes a chord here on my end, too- while I've come back, I'm a completely different person than the person who joined, much less the person who had originally left. That, and y'know, that whole getting old thing. (Because we're all old now.)

Statistics

The breakdown by who's granted and denied is ahaha... a bit daunting, oops. I didn't realise I was that stringent?

I suppose the census resultscould also be crammed into that whole thing, too, now that 2015 is truly over.

59 is indeed a high number, certainly. I'm also surprised at how much (as in, anything) I have on there myself.

...Let's see how 2016 turns out!

Munchkin

I have no thoughts or input on Munchkin because I've never played and most of the images refuse to load. For this, I will blame the FCs. (Even though they have nothing to do with the internet.)

[Also also also email me back.]

-July, HTML'd.

Seriously, a third? Jesus, what am I doing with my life?

You're not the only one staring at me. O_o


(Other than that, poor Baron hS. I feel bad for the guy. :( And the combo for Rose Potter made me laugh. :P)

My missions with Doktor Trollenfisch und Gabrielle are both cowrites with Iximaz. So that bumps her total up to 61. Which is amazing and slightly scary.

Also: I think we should start listing Ix Numbers. For instance, those who have never collaborated with Iximaz have an Ix Number of 0. Those who have directly cowritten something with Iximaz have an Ix Number of 1 - so that'd be me, Des, people like that. Huinesoron, on the other hand, hasn't (too my knowledge) directly collaborated on a published piece of content, but he has done something with Nesh in the past, who has cowritten a mission with Ix. This gives hS an Ix Number of 2. And so on from there. =]