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>>130753"Well... I know what
I have to do. I am less certain about what you have to do, or can do"
>>130754"Could you give me a route in order to get money?" Iron asks "I do not mean cooking, as I am not one to do that, but... somehing a bit more physical could work."
>>130755"There are all sorts of ways to make money, if only you have the will. What did you have in mind?"
>>130756"Something about strength," Iron replies without missing a beat.
>>130757"Well, I got this place, then there's a matter of getting materials and customers. And with... other business, someone needs to be talked down. Or... well, talked down in the better option, but there are other ways it can go down. I think others in the business are having problems getting past customs, but that isn't my business..."
>>130758"So either I locate and transport materials, lure ponies to eat here, do some convicing and helping out other ponies to pass through something," Iron tries to surmise as accurately as possible. "How would I go about doing the first two?"
>>130759"No, that's not....that's not what I meant"
>>130760"Oh," Iron replies with a little pout before rising his ears up in realization "...perhaps you could point me to the right ponies in order to understand what I could do better."
>>130761"No, I just mean there are some things to do. For instance, the potion shop. I found a place, but there are materials to acquire for it, as well as customers. Then in that
other thing I do, you know the thing, someone needs to be dealt with. Let me rephrase that. Someone needs to be
talked to. And then so far as business for that
other thing I do, well, you already know what I do. It involves a tire iron. Other creatures do more with
animals and
heavy crates.
Customs is giving them a hard time." She looks past Iron, towards Blanche
"Even these are not everything, but I've been helping the Kirin mare."
>>130762Iron nods softly, listening intently. "Ah," he answers with a sheepish smile "sorry about that. Perhaps my best choic is to start grinding on the ingredients." Recovering into a normal smile, he turns to Cauldron. "So, what would you need in the short term that I could potentially find? I do have a lot of experience from the jungle to get some of the ones growing on the wild and the time to gather more mundane ones otherwise."
>>130763"There are definitely those that grow in the wild, but we are in the city, and that is what makes it harder"
>>130764"If I go out and try to extrach the ingredients' source from the soil and bring it to the place, would that work?" Iron asks.
>>130765"Do you mean like transplant trees?"
>>130767"I don't have the land, and in any event many of the sources are kind of diverse. Some of them can be bought in bulk, others of them, not so much"
>>130768"What if I go collect a lot of these ingredients from the wild and bring it back to you each day?" Iron offers
>>130769"Well, in theory these should all be collected in bulk so many trips isn't necessary."
>>130770"I believe I can do that," Iron answers confidently before pouting softly "how many of these ingredients would be considered as 'bulk', however? For that matter, how heavy are they?"
>>130771"Well.... It just depends on the potion. Some ingredients, like mint for health potions, are easy to find. The bark of New Mareland Ironwood, for stoneskin, has to be imported. Then there's aluminum powder, tiger fur, kelp..."
>>130772Iron has a blank look on his face, a bit surprised at the amount of ingredients. "Uh, kelp is... one of those deep water plants, right?" he asks "Mint should be pretty easy to find, tiger fur I may know where I could find, but this 'ha-lum-ee-num' powder I have no idea what it is."
>>130773"Well, don't worry too much. A lot of the ingredients I can just buy on the open market and it really isn't a big deal. Some requires deep jungle plants or animals and is kind of hard to find. Some has to be imported from countries that... Well, there are just aren't trade agreements with those countries at this time. And some are chemicals that are heavily regulated now."
>>130774"So what could I do regarding that?" Iron asks with a tilt of his head.
>>130776"The acquirement of materials," Iron clarifies.
>>130777"Well, that's kind of the question, isn't it?"
>>130778"What would you require directly from the jungle or other wild areas?" Iron replies, trying to narrow down the potential ingredients that he can reliably gather with his strength and experience with tropical biomes.
>>130779She looks back to Iron, then to White Sands
"What about
her?"
>>130780"Maybe she can help with finding new customers," Iron replies, turning to face Sands "could you, Sands?"
>>130781"Sure I guess" She shrugs
>>130782Iron turns back to Cauldron with a happy smile. "We will get both problems covered that way, unless you believe it is wiser to rack up customers more than ingredients."
>>130783"I think it would be much easier if you just talked to someone who smuggles or imports"
>>130784"Where would I find that?" Iron ask with a tilt of his head.
If you want to conduct sessions earlier, that's actually better. I'll adjust my schedule to make it work.
>If you have experienced stutter/hangs on scroll on full thread view (viewing all posts), I found the bottleneck causing it. So now you should be able to view the full thread with update turned on and problem free scrolling (no stutter/hangs).
>>130795It still stutters every 7/9 posts.
>>130798>It still stutters every 7/9 posts.Is this when viewing all posts or also just partial (last 50,100, 200 posts), and what browser are you using so I can do more testing.
Just to have asked a dumb question (just to eliminate the basic case) I assume reloaded the page so the newest js gets loaded. >>130799In a fresh loaded page:
- View all posts stutters big every ~10 posts
- View last 200 posts stutters big every ~70 posts with very small ones every ~10
- View last 100 posts stutters big every ~40 posts with very small ones every ~10
- View last 50 posts stutters big at around ~35 posts with very small ones every ~10
Browser is Dissenter (Brave).
>>130800I assume the stutter you talk about is when scrolling. and that every 70,40,35 post you scroll by you get a little stutter "freeze" when "Auto update" looks for new posts. Or is this when you scroll normally, and if you can try to turn off "Auto Update" (uncheck Auto at bottom of page) to see if you still get stutters. If you still get stuttering while scrolling after Auto update is turned off I will have to looks further into it as it won't be related to autoupdate where I found a big bottleneck.
The initial load of big threads/threads will always take a little toll as it has to do quite a bit.
>I tried loading this thread in Dissenter and didn't experience any stuttering (well got the tiny stutters I forced it to scroll superfast (click-hold on scrollbar) but that is due to rendering and I would not expect it to be able to do that fluently, not even notepad will do that) >>130802I disabled the update and moved the cursor out of the way to avoid to render previews; now the scrolling is smooth in every case.
Under the same conditions described above, viewing all posts of this long page, the stutters happens every 500 posts.
>>130804Is it so that if you turn on autoupdate the stutters comes back every time it looks for updates (every 5 sec)? Like if you scroll continuously up and down you get a freeze every 5 sec? Or is it usable as it is now, like you can force it to do a few freezes but under normal conditions it won't be a nuance or particularly noticeable?
>>130805Correct, with the update ON the scroll stutters every ~10 posts.
It's not a terrible but it might be annoying for some autistic poner.
In desktops, at least for me, it's not an issue but I don't know about phone fags as I don't own a phone.
>>130808>Correct, with the update ON the scroll stutters every ~10 postsI'll do some more investigation to try to get down the time. It might be the load of the data from the server so little to do about it, but I will keep it in mind and do some testing. At least I have gotten it down from 2 sec freeze every 5 sec to under 100 ms (on test computer). So at lest it is significantly improved over how it was.
>>130811Yep, added this feature when I created the new code. It still should be theoretical possible for a normal user to hit the perfect zero ID. But getting it when modposting is nowhere near as spectacular compared to actually get it through the grace of math and magic. >>130508Silver nods in understanding.
"Now, I do not mean to be rude, but reward for this information would be appreciated. Things such as this are how my partner and I make our living, and it was quite risk to acquire this information in first place."
>>130822Stay safe. Don't make a wrong turn and accidentally accelerate into a crowd of protestors.
>>130821He pauses for a moment, looking solemnly at Silver. Then he answers
"Dear Sir, knowledge of what took place here is a public good. It was created by many creatures over many generations, and so too will it benefit many creatures over many generations. We are public servants and do not work for profit. It is our job to collect knowledge, and disperse it to the populous. The money we do have is mostly from donations or from public revenue, and is necessary for wages and essential expenses. Not many will pay much money for history, and those who would cannot, yet it has a value beyond that of money. Surely there is a spirit of generosity in you, to return to creaturekind what it created."
>>130823Kek
>>130824I've watched some of his videos. In particular his video on magic and worldbuilding has stuck with me.It's probably worth noting that Silver has a large stock of ball bearings stillThat's what the Canterlot vaults are like >>130828Silver looks at him for a few seconds before sighing in submission.
"Very well. I would still request some form of compensation if you can provide it, if not Bits then something else. I do not lie when I say that tasks such as these are how we make our living."
>>130829He smiles in a way that is not entirely assuring
"I am sure some arrangement can be made"
They try to count out the letters and notes
>>130830Silver reluctantly nods at him.
"As for why I came here originally, if there is anything that you need help with here, be it corpse moving or what, I am here to help."
>>130831He looks up to Silver momentarily, pleased with the letters
"We were only hired for the Archaeological survey. But two of our professors, and two graduate students are down inside or nearer the structure. They could tell you."
>>130832Silver nods at him again.
"Thank you. Have good day."
Silver goes to seek out the professors he mentioned.
>>130833"Very well Have a good day" he says, with minimal enthusiasm. The green unicorn helper tries to pin down the pieces of the letters on the table, as Peer Review looks at him.
The better question is, how does Silver enter the catacombs, or approach it?
>>130834With his flashlight in his telekinetic grip, he goes in through the quarry.
>>130835Looking down into the quarry, Silver sees two ponies. One is a greyish brown Pegasus Stallion, who is moving about in the open quarry, evidently moving things, and the other is a white unicorn stallion with a pith helmet, inspecting what seems to be a dead body. The water level is even lower than it was the day before, and from the water, many pieces of destroyed undead corpses show
>>130836Silver goes to the white unicorn stallion, offering a greeting to him.
"Hello there. Who are you?"
>>130837The pegasus remains out in the water, while the unicorn looks up to Silver, with an expression of surprise. He wears a green jacket.
"Why hello there good sir. I am Dr. Grant, professor of Archaeology with Misty Tonic University"
>>130838Silver offers him a hoofshake.
"I am Silver Sword. I was pony who cleared this place of undead. I was wondering if you needed assistance with anything."
>>130839He looks down at the hoof for a moment, before finally reciprocating the shake. His grip is rather weak. Then he looks back up to Silver
"You
cleared this place?! A Sonamubulan mummy from the second century BCE has been ripped to shreds!"
>>130840He gives Grant a sheepish smile.
"Heheh...I did not actually do *that*. Some bait I had put down to attract undead also attracted giant bird, who then proceeded to get into fight with mummy and other undead over bait. Needless to say, giant bird won."
>>130841His eyebrows raise in surprise at Silver's story
"Well, I would have appreciated a less... destructive, method"
He looks around in the quarry
>>130842"Yes, it is...regrettable. Let me make it up to you. Is there anything you need help with here?"
I am available when you are.
>>130785“Well, I know a few, but I can’t go out just yet. This Kirin here needs my training.”
>>130786“So... how much did you borrow, and from... who, exactly?”
>>130843“Well, out here there is a large amount of material. Rocks, equine remains... even armor”
>>130846Iron nods, getting the picture. "Then I shall not detract from your training any longer," he answers with a smile and a nod "I will see what I can come up with in the meantime."
"Well…" she hesitates before speaking. "It was a hundred fifty bits…from a bar." She looks away, sheepishly.
>>130847She seems skeptical, but she nods
“... Alright. Good luck. It really will... I really do appreciate your help.”
>>130848“I’ve..... never heard of borrowing money from a bar... well, we sometimes try to help those who have large debts, but that’s mostly for those recovering from gambling addictions, or who have borrowed money from the mob...”
>>130849"Oh, please," Iron answers with a dismissive wave and a sheepish smile as he averts his gaze from Cauldron "do not thank my efforts until we reach your end goal."
>>130849Amber looks at Burn curiously.
"No, I've never done gambling before. I've just had to pay the down payment for my apartment. I didn't borrow from a crowd either." >>130850She smiles to him
“There is more I have to tell you, to show you, just now is not the time.”
>>130851“Huh... uh... I don’t
think we can help you? You can ask Priestess Sundew”
>>130846"Alright, what exactly needs to be done with them?"
>>130852"I-I understand," Iron replies with the slightest red tints on his cheeks, rubbing his foreleg softly with his other frog "you do what you do best. Show her the magic that Zebrica can offer."
>>130852She shakes her head quickly.
"No, no, I don't want to to burden you with any of this. It'll just take me a week or two to get back on my hooves, and I can do it alone. I just wanted to know what's possible." >>130853“The rocks need to be moved aside to see what is under them. The remains need to be gathered to be burned or buried, and any kind of armor or clothing needs to be gathered for its historical value”
>>130854“Well, I don’t know about magic... but I will show her food, and spices, because she’s pretty uneducated about that.” He smiles as if what she said were funny
>>130855“Oh, alright. Well it’s always good policy to pay down your debts” he gives an overly big, kind of artificial smile
>>130856Silver nods.
"I was already prepared to handle cadavers, so I can do that first."
>>130856"Oh yes, I just wish I hadn't needed to take out any debts." She sighs.
"Thank you for telling me all about the city though, that was really helpful," she says as she regains her smile.
>>130857“Then that would be a good thing for you to handle. I already have feather duster trying to do some of the more ‘delicate’ tasks.”
He nods towards the Pegasus stallion who is out in the shallow water.
>>130858“No problem! Come by any time!”
"Have a nice day!" She smiles and trots to the entrance of St. Eligius.
>>130860Amber is able to walk out of the room, across stone and tile floor, towards the doors on the front. Amber can see there are a few holes in some of the stained glass windows on the front, and one of them is busted
>>130859"Ah, so that is his name. I will have to introduce myself later. Oh well, off to deal with corpses."
He bids him goodbye for now before going to tackle the corpse issue.
>>130862As above the catacombs, there are canvases on the rocks. One has pieces of armor on it, and the other has legs, and portions of flesh that is best described as mummified. Some is wet and bloated, and some even smells. But most is Black and Tan colored flesh that looks almost like it’s been frozen. On one of the canvases, Silver can see a whole body - one he might recognize as Private Green Basin.
Silver can see pieces of corpses floating. There are few, if any whole corpses in the water, and the water is lower than he left it two days ago. Mala follows silver, ready to wade into the water
>>130861I hope I can help fix those one day she thinks wistfully. Amber trots outside onto the steps. Is there a bakery in the area? Rolling spot.
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