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With a small enough infection, an extremely healthy person could possibly fight it off. But they would have to be pretty exceptional, or weird. For example, Reed is a dhampire, he looks and acts like a human, but could not be turned because he’s already infected with antimus at a very ingrained level.
And of course, Visterothi orks can’t be turned either and they are completely living. They have been genetically modified to be immune to the Unlife “viruses” (see more of this in OOA). One presumes there may be other such races.
In general, if you get to a qualified professional (any appropriate mana wielder with the knowledge of how to do so) it can be cured before you turn.
As discussed earlier, it can, in general be cured after the event, if said qualified professional knows what they are doing and has the power (or permission level for priests)
Very similar here in Chicago.
But of course, there are various crazies that have to protest and rebel and cause me to marvel at their stupidity.
I get irritated reading or hearing about them and make grumblings about praying to Darwin to cast a “Natural Selection” spell upon these people but to no avail…since…well…obviously he’s not a god.
Despite crazy politicians and rich people that want to save the economy at the expense of lives, the fact is, the economy, no economy, is going to recover until people feel safe going out and about and shopping and dining and whatever. You can try and open all those things if you want, but some workers won’t go and a lot of customers won’t either.
But…summer will create a much harder test, it’s easy to stay sheltered in place when its cold and nasty, we see it here, sheltering is great when its snows or is cold, but sunny warm days, everyone is walking their dog and out and about. So it will be an interesting test. But I still bet people won’t go to stores or theaters etc until they feel safe.
As a note to everyone, we having some ups and downs as I try to lock down the system.
ModSecurity seems to be helping, what is not helping is that last week our A/V vendor, who had been doing a good job with their IPS/Firewall stopping stuff, decided to completely upgrade their network stack and it’s caused a lot of havoc on Windows 2019 servers, wasted a lot of time for me with one of my clients and seems to be causing similar issues here.
The big workaround for most of my clients was to disable the new features and the FW/IPS. Of course, that’s exactly what I need the most at this moment so….
Please bear with me for the next few days.
If you want to write a post, I suggest you write it in a text editor, word, or whatever and then copy and paste it in the post box so you can save it quickly and don’t get booted/rebooted or whatever in the middle of a long dissertation.
T-A-G
That really depends on how much of an infection there is, sort of like gangrene.
If the wounds are life threatening, then it can be less than 20 Astlan hours (i.e. a day) before they get “hungry” In fact, it could be within hours, if the wound would have killed them within a few hours, it can, in theory, be that fast. Of course, if it’s bad enough to kill them, then it just kills them before they can turn. So it’s sort of a race against death vs disease. However, if the disease takes over before they die, and they get food, (meaning ghoul food or ghoulash) they won’t die.
A single bite? Well, like any infection, it depends on their health/constitution. If the bite is deep/bad and they are sickly, one to two days.
Healthy people? It can take up to a week (10 days), possibly a bit longer if really exceptional.
I would say most people have around half a week (5 days)
Thanks, but it’s too late, I’ve already got the “something”
I really think it’s the flu, I had a friend catch the “thing” two days after going for an outpatient test at a hospital, he was at my place the day he started feeling sick, then two days later, while he was there again, I started feeling sick, almost exactly 48 hours after him.
The first week was worse than I’ve had in a decade, standard cold like symptoms, plus low grade fever of about 100, chills, sweats, aches and total exhaustion. So I self quarantined at that time.
My friend was over it in under 2 weeks, but I’m in week 3 and still having exhaustion and low grade headache, but some of that could be allergies and the fact that I am still in freaking overdrive with work. I always work from home except for visits to client sites, which I stopped doing, and do everything on Zoom…
I’m in Chicago, and we’ve now gone whole hog, all restaurants are closed for dine in, so delivery or pickup only, and many stores are limiting the number of people that can come in. Movie theaters are closed as well.
So, very weird. But I am bunkered down, now only Tizzy comes in and out, and demon germs don’t seem to affect people.
Keep safe yourself. Everyone!
Testing??
People in the rest of the world have tests for this thing?
Apparently the tests were stopped at Trump’s border walls!
:d/
It is absolutely pathetic how horrible the response has been here.
Pretty sure Astlan has a better healthcare system than the US.
I think this is going to cause people long term agoraphobia if it goes on too long.
So, I am sequestered in my “Dungeon” with my partner for about the last 2 weeks. We mainly only go out to grab a cup of coffee from any shop that might be open (almost all Starbucks are closed, 75% of locals are too) or a convenience store. None of which are heavily busy, all of which limit the number of people in store.
So yesterday we went to get some groceries at a nearby grocery store, which, historically, is always crowded and way too small due to urban environment (it has a parking garage on top of it). Riding the escalator down, I could literally feel psychosomatic symptoms like shortness of breath and dizziness, just staring at all the people in the store (actually fewer than normal for a Friday night before sundown, but still quite a few–there are a lot of synagogues in the area so this is a busy time)
And as I roam the store, I am wishing I had brought some latex gloves and I stare enviously at those with masks, even though I know the masks are useless if you aren’t infected, and are only needed if you do have some sort of symptoms to keep you from spraying everyone/thing else.
It was surreal for me. It’s also a big change from 7 days ago when I last went to a couple different stores trying to get what I needed.
The point being, the longer this goes on, the more ingrained it gets, the more effort it will take for people to get back to normal.
Even once full retail/bars/restaurants/theaters are open again, I think it’s going to be quite a while longer before business comes back to normal.
Rural areas will be much slower, although psuedo-rural areas could be hit very hard.
By psuedo I mean areas that are technically considered rural, but not as rural as say midwestern states or western/non-coastal.
What I call the mideastern states, or the rust belt, places that have higher population densities than say Iowa or Nebraska but still not quite urban. Those areas have been grossly affected by medicare and medicaid cuts that rural hospitals depend on, resulting in closures and lack of adequate medical care. Not that full rural regions don’t have this problem, but there the social distances are much greater than 500 ft or 1000 ft.
Zoom is closer to WebEx or GoTo Meeting than Skype, although Skype has evolved that way too.
Big thing with zoom is an easier to use interface that makes it more fun/easy to use, and a better pricing model including a free tier, so for companies, universities, heavy meeting people get paid subscriptions and others that don’t do large meetings are free, but can also initiate.
The free tier is unlimited time in 2 person meetings and 40 minutes in larger meetings. Then they also have very good conferencing tools for huge meetings/conferences with 100s, and thousands of participants.
So, it’s basically all those other video thing v3.0 and feels more like the most modern tools. One cool aspect is green screening (even without a green screen) so you can hide all the dirty clothes strewn about the house/home office.
The big problem with Zoom Bombers is users not setting their permissions correct. Not password protecting meetings and allowing them to be open to everyone that wants to join. There are mitigation tools, like a “waiting Room” but originally those weren’t turned on by default, now they are. Of course, if you do want a big town hall where strangers come in, a Zoom Bomber is going to be a risk.
In particular though, it’s been hugely popular for online classes because of whiteboards and the ability to let anyone share their desktop, web recording and just more advanced/easy to use features that were either not there, cost extra or were hidden on the other services.
It’s also a great way to play otherwise in person games since it’s all very visual, and you could, for example setup a “Dice Cam” account and have a separate account pointed at the dice for everyone to see, or just move your own camera to show your dice role, or the Trading Card you are playing. Etc.
You can see everyone at once and whoever is talking gets highlighted or more attention, and if you have multiple monitors you can have multiple screens etc.
Hi
This site is getting attacked pretty frequently by both wizards and rival certain Immortal types, so we are working on implementing a Web Application Firewall and there may be some hiccups/things not working.
Please email Tizzy and let him know, or post in this topic (if you can)
Thanks
T-A-G
PS, as I work things out, there will be times when it is just monitoring only and times where it is actively protected, so you could see it work one time and then a day later there is an issue.
It should be great, also no TV.
But I am in IT and so my clients are working me overtime because now everyone has to work from home and I have to deal with glitches that arrive when people work in uncontrolled environments etc. That’s on my systems side. And on my developer side, I am still overwhelmed because my systems side is taking up too much time.
But, thank the Five that Netflix has decided to slow down it’s release schedule…that really helps…
Been trying out several things as I have time.
Previously tried WhiteKnight and am now trying modSecurity, have also been playing with SNORT on the FW.
The big problem is this site and it’s antiquated software have a lot of bad habits that get it blocked itself by these tools.
I may end up going to CloudFlare or similar, but the problem is that there are multiple URLs here not just the *.astlan.* but other domains of mine, all of which need to be protected and since I need a paid version of those for the WAF, that is per URL and starts getting expensive.
As that number adds up, there is ever more incentive to pay someone to port it to another platform (I just don’t have the time) that is more secure and that can more easily be protected.
I’ve also modernized the OS and the AV/FW local IPS, but this is a rusty bucket of swiss cheese so everything is complicated.
It is very good for OOA. It would have been out by now, but the last 4 months I have been slammed by my day job. That should free up come January.
Book IV? I very much hope, but I also don’t know.
However, if a certain Oompa Loompa is dumped down a bad egg shoot, then my misery and general malaise will be greatly reduced and get me moving again. But that probably won’t happen until 2021.
That was what slowed me down/killed my momentum right after Book III for about 3 months of watching in horror, and then work started getting busy real fast.
OOA is making serious progress towards beta.
I keep saying, beta…later this month, however due to the extra crazy workload of my day job this fall the ‘this’ keeps changing.
For once, I actually know the break point for this book ahead of time, (normally it’s sort of keep writing until you can’t fit anymore in a dead tree book or edit to cust stuff out/move it around). However, these (OOA and COA) are single POV books and thus shorter. Approximately 40-50% as long per book.
So, I know exactly what needs to be in there, the plot points for this book, the scenes, etc. and where the stopping point is, I just need to fill in words.
The other books by contrast have enough POV’s and each with their own timelines that have to intertwine, that what exactly makes it into each book is less certain than OOA. But OOA is a relatively straight forward path…just gotta do the leg work.
Hope to have it finished for beta this year, with Beta in January.
The wizards that did, were most likely Warlocks, and now dead–unless they went Unlife, or got big enough to cast the “Immortalize” spell or whatever it’s called. It is a spell.
A very tricky spell, obviously we know the legend of the man that wished to be immortal but did not request eternal youth and just kept getting older and smaller until he road around in a grasshopper or something like that.
Then, of course there is a character in “Seas of Astlan” the other series that I don’t know when it will be written, that involves Captain Asmeth and the Interdimensional Brigands that stole the book for Exador. In that group, along with the Mobius Magi, there is also the Immortal Marcus, who tried to become immortal without aging, but has lots of problems when things get hacked off in battle. E.g. right now he’s just a head in a box, thanks to a magic spell on the box, he gets air over his vocal cords so he can talk, but that’s about it. A real backseat driver.
He lives in constant fear of a C.O.D. For some reason he doesn’t want to be a sentient collection of sub-atomic particles.
