Othaglot and Cane - Story Thread

primitive · #1 March 14th, 2004, 12:35 AM

WOW

dogscoff · #2 March 14th, 2004, 12:41 AM

Puke: fond memories of another quote-o-matic, or fond memories of the story? You could always re-read it you know=-) I just re-read this entire thread from the beginning- now that's an eye opener. For example, back in june 2002 (back whne chapters were only a few days apart=-( I predicted thath the entire story would be wrapped up in 12-20 chapters. HA! What's even funnier is that I remember thinking that that seemed like an awful lot of chapters...

I'd like to fix your "grey patches". This page is my first ever foray into the world of javascript and css, so it's bound to have errors and incompatibilites. COuld you send me a screenshot? What browser and OS are you using?

What did you think of the chapter btw? I'm going to have some fun with Othaglot from here=-) I'm planning to gradually split him into two entirely contrary characters, using the magic of alcohol...

Baron Munchausen · #3 March 14th, 2004, 03:29 AM

The frames and JS don't work in Mozilla 1.5 for some reason, but do work in IE 5.5 (my 'old' browser). It's not that they are 'broken' but that they don't appear at all! No frames. Just blank space. This is a puzzle, since it's Mozilla which is 'standards compliant' while IE has all sorts of quirks. But then... nearly everyone has learned to use the IE style quirks so maybe that's why Mozilla can't understand the code.

Edit:

Actually, it doesn't work in IE either. All I get is that title graphic that Primitive is so impressed with. The navigation bar doesn't update to show the chapters so you can't access them.

[ March 14, 2004, 01:35: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Krsqk · #4 March 14th, 2004, 04:32 AM

I can't get any of the multi-page stories to load. The javascript loads the summary page, but none of the chapters will load. I have IE 6.0 and have tried full permission for all JS, and still no dice.

And I'd looked forward to this update for a long time, too.

Suicide Junkie · #5 March 14th, 2004, 05:38 AM

I was getting script errors whenever I tried to click into one of the chapters; permission denied for something.

After switching browsers back and forth and lots of reloading and random clicking, it suddenly started working.

Great new chapters!

dogscoff · #6 March 14th, 2004, 11:16 AM

dammit... i see what you all mean... sometimes you click on a chapter number and it works, sometimes it throws an error at you.
EDIT: Strangely, it seems to work pretty reliably if you play around with the quote-o-matic first. Click a few new quotes until you get one that refers to O&C, then click the link in the quote. The chapters will all be available.

I've no idea why this should be. I'll try to get it all fixed.

And Primitive, thanks. It was originally an entry for Fyron's image contest but then SE.net went down for a while and the contest never came back up, so I decided to reuse it here. I'm not sure we'll ever get to see that scene in this story, but it looks pretty cool=-)

[ March 14, 2004, 13:11: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

dogscoff · #7 March 15th, 2004, 09:35 AM

*BUMP* Just for all you ppl who don't log on over the weeked.

A new chapter of O&C is now available on my new website - http://www.dogscoff.co.uk/fiction.
I've also rehashed some of the more recent chapters and expanded them, so I recommend re-reading from at least chapter 23. There'a a neat new "Story so far" feature to help you recap.

Comments about the site, the story or anything else in this thread, please. I hope to start work on Chapter 27 today. Hopefully I can start being productive again with this story, for a while at least.

EDIT: Puke- I think I know what "grey patches" you are talking about- it's down to "dirty" jpegs- the price we pay for high compression I'm afraid. Maybe I can improve them, but right now I'm afraid to touch anything=-)

[ March 15, 2004, 09:02: Message edited by: dogscoff ]