Let's talk tech (Now with Glossary)!

[animenologist offline]

By the way, when counting the number of pages currently in our article, did you include the Episodic Breakdown? That alone must be like an extra 5 pages, single spaced. Speaking of which, when I find the time, I should try and copy/paste the all the recent summaries we did into the wiki, as well as make the corrections we made after "The Key". And maybe on the front page, you should include a link to the wiki's so someone new can take a look at that for an update on our progress without going through all 34 pages.

[YDV offline]

My idea was that after a tower deactivation, the computer quarantines that specific tower from that method of attack. XANA may use the same method multiple times, but not in the same tower, and he can even devise programs that allow him to get the same effect, but differently (for example, an SAP-hack that designates a radio as the destination for the specter rather than an electrical outlet. In this way, he has to constantly concoct new ways to get his desired result, even if it utilizes more familiar methods.)

Which version do you think we should send off to Moonscoop, once we get there? The heavy technical version or the abridged, easier to understand version? I think the technical one will get us more notice-- if they thought a bunch of kids who didn't know what they were talking about (although we would be purposefully simplifying it) wrote it, they might not even consider reading the essay, let alone implementing it. But then again it might get them as confused as some of the people who try to sift through all our jargon. And then there's always the possiblity that although the scripts are originally in English, English is their second language and they wouldn't be able to even comprehend it although they might be able to understand it... I don't think so, though, and I certainly hope not. ^-^;

[Taelia offline]

Good point. I for one would love to send an idea to Moonscoop.

[TB3]

I've been busy!

Well guys here's the next bit - the LTT essay is now 70 pages long and 17,000 words in length, not counting the episode summaries.

As for Moonscoop, I reckon we should send both a 'full' and 'simple' version, just to try and draw their attention.

Enjoy! I hope Animenologist finds this piece to his taste!

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POSSESSION & PIXELISATION



The mechanics of creating a spectre have already been covered, and this chapter aims to cover the various uses of those spectres.

ROUTERS
Referred to by the characters as ‘pixels’, routers are the components of a spectre. Each router is in short a device the size of a few atoms, and basically is an inert sphere of Exertanium with a tiny SAP to the computer contained in a hollow compartment in the centre.

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A router in cross-section

Through these SAPs the routers can receive and transmit data and power to and from the computer, and when a large number of routers coalesce together they form weak electromagnetic bonds and become an amorphous blob – a spectre.

(It should be noted that spectres can condense and gain a solid presence – one handled a lightbulb in ‘Attack of the Zombies’ and another blocked Jeremie’s air-passageway in ‘Franz Hopper’)


XANA and the lightbulb

That spectre can thus ‘possess’ objects and lend them new attributes. There are two subcatergories to this, inanimate and animate, and we shall cover both.

INANIMATE
The basic concept with all spectres is that the routers will enter the body in question and attach themselves to cells – from there it becomes a case of what exactly XANA want those spectres to do.

HACKING
One common XANA attack is the hacking of some external network to the complex and then abusing that network to ill effect. Examples would be the Parisian Power Grid and the SNCF Railway Control Network.

In these cases XANA simply creates an SAP between the computer and the network in question, but on occasion he has used spectres to hack a system to which there is no physical connection, for example an Electric Bus owned by Kadic College – in this example the spectre entered the onboard computer and via the router’s SAPs rendered that computer an extension of XANA – he was thus able to bypass the driver’s controls and take control of the accelerator, steering and gearbox.

PHYSICAL CONTROL
This is another attack mostly used to control vehicles that have no onboard computer – by coating the manual controls with routers and then manipulating the electromagnetic bonds between the routers, controls and fixed objects XANA can exert physical force on the controls and manually operate the device – some examples to date are a pair of bulldozers and an ambulance.


Yumi fights XANA for control of the ambulance

ENHANCEMENT
This is simply where the routers draw matter from ZPS and use it to physically add mass to an object, and one of the best examples is Teddygozilla – upon invading Milly’s teddy-bear the routers constructed electrical circuits and mechanical operating systems to give the stuffed toy actuation – and once that had been accomplished added mass to those systems and the rest of the bear, allowing it to grow to an immense, city-destroying-monster size.

This ‘enhancement’ technique was used by XANA primarily in his early attacks, during the period where he had yet to devise how to ‘create’ objects, and had to build his creations onto a base – in this case the frame of the teddy-bear.

This form of attack however has proved useful to XANA in more recent times – in the episode ‘Cold War’ for example he injected a large number of spectres into a cluster of clouds, and then by adding water-molecules and controlling the motion of the clouds was able to create a snap blizzard.


Injecting the routers into the clouds

ACTUATION
This is the second evolutionary stage between ‘Enhancement’ and XANA creating his own organisms through routers – the best example occurred in the episode ‘The Girl of the Dreams’ – XANA’s routers settled onto a suit of armour belonging to the Ishiyama family and then from that drew matter from ZPS to not only move the armour via ‘Physical Control’ but also to create ‘block-limbs’ to act as legs for the armour, and to support it’s katana weapon.

This limbs would have been directly controlled through the routers and they thus would have been under a lot of stress, hence the glow given off by the armour during the attack – energy bleeding from the overworked nano-machines.

POLYMORPHIC CLONING
The final and most elaborate stage in XANA’s evolution in actually building weapons does not technically classify as ‘inanimate possession’, but it makes sense to include it here.

In these attacks a group of spectres converge and draw through matter from ZPS to create a fully functioning human body, based on the data XANA has collected of his foes, and their sometime allies, enemies and compatriots. These clones are fully self-aware as they have fully functioning brains (though with an SAP uplink to XANA) and are also self-animate – they control their own bodies. Thus the routers can create complex organisms without overloading, as now they only have to create the bodies, rather than actually control them.

These bodies can also be disassembled and reconstructed in new forms, lending them the moniker ‘polymorphic clones’ – so far appearing in the episodes ‘XANA’s Kiss’, ‘Franz Hopper’ and ‘Revelation.’


The spectre from ‘Franz Hopper’ recombining to attack Jeremie

A similar occurance would be the ‘ghost’ XANA once created.


ANIMATE POSSESSION - PIXELISATION
There is an interesting scene in the episode ‘Amnesia’ – XANA takes control of a device used to construct nano-robots and builds a batch, which proceed to perform a lobotomy of many of Kadic’s students and staff, the main target being Ulrich and the rest of the team.

Watching this episode the question arises ‘Why does XANA not take control of a team member?’, after all, XANA had possessed various rodents and insects at this time. The episode ‘A Great Day’ went some way to answer this question – the supercomputer at the time did not have the computing power to possess a person, but this left another thread hanging in that destroying a few memories is as no means as advanced as controlling a human being – surely the routes could have achieved that?

Well, no. As was later seen people who have been to Lyoko multiple times are immune to spectre-control, though not to enhancement (as Tip-Top-Shape showed) – this immunity comes from the fact that both the Lyoko-team and the routers have been constructed from a ZPS matter-exchange, thus if one goes through the scanners enough, the similar energy signatures will cause ‘destructive interference’ during the possession process to weaken XANA’s attack and allow a complete block depending on the subject’s willpower…

…everyone else though, is up for game.

MENTAL ALTERATIONS TO A POSSESSEE
As with inanimate possession the basic principle is that a spectre enters the body and the routers bond with as many cells as possible. However the differences begin when we consider that living creatures have neural systems, minds, instincts and varying degrees of free will.

With lower animals it’s a simple case of over-riding the mind - though some base instincts are seen to remain. This is much more apparent with several human possesses, leading to the theory of their being two kinds of possession, as well as three ‘special-cases’;

PARTIAL POSSESSION


In these examples XANA’s routers enter the brain structure and with minor electrical charges alters the physce of the person in question, allowing XANA to talk to them verbally and instruct them – however it is still the possessee in charge of their now super-human body, just with XANA as the ultimate devil’s advocate.

The human mind therefore ‘thinks’ of what it wants to do, and that data loops back to the computer and then back again to the routers instantaneously, which act out the command – i.e. walk through THAT wall, electrocute THAT guy.

This ‘partial-control’ must have been useful to XANA in his earlier attacks as he gots used to controlling the human mind – a period of testing the water. It’s substantiated by the fact that many early possesses such as Sissi, Jim, Nick and Peter Duncan all display character traits that we are familiar with. It’s also an unnerving concept that rather than seizing the body from it’s owner, XANA merely tweaks the physce in order to bring out an underlying dark-side.

FULL POSSESSION


When Jeremie was possessed it was easy to see that something was wrong – he barely talked and showed no signs of retaining any personality elements – most likely Jeremie had a mild immunity and resisted XANA during the pixelisation process, so XANA rather than tweak his physce simply overruled his mind entirely. This is the first ever total possession.

These form of attacks are best described as ones where XANA merely has to either abduct or terminate a subject – no subtlety or finesse is required so it makes no sense to fiddle with the mind when it can just be taken out of the loop. These possessees show little to no emotion aside from general anger, but also appear to have more developed abilities. What is most likely is that XANA can dedicate more of his efforts to enhancing the body, hence these heightened abilities.

AELITA

Aelita is the only member of the team to be possessed despite her immunity – in the case in question, ‘St. Valentine’s Day’, XANA had sent her a necklace under the auspices of a gift – in actuality the necklace contained a microchip constructed in the scanners designed to connect to the supercomputer via SAP and boost a direct signal to Aelita – a literal hack of the mind in order to achieve a partial possession.

The upshot was that while Aelita was possessed, without the routers she had none of the actual physical enhancements while on Earth, and she only revealed her new allegiance and displayed unusual combat and abilities once transferred to Lyoko.

XANA also stimulated Aelita’ s mind in the episode ‘Deja-Vu’ in order to either dredge up or implant some memories from her past life on Earth – this was most likely achieved through Aelita’s direct link to the computer as a result of her missing memory fragment.

ODD

Odd proved that the team’s resistance to spectres was part willpower as well as natural immunity in this example, when he allowed himself to be pixellised by a spectre generated by Jeremie – Odd while under the influence was in full control of his body, and also had access to all the abilities available to a full possessee, probably because the routers did not have to constantly stream a slew of commands to his brain.

XANA was also later able to reverse the flow and extract Odd’s natural cellular energy in this episode, proving that the routers are designed to handle the conveyance of power between locations/

SISSI
Sissi is the only person seen to be possessed twice to-date. Once by XANA and once by Franz Hopper. However this possession was curious in two regards.

Firstly during the pixelisation process Sissi showed a degree of resistance, suggesting that she herself is developing an immunity to these forced invasions of the body.

Secondly the spectre that possessed her was considerably smaller than convention, suggesting Franz was very weak at the time. There is also likely to have been data corruption along the way as all of her dialogue came out scrambled and her behaviour extremely erratic.

Most curious though is what kind of possession this was – Franz hardly seems the type to force himself on an unwilling subject, which leads to the concept that Sissi at some point agreed to help him – much like a XANA partial possession, but with Hopper merely supplying her with information rather than warping her mind and morals. Even the team noted this as an unconventional possession, referring to Sissi as ‘spellbound’ rather than ‘possessed.’

PHYSICAL MUTATIONS TO A POSSESSEE
These are rare when they do occur, and to date have only occurred in animal victims – specifically a pack of rats, a swarm of hornets (possibly), a group of wolves and Kiwi, though in the last case he proceeded to indirectly mutate Kadic’s population.

In the case of the rats we cannot be sure of what changes took place, simply the circuitry was shown forming inside the rat’s eye, and the hornets are pure assumption – in the case of the wolves and Kiwi however we have confirmation.

Relating to Kiwi on the night in question XANA was seen to possess him, who then proceeded to bite Tamiya. Tamiya subsequently suffered a severe headache and then mutated into a zombie, and both she and Kiwi proceeding to spread the infection around the school.

What seems likely is that XANA took direct control of Kiwi’s mind and modified the saliva glands, imbuing the fluid with a potent mutagenic virus – when Kiwi bit Tamiya this virus (Xanavirus Metaform) spread into her bloodstream where it replicated at an exponential rate and proceeded to attack her cells, starting with the frontal lobe of the brain and then the rest of the body, altering the DNA to create a predatory drone under Kiwi/XANA’s command. Some routers were probably transmitted as well in order to create an SAP link to the computer and control each zombie, via Kiwi.


An example of zombie mutation

POSESSION POWERS

PHYSICAL ENHANCEMENT

The first notable element of a pixelised human is the enhanced physical strength – the first ever possessee was Sissi, who displayed the ability to bend iron pipes – subsequent ‘victims’ displayed similar feats of extreme physical power – from mundane strength, to extremely hardy bodies, and an exceptional turn of speed.

The basic trick played here is the injection of electricity into the cells of primarily the epidermis and musculature – with at least one router per cell XANA can thus use the electrical output to various ends – creating strong electromagnetic bonds between the routers would reinforce the bonds between the cells themselves. Thus Jim was able to survive a blow from a metal bar that should have split his skull open.

This reinforcement also protects the muscles and other organs from damage from the extreme exertion the body is pushed to – by forcing glands to produce adrenaline, testosterone etc. and bypassing the pain barrier the human body comes to it’s full potential, further enhanced by the injection of electrical charges directly into the muscles.

ELECTRICAL PROJECTION

The second most common ability of a possessee is the ability to project electricity from the hands – for this and other similar abilities a large cluster of routers gather in the hands, mainly in the palms where they can project electricity from the computer in massive voltage-arcs without frying the possessee’s body.

XANA has no hesitation however in frying the bodies of those who get in his way, and that indeed is the main function of this ability, though one possessee also used it to induce a temporary trance-like state in Jim in the episode ‘St. Valentine’s Day.’

STATIC CLING

A similar trick and really an offshoot of the Electrical Projection ability is the ability to create a charge of static electricity in the palms and also in the heels of the shoes – when this is used it allows the possessee to cling to any surface – best displayed by Nicholas who crawled all over the factory control room.

LEVITATION/TELEKINESIS

Again a development from the same abilities that allow Electrical Projection and Static Cling is the ability to levitate or telekinetically move objects – principal Jean-Pierre Delmas notably levitated Yumi and Odd while attempting their termination, and then proceeded to negate his own body-weight and run on water.

There is also the capacity to put more finesse into this ability, where it ceases to be clumsy levitation and becomes more intricate telekinesis – for example the frequent destruction of cell-phones.

The roots of both abilities lie with Einstein, who postulated on a ‘Unified Theorem’ that would connect electricity with gravity and allow manipulation of one with the other – Einstein never found his unified theorem, but XANA did and displayed the effects in the episode ‘Zero-Gravity-Zone’ – where he played with gravity in the vicinity of Kadic using electrical devices as his tools of manipulation – with some modification the same principals can be applied to the routers and thus adds an extra weapon to the arsenal of the pixellised human.

KI-BLASTS

Another ability ustilising ‘XANA’s Unified Theorem’ is the colloquially-termed Ki-Blasts, best displayed by Odd and Nurse Yolande. This in short modifies gravity to create a force-field in which voltage can be held – in short a capacitor, which is then ‘projected’ at the target, where the force of the impact collapses the field and discharges the voltage.

CLONING

The next ability is less commonly seen but is memorable – a possessee duplicates in two. This is an ability which stresses the capacity of the routers to the nth degree – simply each router draws matter from ZPS, duplicates the atom it is bonded to and projected several feet away – the net result is that a clone of the possesse is created, but not for a long period of time as the stress of maintaining the clone and maintaining control over it will quickly overload the capacity of the routers and XANA thus puts his whole operation at risk.

A similar technique was used in ‘Vertigo’ where the routers were used to create holographic clones of a group of wolves, which was a far smaller strain on their system.


The holo-wolf

PHASING
A similar trick to cloning is phasing, where each router plays with ZPS and their bound cells, but to the inverse of cloning – instead of drawing matter from ZPS, each cell is half-drawn into ZPS, thus retaining a presence in reality, but also far enough into ZPS that the body becomes multidimensional – much like a Krabbe the size of a car can fit into a multidimensional scanner, a temporarily multidimensional body can push through a sold object.

AFTER-AFFECTS OF A POSSESSION
In the case of a possession when Aelita shuts down the tower from where XANA is controlling the person in question, a automatic command in the computer closes the SAPs between itself and the possessee.

The net result is that all power supply to the routers is lost and the mind and body revert to their original form and structure – with the side-affect of amnesia. In the case of a full-possession this could be attributed to the fact that the human brain has been cut out of the loop entirely and thus has no memories. In the case of a partial possession it is likely the memories remain, but sealed away with any others locked during an RTTP.

Inside the body the spectres, drained of power detatch from their bonded cells and are eventually purged from the body with other waste matter.

The kids have also exploited this constant power-requirement of the routers on several occasions, by using high voltages to disrupt the SAP connections and briefly shut down the routers until XANA reopens the links, with the net result of briefly stunning the possessee. So far, aside from the abortive experiment with Odd, this is the only couter-weapon the team has against these possessed agents of XANA.



END OF ENTRY

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Well I hope this is good for you guys!

And umm...this is embarassing but what's next?

[Taelia offline]

WHOA! Awesome! This is amazing! Now I know why XANA can't possess any young kids.

[TB3]

WHOA! Awesome! This is amazing! Now I know why XANA can't possess any young kids.

Did I say that?

[Taelia offline]

Oh...wait...never mind.

[YDV offline]

Very good! The explanation of the routers even cleared up a few things for me, and the addition of the "power list" was a nice touch.

I'm liking the idea of being "spellbound" vs. being "possessed." It might very well be the "benevolent" approach of pixelization, although I'm not sure if it's how Odd was pixelized or not-- I don't think so, since he had direct control. Sissi only had partial control, correct? Anyway, I think Hopper is the only one with the ability to spellbind using a specter-- it may very well be part of the keys to Lyoko (for example, since he planned on living in the computer forever, he must've known the Lead 210 battery would go out eventually. If he hadn't been imprisoned by XANA, perhaps he would do the same thing he did in 'Common Interest,' but with a slightly better approach (instead of hijacking a prisoner and an armored car and stealing it, perhaps spellbinding someone who dealt with planning and having them make an "error" that caused it to be delievered to the factory.)

[TB3]

Yeah that works - in theory anyone could perform the spellbound effect on another but they'd need to be in Lyoko and they'd need to know how to sync two minds up, and currently only XANA and Franz know how. It's just like a partial possession but with a positive slant.

[Taelia offline]

Good luck with sending them to Moonscoop, TB3. They'd like it.

[animenologist offline]

Very nice indeed. Actually have very few complaints about it.

Just wondering where the following things would fit. Where would taking over a gas fall under? It seems kinda a cross between enhancement and physical control, in that he is able to replicate it and some cases make it more potent than normal, as well as control since he can have it move and spread like its living. In a way, the replication is similar to cloning in many ways, since its recreating the same thing over and over again.

Also another example of their physical enhancement is their jumping ability and probably says something of their agility. In Mr. Puck, Jeremie was able to jump 2 stories and land effortlessly.

Either way, the problems are only minor, possibly even trivial. The article itself is actually very complete. I can't think of much wrong with it.

You might also want to state about minor energy leakings can cause a change in voice, thats almost demonic sounding, as well as cause as after image effect.

As for what you plan to do now, you've reached the end of what you proposed to write about. After this, in your original outline, you put the episodic breakdowns and the endword. But a lot of us felt that we should include a detailed look at the inner workings of Lyoko, Carthage, lps, and weapons, vehicles, basically all the stuff that happens inside. An explanation of the void, how information moves about, pulsations, that sort of thing. You also felt we should an in-depth psychological analysis and biographical report on Aelita and XANA. Especially XANA should be written upon, including evolution and behaviour. After that, we should be at completion, and only need to clean up.

[TB3]

Cheers for the heads ups guys - I'll intergrate them tommorrow, now what was the next chapter because I've forgotten.

[MY85 offline]

Impressive, TB3. Very impressive. Mate, if I were you, I'd had this thread at BKO (for copyrights ideas and that sort of stuff)... but nice job on the posession. BTW, you might have forgot to tell the evolution of posession skills. Sissi enhances strength, Jeremie could do electric shocking, Jim could pass through walls, Nicolas could climb like Spiderman... get the idea? Good luck with your thread.

Note: If you want to, I can delete some spammy posts here. Or edit and merge them to make this thread last longer.

[animenologist offline]

I just editted my post on suggestions, in case you might have missed them. But we're are drawing it to a close. Looks like we're almost done.

[Cassius335 offline]

My idea was that after a tower deactivation, the computer quarantines that specific tower from that method of attack. XANA may use the same method multiple times, but not in the same tower, and he can even devise programs that allow him to get the same effect, but differently (for example, an SAP-hack that designates a radio as the destination for the specter rather than an electrical outlet. In this way, he has to constantly concoct new ways to get his desired result, even if it utilizes more familiar methods.)

Which version do you think we should send off to Moonscoop, once we get there? The heavy technical version or the abridged, easier to understand version? I think the technical one will get us more notice-- if they thought a bunch of kids who didn't know what they were talking about (although we would be purposefully simplifying it) wrote it, they might not even consider reading the essay, let alone implementing it. But then again it might get them as confused as some of the people who try to sift through all our jargon. And then there's always the possiblity that although the scripts are originally in English, English is their second language and they wouldn't be able to even comprehend it although they might be able to understand it... I don't think so, though, and I certainly hope not. ^-^;

I agree with TB3. Send both, with a covering letter...

[TB3]

I like to thank everyone for the recent compliments, and thanks as well animenologist for the tips on where to go next - I'll try and get another chapter uploaded today!

Rodri - I'll take you up on your offer and thankyou for this show of generosity. Please don't burn yourself out though!

[Reesane offline]

The personality altering part of your posesions essay made me think. Would it be poseble to insert a data paket into the base program that would cause the "Ruler" of lyoko (AKA XANA and now Franz) to become malviolent(sp)?

also, when XANA "pumped" odd energy levels, the amount of energy in odd's body was increases. This is evedent because when odd was charged, the window shode the bar going upwords frome red to green. However, when XANA took control of the tower, the bar color didn't go downword from green to white to red. Insted it when upwords from green to red. This sugests that the enrgy levels in odds body where increases until he started to fry.

Yes, I know that I'm nit-picking.

[YDV offline]

I just editted my post on suggestions, in case you might have missed them. But we're are drawing it to a close. Looks like we're almost done.

Yeah, I agree with what you said in your earlier post. Finally, something I'm more proficent in! *rubs hands together*

Oh, and what about our "dedications"? Each of us saying something about the development of this thread, and adding it to the foreward? And then, of course, the endward and editing. Then we should be good to go! (Hopefully we'll have it ready before they start writing scripts for S3 and S4...)

[TB3]

Sadly I reckon S3 is being written now, but if we work and work FAST we could get our foot in the door and catch their attention - fingers crossed.

I don't know if I'll write much tommorrow as I have work, but I'll try blasting out the next section in the evening - and if everyone can write up their dedications or notes etc that would also be great!

[Taelia offline]

That's cool, TB3! You really are a great writer.

[YDV offline]

Sadly I reckon S3 is being written now, but if we work and work FAST we could get our foot in the door and catch their attention - fingers crossed.

I don't know if I'll write much tommorrow as I have work, but I'll try blasting out the next section in the evening - and if everyone can write up their dedications or notes etc that would also be great!

Yeah, I kinda thought that. I just hope it'll blow their minds enough for them to edit or even re-write some of the things they already have... (Or maybe they won't have to do that, just add some stuff in. Maybe. Although I fear it might contradict with the mini-movie, which is most likely already written and probably animated, or is being animated.)

[Chad Rains offline]

One more little bit I think should be dug up for discussion is the whole mess in the episode "Marabounta" where the marabounta attacks not only XANA's monsters, but Aelita as well. Jeremie mentioned that it was due to the virus that Aelita had, but as we now know, she didnt have a virus. So what is the logical reason as to why the marabounta attacked her as well?

Btw, credit goes to Skorpigeist in the sightings/mixups thread for mentioning this thus bringing this "technical anomoly" to my attention.

[animenologist offline]

We actually talked about this fairly early after "The Key". Guess all our discussions are buried in so deep, so you can't pull up our answers so easily. But the conclusion we came to was, that even though Aelita did not have a virus, her missing fragment still linked her to XANA. And that missing fragment gave her some sort of signature that made her identified as a monster or atleast a creation of the supercomputer, which is why the Marabounta attacked her. It was that reason why she was unable to virtualize like normal, and faced death similar to any creation of XANA. So superficially, she is just like any other monster on Lyoko.

[TL.]

Just got off the phone with TB3. He's spent most of his free time today working on the next paper. He spent ages in the bar drinking to get his head in gear

But on topic, processions finally make sense. Good work Lyokologists. I just have to read all the papers now to be fully amazed by your work. Once you have finished working on all the tech here (and most likely LTT2), what’s the plan?

[TB3]

Thanks for saying that on my behalf bro, and I also have something to say.

Guys - this programming part is REALLY not my forte - I'm writing these last chapters up, but I'm really not comfortable with them and I will really need your help editing them when the time comes, not just in terms of what they say but also in how they say it.

I hope to have this up very soon for you to work with and thanks for being so patient!

PS: VChat's made this fantastic Lyokologists sig at my request - it's my way of honouring you guys and I'd just like to take the time to thank him as well for making something very cool.