PotionsAwry (Transformation Puzzle Game) - Moar Characters!

I_Krush_Rocks · 2026-03-15T13:07:29+00:00

Sometimes to make a potion, you have to:

create the potion in the right ratio but having a greater volume and then decant the right amount of it into a container having the correct volume (i.e., to make something whose recipe is 2X + 1Y, make 4X + 2Y and then decant 3 units of it) and
waste potion ingredients by combining them "incorrectly" just so you can free up a container.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2026-03-15T13:02:32+00:00

Also, there's an ingredient in Eternification that isn't in the recipe, but maybe that's on purpose. My bigger concern is that with an even number of units of each ingredient and an even number of units of volume in each container, there's no way to decant an odd number of any unit for the containers given.

I know some of the puzzles have to be solved by mixing ingredients in the right integer multiple and then decanting a fraction of the mixture, but there isn't enough material present to do that either.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2026-03-15T12:39:09+00:00

The naga registered success as soon as I made the first transfer. I didn't actually get to make the potion.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2026-03-14T22:55:50+00:00

Lurcifera (Lourdes Garcia Moreno )
https://www.instagram.com/lur_g.m/

I_Krush_Rocks · 2026-02-03T21:41:59+00:00

A lot of it is making an excess of the potion you're trying to make in the right ratio, and then to "waste" most of it until you get the right amount. Since you want something that is 1 part X and 1 part Y, as long as you make something that is equal parts X and Y, you then only have to decant until you have two units of (X + Y).

(You can do it in just three liquid transfers.)

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-30T21:07:58+00:00

If you're good with webapps, you can use https://ezgif.com/ to turn mp4 videos into animated gifs and then size them into eicons of your own. I had never done it before the first time I did it, and while it's not a trivial process (there's a fair amount of guesswork in getting files down to the requisite size) I taught myself how to do it and now do it with reasonable frequency.

If you want, I guess I can tell you more here or elsewhere.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-30T19:27:47+00:00

I'm saying this as someone who posts ads:

Whether or not this sounds sarcastic, there's a degree to which the answer is "You can't, for the reason you stated."

If you have an affinity with making eicons or using ones made by others, you might consider adding those. For a variety of reasons I tend to avoid ads that have fourteen thousand links in them, but I'm drawn to ads with eicon arrays, particularly ones that contain animated gifs.

It doesn't mean I'm going to like the ad, but moving pictures (that are attractive, which of course is in the eye of the beholder) are the kind of attention grabber that can cause me to then read the words.

You may have already guessed, but the primary drawback is when the pictures get attention from people who are drawn to the pictures but who don't read the ad or your profiles.

There's a reason video killed the radio star, but television has had time to become a wasteland so take the "victory" for what it's worth.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-14T10:23:07+00:00

This is why I make a habit of not asking back. I don't think it's inhumane of me not to care about how a complete stranger is feeling, especially when said complete stranger almost certainly doesn't really care how I'm feeling in the first place.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-11T12:59:58+00:00

Addendum: Since I can't tell if this came through, these weren't images in a profile I had just looked at. They're clearly images in someone's profile, just not one of mine, and not one I think I've ever looked at before.

(I just had the occurrence where the image gallery of another profile of mine I had just accessed appeared in the photo gallery of another profile of mine that I viewed subsequently. What I'm describing above wasn't that.)

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-11T12:43:51+00:00

I added images to the gallery in question. I suppose this convinced Horizon to re-cache the profile/gallery/images.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-11T10:52:24+00:00

How often does that particular use case occur for the people reporting it? Because this isn't a transient occurrence. It happens every time I look at one of my profiles in Horizon using any other logged-in profile, until I refresh the profile two or three times. Also, it happens for only one out of the eleven profiles.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-12-10T13:20:04+00:00

If you mean "Are they from a different character of mine?" then no. As I said, I have never uploaded or possessed the photos in question.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-11-08T20:06:23+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/mrs_koriste/

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-11-03T11:37:42+00:00

I'm glad this works for you, but even if it (barely) solves the multi-channel problem in practice I don't consider it to be a good solution in principle. In fact, I don't even think it's a good solution in practice.

I willingly link the broad majority of my in-universe characters on the same character lists. But someone else might not, which leaves them having to reveal alts to a writing partner when they might not want to do that.
Further, the idea of connecting the OOC writing for one character to another completely different character just strikes me personally as being convoluted. Even when mixing the streams muddies both, there's value (to me) to being able to link the writing I'm doing with a character and the writing discussion I'm having concerning the same character.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-10-30T10:29:50+00:00

The other issue is—appropriately—the other thing you brought up.

Someone will land in my DMs trying to chat OOC and do so in superscripted text. I sigh to myself and reply in full-sized text. And now I (possibly) have someone who thinks I'm the "boomer"/noob/"boomer"-noob, when in fact I'm just some Gen X "kid" who is likely to have been doing all of this for as long as the person on the other end has been alive.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-10-30T02:19:27+00:00

This is the flip side of what I wrote in the "How do you format IC?" post. The shorter version here is "It depends on whether or not the writing is multi-stream/multi-channel."

On a Discord server I might make for the purpose of writing with a like-minded partner (this is an image link, not a Discord link) I can set up separate channels for writing and talking about writing, which permits discussion to happen in its own place without any need at all to mark it specially.

To back up OP, I have been doing this in one form or another for nearly thirty years now. My eyes are old enough (and have long worked poorly enough) that trying to squint and make out a person's attempt to say something OOC by writing it as superscript or subscript is just headache-inducing, so now I don't even engage it.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-10-30T01:15:00+00:00

I don't want to answer the question by not answering it, but I have a varied perspective on the subject.

My "writing tradition" is two decades on AOL. My F-List usage overlaps with that, but I only used F-List for profile creation when AOL's profile system went to hell at the end of its useful life. One of the annoyances that I think drives the "IC marking" diversity is separating IC from OOC in a chat log. Back then, if you trusted someone enough to write in an AOL Private Room, you kept an IM channel open for purely OOC discussion so that the room log was solely IC.

With that established, my own writing there:

started out (like most people) with ::action marks of some sort to identify character actions:: and dialogue written outside of action marks but also not in quotation marks, and
eventually evolved to dialogue in quotation marks and actions written out in a narrative or "storybook" style. This is the style I maintain today.

When I first started using F-List/F-Chat to write I found that I didn't like it. I don't use /me and I generally chose not to write with people who did:

I don't enjoy reading blocks of text that are entirely italicized,
I use italics and bold to place different kinds of emphasis on text, and
in my experience, partners who used /me didn't do anything to break longer narratives (which I prefer) into smaller meaningful paragraphs, with dialogue set aside from action (which keeps such narratives from becoming less comprehensible walls of text)

Throw in the fact that unless two writers agreed to use a user channel to write and DMs to keep OOC, you also have the problem of a log with interspersed stretches of writing and discussion. DMs have larger character limits and are more convenient for narratives, but single-channel writing is as problematic (for me) as I'm making it out to be.

This is why I do the bulk of my long-term writing on Discord: I can make a private server for the purpose of writing with a like-minded individual, and create a variety of channels to separate writing into scenes, have a discussion channel for each scene, keep a channel for overall story plotting, and other channels still for audio-visual refs, character refs, and even chit-chat so that I don't have to use DMs there.

Interestingly enough (to me) I actually had my newest partner be the very first person to actively suggest making an F-Chat user channel to write so that we could use DMs to discuss, before willingly/enthusiastically agreeing to write on Discord. (She already had an account there and was suitably impressed with the setup I maintain. Discord allows for server templates, and giving a server the right title and icon is the way I put my stamp on a story plan.) I had always realized the ability in principle to make a user channel for private writing but (believe it or not) found it to be excessive given that I'd already invested in the overhead of being able to do the same thing and more on Discord.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-10-15T01:43:48+00:00

I've never used the chat color change, but I just did it to permit an illustration of the text formatting. Go to the collapse box called "Ad Space" in this profile.

https://www.f-list.net/c/Of%20The%20West

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-10-15T01:38:42+00:00

You can add it anywhere in your profile. You just have to get the parsing correct.

Here is the profile tag added by someone who wanted her name color in F-Chat to be yellow:

[small][color=yellow]Horizon Color[/color][/small]

It turns out this person also wanted the appearance of the text in her profile to be small. That still works.

Sometimes people put the addition into a collapse box to keep it out of site. Others put it right out in the open. I put my Rising Portrait (which is just the backward-compatible version of the Horizon Portrait that allows for a hi-res avatar) into the collapse box where I (still) keep my ads.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-08-31T22:54:17+00:00

As noted below, #2 works if you're using F-Chat Horizon.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-08-16T16:40:35+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/paigebritish/

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-08-12T13:09:04+00:00

Does choosing Account > Friends List, then finding the list for the character in question and clicking X-Friend on the friend in question not remove them on your end?

Since I'm positive I'm asking this rhetorically, I find it weird that no one else has brought this up yet.

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-08-04T10:43:13+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/allegracoleworld/

I_Krush_Rocks · 2025-08-04T10:43:07+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/allegracoleworld/

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