I started off by working on that calendar error that was giving me the dickens the day before and now everything should be square from BE 382 to 355 (and by extension, the 262 to 235, 142 to 115, and 022 to AE 006 segments of the subsequent three cycles as well).That’s 28 years out of a 120-year cycle. Amazing. (Then I think about the remaining 92 years I have to eventually deal with… -_- )

I then switched gears to get to work on RttW. I made a bit of progress on Chapter 12, but then I got hung up on figuring out how much Pawel and Zofiya would have to spend to get their ten kiddos decently equipped before leaving Axios and then I realized that I hadn’t done character sheets for the seven kiddos besides Fedor, Zsazsa and Arjun. (Actually, nine eventually, as we need to round out the two parties.) When I do the character sheets, I chart their stat growth all the way to Level 80 (whether or not the character actually makes it that far) and as I do it, I try to get into the character’s head and think about what’s important to them, what they actually need for their Job and how all that comes together. For instance, Spirit rating wasn’t a priority at all for Pawel as he was running a Fighter build, but then in Tier 2 he decided to cross-rate to Mage in order to become a Mage Knight in Tier 3, so he had to focus on building up stats that he had completely ignored the previous 30 Levels. Among the new kiddos, there’s this girl Elishavet who’s a Fighter who insists on steadily building her Intelligence stat, not because she needs it that much from a gameplay perspective but because she doesn’t want to be seen as stupid compared to her party members. (Though the INT stat only really applies to intelligence in a meta sense, as a very grouchy Oscarius will tell you if you ever try to make fun of his 4 points of INT, and if that doesn’t work, he does always have his 189 points of STR to fall back on, as that poor table had to demonstrate back in Chapter 5.) Anyway, these are all things I’m thinking about as I work.

As I can expect rather hectic days back at work Friday and Saturday and probably on through July, I really need to get the chapter finished in the next couple days. We’ll see if I can get it done or not. Stay tuned.

I’m not sure why I decided to do it, but I was going back and checking the Korushi Calendar. I was worried about errors having crept into my work, so I decided to change the layout to make it easier to check. Instead of 12 rows of 10, I switched to 10 rows of 12 and finally five rows of 24 to more conveniently display the leap year cycles. (Remember that because I’m a loony, I created a system where there are three different cycles of leap years that all have to be accounted for in a 13-month year that doesn’t follow the same easy to remember pattern as our calendar.) Sure enough, errors started to be found out, but as I would make one round of corrections, I’d find new errors. It was driving me crazy. I was wanting to preserve the year the story takes place, so I’d have to make changes backwards and forwards through each pass. I’m still in the middle of the third pass and will probably at least finish the six years I have to go back. The funny thing is that the particular error I found was occurring at convenient 10-year intervals, where I mistakenly had the month of Arn at 28 days instead of 27. I’d probably just copied from the previous month and forgot to delete the “28”.

With this driving me right up the walls, going to the encyclopedia to write about different governmental systems and such. I’ll spare you the details for now, though. One day I’ll get the wiki up and going and you can read all about it there. Anyway, as I said, I want to at least finish my corrections to the calendar back to the starting point and then I think I’ll actually try to get some writing done on RttW. Stay tuned.