Migrating game data and fan fiction to blog

[ebatalis]

Good evening to all, we have taken the initiative to migrate our data that has been so far posted on a facebook page wall onto a blog on its own, we would love you to participate as actively as you all seem to be with ideas and maybe thoughts of your own. We own BR net a great deal since most data mention on the basis are on awsome ground here and its a standing stone on which we have harbored our own game. On our blog you will be able to find besides our game data some historical reference and we would urge you to participate with maps, fan fiction, maybe even characters you love so we can all benefit from the cooperation. I would like to spot out that what we refer to is played in real time and we keep an accurate track of history so we plan to also expand the story Anuire in our own parralell universe.

Do visit us in "cerilianet.blogspot.gr"

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[Vicente]

The website looks awesome, congrats! :)

[ebatalis]

I welcome the good word, we are open for fan stories, characters, storyline ideas etc, if you wish to write publicy let me know

[Muaadeeb]

It was a very enjoyable ride on your fan fiction site. Two thumbs up!

[ebatalis]

My idea is to house more players fan fiction or campaign storyline events, I plan to create a page per storyline so I can house storyline Ideas in cooperation with storytellers.

[AndrewTall]

Out of curiosity, why not post your stuff on a separate website rather than on br.wiki or in the bard's corner?

[ebatalis]

I am, most of the stuff we create we are double sharing it on BR net also, if you cross reference all stuff concerning fan fiction and some others are posted already on BR net, we are trying to sort out a page on our own in order to make in some chronological way the data of our storyline events and keep general posted stuff there, for instance the achievement story of one character it may not interest the casual reader of BR net but it would interest our small community so we need a reference for that. Its obvious that we are sharing the same prospect here and its also understandable that it would be a mess to keep posting meta data for our campaign in general every day. :) We love and support BR net with both thumbs up!!!!!!!:p

[ebatalis]

I have just upload the diary of one of the players and it contains the records of demise of one of Anuire's most powerful Lords. 3xA for the script.

[AndrewTall]

we are trying to sort out a page on our own in order to make in some chronological way the data of our storyline events and keep general posted stuff there, for instance the achievement story of one character it may not interest the casual reader of BR net but it would interest our small community so we need a reference for that.

You need a campaigns page (or possibly a user page) as an index probably, add a campaign banner to each page and people should be less likely to be confused. If you are worried about something "far out" causing confusion chuck on a fanfic banner.

Do you know how to set one up or would you like me to do it for you?

[ebatalis]

Hit me, I would be glad if you could/would do something like that, I can do the migrating part

[AndrewTall]

Hit me, I would be glad if you could/would do something like that, I can do the migrating part

I started hacking out a front page that could be accessed via the campaigns index (which is itself found via the bottom of the main wiki page).

One problem is what to call it - Atlas of Cerilia is already "taken", so I used Birthright AoC as a placeholder.

The page layout is currently very basic, I had a look through your pages and very crudely sorted them into three groups - that grouping would be easy to change though as you can cut and paste the list item.

Are you ok making regular pages or do you want me to knock up some templates?

I note that the page naming convention will need to be "AOC name" or whatever campaign name abbreviation you wish in place of AoC as otherwise the wiki will link it to a pre-existing page or otherwise confuse everyone.

[ebatalis]

The work is awsome on your part, I would love to see some of your custom templates and let your imaganation free to work. I will help with the post data transfer and it will be awsome and cool. Thanks again

[AndrewTall]

My point was are you happy with the name, etc - I can set up a template for you to 'port the text into fairly easily as once one is done and you are happy with it, it is just a copy and paste job to get the others done with the same formatting, banner, etc. What would be a pain is to do several of them and then have to move the pages because the naming convention was sub-optimal.

I can't remember how to upload photo's (I know, sorry, I have no excuse), but otherwise did the example page for Almaric's Retinue look ok to you?

I note that I tend to like lots of "white space" so I put in extra lines between the paragraphs, I'm not sure if it's necessary with the current background etc, let me know what you think.

[Sorontar]

I am a little confused Andrew. Is this feeder index page (Birthright AOC) supposed to be for one campaign, or all campaigns, or just their "seed" data (ie. information about what sets up the scenarios for the campaign)?

Sorontar

[AndrewTall]

Just their's.

The "problem" is the name which is very open "Atlas of Cerilia" which I took off their website for want of something more obvious to use, I shortened it to AoC in part to try to avoid the issue.

I'd use the campaigns index page, or category page for all campaigns.

[AndrewTall]

Ebatlis, do you like the name "Birthright AOC" or do you want something else? Its a pain to rename pages so I'd rather get it right at the start.

[ebatalis]

The Name is fine, I will be waiting with anticipation

[AndrewTall]

I've put some more page templates up for you to copy stuff over, I'm not sure in retrospect if you wanted the NPCs done on the normal template (see Edric Boeruine) or whether you just want the fluff text up - have a look and let me know what you think.

The link to Edric and Dylanna from the main AOC page works, I don't know why they are still shown as red but they do work!

I need to look up how to upload images so that I can upload your pictures. I always left pictures to Ken and never actually figured that out!