The Black Rock Ledger

[420]

Throbble, Cuchulann, and I all found an item called "The Black Rock Ledger, Page #". Each of us got a different page so I thought people could post the quotes from any pages they find and I'll compile them. Just reply with the quote to this thread and I'll add it to this post.

The Black Rock Ledger

Page 4

''Damn, I always thought being a first mate would be more exciting. I guess I shouldn't expect much from a mining expedition. Ever since we set off from Kingsport, all I've done is sit out on deck and watch the deckhands argue.''

Page 8 (added 5/27/2012)

''Haven't been able to get much sleep these past few days. Apparently my sea legs aren't as sturdy as I thought they'd be. I've vomited more times than I can count, and every time Captain Hanso offers me some ale, I have to come up with some excuse to decline.''

Page 15 (added 5/29/2012)

''After three straight days of this storm, I'm almost convinced that this ship has some sort of curse on it. Each week brings some new trouble that I have to deal with. I'm not sure what will give out first, the ship... or me.''

Page 16 (added 5/29/2012)

''Reyes tells me that it was some colossal wave that did the ship in. I was down below when it happened. Several of us survived the wreck. The rest of them have gone off to try and figure out where the hell we are, as if any of that matters.''

Page 23 (added 5/25/2012)

''Madness, complete bloody madness. The captain has disappeared into the desert somewhere, and the rest of the survivors are convinced there's some sort of monster after us. I'm starting to think the crewmen that died in the wreck got the easy way out, lucky bastards.''

Page 42

''All the rest of them are dead now... I'm the only one left. Strange deformed creatures attacked the wreck, where most of us were sleeping. I managed to get away safely... but I don't imagine it will be that way for long. I can hear them... giggling in the shadows, like this is some kind of game.''

-First Mate McMahon

[Mo]

I don't see a quote here

[420]

I don't see a quote here

Hmm, it was there yesterday when I posted it...

Fix your board Mo!

Luckily I'm keeping a separate text file so I can just copy/paste it again.

-420

EDIT: Figured out the problem, putting " in a quotes tag fucks it up. Looking at possible solutions now.

EDIT EDIT: Using double ' instead, this board has suck options for BB code.

[Soul Sojourner]

EDIT EDIT: Using double ' instead, this board has suck options for BB code.

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[Mo]

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I'm quite happy here

[Soul Sojourner]

[Insert harsh words and a raised fist]

[Follow that with a fist through a wall, bloody knuckles, and the urge to urinate]

[Mo]

[Insert harsh words and a raised fist]

[Follow that with a fist through a wall, bloody knuckles, and the urge to urinate]

Life is beautiful man.

[420]

Just added Page 23.

I found the page on a miner NPC that was digging near a shipwreck in the Stinging Winds area of Act 2. He makes a comment about stirring up demons if you touch the ship. Then demons pop up and he dies.

-420

[Mo]

Just added Page 23.

I found the page on a miner NPC that was digging near a shipwreck in the Stinging Winds area of Act 2. He makes a comment about stirring up demons if you touch the ship. Then demons pop up and he dies.

-420

Poor bastard.  How does one increase difficulty level past Normal?  Also Hardcore mode, death is permanent.  What exactly does this mean?  If you die Blizz wipes your char?

[420]

How does one increase difficulty level past Normal?

Works just like Diablo 2. Beat the game in Normal (complete Act 4) then that character can move on to Act 1 Nightmare. Beat NM to move on to Hell and Hell to Inferno.

Also Hardcore mode, death is permanent.  What exactly does this mean?  If you die Blizz wipes your char?

Your character becomes unplayable, all items are lost, you will have to manually wipe it, though it will stay in Blizzard's Hardcore Hall of Fame archive. (I'll post a link when I find it.)

D2 had an option that allowed someone in your party to loot your corpse when you died in hardcore but I don't think D3 has that option. Not sure if hardcore has a shared stash, if so, I expect that the items in your stash are saved if you die in HC.

-420

[Mo]

Works just like Diablo 2. Beat the game in Normal (complete Act 4) then that character can move on to Act 1 Nightmare. Beat NM to move on to Hell and Hell to Inferno.
Your character becomes unplayable, all items are lost, you will have to manually wipe it, though it will stay in Blizzard's Hardcore Hall of Fame archive. (I'll post a link when I find it.)

D2 had an option that allowed someone in your party to loot your corpse when you died in hardcore but I don't think D3 has that option. Not sure if hardcore has a shared stash, if so, I expect that the items in your stash are saved if you die in HC.

-420

Cool thanks!

[cuchulann]

page 8:
Haven't been able to get much sleep these past few days. Apparently my sea legs aren't as sturdy as I thought they'd be. I've vomited more times than I can count, and every time Captain Hanso offers me some ale, I have to come up with some excuse to decline.

guess you can't copy paste much text either.

[420]

page 8:
Haven

Don't rely on the "Preview" button. It does not work as advertised. Your actual post will look nothing like it does in the preview.

-420

[Soul Sojourner]

Poor bastard.  How does one increase difficulty level past Normal?  Also Hardcore mode, death is permanent.  What exactly does this mean?  If you die Blizz wipes your char?

I'm sorry about this, Mo, but it has to be done...
/facepalm

guess you can't copy paste much text either.

Don't rely on the "Preview" button. It does not work as advertised. Your actual post will look nothing like it does in the preview.

-420

Are you guys having trouble with the board, or what's the deal? What are you trying to do that isn't working properly?

[420]

Are you guys having trouble with the board, or what's the deal? What are you trying to do that isn't working properly?

For instance, Cuchulann writes a post and hits the "Preview" button and it looks like it should:

page 8:
Haven't been able to get much sleep these past few days. Apparently my sea legs aren't as sturdy as I thought they'd be. I've vomited more times than I can count, and every time Captain Hanso offers me some ale, I have to come up with some excuse to decline.

Then when he actually hits the "Post" button it looks like this:

page 8:
Haven

Because somewhere between the Preview and Post the board decides that a bunch of non-alphanumeric characters are invalid all of a sudden. (apostrophes, quotes, registered trademark symbol, etc.)

-420

[cuchulann]

I actually did not use the preview button I just posted it. I thought it could handle a line of text with no quotation marks. Clearly I was mistaken. I had to type the entire line out for it to post correctly.

[420]

Added Pages 15 & 16 (thanks Throbblefoot!)

-420

[Soul Sojourner]

Because somewhere between the Preview and Post the board decides that a bunch of non-alphanumeric characters are invalid all of a sudden. (apostrophes, quotes, registered trademark symbol, etc.)

I actually did not use the preview button I just posted it. I thought it could handle a line of text with no quotation marks. Clearly I was mistaken. I had to type the entire line out for it to post correctly.

I am not sure what could be going wrong, I attempted to reproduce your problem four times by copying text from wordpad and notepad into a post with and without formatting and produced perfect quotes.

I attempted once by changing to a font that would not be on this board or website by default, and then copying it and pasting it into the post window. The text reproduced itself successfully without the font style, of course. I also tried it with both using the preview button before hand and without, and also added punctuation in my texts in order to best reproduce the issue to no avail. I made these documents on my computer, typed into them myself, and saved the documents, and then closed and reopened them before attempting any of this.

If nothing else, notepad is about as basic as you can get (ANSI worked for me), if you're having trouble with that I can't imagine what's going wrong without seeing it occur and diagnosing it first-hand. The most I can suspect is some shape or form of formatting or font you might be using that treats these characters oddly, and the attempted reproduction failing as a result.

Here is a link to my test: http://lucidmagic.net/index.php/topic,3499.0.html

[420]

Here is a link to my test: http://lucidmagic.net/index.php/topic,3499.0.html

An Error Has Occurred!
The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.

-420

EDIT: Seems to be working now anyway. No idea what the problem was before.

[Soul Sojourner]

Hmm, guess you can't see the trash can.

[Mo]

-420

EDIT: Seems to be working now anyway. No idea what the problem was before.

Could have been some oddity with your browser at the time.  It will forever be a mystery!