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Outlander

Book Lovers

Woohoo!  Outlander Season 3 is finally here!  Voyager is one of my favourite books in the series so I'm really looking forward to this.  To celebrate, here's some fun:

Stephen King: The Writer's Voice

Book Lovers

I haven't read any of Joe Hill's work yet so I'll have to look him up.  In the meantime, here's more about his dad: The essential Stephen King: a crash course in the best from America’s horror master

QH: What are you producing? What do you require?

QH Discussions

Raising goats is a lot of fun!  You'll find Sombra's general instructions here .  At the most basic level you just have to keep them fed & watered.

Also check out the Adpot-a-Goat program if you'd like some starter goats

I end up devising some amusing personal challenges with mine.  The first was to start with a pair of multi-cross verr and see how many colours I could breed (8 out of 9 - I never managed to breed a Northern from scratch).

Then I played with raising all 9 original colours using the least number of feeders (5 feeders).

Now that two additional colours have been added, I'm trying my hand at raising a "rare" verr using a male multi-cross and my stock of purebred females.

If you have any specific questions just yell!

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 10 Aug 2017 08:33:03AM

Smithing Challenges

QH Challenges

Isn't it just!  Congratulations, Ardrhys!

Stephen King: The Writer's Voice

Book Lovers

I have! A most enjoyable read with, as you say, a glimpse into his life.  I'd like to say that it improved my writing skills but not so much (and not his fault!).

Do you have a favourite SK book, Mansur?

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 09 Aug 2017 03:41:22PM

QH: What are you producing? What do you require?

QH Discussions

I wasn't all that pleased with the verr breeding issues myself.  I had just reduced my flock (from having purebreds of every colour) to a modest four colours and the breeding bug put a damper on my new breeding direction.  I never did manage to get any help with it but fortunately it seems to have worked itself out now.

With renewed enthusiasm, I'm now trying to breed a "rare" verr using a multi-breed male & my purebred stock.

I'm still trying to access the impact of the "extra-crafty" direction.  Mostly I've adjusted but I really do miss being able to buy/sell things like seafood individually for coins.  Selling one salted lobster in a basket is just overkill so everyone has switched to selling in bulk and because of the extra steps involved (getting a box/basket, getting salt) mostly everyone is selling for L$.  Not sure Sombra anticipated that.

QH: What are you producing? What do you require?

QH Discussions

It's the brand-new Digital Farming System .  Elisabeth has been trying the beta system and seems to be enjoying it.  Perhaps she will post more about it.

Game of Thrones ~ A Song of Ice and Fire

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Daenerys is No Hero

If you think Daenerys is a hero, you haven’t been paying attention. She might be the biggest villain on Game of Thrones and we don’t even know it. (Well, we might after the Loot train battle.)

An interesting article from Jamie Adair giving us a different perspective with references to conquerors through the ages including Alexander the Great & Henry VII.

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I'm really enjoying this season so far. Seems like I've been waiting forever for Arya to get payback against the Freys and I'm loving all the Stark reunions.

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@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi I haven't read his other works, I'll have to give them a try.  I can understand how you could become "weary of all the guts".  I doggedly continued because I wanted resolution - something I'm just getting now with the TV series.

QH: What are you producing? What do you require?

QH Discussions

The idea behind the "QH Manager" is to generate demand.  The manager will buy only with coins and tries to spread sales between QH Members that are selling out of vendors in the QH Market.  This works to a certain extend but is limited by what can actually be resold which fluctuates wildly.

I believe that most of the cooking staples are available for coins in the QH Market.  In my experience they don't sell all that quickly so we started selling in bulk as well though that is usually for L$.  Perhaps bulk cooking staples sold for coins would be an idea?

Milk is now tricky to sell because of the expiry date.  I have lots of it and would be happy to sell in bulk for coins if there is a demand.

There seems to be a demand for:

• All variety of tools made by the blacksmith - it's actually hard to keep these in stock
• Iron ingots, scrap metal, scrap wood, nails
• Boxes (especially D, F & G)
• Bulk Grain (50 or 100)
• Kalana 1. 4. 5
• Rence 3
• Salt

Not sure about baskets & jars as most people seem to be making their own.  What do others think?

We've been trying to encourage "Fresh" Weekends so that people don't have to process their items.  I'm still looking for more ideas on that.  The two carts at the front of the market are designated for fresh items and I would be happy to send out notices when people have fresh goods to sell.

Elisabeth mentioned the DFS system and I'm all for selling that out of the QH Market as well.  I'm looking forward to hearing more about it.

Thanks for starting this conversation, Una.  I'm looking forward to hearing from other members

Updated: Added more items in demand as I though of them.

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 08 Aug 2017 08:23:31AM

Foray Literary Society notes and plans

Communty News & Events

I very much enjoyed the Foray meetings that I attended, Merry.  Thank you so much for hosting them!

I do hope you are feeling better soon.  All the best for you & your family.