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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

 Urania is standing near the door, nursing a drink and enjoying the warmer spring evening. She's staring at the night sky, as she often does - but this time, she's staring not at the stars, but at the moon.

She's been busy lately. 

She's very glad that everything went smoothly, and that the crew of the Artemis II is back home, safe and sound. But most of all, she's happy that she was able to help inspire a sense of wonder and joy for the cosmos in the world again. 

That's her job, after all.

...By which I mean, of course, the only guaranteed four-day weekend.

(Happy Easter / Chag Sameach to everyone celebrating Easter or Passover!)

What was the happiest period of your pup's life, and why?

When Wei Wuxian found his way here, instead of back to the inn he had been planning to stay the night, he had really just been looking for some wine and snacks and maybe some friends to spend some time with.

What he was given, when he had cheerfully greeted the bar, was a treatise on somebody else's spring holiday.

"... So you're telling me there's restless dead?" He asked, scrunching his nose at the idea of working here. He was under the impression that unless he was covering for Bar, that was generally frowned upon.

She tried again.

"Oooooh, there's a bunny yao. Wait, like the ones outside? Not the sort of creatures I'd be celebrating, but that's more of a them problem?"

She tried again.

"................. Laying eggs. Are you terribly sure it was a bunny?"

....

"Are you terribly sure it was eggs??" Look, he's eaten some entirely questionable things in the name of survival and vengence, but that was getting pretty hard up on the limit, and it definitely wasn't festival food.

She tried once more.

"... Oh. Ooooh. You just wanna do the party bit. I can get behind a party." Besides, the whole 'hiding eggs with treats inside' thing sounds like a lot of fun. She presented him with a very large basket crammed full of goodies, a bunch of pastel colored chalk for the blackboard, and one last note.

"Bunny ears? Yeah sure, why not?"

Within half a shi, he had a multitude of pastel plastic eggs hidden around the main barroom, filled with the treats that seemed to be for that purpose. In a few of them he also set up a little talisman to release tiny illusionary bunnies for a few moments. Look, he had the idea while he was making up the eggs and no one should rely on Wei Wuxian to refuse a creative impulse like that, come on now.

After that, he took up the spot behind the bar after properly decorating the blackboard and letting Bar know she could have some time off so long as no one wanted a complicated meal or something. He dumped the remainder of the candy in a giant bowl he liberated from the kitchen, setting it on the bartop for snacking.

He had his wine, he had his current talisman project, and he had some spicy pork dumplings to work through to offset the sweetness of his other treats.

He had also decorated the board. All while wearing the set of ears which Bar had provided for him. Very nice of her to color-coordinate for him.

Happy Egg-Laying Bunny Time!

Lotus Wine
Emperor's Smile
Green Snail Spring Tea


[OOC: As usual:

1. Communication is key.
2. Gratuitous behaviour (either of a violent or sexual nature) will not be tolerated in the bar proper. Take that to an OOM, slap a content warning on it.
3. What happens in the All-Skate, stays in the All-Skates! Unless, that is, it happens between approved game characters and all muns agree.
4. Please don't be a dick.
5. You can ignore the theme if you want, but I hope you'll work it in!]

 How neat or messy is your character? How well to they tolerate messy spaces that are not their own?

Mrgh.

Inspired by the clocks going forwards on the weekend...

How well does your pup deal with jetlag? Do they have any tricks for coping with it?