Or there's also a possibility that he was never meant to keep it anyhow, and Faite knew it already.





It's amazing how dependent one gets on tools, though. Lara would have a hard time adapting to not having energy based powers anymore (and she has to temporarily whenever she drains it completely, for a short while).

There are only two characters of mine that bothered to diversify. Liu Xi learned a few spells in case her elemental power fails (because it's been defeated so many times, she learned to adapt). The other is Chiaki.

You'd think Chiaki uses the sword like a crutch, but it's more like an accessory. Her earliest training was using a plain bamboo stick, training her body and mind first for discipline, reaction time, and maximizing her physical strength. The sword is added later as an accessory. Out of anyone, Chiaki is probably the close to the best physically trained and mentally disciplined.





He's going to be the next Chronicler?





That's partly what I meant by he's used to Yuki.





That's exactly the kind of thing Chiaki can train him for. Chiaki also has a weakness close-up, because in reality she's small and not very strong. But she *will* fight, blindingly fast, and very violently, nevertheless.





I also have to decide if Lara wants to try to help or stay out of the way until he gets through the anger stage. He's likely to lash out at friends until then, and say things he doesn't mean.








Noted.








This is turning into a real head-scratcher. I loaded the page so far in IE6, IE8, Firefox 3.6 (I couldn't find an older one) for Windows and Mac, Opera for Mac, Google Chrome for Mac, Safari for Mac and Windows, and Safari for iPhone (via Wifi and 3G). I also tried connecting both of those to 3G instead of Wifi to get a slower connection. In all cases, the page loaded fine.

So at this point it's all guesses. I dramatically increased the page load timeout in case something *really* slows it down, so the web server won't give up trying to send it. If that doesn't work I'll try making the web server send the pages compressed so they transfer faster and hope that works.

Other than that, maybe there's a network issue that's causing missing pieces of data. I'll have to set up a traceroute recorder to figure this out before emailing Support again.

In the mean time though: I noticed your story post encases everything in a TABLE. The problem with that is, when IE or Firefox time out loading the contents of the table, it simply doesn't display it at all. In the future there's a more modern HTML directive to make that work better:

(replace the parenthesis with HTML brackets)

(div align=center)(div style="width: 95%; text-align: left; font-face: Lucida Sans Unicode; color: 808090") place your text here (/div)(/div)