So TribalPages had been threatening to poke me in the eye for the past three years if I didn't up the security of my tree. It finally got to the point where it refused to let me make any changes to the tree until I put the stupid thing behind a password wall, thereby protecting the identities of 450ish fictional characters. The password is Pleasantview (not case sensitive). If you get to the tree and happen to forget the password, the vague hint printed beneath the password field should jog your memory.
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Over the past few days, I have added 40+ names to the family tree, mostly related to the Capp family. I have also changed the colors on the tree (ooo! ahhh!) and updated the text a little. The descriptions were a little Pleasantview-centric and the story is extending its tendrils into other places.
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There is now a brief history of the caste system on the family tree. You reads it here.
(Aww, family.)
You know, considering the number of people who use TribalPages for fiction (I have a few private ones for my novels), they should just have "fictional characters" as a privacy setting.
ReplyDelete(Granted, I do like the privacy settings for the novel trees. Sim stories... meh.)
Interesting bit about the caste system. I wonder what caused the push for it in the first place? All in due time, I know :P
Awww, Naomi and Thackery :)
Ha! You know, TribalPages doesn't strike me as the kind of service that does a lot of market research or makes useful updates based on the research that it doesn't do. Everything about that service feels like 1996 all over again. I mean, there's a guestbook for crying out loud! This is fine though. I know that they aren't exactly raking in the dough and I appreciate that the service exists at all.
ReplyDeleteFor hundreds of years, you were either fae or you weren't. But as faes began to intermarry and the Industrial Revolution saw the rise of real human wealth, it became more apparent to the faes that some humans were better than others. In 1917, it was less taboo to marry a human of a certain sort (*cough*RICH*cough*PARTLING*cough*) than it had ever been before. But you have to keep that other sort of out the bloodline, yeah? Interestingly, the caste system was heralded as an indication of a shift towards more progressive and... well not egalitarian but certainly fair social attitudes. As for the actual events that lead up to forming of the caste system, I might have to save that for later.