Still Living
Oh, hello.
With The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim coming just around the corner (okay, it’s half a year away, but it’ll be here before you know it), I’ve decided I should, you know, maybe bring some closure to this little blog that has been dribbling along intermittently since 2007 (!!!).
Sorry for all the delays, once again, and thanks to anyone who is still hanging in there.
Last night, I reinstalled Oblivion, and restored all my Nondrick saved games and mods (I’d uninstalled everything a while back to try out some sort of full-conversion mod thing that I wound up never playing). It crashed regularly for about a half-hour, but thanks to some inspired tweaking and the incredibly useful Oblivion Mod Manager (Thanks, OMM, you’re a damn miracle), I finally got everything running, loaded up my last save, and once again peered into the ugly face of Nondrick P. Cairk’tir.
He’s still there, waiting patiently. Beaker, too. They’re both fine and ready to continue, and so am I.
Here’s a picture from last night.
So. The blog will ride on again, picking up wherever it left off. Not sure when the next real post will be, but maybe in a week or so. I will guide this experiment to some sort of ending, and I will make an effort to do so before the release of Skyrim in November. That is my goal.
Thanks again for sticking around (if anyone has indeed stuck around), and I hope to continue the non-adventure shortly. Meanwhile, my wife and I are doing some pop-culture blogging over at my new(ish) site, Screen Cuisine.
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June 10, 2011 at 2:57 pm
I haven’t been visiting the site, but it’s been sitting in my Google Reader ever since…
June 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Hooray for Google Reader. I’m in the same boat as ronaldroe.
June 12, 2011 at 12:20 am
Same here, but in my case it is Feedreader.
June 14, 2011 at 8:44 am
Been also patiently waiting via Google Reader.
June 10, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Chris, you are a beautiful human being. I (like to think I) speak for the entire Hiatus crew when I say we appreciate all your work and do not wish to force you to continue. Closure is all we really wanted. We look forward to your future posts, Nondrick or otherwise.
OI, GUYS! HE’S HERE!
June 10, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Yes, I cannot wait for new posts! RSS feeds 4 lyfe.
June 10, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Thanks to the magic of RSS, your adventure has been rekindled in my mind, just as fresh as the day I first saw it
Looking forward to more posts!
June 10, 2011 at 3:02 pm
I’ve been reading Nondrick adventure since the beginning and I was starting to fear his demise….
Do not know if I’m the only one left around but please go on
Keep Nondrick Alive….please.
June 10, 2011 at 3:03 pm
jesus about frickn time
June 10, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I think you should do a recap post if possible.
Last I remembered you were making him a mage/apprentice?
Glad to see it back though! I occasionally stopped back everyone once in a while to check, sigh, and skulk off back into the darkness.
Looking forward to the next epic adventure! =D
June 10, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Chris I thought you actually died, like for real.
June 10, 2011 at 3:11 pm
I would like a full and complete refund of my subscription fees for the time period of February 16, 2010 to yesterday. Thank you for your cooperation in this regard.
June 10, 2011 at 3:20 pm
I just checked Google Reader and let out an audible “Holy shit.” Glad you’re finishing!
June 10, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Holy christ i think my life just got three times better!
June 10, 2011 at 3:49 pm
*waves hi*
June 10, 2011 at 4:29 pm
YAY!
June 10, 2011 at 4:31 pm
I am please.
June 10, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I too am please. Thank you.
June 10, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Hnggggggg.
Thank you, Chris. I will faithfully await your new post.
June 10, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Welcome back, Chris! I was afraid that you were dead, or even worse, no longer making hilarious blogs about video games. Although I’m thrilled to see this story continue, part of me still wishes that Nondrick had been killed by Beaker that one time. Would have been the perfect ending to this story, but I’m sure that an even better ending is in the works.
June 10, 2011 at 6:15 pm
An update?!
Do my eyes decieve me?!
Awe – Fucking – Some.
June 10, 2011 at 8:53 pm
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Oh wow, after firstpersonshouter dissapeared off the internet with no warning I’d assumed you’d sworn off the internet forever and gone to live in the forest. Although, that is not too unlike Oblivion so I was part right, I guess.
June 10, 2011 at 10:27 pm
He’s BACK. And only a couple of weeks after my little reminders on his new site…
June 10, 2011 at 10:59 pm
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo much love right now
June 11, 2011 at 3:08 am
When I looked at my RSS Feeds and saw this, my mind was blown at seeing an update.
June 11, 2011 at 4:29 am
OMG Thank you Google reader. I CANNOT WAIT for more nondrick!
June 11, 2011 at 7:09 am
Midget speaks the truth. I can imagine this blog has become more of a grind than maxing one’s skills on an MMORPG, so take your time with the updates. Truth be told, I’d have settled for Alchemist’s Code to be the end.
Just please don’t lock the comment section.
June 11, 2011 at 8:31 am
Seconded, dupersude. What else would we do in our free time? Something productive?
June 11, 2011 at 8:44 am
I have clicked my bookmark link for over a year, each day hoping for an update. Finally it happened
June 11, 2011 at 10:28 am
May have squealed slightly.
I back dupersude’s proposal.
Holy shit this is exciting, guys (and look at all the new faces that aren’t KTR it’s so beautiful oh man).
June 11, 2011 at 11:25 am
But will any of them stay to talk?
Oh and why does everyone hate me?
I even stopped trying to kill you as this is much more important!
June 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm
My infantonium is complete.
I caused this to happen.
June 11, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Hey B-Bop.
Your new symbol reminds me of a swastika.
This is all.
June 11, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Arreh, you should check out Jackrabbit’s icon. It practically IS a Swastika.
Oh, and hi, everyone.
June 11, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Hi guys. *hugs*
Arreh, this is the same symbol I’ve always had, and all this time I’ve been telling myself that it’s not a swastika and that no one could possibly think it is.
Good to be back though. So
June 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm
NO. FREAKING. WAY!
June 11, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Did jackrabbit not leave us? Or is he hiding somewhere?
June 11, 2011 at 9:08 pm
He is not in my hole. ;0
June 12, 2011 at 4:52 am
HAH! Something productive… It almost sounds like you said that as a viable option.
Also, 3 seconds to scroll down and 0 lag on my iPhone. Feels good, man.
And hey, it’s Blackbird! I don’t believe I ever had the pleasure of directly meeting you.
So, hi.
June 12, 2011 at 7:24 am
Hi, dupersude. It’s quite an honor.
June 12, 2011 at 9:07 am
To fill you in on B-Bop, dupersude, she is like a new person but not shit.
June 12, 2011 at 9:19 am
I’m a new person and I’m not shit.
June 12, 2011 at 9:26 am
Nicest thing said about me all day.
Yay!
June 12, 2011 at 11:11 am
I’m sure B-Bop was here before? Or i’m I mistaken. :s
June 12, 2011 at 11:43 am
B-Bop, I am fairly certain those are kindest words you have heard all year.
Especially when they come from a Hiatus Crew member.
Also, hi, B-Bop.
June 12, 2011 at 11:48 am
I think he means that I’m RELATIVELY new. But I have been here a while.
Which reminds me, doesn’t it feel strange to not be in italics?
June 12, 2011 at 11:57 am
Oh, shit, B-Bop, I did not realize that until now.
It looks much more boring without italics, maybe we can get them back?
June 12, 2011 at 2:30 pm
You can try, but we don’t know of any possible side effects. Do you rally want to risk it? DO YOU?
Hey B-Bop, how’s it been?
June 12, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Literally didn’t even realise there weren’t any italics.
Commence operation break comments section.
June 12, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Hi, Midgie! How I’ve been is much too long a story. How have you been, is the important thing.
Michael, I find it humorous that you want the italics back after all the trouble they caused. So humorous, in fact, that I may indulge in a tasteful, restrained guffaw.
June 12, 2011 at 6:06 pm
So does this give me free reign, to erm [i]break[/i] the comment section?
Did that work….?
June 12, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Nope, HTML TO THE RESUE
June 12, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Just saying hi. Had this in Google Reader and it was nice to see an update
Nondrick lives!
June 12, 2011 at 6:51 pm
I wonder if the all the founders are coming back near the end?
June 12, 2011 at 8:43 pm
With Skyrim around the corner, I feel the need to attempt a blog of my own, and I am faced with a conundrum – buy the PC version and face crappy graphics, choppy framerates, and all the other issues inherent on an outdated machine? Or buy the console rendition and deny myself the ability to take screenshots and download mods?
June 12, 2011 at 10:13 pm
If you have a computer capable of running skyrim then get it on pc as nothing on consoles compare. But if your pc is not good enough get a dazzel (or other capture device) set it to get keyframes every 10 seconds note down when you need a frame the problem with doing that is fucking massive file sizes, And extra hassle of sorting through them so get PC.
June 13, 2011 at 12:52 am
So… how about that new post?
June 13, 2011 at 2:03 am
I know about her, Arreh. I read through the comments that happened when I was gone, so yeah.
June 13, 2011 at 2:14 am
Also, I think you mean we now have italics, though they are slanted to the left. What we had on the previous page was normal. Who broke it now?
June 13, 2011 at 3:58 am
Backwards italics! I can’t live like this.
June 13, 2011 at 4:08 am
We need to figure out how to fix this! I’m going to try in here
June 13, 2011 at 4:27 am
Did it work? Experimentation is important, good on you dupersude for forging ahead! FOR SCIENCE!
June 13, 2011 at 12:22 pm
This Should Fix it right?
June 13, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Right?
June 13, 2011 at 2:18 pm
I only just got the pun, and maybe he tryed reading our posts but the italics hurt his eyes.
June 13, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Who enabled italics, last time? Maybe that person remembers what he did.
Also, verendus, be a gentleman and get the PC version. Since the game is ported (!) from consoles to the PC, I bet any machine can run it (sadly).
June 13, 2011 at 3:34 pm
They are starting to port ES from Consoles to pc well there goes the insanely good quaility atleast i will not need to upgrade my pc as it will look shit.
June 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm
G broke it last time.
And I’m seeing italics as normal.
Apologies dupersude, but I couldn’t just praise B-bop outright. You were my cover.
June 13, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Okay that was me and also totally deliberate.
June 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Aaaand now the capital letter is back. Don’t mind me folks, not as if I’m doing anything suspicious. Except for using the reply function.
June 13, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Tut,tut,tut you should know that every year worldwide the reply button kills 5 people. I am dissiponted with you Arreh.
June 13, 2011 at 11:13 pm
I find myself unable to Break the comment section
This Geniunely displeases me
June 13, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Please work
June 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Midget – In other news, an entire village of orphans was mauled to death and eaten by a pack of slightly-tilted-to-the-right chimpanzees.
WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?!
June 13, 2011 at 11:22 pm
test
June 13, 2011 at 11:27 pm
i hope this works
June 13, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Nope
June 13, 2011 at 11:32 pm
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK
June 14, 2011 at 2:39 am
One of my big pet peeves: when people think “at least” is one word. If this applies to you, don’t take it personally. Just fix it.
Arreh: I’m flattered by your efforts to not compliment me <3
As for the italics, wasn't it G that broke it last time? G, can't you just do the same thing again?
June 14, 2011 at 3:48 am
So html actually works here? I would expect a block to have tag breakers or something. Huh…
June 14, 2011 at 3:50 am
Blog, excuse me. I can’t type tonight.
June 14, 2011 at 4:07 am
li.comment{font-style:italics;}
Attempt #2… A little more round-about.
June 14, 2011 at 4:51 am
The human race is truly a wondrous thing. Ten thousand years of the advancement of civilisation, culminating in the ability of a group of people from all sides of the globe banding together under one purpose: to slightly ruin a blog.
We are gods.
June 14, 2011 at 6:47 am
Hey, whatever keeps us out of the crackhouse.
June 14, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Woooh! XKCD!
Hey there’s an idea, let’s discuss our favourite webcomics. To take our minds off the lack of italics and, you know, keep us out of the crackhouse.
I’ll start with the aforementioned XKCD. I’m also a big fan of Cyanide and Happiness, but my two favourites are Ctrl+Alt+Del and Questionable Content. Beyond that I haven’t done too much exploration. I tried a few others but was put off by various things, such as art styles and jokes which I either
a) couldn’t get
2) didn’t find funny
iii) I just wanted to bring this listing system back.
June 14, 2011 at 3:44 pm
I can’t really rememebr what I did last time
June 14, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Maybe i’ll find my post and copy and pasta the html, removing all but the italics…
June 14, 2011 at 4:35 pm
But the crackhoouse is so fun! Also italics who needs them other than people who spend days staring at their screen waiting for somone else to comment on a (previously) dead blog.
June 14, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I have been paitiently checking this site about once a week for what seems like forever. Thank heavens you’re back. I was unsure if checking on the site was insanity on my part, but then you did take a while to post the Alchemist code, so maybe you just had a really long release schedule. So, check back I did and I was rewarded. I look forward to reading your next post. Nondrick is like Ziggy for the digital age.
June 14, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Who is Ziggy?
June 14, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I began following Nondrick’s Non-Adventures last night, well into the morning… I am very, very impressed. Start these going again, I say! But!
I think you should begin a new character, with new goals and quirks, beginning (bear with me here) in a different location (Leyawiin?). I know everyone loves Nondrick, but he is a relic for the ages. Leave the dead in the ground. The dog has had his day, et cetera, [insert more analogies here].
I want to see what more you can come up with!
June 14, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Boys!
Kill the heretic!
June 14, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Done and done i knew the Pit to Lama Hell was worth the rent.
June 15, 2011 at 2:02 am
Yes, he shall be crucified and tortured as is customary in the Church of Goat.
And G, I’m just going from memory here, but I think last time you used an open tag (obviously without the space). For some reason though, wordpress isn’t breaking that way any more. They must have fixed it :<
June 15, 2011 at 2:34 am
Technology marches on. Are we still doing webcomics? LFG, OOTS Darths & Droids. A surprising number of D&D based stuff, given I don’t actually play it myself.
June 15, 2011 at 3:01 am
June 15, 2011 at 3:13 am
I read LFG to the latest entry a few years back, and haven’t been back since. I think it was at about 80 strips in. What’s oots?
June 15, 2011 at 6:25 am
Really not a fan of Ctrl-Alt-Del. Read it fairly avidly for a year or two when I was younger, but don’t like it or its creator much.
C&H is awesome, though.
June 15, 2011 at 6:45 am
The only one i read regularly is DBM but i am going off it as they keep having crappy specials and the writer is a bit of a prick.
June 15, 2011 at 11:37 am
I’ve heard others say the same, Arreh. About Tim Buckley that is. Not sure why though.
June 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Don’t tell me you other didn’t read the first part of dupersude’s comment in you-know-who’s voice.
June 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-black-goat-fur-coat-vest-outwear-jacket-S-M-L-Q44-/180678616561?pt=AU_Womens_Clothing_2&hash=item2a1148e5f1#ht_4168wt_857
AN INTERVENTION MUST BE MADE.
June 15, 2011 at 2:28 pm
I shall buy it and then we shall give it to the holy goat as a sacrifice.
June 15, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Kill them.
Yeah WordPress keeps fixing it self, i’m just going to italicize everything I write, to feel normal.
Also, Dr.McNinja anyone? Or i’m I the only one…..
June 15, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Was meant to italicize that, but forgot.
Sorry.
June 15, 2011 at 4:08 pm
We must pick up our pace of breaking wordpress it is fixing itself too quick.
June 15, 2011 at 4:53 pm
I’m pretty much exclusively an XKCD reader. I’ve got it on my google reader feed. Also, I’m disappointed that my style tags didn’t do what they were supposed to… Why is CSS broken when everything else works so well?
June 15, 2011 at 6:28 pm
No idea but like i said the only web comic is frequent is DBM
June 16, 2011 at 12:54 am
Wow. Just… wow. After all this time it’s finally updated. Okay, guys (and girl) I want you all to get a glass of wine. Go on, I’ll wait. Another drink if wine is not available.
Got one? Good. I would like to propose a toast. To everyone here, from those who have been with this blog from the start to those who joined late, to those who even now lurk in darkened corners, sworn never to interfere. You are all absolutely fantastic, brilliant and wonderful. You have brought tears of joy to me on a lonely night and laughter during my brightest hour. I feel a companionship to each and every one of you, one so strong it drove me to come back out of not only a slim chance of an update but because the exchanges that might happen while I was away. You’ve saved my life in so many ways, and nothing I do will ever pay off the debt I owe you, the Hiatus Crew, for simply being here. It’s because of the unyielding presence of this noble crew that has seen this update to the light of day, and, goat willing, many more as well. This crew is, without a doubt, the greatest group I have ever had the pleasure to be involved with, and I just wanted to say that you are just amazing. To think, that when this blog started the concept of the Hiatus Crew would have been laughable. I still can scarcely believe just what has been made from to little, and I simply want to say… thank you. For everything.
TL;DR: You guys are awesome. But you already knew that, didn’t you? Also, I believe now is the time you’re supposed to drink.
June 16, 2011 at 1:24 am
I think I speak for the entire crew when I say…
D’awwwwww. We love you too.
Seriously though that speech made me all warm and fuzzy inside. Being at TAFE I couldn’t go and get a glass of anything to drink so when I got to the end I went and found the nearest drinking fountain.
Here’s to many more months of comment-posting and jack-assery, updates or not!
June 16, 2011 at 1:35 am
Hear hear!
June 16, 2011 at 6:47 am
This is why the Haitus crew rules, they are the only people on the internet who can have a good time with out getting pissed off (except some mild murder).
June 16, 2011 at 8:25 am
http://rain.nxe7.com/
Mmmmm.
June 16, 2011 at 2:18 pm
What was the point of that?
Nice song though.
June 16, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Thanks, Arreh! Great song, great find!
June 16, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Ok, I looked over the code on G’s posts and i’m going to experiment here. It seems he has a malformed italics tag, after which everyone’s posts were confused. “Wait… why was that in italics? I didn’t put them there!” etc. So here’s one more go to break the site!
June 16, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Now to test without a tag…
June 16, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Yoou make me so proud :’)
June 16, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Yay italics. Pointlness is necesary.
June 16, 2011 at 10:11 pm
And we’re back!
June 17, 2011 at 3:27 am
FFFUCK YES I KNEW WE INDUCTED YOU FOR A GOOD REASON.
What was the tag you used??
June 17, 2011 at 6:23 am
He just popped down (inside html coding things) an i, then a space, then a /. Without the full stop.
So there you go.
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 am
Now the ultimate question: will doing it again fix it??
June 17, 2011 at 6:26 am
No. Apparently not.
June 17, 2011 at 6:33 am
Huh that is bloody awesome.
June 17, 2011 at 1:45 pm
It is unfixable
June 17, 2011 at 7:06 pm
*Fix*
Did it work?
June 20, 2011 at 11:59 am
Let Nondrick be reincarnated in Skyrim.
I am sure Nondrick’s many encounters with booze and bar maidens must have ended with at least one night of utter regret (for the girl involved). I therefore see it as plausible that a Nondrick junior might pop up in Skyrim — I am certainly hoping so.
June 27, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Holy shit he updated. I check this site once every month or so and it legitimately freaked me out a little when there was something different.
July 2, 2011 at 9:28 pm
This has always been in my favourites…today I click and discover it’s BACK! YEAHHH!!!
July 4, 2011 at 4:26 am
GAAAH! UPDATES!! OMG!!
*completely freaks out*
July 8, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Ahh! AHHHH! WHAT THE FUCK?!
Dead people can’t post updates!
July 10, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Still alive.
August 11, 2011 at 5:22 am
Welcome back!
I was looking for Skyrim related news and I decided to see if there were any updates and I’m glad I did. That total conversion mod you were talking about was probably Nehrim. While its not a bad mod, it would not have been suitable for a NPC like Nondrick since the NPCs interaction are more or less restricted to quest related dialogs with rather few general dialogs and they speak German which I’m not sure Nondrick will understand.
October 16, 2011 at 3:50 am
YOU CAME BACK! You came back! =’)
November 13, 2011 at 4:28 am
Wait, what? Dude, I thought you DIED. I couldn’t get pentadact to tell me where you went, what the hell?!?
December 6, 2011 at 7:12 am
If anyone is looking for a version of this in Skyrim, click mah name!