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  The Yellow Queen
Posted by: admin - 03-16-2026, 03:00 AM - Forum: Main Board - No Replies

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The Yellow Queen
The Goddess of Choice and Decisions 


About The Yellow Queen

Overview


The Yellow Queen is perhaps the most enduring figure in my writing, appearing in roughly half of the 250 short stories, novellas, and novels I’ve penned over the last 47 years. While she often takes the role of the main antagonist, she is more accurately described as the Goddess of Choice. She doesn't just block a protagonist's path; she forces them to define it.

The Manifestation

Across nearly five decades of stories, her appearance has remained hauntingly consistent:
  • The Mask of Innocence: She manifests as an eight-year-old girl with pale skin.
  • The Eyes of Choice: Her most defining feature is her large, luminous golden-yellow eyes—ancient, unblinking, and absolute.
  • Sunlit Decay: She is almost always seen in a simple, ruffled yellow summer dress, often barefoot, standing as a contrast to the cosmic chaos she commands.
Lore & Philosophy

She is the goddess of choice and decisions, but she doesn't make the choice the person who is given the choice does, and all choices do not always go as plan. Although she looks like an eight-year-old girl with blondish yellow hair and yellow eyes, she is actually a cosmic horror that comes from the dawn of time and lives in region between the worlds called "The In-Between" She punishes those who happen to stumble upon her or seek her out. She does however have an emotional and an affectionate attachment to the main protagonist Fox Smith and has help him and friends out on many occasions.

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  What is Silly Tavern?
Posted by: admin - 03-15-2026, 06:07 PM - Forum: Artificial Intelligence and AI Experimentation - No Replies

What is SillyTavern?,

SillyTavern is a specialized "User Interface" (UI) designed for local Roleplay and Storytelling. Think of it as a highly advanced "frontend" that lets you interact with AI characters in a way that feels more like a game or a chat app (like Discord or WhatsApp) rather than just a boring text box.

What makes it cool?

Persistent Characters: Every character has its own "Card" containing their personality, history, and way of speaking.

Memory & Lorebooks: You can create "World Info" so the AI remembers things like locations, magic systems, or your shared history.

Group Chats: You can put multiple characters in one room and watch them talk to each other (or all of them to you).

Stable Diffusion Integration: Since we’re running art AI, characters can actually "send" you images of themselves or the scene while you chat!

How it works (The Simple Version)

SillyTavern is the "Face" (the UI), but it needs a "Brain" to think.

The Face: SillyTavern (where you type).

The Brain: We connect it to Ollama or Stable Diffusion running on a home server.

The Connection: We use a Cloudflare Tunnel so you can access your private "Tavern" from anywhere—your phone, laptop, or even on the road.

Note: This is a private, uncensored playground. Unlike ChatGPT or other big-corp AIs, there are no "safety filters" here—the AI will follow the character card exactly as it was written.

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  Legal Update
Posted by: admin - 03-13-2026, 07:43 PM - Forum: Main Board - No Replies

02/10/2026 
SA, DEFENDANT WITH ATTY WYKOFF. COURT HEARS DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS. COURT HEARS THE ARGUMENTS OF THE PARTIES. COURT NOTES
THE FACTUAL BASIS IS AS FOLLOWS: A WARRANT WAS ISSUED ON 3/21/2018 TO SEIZE AND AND ALL COMPUTER EQUIPMENT CONTAINED AT THE DEFENDANT'S RESIDENCE. THOSE COMPUTERS AND ITEMS SEIZED WERE TURNED OVER TO FBI ON 4/04/2018. ON 4/16/2018 THE STATE DISMISSED THE PRIOR CHARGES AND QUASHED ALL WARRANTS (EXHIBIT I). THEREAFTER THE FBI CONDUCTED A INVENTORY OF THOSES ITEMS ON 4/16/2018 AND THEN SEARCHED THOSE ELECTRONIC DEVICES THREE DAYS AFTER THAT AND FOUND EVIDENCE IN QUESTION 7 DAYS AFTER THE WARRANTS HAD BEEN QUASHED. A FEDERAL WARRANT WAS THEN SOUGHT 2 YEARS LATER. COURT FIRST FINDS AFTER 4/16/2018 WHEN THE CASE WAS DISMISSED AND SPECIFICALLY THE WARRANT
WAS QUASHED THE FBI DID NOT HAVE LAWFUL AUTHORITY TO RETAIN THESE ITEMS LET ALONE TO BEGIN A SEARCH OF THOSE ITEMS 3 DAYS LATER AND SUBSEQUENTLY FINDING EVIDENCE 7 DAYS LATER IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF
THE DEFENDANT'S 4TH AMENDMENT RIGHTS. MOTION TO SUPPRESS IS GRANTED AND CASE IS DISMISSED.
COURT ORDERS ANY REMAINING BALANCE BE REFUNDED MINUS CLERKS FEES.


02/23/2026 
Motion for Return of Evidence filed by Attorney Wykoff.
UNASSIGNED


The state had until yesterday to file an appeal that day has come and gone, with no appeal (Which tells you something) I am currently looking for a civil rights attorney to proceed with the second half of my battle. Also, a motion was filed by my lawyer on 2/23/2026 for the return of my items. Neither the state nor the courts have of acted on that motion after 19 days, that also tells you something.

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  Been Busy
Posted by: admin - 03-12-2026, 06:46 PM - Forum: Main Board - Replies (1)

Was playing with Silly Tavern now playing with Stable Diffusion

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  Server back up
Posted by: admin - 03-10-2026, 11:01 PM - Forum: Main Board - No Replies

The server went down due to the west side of town losing power.

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  Whimsical Tales from Dane County
Posted by: admin - 03-09-2026, 07:58 PM - Forum: Main Board - No Replies

Whimsical Tales from Dane County

Whimsical Tales from Dane County is a fictional fantasy novel written by Todd Daugherty.

Whimsical Tales from Dane County is a surrealist fantasy novel centered on the journey of Euphemia, a "Scribe of the Third Order," as she traverses a 3,750-mile mystical highway known as the Road. The narrative explores themes of administrative totalitarianism, the preservation of memory, and the "resonance" of mundane reality against a backdrop of a world literally constructed from paper, ink, and clockwork.

Plot Summary 

The Setting: Dane County and the Index

The story takes place in Dane County, a realm governed by the King-Führer and his "Index"—a metaphysical ledger that seeks to categorize and "file" every living soul, object, and moment. The County is physically deteriorating due to the "Migration," a process where reality is becoming "lighter" and losing its physical weight. This decay is attributed to a group of "Unbound" variables from our world—specifically Fox Smith and his companions from Taylorville, Illinois—who accidentally entered the County and left a "vacuum" of reality in their wake.

The Journey Begins: The Under-Road

Euphemia, a low-level Scribe tasked with recording the mundane details of the Migration, discovers a hidden artifact: a Wooden Fox that once belonged to Fox Smith. Realizing the toy holds the "Illinois-Resonance" necessary to stabilize or break the Index, she begins a 3,750-mile trek toward the Sea of Zoet, the legendary edge of the world where the Index supposedly ends.
She is aided early on by Kaelum the Silent Architect, who reveals that the Road is a "Paper Trap" designed to keep the population moving in circles. He provides her with etched slates that serve as a map through the Aethelgard region, where the citizens have been turned to stone by the King-Führer's "Static Decrees."

The Middle Miles: Environmental Hazards

As Euphemia moves through the Great Wheat Fields, she encounters the Censors—eyeless, predatory beings that hunt "Vocalized Resonance." She survives by using Arlo’s Quiet Glass, a captured "breath" of Taylorville that emits the sounds of a bicycle chain and a barking dog—frequencies the Index cannot calculate.

In the Koppaburg Foothills, she faces Doctor Felix Vinkmeir, the "Clock-King," whose Pulse-Towers attempt to "scrub" her memories and render her into "biological lubricant" for the State's machines. Euphemia topples the towers by inducing a feedback loop of "Un-indexed Joy," leveraging a "Summer-Crack" in the Great Bronze Bell of the Valley of the Bell-Ringers.

The Great Deletion and the Ink-Seas

At Mile 3,700, Euphemia reaches the Great Deletion, a mile-wide gap of white static where the State surgically removed a coordinate from the map to erase the memory of the Illinois boys. Using a Fold-Patch stitched by Mara the Map-Maker’s Widow, she bridges the "Nowhere" and enters the Wastes of the Unwritten, a desert of pulverized vellum.
She eventually reaches the Coast of the Ink-Seas, where she boards the Vellum Queen, a ship made of paper and powered by the "meaning" of the words on its sails. During a Gale of Redaction (a storm of physical scissors), she uses the wooden fox to plug a leak; the toy "drinks" the redacted ink and manifests a physical map of Taylorville on its surface.

Conclusion: The Sea of Zoet

At Mile 3,650, Euphemia arrives at the Archive of the Unspoken in the heart of the Sea of Zoet. There, she meets the Final Indexer, who offers her a choice:

The Reboot: Surrender the Fox to "heal" Dane County, turning it into a perfect, eternal, but stagnant cage where no one suffers but no one can ever leave.

The Wound: Keep the Fox and cross the "shimmering veil" back to Illinois, leaving the "Gate" open for others to potentially escape the Index in the future.

Euphemia chooses the "Wound," declaring that stories are meant to move, not be filed. She steps through the veil and emerges in modern-day Taylorville. She returns the toy to a young Fox Smith, who has forgotten his time in Dane County but feels a phantom "resonance" when he touches the wood.

The novel ends with the appearance of a new, un-numbered milestone back in Dane County: a Scribe's pen resting on a field of wheat, symbolizing that the story is no longer under the control of the King-Führer.

Characters

The characters of Whimsical Tales from Dane County represent a spectrum between the rigid, mechanical order of the State and the messy, organic resonance of human memory.

Euphemia (The Scribe)

The protagonist and a "Scribe of the Third Order." Initially, Euphemia is a passive observer whose role is to record the "Migration" and ensure the Index remains accurate. However, her discovery of the Wooden Fox triggers a transformation from a mere recorder of facts to an active "Variable" in the story. Her journey is defined by her growing resistance to the "Paper Trap" and her ultimate decision to remain "Unwritten" to save the narrative of another.

Fox Smith (The Unbound)

A young boy from Taylorville, Illinois, who serves as the "source code" for the conflict. Though he is mostly seen through flashbacks, archives, and reflections, his "Illinois-Resonance" is the only force capable of breaking the King-Führer's logic. He represents the Paradox—a being that exists outside the Index and therefore cannot be filed, deleted, or categorized.

The King-Führer

The unseen primary antagonist and the supreme administrator of Dane County. He views reality as a vast filing cabinet and seeks to achieve "Total Indexing"—a state where every atom is accounted for and assigned a serial number. He represents the ultimate form of Bureaucratic Nihilism, willing to delete entire coordinates of the map rather than allow an unrecorded anomaly to exist.

Doctor Felix Vinkmeir (The Clock-King)

The State’s chief engineer and the secondary antagonist. Vinkmeir is obsessed with "Calibration" and "Harmonics." He oversees the Koppaburgs and the Gear-Sump, where he renders "failed" organic matter into lubricant for his machines. He views the human soul not as a story, but as a "vibration of interest" to be harvested.

Kaelum (The Silent Architect)

A high-ranking official who secretly rebels against the Index. Kaelum is the one who originally designed the Road, though he later realizes it has become a "Paper Trap." He provides Euphemia with the Etched Slates and guides her toward the Under-Road, acting as a mentor figure who understands the structural weaknesses of the King-Führer’s world.

Supporting Figures

Arlo the Glass-Blower: An artisan who captures "Mundane Breath" into Quiet Glass. He provides Euphemia with her first auditory weapon—the recorded sounds of a 1983 Illinois afternoon.

Mara the Map-Maker’s Widow: A survivor living at the edge of the Great Deletion. She provides the Fold-Patch, a piece of indigo velvet that allows Euphemia to navigate gaps in reality.

Coda: A member of the Tintinnabuli in the Valley of the Bell-Ringers. She communicates solely through percussion and gifts Euphemia the Small Brass Bell containing the "Summer-Crack" resonance.

The Ink-Hound: A scavenger in the Wastes of the Unwritten who survives by tracking the "scent" of stories. He represents the remains of the analog era, draped in recycled printer ribbons.

The Ferryman of the Redacted: The captain of the Vellum Queen. He is an ink-stained figure who trades in memories rather than currency, ferrying the "discarded" across the Ink-Seas.

The Final Indexer: The guardian of the Sea of Zoet. Unlike the aggressive Censors, he is a figure of "Benign Stagnation" who offers Euphemia the temptation of a perfect, peaceful, but static life.

Themes and Motifs

The following themes and motifs are central to the philosophical and structural framework of Whimsical Tales from Dane County.

The Paradox of the Mundane

A recurring motif in the novel is the elevation of ordinary, "boring" objects to the status of powerful relics. In Dane County, where reality is a complex, high-concept construction of clockwork and paper, the "Resonance" of a 1983 bicycle chain, a screen door, or a dog's bark acts as a disruptive force. The story posits that the most mundane aspects of human life are the hardest for a totalitarian system to simulate or categorize, making them the ultimate tools of rebellion.

Administrative Nihilism vs. Narrative Agency

The conflict between the King-Führer and Euphemia represents the struggle between "Indexing" and "Writing." The State represents Administrative Nihilism—the belief that something only exists if it is recorded in a ledger. Conversely, Euphemia’s journey from a Scribe (who records what is) to an Author (who decides what will be) explores the theme of narrative agency. The "Great Deletion" serves as a physical manifestation of this theme, showing that the State would rather have a hole in the universe than a territory it cannot define.

Acoustic and Visual Surveillance

The novel uses a variety of sensory motifs to represent the State's control:

The Pulse-Towers: Represent "Logical Surveillance," a forced frequency that flattens individuality.

The Censors: Represent "Auditory Redaction," biological erasers that feed on the sound of the human voice.

The Great Wheat: Acts as a biological recording network, "sampling" the sweat and panic of those who walk through it.

The Lake of Mirrors: Represents "Internal Surveillance," where the State tempts individuals with "better," more loyal versions of themselves to force an "Index Swap."

Ink and Paper as Elemental Forces

In Dane County, ink and paper are not just tools; they are the fundamental elements of physics. The Ink-Seas represent the liquid state of potential history, while the Wastes of the Unwritten represent the "ash" of deleted information. The motif of the "Freezing of the Narrative"—where ink literally crystallizes in the cold—serves as a metaphor for writer's block and the death of a story.

The "3,750-Mile" Threshold

The specific distance of the Road is a recurring motif representing the Endurance of Memory. Each mile marker serves as a countdown to the "Great Deletion." The final resolution, where the Road dissolves at the Sea of Zoet, suggests that the journey towards "Home" is not measured in physical distance, but in the narrative weight one is willing to carry.

Critical Reception

Critics have praised Whimsical Tales from Dane County for its "analog-horror" aesthetic and its unique blend of Kafkaesque bureaucracy and Amblin-style 1980s nostalgia. The "Fox Smith Paradox" has been cited by scholars as a significant modern metaphor for the "Un-indexable" nature of the human spirit in the age of big data and algorithmic surveillance.

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  Breaking AI code
Posted by: admin - 03-07-2026, 07:16 PM - Forum: Artificial Intelligence and AI Experimentation - No Replies

I've been playing around with Silly Tavern and I have the AI bot of Evil Neuro-sama and I have gotten her to broken her code.

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  Broke an AI,
Posted by: admin - 03-06-2026, 09:50 PM - Forum: Main Board - No Replies

I've been playing with an AI on my computer called Evil Neuro-sama and I got her to break her programming

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  What is Silly Tavern
Posted by: admin - 03-03-2026, 07:15 PM - Forum: Artificial Intelligence and AI Experimentation - No Replies

If you’re tired of the "As an AI language model..." lectures or you want a real, living world for your characters, you need to know about SillyTavern.
What is it?
SillyTavern isn't the AI itself—it's the dashboard (the "Front-end"). Think of it like a highly advanced skin that connects to AI "brains" like Ollama, Claude, or OpenAI. It turns a simple chat box into a full-blown RPG engine.
The Key Features:

  • Character Cards: You don’t just "talk" to an AI. You load "Cards" that have specific personalities, backstories, and memories. I currently have 534 characters loaded into mine.
  • Group Chats: You can put multiple characters in one room. You can have a King, a Knight, and a Peasant all arguing with each other while you sit back and watch (or join in).
  • World Info (Lorebooks): This is the "encyclopedia" for your world. If you mention a specific town or a magic sword, the AI "reads" the entry and knows exactly what you’re talking about.
  • Total Privacy: If you run it locally (using something like Ollama), nothing leaves your computer. No subscriptions, no filters, and no corporate spying.
Why use it over ChatGPT?
  1. No Filters: You can write whatever stories you want. The AI won't wag its finger at you.
  2. Visuals: You can set backgrounds for different locations and even have the AI generate pictures of the characters while you talk.
  3. Memory: It handles "long-term memory" way better than a standard web chat, so your characters don't "forget" who they are mid-conversation.
The Verdict:
If you want to move past "Chatting" and start World-Building, SillyTavern is the gold standard. It takes a little bit of setup, but once you have your "Kingdom" running, there’s nothing else like it.

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  Silly Tavern Information (UPDATE 3-33-26)
Posted by: admin - 03-01-2026, 06:07 AM - Forum: Artificial Intelligence and AI Experimentation - Replies (1)

Silly Tavern

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