The Pipe in Action

This is where what comes through the pipe is shown. Everything here is a snapshot. The game saves its data at logout, quit or reload, so what you see is as fresh as the last time a character left the world. Combat is the exception, because the game writes its combat log while the player fights.

What the pipe carries

For each character, the digest holds where they are, their money, gear, bags and quests, a file of recent events, a file on how they fight, and a timeline in order. A journey story is built from that material, together with the screenshots and captions the player sends, and ends with a short factual block.

An example