Monsieur Volont,

Thanks for joining in on this, and yes, that avatar is unmistakably "The Way" - touche! ("Tao" in English).

I'm especially grateful for your sharing your experience in attempting to prolong an LD, and having it 'devolve' into script, as it mirrors a similar anomaly of my own (If only inversely).

In a recent LD, I was attempting to communicate a day and date to a DC, and unfortunately was unprepared enough that I had to calcuate it in my mind. So, as I normally would, I thought of the day's current date, which day of the week it was, and began "counting" forward (i.e: IF today is Friday the 9th, THEN Saturday will be the 10th, etc.).

To my dismay, I felt myself being drawn out of the LD with every attempt at calculation. Luckily, it was only three days I needed, but I figured that my merely attempting to use higher analytical function (like math) was enough to knock someone out of an LD. (And perhaps can provide a possible "escape hatch tehnique" to exit a nightmarish LD?)

But its also sort of another chicken vs. egg conundrum... Did you recognize a fading LD as "script", or was my attempt at working with a sort of script (#'s) responsible for fading mine out? (Hmmmm...)

Thanks,
Legend

(...and Kudos to Deja... I found that saltcube OBE/LD timer... now just gotta work dem kinks out ).