Blast from the past!

Rho

Last I heard Shallam blew up and my dear Silas was still causing trouble. What's new since ~2008ish? Is anyone I knew and loathed still around? Do any of you young bucks even know who I am?

Tecton

Well, that's it, the place has gone to hell. Sorry guys, I'm shutting down Achaea.

Trevize

Rho said:

Last I heard Shallam blew up and my dear Silas was still causing trouble. What's new since ~2008ish? Is anyone I knew and loathed still around? Do any of you young bucks even know who I am?

The hell have you been? Like seriously. Now Silas is on player pics flirting with every decent looking guy, they sunk Shallam and made a new city ON WATER, the Good Gods went and got bloodsworn!

In short... yeah, not much has changed.

Good to see you! Back for good?

Rho

Hang on there cowboy, I'm too old and addled to get back into Achaea. I don't have the 70 hours/wk it took to drive everyone up a wall and I don't want to Jordan-on-the-Wizards this whole thing. I was just curious about what the current status of the game is and how the following folks (among others!) are/are remembered:

Silas
Tenebrus
Saltaern
Verrucht
Veldrin
Katia
Latus
Amunet
Flair
Cain
Hieyoko
Ephram
Gondus
Xenomorph
Darroth
Pretty much anyone on the old Fun! clan

If I've forgotten your name, please blame my shoddy memory and not a lack of affection and comment away!

Cooper

Hey Rho,

Two of the people on your list are the same person. I bet you can't guess which ones.

Rho

I know that, supercooper, I just couldn't remember if anyone else did. Both superlative, separate characters though.

Rho

Also, don't be afraid to comment if you're a newjack that has some info about something/someone that you think I might remember. Nostalgia is my drug and a need a fix! Who knows, I might show up in game and burn your character on a pyre for the light or something!

Tesha

You should come visit every now and then! Shallam got deleted and we have an awesome new city and amazing Aurora and Deucalion now. The old good gods are gone. The city is amazing; it's hardcore good and very militaristic.

Silas is leading the city and he's doing pretty great. Only one that's really around much on your list. Veldrin and Darroth pop in from time to time too.

Ellodin

thanks for the churchfavour

Rho

Hah, forgot about that. I used to cause a little bit of a ruckus with all that favoring I used to do, but I loved having a serpent loose cannon in the church. Nice to see you!

Terra

The old Chaos faction (including Flair and Amunet) QQed and was replaced with Eleusis (Jhui, Narcos, Gyrth, Yiwen. Rangor didn't get the memo).

Idk if you know who I am but I switched sides like the backstabby traitor I am and converted to heretic-burning Goodness.

The Te'Serra got killed off. Now we have a badass warrior goddess and a naked, flame-wreathed man (http://www.achaea.com/image/deucalion-the-righteous-fire) as our gods.

Jovolo

Tesha said:

You should come visit every now and then! Shallam got deleted and we have an awesome new city and amazing Aurora and Deucalion now. The old good gods are gone. The city is amazing; it's hardcore good and very militaristic.

Silas is leading the city and he's doing pretty great. Only one that's really around much on your list. Veldrin and Darroth pop in from time to time too.

Pretty much this. Verrucht is still around. He's the Imperiate of Cyrene and in an Eleusian House. Very quiet, other than that. Flair logs in from time to time. Silas is basically the only active one from your list around.

Rho

Sounds quite a bit more Rho-like than when he was a Tarah-rist. How does he feel about burning people and books alive?

Iocun

Tesha said:

Only one that's really around much on your list. Veldrin and Darroth pop in from time to time too.

Verrucht is perfectly active as well. Katia, Ephram, Gondus, and Xenomorph are ranked, but I don't know how much they are around. Xenomorph might have gone dormant. Cain was active until a while ago, but seems to have vanished again. Amunet ragequit some time ago.

Rho

Good to hear about Verrucht, he was wonderful (no matter how often he frustrated my in-game plans). I'm sure he's doing a great job in Cyrene. Silas, as we all know, is a degenerate slacker.

Rho

Side note: are any of these names still talked about? It'd be tragic if the exploits of Achaea's greatest thief (and possibly character-of-all-time) were forgotten.

Iocun

Oh, sure. Tenebrus is still the iconic thief, to me, Flair the archetypical Babelite, and everybody knows Cain for his laptop throwing prowess and Latus for his hairy legs!

I guess the newer players who never met some of them may not be aware of their achievements quite as much, but there are still enough old folks around to keep the memory alive. (Of you too, no worries!)

Florentino

I reference Tenebrus in a parable about ambition I teach novice Naga. 

Rho

Glad to hear it, he and Katia were legit terrors in their day. I don't know where theft/breakins stand now, but I doubt there was a property in game they hadn't been in.

Triak

Katia a terror?  Only when she spoke.

Trilliana

Outside of breakin thefts, theft has been changed to pickpocketing (which works on denizens too) but us old people tell stories about how theft used to be and why it's important to have theft prevention.

Last I remember (I haven't been around because they killed off Selene.... and a lot of other Gods) Ephram was still around on occasion.

City warfare has changed, you can -sanction- raids, and IIRC they're automatic if the enemy is around for a certain amount of time. Border skirmishes are still around, but they aren't as annoying.

The Good Gods are a lot more strict about the laws of Good, which is a good thing because it was kinda wishy-washy to me. Annnddd uh I think you were around for Blademasters, but there's Alchemists too now (another curativemaking class that are tied to the cities they live in, forestals either got grandfathered into their city or had to go rogue or to Eleusis.)

Hyperlith

There's moar Meropis and minipets. Definite game-makers.

Carmell

Targossas the new city of Good is going great.  We're still waiting on our new houses but HOPEFULLY they will be in soon.  We all work well together and there is no infighting because we all have the same goals.

Iocun

Triak said:

Katia a terror?  Only when she spoke.

Particularly on the serpent class channel!

Lianca

Flair is a legend, we over on faction doomsday teach about him. He pops in to make us swoon now and then too.

Skye

Hi Rho. man I feel old.

Rho

You think you feel old? I just babysat for two kindergarteners whose parents were in high school when I was playing Rho.

The last thing I remember before going inactive was the introduction of ships, which until that point we assumed were just a Divinely joking way of saying "never." (E.g. "When will we get artie herbs?" "After ships get put in!")

Caladbolg

Lol holy crap I was trying to remember who Silas was married to for the entire history before Targossas yesterday. and now here you are!

Synbios

Rho said:

Sounds quite a bit more Rho-like than when he was a Tarah-rist. How does he feel about burning people and books alive?

The only question you need to ask is: Rare, medium, or extra-heretical?

Melodie

Crap, it's Rho.

Excuse me, manning the torches and pitchforks and starting up the referendums.

Siduri

Ohai! Best customer ever! I went dormant, then woke up and you were gone. No good doing this to me.