The ship "Without Name" finally slides below the surface of the deep, broken and defeated.
Distressing images from the Sea of Terror of the Sefyric Ocean override your senses, depicting the final moments of Without Name as it sinks beneath the waves, crewless.
2017/03/18 07:10:25 - Achilles, Anedhel, Auvar, Baenor, Farrah, Frederich, Laniara, Rafiel, Siduri, Torinn, Vender, and Xaden have destroyed The ruins of Blackjack room in the Pheidas Parlour.
- 2017/03/18 07:10:21 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Rafiel's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder. - 2017/03/18 07:10:35 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Siduri's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder. - 2017/03/18 07:11:15 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Frederich's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder. - 2017/03/18 07:11:19 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Auvar's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder. - 2017/03/18 07:11:31 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Achilles's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder. - 2017/03/18 07:11:39 - Xaden's life has been frozen and shattered by Magus Ellaer LeBlanc, Whiirh's Whisper. - 2017/03/18 07:11:46 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Vender's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder. - 2017/03/18 07:11:46 - Baenor has been slain by the might of Johen, a young cardshark. - 2017/03/18 07:11:49 - Baenor's life has been frozen and shattered by Magus Ellaer LeBlanc, Whiirh's Whisper. - 2017/03/18 07:11:51 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Vender's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
Whew. Blew it up as guards were walking over. Hot damn.
The fiery husk of a demon blazes across the sky, igniting a radiant path as it streaks West before smashing into Mhaldor Isle in a cloud of smoldering ash.
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "You are sending Me gifts now?"
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "Keep your talons out of affairs You have no capacity of understanding."
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "Oh, little Fire Sprite, I understand more than You will ever know. Regardless, I have what I need."
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "If You understood, You would be here, fighting."
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "Instead, You remain there, plotting and scheming to achieve meaningless domination."
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "These "plots" you speak of are the only thing that has kept your precious creation from being utterly destroyed!"
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "For all yoru vaunted protection, you continue to deny the obvious. That My way is the only true way!"
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "The many personalities that take up residence within You have clearly driven You further into Your delusions. When You are ready to be of use, You will be worth My attention."
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "Of course, assuming You haven't been wiped from existence yet again."
A chuckle echoes across the planes, the ambient temperature raising briefly with the Righteous Fire's amusement.
I'm a bit confused but very intrigued and quite sour I missed it.
And I love too Be still, my indelible friend That love soon might end You are unbreaking And be known in its aching Though quaking Shown in this shaking Though crazy Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
Possibility of divine conflict is 90% of the reason I started Achaea.
It was so great in the earlier days. Like, pre-Targossas and before.
We had old Neraeos who was arguably one of the best godrole players in any MUD ever - who drove long, arching storylines of his own reckoning related to the Sea stuff, triton citystates, caspeid's scheming against each other, basically gave life to the ocean entirely on his own. Prophecy from denizens would drive storyline arcs and the like, so on.
Divines screaming at each other over shouts was a relatively common occurrence, as were the Orders scrambling to fill whatever interests those spats would cause. It wasn't like this all the time, but it was definitely there, compared to the past 1-2 years where we've not really had much of the Divine contestation stuff that really brought Achaea alive except rather tantalisingly during events like the sargassum plague and the Black Wave stuff.
I miss it. I really do. I get looked at with scorn for wanting to be spoonfed content when the entire Divine conflict stuff is the vast majority of the reason I started playing Achaea in the first place. It pains me to see the pantheon so relatively empty. Not having a Babel to your Deucalion sucks so bad, there's SO much potential for incredible shit there.
It'd also be great if I could join an Order with a Divine that doesn't either go inactive and cycle players or get killed.
There's plenty of involvement from certain gods. How many gods are actively involved at any given time has always varied, though. It's easy to say things used to be better, but unless you were in particular orders, I don't think it was much different. It does suck for the Babelites not having a god for so long.
Weren't you in an order with an active god and you quit it?
I think he means gods active and involved in each other's business. We are getting a family all gathered around the table at Christmas sharing strained small talk in itchy sweaters trying not to mention Lorielan's new boyfriend or how Aegis needs to lose some weight but really... really we just want to see some Jerry Springer shit.
Deucalion's accidentally burned the turkey in the kitchen. Aurora's busy trying to fix the god damn logosmas tree lights (they just keep flickering out!) You know you saw Twilight come in, his car's still outside, but you're not sure where the fuck he is now. Aegis is getting a bit of a pot-belly since the divorce, and doesn't really want to control Pandora who's probably the one that set the oven to a higher temp than it was supposed to be. Lorielan's on her 4th or 5th boyfriend (and she swears that HE'S the one). He probably kneels down and proposes and everyone's awkwardly looking away at the almost immediate "No." Prospero brought so many gifts for folks. Namely the children. Especially the children. Sartan came in with his like 4 kids and they're all behaving properly, but if they step out of line he beats the shit out of them infront of everyone. It probably needs CPS called. Vastar and Neraeos are arguing on the back porch again over which is better, Aviation or Nautical stuff. They have sweaters to match their views. Gaia & Artemis came in matching floral dresses and are probably that cool lesbian aunt you have that spoils the ever-living fuck out of you. Scarlatti is singing logosmas carols and inviting everyone to join in, only Phaestus does (and he's pretty fucking hammered). It still sounds okay. Ourania came in with Twinkles as well. You're not sure where she went either...
Deucalion's accidentally burned the turkey in the kitchen. Aurora's busy trying to fix the god damn logosmas tree lights (they just keep flickering out!) You know you saw Twilight come in, his car's still outside, but you're not sure where the fuck he is now. Aegis is getting a bit of a pot-belly since the divorce, and doesn't really want to control Pandora who's probably the one that set the oven to a higher temp than it was supposed to be. Lorielan's on her 4th or 5th boyfriend (and she swears that HE'S the one). He probably kneels down and proposes and everyone's awkwardly looking away at the almost immediate "No." Prospero brought so many gifts for folks. Namely the children. Especially the children. Sartan came in with his like 4 kids and they're all behaving properly, but if they step out of line he beats the shit out of them infront of everyone. It probably needs CPS called. Vastar and Neraeos are arguing on the back porch again over which is better, Aviation or Nautical stuff. They have sweaters to match their views. Gaia & Artemis came in matching floral dresses and are probably that cool lesbian aunt you have that spoils the ever-living fuck out of you. Scarlatti is singing logosmas carols and inviting everyone to join in, only Phaestus does (and he's pretty fucking hammered). It still sounds okay. Ourania came in with Twinkles as well. You're not sure where she went either...
pls explain the concept of Whocalion to scrubs who were playing another IRE when it happened
Just the time period when we technically had a Deucalion, but he was legitimately almost never around and even when he was, didn't have much of a presence outside his order. We didn't get an actually active, visible Deucalion until just recently.
One of the things that made him so great was that he took an interest not just in his own Order but in other players as well, if they were interesting or had potential, he would always go out and interact with them. He also wasn't above just messing with players for the fun of it. I'm 90% sure any gnomish world emotes was due to him being bored.
My frequent complaint was that Gods have become increasingly insular and there's a high turnover rate (well, that's perennial really) but some of these God-players wind up coming back to being players because really...
Wait God's can come back? I thought once you were a God you couldn't play as an adventurer anymore.
You can't play the two at the same time, but since player character isn't retired, technically it can be resumed once the God retires.
Correct. Including Celani, but IC there is 0 links, and many years ago it was very frowned upon to share if you became a celani. Not sure how long ago that was though, just remember it was very hush hush.
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Torinn, Vender, and Xaden have destroyed The ruins of Blackjack room in the Pheidas Parlour.
- 2017/03/18 07:10:21 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Rafiel's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces
his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
- 2017/03/18 07:10:35 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Siduri's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces
his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:15 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Frederich's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces
his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:19 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Auvar's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces his
dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:31 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Achilles's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces
his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:39 - Xaden's life has been frozen and shattered by Magus Ellaer LeBlanc, Whiirh's
Whisper.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:46 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Vender's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces
his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:46 - Baenor has been slain by the might of Johen, a young cardshark.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:49 - Baenor's life has been frozen and shattered by Magus Ellaer LeBlanc,
Whiirh's Whisper.
- 2017/03/18 07:11:51 - Withdrawing his cutlass from Vender's chest, an Ashtani corsair denounces
his dying foe with a witty rejoinder.
Whew. Blew it up as guards were walking over. Hot damn.
smashing into Mhaldor Isle in a cloud of smoldering ash.
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "You are
sending Me gifts now?"
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "Keep
your talons out of affairs You have no capacity of understanding."
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "Oh,
little Fire Sprite, I understand more than You will ever know. Regardless, I have what I need."
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "If You
understood, You would be here, fighting."
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "Instead,
You remain there, plotting and scheming to achieve meaningless domination."
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "These
"plots" you speak of are the only thing that has kept your precious creation from being utterly
destroyed!"
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "For all
yoru vaunted protection, you continue to deny the obvious. That My way is the only true way!"
The firmament burns with white-hot fire as the pure, baritone voice of Deucalion calls out, "The
many personalities that take up residence within You have clearly driven You further into Your
delusions. When You are ready to be of use, You will be worth My attention."
Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "Of course,
assuming You haven't been wiped from existence yet again."
A chuckle echoes across the planes, the ambient temperature raising briefly with the Righteous
Fire's amusement.
RIP Babel
I had a feeling you'd be elated ^^
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
got gud
There's plenty of involvement from certain gods. How many gods are actively involved at any given time has always varied, though. It's easy to say things used to be better, but unless you were in particular orders, I don't think it was much different. It does suck for the Babelites not having a god for so long.
Weren't you in an order with an active god and you quit it?
Also, @Deucalion is awesome.
@Sartan seems pretty cool too.
Deucalion's accidentally burned the turkey in the kitchen.
Aurora's busy trying to fix the god damn logosmas tree lights (they just keep flickering out!)
You know you saw Twilight come in, his car's still outside, but you're not sure where the fuck he is now.
Aegis is getting a bit of a pot-belly since the divorce, and doesn't really want to control Pandora who's probably the one that set the oven to a higher temp than it was supposed to be.
Lorielan's on her 4th or 5th boyfriend (and she swears that HE'S the one). He probably kneels down and proposes and everyone's awkwardly looking away at the almost immediate "No."
Prospero brought so many gifts for folks. Namely the children. Especially the children.
Sartan came in with his like 4 kids and they're all behaving properly, but if they step out of line he beats the shit out of them infront of everyone. It probably needs CPS called.
Vastar and Neraeos are arguing on the back porch again over which is better, Aviation or Nautical stuff. They have sweaters to match their views.
Gaia & Artemis came in matching floral dresses and are probably that cool lesbian aunt you have that spoils the ever-living fuck out of you.
Scarlatti is singing logosmas carols and inviting everyone to join in, only Phaestus does (and he's pretty fucking hammered). It still sounds okay.
Ourania came in with Twinkles as well. You're not sure where she went either...
One of the things that made him so great was that he took an interest not just in his own Order but in other players as well, if they were interesting or had potential, he would always go out and interact with them. He also wasn't above just messing with players for the fun of it. I'm 90% sure any gnomish world emotes was due to him being bored.
My frequent complaint was that Gods have become increasingly insular and there's a high turnover rate (well, that's perennial really) but some of these God-players wind up coming back to being players because really...
RIP Babel please come back.