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  • DaslinDaslin The place with the oxygen
    Does this mean there's gonna be a hardcore mode now?
  • JiraishinJiraishin skulking
    I wonder what future players will think of  old Bardics that reference praying for salvation or the murals in the Halls of Maya.
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    The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."

    (Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
  • SynbiosSynbios
    edited December 2012
    Cleaned up version(ninja'ed by Eld, sadly):

    Gripped by the cold embrace of death, you succumb to the darkness...


    Eerie blackness surrounds you; no light penetrates the endless gloom. Only a faint wind makes itself 
    known, drifting across your beaten body with a silken touch.

    With each caress of the persistent breeze your senses heighten, and a chill begins to spread through 
    you with increasing intensity. You give a violent shiver as the cold envelops your very soul, 
    crushing your resolve with a merciless bite.

    At once, the unmistakable presence of death overwhelms all else, and your stomach heaves: the stench 
    of decay is ever-present, relentless, and unforgiving. Tears run down your face as the odour assails 
    the senses, and instinctively you wipe them away.

    With one hand pressed against your nose to bar the smell, you cautiously raise the other, warily 
    feeling into the darkness with outstretched fingers. Emptiness greets you; the world is a bleak, 
    unknown wasteland, and your ears strain for any semblance of sound.

    Far in the distance echoes the faint rush of water. At once, the unbearable need to quench an 
    eternal thirst swells within you, and you turn toward the source. Without thought you submit to the 
    harsh environs, stumbling across the uneven terrain beneath your feet.

    Time becomes immeasurable as you struggle onward through desolation. Moments pass, first crawling, 
    then racing without restraint. The terrain shifts and alters beneath your feet with each hazardous 
    step. Silently you persist, eagerly moving toward satiation with unrivalled desperation.

    The tantalising sound of running water roars in your ears, now deafening in its sweet euphony. Lured 
    onward by the beckoning current, you draw closer, certain your destination lies mere inches from 
    your grasping reach.

    Blinding light flashes before you as a gleaming scythe cuts through the air, the blade halting 
    inches before your drained countenance. "Be still," echoes a formless voice.

    The light fades, dimming to an argent glow, and you turn to face your aggressor. Before you is Thoth,
     the God of Death, His true countenance concealed by a pallid mask. Still you can feel His eternal 
    gaze upon you, devoid of all emotion as He affixes you with a cool stare.

    "Come, Synbios."

    The God of Death inclines His head, and your vision blurs. Dark shadows swirl and blinding light 
    flickers before your eyes, the display churning with unrestrained motion until, with a sudden jolt, 
    all is finally still. The aching thirst diminishes as your eyes adjust, and you find yourself 
    kneeling before the imposing form of the Endbringer.

    "You linger at the threshold of the Soulrealms. Whether cast here in dire purpose, or by unfortunate 
    accident, it falls to Me to consider your fate." The God of Death pauses, inscrutable in His 
    contemplation. Slowly, deliberately, He raises all six of His hands with palms facing outward.


    "It is I who judge your soul, and it is I who deem your journey unfinished."

    Ghostly vapours flow from the fingertips of Thoth, the Endbringer, carving sinuous paths through the 
    air to entwine around you. Your spirit lightens at the touch, every aspect of your being grasped by 
    the formidable will of Death and darkness begins to overtake you once more. Just as you pass into 
    unconsciousness, a single word rumbles through your mind: "Live."

    When you regain consciousness, you are confused about where you are and how you got here. Darkness 
    surrounds you, save for a single candle. A look around tells you that you are in a rough cave, with 
    a single table bearing the candle. An entrance, visible because it is slightly lighter than the rest 
    of the shadow, beckons from across the cave.

    Sitting up from your supine position, you glance at your body and realise it is healed and whole 
    once again. Still reeling in wonder from your experience, you quietly ponder the Endbringer's 
    reasons for restoring you to life, and leave the cave.

  • DaslinDaslin The place with the oxygen
    Actually, this whole thing reminds me of a thing we had to do on another MUD... You had to get globes(were set for certain Gods) and cleanse them, to get, what I just call respawn tokens..... I loved it, added RP to the single-player side of it. Was kinda cool I wish I could get it implemented here, though.
  • AerekAerek East Tennessee, USA
    Delphinus said:
    5.6 Embracing Death

    When you have died, and have no one to resurrect you, you may choose to embrace
    death and stand before Lord Thoth, the God of Death, who has the power to return
    all mortals to life. Typing EMBRACE DEATH will begin the process to do so.

    For centuries, the dead prayed to Sarapis, the Logos, for salvation. When the
    Mother of Humanity, Maya, assumed the mantle of Supreme Creatrix, it was she whom
    mortals begged to return to life. Now Thoth, the Endbringer, watches over the
    souls of the recently deceased.


    ^This is cool.
    It seems like an obvious choice, in retrospect. God of Death deciding who lives and dies, go figure. I'm surprised it took Sarapis and Maya leaving to make the switch.
    -- Grounded in but one perspective, what we perceive is an exaggeration of the truth.
  • KatiaKatia
    Love the new change.. the order of Thoth just had a death party to go say hi
  • ChryenthChryenth
    Worst suicide pact ever.
    I am the description ninja.

  • KatiaKatia
    we didn't have any koolaid, so we just had to butcher each other
  • LyrLyr
    edited December 2012

    Anatral has been slain by the might of Ironbeard the Magnanimous.
    Ayoxele has been slain by the might of Ironbeard the Magnanimous.


    Naughty boys!
  • XerXer Langley
    edited December 2012
    Attacking Ironbeard while he's giving your presents haha. What does Ironbeard give out usually anyways?
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  • EldEld
    edited December 2012
    Xer said:
    Attacking Ironbeard while he's giving your presents haha. What does Ironbeard give out usually anyways?
    Commonly gold, sigils, vials, pocketbelts full of riftables. Occaisonally artefacts.
  • AchillesAchilles Los Angeles
    I got an artie vial from him last time I think.  Would never buy one myself but its nice to put something like restoration in it.
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  • SenaSena
    Xer said:
    Attacking Ironbeard while he's giving your presents haha. What does Ironbeard give out usually anyways?
    Mostly sigils, vials full of elixirs and salves, and gold. Commodities and inks are pretty common too. He occasionally gives artefacts like top hats, daggers of reincarnation, and artefact vials and pipes.
  • KatiaKatia
    I got a badge of returning... I have three collared mounts. If I give one of them the badge, the rest will pout
  • TanaarTanaar
    edited December 2012
    Clearly a sign from above* that you need two more, @Katia

    *Read: buy more credits. Just like the single artefact vials aren't intended to provoke people into wanting a set. Subtle?
  • SynbiosSynbios
    Tanaar said:
    Clearly a sign from above* that you need two more, @Katia

    *Read: buy more credits. Just like the single artefact vials aren't intended to provoke people into wanting a set. Subtle?
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    Let's go find two more, then.

  • DelphinusDelphinus
    ^This explains a lot.
    Achaea world map -- updated regularly
  • VaehlVaehl
    edited December 2012
    ab runelore kena
    Syntax: SKETCH KENA ON <ground/totem>

    Inks: 1 Red

    Symbol: Nightmare

    Inspires fear in an enemy who enters and sees it. It will disappear after one use, unless it is on a 
    totem.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:11:29:177

    ...wait

    what the actual hyphen does a nightmare look like..?
  • VaehlVaehl
    Oh wait...no I got it:

    You remove 1 red ink, bringing the total in the Rift to 25.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:13:31:133
    You begin sketching a kena rune on the ground.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w ekdb-21:13:36:148
    Before two towering mountains (road).
    A noxious, red-hued fog overwhelms the area with a thick, palpable vapour. An occupied iron gibbet, 
    suspended from a wooden gallows, creaks ominously in the breeze. A decaying corpse has been impaled 
    here upon a fifteen foot stake. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. An obsidian eye 
    sigil is here. Lying on the ground is an oaken pipe.
    You see exits leading north, southwest, and up.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w ekdb-21:13:36:665
    Before two towering mountains (road).
    A noxious, red-hued fog overwhelms the area with a thick, palpable vapour. An occupied iron gibbet, 
    suspended from a wooden gallows, creaks ominously in the breeze. A decaying corpse has been impaled 
    here upon a fifteen foot stake. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. An obsidian eye 
    sigil is here. Lying on the ground is an oaken pipe.
    You see exits leading north, southwest, and up.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w ekdb-21:13:37:522
    With a flourish, you finish sketching a kena rune.
    ---------------RECOVERED BALANCE---------------
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:13:37:920
    Before two towering mountains (road).
    A noxious, red-hued fog overwhelms the area with a thick, palpable vapour. A rune that looks like 
    something out of your nightmares has been sketched into the ground here. An occupied iron gibbet, 
    suspended from a wooden gallows, creaks ominously in the breeze. A decaying corpse has been impaled 
    here upon a fifteen foot stake. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. An obsidian eye 
    sigil is here. Lying on the ground is an oaken pipe.
    You see exits leading north, southwest, and up.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:13:38:324
    You smudge the kena rune off the ground.

    ...lol.
  • SynbiosSynbios
    Vaehl said:
    Oh wait...no I got it:

    You remove 1 red ink, bringing the total in the Rift to 25.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:13:31:133
    You begin sketching a kena rune on the ground.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w ekdb-21:13:36:148
    Before two towering mountains (road).
    A noxious, red-hued fog overwhelms the area with a thick, palpable vapour. An occupied iron gibbet, 
    suspended from a wooden gallows, creaks ominously in the breeze. A decaying corpse has been impaled 
    here upon a fifteen foot stake. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. An obsidian eye 
    sigil is here. Lying on the ground is an oaken pipe.
    You see exits leading north, southwest, and up.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w ekdb-21:13:36:665
    Before two towering mountains (road).
    A noxious, red-hued fog overwhelms the area with a thick, palpable vapour. An occupied iron gibbet, 
    suspended from a wooden gallows, creaks ominously in the breeze. A decaying corpse has been impaled 
    here upon a fifteen foot stake. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. An obsidian eye 
    sigil is here. Lying on the ground is an oaken pipe.
    You see exits leading north, southwest, and up.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w ekdb-21:13:37:522
    With a flourish, you finish sketching a kena rune.
    ---------------RECOVERED BALANCE---------------
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:13:37:920
    Before two towering mountains (road).
    A noxious, red-hued fog overwhelms the area with a thick, palpable vapour. A rune that looks like 
    something out of your nightmares has been sketched into the ground here. An occupied iron gibbet, 
    suspended from a wooden gallows, creaks ominously in the breeze. A decaying corpse has been impaled 
    here upon a fifteen foot stake. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. An obsidian eye 
    sigil is here. Lying on the ground is an oaken pipe.
    You see exits leading north, southwest, and up.
    3852h, 2937m, 17600e, 14000w exkdb-21:13:38:324
    You smudge the kena rune off the ground.

    ...lol.

    That helped lots. :D

  • AchillesAchilles Los Angeles
    clearly the rune changes based on ones fears. 
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  • SynbiosSynbios
    edited December 2012
    ^@Sherazad That's a different kind of BBT. Instead of Backbreaker, that dwarf monk used Bellybreaker.

  • VaehlVaehl
    So I draw that out every time >.>
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