- Deleted a bunch of outdated or useless HHELP files. Which was more than you could imagine. - Radically altered our novice programs from HR1 to HR5, keeping the 3-tier progression (HR1 to HR2, HR2 to HR3, HR3 to HR5) but vastly simplifying everything. No essays, no long interviews, encouraged to use WALK TO (landmark) during geography tests...I want brand new players to feel utterly comfortable with our "tasks", which have been reduced to gathering curatives, personal description, a whee bit of House history, etc. I'm aiming for 110% newbie-friendliness. - Dismissed dormant secretaries + novice aides - Tweaked our house credits sales to offer more credits per buyer. Instead of 6cr for HR5, 7cr for HR6, etc, I just made it 10cr for HR5 - HR10 and 15cr for HR11-HR15.
@Aktillum: Are you sure you're not subliminally tempting the other humans into joining your House with all those nice changes?
Totally. We're a very elitist house. I just made the application process for people over 25 much, much easier because I want you to be fooled into thinking we want you. Oh sure, you think its as easy as a brief interview with the HL and then probation at HR3 for a week, but thats only if I actually like you.
Antreus is prone to daydreaming and thus has 'misplaced' quite a few of his works to opportunistic Serpents over the years, including his philosophical Magnum Opus from his time in the Sylvan Guild that he never quote put the finishing touches on: the Quadrivium.. or the Colementatus.. he forgets. Actually, that was my bad ultimately, not poor Antreus.
I digress.
Today:
Serendipitous, like a squirrel who is so caught up in the work of gathering wisdom, misplacing his many storehouses.. Antreus had stumbled upon an old bookshelf containing unfinished works of his that are over 300 years old. A particular work that caught his attention was his first attempt at forensic thanotology. Trying to construct a theory in light of the undead Magisterion discovered in the Underworld.
Emboldened with ever more knowledge surrounding the Tsol'dasi in the years that followed, he can scarcely keep up with his thoughts as he tries his best to commit these frisson theories to the footnotes of his previous writing. Wishing not to lose sight of the vision, he writes anything and everything, hoping he can make sense of it later. Inspiration and nostalgia: lightning striking a forgotten well.
A male voice is heard through the membrane, "Hey, girl."
A male voice is heard through the membrane, "Are you an Apostate? ..because you just tore my heart out."
Today I got a kick right in the feels when interacting with some merpeople during a smallish event, when I was recognized as a (previous) follower of Neraeos. The event itself was small but quite amusing, with a mermaid apparently in love with a human. This particular song was going through my head as I agreed to be tricksy:
While in the middle of talking with them, all of a sudden I just got the strangest tells out of nowhere, too.
Vicious tells you, "Will you marry me?"
You surprisedly tell Dread Emissary Vicious, Thrall of Elazar, "What?"
Jinsun tells you, "You know that you cannot marry Vicious. Your true destiny awaits in the Void."
Caladbolg tells you, "Let Jinsun know he has a little (bleeped for forums)."
Caladbolg tells you, "Do it."
Jinsun tells you, "You cannot fight the Chaos.... IN YOUR MIND."
Caladbolg tells you, "YOU KNOW HE HAS A LITTLE (bleeped for forums) IN YOUR MIND."
Message #5340 Sent by Arditi
11/13/4:40 //no, marry me. i has tentacles.
What a strange day.
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
- Deleted a bunch of outdated or useless HHELP files. Which was more than you could imagine. - Radically altered our novice programs from HR1 to HR5, keeping the 3-tier progression (HR1 to HR2, HR2 to HR3, HR3 to HR5) but vastly simplifying everything. No essays, no long interviews, encouraged to use WALK TO (landmark) during geography tests...I want brand new players to feel utterly comfortable with our "tasks", which have been reduced to gathering curatives, personal description, a whee bit of House history, etc. I'm aiming for 110% newbie-friendliness. - Dismissed dormant secretaries + novice aides - Tweaked our house credits sales to offer more credits per buyer. Instead of 6cr for HR5, 7cr for HR6, etc, I just made it 10cr for HR5 - HR10 and 15cr for HR11-HR15.
@Sarapis I appreciate your kind words, but I must remain unbiased when interviewing you for the CIJ (don't worry, your application is at the top of my pile)
- Discussed and brainstormed a lot of stuff with @Elazar today. Productive Achaea day!
- Wrote some scrolls for review.
- Did my daily 'poke the gods for stuff' ritual. They may potentially be very tired of hearing from me. Thus far, though, I think I'm still in the green. They've yet to make me drink sewage water to shut me up.
- Went shopping for cloth, intending to see some clothes for a general restock. ADD'd on that though.
- Got a novice to get me some Cyrenian manuscripts. The russet leather ones are pretty! I want to collect all then different manuscript designs!
- Checked back on the time... "Woah, where did the time go?!"
"Mummy, I'm hungry, but there's no one to eat! :C"
- Designed epic portraits of the Curia's history with @Achimrst. - Hunted and offered (a lot) - Spent some time randomly cursing @Kaie, who was checking his healing - Enjoy some more conversations with @Antreus - Loled so much at P9 that I just had to stay up until 3 a.m. (Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
- Deleted a bunch of outdated or useless HHELP files. Which was more than you could imagine. - Radically altered our novice programs from HR1 to HR5, keeping the 3-tier progression (HR1 to HR2, HR2 to HR3, HR3 to HR5) but vastly simplifying everything. No essays, no long interviews, encouraged to use WALK TO (landmark) during geography tests...I want brand new players to feel utterly comfortable with our "tasks", which have been reduced to gathering curatives, personal description, a whee bit of House history, etc. I'm aiming for 110% newbie-friendliness. - Dismissed dormant secretaries + novice aides - Tweaked our house credits sales to offer more credits per buyer. Instead of 6cr for HR5, 7cr for HR6, etc, I just made it 10cr for HR5 - HR10 and 15cr for HR11-HR15.
THIS! So much, this!
Take note, house leaders. This is how it's properly done. Finally, someone gets it.
Mishgul wanted Jesus to fix my banner. Neither of us could get it right
Listened to someone shouting the Seven Truths and came up with the Simple Three in the middle of it, got zapped, and made an ad before getting scared by @Ellalare who logged out and dropped 20+ butterflies while I was writing this.
So Jarrol had a great day! Something that he seriously needed...
He did mess up slightly and kill Feene after she goaded him into attacking her and test his attacks. One hit, one kill, unfortunately, but I learned a lot from it.
Asked Feene if she'd like to go out for dinner or grab a drink with him. Before they could go, however, they were interrupted by the announcement of the winners for the Bardic contest in Targossas.
Jarrol also came third in the Targossian Bardics, which literally tripled the amount of money he has. After this, he joined Feene, who had created a picnic in the forest, which they ate while she told him a story and they talked. Afterwards, they wandered through the shops together and talked about things. Then they returned to the city.
Found out that DSL damage isn't actually better than Jab damage if one of your rapiers has awful damage stats, so I had a bunch of tower shields forged. 40/32 and 32/40, not bad.
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- Deleted a bunch of outdated or useless HHELP files. Which was more than you could imagine.
- Radically altered our novice programs from HR1 to HR5, keeping the 3-tier progression (HR1 to HR2, HR2 to HR3, HR3 to HR5) but vastly simplifying everything. No essays, no long interviews, encouraged to use WALK TO (landmark) during geography tests...I want brand new players to feel utterly comfortable with our "tasks", which have been reduced to gathering curatives, personal description, a whee bit of House history, etc. I'm aiming for 110% newbie-friendliness.
- Dismissed dormant secretaries + novice aides
- Tweaked our house credits sales to offer more credits per buyer. Instead of 6cr for HR5, 7cr for HR6, etc, I just made it 10cr for HR5 - HR10 and 15cr for HR11-HR15.
[southwest - @Elazar (1)]
So I'm like, huh. Interesting. Swear I saw him get enemied recently.
Dread Adjutant Elazar Lichlord, Knight of Mhaldor (male Dwarf).
Must be an Infernal. Blackwinded? Maybe. I wonder what he's doing. I should throw down adduction and see what happens.
Elazar has been slain by a mounted tsalmaveth.
Winning!
@Tharvis blinks.
The soul of Elazar says, "Shucks."
[spoiler][/spoiler]
I digress.
Today:
Serendipitous, like a squirrel who is so caught up in the work of gathering wisdom, misplacing his many storehouses.. Antreus had stumbled upon an old bookshelf containing unfinished works of his that are over 300 years old. A particular work that caught his attention was his first attempt at forensic thanotology. Trying to construct a theory in light of the undead Magisterion discovered in the Underworld.
Emboldened with ever more knowledge surrounding the Tsol'dasi in the years that followed, he can scarcely keep up with his thoughts as he tries his best to commit these frisson theories to the footnotes of his previous writing. Wishing not to lose sight of the vision, he writes anything and everything, hoping he can make sense of it later. Inspiration and nostalgia: lightning striking a forgotten well.
A male voice is heard through the membrane, "Hey, girl."
A male voice is heard through the membrane, "Are you an Apostate? ..because you just tore my heart out."
While in the middle of talking with them, all of a sudden I just got the strangest tells out of nowhere, too.
Vicious tells you, "Will you marry me?"
You surprisedly tell Dread Emissary Vicious, Thrall of Elazar, "What?"
Jinsun tells you, "You know that you cannot marry Vicious. Your true destiny awaits in the Void."
Caladbolg tells you, "Let Jinsun know he has a little (bleeped for forums)."
Caladbolg tells you, "Do it."
Jinsun tells you, "You cannot fight the Chaos.... IN YOUR MIND."
Caladbolg tells you, "YOU KNOW HE HAS A LITTLE (bleeped for forums) IN YOUR MIND."
What a strange day.
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
*realized I forgot the "L" in "Serpentlords."
And that was probably the most excitement I had this day.
5145h, 4515m, 23400e, 20400w cexkdb-
- Wrote some scrolls for review.
- Did my daily 'poke the gods for stuff' ritual. They may potentially be very tired of hearing from me. Thus far, though, I think I'm still in the green. They've yet to make me drink sewage water to shut me up.
- Went shopping for cloth, intending to see some clothes for a general restock. ADD'd on that though.
- Got a novice to get me some Cyrenian manuscripts. The russet leather ones are pretty! I want to collect all then different manuscript designs!
- Checked back on the time... "Woah, where did the time go?!"
- Designed epic portraits of the Curia's history with @Achimrst.
- Hunted and offered (a lot)
- Spent some time randomly cursing @Kaie, who was checking his healing
- Enjoy some more conversations with @Antreus
- Loled so much at P9 that I just had to stay up until 3 a.m. (Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
Album of Bluef during her time in Achaea
THIS! So much, this!
Take note, house leaders. This is how it's properly done. Finally, someone gets it.
...has never been needed.
She is a Haidionic Seeker in the Fellowship of Explorers.
HAPPY DANCE TIME!
Album of Bluef during her time in Achaea
That's right - stick it to The Mhun!
He did mess up slightly and kill Feene after she goaded him into attacking her and test his attacks. One hit, one kill, unfortunately, but I learned a lot from it.
Asked Feene if she'd like to go out for dinner or grab a drink with him. Before they could go, however, they were interrupted by the announcement of the winners for the Bardic contest in Targossas.
Jarrol also came third in the Targossian Bardics, which literally tripled the amount of money he has. After this, he joined Feene, who had created a picnic in the forest, which they ate while she told him a story and they talked. Afterwards, they wandered through the shops together and talked about things. Then they returned to the city.