What Happened To You Today?

Ahmet

Even I've solo'd Z o.o

@Dochitha Get with the program

Talamond

A dove comes flying into the room, deposits a letter into your hands, warbles cheerfully, and flies away.

"Brother Talamond,"

Ensign Laniara Vorondil, Flame of Light (female Red Dragon).
She is 81 years old, having been born on the 21st of Valnuary, 666 years after the fall of the Seleucarian Empire.
She has given up the adventuring life.

So that's what that feels like. 

Melodie

I'm officially anti-retirement.

Frederich

Sunuva-bitch.

SHE SETS UP YEARLY MEETINGS AND TELLS EVERYONE THEN RETIRES

> : C

Exelethril

Aw no, that's sad She seemed like a genuinely helpful person even if just a little over-enthusiastic.

Dunn

Y'all killed her. Savages.

Cailin

Talamond said:

A dove comes flying into the room, deposits a letter into your hands, warbles cheerfully, and flies away.

"Brother Talamond,"

Ensign Laniara Vorondil, Flame of Light (female Red Dragon).
She is 81 years old, having been born on the 21st of Valnuary, 666 years after the fall of the Seleucarian Empire.
She has given up the adventuring life.

So that's what that feels like. 

WHAT. Obviously being from a different city I didn't know her super well, but I really liked her. why?

Kythra

Holy shit. Rip Targ lately.

Shayde

Kythra said:

Holy shit. Rip Targ lately.

I mean I was not very close to Laniara on this character, but losing Tristyn to retirement hurt. At least I have her book.

Kiet

Aw, I liked Laniara and her weirdness

Farrah

Tristyn was dormant anyway though, and only came back to retire afaik.

Laniara was not getting along with a lot of citizens, which seemingly led to her retirement. It's probably for the best, ultimately. I hope she enjoys herself better where she goes.

Torinn

Hmm!  That is surprising to me in a lot of ways.  As Farrah said, it was pretty obvious it would happen with Tristyn, but Lani.. she was just talking with me yesterday about making Alchemist and Priest work well together, we were planning on hosting public Academy events, and other stuff.  @Laniara , I always enjoyed our interactions.  Even though sometimes we didn't get along (I think we're both the same personality type or something) I definitely consider you a friend.  I hope you find enjoyment wherever you go!

Siduri

@Laniara : Stay safe, hope you enjoy yourself where you go. I will miss our talks, your tunes and even these random shower thoughts.

Xaden

Fuck you, @Laniara

j/k, talk soon.

Exelethril

Dw guys, I'll take over her role of holding prayers. Just hand me the text to copy-paste.

Torinn

@Exelethril  They're all in the Breviary you heathen 

Ozmatiah

Sad to see @Laniara go, not that I really interacted with the person, but it was one of a handful of people I've actually interacted with from Targo, and it was always delightful!  Best of luck to wherever you land.

Dunn

A large portion of your population are retirees, tho.

Shayde

TBF, what is the other option for Targossians? Go dormant and eventually get thrown out of your house*? No thank you. Retirement is a better choice.

(*Maybe just a Harbinger thing)

Torinn

Shayde throwing shade.  I am unapologetic.

Aralaya

I think it's a Torinn thing. Don't think I saw anyone thrown out before for not doing stuff

Torinn

Each person knows how to rejoin if they become active again.  It may just be the impetus they need to not go dormant again.  

Shayde

*Each person will know which house never to rejoin if they become active again.

Ftfy.

Siduri

To be fair, you get kicked out of Targossas for being a non-dormant inactive citizen. Which means it applies to every Houses.

Sobriquet

Torinn said:

Each person knows how to rejoin if they become active again.  It may just be the impetus they need to not go dormant again.  

You do realise people have a life outside of Achaea?  They shouldn't need an impetus not to go dormant, that's a ridiculous concept. 

Ahmet

People who spend reasonable amounts of time in Achaea and do nothing to contribute, I can understand. People who can only hop on to check messages, or who are entirely dormant? Youre just shooting yourself in the foot at that point.

Sayenna

...You're not serious, right Torinn?

Kicking people who refuse to contribute and are active is perfectly reasonable and fine to do. Dead weight might as well be a dormant person, after all.

...Kicking people who're dormant (regardless of the reason they are), is just ridiculous. Maybe if you have a lot of house members going dormant, you should try and analyse why that is (provided it's not just life happening).

I'm gonna agree with Shayde and Sobriquet. You can pretty much guarantee they're just gonna find a house that doesn't boot them for going dormant, if/when they do come back.

Farrah

While I don't disagree with those who don't like the ousting dormants/mostly-dormants (it wasn't my choice of policy), Laniara was, as I understand it, one of the impetuses for the policy (she was upset with people not contributing and a proponent of ousting them). So blaming her retirement on that is a bit silly. Some people are trying to throw shade at Targossas for literally everything.

"All those quizzes on CT are stupid! I'd hate to have to deal with that. Targ is terrible."

"People shouldn't have to contribute because playing Achaea isn't a job. Targ is terrible."

"Person X who was hosting those quizzes retired because people weren't appreciating them! Targ is terrible."

"Person X who was pushing for punishment of those who didn't participate retired so Targ is terrible."

I've heard a lot of contradictory complaints. Every city has its problems though.

Basically, if you want to criticize the policy, fine, but don't use Laniara's recent retirement (or any other retirements) as part of your argument, as it shows an utter lack of awareness of things. No, our city is not suddenly mass retiring, and the retirements that have happened have not had to do with any of the aspects of Targ being criticized.

Rangor

Also some "problems" aren't problems at all.

Magenta

@Laniara Will miss you lots.