The Xorani

Delphinus

When confronted by hulking monsters from another planet, there is only one option.

Mayapple

Also wanted to add that I really appreciate Melodie and Silas and the few others who made an effort to get me up to speed and/or involved in the very short and laggy time I could stay logged in.  That was really awesome of you.

Penwize

The event so far has been a really solid bit of writing, and it's doing a good job of conveying a real gritty sort of atmosphere.  I'm really looking forward to seeing it unfold.

That said, I know a few people are really unhappy with the brazier-bashing of the army there while the gods were gone, so I thought I'd weigh my bit in here: that's exactly what I would expect my character to do.  It's exactly what he did when Jeramun spammed the hell out of deathsight back when Hthrak opened up: he went in there and he fought it head on (and consequently one-shot it with a world-shattering critical, one of my finest luck moments and probably the reason Jeramun got criticals disabled real quick-like).  It's what he did during the Nurazar event when giant lead golems stomped around.  That's sort of what Penwize's history has been: see a nigh-insurmountable challenge that's killing a lot of people and find a way to topple it.  A small army, 200-strong, sitting on a hostile world that is decimating explorers?  You better believe he'd be on top of that.  And really, whoever it was that made the army return twice as large to totally crush us: awesome response.  Kind of sad I didn't get any sort of larger reply to it, but overall it was a good response and a good way to tell me (as a player) to leave it alone.  I had fun with it, even if there weren't any gods around to play it out.  I, and the other bashers like me, would like to see more of that sort of thing I think.  We had fun with it.

Silas

I can appreciate that, and I appreciate you taking the time to explain it. My problem with it remains that it takes us back to the Vertani event, and the "bash it!!" mentality of the playerbase that played its part in ruining it.

There are compelling reasons for most characters to run in to engage the ormyrr army; it just feels a bit flat to game them because one of the admins didn't have the foresight to set the monolith effect in their room, or something similar. Which is to say, it's not very compelling to wipe out an army, no matter how strong, if all they do is sit there without making any real effort to protect their lines. It's the PvE equivalent of Tanris raiding Shallam when there's just a handful of midbies around, none of whom have a cloak tattoo or a monolith sigil.

Krypton

And really, whoever it was that made the army return twice as large to totally crush us: awesome response.

That, and whoever took you guys by surprise by having the ormyrr army march into the brazier-ers' room, thereby getting everyone slaughtered that way, too.

So toward the end, yes, they were actually taking measures to protect their lines.

Melodie

Mayapple said:

Also wanted to add that I really appreciate Melodie and Silas and the few others who made an effort to get me up to speed and/or involved in the very short and laggy time I could stay logged in.  That was really awesome of you.

Couldn't have you missing out on things anymore than you had to. Sorry about the death! I should of asked outright what your curing situation was and been a little more careful.

Mishgul

Thank you Matt.

Antonius

I can appreciate that for players who are primarily PvE focused something like this would be a very enticing challenge, and that's fine. However, there's no challenge in brazier-bashing, so let's not try to reconcile the two of them.

Anybody doing this isn't roleplaying finding a way to overcome a seemingly invincible enemy, they're just (ab)using a tired, frankly dumb mechanic that people have been using for at least eight years to kill things that either aren't supposed to be killed alone or aren't supposed to be killed period.

Lucine

Antonius said:

You'd think that considering the number of deathsights - including some notably high-level, heavily artefacted dragons - that people would just leave them alone rather than going "It's new, I'd better kill it."

You must be new here.  Hi!  This is Achaea.  Land where an entire event had to be replanned (into something extremely scary, where my first character really thought the world was going to end) due to the fact that people couldn't resist going 'Ooo, lets kill it!'

Delphinus

@Lucine: These creatures were openly hostile from the start. Antonius's point is more about the metagamey tactics involved.

Jhaeli

Can I just say that, as a very pregnant woman with a very active baby in her belly, the idea of squirming lizard fetuses was particularly frightening? I love my little girl, but the thought of it not only being the unwanted result of rape, but being of an alien species is just... well, let's say that I was shuddering as I read.

Like others, this is one of the first event logs that I've found myself reacting to emotionally in quite some time. Big thumbs up. Also loving the darker edge being added to the game as a result. Looking forward to watching the event unfold.

Vayne

To those upset about the "bash first, ask questions later" mentality, it is quite apparent that the Ormyrr and Dala'myrr are not peaceful races given their xenophobia, imprisonment, rape, enslavement, and subjugation, and murder of Elara and the Xoran, despite that Achaeans are technically invading their homeworld; it is a bit different than the Vertani event

Synbios

Vayne said:

To those upset about the "bash first, ask questions later" mentality, it is quite apparent that the Ormyrr and Dala'myrr are not peaceful races given their xenophobia, imprisonment, rape, enslavement, and subjugation, and murder of Elara and the Xoran, despite that Achaeans are technically invading their homeworld; it is a bit different than the Vertani event

I'll be honest - Synbios had been considering tearing a new one in the Ormyrr for what they did to Elara. Yet he was the one who wrote the letter requesting a peaceful meeting between their reps and ours. 

((By the way, did they ever respond to that? Been so busy IRL that I haven't been online.))

Mayapple

Alright, got this damned contraption working.  I'm back, and completely enthusiastic about playing some small role in this event. I hope this will rouse some interest in my xoran racial clan.  ...and hopefully make the clan more active and purposeful.

Camande

Vayne said:

To those upset about the "bash first, ask questions later" mentality, it is quite apparent that the Ormyrr and Dala'myrr are not peaceful races given their xenophobia, imprisonment, rape, enslavement, and subjugation, and murder of Elara and the Xoran, despite that Achaeans are technically invading their homeworld; it is a bit different than the Vertani event

So what you're saying is, we are their Vertani? Mind... blown.

Sarapis

Incidentally, I just wanted to let you guys know that we haven't dropped the ball here on this plotline. We're waiting on something that's not entirely in our control. 

You'll understand after the fact.

Penwize

Just telling us that is awesome and a step in the right direction.  Thanks!

Hayte

So...six months from now...April Fool's, it's Slith!

Tecton

Hayte said:

So...six months from now...April Fool's, it's Slith!

Shhhh... don't give it away.

Asmodron

My heart bleeds for Elara and what happened to her. All this time I just assumed she  was being reckless with her magic and  got dragged to some d emonic  world and eaten..

This an amazing event..Havent seen something like this in awhile. Well done guys, Well done.

Nemutaur

Sarapis said:

Incidentally, I just wanted to let you guys know that we haven't dropped the ball here on this plotline. We're waiting on something that's not entirely in our control. 

You'll understand after the fact.

I guess we were waiting for a dragon to choose a ceremony instead of instant dragon.

Mannimar

so yeah... I definitely was washing my dog when  this happened...

Sarapis

Nemutaur said:

Sarapis said:

Incidentally, I just wanted to let you guys know that we haven't dropped the ball here on this plotline. We're waiting on something that's not entirely in our control. 

You'll understand after the fact.

I guess we were waiting for a dragon to choose a ceremony instead of instant dragon.

Yeah. Most of the Gods have been keeping track of Vincenzio's progress pretty closely the past week+. It was pretty funny, from our perspective, as we were all just waiting and waiting on him to hit level 99, and I'm sure he had no idea. 

Many of the Gods were there watching the Dragon ceremony. I had total goosebumps, knowing what was coming.

Beya

Can someone give some context to this?

EDIT: Just found out in game. Ashaxei is dead.

Draqoom

Only thing I wonder is what happens now when I finally reach 99

Jiraishin

Please see the ranting thread for clarification.

Cardan

Draqoom said:

Only thing I wonder is what happens now when I finally reach 99

We'll reset you back to level 1 and you'll have to do it all over again, of course.

Tahquil

Dibs on first.

Kazu

I've really enjoyed the event so far. This is the kinda thing that I think the game has been missing for so long. Really excited to see how things turn out.

Nieelensars

So far, the event has been great! Besides the multitude of grammatical errors from Han-Tolneth its been pretty nice! I was super pissed I was at work when this all was going down so wasn't able to log in. But had someone read me verbatim  Han's words as he spoke them in their spelling glory. I'm a little disappointed about the dragonhood. I know thhat no one can give us any information about whats going to happen when you get lvl 99 but it still saddens me to know that the thing I've currently been working towards might not be around anymore.

Either way, please keep up the good work!