Favorite Memory

Jurixe

Too many to count, to be honest. Maybe the first time @Sabiru approached me in Great Rock as a Tormented, the ritual with @Hasar and later @Xer, asking @Tirac to the ball and anything subsequently with him.

However, one absolute standout is the breakin to the Ty Beirdd estate that spawned the story Conquest of the Crystal. Not a lot of people know what actually happened here, but since it's been so long I might as well tell it. Spoilered cos it's long and I get carried away with telling stories!

[spoiler]I wanted to try my hand at breaking into an estate, so I went around keeping tabs on people and watching for opportunities. I'm too scared of being eye'd out, so I was actually much less daring than others. However, one day I managed to follow Cerony into the Ty Beirdd manor. We got to the lesson teacher, and I waited ages before she and whoever else was in there left. I unphased only to find...he didn't sell to non Ty Beirdd.

Really annoyed, I decided to explore around but didn't find much else, so I decided to splice a wormhole and leave. I had alertness up, so just as I was about to unphase and start splicing, I felt Chryseas enter the room next to me. I knew that room wasn't the entrance hall, so what could it be? She entered my room and left through the conventional way, and knowing she was a Magi, I realised - it was a Master Crystal.

The door leading to the MC was the type that only opens for people with perms, so I couldn't get in. I shrugged and started splicing from the adjacent room with Tvistor on Mhaldor Isle, then got out and went back to Mhaldor to tell Sabiru all about my adventures.

...except instead of saying good job, he said 'I think you should try to get to the MC and splice from there.'

I laughed at first, but after he started pestering me more about it it stopped becoming funny and I was just like...how?! I can't even get through the door! But he wasn't the sort that would take no for an answer, so grudgingly I said I would try again.

I was in a party with Tvistor and Xykon, and I told them what Sabiru said. As far as we could see, there were two ways to do it: one, by following a crystalhoming magi in, or going back through the wormhole and trying to evade past when they opened the door. I decided there was more chance of being found out with option 1, so decided to hope for no fullsense up in Cyrene and go for option 2.

Now that that was decided, how to get someone to open the door? A crystalhoming Magi leaving the room, obviously, but how to get them in there? By giving them pearls to refine, of course. We discussed various strategies but finally Xykon decided to just falcon them to Chryseas and trust that she would take them as the gift they are from him because of his goofy reputation and ex-Cyrenian status. I thought it was the stupidest idea ever, but I went in anyway.

Unbelievably, somehow, it worked - she hit alertness and the minute the door opened, I kept trying to evade in as if my life depended on it and by sheer luck, I got in. The door closed. I was phased. No one was any the wiser. I couldn't believe we'd done it.

But that wasn't the end of it - we still had to complete a wormhole. Neither Tvistor nor I had a jewel, so it was the longest 15 minutes of my life thinking that surely, somehow, we would be found out. I'd be radianced and killed and that would be the end of it. But nothing happened, and meanwhile Sabiru was busy gathering the whole of Mhaldor (not that many at that time, around 15 or so?) to prepare to go in.

Can't tell you how relieved I was when the wormhole was complete and I jumped out as soon as I could. Sabiru and the rest of Mhaldor were already waiting at the gates, complete with a Magi. I led the way in through the wormhole, and the rest is history. We even managed to raise an Apollyon shrine in there to worldburn, and watching the mostly Shallamese defenders die was a lot of fun. (Yes, worldburn and offensive shrine raising is bad I know, but as a newbie it was awesome to watch.)[/spoiler]

I'm sure most hardcore thieves/infiltrators/raiders won't consider this an extraordinary feat by any means these days, but for three young characters and one of whom was a first-time serpent, it was one of the proudest moments of Jurixe's life. It felt like a real operation and great teamwork, as well as really driving home the whole Naga identity in our work.

Boosteya

Most inspiring: One of my alts being allowed to join a certain pre-Order clan. I was frankly surprised I'd gotten that degree of attention, much less as that alt.

Biggest impression left: First time seeing a god in-game. Since my original Achaean was Mhaldorian and we had guilds back then, of course this was @Sartan.

Happiest: That moment that I realised, as Bo, that this thing I'd put all my energy into and accomplished was both epic and meaningless, that it'd not have been accomplished without /everyone/ doing what he or she did. The reason why Bo's motto is still, 'Thank you.'

Saddest: All those gods dying within 1 RL hour of one another, during Bal'met. Some of them even came out of dormancy to die! I was so sad, IC and OOC.

Scariest: Trying desperately to figure out whether or not alerting someone else to a certain situation counted as interfering with it.

Most flattery ever received: "I could have ruled Mhaldor for a hundred years with you by my side."

Most disappointing: A Hashani alt not winning a haiku contest. My haiku was eight words long, and the initial letter of each word spelled out the name of the God the contest was for, @Twilight! Nobody else did that!

 Most regrettable: Not being able to stay awake for Occultist House events, because they were so late for me. I'd always nod off at the keyboard, and notice I'd QQd for inactivity. Dammit!

Most surprising: On my original Mhaldorian character, getting proposed to by a young Naga. I'd had no idea he liked me as more than a friend! Today, @Firey is long-dormant, and was happily IRL-engaged before then. I hope they're both doing well.

Khalid

After realizing my favorite memories would take up pages and pages and would likely bore most of you i'll just go with this one: All the brilliant and sometimes not so brilliant characters khalid has met over the years, most of which are no longer around, that have enriched his life and helped provide those pages and pages of great memories. Except for Sarapis..who kept shrubbing me which was just traumatising and required years of therapy. 

Kakotas

The Original Great Dream that happened right as we got an influx of 30 novices... having @Lereas as an occultist lead us through hell with @Pandora as our guide. Was a whole lot of fun not having to worry about city guidelines or penalties and just getting to be friends and random events spawning everywhere.

Wyd

Seeing Shiro walk through Cyrene as a Runewarden Dragon Mark when I first created Wyd.  Set the tone for what image I wanted Wyd to have as I developed him.

Getting the news that I'd been approved for Knighthood, and the whole knighting ceremony.  I think everyone who gets Knighted in Achaea remembers their first time :proud: 
  
Pulling off a quadbreak + freeze cleave in a Matsuhama sponsored rampage, that got Wyd added to his Order.  Its the only Order based experience I've had in achaea (even to this day), so was a big change from what I had experienced in the past.

Oh, and hunting a certain thief down over two Islands in a demonstration that no one -'s with Cyrene.

Jhaeli

Wyd said:

Seeing Shiro walk through Cyrene as a Runewarden Dragon Mark when I first created Wyd.  Set the tone for what image I wanted Wyd to have as I developed him.

Getting the news that I'd been approved for Knighthood, and the whole knighting ceremony.  I think everyone who gets Knighted in Achaea remembers their first time :proud: 

+1 to the first. Definitely set the tone for Knighthood for a lot of people, I think, and it was never quite the same when Dragon was changed to have its own class.

And to the second - I should have mentioned that administering the Ceremonies was almost as fun as participating, because you knew you were gonna create something really memorable.   

Dalran

I remember when I first started in the some house, I read something about killing rats gets you gold, so I sat there during my newbie intro to the house doing CURSE RAT like 100 times and going why tf won't you die. Meanwhile the person there helping me was just dying laughing. It took me like a year and a half IRL to remember and then realize what I was doing.

Atalkez

I remember that newb who followed me from Targ to Ashtan.

Some shitty little Jester that didn't even know how to juggle.

1tear

Aesi

I remember some tough dude from the north that taught me how to fight.

Austere

I feel like you guys just had a moment.  At least 50% of one.  Since it makes me uncomfortable, I shall respond with a snide comment:

Aesi said:

I remember some tough dude from the north that taught me how to fight.

Funny how our perceptions change as we get older. People we once thought were tough, are suddenly demoted to scrubiness levels. 

Klendathu

Austere said:

I feel like you guys just had a moment.  At least 50% of one.  Since it makes me uncomfortable, I shall respond with a snide comment:

Aesi said:

I remember some tough dude from the north that taught me how to fight.

Funny how our perceptions change as we get older. People we once thought were tough, are suddenly demoted to scrubiness levels. 

Ouch

Austere

Klendathu said:

Austere said:

I feel like you guys just had a moment.  At least 50% of one.  Since it makes me uncomfortable, I shall respond with a snide comment:

Aesi said:

I remember some tough dude from the north that taught me how to fight.

Funny how our perceptions change as we get older. People we once thought were tough, are suddenly demoted to scrubiness levels. 

Ouch

@Atalkez has beat me down enough to know that I love and respect him.  Dude does it with half the escrow of most top tier fighters.  Mad skills, much raves.  I just enjoy giving him a hard time. 

Edit: not to say I am a top tier fighter.  Just saying I classify him as just as dangerous as top tier fighters 

Atalkez

Atalkez said:

I remember that newb who followed me from Targ to Ashtan.

Some shitty little Jester that didn't even know how to juggle.

1tear

I was talking about @Dalran being that newb Jester that followed me to Ashtan like 3 years ago.

Thanks for the props though dudes!

Aesi

Atalkez said:

Atalkez said:

I remember that newb who followed me from Targ to Ashtan.

Some shitty little Jester that didn't even know how to juggle.

1tear

I was talking about @Dalran being that newb shitty little Jester that followed me to Ashtan like 3 years ago.

Thanks for the props though dudes!

FTFY,

still had 25% of a moment.

Kakotas

Jhaeli said:

Wyd said:

Seeing Shiro walk through Cyrene as a Runewarden Dragon Mark when I first created Wyd.  Set the tone for what image I wanted Wyd to have as I developed him.

Getting the news that I'd been approved for Knighthood, and the whole knighting ceremony.  I think everyone who gets Knighted in Achaea remembers their first time :proud: 

+1 to the first. Definitely set the tone for Knighthood for a lot of people, I think, and it was never quite the same when Dragon was changed to have its own class.

And to the second - I should have mentioned that administering the Ceremonies was almost as fun as participating, because you knew you were gonna create something really memorable.   

As a master of ceremonies for the Templars I second this last thought. Some of the most fun times I had were when we all gathered to knight someone and make something very special for them happen.