The Bal'met event

Kinilan

Sylvance said:

Kinilan said:

No big loss. Haven't had an Apples since Cypragate.

Keep going. Plenty of other useless divine characters to cull.

@Kinilan ... That's somewhat callous.

Sorry I don't care about a character that hasn't been played in almost a year.

Dethea

Damn, I'm really missing all the good stuff here!!

Crathen

I'm enormously impressed by the event so far, including all of the work that's gone into the sideshows (two shout-outs specifically to Valnurana/Ourania for the Kastalia mourning events, and to Melantha for getting chilly about Cyrene's dropping of her shrine).

Speaking as someone who "lost" an active divine character, I think this is something that people are taking the wrong way. I'm not saying there's nothing to be upset about OOCly, but take it easy. ICly your character can and should be tearful, furious, vengeful or bitter. OOCly, once you get over the disappointment, you should view this as an opportunity to cement your character's personality or reverse it completely, without the need for shallow "change" RP that's not brought on by any IG stimulus. All of the evidence here suggests that we're seeing a grand reshuffle of godroles and faction patronage, along with a long begged-for shrine overhaul. I doubt the garden's going to go through this whole process and accidentally leave Mhaldor or Hashan or Nature without any active Divine players. Chin up, look for opportunities to vent your frustration IC, and let's all try to play to the same high standard that's being set by the volunteers. I'm confident Achaea will come out of this looking a lot fitter than it has in years.

PS Apollyon vs Pentharian was hair-raisingly brilliant. Good show.

Vayne

Hashan has not lost anyone...yet. Oh no, I jinxed it.

Chryenth

Bal'met doesn't know what a Hashan is.

Lucine

After watching what happened with Pentharian and Apollyon, I could not sleep for at least two hours.  I was so afraid that I would end up having dreams of someone pressing a ruby into my eye.  The words from this event were so vivid that I winced and looked away from my screen, as if that would end up protecting me from the images in my head.

Very good job.

Thaumas

My complaint is about the usual tendency to almost completely obliterate the memory of everything past, in this instance, dead gods. Was it really necessary to destroy the Ivory Temple? I don't know what else was destroyed in the process - libraries, priests, and everything, but I'd rather not have things vanish so completely for the sake of some "New Age". Having old stay is a chance to create rich layers of history, rather than the eternal present.

Chryenth

Evidently, the Temples have no ontological inertia.










And I didn't even link it. Thank me.

Vayne

Thaumas said:

My complaint is about the usual tendency to almost completely obliterate the memory of everything past, in this instance, dead gods. Was it really necessary to destroy the Ivory Temple? I don't know what else was destroyed in the process - libraries, priests, and everything, but I'd rather not have things vanish so completely for the sake of some "New Age". Having old stay is a chance to create rich layers of history, rather than the eternal present.

Temples can be rebuilt, it is more a symbolic of the death of the God than the erasure of the entire realm it consisted of. The physical is gone but that does not mean all the idea are too. It's better that Ourania destroyed the Ivory Temple than it just disappearing like some of the others.

Iocun

Kastalia's temple got a really nice aftermath. The temple disappeared, so to say, but its memory is now engrained in its environment, retaining it as a memorial of sorts.

Eld

Iocun said:

Kastalia's temple got a really nice aftermath. The temple disappeared, so to say, but its memory is now engrained in its environment, retaining it as a memorial of sorts.

Guess it's time for a trip to Meropis.

Wynedere

Why couldn't it have been Keresis instead

Nicia

I think the way you have to look at it is that the realm of the divine is still intrinsically the same. It's sort of like the Shakespeare quote by Juliet, a rose by any other name. A new god with the same realm just is a new face to the same idea. So, remember, the idea itself is still alive if you make it that way. Live your IC lives intentionally and no divine realm need every die out.

Tsara

Now I wish I would have been active again. Its going to be hard coming back without an order

Maybe I should come back just to read about this ic mmmmmm

Oh and props to the divines the event looked awesome even ooc.

Xith

Alyssea said:

@Jacen I pronounce it Bahl-mett (the a sound being like the a in "ack" rather than the a sound in "aw").

Then you'd spell it Bal-MET.

'ah' in the middle suggests the 'ah' sound. Anyway yeah I'd put the emPHAsis on the second sylLABle.

Rovelda

Xith said:

...sound. Anyway yeah I'd put the emPHAsis on the second sylLABle.

I had thought of it with the stress on the first syllable. BALmet.

Achilles

Wynedere said:

Why couldn't it have been Keresis instead

When we saw Miramar and Pentharian go we knew we'd lose one

I don't think there are many active that would care if we lost Lorielan and probably Mithraea (on the "bright" side she's now active... for the time being?).

Tagg

I swear to god, if you take Shaitan while leaving Pandora and Keresis alive, I will ruin EVERYTHING.

I'M ALREADY MAD ENOUGH YOU TOOK THE BADASSNESS THAT IS MATSUHAMA AND KILLED HIM, BUT PANDORA GOT AWAY. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

man I really needed to get that off my chest.

Ruth

Activate Tagg grief.

Shaitan goan die. Keresis will remain our only God!

Tsara

Ruth said:

Activate Tagg grief. Shaitan goan die. Keresis will remain our only God!

Or Mhaldor will get a wurm for patron, I hope not

Corbeaux

Iocun said:

Kastalia's temple got a really nice aftermath. The temple disappeared, so to say, but its memory is now engrained in its environment, retaining it as a memorial of sorts.

The Kastalian priest is still within Green Lake, too, as of right now, so it looks like they're not trying to totally eliminate all remnants of the fallen gods.

Alynna

I feel like the only person in town who likes the mayor or something... all the Keresis hate makes me feel bad.

Mishgul

everyone dies in the end except Keresis and Tagg.

Tagg

Cahin

Mystara said:

Still tempted to just walk up to a Mhaldorian and say "something something something dark side, something something something Bal'met, we get it you're evil shut up already." From an RP standpoint that's pretty lame though. Funny though.

Why did you actually do this?  You said yourself how stupid of an idea it was.

Trey

Cahin said:

Mystara said:

Still tempted to just walk up to a Mhaldorian and say "something something something dark side, something something something Bal'met, we get it you're evil shut up already." From an RP standpoint that's pretty lame though. Funny though.

Why did you actually do this?  You said yourself how stupid of an idea it was.

I'd like you to take a moment and look at who you quoted before asking that question again, good sir.

Darklyre

Skye said:

....hatched from some secret egg spawned by Ashaxei x Han-Tolneth love (I dunno, stranger things have happened)....

I can hear the sound of a thousand fan boys reaching for their pens to begin this OTP.

Sounds like some hot Skitty on Wailord action, there.

Jacen

Trey said:

Cahin said:

Mystara said:

Still tempted to just walk up to a Mhaldorian and say "something something something dark side, something something something Bal'met, we get it you're evil shut up already." From an RP standpoint that's pretty lame though. Funny though.

Why did you actually do this?  You said yourself how stupid of an idea it was.

I'd like you to take a moment and look at who you quoted before asking that question again, good sir.

-facepalm-

Salindera

Synbios said:

UNLESS THE DAEMON WAS ALREADY IN THE HOUSE THE ENTIRE TIME. 

Bad end. ;_;

HOW CAN YOU PLAN TO ESCAPE HIM WHEN HE'S ALREADY THERE?

(yes, this is a page late, but not very good obscure jokes have no timeframe)

Xith

Can't kill Pandora. She's like the honorary jester patron and we're supposed to be good at getting out of sticky situations.

My money's on She saves the day with some formidable mischief.