The Bal'met event

Zuko

When do you expect the next event? Everything has been really slow with the event for a little while, ready to roll for another event!

Trey

Delphinus said:

Draekar said:

Wherefore Art Thou Bal'met

Because Mhaldor and the ormyrr summoned him.


I normally have mixed feelings about Delph's posts, but I wish I could like this twice. Any volunteers?

Synbios

There have been some mini-events here though, with Mhaldor moving about and other things, so I don't think the event has stagnated just yet.

I do love the new weather messages though. Feels a lot more grimdark now.

Draekar

Delphinus said:

Draekar said:

Wherefore Art Thou Bal'met

Because Mhaldor and the ormyrr summoned him.

He is going to leave Mhaldor and join with his true love Lorielan, the war will continue and both will die, get with the script!

Synbios

ALL HAIL OUR NEW ALIEN OVERLORDS

Eld

Trey said:

Draekar said:

Wherefore Art Thou Bal'met

Because Mhaldor and the ormyrr summoned him.

I normally have mixed feelings about Delph's posts, but I wish I could like this twice. Any volunteers?

Did it preemptively.

Tvistor

Housedisfavour Daeir Blasphemy

Vayne

Then, a cold voice, infinitely austere, intones into your ear: "No."

A cold wind blows from the Vashnars, and the glittering Citadel of Shallam goes chill and dark at the abandonment of the last of the Te'serra.

Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "So the Jade bitch shows her true colours."

The heavens shiver with foul portent as the rumbling voice of Babel resounds, "And so the Jade Throne sits occupied once more, in accordance with fate. Long live the Jade Empress! Long live the lightless Jewel of the abandoned East!"

Harsh...rejected

Lothien

To be honest, I was flabbergasted at this. Great job.

Delphinus

This came before:


A pillar of jade flame shoots skyward from the region of Shallam, setting the sky ablaze.

Curtains of greenish fire dance in the skies, mingling with the redolent, never-changing storm clouds that hang in the skies of Sapience.

With a great shudder, the clouds part, revealing a glittering aperture to a realm of crystal and jade.

Tvistor

I was like 'Oh hey, event during my timezone.'

Then I was like 'It was just world emotes and some yelling, nevermind.'

Sena

Delphinus said:
Curtains of greenish fire dance in the skies, mingling with the redolent, never-changing storm clouds that hang in the skies of Sapience.

I'm not sure what redolent means here. Even if we can smell the clouds (have any of the new weather-ish messages mentioned that and I missed it?), it seems like a strange way to describe them.

Lucine

I really liked this, it seemed very in character with Lorielan's past.  I think this was my favorite part of the event.  Though I feel bad for Shallam.

Tvistor

She took Her city... and threw it on the ground!

You can't trust the heathens.

Welcome to the text world, jackass!

Melodie

For those absent and such, here's the full bit:

A pillar of jade flame shoots skyward from the region of Shallam, setting the sky ablaze.

Curtains of greenish fire dance in the skies, mingling with the redolent, never-changing storm clouds that hang in the skies of Sapience.

With a great shudder, the clouds part, revealing a glittering aperture to a realm of crystal and jade.

Then, a cold voice, infinitely austere, intones into your ear: "No."

The aubergine fire crackles about the aperture, revealing a tall, spare figure standing just within. She gazes down upon Sapience for a long, silent moment.

Then, without speaking further, She turns away, and the gate seals behind Her.

A woman in ebony robes shouts, "Do you hear me, Sapience? I speak for Her: the Lady Lorielan will never be a pawn again! So saith She, and pray it is the last you hear from Her before your dying day."

A cold wind blows from the Vashnars, and the glittering Citadel of Shallam goes chill and dark at the abandonment of the last of the Te'serra.

Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "So the Jade bitch shows her true colours." (zomg)

Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "You're surprised by this? Fools to the last."

The heavens shiver with foul portent as the rumbling voice of Babel resounds, "And so the 

Jade Throne sits occupied once more, in accordance with fate. Long live the Jade Empress! Long live the lightless Jewel of the abandoned East!"

Saint-Archmage Ashed Silverhand, Stormbringer General shouts, "Every Darkness has its Dawn. The Light shall shine once more in time."

Ringing through the ether on a resonating harmonic, the voice of the Great Bard resounds, "The Jade of contentment, and Jade of envy. The Jade of jealously and satisfaction. She has always been Her true colour, and the time will come for Her to be the Jade of guilt."

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tl;dr

Achilles

This sums it up.  I personally blame Silas.

Xith

So... when does the weather change again? I think if I see the word "aubergine" again, I might puke blood.

Googling it didn't help. Got a picture of an eggplant. Sky is full of eggplant lightning.

Lothien

Xith said:

So... when does the weather change again? I think if I see the word "aubergine" again, I might puke blood.

Googling it didn't help. Got a picture of an eggplant. Sky is full of eggplant lightning.

Eggplant purple!

Dortheron

Melodie said:

For those absent and such, here's the full bit:

A pillar of jade flame shoots skyward from the region of Shallam, setting the sky ablaze.

Curtains of greenish fire dance in the skies, mingling with the redolent, never-changing storm clouds that hang in the skies of Sapience.

With a great shudder, the clouds part, revealing a glittering aperture to a realm of crystal and jade.

Then, a cold voice, infinitely austere, intones into your ear: "No."

The aubergine fire crackles about the aperture, revealing a tall, spare figure standing just within. She gazes down upon Sapience for a long, silent moment.

Then, without speaking further, She turns away, and the gate seals behind Her.

A woman in ebony robes shouts, "Do you hear me, Sapience? I speak for Her: the Lady Lorielan will never be a pawn again! So saith She, and pray it is the last you hear from Her before your dying day."

A cold wind blows from the Vashnars, and the glittering Citadel of Shallam goes chill and dark at the abandonment of the last of the Te'serra.

Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "So the Jade bitch shows her true colours." (zomg)

Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "You're surprised by this? Fools to the last."

The heavens shiver with foul portent as the rumbling voice of Babel resounds, "And so the 

Jade Throne sits occupied once more, in accordance with fate. Long live the Jade Empress! Long live the lightless Jewel of the abandoned East!"

Saint-Archmage Ashed Silverhand, Stormbringer General shouts, "Every Darkness has its Dawn. The Light shall shine once more in time."

Ringing through the ether on a resonating harmonic, the voice of the Great Bard resounds, "The Jade of contentment, and Jade of envy. The Jade of jealously and satisfaction. She has always been Her true colour, and the time will come for Her to be the Jade of guilt."

--

tl;dr

You tell Ambassador Hiroma Moliuvia, Iron Alchemist, "Cue nihilist/Babel shouting about oblivion OR mhaldorian/sartan shouting about Evil."
5237h, 4578m|100%m, 100%e, 100%w,  kai, ex, 7.8%, cdbk- 22:28:32.296

Thousands of daemons howl and shriek as Sartan, the Malevolent roars above the cacophony, "So the Jade bitch shows her true colours."
5237h, 4578m|100%m, 100%e, 100%w,  kai, ex, 7.8%, cdbk- 22:28:44.640

The heavens shiver with foul portent as the rumbling voice of Babel resounds, "And so the Jade
Throne sits occupied once more, in accordance with fate. Long live the Jade Empress! Long live the
lightless Jewel of the abandoned East!"
5237h, 4578m|100%m, 100%e, 100%w,  kai, ex, 7.8%, cdbk- 22:29:28.531



Damn, I should have said AND/OR.

Lys

Spectacularly stunning turn of events for Lys.  Never been so excited and mad at the same time. Mind is still racing on how to play this through. +1 for melodrama.

Achilles

was looking forward to defiling all of lori's shrines (the same ones I sanctified all week for)  Oh well at least I got 105 from it

Tvistor

Pretty sure she will come back with new Gods/rezzed old Gods/army of new dudes later.

Arlanda

I am a little confused over what this means. So Lorielan is now a baddie?

Ruth

I guess it means she wants to save herself. With Lorielan's history, it wasn't extremely surprising.

Sothantos

Oh, man. - is going down.

That was beautifully cold and entirely unexpected. I'm really wondering what happens with Shallam now. Can't decide if I should call off work 'sick' tomorrow or not just in case the event progresses, because I really don't want to miss it.

Draekar

Lorielan must have read my forum posts, that shit was harsh!

Jarrod

This is a request to @Bonko, I need Lorielan characterized by a gif but I can't figure out what to search for to find it. It's a black guy sliding open the 'screen', seeing something, freaking out, and closing the 'screen' again. It's an older gif but I believe in you.

Bonko

@Jarrod: I've only gotten into gifs recently (since whenever I started posting them on these forums) and I haven't seen the one you've described but I'll have a look around.

For some reason what Lorielan did made me think of this (particularly the second two pictures):

Sena

Draekar

Aww it's Semmi off Coming to America, classic film!