The Bal'met event

Jarrod

Hahah, ty Sena. Ty Cardan as well for messaging me the gif

Sena

Incidentally, I found a more appropriate one when looking for that gif.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5178/gifyr.gif

Edit: Forums don't like spoiler tags. So linked instead of spoilered for language.

Yen

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

The chorus of names peaks, then dies off, leaving behind one last whisper: JADE EMPRESS, it trails away, like the echo of a gavel and long-forgotten judgment.

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

Silas blinks.

Halos jerks back in surprise.

An eerie, aubergine fire limns the stormy sky as tendrils of unnatural lightning dance from cloud to cloud.

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.

Silas stares implacably about himself.

(Shallam): Traelor says, "Hail Lady-."

Halos stares implacably about himself.

A cold emptiness penetrates your soul as the Divine Order of Lorielan, the Enlightened is dissolved, following the loss of your Patron.

Tahquil

Apollodorus

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

Some of the writing for this event has been a little hit and miss for me, but that line, especially in the bright green font, was spectacularly crafted and easily one of my personal highlights so far. I think everyone online at the time jumped a little in their chairs when it fired. And the characterisation was perfect, incredibly sleek and efficient (in a way that this post is not), with just two simple adjectives and one well-placed adverb to set up Lorielan's biggest move in centuries, delivered in a single two-letter word. Incredibly good stuff.

Tvistor

For some reason I did not see quite a few of the lines, so the entire thing was a little lackluster to me. I might have missed it in raid spam.

Asmodron

soooooo, guess Shallam lost its core figures of faith.

Time for a God of Glitter.

Synbios

Tvistor said:

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

I imagined an army of strapping young men carrying Lorielan on their shoulders, and then suddenly I imagined Nicki Minaj.

The horror.

@event: Hory sheet. I was not around and "Whoa what the Nelly" and this happens. 

Next up: Shallam will now be the city of atheism.

Kyrra

Asmodron said:

soooooo, guess Shallam lost its core figures of faith.

Time for a God of Glitter.

Synbios

Kyrra said:

Asmodron said:

soooooo, guess Shallam lost its core figures of faith.

Time for a God of Glitter.

Low blow, @Kyrra and @Asmodron, low blow. [-X

Wysteria

Slight derail: Can we still solve Lorielan's Mazes with Her absent? I nearly had the third one figured out

Iocun

Most public parts of the temples are still accessible and work as they used to work, so I'd assume that it's still possible.

Mizik

We win.

Ruth

Library. :C

Synbios

Mizik said:

We win.

Shallam still standing. We gonna be the city of good nonbelievers. 

Vaehl

Oh I thought Lorielan said a really obscene swear word and it got Meletus'd.

Lys

Draekar said:

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

Planning pre-emptive blaming of @Draekar for ruining my Logomas.

Lys

THIS:

 

Apollodorus said:

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

. . . I think everyone online at the time jumped a little in their chairs when it fired. . . Incredibly good stuff.

A little??

Draekar

Lys said:

Draekar said:

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

Planning pre-emptive blaming of @Draekar for ruining my Logomas.

I actually think She -was- coming back to help Shallam, but took one look at @Silasdiscussing Shallam's war plans over the Holy Conclave and that inspired the "No"

 

Valeo

This is awesome, if probably not exactly a surprise for Lorielanites of long standing like Valeo, and makes me want to log in and go Babelite.

Arlanda

Nothing for this weekend except for boring Lorielan. Darn

Achilles

Arlanda said:

Nothing for this weekend except for boring Lorielan. Darn

Wasn't that boring for Shallam

Alyssea

The weekend isn't over yet, there's still hope. Maybe they'll kill off the rest of the gods tomorrow.

Arlanda

Maybe they'll kill Lorielan. HAHAH.... Joking.. It won't happen

Talonia

I wouldn't rule that out entirely!  It is interesting that they did that betrayal with her...I always did think better of Mithraea/Pentharian.  Not so much Miramar, though - for whatever reason the realm just didn't appeal to me (nor did the symbols, temple design, denizens, etc).  Gladius and Roshai were certainly not characters on the level of Mordanyconus (though they'd match denizens like Sharbrena or Polynikes, I think), but they were pretty good nonetheless.  Who the heck was Miramar's denizen high priest?  All those critiques apply to Lorielan too.  Crystal just isn't as cool as fire.     

Xith

Tahquil said:

Those look like taxxons from Animorphs.

Draekar

Talonia said:

I wouldn't rule that out entirely!  It is interesting that they did that betrayal with her...I always did think better of Mithraea/Pentharian.  Not so much Miramar, though - for whatever reason the realm just didn't appeal to me (nor did the symbols, temple design, denizens, etc).  Gladius and Roshai were certainly not characters on the level of Mordanyconus (though they'd match denizens like Sharbrena or Polynikes, I think), but they were pretty good nonetheless.  Who the heck was Miramar's denizen high priest?  All those critiques apply to Lorielan too.  Crystal just isn't as cool as fire.     

I'd disagree. Gladius and Roshai have amazingly rich histories, are awesomely well developed characters and have played part in a number of epic events over the years.

Likewise Lorielan has the Kx'Krah and those things are awesome.

The reason why you might have a different view though is basically Mordanyconus = Babel, because Babel isn't a God that hangs out with his people or gets his hands dirty in events. A bit like Twinkles is with Dusk.

Every Divine is different though and for the Te'serra they have always been a lot more personal so you 'll have them turn up themselves more often than they would send a denizen, and so this leaves those denizens out of the spotlight too often.

Silas

I know that *pentharian at least (may He rest in peace ) spent a lot of time later on developing his denizens and interacting through them, but the Te'Serra have always been more personable, and that's fitting to the Good ideology. They should be public figures in their own right, coupled with the use of their denizens, and I think the balance they were reaching on that in the latter stages was really good.

Totes agree though that Penth/Mith should have been the foundation of Good, since Lori/Miramar always seemed more neutral to me. But, whatevs, they were Shallam's elder gods so it was okay.

Tahquil

Kyrra said:

COME AT ME, BRO'MET

Savira

Well Achaea already have Lord Twilight, what would the name of a possible "Lord of Sparkles" be when He's still around?