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  • LisbethaeLisbethae
    I don't think this is over yet. I hope this gamble pays off for Achaea.
  • AetousAetous
    edited November 2012
    Daeir said:

    At least there's people like @Jurixe who come around and make these -awesome- reports on what's happened in the city newsboards. You should totally get her to write events posts. Those things are crazy good.


    Funnily enough, I read the last event posts, and my first thought was that maybe @Jurixe had written it, because the combat scenes sounded kinda like her style.

    Then I realized she was squealing with joy on gtalk too often when things were happening for her to have known what was going on before hand.
  • JurixeJurixe Where you least expect it
    Aetous said:
    Daeir said:

    At least there's people like @Jurixe who come around and make these -awesome- reports on what's happened in the city newsboards. You should totally get her to write events posts. Those things are crazy good.


    Funnily enough, I read the last event posts, and my first thought was that maybe @Jurixe had written it, because the combat scenes sounded kinda like her style.

    Then I realized she was squealing with joy on gtalk too often when things were happening for her to have known what was going on before hand.
    Maybe all that was just a plot to throw you off my secret- uh I mean.

    I know nothing. Nothing at all!
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  • XithXith

    I just really hate that my laptop crashed like a week before Ashaxei died and still isn't fixed. Haven't directly witnessed A DAMNED THING.

    And I was hoping to beat some Mhaldor after being enemied for trying to buy blank Tarot. :( It's going to be disappointing when I come back only to find that the island was eaten by Bal'met.

    I like my steak like I like my Magic cards: mythic rare.
  • ShahaiShahai
    I like Sarapis comment upward about the complexity of the event. For now, it's not about being in the "lesser-involved" part of people that is the main issue for me, but really the schema Mhaldor VS TheRestOfTheWorld - independently on whoever is winning or that kind of things. I would have found if far much interesting that the raise of a new Divine had also been the raise of a new faction, independent of the Achaean history and century old institutions. As a young one, I would have very found interesting the fact that noone ever seen that, even 400 years old dragons, and would have put a more dramatic point of view on how the Elders are dismayed about the fall of a world they thought they controled. 

    I wanted to post on public board something about that, to try to launch something... But people told me that would only sound as some 20 years old girlish whining... Maybe I'll do it anyway.
    Every day sends future to past 
    Every breath leaves me one less to my last
  • WysteriaWysteria
    Jurixe said:
    Aetous said:
    Daeir said:

    At least there's people like @Jurixe who come around and make these -awesome- reports on what's happened in the city newsboards. You should totally get her to write events posts. Those things are crazy good.


    Funnily enough, I read the last event posts, and my first thought was that maybe @Jurixe had written it, because the combat scenes sounded kinda like her style.

    Then I realized she was squealing with joy on gtalk too often when things were happening for her to have known what was going on before hand.
    Maybe all that was just a plot to throw you off my secret- uh I mean.

    I know nothing. Nothing at all!
    Yeah that's the things that annoying about living in Australia — hardly any events happen when you're actually there — I understand though it's pointless to run an event when there's maybe 50ppl about instead of maybe 250...still...we do miss out on a bit.
    "Faded away like the stars in the morning,
     Losing their light in the glorious sun,
     Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling,
     Only remembered for what we have done."
  • RoveldaRovelda
    edited November 2012
    About the complexity of the event, just the embers themselves are truly complex and interesting.

    Some of the public posts are fantastic. I particularly liked Thyer's and a Mhaldorian lady's whose name I can't remember now. Funny how they could use such really good arguments to defend Evil. 
  • RangorRangor
    Raiding Mhaldor with Deladan, Akia, Jarrel. I almost felt a ill afterwards.
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  • NoristaeNoristae
    I'm torn between enjoying the event and that something is actually happening on a grand scale to stir people up from the daily political crud of the various city-states and their followings and that there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of anything anyone on the mortal level can do to influence the event in the slightest from a pre-scripted path.

    I dunno, I'd thought that on some levels the RP could /influence/ the tracts a game takes. Big changes to the Divine realms, kinda like those old-school Goosebumps novels from back in the day.

    I'm also wondering if the IC fact that Mhaldor has pretty well declared war on the Mud with their assaults against the Divine shrines and orders, and the Garden with their leading Divine, if that pretty well gives full license to hunt and kill every Mhaldor citizen, regardless of Ivory Mark, infamous, or whatever. 

    Where is Lord Neraeos, we've seen and been seeing the legions of Tritons at work. Let Him rise up and besiege Mhaldor, removing it from existence above the surface and taking the Island down into the depths of the Sea. Citadels hitting the harbors obliterating ships, etc. Where's His response to the death of His daughter? Or is He measuring it out? Waiting for the time to strike, as the calm sea suddenly gives way to a tidal wave of unimaginable might...

    Its hardly an unknown that Nori isn't a big combatant and more in the scholar role of research/knowledge/archive of vast amounts of information. But I certainly agree with the sentiments of more than a few on here, and am hearing of problems re-cleansing a re-corrupted shrine? And my first thought is, "We just bashed for 4 to 10 hours to cleanse that shrine and its corrupted all over again in 5 minutes? the *beep*?!"

    There's a definite sense of "wondering if its bugged" or "wondering why we're bothering with it if we have no impact whatsoever" floating across family clans and ooc clans. And that ends with the sense of "eh, screw it. I'm done. Hit me up on skype once this is over in a few months." as I see characters active nearly a decade walk away.

    So, while the PK, the PvP, and the hunt ormyrr groups are out and about having fun, just keep in mind that there's a fair number of players that aren't in the PK know of things that just see it as a "wtf" type event. Big things, lots happen, and yet... nope, still only options are grind hours for ember to find 20 minutes after logging out that the shrine has been re-corrupted (Props to Mhaldor peeps for managing that, btw). Raid Mhaldor. Hunt Ormyrr. ... Oh well, that's still better than just a few short days ago when it was just Raid Mhaldor or Hunt Ormyrr.
  • TreyTrey
    Between getting killed near constantly and corrupting (and I'm up net 10% still wtf?) I've found time to RP with both enemy and ally alike and make changes. Have I affected the grand overall event? Not significantly, at least not to my knowledge. But it doesn't change the fact that you have the power to use this event to RP and further grow your character.

  • JacenJacen
    Agreed with you on most points. And while Jacen is a combatant (though not a very good one), he's still not going to raid Mhaldor. Why? Because while, in his mind, Mhaldor is doing the most stupid thing they possibly could have done, raiding Mhaldor solves nothing. Back when I was ranting about how I hated the embers, the point was stressed to me several times that death is nothing but an inconvenience to adventurers, IC. So its perfectly in character to carry around something you know is going to kill you, because you know you'll get resurrected. 

    So, extending this line of thought to Mhaldor, we're not going to put a dent in their population. We can raid raid raid til the cows come home, and Mhaldor will only be inconvenienced. Furthermore, even if we magically wiped out Mhaldor, we've only cured a symptom of the problem. Bal'met will still be hanging around, knocking divine out of the sky like a kid with a BB gun. So, Jacen will not raid Mhaldor, because it accomplishes nothing, until the admin decide it will accomplish something.

    Note: None of this is intended as a rant to Mhaldor or the decisions that those players/gods have made. You've got an excellent thing going, though once the event is over, I'm not sure how you'll dig your way out of the image you've created. Props for sticking to your guns.
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  • JacenJacen
    Always been evil and ruthless, yeah. I was more referring to the fact that they raised a god that intends to destroy sapience, who's killed what, 5 gods now? Everyone's "justifying" the 3-4 city gank on Mhaldor because of their actions. When will the 3-4 city ganking stop being justified? When will the "There's a Mhaldorian, they killed <insert dead god name here>, let's jump them!" idea stop being justified? Maybe when the event's over, everyone will pat each other on the back, and things will go right back to the way they were. I don't see that happening though
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  • ThaumasThaumas
    edited November 2012
    Mhaldor can only thrive under external pressure (2nd half of truth 7).

    Edit: or if it's the most popular destination for lulzy alts. Thankfully, I haven't seen that in a long time.
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  • SherazadSherazad Planef Urth
    I'd have to echo how the event is good for Mhaldor. While I am liking things right now and am still hoping it gets better all around, I am wondering what if it's Ashtan who is allied to Bal'met, given their much bigger population. While Mhaldor can easily respond to raids with accepting Suffering and just trying to fight back, I wonder what would happen if it was Ashtan, who has a group of dedicated RPers in the Occultists, experienced PKers and a big population with different and more relaxed beliefs, would deal with it.
    Bleh, work ate my gaming life.
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  • TriakTriak
    Sherazad said:
    I'd have to echo how the event is good for Mhaldor. While I am liking things right now and am still hoping it gets better all around, I am wondering what if it's Ashtan who is allied to Bal'met, given their much bigger population. While Mhaldor can easily respond to raids with accepting Suffering and just trying to fight back, I wonder what would happen if it was Ashtan, who has a group of dedicated RPers in the Occultists, experienced PKers and a big population with different and more relaxed beliefs, would deal with it.
    We'd win the game.
  • RangorRangor
    If every old Ashtani person came out of the woodwork like they have for Mhaldor, Ashtan would stomp us good.
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  • AliathAliath
    Tanris said:

    @Corruption:
    Well, its not really surprising. The fact that we can reverse corruption at all is a huge blessing, and something which was an enormous rallying point for a lot of people's characters. Before that it seemed completely hopeless, as a single failure spelled the loss of a shrine permanently. The unveiling that there is a way (if difficult) to cleanse that corruption was one of the best timed and well revealed parts of the event so far, in my opinion. It gave an impression that there was a way to fight back, if only barely.


    Ironically I tried to purify it before it was revealed how, guessing the exact verb can be a bit of a pain at times
  • JacenJacen
    Tanris said:

    Not getting involved because death doesn't matter is a personal choice, but personally a stance I find fairly silly. I know from an ooc stance that no faction is going to win Achaea and eradicate all of the others because then we'd have no game: that doesn't mean I'm not going to play because its pointless. Sounds like you're just depriving yourself of opportunities.

    Opportunities to raid, yes, but not opportunities to RP. I don't think realizing the folly of attacking when gods have been slain is a silly stance. I understand your point, and if I were a @Penwize (kill it til everything's alright again) then sure, that's exactly what I'd do. Jacen's just trying to figure out the smart approach, not the blunt one. 
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  • TanrisTanris
    Eh, fair enough. I'll point out that Bal'met is the divine enemy (obviously out of mortal capabilities to fight against given the event), but the Mhaldorians are a mortal enemy I assume factored partially in to give the players something they can fight against. I don't think anyone has tried to go bash Bal'met yet, which would be vastly different to going and attacking a mortal following (this is actually exactly what happens between orders, a lot of the time. Can't fight the god directly, go beat on their followers).
  • NellaundraNellaundra
    Vayne said:
    How can someone think that there has been no opportunity for RP? That is baffling to me.
    This entire thing led to Nell changing to a Paladin.  It's been -great- for personal RP.
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