Achaean Raves

Chryenth

ANNOUNCE NEWS #3891

Date: 06/18/2013 at 05:08

From: Tecton, the Terraformer

To  : Everyone

Subj: Customisation requests

We've just added a small tweak to the CUSTOMISATION request system in-game, allowing you to use

alternate payment methods (such as a silver token from the Shop of Wonders, or any icy figurine from

previous promotions).

Using these is simple, just specify that you wish to use your item when creating your request -

CUSTOMISATION NEW FOR <item> WITH <token/figurine>.

The price will be reflected accordingly based on the item, and once you COMPLETE the request, the

item will disappear.

Penned by My hand on the 8th of Scarlatan, in the year 628 AF.

THIS. Finally I can use this figurine.

Vayne

Fun fight with Azuhi(+Shirszae)! So much attention from the ladies! :P

Tecton

You could use it before, you just had to email customisations@achaea.com!

Krypton

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Woo!

Chryenth

Tecton said:

You could use it before, you just had to email customisations@achaea.com!

You mistake how lazy I am. Now I can do it without... doing anything, really. A few words is much easier than a whole email.

If this comes across as First World Problems to anyone, that because it absolutely is.

Kalici

Where else but in Achaea can you go on a psychedelic trip without fear of being arrested?

I just read about Bopa-lopa and I am dying over here!  Every time I think Achaea can't be any more awesome, it is.  Bopa-lopa makes me think this is what it would be like to star in your very own version of Mystery Science Theater 3000.  In that show, there were so many hilarious references and jokes, about pop culture, history, science, something for everybody.  So you could watch it on several levels.  If you were young and didn't get the inside jokes, that was Ok, it was still a fun show.  But if you got the jokes, it just added layers of "awesome icing" onto the cake that was MSTK3000.  So that's what Bopa-Lopa is like to me, fun by itself, but even more fun if you can link in your own mind to the otherworldly things it seems to reference.

THIS . GAME . has me by the throat!  OMG, I'm going to start selling lungs and kidneys and plasma just to "feed my credit habit."  Heheheheheheh.  Achaea is the computer game I would have evented, if I had the intelligence to create a computer game.  A trillion "cool points" to its creators.

Jonathin

Bopa-lopa

I like it. We should make an area that's like the opposite of Bopalopia, you know, dark and cold with rolling mist and long paths of dead trees. 

And no, I'm not ragging on you at all. I realize that you use a screen reader.

Shirszae

Jonathin said:

Bopa-lopa

I like it. We should make an area that's like the opposite of Bopalopia, you know, dark and cold with rolling mist and long paths of dead trees. 

sounds like the Underworld

Jonathin

Whimsically dark, not death and decay dark.

Kyrra

Same difference depending if you have a sense of humour.

Jonathin

I do not.

Kalici

OMG, ROFLOLOLOL!  I give up on spelling in Achaea!

And I purposefully tried to remember exactly how to spell Bopa-lopia!  If I don't write it down in Braille, there's no hope! LOL.

Daslin

He really doesn't, I've tried making him smile before.

To stay on topic, Monk is fun.

Carmell

Watching as a new young citizen really wants to get involved in the city defenses. 

Kyrra

Massive freaking raves to whomever gave me reflections last night. I completely forgot that I even had them when I decided to go for a walk to Hthrak..

Forked passageway (indoors).
The once magmatic course bifurcates here into an ashen crossroad, culminating in a sullen, narrow
chamber through which pulses an updraft of torrid air. A dry, arid heat desiccates the acrid
atmosphere, and the subterranean climate is free of steam or humidity. A fissure in the southern
wall betrays a humid upward passage, the hoarse susurrus of pulsing water vapour audible within, and
the scant moisture that forges its way toward the intersection sizzles and is eviscerated by the
arid inner clime. Blasts of heat blow out from the immense suit of armour containing Jeramun, the
Flame of the World, bathing him in an eerie orange glow.
You see exits leading northeast, south, and northwest.
H: 4736 (103%), M: 4115 (100%), 17604w, 21788e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:28.249)(+19m, 0.5%) nw
Jeramun, the Flame of the World swings his sword in a wide arc across the room, savagely slicing
through your belly with its searing heat.
One of your reflections has been destroyed! You have 4 left.
H: 4736 (103%), M: 4115 (100%), 17605w, 21788e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:28.544)
Brightening artery through the earth (indoors).
The naked earth incandesces in angry spiderwebs along the striated length of this broad subsurface
gallery. Backlit orange and red glow through hairline fractures within the stony crust, cracked,
senescent stone crumbling as its scarred visage is overtaken by the blossoming inner vermilion of
the earth. Far above, a distant, violent thunder occasionally sends muted tremors rumbling
throughout the length of the passage. A soft orange lambency emits from somewhere within the deeper
abysses to the north, stretching diffuse, felt-limned shadows across the rocky floor.
You see exits leading north, east, and southeast.
H: 4736 (103%), M: 4115 (100%), 17605w, 21786e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:28.845)
A burning blast of heat signals the arrival of Jeramun from the southeast.
H: 4736 (103%), M: 4115 (100%), 17605w, 21786e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:29.124)
One of your reflections has been destroyed! You have 3 left.
Jeramun, the Flame of the World rages, seeing his attack fall on your reflection.
H: 4736 (103%), M: 4115 (100%), 17605w, 21786e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:29.502)n
Descending deeper into the earth (indoors).
A curtain of heat builds steadily along the cavern path's uneven descent, the arid, subterranean
atmosphere choking all life caught within its desiccated barrens. The murmuring suspiration of steam
belting outward from the planet echoes distantly, a fever-dream oasis of watery promise amid the
hellish heat and shadow, and parched speleothems glower all around in a cruel lampoon of fluidity.
Suffusing the cracked, vermilion-backlit stone of the path with infernal twilight, a subtle orange
glow emits from somewhere within the earth's abyssal lower reaches.
You see exits leading north and south.
H: 4736 (103%), M: 4115 (100%), 17605w, 21784e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:30.053)n
Bend before a blinding light (indoors).
A brittle, crumbled layer of ash clings to the uneven strata underfoot, paving the hellish tunnel
with magmatic scree as it descends into the molten underbelly of the planet. Hairline fingers of red
and orange, shot haphazardly throughout the chamber walls, betray the geothermal stratum that burns
latent underneath the earth's scarred skin. Further to the north churns a subterranean nova, its
blinding inferno casting stark, elongated penumbras across the igneous cavern floor, and a sulphur-
laden zephyr lurches outward from somewhere within the garishly illumined depths.
You see exits leading northeast and south.
You are breathing lightly.
H: 4711 (102%), M: 4115 (100%), 17605w, 21782e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:30.475)(-25h, 0.5%) ne
Deep cavern within the magma (indoors).
Light blazes inexorably throughout this natural chamber, its broad expanse dominated by a black-
encrusted reservoir of liquid earth. Melted stone burbles and bloats with languid viscosity below,
causing the air to pulse in waves of dry, sulphurous heat over the backlit orange and sable. High
above, pliant lavacicles adorn the barrel vault of the ceiling like a primeval chapel of fire, and
radiant streamlets bleed profusely from the semisolid walls. A broad promontory thrusts out
defiantly over the angry vermilion breadth of the cavern, its scarred, uneven surface hewn from
tempered quartz. A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. A small book adorned with an
intricate symbol lies here.
You see exits leading southeast and southwest.
You are breathing lightly.
H: 4686 (102%), M: 4100 (99%), 17605w, 21780e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:31.566)(-25h, 0.5%, -15m, 0.
4%)
You have recovered your wind and are breathing normally once again.
H: 4686 (102%), M: 4100 (99%), 17605w, 21780e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:31.842)
A burning blast of heat signals the arrival of Jeramun from the southwest.
H: 4686 (102%), M: 4100 (99%), 17605w, 21790e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:33.207)
Jeramun, the Flame of the World swings his sword in a wide arc across the room, savagely slicing
through your belly with its searing heat.
One of your reflections has been destroyed! You have 2 left.
H: 4686 (102%), M: 4100 (99%), 17605w, 21790e 0.9% ex|cdbkr- nil (21:38:34.155)se
Seared passage nearing a cavern (indoors).
Lumpy, bulbous nodules line the walls and floor of this broadening cavern, the cystic, bloated
extrusions of stone frozen in their final gravid throes. The heat leaches moisture from the air
without pity or recompense, carried upon a lurching brimstone current that rolls scourge-like over
the blighted inner earth. To the northwest, a blazing miniature sun pulses somewhere beneath a
bright, hazy glow, setting the glossy cavern walls alight with a veneer of angry vermilion.
You see exits leading south and northwest.

Someday I really need to learn to squint. I can't believe how messy that could have turned out.

Aepas

@gaia is a pretty cool cat

Dunn

Thought that was a line in your sig and thought to myself WHERE IS THE POST?

Aepas

Thick, emerald creepers wrap about the body, the elongated tendrils coiling in natural twists.
Menacing barbs protrude along the trailing lengths, curving into vicious points that pierce through
armour and cloth, the flesh beneath tainted by a continuous stream of venom.
It weighs about 2 pounds and 0 ounce(s).

Ah it keeps attacking meeee, why do I have to wear this getup.

Katzchen

Mhaldor is like little shrine-raising imps that come out at night.

Jonathin

Numb.

How the hell did I ever live without this? This is amazing.

Jonathin

Revision

Lightning-quick, Vadimuses jabs you with an ornate steel rapier.

You smile as the blow falls painlessly on you.

Vadimuses viciously jabs an ornate steel rapier into you.

You smile as the blow falls painlessly on you.

Happy.

You cry out in agony as the effects of your numbness fade away and you feel your wounds once more.

You have been slain

Sad.

Tirac

Mosr dies, features contorted from the poison delivered by Sir Tirac Savril, Champion of the Blade.

Don't you gimp my e-rep.

Jonathin

Oh, oops.

You have slain: Tirac

 By: 6

  [     6] Tirac

Sorry brah, got cut off and I wasn't paying attention.

Kyrra

So loving this promo with the figurines. I have to buy back half my arties anyway and customisations are win!

Mishgul

I read that as porno with the figurines.

Synbios

Yes.

Daslin

@Lianca @Sohl @Jarrod @Taraus @Morro and whoever else was there, thanks. Made me smile a ton, and made me have to play a really stupid(for a reason) Daslin. You guys have made my night.

Melodie

@Daslin for entertaining me briefly, even if it attracted too much attention!

Then later, that very excellent conversation-to-debate (with a few flying insults) with @Daeir, @Gnaeus, @Voc, @Rangor, and @Delphinus, with even @Silas showing up briefly! I've been in my share of informal debates over the years, but very rarely with so many differing opinions and basis of belief. It was a lot of fun, and really worked my brain for the first time in a while.

Keep it up, it's nice to be doing something outside of hunting and combat in Achaea again!

Daslin

@Melodie I had hoped you'd be ballsy and stick around for more.

Melodie

Being "ballsy and sticking around for more" is exactly what got me in trouble before. So sorry, but no. :P