Achaean Raves

Arditi

Santar said:

You may have been her mentor, but I was the one that took her to school.

Didn't realize you were a crossing guard. Thanks for serving our community.

Wynedere

I absolutely LOVE the forced melee changes so far. Group fighting is a lot more exciting, and confusing, heh. 

Jhui

so nice being able to hit someone that is hitting you!

Halos

That was amazing. Who did I kill and when. Did I die? You have to check HISTORY DEATHSIGHT afterwards (or dig into the autologs) to even get a bead on what is happening

Wynedere

Shit happens so fast you have to try and pick out the important stuff, highlight like it's no one's business.  All I do is mash various keys on my keyboard till my kids complain that I'm being too loud while spamming 'enter', and hope that I get something right because text is flying by so quickly that I can't even tell what attacks actually land.

Valdus

I heart @Penwize . He knows why.

I encourage the rest of you to also heart him.

Jarrod

One giant highlight for getting a killing blow.

One giant highlight for 'Target not visible'

Lots of keys to strum until my health explodes from being targeted.

Triak

H: 6435 (100%), M: 7429 (99%) 19239w, 27180e 98.4% ex|cdbk- 96 23:02:42.371
Your face contorted in a twisted grimace, you clench your fists to crush the life out of Daeir.
You have slain Daeir.

H: 6435 (100%), M: 7424 (99%) 19239w, 27175e 98.8% ex|cdbk- 74 23:02:50.424
Your face contorted in a twisted grimace, you clench your fists to crush the life out of Dhaia.
You have slain Dhaia.

H: 6435 (100%), M: 7430 (99%) 19209w, 27175e 98.9% ex|cdbk- 44 23:03:00.412(-39 Mana, 0.5%)
Your face contorted in a twisted grimace, you clench your fists to crush the life out of Draqoom.
You have slain Draqoom.

H: 6120 (95%), M: 6235 (83%) 18608w, 27175e 99.1% ex|cdbk- 63 23:03:29.715
Your face contorted in a twisted grimace, you clench your fists to crush the life out of Lachlan.
You have slain Lachlan.

H: 6435 (100%), M: 6467 (86%) 18580w, 27175e 99.5% ex|cdbk- 44 23:03:42.531
Your face contorted in a twisted grimace, you clench your fists to crush the life out of Seifur.
You have slain Seifur.
Your soul cries out in ecstasy as it reaches new heights of power. You have advanced to level 104.
You have reached the illustrious level of 2nd Heir to Ashaxei's Legacy.

Ty to my snipers.

Jhui

man you should also have a side thanks to your occies that encourage snipers to shoot kalmia for your chokes

Jarrod

I shot 0 kalmia arrows during Triak's kill 'secure' spree.

I did however call all of those targets for him, so he owes me.

Santar

Agreed. Awesome raid.  We took a bit more casualties due to just the sheer number of Ashtani in their home turf, but was fun regardless. Kills were going off pretty evenly for about half of each fight till there were just none of us left and like 10 of you guys left. We got a room though after the one fight that we held you - So suuuuck iiiit.

Jhui

it was a ploy

we gave up a room intentionally to encourage more raiding, which in turn gives us more precious textp to gain

you played right into our trap.

you, my friend, can suck it.

Naw, I kid.  that was fun though.

Triak

Targ had more or equal than we had, are you trying to make it sound like you raided with 4 people and were overwhelmed with numbers?

Someone appoint this guy propaganda minister right away.  He is much better than Achilles.

Jarrod

Could you just post a rave without excuses and wrong information?

It was two really good fights, both went different ways, I had a blast.

Santar

Eh, numbers were roughly even, but obviously you have better attrition in city since you can run easily after your bursts. I counted like 16 of us vs. 20ish of you guys.

I recall three fights:

Fight one: We set up and got rushed, did poorly and got ejected from the city.

Fight two: Had a tactical discussion, came back, set up. Had heavy casualties but won the fight with like 5 people left alive. We mass devo-rezzed and took the room.

Fight three: Several minute fight that we gradually got wittled down on. Bloodbath on both sides(that we eventually lost)

Leinad

Caoimhaen said:

@leinad thanks for the interesting talk on why chaos makes people go crazy. You make a very convincing case. Also! Your patience in the arena is astounding! Sorry I wasn't much help. Great meeting you

@alcinae for being fun to be a jerk to. The strained "friendship" is fun

@Caoimhaen- Thanks. Could use more talks like that. Totally wasn't expecting to open up like that, either. I see potential for further development.

Santar

Instead of all the bickering - A simple poem to commemorate the raid today.

We raided Ashtan and encountered Jhui

Of his followers - There were far from few.

Battling with all of our might

We persevered throughout the fight

We destroyed a room

But even a vacuum

Could not have contained

The fury that they rained

A battle well fought, we headed to Targossas

On each side - There were many losses.

Now we turn the page

Until once more the battle will rage

Goodnight.

Chryenth

I cannot handle this.

You people are supposed to be inarticulate rage-monsters who can't count and explode with anger at the slightest slight, and now you are writing poetry.

And good poetry at that.

The dissonance is killing me. :-O

Synbios

Raves in poorly-done haiku.

@Ahanna, @Szareine

Awesome proteges of mine,

Keep up the good work.

@Lala, and her tea,

With delightful discussions,

Sorry about 'that'.

@Siana, you're cool,

Had to send you a breadroll

For the evade-spam.

@Aurora, so cool,

You and the Order of Light

Are always great fun

@Bouff, so that humans

Don't think I just interact

With only females.

Synbios

ANNOUNCE NEWS #3983                                     (11/03/2013 at 17:16)  

From   : Sarapis, the Logos

To     : Everyone

Subject: few changes

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1. Tekura grading has been changed. No longer will newbie monks have to spend the first hours of 

their lives in Achaea pointlessly demonstrating kata over and over  in order to advance their skill. 

Tekura users still need to be graded to advance, but a grading should succeed every time, barring 

interruption by attack, affliction, etc. Tekura users can also demonstrate katas up to one level 

above their current skillrank. In the future, we are likely to turn demonstrating kata into 

something functional for monks, but for now, it will be flavor-only.

2. Health and mana regen from sleeping/meditating has been approximately doubled, and 

willpower/endurance regen from them has been doubled, but only for people under level 30.

Penned by My hand on the 25th of Scarlatan, in the year 639 AF.

Caoimhaen

@mannimar for being understanding. You know why.

@jonners for all the time he gave me earlier.

@bronislav for being an awesome friend as always

@ryuke same as bronislav. Awesome friend. Always there.

Antonius

Your skill in Survival has earned you the following abilities:
Fishing              Ply the waterways of Sapience for fish galore.
Considering          Find out the strength of others.
Brawling             Enter into basic combat with your fists and feet.
Navigating           Navigate to various landmarks in Sapience.
Diagnose             Check up on your physical and mental health.
Swimming             Swim in the beautiful oceans, rivers, and lakes of Achaea.
Surveying            Gain information on the characteristics of your location.
Distance             Sense the distance to a specific LANDMARK.
Selfishness          Become too selfish to throw or give anything away.
Perceive             Determine if a forest area has been claimed as a grove.
Assessing            Ascertaining the health of a target.
Dousing              Only you can stop forest fires!
Physiology           Discern your ailments more efficiently.
Sewers               Gaining entry to the dark underbelly of the cities.
Satiation            Enhance the value of what you eat.
FluidSwim            Swimming with not a care in the world.
Metawake             Cause yourself to quickly wake up automatically.
Tumbling             Tumble past obstructions.
Focusing             Curing mental afflictions by sheer will.
WormAttack           Attacking dimensional wormholes.
Clotting             Reduce the level of your bleeding.
Insomnia             Cause yourself to be unable to fall asleep.
Swinging             Climbing up into the trees.
Shaking              Shaking a tree to see what falls out.
Clinging             Clinging tightly onto a tree.
Restoration          Healing damaged limbs by force of will.
Heartstop            Slay yourself by stopping your heart.
Breathing            Controlling your breathing to avoid asphyxiation.
Curseward            Erect a barrier against curses.
Efficiency           Manage your resources with greater precision.

Due to your mastery of various survival techniques, you are now able to manage your resources to a
higher degree, reducing the mana necessary to focus your mind and clot your wounds.

In addition, you will now recover far more swiftly from activating the tree tattoo or focusing your
mind.

Xer

That probably explains the tree tattoo bug from earlier - was taking 30 seconds instead of 10 seconds of balance like normal. Is a nice change

Eld

So recovery is trans survival now?

Jovolo

Basically. I don't know if the base was made to be 30 or is still 60, though. It's sort of a buff and a nerf to entry level Survival which I don't really understand the reasoning for. 

Silas

Weird change.

Hasar

Isn't it to help those who didn't have trans survival, against priests?

Since you would need focus against the new priest stuff.

Eld

Jovolo said:

Basically. I don't know if the base was made to be 30 or is still 60, though. It's sort of a buff and a nerf to entry level Survival which I don't really understand the reasoning for. 

Base was always 30, pretty sure.

Jovolo

Yeah, I figured it would allow people to at least -cure- the rest of the Disrupts, but switching Recovery to Trans instead of leaving it as is seems odd when entry level Focus is probably at best five seconds.

ETA: Not a bad change by any means, just a weird one.

Antonius

When you say "probably at best five seconds", is that actually based on anything other than pure guesswork?

Moving Recovery to Transcendent does seem a bit odd, but with Focus (regardless of the balance) being available sooner there's in some ways less of a need to have faster tree come lower in Survival.