Achaean Raves

Tvistor

Vansittart said:

All we need is a match and a heretic. 

I vote this Shallam's new motto.

Tahquil

@Vayne

Silas

Vansittart said:

Events post 409 is beautiful writing.  Hats off to whoever wrote it - a lovely reminder of everything that is great about Achaea (as, at its best, this whole event has been).  Some really nice touches, great structure and ending.  As someone trying to make a go of a Shallamese character right now it makes you want to log right in, and start kicking some ass.

Great job .

While I agree that this event has been everything that Achaea has needed, and that the events posts have been (while not quite Xhaiden Dale) top notch - especially with the quick reaction to player requests to include names for the added personal touch -, I do feel slightly aggrieved by the post and that part of the event itself since, alas, Silas wasn't dead when he spoke to Garron. The post does confirm it to have been a genuine mistake, so obviously no hard feelings, but it would have been nice for them to step back and realise they could have waited the 5 seconds between me squinting south and seeing the sword and hitting enter on stand;s;g sword;n. That way the event wouldn't have had the weird, still inexplicable step between Silas dying and the sword magically appearing in Halos's hands.

Obviously it's over and done now, but I do hope that in the future they'll be a bit less twitchy with the event progress button so as to avoid further weird continuity errors.

Rangor

@Mosr nice conversation in the refugee camp. Thanks for not AFKing like everyone else.

Melodie

Huge rave to @Vayne, @Mathonwy, @Verily, Calanthris, the troubadour, and others for the very fun conversation at CC last night. Often CC is reduced to nonsense, and I often sit there to just kick anyone causing too many stupids. Ever so occasionally, though, interesting roleplay comes along, and it turns out like last night - interesting, engaging, and causing a few "OH NO (S)HE DIDN'T"s. @Scarlatti, especially, played his various roles wonderfully, even if he did kind of have to kick my sleepy ass and say "HEY, HEY, THIS PERSON IS NOT BEING COOL. THAT'S NOT COOL." Thanks for poking me in a way that woke me up, but didn't make me feel like a dope.

 

An additional rave to @Friztic, as well, for the argument afterwards. While you are utterly exasperating to argue with, it helps keep my mind sharp. Just um. You might not want to eat that lycopod salad I sent you in the mail.

Vayne

Seriously, you guys need to give that troubadour a medal or something, he is a sharp one. Protecting the citizens' lives, honor,and well-being!

Draekar

Swordmaster Colbey says, "Additionally, from this day hence, the myriad competitions of the Matsuhama Arena shall be available to all, not only for special occasions."

You read what is written on a small sign:

COMMISSIONING THE ARENA
=======================

The cost to commission the arena for a group event is 15,000 gold.

     ARENA COMMISSION [FOR <org>] [REWARD <amount> <GOLD|CREDITS>]

For the next five minutes, you have access to the various ARENA
commands as outlined in HELP CULTURE.

To quickly begin a public rampage with no set prize:

     ARENA COMMISSION
     INIT RAMPAGE

For further information on the use of the arena, see HELP ARENA.

 

AWESOME!

Aktillum

Current event: Rampage

Player           Health/Mana             Location

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Cooper           5669/5669H 6022/6022M   Edge of the Gaian Forest

Zinka            4336/4336H 3789/3789M   Junction in the arena

Lyr              4487/4498H 3728/3728M   Swiftly flowing river

Seftin           5288/5288H 4246/4560M   Junction in the arena

Venge            754/780H 404/818M       Duelling platform

Proficy          4738/4738H 4163/4163M   Archway on the arena path

Agathon          4427/4427H 4176/4427M   Riverside forest

Rean             5697/5697H 3991/4752M   Sanguine battlefield

Nemutaur         6051/6051H 6373/6656M   Duelling platform

Atalkez          4104/4104H 2980/2980M   Junction in the arena

Osmund           2987/3028H 3669/3669M   Granite path through the arena

Cain             6083/6083H 7781/7781M   Before a crystal wall

Solias           3578/3578H 2981/3366M   Junction in the arena

Mizik            5697/5697H 4047/4893M   Bank of the Modi River

Tynil            5654/5654H 4148/4416M   Granite path through the arena

Militis          4163/4598H 2880/2926M   Archway on the arena path

Achilles         6055/6055H 4627/4627M   Inside a massive ribcage

Payne            3300/3300H 3979/4200M   Nearing the Gaian Forest

Salik            3985/3985H 3022/3122M   Shadow of a massive skeleton

Sothantos        6212/6212H 4473/4473M   Inside a massive ribcage

Shunsui          5356/5356H 4000/4000M   Fringes of the Gaian Forest

Saidie           7414/8030H 6687/8107M   Swiftly flowing river

Antonius         6193/6193H 4757/4757M   Behind a fallen dragon

Xer              4284/4296H 3726/3919M   Bank of the Modi River

Someone going to start a book or what??

Jacen

My money's on Solias. That kid's sharp

Goggo

Player           Health/Mana             Location

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Cooper           5669/5669H 5337/6022M   Sanguine battlefield

Tynil            5654/5654H 4416/4416M   Sanguine battlefield

Mathonwy

Vayne said:

Seriously, you guys need to give that troubadour a medal or something, he is a sharp one. Protecting the citizens' lives, honor,and well-being!

That stupid troubadour, ruining all my fun

Echoing @Melodie and @Vayne, though, I've enjoyed the last few days, and especially Calanthris / @Scarlatti popping in.

Rean

Absolutely love the changes to the Matsuhama arena, you guys are amazing. Really glad I caught that, epic experience.

Trilliana

@Pandora. SO much love for Her right now. I love it! 

Jonathin

After a lot of planning and good execution, Mosr has his first bloodlined kid that won't go dormant, suicide, or be purged.

Edit: the last half of that post.

Tvistor

Bloodline not a child, lest you suddenly find yourself related to half of Achaea by next month.

Nizaris

Jonathin said:

After a lot of planning and good execution, Mosr has his first bloodlined kid that won't go dormant, suicide, or be purged.

Edit: the last half of that post.

Personally, I do it this way: I don't bloodline, for IC (Nizaris is a Mhaldorian priest, who's suppose to be celibate, and he's also an ascetic) and OOC reasons (I'm married in RL, so it would feel odd), but I do adopt. I offer opportunity for adoption to my proteges at HR3. They cannot be adopted until HR5.

I personally like the system, because it gives me and the protege the freedom to disavow all knowledge of the other, and completely disown one another with no permanent record if either of us choose to make a major change in our characters, or if the relationship just doesn't work out. Also, by waiting until HR5, I pretty-well purge those who were just going to go dormant, or suicide.

Tvistor

It is really annoying. I can poach the EF novices if I wanted to but all the BC are like 'But we love Nizaris '

Katzchen

Nizaris said:

Jonathin said:

After a lot of planning and good execution, Mosr has his first bloodlined kid that won't go dormant, suicide, or be purged.

Edit: the last half of that post.

Personally, I do it this way: I don't bloodline, for IC (Nizaris is a Mhaldorian priest, who's suppose to be celibate, and he's also an ascetic) and OOC reasons (I'm married in RL, so it would feel odd), but I do adopt. I offer opportunity for adoption to my proteges at HR3. They cannot be adopted until HR5.

I personally like the system, because it gives me and the protege the freedom to disavow all knowledge of the other, and completely disown one another with no permanent record if either of us choose to make a major change in our characters, or if the relationship just doesn't work out. Also, by waiting until HR5, I pretty-well purge those who were just going to go dormant, or suicide.

I like that perspective on it. Katz is just not remotely interested in men at the moment, preferring to concentrate on her duty - though she's still a bit of a flirt, probably always will be. Never wanted kids for her either, though I do enjoy the 'breaking away from family' rp. Was one major issue between her ex husband and her... he wanted her to bloodline kids as soon as she could, I said no way in hell was I making her an ex teen mother, and I didn't really want any at all anyway! Of course they broke up, and he went and bloodline like five kids with other women, almost all of them would have been conceived while they were together, which gives great rp reason to hate him even more, even if he hadn't made a total fool of himself and deserted Mhaldor. ^^ Is it bad that I enjoy the hate rp more than the family/relationship stuff?

Arlanda

Arlanda wouldn't mind children or parents or partner but she spends too much time doing work and no time for snuggling, smooches, hugs

Ruth

I miss my text-kids, even though they're all citizens of different cities except Mhaldor. :C

On the bright side, heard from one of them very recently. Am happy.

Jonathin

Kendrick isn't going to bloodline half of achaea. That was one of the things I made sure of OOCly before I even considered it.

Kyrra

@Tvistor

Penwize

As you thrust a sacrificial kris into 76 corpses, a swirling miasma of energy exudes from the blade to consume the offering.

Coding staff, I love you for this change.  So much.  Thanks!

Kresslack

Boosteya said:

Mishgul said:

Or can we have pet spiders. I want a new pet spider.

Spiderspiderspiderspider!!!

Dafuq? O.o

Edit:

Oh....that's her signature. Stilll.....dafuq?

Iocun

Penwize said:

As you thrust a sacrificial kris into 76 corpses, a swirling miasma of energy exudes from the blade to consume the offering.

Man, that's some really violent image right there...

Kaevan

Iocun said:

Penwize said:

As you thrust a sacrificial kris into 76 corpses, a swirling miasma of energy exudes from the blade to consume the offering.

Man, that's some really violent image right there...

I imagined it like trying to stick a toothpick through a really, really big sandwich.

Anaidiana

Shishkebob of corpses!

Jonathin

Anaidiana said:

Corpsekabob

Verily

Thank you, @Kotyonok and @Salvar, for putting up with Verily's so termed babble of being 'loquacious with a lack of elegance' today. Made me happy!

Vayne

Enjoyed the skirmish we had outside of Mhaldor even though we had our butts handed to us (yes, even though). It was a good learning experience for our novice raiders and we were able to be quite constructive about it afterwards. I also hope this remains a rave and I don't wake up to Mhaldor having sanctioned while I sleep.