What do you do in Achaea?

Asmodron

As Achaea is the text world we have all come to love, we all have our ways to enjoy our time in it. When you're playing Achaea, what do you do for fun other than the stereotypical "Hunt and PvP"?

Arlanda

Hunt, earn gold, manage shops, house stuff

Alyssea

Talk on TMC, of course.

Salvar

We're supposed to do something? 

F**^!

Trey

Daeir said:

Laze about with my text-family on one of my primary characters or explore the wilderness areas looking for neat spots. Or run about harvesting and performing fertility rites on most of overworld Sapience since I hate seeing fully harvested plants lying around.

I thought you had a rant/quote about flowing in on 'fertility rites' and being horrified.

On topic, while pausing for the periodic duel, I flirt shamelessly, drink on the sly and play rapier roulette.

Tvistor

I mainly yell at people like Daeir for being HR 3 after all this time.

I can behead people again now though, so they have more incentive to advance.

Arlanda

Daeir said:

Tvistor said:

I mainly yell at people like Daeir for being HR 3 after all this time.

I can behead people again now though, so they have more incentive to advance.

The spars are putting me off. I hate spars, because I will lose all of them. Get me to kill 5 heathens in cold blood instead and I'm totally happy with that. I just really hate sparring.

Wow, luckily I'm not in Mhaldor too. Hate sparring too. Even donating 1 million gold would be easier...

Salvar

Daeir said:

Tvistor said:

I mainly yell at people like Daeir for being HR 3 after all this time.

I can behead people again now though, so they have more incentive to advance.

The spars are putting me off. I hate spars, because I will lose all of them. Get me to kill 5 heathens in cold blood instead and I'm totally happy with that. I just really hate sparring.

I'm of two minds on the Mhaldor sparring thing.  I hate sparring.  On one had, just get in the arena, lose if you're going to, log, write some crap in a journal, turn it in.  I don't remember from my other characters (largely inactive) if Mhaldor needed you to -win- the spars.  

On the other hand, though Mhaldor's RP is admittedly largely martial, some may avoid the excellent other RP opportunities Mhaldor has with its ideology because of the large public combat image.   

I've equally avoided advancement work on other characters because of annoying requirements involving the arena. 

Edit: Conversely, many people avoid advancing for the opposite end of the spectrum: death by essay/ritual/annoying emotes.

Arador

Hmm, spar, defend, try to hunt, join the odd raid, pray a lot, try to hunt some more.

And if I am bored, Blackwind into the forests, find two newbies goin' at it, wait for the girl to go down on the dude and the moment she does, Blackwind Choke. 

Alternatively, walk in, Belch, leave.

Sarapis

I pick random numbers and delete the characters associated with those numbers.

Jonathin

ETA:

Don't choose 8856!

See, if you choose it, it won't be random and your post will be false.

Cooper

Delete 666 (Nightcrawler)

Also 1371 (don't know who that is)

Ruth

I write scrolls, copy books for the EF library and my personal copy, educate novices, delegate, fish, sail, dive, visit islands, RP.

Sylvance

Mudsex

BTW - If you want to join the mudsex clan, just do IMALOSER ingame, kthx

Shahai

Aside of hunting and usual stuff, I try to be of entertaining company for people, aswell as a courtesan.

In a more long term point of view, my clan is still building up.

Mishgul

rustle

Kinilan

block up

Mishgul

he lies, I asked for water and the c*** tried to push me into the piranha pool. Thankfully piranha's are not vegetarians so I survived. And I am hydrated. Too hydrated.

Jonathin

I do almost everything possible in Achaea. I fight on occassion, pretend to be a scholar/ritualist, be a pseudo-leader (because nobody else seems to know how to have a commanding presence), and sail. Since Shallam sunk, I haven't sailed as much though.

Garao

Afk and smack talk on the forums. When I grow up, I'll be a productive achaean. One day!

Xer

Spar, edit scrolls, design items, exterminate, raid, defend, lots of novice work, gather ingredients, hunt, occasionally gank, (try to) avoid getting ganked, develop new combat strategies, try and get more coordination in raid parties, and losing levels because Monks are OP

Tvistor

@Daeir You need to spar so when you have to kill someone in a duel to demonstrate Strength, you don't lose by pathetically flailing around with nothing but curare/kalmia and poorly timed impatience snaps.

The arena is really not that bad at all.

Amunet

Run the Occultists, proselytise for the Cult of Babel - predominantly via news posts and face-to-face discussions, but I will give the rare public sermon. Perform rituals, write, design clothing/jewellery/recipes, research history, especially as it pertains to Ashtan, Chaos, the Occultists, the Cult of Babel, and the Human race; play the role of disciplinarian in Ashtan, since no one else can be bothered to do it, and unintentionally cause trouble for poor Dunn (and previously Tanris) when the idiots I mute, disfavour, or boot throw a tantrum about having gotten what was coming to them. Troll sexalts. Engage in battles of wit with @Melodie (among others!) at public functions. Contrive Achaean drinking games. Lose drinking competitions to @Katalyst. Flirt with (or fight with, depending on the day!) @Mathonwy. Hound Orklanishkal to marry me Drive @Orklanishkal up the wall with reckless spending and interminable nagging, while simultaneously doting upon him for being the text-Ricky Ricardo to my text-Lucy. Spoil or harangue my text-children (and grandchildren). Threaten the guys in the Cult of Babel with emasculation. Plan, organise, and then force all of the grumbling gentlemen in the House and Cult to attend various cultural and social events. Explore, sometimes. Sail/pirate, sometimes. The list goes on!

Iocun

Making up excuses for why I didn't do stuff I promised to do and dying.

Jacen

Mostly House stuff, minimal bashing, group combat when Mhaldor/Shallam want to play

Aktillum

I like to try and engage denizens in conversations regarding important events, then wander off when I realize I'm not important enough and the Divine probably want me to go away.

Lyr

Aktillum said:

I like to try and engage denizens in conversations regarding important events, then wander off when I realize I'm not important enough and the Divine probably want me to go away.

Aww, don't think that! I RP'd with a denizen and Terra and felt like the denizen was more interested in her than me, but I kept going and it turned out okay.

Jacen

Aktillum said:

I like to try and engage denizens in conversations regarding important events, then wander off when I realize I'm not important enough and the Divine probably want me to go away.

Same here. I hate going to a house denizen over and over trying to solicit some sort of reaction to a pertinent situation without response, only to have said denizen acknowledge my text girlfriend and I holding hands in his presence. WTF

Corbeaux

Amunet said:

Threaten the guys in the Cult of Babel with emasculation. Plan, organise, and then force all of the grumbling gentlemen in the House and Cult to attend various cultural and social events.

We love the attention, @Amunet. The threats also serve as a good way for the non-Occultists in the Cult to bond with you Occultist bastards. :P

Wilhelmina

Nothing. None of my characters have a social life, really, outside of the random (but cordial) tell or Ashtani gank.

Boosteya

To OP: Which one?