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Refugees of Shallam, how are you coping?
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It was annoying for a certain project in Cyrene, so I can only imagine how annoying it is for the refugees.
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
It's actually already on the approved change list as per @Xith. High Clans are supposed to count as organisations. So when they have a valid area of interest, defending it is perfectly reasonable.
But obviously you can't totem a denizen area without first being allied to them, which GoM is not yet.
Y'know what? I would absolutely love to write stuff for my faction, and have done so in the past. But don't take what's already there for granted. I'm not going to invent an entirely new race, or a whole new plane, because I frankly lack that authorial control over Achaea. The impact is too far-reaching. So, as the schema's not already set, my hands are tied. Babel's kids write lots of stories, yeah, but they do so having fed on a rich cornucopia of fiction.
That said, I would absolutely love to brainstorm or be involved in the "big picture" stuff. God knows I've been outspoken in the way I'd like forest aesthetics (for example) to be.
Absolutely agreed, Blujibear. The whole of this thread is really interesting reading, and gives you a lot of insight into how/why a Shallamese re-building might fail (and maybe even a bit into why it might succeed).
I completely endorse Shallamese event frustration. It is a simple fact that for the last, hmm, 3 years? Probably a lot more, to be honest - Shallam has not had pro-active patronage from a divine perspective. It responds to Babel's evil schemes, it responds to Evil's evil schemes, Darkness's evil schemes and only rarely does it get to play initiator and protagonist. I think Shallam's enemies do a great job of not providing an event where "The Forces of Light suffer again!" but it is inevitable that a story written by, pushed forward by, and told from the perspective of Evil or Chaos or Darkness or whatever is going to be more satisfying to the adherents of that faction. This is not really intended as a criticism of the Good gods (RIP) by the way who I think try their best in circumstances that would drive management gurus to resign and check themselves into a mental hospital, just an observation.
This leads to Shallam being stuck in a reactive position - which is evidenced above. Given what is, in effect, a sandbox, people are conditioned not to start building the best castle they can but to passively wait for things to get better and see what castle is delivered to them (secure in the knowledge that it will be terrible). To see roleplay as things done to them, rather than taking the initiative. To fall back into the same old ways (and I'm going to try and not get sucked into discussing the absolute rank stupidity of running an election during the Bal'met event because an angry Tart, is a sad Tart).
I genuinely believe that we have been given the opportunity to change all that. That Aurora and Deucalion are a new page, that they will be amazing pro-active gods who tell amazing stories where Shallam is not only a key player, but which are told from a Shallamese perspective. I think there are a lot of signs to indicate that is true. This is almost like the Vertani event where the playerbase as a whole generally failed the test of dealing with an open-ended event. I can't think of a more obvious statement that the Gods are focused on Shallam, and ready to let the players do what they want and have a real impact than what has just happened.
And even if this isn't true, believing that it is true is the only possible way things will improve. If you are given signs that the administration are willing to work with you, to change, to be pro-active, to build what you want to build and you still can't believe it, then your only responsibility is to get out of the way. To resign, to leave the faction, to be silent. Because your cynicism is immedicable and irredeemable - you will only sour and spoil the potential that does exist.
In summary: stop whining, stop obsessing over internal politics, start believing change is coming and work on creating the change you want.
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The last time I tried to run an event with Shallam, I was informed that the city's Divine were being extremely cautious about any events that had Shallam losing (in any form) because the players would take to it badly. This was before the Bal'met event, but after I stepped down as a Viceroy.
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Mystic Moses (male Dwarf).
He is 334 years old, having been born on the 24th of Phaestian, 279 years after the fall of the
Seleucarian Empire.
He is ranked 1659th in Achaea.
He is an extremely credible character.
He is not known for acts of infamy.
He is a Peasant in Hashan.
He is considered to be approximately 115% of your might.
He is a mentor and able to take on proteges.
His warcry: 'Welcome to the land of Milk and Honey'
He has been engaged to be married to Lil' Lorelei Lee for 3380 months.
A bit too late for that.
Do it now.