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And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
I don't know the answer to this one. I'll leave it for someone who has a more intimate knowledge of the builds.
Chaos entities are canonically immune to the litany of obedience. It just so happens certain Ashtani guards are chaos entities.
When does Targ get the promised rewards Ama mentioned in her post?
Did I ever have a chance of actually achieving “okay/decent student” status?
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
1. This is not the first time this has been done to an organisation and very well might not be the last. Big events such as these are infrequent enough that disruption tends to be something we consider acceptable. That said, we did originally predict this to be shorter than two weeks - the timeline did get a bit off course (partly due to the staff acquisition throwing all plans out of whack, partly due to a miscalculation).
2. A lot of the IC reasons were stated further down already so I won't reiterate them, but a couple that were missed:
* Cyrene held one of the few guardians remaining that the Tsol'teth baddly wanted to get samples from.
* Cyrene is actually one of the most defendable cities from a lore perspective. Without the litany, it would've been very hard for the Tsol'teth to do what they did - so they needed to do Cyrene first so that particular ace was a complete surprise.
* As a neutral actor Cyrene was the most likely org to rally the others into a coalition.
* From an ooc perspective, the Cyrene playerbase have historically been very resilient, and we knew this was going to be a tough one. This was a factor in discussion.
3. I touched on this in a response to Asmodron's post, but absolutely. We actually expected at least two more to go through an attempted Conquest. We actually were all geared up for the Targossas one then it didn't happen.
The staff would have enabled a very significant win in addition to the tide removal. The nature of that win we would have left in the hands of the staff winner (with some caveats).
I'll rephrase, we expected a banned of murderer's to go and try to enlighten Bain'maal and make him go on a rampage. I'm not 100% on the Hycanthus plotline so I won't answer that (because I might be wrong).
I was refering to the litany immunity and changing all the guards to chaos ones in my post, but someone posted it anyway so I suppose its public knowledge! I can't overstate how significant a change that was, however. The planned use of the litany would've been devastating for Ashtan if it had worked.
The above is correct, this particular ability in telepathy is lost. That's not to say it couldn't be rediscovered, however.
1. You'll have to find that out in game.
2. Lol no.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Aside from the fairly obvious downsides from the tide spreading, was there ever a win condition (or gear shift) if the Tide engulfed a certain percentage of Sapience?
What would've happened had tide got far into a city to actually erect a Meld Shrine?
What was the process for choosing who's shadows eradicated barriers?
With deus shards not playing a critical role this time around for (obvious) reasons... Will some of the abilities that were gained through them be attainable through the current Avatar status that orders have? (Deuc's awesome radiance, or Babel Pit, for instance)
2. Was the 2nd earthquake right after Mhaldor discovered the cracked foundation stone in the Underrealm just lucky chance, or was someone watching from the sidelines?
3. Can we get a Tsol'teth killcount, we still need to see who got the most instakills off on them!
While this event has been frustrating at times from Coalition raids to silence from denizens I definitely like the feeling of fear, dread and intrigue the Tsol'teth conjure up, love to see how the Tsol'teth continue to unravel they are more than an event now!
The chance of the barrier reconstructing was exceedingly slim for a few reasons:
* Yudhishthira paid off his debt to Targossas making it the first time. He'd be disinclined for several reasons to do it again.
* The big thing about the barrier working the first time was all the Tsol'teth were on the inside when it went up (due to a combination of their big names working on raising the Genesis and the Achaean push + Parni getting the three Tsol'teth back down in the Underrealm).
* They'd probably just not fall for the same trick twice.
That said, I won't say it was impossible, but we couldn't see a reasonable way for it to happen. A player might have seen something we'd missed though.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
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2. Someone was watching, but it was going to be blown up anyway.
3. Nope! This one you can definitely piece together already though.
Gear shift, yes.
Very bad things. Conquest would've been very close after this happening and it would have been much harder to defend than the already difficult standard kind.
I'm unsure on this one. I recall the discussion for Cyrene but obviously missed the Ashtan/Mhaldor ones, so I'll defer that to someone else.
No plans for the avatar powers to return. They were intentionally ridiculously op and will probably remain just as a part of that event - never say never though!
1. We would've gone with this if it'd been the route people decided to go down.
2. I don't know this one, deferred!
3. Yes.
4. There is a fundamental weakness with the Tsol'teth's most infuriating power. This is very publicly stated in game, and this was something I personally expected to be exploited ruthlessly.
5. We are discussing this.
It depends on the means. If it was IC, absolutely fine!