Revised a number of Scion House policies to promote full members staying engaged with the House.
More to come to push youngins and add more depth to the House. @Andraste is cranking on some other stuff. @Aegis so far has been great and even a small thing gives me ideas to put to use... so many things we have been talking about and working on are finally happening. I am liking it!
You put a scrap of red canvas into a polished green bottle.
A scrap of red canvas shrinks into a miniature version of itself as it touches the lip of a polished green bottle. You hurriedly replace the cork as the murkily translucent contents fizz and react violently around the trophy, bubbles surging upward to obscure vision into the bottle.
The bubbles gradually subside, allowing vision past the thick emerald surface once more. Called forcibly into existence, the crimson red sails and flag of a Kashari raiding ship flutter into view, illuminated by the ominous jade glow of its confines.
This slender bottle is crafted from thick glass of a mysterious, emerald
green hue. A sturdy cork wedged firmly into its long, tapered neck
prevents the murkily translucent fluid swilling inside from spilling
out. Every inch of the smooth receptacle is polished and flawless;
ambient light refracts off its surface, casting an ominous jade glow
over the crimson red sails and flag of a Kashari raider captured within
and rendering them black.
You give a Kashari raiding ship in a bottle a firm shake and an upside down turn, disturbing the contents within.
Sewage pours from the portholes of the red-sailed Kashari raider ship, which washes up upon their deck as the waters in the bottle splash around.
Penwize appointed Astarod as Minister of Cultural Affairs. Penwize promoted Astarod to Patrician for: Stepping up as Minister of Culture.
Cheerleader Astarod Blackstone, the Merciless
Watch out, fellas.
The Divine voice of Twilight echoes in your head, "See that it is. I espy a tithe of potential in your mortal soul, Astarod Blackstone. Let us hope that it flourishes and does not falter as so many do."
Aegis, God of War says, "You are dismissed from My demense, Astarod. Go forth and fight well. Bleed fiercely, and climb the purpose you have sought to chase for."
Trying to learn how to fight 1 v 1. Seems pretty pointless as I'm getting royally screwed by everyone I fight, one fight was so bad he didn't realise what class I was until I correct him afterwards.
Hunted for 4 hours and ended down on XP
Today was not a good day
A glimmer of light in the fledgling 1 v 1 career...
You have recovered balance on all limbs. Bending your will upon Kondar, you raise your hands, bringing them together in a resounding clap. Blood begins to run from the nose and ears of Kondar as his face contorts in horror. Two sickening pops sound as his eyes explode in their sockets, fluid dripping from their ruined confines in a parody of tears. Then with a definitive crack the skull of Kondar crumples inward, his corpse dropping bonelessly to the ground. You have slain Kondar...
Big thanks to Astarod and Kuririn for the advice and support.
Trying to learn how to fight 1 v 1. Seems pretty pointless as I'm getting royally screwed by everyone I fight, one fight was so bad he didn't realise what class I was until I correct him afterwards.
Hunted for 4 hours and ended down on XP
Today was not a good day
A glimmer of light in the fledgling 1 v 1 career...
You have recovered balance on all limbs. Bending your will upon Kondar, you raise your hands, bringing them together in a resounding clap. Blood begins to run from the nose and ears of Kondar as his face contorts in horror. Two sickening pops sound as his eyes explode in their sockets, fluid dripping from their ruined confines in a parody of tears. Then with a definitive crack the skull of Kondar crumples inward, his corpse dropping bonelessly to the ground. You have slain Kondar...
Big thanks to Astarod and Kuririn for the advice and support.
Great persistence! Remember, The taste of defeat will sharpen your skills, and the thrill of victory will affirm your efforts. Someone told me that. Glad to hear you had a win buddy, 'bout time!
The Divine voice of Twilight echoes in your head, "See that it is. I espy a tithe of potential in your mortal soul, Astarod Blackstone. Let us hope that it flourishes and does not falter as so many do."
Aegis, God of War says, "You are dismissed from My demense, Astarod. Go forth and fight well. Bleed fiercely, and climb the purpose you have sought to chase for."
first player kill in a raid (edit: defilement? Yeah, that)! There is just one tiny problem. Got the death sight second hand, apparently it said I shot him, but I didn't have my bow out. I thought it was funny, I hardly know how to use the thing, to be perfectly honest.
first player kill in a raid (edit: defilement? Yeah, that)! There is just one tiny problem. Got the death sight second hand, apparently it said I shot him, but I didn't have my bow out. I thought it was funny, I hardly know how to use the thing, to be perfectly honest.
I had a similar situation recently, raiding is such complete chaos and I hadn't learned to use tunnelvision properly, so I was desperately looking for targets being called, highlighted shields to raze and people to hammer with pommelstrike/hamstring. I panicked a bit and let a few multislashes fly.
About five minutes later @syndra asked me if that was my first kill, I went "wait what" and searched and it turned out I'd probably wicked off the final 10 health of someone. It's a giddy feeling made giddier by everyone in Mhaldor making a bit of a event of it.
Got dragon! People probably know if they helped me. And a few know how short my attention span got near the end. Think some people were committed more than I was at the end. Love to Mhaldor.
I blame Vinzent for stealing it away from me. @Farrah made a special guest appearance and was clueless and sad that she did not get to charge her tank.
Special guest appearance for me and Vinzent trying to figure out just where the fuck he took guards from. (Hint: We still don't know!)
I spent most of sunday into this morning customizing my mudlet. I had a pretty good system going before I went inactive a little more than a year ago. Once my tools are in working order I'd really like to get back into the world again, the people in Targ are really helpful and interesting. Here is what I have going so far:
I don't have my old scripts anymore so its all freshly written. The battlerage tracker works better than my old one did because they animate now and fire more accurately for some reason (but need some cosmetic work), my room info console is still very basic and will take a bunch of tweaking to get it up to standard. The new UI uses Geyser instead of Vyzor, I thought going with geyser would make it simpler to share my scripts with others since it is more familiar to most people. I also switched from svo to wundersys, I'm finding wundersys to be much simpler to dissect and customize. I'm using apt for my ndb, I successfully made it apply its highlighting in my roominfo and chat consoles which made me very happy. All my gmcp gets into tables using a script called mData, which fires off events that drive most of the behavior in my ui. I had to customize mData to get at additional pieces of information that I wanted, its surprising that such a useful script has gone relatively unnoticed. So wundersys, apt, mData and the mineral helper whose name escapes me, everything else is my own. It's a much smaller and simpler script load overall.
The gui indicators for afflictions/cures/defenses, inventory management console and opponent tracking remain to be started
There is still a lot to be done, the chat tabs don't flash on new input yet, the gags for all the main window stuff that gets routed to the consoles need to be written, there is a lot of color coding and sorting that I need to add to the roominfo console. The rage tracker is too specific to my class to be shareable but the room console, chat box and tweaked mData could be useful to others. I might clean them up and share them when they reach a more finished state.
Vadi is patient and helpful beyond belief, we need to put a statue of him up somewhere.
You train your expert eye on Syndra and let fly an
arrow with breathtaking precision. Your arrow strikes true! You have slain Syndra. Your soul cries out in ecstasy as it reaches new
heights of power. You have advanced to level 101. You have reached the illustrious level of 5th Heir to
Ashaxei's Legacy.
________________________ The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
Thundaga (most of you know who he is because he spent his first RL week informing anyone who would listen).. joined the Scions. I figured ok, I'll give him a shot. We got along well. He ran for House leader and won after @Torrent betrayed us all and abruptly left.
Anyway, so literally the day after he wins the election, I start hearing shit. No biggy. People didn't like his alt... I get it.
A day later I hear he took someone saying something on Discord, into the game, and started threatening them and telling them how he is a bigger badass than this particular 'non-com' because he is a House leader. That went on for 4 days of harassing this other dude over something said totally tongue-in-cheek on Discord.
Then I log in to find out that he got in a fight with a House member because they called him and someone else 'child'. Bear in mind that this person is 180 in-game and Thundaga is 22 in-game. As far as anyone knows, that's this person's RP to call young folks 'child'. Rather than showing maturity and leadership, the situation gets escalated. This person just came back from dormancy and didn't have a system in place to defend. So as House Leader Thundaga says he couldn't disfavour?!?! so he just kicked him out, then killed him.
What triggered the immediate departure of our House Leader? Literally the only 'real' interaction or even criticism I've given him since he joined the House.
Message #1280 Sent by Caelan 2019/4/12/11:22 (To Thundaga): You need to slow down on the favouring of Ainly. 3 in a RL week is excessive and it is for things he has already been favoured for (and God amongst men isn't a great reason).
Message #1293 Sent by Caelan 2019/4/12/17:28 (To Thundaga): We need to talk about <that one dude you harassed for 4 days>.
Message #1294 Sent by Caelan 2019/4/12/17:28 (To Thundaga): We also need to talk about <that other dude you killed for no reason that WAS a House member>.
Message #1288 Sent by Thundaga 2019/4/12/14:10 Sounds good! Will hold off for a bit on any of that sort of thing.
Message #1296 Sent by Thundaga 2019/4/12/17:49 First off no we don't. Second off DudeOne threatened to kill me OOC for dating AnotherPerson, that's none of your business and I have FULL RIGHT to retaliate against any person saying such stupid things. DudeTwo, sent you the logs of both interactions. Had no means to disfavor him, am not tolerating OR EVER GOING TO TOLERATE anyone ever being insubordinate over stupid things like that ever. Now, I understand you're the house leader, and I'll be compliant as hell, but you're overstepping your bounds with the DudeOne thing which has already been handled by both of us and your superiors.
Message #1297 Sent by Thundaga 2019/4/12/17:50 I'm considering stepping down due to the blatant harassment I receive from Waayen, Ainly, Ploutos, and I'm supposed to take that shit? Get out of here with that. I'm not trying to do anything but advance this absolutely in shambles defense and house. I am very offended by your interactions with me and shows you don't see me as anything but another underling, which I am not.
Message #1298 Sent by Thundaga 2019/4/12/17:52 Now unless you're going to lose yet ANOTHER member of this house, I don't want to hear it. This has all been situated already IN YOUR PROLONGED AND UNANNOUNCED ABSENCES.
2019/04/12 17:52:40 - Thundaga quit the House.
Message #1299 Sent by Thundaga 2019/4/12/17:54 SINCE DAY ONE in this house I've received nothing but jealous bullshit from a lot of people. I've quit it, and I'm not coming back, our interactions and conversations are hereby nil and have no means anymore. Thank you for your time.
Message #1304 Sent by Thundaga 2019/4/12/22:57 Listen, from the moment I left that cave I've seen nothing but trivial hostility from a LOT of players, the DudeOne thing, this guy threatens to kill me and when I told him to try it, he puts me out to be a bad guy? DudeTwo was acting cocky as fuck saying weird shit like "I've made the whole world quake" with his whole 44 playerkills? I told him to knock it off then he got lippy with me, I didn't have the ability to house disfavour and as he was only HR2 I kicked him. I also straight murdered him right in front of his friends and they stood there. I have to enjoy Achaea and I'm not going to do that with responsibility anymore. I tried raiding, Eleusis flat out refuses to even relay a target? I can't work with that. Sorry about this whole thing. Your micromanaging didn't help at all. I like you a lot, you're a good dude in my book. I'll take the lowest end of the totem pole if it means I don't have to take shit from non coms like Kurns, Waayen, Ploutos anymore.
Also, "Prolonged absence"? Dude I've been around for HOURS on end. Check the Logs (oh wait, you can't) and you will see me for the last 10 days all over the place.
Why wouldn't it? It is messages. I never mention who his alts were, and it happened.. in game.
I was actually surprised... as much opportunity as I/we gave him, he still shot himself in the foot. And what is with the sudden playing the victim card? Kind of blown away because all I saw of the alt was here on forums.. figured it couldnt be that bad
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More to come to push youngins and add more depth to the House. @Andraste is cranking on some other stuff. @Aegis so far has been great and even a small thing gives me ideas to put to use... so many things we have been talking about and working on are finally happening. I am liking it!
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Penwize promoted Astarod to Patrician for: Stepping up as Minister of Culture.
Cheerleader Astarod Blackstone, the Merciless
Watch out, fellas.
Aegis, God of War says, "You are dismissed from My demense, Astarod. Go forth and fight well. Bleed fiercely, and climb the purpose you have sought to chase for."
Makes sense if you can, though.
You have recovered balance on all limbs.
Bending your will upon Kondar, you raise your hands, bringing them together in a resounding clap.
Blood begins to run from the nose and ears of Kondar as his face contorts in horror. Two sickening
pops sound as his eyes explode in their sockets, fluid dripping from their ruined confines in a
parody of tears. Then with a definitive crack the skull of Kondar crumples inward, his corpse
dropping bonelessly to the ground.
You have slain Kondar...
Big thanks to Astarod and Kuririn for the advice and support.
Aegis, God of War says, "You are dismissed from My demense, Astarod. Go forth and fight well. Bleed fiercely, and climb the purpose you have sought to chase for."
About five minutes later @syndra asked me if that was my first kill, I went "wait what" and searched and it turned out I'd probably wicked off the final 10 health of someone. It's a giddy feeling made giddier by everyone in Mhaldor making a bit of a event of it.
I'm still 10-1 in terms of deaths, but loving it!
Didn't die... and didn't disarm the tank.
I blame Vinzent for stealing it away from me. @Farrah made a special guest appearance and was clueless and sad that she did not get to charge her tank.
Special guest appearance for me and Vinzent trying to figure out just where the fuck he took guards from. (Hint: We still don't know!)
Still going!
I don't have my old scripts anymore so its all freshly written. The battlerage tracker works better than my old one did because they animate now and fire more accurately for some reason (but need some cosmetic work), my room info console is still very basic and will take a bunch of tweaking to get it up to standard. The new UI uses Geyser instead of Vyzor, I thought going with geyser would make it simpler to share my scripts with others since it is more familiar to most people. I also switched from svo to wundersys, I'm finding wundersys to be much simpler to dissect and customize. I'm using apt for my ndb, I successfully made it apply its highlighting in my roominfo and chat consoles which made me very happy. All my gmcp gets into tables using a script called mData, which fires off events that drive most of the behavior in my ui. I had to customize mData to get at additional pieces of information that I wanted, its surprising that such a useful script has gone relatively unnoticed. So wundersys, apt, mData and the mineral helper whose name escapes me, everything else is my own. It's a much smaller and simpler script load overall.
The gui indicators for afflictions/cures/defenses, inventory management console and opponent tracking remain to be started
There is still a lot to be done, the chat tabs don't flash on new input yet, the gags for all the main window stuff that gets routed to the consoles need to be written, there is a lot of color coding and sorting that I need to add to the roominfo console. The rage tracker is too specific to my class to be shareable but the room console, chat box and tweaked mData could be useful to others. I might clean them up and share them when they reach a more finished state.
Vadi is patient and helpful beyond belief, we need to put a statue of him up somewhere.
You are level 80 (Logosian) and 0% of the way to the next level.
Then there were two
weeps
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
precision.
Your arrow strikes true!
You have slain Syndra.
Your soul cries out in ecstasy as it reaches new heights of power. You have
advanced to level 101.
You have reached the illustrious level of 5th Heir to Ashaxei's Legacy.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
2019/4/12/11:22 (To Thundaga): You need to slow down on the favouring of Ainly. 3 in a RL week is excessive and it is for things he has already been favoured for (and God amongst men isn't a great reason).
Message #1293 Sent by Caelan
2019/4/12/17:28 (To Thundaga): We need to talk about <that one dude you harassed for 4 days>.
Message #1294 Sent by Caelan
2019/4/12/17:28 (To Thundaga): We also need to talk about <that other dude you killed for no reason that WAS a House member>.
Message #1288 Sent by Thundaga
2019/4/12/14:10 Sounds good! Will hold off for a bit on any of that sort of thing.
Message #1296 Sent by Thundaga
2019/4/12/17:49 First off no we don't. Second off DudeOne threatened to kill me OOC for dating AnotherPerson, that's none of your business and I have FULL RIGHT to retaliate against any person saying such stupid things. DudeTwo, sent you the logs of both interactions. Had no means to disfavor him, am not tolerating OR EVER GOING TO TOLERATE anyone ever being insubordinate over stupid things like that ever. Now, I understand you're the house leader, and I'll be compliant as hell, but you're overstepping your bounds with the DudeOne thing which has already been handled by both of us and your superiors.
Message #1297 Sent by Thundaga
2019/4/12/17:50 I'm considering stepping down due to the blatant harassment I receive from Waayen, Ainly, Ploutos, and I'm supposed to take that shit? Get out of here with that. I'm not trying to do anything but advance this absolutely in shambles defense and house. I am very offended by your interactions with me and shows you don't see me as anything but another underling, which I am not.
Message #1298 Sent by Thundaga
2019/4/12/17:52 Now unless you're going to lose yet ANOTHER member of this house, I don't want to hear it. This has all been situated already IN YOUR PROLONGED AND UNANNOUNCED ABSENCES.
Message #1299 Sent by Thundaga
2019/4/12/17:54 SINCE DAY ONE in this house I've received nothing but jealous bullshit from a lot of people. I've quit it, and I'm not coming back, our interactions and conversations are hereby nil and have no means anymore. Thank you for your time.
Message #1304 Sent by Thundaga
2019/4/12/22:57 Listen, from the moment I left that cave I've seen nothing but trivial hostility from a LOT of players, the DudeOne thing, this guy threatens to kill me and when I told him to try it, he puts me out to be a bad guy? DudeTwo was acting cocky as fuck saying weird shit like "I've made the whole world quake" with his whole 44 playerkills? I told him to knock it off then he got lippy with me, I didn't have the ability to house disfavour and as he was only HR2 I kicked him. I also straight murdered him right in front of his friends and they stood there. I have to enjoy Achaea and I'm not going to do that with responsibility anymore. I tried raiding, Eleusis flat out refuses to even relay a target? I can't work with that. Sorry about this whole thing. Your micromanaging didn't help at all. I like you a lot, you're a good dude in my book. I'll take the lowest end of the totem pole if it means I don't have to take shit from non coms like Kurns, Waayen, Ploutos anymore.
Also, "Prolonged absence"? Dude I've been around for HOURS on end. Check the Logs (oh wait, you can't) and you will see me for the last 10 days all over the place.
I was actually surprised... as much opportunity as I/we gave him, he still shot himself in the foot. And what is with the sudden playing the victim card? Kind of blown away because all I saw of the alt was here on forums.. figured it couldnt be that bad