When there's 4 people active in a guild and two of them are a married couple, and another is their bestie and logs on just enough to be considered active...
(just in case anyone's getting offended, I'm not talking about any guild in particular-- just pointing out the issues)
Just because Khizan doesn't choose to throw his roleplay in everyone's face doesn't mean he doesn't have a fairly in depth character that acts accordingly, learns from past experience and evolves. (And most importantly is fun for him.) Not everyone is into throwing giant, self indulgent emotes around, though I personally enjoy it even though I don't partake often.
It's hard for a lot of people to take Khizan very seriously as a character because of a lack of depth, really.
Bathan cares about oaths and honor and knighthood and heroism, and he badly wants to be a hero on the "good" side and he's having a crisis of faith and so forth. Kanthari cares about Khandava and the Leechtree and Nyrohi and Nemesis and he believes in those causes. Big, deep causes. Heavy things. Things with meaning, things with background and story.
Khizan, though... he likes cats and pretty girls and killing people and the grand causes can go hang. He's just as happy cracking heads with a mace and flirting with priestesses as he is with a quarterstaff and a bardlette or a tarot deck and a succubus. As far as the grand causes go, he's cheerfully amoral and will generally go with whatever causes the most bloodshed, because good fights don't come around as often as they should but cats and girls are everywhere.
It's a perfectly reasonable worldview for Aetherius, but it does make him something of a class clown in a world of high drama.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Just because Khizan doesn't choose to throw his roleplay in everyone's face doesn't mean he doesn't have a fairly in depth character that acts accordingly, learns from past experience and evolves. (And most importantly is fun for him.) Not everyone is into throwing giant, self indulgent emotes around, though I personally enjoy it even though I don't partake often.
Khizan, though... he likes cats and pretty girls and killing people and the grand causes can go hang. He's just as happy cracking heads with a mace and flirting with priestesses as he is with a quarterstaff and a bardlette or a tarot deck and a succubus. As far as the grand causes go, he's cheerfully amoral and will generally go with whatever causes the most bloodshed, because good fights don't come around as often as they should but cats and girls are everywhere.
And historically speaking, the best long-term backup Juran could ask for.
Forcing guilds to merge is a terrible, awful idea. (Look who suggested it?). The only thing it's going to cause is eighty forms of resentment and a drama bomb down the road. Most of the un-merged guilds are that way because of insular cliques or the land of misfit toys. They don't want to be merged. Forcing someone to do something they don't want to do is how you got anti-magick's ass kicked over Christmas and New Years. You'd think you'd learn lessons.
To be fair, Ithaqua has been the land of misfit toys for years now.
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard whistles harmlessly over your head.
Captain Yagduth says, in Orcish, "Ha ha, fleshies. Yagduth got you now."
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard slices deeply into Emileigh's neck, blood spraying as her head goes flying.
Captain Yagduth has slain Emileigh.
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard slices deeply into Iroth's neck, blood spraying as his head goes flying.
Captain Yagduth has slain Iroth.
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard slices deeply into Maglust's neck, blood spraying as his head goes flying.
Captain Yagduth has slain Maglust.
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard slices deeply into Vivianne's neck, blood spraying as her head goes flying.
Captain Yagduth has slain Vivianne.
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard slices deeply into Iluv's neck, blood spraying as his head goes flying.
Captain Yagduth has slain Iluv.
Captain Yagduth ceases spinning his vicious weapon above his head.
An ominous ferry drifts up to shore and Iluv, riding a giant bone-armoured vampire bat named Bartok, disembarks. The deathly ferryman immediately shoves off and his boat fades from view.
14:48 Ahkan: Sit.
14:48 Ahkan: Sit.
14:48 Ahkan: Sit.
14:48 Ahkan: Sit.
14:48 Ahkan: Sit.
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard whistles harmlessly over your head.
Captain Yagduth says, in Orcish, "Ha ha, fleshies. Yagduth got you now."
The cruel black iron of Yagduth's primitive fauchard slices deeply into Iluv's neck, blood spraying as his head goes flying.
More misadventures in achievement chasing. No one told Demonic you have to Kronk your way out of Khakgugh.
21:38 - Ryax was slain by misadventure.
21:36 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:36 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:35 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:34 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:32 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:32 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:30 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:30 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:29 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:27 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:26 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:22 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:21 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:19 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:18 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:17 - Vivianne was slain by Brishi.
21:16 - Maglust was slain by misadventure.
21:16 - Shaheen was slain by a feral lycaean.
21:14 - Shaheen was slain by a dire wolf.
21:14 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:14 - Maglust was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:14 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:12 - Aleria was slain by misadventure.
21:12 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:11 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:09 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:08 - Caelya was slain by a lumbering ogre soldier.
21:08 - Vivianne was slain by a lumbering ogre soldier.
21:07 - Emileigh was slain by misadventure.
21:06 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:05 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:03 - Iluv was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:01 - Maglust was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:01 - Emileigh was slain by a lumbering ogre soldier.
21:00 - Ryax was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
21:00 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
20:59 - Emileigh was slain by Khakgugh, the Orc General.
UNTIL...hero mode.
15:33 Ahkan: You kill him with the lever iirc.
15:33 Caelya: When.
15:34 Ahkan: God.
15:34 Ahkan: You missed the window.
15:34 Ahkan: It's <20.
15:34 Ahkan: When he's <20%.
15:34 Caelya: Well #$*(5 say that.
15:34 Ahkan: You need to pull the lever.
15:34 Ahkan: Or he vitalities.
15:34 Emileigh: No one told us!
15:34 Ahkan: I thought you knew?
15:37 Ahkan: KRONK. PULL ZEE LEVA!
You yank firmly on the lever and watch as the ceiling above you parts to reveal that the floor of the room above you was a giant trapdoor.
Emileigh comes tumbling down through the overhead trapdoor.
Maglust comes tumbling down through the overhead trapdoor.
Iniar comes tumbling down through the overhead trapdoor.
Iluv comes tumbling down through the overhead trapdoor.
Ryax comes tumbling down through the overhead trapdoor.
Khakgugh, the Orc General comes tumbling down, his huge body unable to avoid the wicked stakes sticking up from the ground. Punctured in many places, the vicious Orc General breathes his last.
The final blow is too much, you have slain Khakgugh, the Orc General.
You take a mercurial sapphire blue sinn vial, a banded shield, a dark obsidian vial, a gem of cloaking, a birchwood vial, a mercurial sapphire blue sinn vial, a dark obsidian vial, a jack-o-lantern shaped bag, a segmented flail of white platinum, a key, a mercurial sapphire blue sinn vial, a gold ink, an iron vial of the Diavlous, an iron collar bearing the crest of the Diavlous Knights, a dark obsidian vial, a delicate ebony and rose-hued pipe, a sliver of corrupt shadow, a mercurial sapphire blue sinn vial, a key, a delicate ebony and rose-hued pipe, a diamond dusted vial, a delicate ebony and rose-hued pipe, an iron vial of the Diavlous, a delicate ebony and rose-hued pipe, a mercurial sapphire blue sinn vial, a mercurial sapphire blue sinn vial, a dark obsidian vial, a delicate ebony and rose-hued pipe, a carnassial girdle and many golden sovereigns from the corpse as you pick it up.
That stuff he pinata'd? It was all ours. Yup. We're heroes.
I like how the Silvari and Animists have no information, as if we don't know what they are
I don't know what they are. Fill it in on the wiki? Thanks. :P
"We're the remnants of the Arboreals!"
"NO, WE'RE THE REMNANTS OF THE ARBOREALS!"
"NUH UH!"
"UH HUH!"
Also, they exist for the same goddamn reason the Dunestriders do: the founders had a race to chartertown and the boys upstairs didn't put the kabosh on one of them when the other was confirmed.
EDIT: My history might be a little hazy, the Animists came first and then the Silvari came around a little bit later.
<div>Message #2062 Sent By: (imperian) Received On: 1/20/2018/2:59</div><div>"Antioch has filed a bounty against you. Reason: Raiding Antioch and stealing Bina, being a right</div><div>ass, and not belonging anywhere near Antioch till he grows up."</div>
Also, they exist for the same goddamn reason the Dunestriders do: the founders had a race to chartertown and the boys upstairs didn't put the kabosh on one of them when the other was confirmed.
I know this fits nicely into your narrative, but if you actually look at the history of both guilds the Dunestriders had the far more successful run. They've always been bigger, had a more active leadership, and in general contributed more to the game.
Also, they exist for the same goddamn reason the Dunestriders do: the founders had a race to chartertown and the boys upstairs didn't put the kabosh on one of them when the other was confirmed.
I know this fits nicely into your narrative, but if you actually look at the history of both guilds the Dunestriders had the far more successful run. They've always been bigger, had a more active leadership, and in general contributed more to the game.
I will concede this - I just disagree with their existence on principle. Antioch never needed that additional guild, and Ithaqua needed the 'appeal' of another exclusive guild to help them pull in more unique members. As well, while those things might have been true in the past, they just don't really do much right now. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have witnessed them actually tend to their newbies. It's usually left to other guilds to pick up the slack on CT. Of course, with novicehood being phased in to cities, maybe this isn't such a great metric to measure activity by.
We were so close to getting them merged in to some guild, but then they changed leaders again.
<div>Message #2062 Sent By: (imperian) Received On: 1/20/2018/2:59</div><div>"Antioch has filed a bounty against you. Reason: Raiding Antioch and stealing Bina, being a right</div><div>ass, and not belonging anywhere near Antioch till he grows up."</div>
Just because Khizan doesn't choose to throw his roleplay in everyone's face doesn't mean he doesn't have a fairly in depth character that acts accordingly, learns from past experience and evolves. (And most importantly is fun for him.) Not everyone is into throwing giant, self indulgent emotes around, though I personally enjoy it even though I don't partake often.
It's hard for a lot of people to take Khizan very seriously as a character because of a lack of depth, really.
Bathan cares about oaths and honor and knighthood and heroism, and he badly wants to be a hero on the "good" side and he's having a crisis of faith and so forth. Kanthari cares about Khandava and the Leechtree and Nyrohi and Nemesis and he believes in those causes. Big, deep causes. Heavy things. Things with meaning, things with background and story.
Khizan, though... he likes cats and pretty girls and killing people and the grand causes can go hang. He's just as happy cracking heads with a mace and flirting with priestesses as he is with a quarterstaff and a bardlette or a tarot deck and a succubus. As far as the grand causes go, he's cheerfully amoral and will generally go with whatever causes the most bloodshed, because good fights don't come around as often as they should but cats and girls are everywhere.
It's a perfectly reasonable worldview for Aetherius, but it does make him something of a class clown in a world of high drama.
Man I really like the way you explain it. I'd circle hop more but losing professions is so costly and emotionally expensive.
A six chambered heart, complete with tubes, has been carefully blown from glass, every inch covered in intricate details. Filtered water rests within it, allowing a shimmering blue fish to swim about with ease. Resting at the bottom of the heart is a pure-white lily, its petals waving lightly within the water. Seeming to orbit within the heart itself is a small shadowy orb, its path constant as it circles the glass.
A six chambered heart, complete with tubes, has been carefully blown from glass, every inch covered in intricate details. Filtered water rests within it, allowing a shimmering blue fish to swim about with ease. Resting at the bottom of the heart is a pure-white lily, its petals waving lightly within the water. Seeming to orbit within the heart itself is a small shadowy orb, its path constant as it circles the glass.
The voice of Svorai, the Refreshing Spirit thunders
across the firmament accompanied by the roar of crashing waves, "And we
end with Aleutia with 16596, Mujandhir with 7138, and Alvetta with
6550."
The voice of Svorai, the Refreshing Spirit thunders
across the firmament accompanied by the roar of crashing waves, "And we
end with Aleutia with 16596, Mujandhir with 7138, and Alvetta with
6550."
I may of had a little too much fun with how many gems were available. I may of had put out ...10x more gems than usual.
The voice of Svorai, the Refreshing Spirit thunders across the firmament accompanied by the roar of crashing waves, "Khizan took first with 1564, Skye second with 1149, and Zith in third with 281!"
I that Aleutia let somebody else win a gemhunt for once.
I also love PvP gemhunt where people don't just funnel all their gems into somebody sitting in defenses permanently.
I DO think that Veils should be negated while gemhunts are going on, though.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
In this log you can see Alvetta, Pellerin and Mathiaus attempting to take a shardfall currently being harvested by myself and Wysrias.
First mistake they made was prioritizing the tankiest person as the first target.
Second, it seemed like they wanted to push damage as their strategy. Pellerin was using broadswords but for some reason, doesn't seem like he was using them to push sensitivity/sowulu? Why? If you're not going to do that, you're better off using sabres.
edit: It looks like Pellerin was trying to use sowulu but it had absolutely no effect because I was not undeaf. Whyyyy?
Third, Mathiaus started out with the right idea of straight pushing damage, but half way through the fight, he started using voice affliction skills that did absolutely nothing. I'm not sure if Mathiaus is even tracking affs. You can't tell because he doesn't push a single affliction to move ahead. Why? Because he doesn't understand how to stack afflictions at all. He tries to push slickness and anorexia before asthma and impatience? No wonder he's not getting anywhere. Sure, Bards are lacking in giving physical afflictions but he does have a Runeguard with him, who has access to all the toxin afflictions, nairat AND loshre. Simple tracking between the two professions would have changed the outcome of that fight.
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(just in case anyone's getting offended, I'm not talking about any guild in particular-- just pointing out the issues)
The Guilds of Aetherius
It's hard for a lot of people to take Khizan very seriously as a character because of a lack of depth, really.
Bathan cares about oaths and honor and knighthood and heroism, and he badly wants to be a hero on the "good" side and he's having a crisis of faith and so forth. Kanthari cares about Khandava and the Leechtree and Nyrohi and Nemesis and he believes in those causes. Big, deep causes. Heavy things. Things with meaning, things with background and story.
Khizan, though... he likes cats and pretty girls and killing people and the grand causes can go hang. He's just as happy cracking heads with a mace and flirting with priestesses as he is with a quarterstaff and a bardlette or a tarot deck and a succubus. As far as the grand causes go, he's cheerfully amoral and will generally go with whatever causes the most bloodshed, because good fights don't come around as often as they should but cats and girls are everywhere.
It's a perfectly reasonable worldview for Aetherius, but it does make him something of a class clown in a world of high drama.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Step 2: Ready check.
Step 3: Profit
That stuff he pinata'd? It was all ours. Yup. We're heroes.
(Ring): Ahkan says, "Don't do that."
This is like an everyday thing in demonic chat. I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
Aulani: You say, "If Ario gets uppity, make sure you hit him with the back of your hand across the cheek. It'll leave a nice mark."
Khizan: Hahaha
Khizan: Aulani is the best mom
Svorai gives Svorai's heart to you.
A six chambered heart, complete with tubes, has been carefully blown from
glass, every inch covered in intricate details. Filtered water rests within it,
allowing a shimmering blue fish to swim about with ease. Resting at the bottom
of the heart is a pure-white lily, its petals waving lightly within the water.
Seeming to orbit within the heart itself is a small shadowy orb, its path
constant as it circles the glass.
Please don't kill me @Aleutia !
That looks awesome!
Ahkan's head is crushed under your blow.
The voice of Svorai, the Refreshing Spirit thunders across the firmament accompanied by the roar of crashing waves, "Khizan took first with 1564, Skye second with 1149, and Zith in third with 281!"
I
that Aleutia let somebody else win a gemhunt for once.
I also love PvP gemhunt where people don't just funnel all their gems into somebody sitting in defenses permanently.
I DO think that Veils should be negated while gemhunts are going on, though.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."