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If it's balance you want, how about the admins turn it around next time? Enorian gets to go to Vilimo, Torturers cavern, Mrenadh, Mor and other places with undead people can be found and force the cure down their throats ina purge. And Loch can try to defend their right to undeath. Just because you are on the Spirit side, doesn't mean everything has to be good. If Spirit ever wants the Age of Dawn to come, they will have to start working a bit more pro-actively. Starting purges should be effective.

My personal pet peeve, forgetting commands after having been away from the game for a while. I couldn't remember how to get to an island! I tried "buy ticket to" and nothing happened! And then it took me a few moments to remember I could check ferry departures to figure it out. It's like I have to re-learn the game for the first time in 15 years.

I'm double posting and I don't care if it's against the law. Firstly: Nipsy using his godcurse to escape trouble is objectively hilarious and nothing will convince me otherwise (especially since it comes with a stun/balance knock or something afterward).

Most importantly, however, I think it's worth pointing out that I don't think this was an event that was meant to have a counterplay, at least not this quickly. While the current counterplay seems hasty, maybe, it does seem like one of the fairer ways to impliment some sort of counter to the current drive. All of that said, a lot of this event was admin building mechanics based on player involvement, input, and planning. I think a lot of the energy spent typing in here would be better spent in-game, working with gods and celani.

I don't think there's any real point to complaining OOC about being forced into a reactive role--there's plenty of stuff that can be done, today, right now. Instead of waiting for an admin to mpos an NPC and give you marching orders, you can make news posts (I can't emphasize this enough, I've gotten a ton of organic ADMIN RP just from making news posts), talk in CT, message things, write in logs. Make plans, publicly and loudly. Someone will pick up those threads. The thing I think that's being missed here is that moving from reacitve to proactive is solved...entirely by being proactive. Go. Do. Go be proactive. That's literally the solution here. Solve it. Like, today. Here, have a list of Proactive Good Guy Plans for free, off the top of my head:

• Hatch a plan to extend daylight hours to make life more miserable for Vampires
  
• Find a way to induce some sort of poison into the food/water supply of living settlements that's utterly harmless to mortals, but will cause massive terrible symptoms to vampires if they feed from people who have been afflicted
  
• Have an event with totally lopsided mechanics that allows an entire tether to gang up on ~10 people tops, mostly like 4-5 honestly, ensuring a victory and allowing you carte blanche to completely eradicate a territory of Bloodloch's with effectively no resistence or counterplay Sorry, forgot about the Spears event, my bad
  
• Blow up Bloodloch (please).
  
• Bully Spinesreach (always hilarious)
  
• Try to seal off the Shadow Plane so it causes the sciomancers problems
  
• Plan a heist of the Archivist's Vault that's definitely full of real stuff I promise you guys
  

Go live your best lives!

My pet peeve:
The eternal catch 22 that is being in shadow. Damned if we do. Damned if we don't.

There is zero sportsmanship about any of the PK events outside of Sect. My experience in just about every event has been not syncing up time wise with the rest of shadow, and when I'm ready to go, they're taking breaks cus it is exhausting going up against superior numbers. A lot of time I just fly in solo, trying to catch like one person alone which is lucky to happen but will be short lived because easily 3+ people will show up instantly. What that curates is an ambivalence from me for spirit characters coming to contest or thwart the attempts. It feels like if we have the numbers advantage and the momentum we cannot give a single inch because the competition with Spirit is just that close. Spirit is doing competitively well and it's been shown time and again there will be no holding back to even the playing field for a weaker side. This eliminates any kind of sportsmanship in these competitions which, honestly, maybe is fine. I'm willing to accept that wanting to keep it 'fun' by evening the odds when you're in a position to do it isn't realistic or really even the point of the roles we're playing in this game.

Whatever the case it's all exhausting. Losing to Spirit is exhausting. Winning against Spirit is exhausting. Complaints happen regardless.

EDIT: If Shadow had taken an L tonight, I doubt there'd be any posts in these forums about how things were unfair. Like how overnight we learned that stationed troops meant we couldn't engage with the mechanics or the fact that some spirit characters seemed to react quickly, prior to any public posts made in the news, and seemed to just *know* bad things were afoot from Bloodloch. Nobody complained about these things. We just accepted and adapted and tried and assumed we were not going to be able to engage in the mechanic because we would not be able to get our shit together enough to offer a fight.

What's cool about all of this is that it's been entirely organic and unexpected. The nuances and details of everything leading up to a single win in a night has been the culmination of tons of character driven RP and initiative. It's shaped into a good story. Apologies to anyone reading this and flowing with my stream of thoughts here, but I'm realizing now my true pet peeve is that all the complaints and attitude about an event completely undermine and disregard the story being told. It's a story. I wish people would remember that this is a story and bad things need to happen in order for stories to be good. Bloodloch potentially being successful here is going to make a point in which ENorian is successful that much more meaningful and the world that much more interesting. Respect the stories. Appreciate the fact that there are bad things happening so good guy characters can be good. Don't cry on the forums.

Perhaps win condition is the wrong term. You have a set goal that you can actively influence with mechanics while we have a goal that is basically: nothing for you to do until they act. Perhaps my frustration is that it seems that Enorian, during these events of wars and conflict with one another, is always forced on the defensive. We are a city that is meant to bring the age of dawn but we get no story beats of going to wherever and purging the undead population. Everything we do in the grand scheme of the game is reactive and it might be THAT fact that makes this feel like more of the same and causing my issue.

Edit: Perhaps that is on us though and we should try and force those kinds of events...

Many players in Enorian seem to want to rp the "Good Guy" and that is a purely reactive goal. And when not given an event/thing/person to react to there is nothing to do. Even purging the undead is just reactive. I could see that feeling like always being on the defensive. I am not sure how to solve that problem but I am sure your city will get events! It seems like since I joined Enorian and Spirit have had loads of events and rp happen in city and Tether.