Best Of

The event and the creep of content as it was tied to events has been great. Honestly, @Tetchta has covered a lot of the pertinent positive points and I'd just be repeating them.

As a UK/EU player, the scheduling was a bit of an issue and in the earlier stages (Varo through to Koduses) I was really struggling to keep up and stay awake so I didn't miss anything. It took a little bit of time for me to take a step back and feel like I didn't have to be there for every bit of the event. As a UK/EU player, if I use what Tet said regarding ingrained behaviours, there's a constant sort of pessimism that inevitably you're going to miss out on the big things.

One of the things I appreciated that mitigated this to a certain degree was the addition of the 'final' stages of certain Elder Gods to the EVENTS calendar. Unfortunately, this was only done for the ritual and the play and I feel it would have been extremely useful for people like myself if other key/pivotal events had been also added - thus allowing us to plan our time accordingly rather than having to try and be present every night on the off-chance. It's something that I would really appreciate going forward, even if it simply says 'Something Happening' and gives zero other information. I believe this would also help players who don't suffer from an issue with timezones, but with other responsibilities as well such as family time or work.

You guys put so much work, effort and love into the content you've created. I feel its only fair that as many of us as possible get to appreciate the wonderful work you do.

Bonus retroactive featuring your humble producer Ictinus, who will not brag on his own behalf.

• With the exception of Yanai and Helera, Ictinus was the one in the driver seat of all Elder Gods and Goddesses. The range!
  
• Ictinus absolutely ruined his sleep schedule on many separate occasions to make this whole thing come together. I genuinely do not know how he is still functioning.
  
• During every single big event that involved multiple people (play, for instance) Ictinus was behind the curtain not only actively playing a role during, but directing the entire team taking part simultaneously. I don't know about you, but I struggle keeping track just reading through all of the spam during an event. I can't imagine doing that and actively directing it.
  

From the volunteer side of things, it felt incredibly empowering to be able to pull up a seat at the table and offer ideas, feedback, and plot points that were genuinely listened to, considered, and implemented, when that hasn't always been the case in the past. Ict's method of running things enables this wonderfully collaborative environment that results in events like this, where all of us can play to our specific strengths and take part.

When there were pieces that needed more work, but nobody was jumping up to fill them out, Ictinus shouldered it himself and made sure it was done.

None of this would have been even remotely possible without you leading the way @Ictinus, so thank you for that. You make volunteering fun and rewarding, and I cannot possibly overstate how much it's appreciated.

I love how excited all of my friends have been through these events!

I do not have any true opinion of them, because I could not participate. Between new life responsibilities and when I can play it is very challenging. After a point, I am so behind on every thing that is happening, that there is no hope to catch up. This is a sad feeling, but, also my own limitations.

Still I make these two requests for consideration:
First, Please make Gossip last longer before it decays. By the time I can check it, it is already nonsense.

Second, Please consider making an actual short summary available. I know there is responsibility on the part of players, to keep their own people informed. But it is hard to ask questions, or ask some one to post, if you do not even know a thing has happened to ask or post about.

I know that there are the events posts, and they are so beautiful to read. I find that they take some effort and focus to read and follow because there is so much. I know I am more the exception than rule. The summary could be like the changelog but of events. Or a log log of events. That are just simple entries of the key actions.

Simple things like:
- Cultists gathered in the Vashnar mountains.
- A new God appeared with the name of Helmut.
- The God Helmut died after a fight with Esterport.

This way a person coming in, if they are new or just tired, can understand that some Big Thing happens. Then they can know that they should ask questions of their people.

This was stunning. As someone who wasn't really able to be around for all of it, or even much of it, due to the timing (Really my only complaint/concern), the implications, the effort, and the outcome(s) of this are so rewarding as a player.

Even if I won't end up going to every instance or bashing area, taking up every race or class or skill, seeing this amount of development not only be -done-, but be rolled out in a way that was gripping, engaging, narratively-focused, and ultimately rewarding while opening up a whole host of really fun questions, is so fantastic. I won't @ all the people named in your initial post, @Ictinus, but my love and my appreciation goes out to you and the whole crew.

This just feels like a continued growth on some of the wonderful events we've seen from you all in the past year-ish and I love the way so much thought, care and effort was put into place to ensure it was not merely random lore-drops or class-releases, but that everything has real-world, and lasting, implications.

RE: Timezones/Timing - Giving each Elder about a week was a really nice step. It allowed some of us who couldn't catch them at their emergence to engage with (Or willfully ignore) them later in the week. RE: Timezones, as someone in EST, it was often a bit tough to get into the swing of my normal routine, knowing that whatever was going to pop off was going to pop off fairly late in my evening for me, but I appreciate the effort taken to try to engage the wider array of our player base!

I'm just so interested to see how this shakes out for the current Pantheon, for Order/Congregation/God-stuff, and for interactions with Albedi Gods going forward. As someone who -really- enjoys religion-centered RP (AND stuff that blows it to kingdom come!), this was such a treat for me to witness, touch my toes into the water, and panic at the aftermath and gnaw on a million questions in my brain.

Thank you all so much!