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Announce post #3250: Farkle Updates
10/30/2021 at 14:06
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Farkle Updates
Hi everyone,
Thanks to the efforts of Razmael, the code for Farkle has been rewritten from the ground up. This makes it much more robust and able to be set up properly in new locations without having to duplicate large amounts of code.
We have approved and implemented some orgreqs in the past for Farkle that have been converted to the new system, but we are now formally accepting orgreq submissions for adding tables to locations.
There are a handful of changes that came with the rewrite:
- Farkle now supports CONFIG SCREENREADER mode.
- To initiate a game, you now PLAY FARKLE.
- Anyone wanting to join must also PLAY FARKLE within 30 seconds, before the game begins.
- There is now a two minute timer for having a turn.
- If you exceed this time, you'll forfeit any turn points and it'll go to the next person's turn.
- The game can now have any number of players playing at once at the same table.
- FARKLE HIGHSCORES can be checked from anywhere.
-Three new scoring rules were added:
* a Full House, needing 6 total dice. 4 of one number, 2 of another.
* Three Doubles, e.g. 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5.
* Six of a Kind.
HELP FARKLE has been updated with the new information where appropriate.
Enjoy!
Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 25th of Lleian, in the year 498 MA.
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Farkle Updates
Hi everyone,
Thanks to the efforts of Razmael, the code for Farkle has been rewritten from the ground up. This makes it much more robust and able to be set up properly in new locations without having to duplicate large amounts of code.
We have approved and implemented some orgreqs in the past for Farkle that have been converted to the new system, but we are now formally accepting orgreq submissions for adding tables to locations.
There are a handful of changes that came with the rewrite:
- Farkle now supports CONFIG SCREENREADER mode.
- To initiate a game, you now PLAY FARKLE.
- Anyone wanting to join must also PLAY FARKLE within 30 seconds, before the game begins.
- There is now a two minute timer for having a turn.
- If you exceed this time, you'll forfeit any turn points and it'll go to the next person's turn.
- The game can now have any number of players playing at once at the same table.
- FARKLE HIGHSCORES can be checked from anywhere.
-Three new scoring rules were added:
* a Full House, needing 6 total dice. 4 of one number, 2 of another.
* Three Doubles, e.g. 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5.
* Six of a Kind.
HELP FARKLE has been updated with the new information where appropriate.
Enjoy!
Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 25th of Lleian, in the year 498 MA.
Re: Griefing and bullying. It's not okay OOC but it is okay IC? (Wall of text warning)
Just stopping by to put my lot behind using +esteem to help diffuse tension OOC after a rough encounter, preferable to shooting an OOC tell. I get pretty weirded out when people I don't know or hardly know send me OOC tells about roleplay (unless it's a comfort check) and using the esteem system, I feel, helps keep the conflict firmly rooted in the structure of the game and not break immersion, and helps you to be in a mindset of constructive and appreciative phrasing that goes a longer way than a tell seurimas //gg. I also just feel the system should be used more in general, and it's nice to have a little log you can look back on and remember interactions your character has had, and positive players you want to keep in touch with whether or not your characters necessarily got along! Overall a great "hey this was fun for me, hope it was fun for you too!" tool. It also affords the player cooldown time from the tension before responding, if that's something they like to have.
Mati
12
Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
And since I'm busy ranting about pet peeves, of late I've been having quite a flood of RP interactions with people I did not expect Elene to have. Amidst all of that I realize that I've feeling having retrospective insight on how I should react to certain personalities.
There are many ways to roleplay your character in the game. While not everyone is all, "doom, death, everything is cursed", nor does every single interaction need to be seen and treated with a shade of seriousness, sometimes it pisses me off when I approach someone intending to have a serious conversation on life choices that will affect them, but realise that they simply just take everything as a joke or don't treat situations with any appropriate gravitas of what it means to their character. It really throws the mindset I have for my character way off-kilter.
If everything is treated with the same mindset, then to me I feel like it really kills off any potential character development that can happen or potential avenues that may be used to explore and understand their character further. And this makes me frustrated and sad.
There are many ways to roleplay your character in the game. While not everyone is all, "doom, death, everything is cursed", nor does every single interaction need to be seen and treated with a shade of seriousness, sometimes it pisses me off when I approach someone intending to have a serious conversation on life choices that will affect them, but realise that they simply just take everything as a joke or don't treat situations with any appropriate gravitas of what it means to their character. It really throws the mindset I have for my character way off-kilter.
If everything is treated with the same mindset, then to me I feel like it really kills off any potential character development that can happen or potential avenues that may be used to explore and understand their character further. And this makes me frustrated and sad.
Elene
12
Re: Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD
I think I remember hearing or being told, or maybe it was just speculation, that the change to undeath was done to mirror the role of the Zealot class in creating Duamvi. The thing is, the roleplay behind a Duamvi is drastically different than Undeath. In one you are welcoming a symbiote, of which there are a limited number (in lore) to become one with you. In the other, you are breaking out of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth for whatever reason you are choosing. It's not like it's some limited resource.
Xavin
5
Re: Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD
We had a little issue making someone Undead earlier, so... solutions? This is just what I sent Icti, but support/interest/further suggestions are welcome :}
mmsg [Ictinus, Ivoln] Hey there! Some of us were discussing this in web since the issue arose, and we weren't sure whether you were aware: becoming Undead is at times a bit... difficult. It requires access to the Pillars of the Earth, which is gated behind the Teradrim guild/sanction or Ivoln's order. This COULD be fine, but it also requires someone with one of those memberships be actively in the Teradrim class or able/willing to switch. As I understand it, these restrictions were put in place in order to improve the RP experience over the old process - and in that regard, it's a great improvement - as well as making it more closely mirror the gating of Duamvi Symbiosis to the Zealot class revamp. Unfortunately, the aforementioned gates can make it somewhat difficult to find someone to perform this important ritual, especially as the number of classes balloons due to mirrors. I propose the following solution(s): widen access to the ability to bestow Undeath available to the new Earthcaller class, as well as Ivoln's order. These are both extremely sensible custodians for the Gift from an RP standpoint, and since Earthcaller is a mirror of Luminary, it would mechanically justify allowing Luminaries to bestow Duamvi Symbiosis - which already makes RP sense considering their ties to the Spirit plane. Furthermore, I recommend allowing Undeath to be bestowed at any of the new Apocalyptia monoliths rather than just the Pillars. This would more closely mirror the accessibility of the Grand Flame. I think this is all the more important to take another look at in light of the renewed importance and interest in Undeath that the Earthcaller class release has brought about! I hope you'll agree!
Alela
5
Events post #272: Over The Rainbow
10/27/2021 at 17:38
Anonymous
Everyone
Over The Rainbow
In Midsummer of the year 498 MA, following the Princess Diantha's Knighting by the Templar Order, the Queen Omei tasked Diantha with constructing a bridge to the Astral Realm; a fragment of Chaos granted to Omei following the events of the Chaos War in 481 MA. The first expedition into the Astral Realm took place in the year 486 MA, headed by Omei's order, but had proved inconclusive. No steady way was forged, nor could be, until the completion of Diantha's work.
After the bridge was completed, an expedition set out to map the area and discover its inhabitants. In addition to Diantha, the forward expedition included Iesid Mulariad, Rhine Aquila Taziyah Mulariad, Isia Taziyah, Jhura Gallant, Caitria Cardinalis, Jhin the Titan (whose Astral durance was prematurely terminated by overzealous manies), Aolin the Lyrist, and Eaku Redwood.
Emerging onto the Silver sphere of the Astral, they met a local proprietress - a dealer in poisons and alien substances named Hraqa Silvertongue. In exchange for a way into more of the realm, Isia paid the first of several prices: her memories of Elidyr, now embodied in a chthonic statue in the Silvertongue's bar.
The expedition continued through the Red sphere, observing several Astral Nobles, and eventually found their way stymied by Red's ruler - a creature called Jomunth, the Ravenous. An immense, serpentine wyrm, it presided over a brood of ever-hungering helminths. In exchange for passage, and the secrets of the color red, several among the expedition paid prices of flesh: Aolin the Lyrist gave raw meat, as did Eaku Redwood, while Caitria Cardinalis offered up a Gnomish guard pig. Its unending appetite momentarily sated, the wyrm permitted the expedition to cross into Orange.
Orange proved easier to cross, not least because its lady, Chelya of Garnets, was sympathetic to the expedition and its goals. She asked no price, nor did the underlings of her sphere. Unfortunately, this easiness was not to last, for Yellow proved far more difficult to enter. Out of impatience, Diantha began to 'cheat' the Nobles' puzzles - threatening the chaotic archers into shooting arrows of pure white light, opening variegates by force, and eventually bringing the expedition face to face with Yellow's Noble, the cephalopodic Mar, the Magnate.
Once confronted with mortal forces, Mar - attuned as he was to Yellow - opted for a quick surrender. The Seer, however, did not trust the Noble's statement, and forced him into a one-sided contract of memory to ensure his compliance. In exchange for a memory of the Seer's last shower, the Magnate was forced to concede his sovereignty to the Prime.
The Green sphere, similarly to Orange, offered little resistance to the expedition - nor did Blue. Their rulers, the worldflower and Inasea the Mercurial respectively, had met with mortals prior, and given what aid they could to the adventurers. As Green and Blue required so little consideration, only Violet posed a barrier to total conquest of the Astral Realm.
Employing a similar approach to before, the Princess Diantha broke into Violet by force. In so doing, however, they fell into a trap devised by Violet's ruler - Eudaimonia, the Slayer of Stars. Stealing away the Princess' consciousness, she forced a tense negotiation with the explorers, all the while holding Diantha's memories in her claw. During this confrontation, it became clear that Eudaimonia, herself, was the consequence of bargains enacted during the first Astral expedition - that she had been formed from the Goddess Omei's lost memories.
When it seemed that all hope was lost, and that the tense confrontation with Violet's lady would end in violence and catastrophe, Omei Herself appeared from the throng, approaching Violet's lady and intimidating her into standing down. Eudamonia surrendered on the sole condition that her sisters - Ecdysia and Calliope, two lesser Nobles of Violet - be spared as well. The Queen, however, opted to spare Eudaimonia too, for unclear reasons.
Her power, however, had been secured across the Astral Realm, and its connection to the Dreamworld was strong enough to ensure a permanent connection to the plane. As its chaotic power began to infuse the Dreamworld and coil outward into the Morgun, new ways forward were fashioned; old, eldritch corners of the forest opened out, as they had during the days of the Beast Queen; and Beau Greva, a bartender of the Seer's Wood who lived near the Dreamworld's entrance, awakened to the Oneiromancer's arts.
The Astral's chaotic inspiration lit the dreams of mortals, now, and it would not so easily be suppressed. Beau was the first mortal able to carry the power of the Dreamworld into the Prime, but he would not be the last.
Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 8th of Lleian, in the year 498 MA.
Anonymous
Everyone
Over The Rainbow
In Midsummer of the year 498 MA, following the Princess Diantha's Knighting by the Templar Order, the Queen Omei tasked Diantha with constructing a bridge to the Astral Realm; a fragment of Chaos granted to Omei following the events of the Chaos War in 481 MA. The first expedition into the Astral Realm took place in the year 486 MA, headed by Omei's order, but had proved inconclusive. No steady way was forged, nor could be, until the completion of Diantha's work.
After the bridge was completed, an expedition set out to map the area and discover its inhabitants. In addition to Diantha, the forward expedition included Iesid Mulariad, Rhine Aquila Taziyah Mulariad, Isia Taziyah, Jhura Gallant, Caitria Cardinalis, Jhin the Titan (whose Astral durance was prematurely terminated by overzealous manies), Aolin the Lyrist, and Eaku Redwood.
Emerging onto the Silver sphere of the Astral, they met a local proprietress - a dealer in poisons and alien substances named Hraqa Silvertongue. In exchange for a way into more of the realm, Isia paid the first of several prices: her memories of Elidyr, now embodied in a chthonic statue in the Silvertongue's bar.
The expedition continued through the Red sphere, observing several Astral Nobles, and eventually found their way stymied by Red's ruler - a creature called Jomunth, the Ravenous. An immense, serpentine wyrm, it presided over a brood of ever-hungering helminths. In exchange for passage, and the secrets of the color red, several among the expedition paid prices of flesh: Aolin the Lyrist gave raw meat, as did Eaku Redwood, while Caitria Cardinalis offered up a Gnomish guard pig. Its unending appetite momentarily sated, the wyrm permitted the expedition to cross into Orange.
Orange proved easier to cross, not least because its lady, Chelya of Garnets, was sympathetic to the expedition and its goals. She asked no price, nor did the underlings of her sphere. Unfortunately, this easiness was not to last, for Yellow proved far more difficult to enter. Out of impatience, Diantha began to 'cheat' the Nobles' puzzles - threatening the chaotic archers into shooting arrows of pure white light, opening variegates by force, and eventually bringing the expedition face to face with Yellow's Noble, the cephalopodic Mar, the Magnate.
Once confronted with mortal forces, Mar - attuned as he was to Yellow - opted for a quick surrender. The Seer, however, did not trust the Noble's statement, and forced him into a one-sided contract of memory to ensure his compliance. In exchange for a memory of the Seer's last shower, the Magnate was forced to concede his sovereignty to the Prime.
The Green sphere, similarly to Orange, offered little resistance to the expedition - nor did Blue. Their rulers, the worldflower and Inasea the Mercurial respectively, had met with mortals prior, and given what aid they could to the adventurers. As Green and Blue required so little consideration, only Violet posed a barrier to total conquest of the Astral Realm.
Employing a similar approach to before, the Princess Diantha broke into Violet by force. In so doing, however, they fell into a trap devised by Violet's ruler - Eudaimonia, the Slayer of Stars. Stealing away the Princess' consciousness, she forced a tense negotiation with the explorers, all the while holding Diantha's memories in her claw. During this confrontation, it became clear that Eudaimonia, herself, was the consequence of bargains enacted during the first Astral expedition - that she had been formed from the Goddess Omei's lost memories.
When it seemed that all hope was lost, and that the tense confrontation with Violet's lady would end in violence and catastrophe, Omei Herself appeared from the throng, approaching Violet's lady and intimidating her into standing down. Eudamonia surrendered on the sole condition that her sisters - Ecdysia and Calliope, two lesser Nobles of Violet - be spared as well. The Queen, however, opted to spare Eudaimonia too, for unclear reasons.
Her power, however, had been secured across the Astral Realm, and its connection to the Dreamworld was strong enough to ensure a permanent connection to the plane. As its chaotic power began to infuse the Dreamworld and coil outward into the Morgun, new ways forward were fashioned; old, eldritch corners of the forest opened out, as they had during the days of the Beast Queen; and Beau Greva, a bartender of the Seer's Wood who lived near the Dreamworld's entrance, awakened to the Oneiromancer's arts.
The Astral's chaotic inspiration lit the dreams of mortals, now, and it would not so easily be suppressed. Beau was the first mortal able to carry the power of the Dreamworld into the Prime, but he would not be the last.
Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 8th of Lleian, in the year 498 MA.
Re: Small Ideas - AIN'T NO COMBAT THREAD
I'm having a hard time seeing why we need a mechanical command to give people pats on the back for in-game achievements when we already have org credits, gold, supplies, and any other various RP things to do just that. You can even just use esteem, I don't think anyone's going to give you guff for it. Getting a blessing is as simple as beseeching for one yourself or offering to an active god. I don't really think we need more ways to get them.
Iazamat
5
Re: Announce post #3244: The Future of Mirrors
Spinesreach will see you in court.Wyatt said:Confirmed: The Carnifex will have an alcohol-based skillset, with the capstone being a molotov.
Toz
5
Re: Announce post #3244: The Future of Mirrors
Shadow Sentinel as a Necromancer themed class that has abominations that you stitched together for the ents. Or a dragoon with a bunch of different wyvern pets.
Ehtias
5
Re: Announce post #3244: The Future of Mirrors
If your goal is to spread fun across the game, you should never listen to Toz. If you, on the other hand, enjoy fear, hate, anger, and loathing? Do exactly as Toz says.
Edit: I am not opposed to Toz's way of life.
Edit: I am not opposed to Toz's way of life.
Bulrok
6