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Ankyrean Anguish - Aetolia-based RAGE
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...in all honesty though, I dont think she intended to be troll-y with it, I think she just burned off the dark that one time and it stuck around.
Here's the thing: there was a LOT of evidence that the charms would do exactly what they said they would do. I'm talking weeks and months of RP establishing this.
- Severn was injured and we knew it. See the log about Moi's daughter Sevryla /minotaurs telling Moi directly that severn needed help and going to the Shadow Plane to help him, as well as the Ati events.
- Iosyne knows how to manipulate shadows. Her order members learn this when She makes a simulacron of us. It's firmly established that She is skilled with shadows, and so making a charm like this is logical and within Her arsenal.
- People are made of spirit/shadow essence. That's like the entire reason for our current tethers (undead don't have spirit essence). It's a fairly simple leap of faith to assume it can be manipulated, given that numerology and necromancy can manipulate "essence" in general.
- Iosyne's arc has taken her from an impulsive, single-minded goddess who might very well do something like risk the world's safety to achieve a personal goal (see: the original shadowplague) to one who is far more mature and aware of the results of her actions. She cares, in her own sort of way, now, whereas before she saw affection as weakness. Tricking all of Sapience into summoning some crazy monster that would destroy them makes NO SENSE and is entirely uncharacteristic for her and it's absolutely nothing her order could have predicted.
- Iosyne herself was off in the shadow plane. Her Apostles have never shown that they were strong enough in the past to do something like the summoning that they did. The charms were created out of Iosyne's own power (essence?), as she made clear to her order when Moi tried to distribute them to the Cabal, and their use was a very delicate process. But for this event, not only was their prior method of operation completely abandoned, the essencecap was left, still half full, in the temple. It's still sitting there, completely unused, 60% full of shadow essence. The past days of drama? Apparently it meant absolutely nothing for this conclusion. Somehow, Issril merely collected the charms, smushed them together using previously undemonstrated super power and just summoned an immense beast from the shadow plane. And then destroyed the charms. Even the ones not in her hands. She somehow destroyed relics across Sapience fashioned from a god's power without even touching them. Before this point, she was only really ever illustrated as a badass fighter who could take on a group of people with fancy swords.
It makes WAY more sense that gathering shadow essence would strengthen a wounded god who rules over shadow than it would summon some random chaos monster via the shadow plane, so it is utterly infuriating that people are smugly going hahaha told you so, when I, at least, sat and considered if this was a trap, considering all of these facets of the situation, and then firmly discarded the idea.
More than that, this entire situation makes very little sense, and it really really feels like a hasty cover job because of ranting that went on over the forums. This sort of thing has happened in the past - see the litany of changes to rez skills, or other PK abilities repeatedly changed and rechanged and rebalanced because of forum outcry, but I think this is the first time I've seen it applied to a RP event. I'm left sitting here going "wtf" and rather confused, since apparently my patron is now out to get Sapience and I'm also complicity a bad guy when, as I explained above, I analyzed the situation and determined it was REALLY REALLY REALLY unlikely for things to turn out like this. For stuff to be brute forced anyways into a resolution like this and for people who have little to no knowledge of the lore to be able to prance around going I told you so is really irritating and infuriating. What's the point of building up lore and divine arcs if stuff is just going to DRASTICALLY changed at the last minute. It doesn't make sense at all.
It was very much a troll move. Made absolutely evident by clan chats I was privy to.
You could always PK her if you don't like the rp.
There was a conflict and a debate on an OOC level about the direction of the event, in part due to the player response and in part due to unrelated circumstances. That combined with the unfortunate unlikelihood of Severn-the-player's return to frequent activity led to a need to end the event in a way different from the original plan. The charms were silently disabled last night, which led to some confusion.
It was my original intention to make an out-of-character post frankly informing players that the event had to end and the charms were no longer functional. Volunteer gods asked to instead present some kind of roleplay explanation, however perfunctory, and that's what you got: a roleplay attempt to bandage a series of completely out-of-character decisions.
This explanation is not meant to excuse the jarring shift in stories, simply to explain it. I know Iosyne and all of us are excited to return to developing genuine, well-planned plots.
Thanks for the explanation, though. I was super confused by how the charms could have possibly done something since the essence cap wasn't even filled.
Edit: Which I'm happy to deal with IC, if I could figure out how the unfilled essence cap had anything to do with anything.
@Moirean Actually read through that whole thing. I think I can understand your frustration in the broad sense, just a bit. I obviously wasn't a witness to the lead-up, but I seriously didn't expect it either. My first thought was along the lines of, "Oh, hey. Lots of shadow. They're bringing back Severn. Better invite myself over and be a nuisance." Definitely didn't think there'd be a shadow monstrosity trying to break loose. For myself, regarding the prior events, I honestly couldn't muster up anything more than a hearty 'meh'. I had no idea what would happen, but it felt inevitable, so I didn't feel like getting worked up over it. Just went with it to the extent of my knowledge of things. My sympathies.
@Trager Wasn't aware of that. Found the burning distracting, but figured it was something I'd have to put up with. Because invoking darkness right in the presence of Auresae? Seriously? If it hadn't already been done, I would have put down Blaze as an IC matter of course.
@Oleis Ah. That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying. Really is a shame, though.
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I think we all learned something from this event. The Admin has time and time again said they can never guarantee a deadline for something. This time it screwed with an event (unfortunately) because Severn's player couldn't return as anticipated. It's also good to see that the Admin are attempting to fix broken situations.
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Pick one of your umpteen bajillion alts and set all of the colors to white via config color, then when you feel like SAPPING THE COLOR OUT OF THE WORLD just COPYCOLORS . As long as you have one character that's got your regular color configuration set, you should be able to easily switch between!
I love you guys, and your RP is entertaining, but my OCD cannot handle your yellow-on-red background worldmotes. It -barely- handles the 'hey look at me, I'm visible' motes. I get that this is -my- problem and not yours to worry about, as either admin or as volunteers, I just wish I had the option to opt out of colour entirely without having to choose the 'log off until it's done' option.
It does stink, I totally give you that, but its not like its unsalvageable, You did what you did to have Severn back, which is what a Syssin should do, something went wrong...damn it all.... I got faith in you lot.
mm forum rp ftw...
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