Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
- 3.7K All Categories
- 3K The Midnight Age
- 757 Announce posts
- 125 Newbies
- 6 Class Guides
- 804 Harpy's Head Tavern
- 57 Echo Canyon
- 310 Self-Affirmations
- 163 Town Crier
- 135 The Exchange
- 167 Sparring Grounds
- Combat Guides
- 30 Combat Logs
- 188 Idea Box
- 9 Classleads
- 578 Roleplay Logs
- 107 Aetolia Development
- 5 The Void
- 744 Miscellaneous
- 9 Announcements
- 417 OOC Chat
- 217 Tech Talk
- 47 Scripts
Looking for more active discussion? Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/x2s7fY6
Comments
------
POETRY NEWS #616
Date: 10/27/2003 at 16:01
From: Thrall Riluo Voltaire
To : Everyone
Subj: loneliness
These feelings of loneliness
They haunt me inside
They talk all my strength
My happiness denied
And when im with friends
Or if im alone
I still get those feelings
From the unknown
Then it occurs
When im feeling quit blue
Im not really lonely
I'm thinking of you
To my lost love?
Penned by my hand on the 1st of Variach, in the year 113 MA.
-----
POETRY NEWS #614
Date: 10/26/2003 at 14:11
From: Thrall Riluo Voltaire
To : Everyone
Subj: Hunger
On this night
I felt a hunger I had never known
An raw need for sustenance
order ghoul passive
order ghoul calm craving for this surge of pure energy
My body was on fire
Trembling
Shaking
Quivering
I found myself breathless
Drops of sweat covering my skin
These feelings
Undescribable
Yet, somehow familiar
Understood
Something inside of me clicked
With it, came a sense of clarity
Insight to my true nature
My identity
I heard the voices in my mind
Saw the visions dancing before me
Felt the embrace of kindred spirits
The arms of old souls
Cradling me in their arms
Like a newborn child
It was a rebirth
The rise of a phoenix from past ashes
Hidden doors unlocked
Revealing secrets that had been kept hidden from me
Letting loose a flood of emotions
Feelings that had been dormant for what seemed like a lifetime
order ghoul passive
order ghoul calm new chapter opened
order ghoul passive
order ghoul calm path untraveled
This overwhelming desire to feed
Washed over me
Magnetic and powerful
This entity
Drawing me in
The thirst for blood
The taste of sweet nectar
Lingering on my tongue
Awakening my senses
I welcomed it
I felt no fear
No hesitation
I did not turn away from it
It was my destiny
I could feel it
On this dark, wonderous night
This thirst made itself known
This new, exciting life-force
The raw hunger
The desire
To nourish
To feed
It transformed me
Cleansed me
Baptized me
I will never forget it
The night I awakened
Walking into a whole new world
Bonded in blood
fortify eternity
Penned by my hand on the 1st of Haernos, in the year 112 MA.
-----
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "Can someone appoint aldric to rank 3 please. I can't. Broken. No idea why."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "And dismiss that Grimdale person from rank 3."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): Ishin says, "Not in the clan."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "Yeah I can't induct either."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): Eugenides says, "I can't."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): Ishin says, "Me either."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "Ugh. And I can't invest privs."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "Issued myself, just have to wait I guess."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "I can't reset clans, set a new head, no workaround I guess."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "Anything that uses CLAN I just can't do."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): Eugenides says, "Sounds like a lot of redtape."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): You say, "...get out."
(The Spirean Bureaucracy): Eugenides says, "Almost did, realized I couldn't be invited back."
(Web): Lim says, "Moi find ysi."
You can see naught but darkness.
(Web): You say, "[FARSIGHT]: I detect nobody."
(Web): Lim says, "Moi find ysi."
You can see naught but darkness.
(Web): You say, "[FARSIGHT]: All I can see is black, empty empty black like the depths of your misbegotten soul, you foul shadowy fiend. Yeah, can't find em."
(Web): Xenia says, "No moi, really."
(Web): Xenia says, "Moi fnd ysi."
(Web): Xenia says, "Moi find ysi."
You can see naught but darkness.
(Web): You say, "[FARSIGHT]: Try again, comrade."
---
I have since edited my failure messages to be a bit less trolly...
Blood seems to be smeared rather gruesomely over Aldric's form as he agitatedly struts into sight, an expectant gaze leveled upon you.
You have emoted: Moirean pauses a moment as she eyes the blood, and then gives her head a shake. "Our Chief Engineer," she says, introducing Aldric to the Grecht. "He'll help you get sorted out with lodging in the Winterbreeze. Pester him about ANYTHING you need - pillows, blankets, anything."
Talon Reneshfi, of the Neicel Naru offers a faintly bemused shake of her head, glancing up and down Aldric. "How untidy." She comments, wrinkling her broad nose at his bloodied garments. "Did you cut yourself on a protractor?"
You remove 5 cloth, bringing the total in the cache to 835.
You remove 1 silver, bringing the total in the cache to 128.
You take the decapitated head of Benedicto from a display cabinet.
Using the design for reference, you carefully cut, assemble, and stitch together a sleek cerulean weaponbelt.
Clearly fashioned out of some aquatic creature's tentacle, this sturdy weaponbelt has been dyed a deep cerulean hue. Intended to be worn around the waist or slung over the shoulder, it bears a number of hooks, loops, and rings to secure an assortment of deadly instruments with. The fine silver buckle is forged to depict a collapsing wave drawn nearly into a circle, and is accented by twin streaks of lightning crossing down at an angle.
You have purchased weaponbelt for a sleek cerulean weaponbelt!
MINE FOREVERRRR.
Still fucking dies.
Politics
...The joke here is that soul consume gives you 150 extra health after you hit the diminishing return. Your stone runs out of souls before you hit the health cap, so if you write a very precise script to summon, kill via a direct attack (wraiths hit you and knock that health down, so you need to cull specifically), call stone, etc, you can poke your health up to the cap. Eventually. A single tick that procs two mobs and give you a stray hit will nearly reset things. Imma just let you all sit and imagine the math and time investment. The things we do....
Politics
Ishin peers at a peacock-ribboned pink gift box suspiciously.
Ishin Cardinalis demands, "...she sent me a gift in a peacock-ribboned box?!"
Ishin opens a peacock-ribboned pink gift box.
Ishin sways back and forth.
Ishin Cardinalis exclaims, "WOW!"
Teani snickers at the sight of the pack, then waits patiently for the reaction. Once it comes, she beams broadly.
You ask Ishin, "Merry Celesmas?"
Ishin Cardinalis exclaims to you, "Pit yeah!"
Holding up a glowing shadow crystal, Ishin exclaims, "How do I put it together?!"
Ishin Cardinalis says, "YES I GOT IT."
"While speaking to @Faerah about Celesmas gifts, we also made a small transaction." Teani comments to Ishin with a bright sparkle in her eyes.
Ishin hops about in place several times, hugging the shadow shroud to his chest.
@Konnorn stares at Ishin and pointedly says nothing at all.
Konnorn murmurs to you, "If you get your hands on one of those.. I would like to know.."
You say to Konnorn, "Sadly, the one I got I handed over last month."
Teani points towards Ishin, saying to Konnorn, "And seeing -that- reaction made it totally worth it."
Ishin bends lightly at the knees, holding it out away from himself as he gazes up at it. "YessssssssIwanteditsobad!"
Teani clasps a hand over her mouth to stifle an outburst of laughter.
Ishin opens his mouth again, and then pauses briefly before he looks at you. "...how do I use it?"
"ELEMENT SHADOW, then you should be able to BLAST someone with it." Teani explains.
Ishin whips the shadow shroud around his shoulders, before he lifts his arms and flexes as it settles in. "FEEL MY POWER," he says, before he lifts a hand and points his index finger at Konnorn. "Bang!"
Rubbing his chest, Konnorn Ket'Hedj says, "Ow... that.. sortof kind could've hurt."
Konnorn peers about himself suspiciously.
Konnorn Ket'Hedj says, "I mean..."
You give a trillingly melodic laugh.
Konnorn Ket'Hedj exclaims, "Oooooh, owwwww!"
Konnorn pales considerably as he faints.
Ishin points his finger at Konnorn again, shaking it imperiously. "There's more where that came from," he declares, before he laughs again, grinning broadly enough to display his teeth, even the tips of his four sharp canines. It also causes the corners of his eyes to crinkle, completely ruining the effects his teeth might have otherwise.
Konnorn stands up, brushing some dust from his clothes. "Perfectly lethal, Black Hand. And very suiting to your title."
Ishin lifts his fingers and puffs a breath across the tip, before he places his own hand on the one that's on a dark steel scale mail. "Damn skippy!"
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
the way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
open hand or closed fist would be fine
blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
Plato says, "Ah to be young and in love."
Kendri says, in a feral tongue, "Those two are siblings."
Kendri says, in a feral tongue, "As a note."
Plato says, "Ah... well plutonic love is okay too."
(Shifters of the Flame): Roux says, "Plutonic: noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface."
(Shifters of the Flame): Roux says, "Glad they have a rocky relationship."
(Shifters of the Flame): Roux says, "Ackackack."
The Divine voice of Someone powerful echoes in your head, "I apologize for the inconvenience....also
is that golem wearing a tux...nevermind that."
(Web): Lim says, "Indeed it is."
(Market): Aldric says, "Credits for sale, significantly lower than the next highest price!"
Credits currently available for purchase:
5 credits at 5000 gold per credit.
1 credits at 64999 gold per credit.
All about dat spin...
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
The corpse of a Githani grappler launches a series of kicks into the air, each directed at a different part of an imaginary foe's body.
The corpse of a Githani inscriber lifts a palm to his mouth and blows gently, the air growing icy as the runes on his arm glow.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
Olli has been electrocuted to death by a gibbering kelki reaver.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
Olli has been sliced apart by a gibbering kelki reaver.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]bug The corpse of a Githani grappler launches a series of kicks into the air, each directed at a different part of an imaginary foe's body.
Thank you for submitting Bug #3201. You will be informed of its resolution.
Use BUG 3201 to view it or add comments at any time.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]bug The corpse of a Githani inscriber lifts a palm to his mouth and blows gently, the air growing icy as the runes on his arm glow.
Thank you for submitting Bug #3202. You will be informed of its resolution.
Use BUG 3202 to view it or add comments at any time.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
The corpse of a Githani grappler exhales a soft sigh and stretches her arms high over her head.
The corpse of a Githani inscriber lifts a palm to his mouth and blows gently, the air growing icy as the runes on his arm glow.
The corpse of a Githani inscriber quickly snaps his fingers and a small spark of light emits.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]OK
The corpse of a Githani inscriber cups his hands together and murmurs quietly to himself.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
[Info]: Time to Vote! We only need 30 votes to move to #6.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
The corpse of a Githani inscriber opens his palms slightly, a small, flashing ball of lightning held within.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]
The corpse of a Githani inscriber squeezes his hands around the lightning ball, the energy quickly dispersing.
H:4962 M:3912 E:23500 W:18460 B:100% XP:8757702/55000000 [db eb]