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Ankyrean Anguish - Aetolia-based RAGE
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Oh yeah I'm sure if you're artifacted to hell and back it doesn't matter but eff you.
"The smell of dusty fur, sweet smoke, waiting and patience, a thing that time cannot kill. The moth that candles won't burn."
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approach soul mirror
Experience Lost: 7500 [total: 4549546]
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a slithering aberration of bone falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a sinuous, fetid aberration falls out of your inventory.
A stack of 2 bloodroot leaves falls out of your inventory.
A stack of 2 pieces of kelp falls out of your inventory.
A stack of 2 hawthorn berries falls out of your inventory.
A stack of 2 pieces of bayberry bark falls out of your inventory.
A stack of 2 goldenseal roots falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a sinuous, fetid aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a slithering aberration of bone falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a sinuous, fetid aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a sinuous, fetid aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a ravening, mutated aberration falls out of your inventory.
The corpse of a sinuous, fetid aberration falls out of your inventory.
The Hall of the Underking.
There are no obvious exits.
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You are dead and cannot do that.
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[Citadel]: Auto smoke ON
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You approach the dais that bears the mirror.
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You feel that your soul is strong enough to be protected once more.
OH HAH HAH, VERY EFFING FUNNY.
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(The Front Line): Daskalos says, "<-- artifacts."
Though. In your particular instance, I haven't RP'd with you a LOT, but I -have- RP'd with you. And you're totally fine on speed/awesome--definitely come away with a solid sense of your character from dealing with you, even if the character doesn't know you well yet.
Well... huh. There you go.
@xavin
Regarding lore, I always made a point of learning as much of it as I could, ICly. I'd talk to people (often the "enemy") and ask questions. Phendegwen probably remembers that; when he was a cabbie he was one of a few I'd often contact and ask for info.
These days I'm clueless because I spent so long away that there's just too much to catch up on. I feel like I barely understand the lore of my own guild let alone the rest of the game.
I found it useful for all aspects of the game, to know stuff about everything. Even for pvp, or at least making pvp meaningful with rp. And certainly for politics (or more importantly, being able to just ignore politics).
The thing to keep in mind is that a lot of praenomen/bloodborn weaknesses have been chipped away at over time due to things simply being rebalanced, so while your vampires aren't super powerful in terms of how much pure damage they can deal out, they can still tank a bit. I always give people the side-eye when they complain about things like sun damage and afflictions, because the two vampire classes really do have things that compensate in various ways and they're arguably two of the more powerful classes in the game anyway.
You're totally right, though. Sunbane is sort of too expensive right now, but that could be said of a lot of artifacts.
It's funny, it is. But since it was announce and I tested it...now I'm doing it INSTEAD of readlog, which I never failed to do before. *shakefist*
Things can be remembered by more than word of mouth because there are books. There are also the gods who would be able to remember somewhat more than mortals, at least back to the moment of the Grand Artifice (and further, I think, at least in @Severn 's case?) Aetolia also gets to ignore a lot of the 'History is written by the victor' stuff we deal with IRL because the losing side isn't permaexecuted when the dust clears on a conflict.
OOC lore caches, such as forum threads, lore posted on mud sites, (event news: is this even ooc?), etc, are a blessing and a curse. They help bring people to the game because they show the depth of the world and allow players to learn about the world without having to feel like their character is an idiot when they ask 'What are vampires?' They also detract from mystery and some roleplay situations because anyone's character can suddenly be a history expert when the player alt+tabs to firefox; Characters miss the flavor or spin that another character might put on a piece of history if they were to talk about it IC.
On one hand I understand your frustration, and would prefer a world with more of that mystery and the interactions that come with having to learn stuff ICly... and the delicious, often hilarious, misinformation that could develop. On the other hand I remember being told to stfu and learn on my own when Amberlea asked someone to teach her more about a divine she was interested in. I did eventually learn stuff I wanted to, ICly through books too, but I never got the interactions I really wanted and could have saved myself a lot of headache just doing ooc research.
Rawr
That's kind of the awesome thing about coming back after a long absence, actually. When I was more actively involved with the game and was involved in various projects that turned into events in the game, it was always a temptation to let some of that knowledge slip into something my character said or did, just because I would sometimes forget that he didn't know everything I know. Now, I don't know much of anything that has happened since before I left in 2008 to go to graduate school, so there's not even the slightest chance I can slip up and accidentally metagame.