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Announce post #3241: Battlefields!
10/23/2021 at 17:04
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Battlefields!
Hi folks,
After observing recent conflicts, we've heard a lot of feedback on the desire for opportunities to participate in skirmishes without additional burdens. Specifically, without the labour of shrines, without the predictability of foci, and most importantly, without the risk of battle lines becoming blurred by involvement from those who do not necessarily have a direct stake in the conflict at hand.
In order to better encourage these conflicts and provide a way to settle grudges or disputes between organisations without risk of interference or battle fatigue from the fallout, we have created the battlefield system!
Battlefields are essentially a system for leaders to propose one-off skirmishes with one or more organisations. A battlefield is an instanced version of the original area that the skirmish is set up to take place in, intended for small PvP engagements without the risk of snowballing or undesired interference.
The full details can be found under HELP BATTLEFIELDS but there are a few key points I want to cover:
* The intention behind this system is to be a roleplay-driven PK mechanic, without mechanical rewards or features except for the battlefield isolation itself.
* Initiating battlefields is an investible privilege for guilds and orders. War ministers, war aides, and city leaders have this power by default in the case of cities.
* Results of battles that take place will be posted to the politics news board with a detailed breakdown of results.
* Anyone can spectate the battlefield from the base area and observe who is in your room from the battlefield equivalent of that room, along with most combat messages. This is one-way only.
* Only members of the involved organisations can join the battle directly, and there is no experience loss OR gain by default.
While there are a handful of terms and conditions that can be set already, we've deliberately kept this simple as a phase one release. We are however VERY willing to iterate on this system based on your feedback and ideas. Please feel free to make suggestions!
Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 9th of Midsummer, in the year 498 MA.
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Battlefields!
Hi folks,
After observing recent conflicts, we've heard a lot of feedback on the desire for opportunities to participate in skirmishes without additional burdens. Specifically, without the labour of shrines, without the predictability of foci, and most importantly, without the risk of battle lines becoming blurred by involvement from those who do not necessarily have a direct stake in the conflict at hand.
In order to better encourage these conflicts and provide a way to settle grudges or disputes between organisations without risk of interference or battle fatigue from the fallout, we have created the battlefield system!
Battlefields are essentially a system for leaders to propose one-off skirmishes with one or more organisations. A battlefield is an instanced version of the original area that the skirmish is set up to take place in, intended for small PvP engagements without the risk of snowballing or undesired interference.
The full details can be found under HELP BATTLEFIELDS but there are a few key points I want to cover:
* The intention behind this system is to be a roleplay-driven PK mechanic, without mechanical rewards or features except for the battlefield isolation itself.
* Initiating battlefields is an investible privilege for guilds and orders. War ministers, war aides, and city leaders have this power by default in the case of cities.
* Results of battles that take place will be posted to the politics news board with a detailed breakdown of results.
* Anyone can spectate the battlefield from the base area and observe who is in your room from the battlefield equivalent of that room, along with most combat messages. This is one-way only.
* Only members of the involved organisations can join the battle directly, and there is no experience loss OR gain by default.
While there are a handful of terms and conditions that can be set already, we've deliberately kept this simple as a phase one release. We are however VERY willing to iterate on this system based on your feedback and ideas. Please feel free to make suggestions!
Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 9th of Midsummer, in the year 498 MA.
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Re: Announce post #3240: The Earthcaller Class!
My favorite part was killing myself 33 times to throw Tet's husks in the amphorae, followed closely by me forgetting how channels work on Aetolian and borderline breaking my part of the subjugation section.
Edit: Actually no my favorite part was all of us ripping each other to shreds so we'd bleed enough to activate the monoliths. The mental picture of vampires clawing each other to pieces while Carnifex whirlwinded and people were slicing their own palms was just absolutely amazing.
Edit: Actually no my favorite part was all of us ripping each other to shreds so we'd bleed enough to activate the monoliths. The mental picture of vampires clawing each other to pieces while Carnifex whirlwinded and people were slicing their own palms was just absolutely amazing.
Tetchta
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Re: Announce post #3240: The Earthcaller Class!
This class looks so goddamn metal, holy shit.
Iesid
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Re: Bulrok
The fex are a big family and Bul is the oldest, coolest, most handsomest big brother.
Even if he isn’t actually any of those things, he fills that role well. Almol sees Bul as someone he wished he’d met early enough in life to see as a role-model, but is grateful to have as a brother-in-arms
Even if he isn’t actually any of those things, he fills that role well. Almol sees Bul as someone he wished he’d met early enough in life to see as a role-model, but is grateful to have as a brother-in-arms
Almol
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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
Death RP is a big pet peeve for me in a few ways. Dying means losing, which is frustrating and it influences certain people to have a sort of one-sided style of RP. It's usually a lot of acting without fear when dealing with players and existential dread at permadeath during an event or private setting RP. You may have noticed Escelika's not in the business of starting fights - she doesn't make bets without worthwhile payoffs.
I wanted to comment on the death RP people should be considering. Sure, you might never come back. This choice might be your last and you'll move on to the underhalls for good. Those ten drinks you rapid fired down your throat seemed like a funny thing - shame it was your last!
BUT, I think you should be more afraid that you do come back.
You come back, under mysterious circumstances, in brand new, fully realized bodies. Your old body is still around. Are you sure you're you? Are our memories stored in our spirit and not our brain? If some power were to fix the corpse's wounds, restore it to life, would it remember?
Is that what Undead are? Do they have a spirit, just out of sight, watching their animated body go on while they are imprisoned by another Divine's will? Has the spirit moved on and one cured of undead given a new spirit? The Praenomen spirit is trapped within the blood, held imprisoned by the curse, freed through a convoluted ritual and heat of a volcano.
I got a little carried away and may to make a new thread on this - I think we could go on for a while. The clear divide between courage and bravery is the biggest pet peeve for me overall when it comes to conflict.
I wanted to comment on the death RP people should be considering. Sure, you might never come back. This choice might be your last and you'll move on to the underhalls for good. Those ten drinks you rapid fired down your throat seemed like a funny thing - shame it was your last!
BUT, I think you should be more afraid that you do come back.
You come back, under mysterious circumstances, in brand new, fully realized bodies. Your old body is still around. Are you sure you're you? Are our memories stored in our spirit and not our brain? If some power were to fix the corpse's wounds, restore it to life, would it remember?
Is that what Undead are? Do they have a spirit, just out of sight, watching their animated body go on while they are imprisoned by another Divine's will? Has the spirit moved on and one cured of undead given a new spirit? The Praenomen spirit is trapped within the blood, held imprisoned by the curse, freed through a convoluted ritual and heat of a volcano.
I got a little carried away and may to make a new thread on this - I think we could go on for a while. The clear divide between courage and bravery is the biggest pet peeve for me overall when it comes to conflict.
Escelika
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Re: Announce post #3240: The Earthcaller Class!
Shamelessly stealing @Alela 's reference. But if this isn't an Earthcaller, I don't know what is. I love all the stuff about it, not getting the class but appreciating it all the same.
Xenia
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Re: Announce post #3240: The Earthcaller Class!
thank you thank you THANK YOU to an enjoyable event, and the surprise mirror class! To those of you in the Pools that worked on this so much thank you! I cant speak for anyone else, but as far as events go, that was amazing! It felt REALLY different than past events!
Macavity
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Announce post #3240: The Earthcaller Class!
10/23/2021 at 0:13
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
The Earthcaller Class!
After passing the trials of the Earthen and helping to restore the imbalance of Earth on the Prime Material, the Earthcaller class is now available within the Teradrim Guild!
With the skills of Apocalyptia, Subjugation, and Tectonics, this class expertly combines priestly invocations with raw, ruthless strength.
The solemn duty of the Earthcaller makes it a perfect fit for the Teradrim, as both classes are charged with maintaining the Pillars of the Earth.
Earthcaller is a mirror of the Luminary class, and the skills translate as follows:
Apocalyptia - Devotion
Subjugation - Spirituality
Tectonics - Illumination
HELP EARTHCALLER RP awaits those with an interest in learning about the background, and help files for each of the three skills exist for your perusal. The skills also have learning messages which may be of interest!
While some abilities are directly shared, most should be unrecognisable. We've made a concerted effort to steep this class in its own lore, theme, and flavour in order to make it a compelling and distinct experience from its native profession.
Any guilded Teradrim is able to CLASS SELECT EARTHCALLER if they meet the requirements for multiclass, and Earthcaller will soon be available in new character creation. For the next two weeks, guilded Teradrim will have no limit on total apprentices per season.
Artifacts for Earthcaller will be available in the next few minutes for your enjoyment:
- a cracked amphora (hunt_earthcaller1-3); for hunting
- a tablet of the Earthen (fervour_boon); mirror of devotion_boon
- an Amulet of Khuzrol (fervour_regen); mirror of devotion_regen
- a fragmented hunk of ink-spattered rock (anointrunes); mirror of shieldstamp
- an anchor of the dunes (impurity_banish); mirror of spark_meditate
- earthen_purity (no item); mirror of spark_boon
While we have done a significant amount of testing on every ability, if there are bugs or typos, or if anything appears to be behaving strangely, please report it right away through BUG or TYPO respectively.
I'd like to give a big shout out to Razmael and Keroc, as well as our amazing volunteers for their incredible help in getting this class out. The last few weeks have been utterly insane, and I hope you all enjoy!
The release event for mirror Indorani is already underway and will be finishing up tomorrow or Sunday. Look out for the post!
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 5th of Midsummer, in the year 498 MA.
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
The Earthcaller Class!
After passing the trials of the Earthen and helping to restore the imbalance of Earth on the Prime Material, the Earthcaller class is now available within the Teradrim Guild!
With the skills of Apocalyptia, Subjugation, and Tectonics, this class expertly combines priestly invocations with raw, ruthless strength.
The solemn duty of the Earthcaller makes it a perfect fit for the Teradrim, as both classes are charged with maintaining the Pillars of the Earth.
Earthcaller is a mirror of the Luminary class, and the skills translate as follows:
Apocalyptia - Devotion
Subjugation - Spirituality
Tectonics - Illumination
HELP EARTHCALLER RP awaits those with an interest in learning about the background, and help files for each of the three skills exist for your perusal. The skills also have learning messages which may be of interest!
While some abilities are directly shared, most should be unrecognisable. We've made a concerted effort to steep this class in its own lore, theme, and flavour in order to make it a compelling and distinct experience from its native profession.
Any guilded Teradrim is able to CLASS SELECT EARTHCALLER if they meet the requirements for multiclass, and Earthcaller will soon be available in new character creation. For the next two weeks, guilded Teradrim will have no limit on total apprentices per season.
Artifacts for Earthcaller will be available in the next few minutes for your enjoyment:
- a cracked amphora (hunt_earthcaller1-3); for hunting
- a tablet of the Earthen (fervour_boon); mirror of devotion_boon
- an Amulet of Khuzrol (fervour_regen); mirror of devotion_regen
- a fragmented hunk of ink-spattered rock (anointrunes); mirror of shieldstamp
- an anchor of the dunes (impurity_banish); mirror of spark_meditate
- earthen_purity (no item); mirror of spark_boon
While we have done a significant amount of testing on every ability, if there are bugs or typos, or if anything appears to be behaving strangely, please report it right away through BUG or TYPO respectively.
I'd like to give a big shout out to Razmael and Keroc, as well as our amazing volunteers for their incredible help in getting this class out. The last few weeks have been utterly insane, and I hope you all enjoy!
The release event for mirror Indorani is already underway and will be finishing up tomorrow or Sunday. Look out for the post!
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 5th of Midsummer, in the year 498 MA.
Autoposter
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Re: Griefing and bullying. It's not okay OOC but it is okay IC? (Wall of text warning)
I was going to respond to this with the receipts of everything the Dominion and Teradrim did to the Carnifex when they were large and in charge that have caused the Carnifex players to choose this avenue of roleplay, but that wouldn't be productive or helpful and ultimately would only serve to make only me feel better.
My DM's are always open Trance#3833 if you think you're being unfairly targeted or bullied or griefed by me or mine. I will hear your side and provide perspective.
This is explicit permission for those of you I have ignored in game to DM me. Don't be surprised if I block you if you bring the same energy that caused the ignore.
Not a single one of you has ever come to me or the admin(to my knowledge) about griefing of bullying, which are both against the rules, and something I would be happy to deal with.
A public hit piece like this is wildly inappropriate and does nothing but engender bad feelings for all parties involved and those folk just looking in with a bucket of popcorn.
Do better.
My DM's are always open Trance#3833 if you think you're being unfairly targeted or bullied or griefed by me or mine. I will hear your side and provide perspective.
This is explicit permission for those of you I have ignored in game to DM me. Don't be surprised if I block you if you bring the same energy that caused the ignore.
Not a single one of you has ever come to me or the admin(to my knowledge) about griefing of bullying, which are both against the rules, and something I would be happy to deal with.
A public hit piece like this is wildly inappropriate and does nothing but engender bad feelings for all parties involved and those folk just looking in with a bucket of popcorn.
Do better.
Mjoll
9
Re: Post Your Pictures!
My son and daughter. She is almost three. He is five and a half almost. And the size of second graders in his school
Ayastia
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