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Re: Lack of Raves VI: Rave Today, Tweet Tomorrow

Duethielle Ladrennbenn is an elfen of radiant olive skin and snow white hair, which is kept out of the way in a long, drooping braid that reaches down to the back of her legs. She wears a light, airy tunic of pale rose and loose, billowing pants of midnight blue limned in silver. Her bare skin has been inscribed with emerald tattoos in spiralling shapes of plants, vines, birds and forest creatures, which run across her cheeks and down her neck, over the collarbone and onto her chest, her back, her lithe limbs, even to the very tips of her fingers and toes. She hums softly off and on, her clear blue eyes glittering with flashes of joy. A musical bracelet of blue and white violets hands from one of her wrists.

I love when PCs affect NPCs just like they affect us.

Lief

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Re: Lusternia memes

2020/01/09 03:24:57 - Llani restored Kharan's access to the Moonhart Mother Tree.

Everiine

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Re: Avenger ideas

The biggest gripe I have with avenger is that it has no real differentiation between NPC enemy territory and player org territory.

If you are hunting illithoids/kepherans and someone attacks you, your only reasonable choice is to run away. If you successfully defend yourself, you get suspect on the person who attacked you and then you're SOL. But... it's not their territory, and it was their choice to attack you.

My preference would be for player-org territory to remain the way it is (we don't need to discourage self-defense even more), but rework NPC org territory. Attacking someone enemied to the NPC org should do a two-way declare, so both sides are free to fight each other all they want. Sure, the target can still choose to run away, but at least then it would be a choice instead of the only option.

Xenthos

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Re: Avenger ideas

I agree with the neutral territory thing Xenthos mentioned with the following stipulations:

Only the party defending the natural territory can be PK DEFENDED. Anyone else enemied to the territory but attacking the defender is declaring as per usual.

For disambiguation:
A is enemied to Kethera. B goes to gank A in the hives. C, regardless of whether or not they are enemied to Kethera cannot defend A. They must declare B. (This is how the game currently operates, don't change this).

Death to either party with the above rules in mind should not produce a PK suspect and should immediately dissolve a PK suspect on aggressive action on their respective parts. Hitting someone in enemied territory, even NPC, should disregard existing statuses and dissolve them on retaliation hits as per current functionality.

Tl;dr:
Basically same rules but neither side gets suspect.

Keegan

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Re: Avenger ideas

Raimari said:

I would rather just remove the Avenger system, personally.
Literally every other game has the, "Don't attack someone on 'prime' without a valid reason. No, being a city enemy isn't a valid reason." clause and it works perfectly fine.

I remember the culture shock when I tried out Starmourn. "No PK unless you have a reason (being a serial killer is not a reason!)". I really think it's asinine. I hate the idea that you'd have to come up with a sound logical argument just to attack some jabroni in enemy territory. example:You're killing/have killed kephera? A kepheran matriarch of sorts that literally lives in the Master Complex under the Ruhao Cathedral taught Hallifax how to Tessenchi. I'm going to punish you for killing her people until you go get amnesty. -I- know why I'd theoretically be ganking someone in the Hives. But I shouldn't have to explain it. Imagine the extra work you pile onto the admin who would have to sift through disputes.

The lax PK rules in Lusternia do a great job of mitigating that insufferably smug "you can't touch me" attitude that I've encountered in both Starmourn and Aetolia because of their comparatively restrictive rules. I don't want people like that and I don't want to breed that culture.

I think at least 4 orgs in the game have completed all their timequake research. Timequakes might not be as frequently contested as they are now in the near future; now's not the time to be restricting PvP.

Maligorn

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Re: Avenger ideas

I shouldn't be allowed to format anything ever on the forums because it always goes sideways for me. But anyway, I don't think it's super fallacious to say that some people (I'm going to use Feoragan as an example, no offense meant!) Would probably have it a lot worse if they could be freely killed anywhere, and then have it justified with roleplay.

Also with the inner sea quests, there's a handful of them. They're tied in with the Mag and Celest epics, and they do generate conflict - questing based conflict, not pk conflict. Adding on a layer of people nosing around looking for justifiable pk opportunities would not be an enjoyable addition to an already frustrating and tedious part of the game.

Kali

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Re: Announce Post #2992: Year In Review: 2019

We also are looking to foster roleplay in orgs on a small and medium scale as well as run large scale events during and beyond this, building upon the incredible roleplay and events you have all been creating yourselves.

Some of y'all have already been doing this and it's been A+, 100%. Yay!!

Gurashi

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Re: Announce Post #2992: Year In Review: 2019

I feel like this year-in-review is dreadfully incomplete without the inclusion of the most important arrival to the Basin: Gurashi. <_<

Tridemon

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Re: "-But when the bard looked to her love, she found only a frown."

What a sweet encounter, thank you for sharing! Gurashi is so wonderfully emotive!

Elexia

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Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

Hangnails are evil. Even if you don't end up peeling them off, they can end up catching on your clothes when you get dressed. And if you're working with salt or alcohol, like a cook would...

Tridemon

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