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This is my first time posting on here in any capacity, so please bear with me on this. I have been reading these responses from everyone here, and no one here on Equinox's side (from what it seems) is honestly taking Parhelion's feelings into play. He, the TA, the one who claimed the staff for your side, wishes for this to occur, and yet everyone seems to only put their own feelings first. I know each and every one of you fought hard to win, and so too did the IHC. Although, due to the horrible lag, that by many of your accounts was the worst in the games history (I wouldn't personally know as this was my first ascension event), kept things from playing out in an even fashion. The Admin here have apologized to the players entirely, and had the roles been reversed (Ixion claiming the staff, and Choros losing due to the lag), I'm almost positive the Admin would have come to the same conclusion and offered the same thing.

Of the players that I have personally spoken to ICly, on both sides of the fence, each has stated that they felt as though the event was...less than satisfactory, and each side was cheated out of a solid victory. Parhelion has by far, been the most understanding, and honorable person on here. What everyone seems to not also see, is the point of view of Orael and the other Admin. They are indeed trying their best to accommodate every player the best way they know how, and all everyone seems to want to do is whine about how what they're wishing for isn't fair, or you should have done this or that. In my most humble opinion, they're ADMINISTRATORS, they honestly could have done whatever they wanted to do without ever telling anyone here their intentions, and let you all whine about it later. Yet, they were upfront with all of us, as transparent as they could be. As what was said earlier "Hindsight is 20/20" a truer statement couldn't have been said. During the event, they did what they could to disable things in order to try and rectify the lad as best they could, and yes, while they could have postponed the event in order to work out all of the kinks that were apparently discussed in the Discord, they decided to push forward. 

No matter what was decided on the Administrations end, someone was going to end up with hurt feelings of some sort. So, ultimately, what I guess I'm trying to say is, instead of us all bickering with one another about this isn't fair for us, or crap like that. Why don't we sit back and acknowledge the individuals that the -directly- involves. Yes, it involves us all indirectly, but this ultimately is under the control of the Admin, Parhelion, and Ixion. So, get out of your feelings people, and just go with it and enjoy whatever event that the Admin is trying to put together for ALL of us.

Parhelion said:

So, I've let curiosity get the better of me and scanned a few pages of this thread. I wish people would just leave it well enough alone. Here's my idea that piggybacks off some other ideas.


This Saturday, Magnagora raises Ixion as VA, which is well earned not only given his hard work in the Ascension but his time and service to the Engine. A wild backlash of power from Avechna, stemming from the "points" Ixion earned during Ascension, refunds the amount of power used to raise him in its entirety.

The admin get to roleplay it out.

IHC get an ascendant, and let's be serious, one unlikely to ever be lowered. If they do, it's a crapton of free power.

SL gets their one true ascendant.

We still lost Ciaran

I have listened to what Parhelion has said and fully agree with it.

Orael said:

One thing that appears we did not communicate clearly is that the event tomorrow is not just for Ixion and Mag/Gaudu/Seren. The event is for both sides and for everyone to take part in and enjoy. 

Again, we apologize if that wasn't clear from the beginning.

Is Ixion guaranteed to be the one to benefit from it? Then it's for them.