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Re: Your Character's Playlist
Ooooh, playlists for our characters. I can do this!
Featuring violins for her start on stage with the violin and folksy ballads for the lute she's learning and the vocals she's working.
April Showers & Mayflowers: Lief's Playlist
The Upside
A Poet's Quest
Devil's Spoke (this is my "if Lief ever became evil" vibe song. WHICH SHE WON'T.)
Ode to a Butterfly
Floating in the Balance
Heist
(Doing this from my phone - SO HARD. Let me know if links don't work/I'll double check on a real computer later.)
Featuring violins for her start on stage with the violin and folksy ballads for the lute she's learning and the vocals she's working.
April Showers & Mayflowers: Lief's Playlist
The Upside
A Poet's Quest
Devil's Spoke (this is my "if Lief ever became evil" vibe song. WHICH SHE WON'T.)
Ode to a Butterfly
Floating in the Balance
Heist
(Doing this from my phone - SO HARD. Let me know if links don't work/I'll double check on a real computer later.)
Lief
9
Re: Your Character's Playlist
I am very extra and had way too much fun putting this together. Thank you for agreeing to my selfish request @Gurashi so I could make a whole playlist like the complete and total nerd I am.
Sylandra's Very Dramatic Soundtrack
Sylandra's Very Dramatic Soundtrack
- Young Lyrethian - Merry Go Round of Life
- Perilous Socialite - Black Lilliana
- Hopeless Romantic - Danse Profane
- Prolific Tragedienne - Kaishou
- Sidereal Lord's Betrayer - Pas De Deux
- Godless Governess - Oath to Order / Healing the Great Fairy
- Bittersweet Farewell - Bluebird Lamentation
- Distant Wanderer - Faltering Prayer (Dawn Breeze)
- Reunion - Aurora
- Jadicean Recluse - Crystallize
Sylandra
10
Re: Your Character's Playlist
This looks like fun! I'll be back with an edit to show my playlist!
This pretty much captures his curious and carefree spirit
He has this level of zealous patriotism
Discovering his best friend is no longer alive - Carry On
Ah, I don't think I am quite fleshed out enough to know what else to put
This pretty much captures his curious and carefree spirit
He has this level of zealous patriotism
Discovering his best friend is no longer alive - Carry On
Ah, I don't think I am quite fleshed out enough to know what else to put
Re: Lack of Raves VI: Rave Today, Tweet Tomorrow
You slip into a blossoming stole of fragrant peaches.
You lift the stole over your head and drape it around your neck. A lovely fragrance rises from the soft wool and enwraps you. Before your eyes, your body and your limbs become covered in soft, knotted bark, while peach blossoms burst from your fingertips, your nose, your ears, and every other joint or extremity. Here and there, a few choice peaches droop from your branches, and you suddenly feel quite flexible and yet sustained by the strength within yourself.
Looktext : Blossoms and peaches drooping from its flexible branches, a fruiting dryad grows here.
Lief has finally realized her destiny of becoming a tree and growing leaves.
Lief has finally realized her destiny of becoming a tree and growing leaves.
Lief
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Re: Townhall Meeting 24 Sep 2019
Just want to chime in on making autocuring automatically learned somehow for novices, and when learned it should default to being on.
I've been noticing newbies going *hours* of play without learning a single lesson. They come out of the basic intro and tend to head straight through to the pools quests. Often times they do so without choosing a race or a class for some time as well. When prompted they hang about, usually pick a race and class, but then go back in without learning ANY skills - just using the newbie claymore.
My preference would be to just have learning some basic core skills be part of the newbie intro to reinforce how good and useful it is to learn some basic lessons. Perhaps have them learn one round of something and then have the guide wave a hand and automatically zip through learning the basic core/refundable skills.
My preference would be to just have learning some basic core skills be part of the newbie intro to reinforce how good and useful it is to learn some basic lessons. Perhaps have them learn one round of something and then have the guide wave a hand and automatically zip through learning the basic core/refundable skills.
Aside from autocuring, having rift be automatic would be good. By the time newbies slow down and learn rift, their free newbie riftables tend to have decayed! That utility should be on by default and those items should go straight into their rifts, instead of inventories.
Enya
5
Re: Lack of Raves VI: Rave Today, Tweet Tomorrow
Lief said:Alexandria said:I first saw the new Czixi one on @Merlose and was immediately jealous as I had no idea what it was. Then I eventually looked at myself and went, OH.Lief said:A lush fragrance dances about her as she stands awash in the wild, prismatic colours of a truefavour from Maylea, Bloom of Serenity.New favor flavor text for Maylea!
Threadlike skeins of mist envelop her form, flowing out from her body as a vaporous cloak.
The new offering text we got was awesome too.
Mist coils from the Prized Brazier of Diligent Obeisance as you hold your offering high, watching it dissolve into wisps of vapour. They skitter nebulously through your fingers, the essence flickering from existence as it surges forth to empower Czixi, the Welkin.
!!!!!!
We have an offering message now, too!As you lift up the Superior Brazier of Divine Revels, small seedlings begin to sprout from all surfaces, bursting into a small garden of tiny, radiant, many-hued flowers that stretch skywards in joy. Within seconds, all perishable material has decayed into dust, and the blossoms lose their colourful petals, only to ripen into sprays of bright fruit that glitter in offering to Maylea, Bloom of Serenity.
I love these changes! I want to see the messages all of the gods are coming up with!
Your karma rises in response to your deeds.
You offer up 3 corpses to Auseklis, the First Wanderer.
Womp womp
Enya
5
Your Character's Playlist
Nerd time!! Thanks to @Sylandra for the idea to make a separate thread (rather than clogging up the 'what're you listening to' one)
I feel like every good character has a handful of songs that stick with them or reflect their personality/stories. Really - we've all done it, don't lie to me. So I'm sharing the one I made for Gurashi and encouraging others who have songs selected for their PCs to post here!! Thanks for stopping by - I'm looking forward to hearing what people come up with!
When They Cry: Gurashi Character Playlist
I feel like every good character has a handful of songs that stick with them or reflect their personality/stories. Really - we've all done it, don't lie to me. So I'm sharing the one I made for Gurashi and encouraging others who have songs selected for their PCs to post here!!
Thanks for stopping by - I'm looking forward to hearing what people come up with!When They Cry: Gurashi Character Playlist
Gurashi
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Re: Nelras and Alexandria's (unusual) wedding
Gotta be honest, this gif is basically me everytime I get some Order-related RP.Ushaara said:Alexandria said:Clearly audible above the murmurs and applause of those gathered, the sound of clapping can be heard from the side. Slow, measured, tinged with steel and gaining in volume with each clap."How... very... touching," a lilting, smoky voice enunciates and the clapping stops.A velvety indigo fog roils through the crystal wards of Hallifax. The fog carries a soft, intoxicating scent that promises dark triumphs and pleasures alike as a presence manifests somewhere within the city.Essence still dripping idly from Her palms, Czixi hovers perfectly still, Her eyes fading to pure grey as they lock on the mist before Her. With a curl of Her lips, Her face transforms into an ugly snarl.The cinerous mists about the gardens stir and bleed to a vivid indigo hue in the vicinity of the voice, dispersing slowly to reveal the radiant figure of Drocilla leaning languidly against the air itself. Her hands are gathered before Her, armoured hand frozen mid-clap upon the other palm.
...
Man do I stan @Drocilla content!
(also congrats!)
Re: A Forbidden Interview
I finally read a copy. It's adorable! I was giggling the whole way through. Please keep it up and you'll have a loyal Hallifaxian reader (or two. Me and Alexandria will totally be discussing it over tea) 
Merlose
5
Order Affinity Drain
I know there was a reason affinity essence drains were put in in the first place (I heard that it was to prevent some Orders from taking over an organization?), but as someone who has no desire to take over any organization, and also as someone who likes contributing positively instead of feeling like a drain, I wanted to ask if there was any way that the current affinity drain could be tweaked?
As someone who recently joined an Order that takes in people regardless of politics, I was excited to see how I was contributing, just to realize that the mechanics were telling me that I was a drain just for existing in the Order.
Some suggestions, off the top of my head:
1. Cause affinity drain only if more than a certain amount of people (example, 5 people) are from orgs that are not tied to the Divine. This way we can ensure that no one will try to take over any org.
2. Let the Divine choose whether they want affinity drain for having people outside of their org in their order. Alternatively, it can be decided by the admin which God should or shouldn't have affinity drain based on the Order's rp.
3. Only cause affinity drains if people are members of certain orgs which wouldn't make sense given the type of Order they are in. For example, a member of Celest in the order of Night.
4. Have affinity drain, but reduce it significantly so that it would only make a difference if there are a lot of members not tied to the org. Or remove the halving of offering cost.
These are some of the ideas I thought of, if anyone has other ideas please comment with that! But the current situation is a bit disheartening.
As someone who recently joined an Order that takes in people regardless of politics, I was excited to see how I was contributing, just to realize that the mechanics were telling me that I was a drain just for existing in the Order.
Some suggestions, off the top of my head:
1. Cause affinity drain only if more than a certain amount of people (example, 5 people) are from orgs that are not tied to the Divine. This way we can ensure that no one will try to take over any org.
2. Let the Divine choose whether they want affinity drain for having people outside of their org in their order. Alternatively, it can be decided by the admin which God should or shouldn't have affinity drain based on the Order's rp.
3. Only cause affinity drains if people are members of certain orgs which wouldn't make sense given the type of Order they are in. For example, a member of Celest in the order of Night.
4. Have affinity drain, but reduce it significantly so that it would only make a difference if there are a lot of members not tied to the org. Or remove the halving of offering cost.
These are some of the ideas I thought of, if anyone has other ideas please comment with that! But the current situation is a bit disheartening.
Coraline
5
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