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Nocht said:

With the disclaimer that I cannot bring this about or make any statements on the feasibility of it at all - how do people feel about the idea of a lockout/cooldown on certain areas during (or immediately after) these types of events? PvP people, do you feel like it would make the game worse for you?

I'm for it, though it would be nice if it had an IC flavour to it not just yeah no pvp guys. More like 'A calming aura covers the area removing your will to fight' for Maymay, or a 'The oppressive will of Fain drains your will to fight", yes I know I suck at creative writing, just something less in the face then no pvp go away.

As to player orgs having this ability, I would rather not have it in player hands.

More raves for @Kethaera and @Aramel and everyone else who puts up with my dumb coding questions to help me figure things out. Even if the thing I'm figuring out is how to build a dice roller for LD&D. 

I'll throw in my support for disabling smob raiding, abso-fucking-lutely. The amount of times I've had to restrain myself from lending aid and just PKing in general because of the very real fear of Master Crystals getting farmed has gone on too long.

Regat said:

Between the two alliances, Crux is quick to look for reasons to try to win,  while IHC is quick to look for reasons to give up or not even try. Crux is quick to give feedback or appreciation when someone does something, while IHC is not. Crux goes out of its way to quell arguments between alliancemates, while IHC does not. Crux goes out of its way to coordinate between all members, even making sure that underrepresented alliance groups get shares of wildnodes/anomalies, while IHC does not; at least, not to the rate that Crux does. Crux simply has a Can-Do attitude. IHC, step up your game or quit whining when you don't win.

None of this reflects my experience in IHC.

If the tweet had been "things are afoot this weekend" it would have been better than "hope you can muster people at 6!"

I should also say, I am not tilted at any admin over this. I love Maylea, she is fantastic.

Regat said:

And as I understand it, Mayleans got ordermobs out of this event. Isn't serenwilde all about cycles and growth,  life turning into death and then life again? Your peacock laid eggs, and then died like some kind of metaphorical phoenix of sorts, and you're sad about it instead of rping it out.

As someone who plays a character in Maylea's order, I wanted to say something in response to this! I hope it's not too tangential.

The event on our side was us RPing it out. My character Lief is devastated, as she believes the taking of Shashi's life is not in any way a reasonable response to the theft of an item and the conflict between those two gods. Maylea started it, but Lief has reasons for thinking Maylea's actions were warranted and the shape of the retaliation not. Whether those reasons hold water OOC for reasonable people doesn't matter because we don't have OOC gods with centuries-long+ grudges actively involving their pawns/worshipers in their interpersonal conflicts like in Greek times, so it's hard to have a basis of reasonable comparison there. And RPwise, it's a fun stance for me to take with her!

OOC, the only issues I personally had were the lead up, where so much PvP was happening in the godrealm that I was initially scared to get involved when it was time to get involved, and the way that some people seemed to think it was unfair that Maylea expressed her grief by killing them - after they successfully killed Feyr - because they thought Feyr/Lief (and Jarel I guess, though I didn't see when he entered) vs their ten was a fair go. I know that wasn't the universal attitude from the raiding side, but it bothers me that there are those who felt that way OOC and I think that's what this thread is for discussing.

I'm not upset the event happened! And I'm not upset by how the event happened. I thought it was really cool personally that things came full circle in a way with Rancoura, and I think the event makes the beast we now get infinitely more meaningful than randomly getting a cool new option and that's that. I'm even glad it was announced ahead of time because I might not have rearranged my day to be able to make it without a heads up otherwise. I'm sad OOC too because Shashi was such a delightful character, and we won't get to RP with him anymore, but it was really, really great storytelling that causes me to be sad about that.

RP is 100% happening!

Let's not turn Tweets into pages of arguing. If you'd like to start a new thread to discuss some possible PK/RP guidelines that you think would help everyone have more fun that would be awesome so long as it can be done without things turning too nasty!

The @Maylea side of tonight's event made me cry I thought it was really well written and super emotional.

Edited because I have to add that @Jolanthe has been making me tear up all over again, too.