Best Of

I'm just going to skip the ones or answer sorta dumb that my Kalliope-brain feels too newly formed to answer properly..

Lisaera said:

Many (if not all) of these are probably repeats!

1. Who is your favorite NPC (alive or dead) and why?
2. Which one (only one!) IRL song is THE defining song of your character in this moment of their journey?
   
3. If your character were a glass of something, what beverage would they be?
   
4. What is your favorite easter egg you've discovered in Lusternia (in room descriptions, areas, a line of NPC dialogue etc)?
5. What is the wildest Lusternian theory or headcanon you have?
6. Do you have a faceclaim or voiceclaim for your character, and if so, who?

1. Queen Maeve, because [---] but also since she's both influenced and influential in her ties to Nature. I happen to like her storylines. I like Olikai Clawheart too. She has scholar's curiosity and willingness to experiment but also is gentle in delivering her wisdom.
2. Never Look Away (Vienna Teng) I linked this elsewhere. At the time, it felt like Xiran was among the audience, but it's like she's getting to sing it to others now, so that's been fun.
3. Barley tea, cold or hot.
4. "It would be impertinent to join Lisaera to your coven" of most recent discovery.
   Faethorn and Daeiv ma'Mornhai's descriptions are fun.
5. Lisaera, Maylea, and Elfenehoala's essence are also part of [---for different reasons]. This means that Serenwilde may draw on them as much as they do spirits, Fae, and the land with that invocation. In the other direction, the gods can also draw energy. They're like Kiakoda but Elder level, so the increase in power wouldn't be noticeable until Serenwilde takes over more of the Basin. Since pre-existing connections to Ethereal are ideal sources to anchor footholds, we should /ramble
6. Potentially annoying raspy-sweet sound that can drop to serious grandma voice. At her normal size, Ayaka Saito voice acting as Sohma Momiji (anime Fruits Basket). TitanPaku Romi singing with Hitsugaya's voice (Bleach).

In response to Lisaera’s questions:

1. Answered before but it’s still Edwin d’Vanecu. A scientist-necromancer who is also hilariously quintessential millennial.  Second place would probably goto the nereids as a whole (want to tour one around Mag sometime!).

2. Will have to think back on this.

3.  A tall glass of whiskey.

4. There are quite a few I’ve found. That the new penguin quest lets you purposefully push the penguin in is probably up there. The "hang in there" kitten in the Gutter is also a classic.

5. Personal headcanon: After the scar event 2 ascensions ago when the seal bearers all saw alternate versions of themselves, then Geochemist Uzriel reached out to other versions of himself and learned necromancy from one of them (while teaching them geomancy). 

6. Tom Hardy's voice. He’s even had that muffled mask voice in several roles.

Lisaera said:

Many (if not all) of these are probably repeats!

1. Who is your favorite NPC (alive or dead) and why?
2. Which one (only one!) IRL song is THE defining song of your character in this moment of their journey?
   
3. If your character were a glass of something, what beverage would they be?
   
4. What is your favorite easter egg you've discovered in Lusternia (in room descriptions, areas, a line of NPC dialogue etc)?
5. What is the wildest Lusternian theory or headcanon you have?
6. Do you have a faceclaim or voiceclaim for your character, and if so, who?

All hail the quizmaster, long may you reign. 

1. The guest librarian we had a couple of solstices back. I love her vibe.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMIbVFCz7A
3. Kawhe.
4. Gosh, I can't quote it. But the one with recharging a cube.
5. Goodness. Theory time, but the good one is staying on my boards. So- if the void equates to what we would consider as space irl, wouldn't Mama Night's presence be the dominate force there? Yes, light can travel within it, but darkness dominates.
6.  I don't have one offhand, taking suggestions.

Many (if not all) of these are probably repeats!

1. Who is your favorite NPC (alive or dead) and why?
2. Which one (only one!) IRL song is THE defining song of your character in this moment of their journey?
   
3. If your character were a glass of something, what beverage would they be?
   
4. What is your favorite easter egg you've discovered in Lusternia (in room descriptions, areas, a line of NPC dialogue etc)?
5. What is the wildest Lusternian theory or headcanon you have?
6. Do you have a faceclaim or voiceclaim for your character, and if so, who?

It seems like most of what needed to be said has been said, but I figured I should probably chime in with my two cents because, hey, it's MY city. There's a couple points to hit here, so I'm going to bullet them to avoid writing a novel.

- The Sutekh issue really isn't relevant to the question in general. Yes, it was a situation that arose because of the way contemptibles are handled but, at least so far as I've seen, once it was resolved it didn't create any extra lingering contemptible tension. 

- As someone who plays the game almost entirely for RP, I will absolutely jump at any opportunity to RP, even with a contemptible. I don't hate them at all, its just an entirely different type of RP that I'm assuming people who play contemptibles are specifically looking for by playing that type of race in this type of city. My character might be thinking "how dare this creature approach me", but I'll be thinking "oh, this could be interesting". Please do feel free to come over and chit chat, Kailanna will be vain and snarky, but she's that way to everyone anyway. 

- Somewhat connecting to the above as well as the next point below, I think it's important to stress to new players the way certain races will be treated in the city, so they can separate the "people in this game are shitty to me" from the "these specific people are shitty to this specific person for long established RP reasons, and the players behind them are actually very nice". I'm generally of the mind that if someone knows a race is treated a certain way, and chooses to play as that race, they're specifically interested in that kind of roleplay. 

- I would strongly disagree with any push to ban the contemptible races from the city because it would be a hard deviation away from the entire Magnagoran philosophy. Like Malayn said above, Magnagora will never turn down a useful tool just because its a distasteful one. Additionally, if the Magnagoran goal is to dominate the Basin, that means all the contemptibles (along with everyone else) will eventually be Magnagoran. Finally, Mag is strongly based around a rigid hierarchy, and hierarchies need people at the bottom just as much as the ones at the top. 

- On the OOC front, I entirely support things like Shango's separate contemptible path for the Infernals. Behind the scenes, we've actually done a lot to improve the quality of life, so to speak, for contemptibles. We've loosened some of the restrictions on how undeath is handled and added some loopholes, and we've also found an RP appropriate way to see that participation rewards can be paid out to contemptibles despite those typically being restricted to people at max city rank. I'm also always open to any other suggestions for things we can do to make the experience good for everyone without compromising the roleplay.

- On the more IC issues, I wouldn't say its likely contemptible laws will change any time soon, but I'm also going to say it's definitely not impossible. Just to use the Sutekh situation as an example, the reason it went nuclear wasn't because someone tried to change the laws. He just tried to ignore the laws and jump all the way to the top all at once, despite many, many people saying straight out "Don't do this, it won't go well. Seriously, don't". That was obviously going to be swatted right down. Now, if someone quietly established a base of support, got a bunch of people over to their way of thinking and nudged things in the right direction, who knows what could happen? If you want to change things in Magnagora, you have to do it the Magnagoran way.

- Also on the IC issue, for all the people clutching pearls about people being mean and racist and so on, we're not talking about a situation where people hate other races because they're shitty people. In this case, God literally came down and said in no uncertain terms "Hey, fuck those guys". There are obviously other reasons too, and the snooty nobles, being snooty nobles, will jump on the opportunity to clearly establish people being beneath them, but the fact that a capital G God told them these guys suck means we're going to continue to treat them like they suck until Fain comes back and says "Hey no worries, we're cool now." Or maybe until a couple others of the Twelve get together and say "Hey, Fain was being a drama queen, lets let that one go."

- And finally some food for thought, everyone wants to say how terrible the viscanti are for being so shitty to the contemptibles, but lets all remember the entire reason viscanti is a race at all is that they had to band together because everyone else treated people who were tainted like demonic lepers and kicked them out. They're literally a race of refugees who were discriminated against, probably primarily by merians and elfen. So who's really the bad guy here? Have fun peeling that onion!

Fain even years after his departure certainly lives up to his teachings of conflict, hatred, and greed. He and his history are quite obviously the genesis of the policy.

I don't think bringing the Sutekh topic into this conversation does you any favors. There's a lot to unpack that I won't get into, but doubling down on being contemptible race publicly is not a good example for your argument. Mag is not going to just forget its RP because a person thinks their desires weigh more heavily than centuries of Mag RP and their Elder's wishes. They, like you by your own words, are not newbies. So it appears you enter into that race and RP with knowledge of how they are treated. It strikes me as odd to walk into a punch and then question to the punch you knew was coming.

I really don't want to interact with most people in Mag, because of the feeling that I'm just going to be pissing them off by doing so. 
I don't feel that way, for what it's worth. Interacting is more than welcome. I'd offer we just don't want a contemptible race flexing on their contemptible race and waving it around as if we should care. Maggots belong in the dirt, not riding on a tainted gas cloud with champagne.

If Magnagorans, generally, feel that there is no way that anyone could play a merian, kephera, or elfen in an interesting way and be of some benefit to the city... then just ban those races.
I don't feel that way. Many can and have played those races with interesting RP and also have contributed. Those that do have to accept that they will not get advancement opportunities in the city. Until Sutekh went off the deep end and tried to flex their racial RP to contest/advance in cityrank, they would have been a great example of such.

NPCs generally now respect race hats. Generally players respect race hats. There are a couple methods to check true race, but no one cares to in my experience. If your aim is to solve a problem rather than causing a stir: If you're absolutely set on being one of those races and choose not to change, buy a race hat, don't "flex" contemptible RP, and live your best life would be my advice. (Any number of Mags would just buy it for you, if that's an issue.) If you don't think this is possible... I'm merian most of the time for hunting bonuses (THE HORROR!)... If Fain came back tomorrow, I'd point at my race hat (and let's be real, the 50 other mask-like artifacts covering the face) and say, "Surely the mighty Red Masque, whose Masque is not really as such, would not begrudge me a myriad of secrets as well, right Lord?"