Done well, it's a fair amount of actual work (or if you're very very lucky, just a lot to keep track of), and very much a 'share the credit, hoard the blame' position. I imagine it's worse in places where there are strict procedures about How Things Are Done. The roughest part is managing your own people through internal drama and inter-alliance drama. (Alliance drama is the afw part of the game. Oh hi Ascension.)
It's pretty great to be in a leadership position when things are going well though. Lots of pride and warm fuzzies. It's also nice to, every once in a while, take advantage of the ability to shut down some nonsense immediately and without debate.
What? A CL election in an IRE, with no llamadrama, second-abuse-ballot-stuffing, Skype-summoning, Godmin intervention, or rageposts? I mean, it was more peaceful than any RL election/referendum that's taken place in the last 18 months.
To be fair, all of the candidates this time around are pretty well-mannered, as far as I know. That helps to avoid most of the above
Tonight amidst the mountaintops And endless starless night Singing how the wind was lost Before an earthly flight
Punching your fist through layers of temporal fabric, you wrench the timeline of Shedrin and whip it back and forth. Time begins to fragment and quake, sending shockwaves reverberating through the air.
Shedrin jerks violently back and forth, suddenly disappearing from existence then reappearing in slightly different locations. Finally, he breaks apart and fragments into small vibrating particles.
You have slain Shedrin.
You sense that your refreshing health aura surrounding Shedrin dissipates.
Your karma falls in response to your deeds.
Your soul cries out in ecstasy as it reaches new heights of power. You have advanced to level 100.
You have reached the illustrious level of Demigod.
You have received 25 Bound Credits!
You feel your innermost energies growing to extreme proportions as a darkness takes over your senses. When your senses return, you find yourself in a different location and there is a strange feeling within you.
The Vault of Heaven.
With outstretched arms, an enormous statue of Estarra stands here vigilantly.
Kids these days, getting everything handed to them on a silver platter. Congrats.
Pffft. Define handed to. This is my bashing stats on the end of my final day push: Actually influenced about double that (started at ~9973 influenced total on achievement stats), my mudlet crashed tho.
Gold throttle makes me cry, at least there's still quests
[spoiler] Yes I'm aware it was... probably? A joke. [/spoiler]
Weird, I didn't notice much difference. Could be because I was under the throttle for at least ~8 hours and still doing all of them. I definitely noticed lower influencing amounts, but not quests. I dunno
I was the only melder for a very long time during that, and I even managed to make the very first break possible. @Karlach made it easy for me to keep my spirits up, and there weren't any complaints or negativity on our side, just competitive fun. Good job @Taevyn, you slippery bastard.
Raves for Glomdoring despite some confusion about the recent event. Raves for @Nocht@Manteekan for allowing @Rancoura and I to work with them in creating Sister Ciadhra.
i.e Most of the event was a total surprise in how it turned out. Very excited for more to occur whatever that may be.
The apple is cold, crisp, and sour as the juices fill your mouth. As you consume the fruit, you glimpse, for a moment, a massive, shadowy figure, Her snow-white hair framing a perfect, icy-eyed visage. Beneath you, a vast, perfect web of silken strands lies - and, for a moment, you realize that you too are part of it, weaver and strand both - and home.
Raves for Glomdoring despite some confusion about the recent event. Raves for @Nocht@Manteekan for allowing @Rancoura and I to work with them in creating Sister Ciadhra.
i.e Most of the event was a total surprise in how it turned out. Very excited for more to occur whatever that may be.
Aside from orcs deciding to run away from me, I enjoyed helping them shed their oppression. Thank you for the area and the assistance in working through the kinks!
Edit: I also thoroughly enjoyed actually RPing out influencing one of them with weakening instead, when it was already influenced and I could not do so mechanically. Thumbs up.
Doing some quests in Morgfyre's temple. This always makes me laugh, particularly since this only works on one of these ink serpents.
You lunge toward a tenebrous, ink-dark serpent, quickly using an ornate fountain pen of burnished silver to draw jagged, rudimentary stitches along his mouth, sealing it shut.
You sneer at a tenebrous, ink-dark serpent before leaning down, adding insult to injury and sketching a villainous handlebar mustache upon its small snout.
A tenebrous, ink-dark serpent coils here, his mouth stitched shut. He wears a villainous handlebar mustache with disturbing ease.
I'd like to toss a rave to @Breandryn for all she does to help keep moods up everywhere, really. I changed my plans for logging in tonight just so that way I can make her trivia, which she's generously opened up to the entire Basin.
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It's pretty great to be in a leadership position when things are going well though. Lots of pride and warm fuzzies. It's also nice to, every once in a while, take advantage of the ability to shut down some nonsense immediately and without debate.
Vive l'apostrophe!
Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight
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7408h, 8220m, 5382e, 10p, 99em exkdb- (14:41:53:964)
Woop. And then a mention for @Vivet for randomly giving me 17M essence as a 'buffer'
Discord: Rey#1460
It's awesome.
Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight
Actually influenced about double that (started at ~9973 influenced total on achievement stats), my mudlet crashed tho.
Gold throttle makes me cry, at least there's still quests
[spoiler] Yes I'm aware it was... probably? A joke. [/spoiler]
Discord: Rey#1460
Discord: Rey#1460
Late edit: Confirmed, all quest rewards are throttled.
Vive l'apostrophe!
Discord: Rey#1460
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."
i.e Most of the event was a total surprise in how it turned out. Very excited for more to occur whatever that may be.
It didn't last, but for a fleeting moment, the most epic Harmony contest was about to unfold.
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight
Apology accepted, RNG. Let us never fight again.
Seriously, I love her.
Tonight amidst the mountaintops
And endless starless night
Singing how the wind was lost
Before an earthly flight
Pls stay. We have rp and cookies.
https://estelss16.deviantart.com/, visit if interested.
Edit: I also thoroughly enjoyed actually RPing out influencing one of them with weakening instead, when it was already influenced and I could not do so mechanically. Thumbs up.
Rave for this one detail.
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."