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Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

Some art from a Very Sad String of Events that happened last month, involving Gurashi's favorite person, Tridemon.

There was a worst-case-scenario that came to reality.

And a very goodly comforting cousinling Esei who made a very sad Gurashi feel better.

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And a very, very sad, heartbroken but still lovely lucidian.

Heartbreak and torment survived. Trials and tribulations faced and overcome. It will be O-K :')

"I am yours, and you are mine. Know, then, that I will never forsake

you, until the day that the world is torn asunder and nothing remains.

This is my Truth and my Will."

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Gurashi

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Tyrus said:

My turn to ask some questions:
IC:
1. What is one animal that best represents your personality?
2. How do you deal with stress?
3. What is your favorite scenic area in the Basin?

OOC:
1. What is your most memorable or favorite spontaneous (non-Event) RP moment?
2. If you could go back and talk to your Ephemeral-self, what would you tell them?
3. What is your favorite easter egg in the game?

IC:

Someone said this once and it stuck with me: Lantra is one of those beautifully fluffy elegant cats that does not under any circumstances want to be touched.
Stress? What stress? It's fine.
Hmm! This is a tricky one, I'm not sure. You could make the argument for Celestia or Mornhai, but neither is seeming like the right choice. I'll think on this.

OOC:

I love any time that players unexpectedly catch onto a quirk of Lantra's and react to it. It's always such fun to respond to in the moment. She's a pretty understated personality in a lot of ways, so when people pick up on her little nuances, it's very satisfying for me.
This is a great question. My advice would boil down to, "Remember that being an admin doesn't mean making everyone happy all the time. Some days, it's enough if you're making yourself happy." There will be days you and your order aren't logging in during the same hours. There will be things you build that don't get the glowing reception you want. The players you most enjoy engaging with could one day stop logging in because life got busy. That doesn't mean you are inherently failing as an admin, though. I made a deal with myself early on to make time to design, create and implement things that give me great personal satisfaction in Lusternia, because no matter what the player reaction wound up being in those moments, I could look myself in the mirror and say, "I made something I personally stand by and feel great about." It's easy to think being an admin is only about giving to the playerbase, because that's 99% of what you do. Don't forget, though, about the 1% that's focused on making the experience good for you, too. Something needs to fuel you on the days that nothing else does.
I love easter eggs! Rhizoda in particular has a few fun ones.

Lantra

Re: Absence Thread

Expect slightly less regular activity for the next two to three weeks as I experience some life transitions. I will still be here, but less reliably!

Lantra

Re: Gurashi Draws: An Autobiography

Catching up sharing some artstuffs from last month/month before.
Gurashi as a sileni is very small. Avaris as a demi-god kephera is very big. I couldn't even fit this whole kaiju in the image LOL.

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Gurashi

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Lantra said:

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

Ahhhh! Looks like quite a few want to be me.

I would like to try Charune I think. Could be fun to run around on four legs with horns and be buddies with Hart. If not Charune, then maybe Kalikai. Second Circle is cool.

Ayisdra said:

To you, what does the Book of You mean? Does it mean just a book of your history as a whole? or is it like the other public ones where it is your time during the Elder Wars? Or is it something else?
Without thinking too much about what it means for the timeline, You can change one moment in past (as far back to your creation even), what do you change and why?
What is something you are jealous of your Cousins are able to do but you aren't?
What is something you are glad your Cousins are able to do and you can't?
What real world game would you like to create within Lusternia?

1. Not so much answering this question as adding a note about what @Terentia said: As much as I'd like Maylea to claim credit for first with a Book, I think it actually started out with Lisaera. As for actually answering the question: Maylea does have a Book. Feel free to join Her order and find out what it is

2. Abstain.

3. @Mysrai and Their ever changing shapes. Even Lisaera and Her multiple aspects. Just would be neat to shift once in a while.

4. @Carakhan and Her tail. Maylea would not like a tail, but Carakhan's tail is cool.

5. Abstain.

Maylea

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

Lantra

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Ayisdra said:

To you, what does the Book of You mean? Does it mean just a book of your history as a whole? or is it like the other public ones where it is your time during the Elder Wars? Or is it something else?
Without thinking too much about what it means for the timeline, You can change one moment in past (as far back to your creation even), what do you change and why?
What is something you are jealous of your Cousins are able to do but you aren't?
What is something you are glad your Cousins are able to do and you can't?
What real world game would you like to create within Lusternia?

I think a lot of us view 'Book of X' as a chronological retelling of the Elder's past. I actually started writing one as Lantra (and got significantly far along in it!) before I realized writing a "Book of Lantra" wasn't the way I wanted to reveal that lore. Being confined to chronology and writing from first person both were aspects I found limiting. My current mechanic is revealing glimpses into memories with visions through the Fonts in my temple, which are written in second person and not tied to any timeline in their expression, though I do personally track the order of events for my own sanity. Second person lets me "show" something without explaining it as well, which gives more room for player interpretation. The "out-of-time" aspect also gives me the freedom to jump around the histories without having to commit to things that I would need to rely on a future Malmydia or another admin to pin down! I'm very happy with how it's turned out.
Are you asking as me or as Lantra? If Lantra could go back in time with what she knows now, she would have done everything in her power to prevent Malmydia's work on Fininkora the Fair, Thax, etc, and never even attempted civility with her. She probably would have never taught her any of the Hamadhi's healing arts at all. If you're asking me the admin, hm hm. I wish that Eventru and Lantra could have interacted ICly in Lusternia before Valtreth happened. I think that would have been an enjoyable dynamic!
I honestly think it's very tricky to be confrontational as a "nice" Divine without people wondering if you, the OOC admin, are the one who is actually upset or unhappy with a player. I enjoy being severe, judgmental Lantra, but I always try to be mindful of the player on the other side of the screen, and attempt to gauge how they will react to what I say and do. I'll admit sometimes I temper my responses to things with this in mind, because in the end, I want players in Lusternia to enjoy themselves more than I want to embrace the darker side of my roleplay. I think roles like Li-varili, Nocht, and Drocilla worry about this much, much less, because there is an inherent expectation they will be adversarial.
They can roll around in the stinky Taint and Wyrd all they want. I'll bask on the beach in the Light, thank you.
Survivor. Vote everyone off the island and vie for peep chili food rewards.

Lantra

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Lantra said:

I have a question for my fellow Havens Divine: If you could trade godroles for a day to see how life is like in someone else's immortal shoes, which god would you make the deal with? Just 24 hours of swanning around as someone else!

I think taking @Drocilla for a spin would be fascinating. That delicious, delicious betrayal of Li-varili. What a fun role.

@Maylea of course! I just want to know what it's like to be a nice Elder. Just for a day. Not too much.

To you, what does the Book of You mean? Does it mean just a book of your history as a whole? or is it like the other public ones where it is your time during the Elder Wars? Or is it something else?
Without thinking too much about what it means for the timeline, You can change one moment in past (as far back to your creation even), what do you change and why?
What is something you are jealous of your Cousins are able to do but you aren't?
What is something you are glad your Cousins are able to do and you can't?
What real world game would you like to create within Lusternia?

1. It wouldn't be a book, but it would cover the time period from birth to returning to Lusternia! The most difficult thing for me is trying to think of how to present his story in a way that's appealing to people who follow Nocht as he is now since Nocht changed pretty significantly in the Void.

2. IC? I go waaaay back and stop a certain someone from going with someone to meet several someones. OOC? I would do a completely different event to release Nocht.

3. Have exactly 0 flowers spouting out of Their bodies.

4. Tolerate half-formed. @Lantra can have the supernals. Nocht doesn't have time for that nonsense.

5. Lusternia themed Clue.

Nocht

Re: Lack of Raves VI: Rave Today, Tweet Tomorrow

Hey y'all.

I am an older player than I seem (Selia herself, if you check her birthday, was actually made around 2014, but she was more of a 'I may as well look at the guild I always thought was interesting before I go' and from the outset was not ever intended as a very serious character.), having gotten my start around 2006 or so and being really really heavy into the game for a few years, on a couple of different characters. None of them were noteworthy enough for me to reasonably expect them to be remembered, so far forward in the future, but I digress.

I played, off and on (more on than off) for a few years, and around 2013ish was kind of burned out, embittered, and didn't really see a positive direction or future for the game. I quit, you might say, with extreme prejudice. That's not to say I burned all the bridges, overturned the tables, and toppled the statues on the way out; I'm not much for drama and any strife I felt I kept to myself. The point is, I figured Lusternia was down the drain. For the next few years I'd look in and see the game struggling, and felt a bit of satisfaction at such ("I knew X administrative decision was gonna bite 'em in the ass, and here's my vindication"). If you were around for the mid-to-late 2010's, maybe you know the kind of zeitgeist I'm on about, though I confess that I'm not sure whether or not it was all in my head/confirmation bias.

Some time around early 2020, not totally sure why, I rolled a character in Serenwilde. I kinda intended to keep to myself and look through all my old haunts (RIP Moondancer's Guild), but I noticed that the game was...much more enjoyable than I recalled. It was, dare I say...fun, even. What had started as sort of a nasty desire for condescension slowly shifted. A lot of the problems that had driven me out were no more, or were alleviated enough that they weren't the wedges I remembered them being. Other systems were added that made other obstacles, previously insurmountable, now...surmountable. Gameplay was satisfying. Interaction was enjoyable. I found myself shocked not only at my engagement with systems that had been previously out of reach, but at the fact that I wanted to engage with them, to participate more. Life happened, as it does, and I fell away, but not with a bad taste in my mouth, as I had before.

Now I am back again. I thought about opening my old Seren character but this time 'round I decided to try the Celestine I'd made as kind of a last look-around before leaving in the past. I never thought I'd say it again but...Lusternia is good again. I just wanted to write this out to give a cheer and some encouragement to the administrators who have really turned this around and turned a jaded 'Lusternia isn't just dead, it was murdered' bitter doomsayer into a supporter. I'd say that's quite impressive to do, harder even than roping in someone new; a new player doesn't have ingrained biases and negativity to conquer.

So, thanks to the admins, from top to bottom, for turning it all around. I never thought I'd see the day.

I was talking about this in a squad with someone last night while bashing, and we both agreed that daily credits are probably the single biggest factor in this change. There's a real sense of progression now, whereas before I was always really frustrated at the lack of such past a certain point. One of my biggest gripes about pre-DC Lusternia was that so much convenience and utility was locked up in skills, and lessons were scarce; dailycredits solves so much of this. Similarly, the massive gap between have and have-nots is now much less daunting, as well; if nothing else, it can now be bridged with enough effort, whereas before it really did seem rather hopeless to try.

And the combat revamp! I was writing up my closing spiel and totally forgot to mention it. While I'm still hopeless in PvP, Nexus and autocuring and especially the revamp itself has done wonders towards making me feel like there's at least a chance, and I'm more interested in at least trying than I have ever been before. Where once I sneered and thought the revamp would either never come or be too little, too late, I am happy to admit that I have been roundly proven wrong.

I have given all of the IRE games an honest and open-minded try, often multiple tries, and as such I feel qualified in saying confidently that Lusternia tops them all. So once again, I just wanted to say, well done all the administrators, volunteers, ephemerals, and everyone else. Your efforts are appreciated and noticed and even paying off.

Selia

Re: Lusternian Divine AMA

Esei said:

Assuming They don't have magical cleaning powers somehow, how would your god approach chores? Would They be particularly picky about how to do something (like folding laundry), get it all done at once, procrastinate, etc?

Lantra's incredibly high standards for cleanliness would intimidate any would-be helper, because no one would do the job as well as she would, so please get out of her way thank you. Everything would be done with obsessively meticulous care and precision.

Lantra