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Re: Absence Thread
Not an extended absence per se, but-
Currently in the middle of the (nightmarish) process of buying a house, and all of the nonsense around it. For the next month or so I should still be around fairly regularly, but I'll have a bit less time and a bit more absences now and then. I'll still always have immediate access to messages, so if you can't catch me for something, that's the way to reach me.
Currently in the middle of the (nightmarish) process of buying a house, and all of the nonsense around it. For the next month or so I should still be around fairly regularly, but I'll have a bit less time and a bit more absences now and then. I'll still always have immediate access to messages, so if you can't catch me for something, that's the way to reach me.
Kailanna
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Re: Lusternian Divine AMA
1. The previous Terentia was very zap-happy, which sort of gave her this reputation of being kind of aggressive, I think. I don't really like playing aggressive types (so what does that mean being a Warrior?!), so I looked at a bunch of notes and tried to reason out why Terentia might have acted like that from a story perspective. I think in contrast, my Terentia is a lot more calm and collected? She is less concerned with going to war and more about strengthening her team. At least for me, there are narrative reasons for that, especially when we take into consideration what it means to "go into the Void." I think I am still filling out her armour, so to speak, so who knows whether I have, in fact, overcome anything!Eve said:Maybe I'll ask some here. Y'all made me think this afternoon, so hopefully these make you think too!
1. For those of you who whom took up a God or Goddess that had been previously held, what was the biggest attribute about them that made you nervous? How did you overcome it?
2. Whenever I read logs, its kind of second nature to read how Evette would read into a situation. Do you catch yourselves doing this with your previous versions of yourselves still, or did that change overtime?
3. What would you consider your biggest accomplishments as a divine and what sets them apart from others?
2. I find this really interesting because I don't think I ever really had a sort of bifurcation like you describe. In the throes of roleplaying, I don't feel like I have a Terentia voice guiding me to respond in one way or another. I think we are pretty glued together. But, I will say, I think that is because a lot of my interactions with other players don't really draw out or point to anything in Terentia's history. I think people think they know who is Terentia, so I haven't had many instances where I needed to pause, step back, and say: "How does Terentia respond?"
3. I still think I am working on my stuff, that I am not sure if I've accomplished anything yet!
Terentia
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Re: Absence Thread
Hey, I just wanted to say that Lusternia has become too exhausting to really maintain for me. Many of you have probably already seen me flag by now. It's only been a demoralizing bucket of water in an already crappy year, and no longer brings me the joy and excitement it used to, between OOC (school and work) difficulties and IC conflicts. I love most of y'all, but I'm just gonna have to take a proper break for now. I'll be on and off occasionally to tend to a few things, but don't expect me to be back seriously for a while.
If you do need Esei, message me in-game, or send me a letter, and I'll get back to you.
If you do need Esei, message me in-game, or send me a letter, and I'll get back to you.
Esei
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Re: Game Balance
To repeat what I've said on discord, my understanding has always been that the real point of recognize is to encourage people to keep doing something in the game that other people enjoy them doing. Anything we do in the game is done for character motivations, aka roleplay, and that's how I've always viewed it. And I've known people who roleplay "hardcore pker" really well. Not by doing long emotes or writing books about it, but just being able to justify their actions consistently.
Kethaera
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Re: Game Balance
? PK is roleplay. If you want me to write up an essay of roleplay justification for every single person I've ever attacked or killed, I can. I won't, I mean, I do sort of have a life - but I could. It's the sort of thing I think about obsessively while bashing or influencing for long hours. I don't see the problem.Kaikazu said:Kethaera said:You already can do this, though I don't think recognizing people for failing in combat is necessarily a good idea. For many people, it can come across as just salt in the wounds. Personally I prefer just chatting with people on the other side after, whether they recognize me or not.Kali said:I was wondering if it would be possible to expand the recognize command to also cover combat related things, so you could recognize people for things like fighting well and bravely even if they lost, or for stepping up to lead or to fill a role your team needs, or for being sportsmanlike, or for taking risks to save others, or whatnot.
It is my hope that something like this would help to take away from the negative emotions tied up in a loss by helping to provide an avenue for, and hopefully normalizing, positive feedback for people that are out there doing their best.I would feel better about doing this if the actual command itself didn't strongly imply it was not appropriate.recognise
RECOGNISE <player> <reason>
Note: This should only be used for roleplay recognition.
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Kethaera
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Re: Game Balance
Kethaera said:PK is roleplay.
You've just challenged assumptions I've held since I started playing nearly 16 years ago. Man, I love moments like that.
Until today, I'd just held this solid conception that roleplay meant... basically... talking, emoting, diplomacy, y'know, narrative stuff specifically between players.
Still, I'm not sure what to think about this. If PK is roleplay, then surely just about everything in Lusternia is roleplay that isn't explicitly OOC? Before today I'd never have considered stocking shops or coming up with designs as "roleplay", but if you can justify PK as roleplay (because you're, y'know, playing a role), those things make sense too.
Kaikazu
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Re: Game Balance
I personally am very saddened that people just dismiss all the effort and work we have put into pre ascension because there's one skill that may or may not be overpowered ( as I said countless times before, I don't know it enough to judge it ) and apparently because someone in the past did the other side wrong, we need to suffer in hell for it? People, this is a game and we play it with each other. Please stop, this is really making me sad to read. I think I'll take some absence from this thread.
Aeldra
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Re: QUOTES 8: THE QUOTING
(Fire Hogwash): Nepenthe says, "Config accent punctuating each word with unsettling macaroni noises."
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Eritheyl
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Re: QUOTES 8: THE QUOTING
As you snap an axiomatic whip of living crystal with a negligent flick of your wrist, paeans of heavenly verse cry out from where an enormous black pigeon's flesh has been scathed by holy light.
The final blow proves too much for an enormous black pigeon, who expires, pitifully.
You have slain an enormous black pigeon.
Your score in the Great Hunt increases!
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 have received 1 Sticky Wondercrystals!
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.
Orti
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Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
Yeah, my dweller has retriever. Afaik it's 100 credits.Lawrence said:Can you make a dweller go to a person and wait for an object to be given to them like a tracking dog?
Saran
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