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Lantra said:

Tere isn't the only Quizmaster!

1. Who is your favorite deceased Elder God and why?
2. If someone wanted to get to know your character, what tips would you give on how to go about it?
3. What has been your most unexpected or unlikely IC friendship and why?
4. What's your e-family like, if you have one? How did you join? If you don't have a family, do you plan to join or create one?
5. Have you changed orgs on a character? If so, what led you to choose the org you wound up in?

1.  Don't really have one.  If we include sharded elders, I really liked how Mugowumpois was portrayed, even if I'm not really interested in playing a mugwump.
2.  Being interesting without being annoying I guess? Uzriel gets annoyed easily, especially by being acting overly cutesy or whimsical. A little fun or amusement is okay but he'll get annoyed and politely excuse himself if it moves into the vaguely defined territory of "too much."
3.  Uzriel doesn't have any friends in the opposing orgs that he regularly speaks to so hard to say. I'll go with Thalkros being very protective of making sure Sapphira's swans don't try to murder Uzriel, it started unexpectedly and is pretty funny.  I would have said Lief/Elexia but been awhile since we spoke much.
4.  The d'Vanecu were essentially dead when Sapphira and I finally managed to use necromancy to resurrect it thanks to Noira.  We've been trying to regrow it keeping to the historical roots of the family as refined nobles devoted to Nil.  It's kind of ironic considering neither of us were actual Nihilists though.  We've had two daughters who are helping keep the religious side alive with both Nil and Earth worship. Unlike the historical d'Vanecu, we also have a mad science vibe going on, largely influenced by Uzriel and Edwin.
5.  No.

Lantra said:

Tere isn't the only Quizmaster!

1. Who is your favorite deceased Elder God and why?
2. If someone wanted to get to know your character, what tips would you give on how to go about it?
3. What has been your most unexpected or unlikely IC friendship and why?
4. What's your e-family like, if you have one? How did you join? If you don't have a family, do you plan to join or create one?
5. Have you changed orgs on a character? If so, what led you to choose the org you wound up in?

Elcyrion! He was extremely funny, you should shock him with your player decisions, and he had a real passion for so many things that I miss. 

I think my characters are pretty easy to get to know - just rock up and share things. 

Yinuish's friendship with Kethaera. I think they're very different IG and it can be enjoyable to just mess around. 

I'm going to answer this for n'Lochli instead as La'Saet just isn't as developed. n'Lochli was my love, my passion. There is so much lore IG and that we also wrote, that it's fantastic. While the numbers have died down, I think it's got some really fun roleplay, especially when you look at Sotsepmet and Nymerya, the latter who is VERY IMPATIENT about her son giving her grandbabies. I know Sotsepmet does things like shiver, run to the kitchen to make her treats as soon as he sees her log on, JUST IN CASE she might come to see him and need bribing to not hurt him. 

I did, actually! Nymerya once went to Celest, for Elcyrion. At one point she was in his order during a long period of inactivity from Raezon. The iron council tuned a whole heap of statues against him. So after talking to Elcyrion about it and he basically was like 'welp, you know what you have to do', assuming I'd leave his order, I was like SURPRISE and joined Celest so I could follow him still. He gave me the title 'Wind of Paradox' and I treasured it ever since. 

Lantra said:

Tere isn't the only Quizmaster!

1. Who is your favorite deceased Elder God and why?
2. If someone wanted to get to know your character, what tips would you give on how to go about it?
3. What has been your most unexpected or unlikely IC friendship and why?
4. What's your e-family like, if you have one? How did you join? If you don't have a family, do you plan to join or create one?
5. Have you changed orgs on a character? If so, what led you to choose the org you wound up in?

1. I'm not sure she qualifies as deceased rather than just lost, but if She fits the bill, Ashtariel. An awesome event rife with conflict and deep lore, leaving Mysrai's Order with Their blessing to show Their Sibling some love, great times were had by all! She had a certain softness, but also a depth that was hard not to get drawn in by. Otherwise, the easy answer is Gullagumbah. Despite building a proud facade as the local fun-hater, Eri secretly romanticizes the idea of making people happy and livening up the world with festivities, all of which is Gully's MO.

2. It doesn't take much. I like to think that Eri can get along passably enough with just about anyone, and his life is an open book. Say hi, but don't bring food - being given food is a huge pet peeve.

3. As a fairly abrasive person, I don't ever expect lasting friendships, so anyone that keeps Eri in their circle is a happy surprise as both character and player.

4. Ryseni is and has been a hot mess since the get-go, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The original concept set forth by myself and Morshoth was something of a nomadic, detached group of wayfarers, but time has changed us into more a chaotic band of weirdos. I love my weirdos.

5. Eri has lived everywhere but Glomdoring to date. Every move has been prompted by a gradual change in the character's philosophy, normally from my feeling stifled or stuck without the means to shake things up enough to make them Fun again. Gaudiguch has proven to be the perfect place given that it's largely unrestricted and lacks a dogmatic mold to force a character into.

Tere isn't the only Quizmaster!

1. Who is your favorite deceased Elder God and why?
2. If someone wanted to get to know your character, what tips would you give on how to go about it?
3. What has been your most unexpected or unlikely IC friendship and why?
4. What's your e-family like, if you have one? How did you join? If you don't have a family, do you plan to join or create one?
5. Have you changed orgs on a character? If so, what led you to choose the org you wound up in?

Terentia said:

The Quizmaster turns their attention to the Divine.

1) In the spirit of Ephemeral Season closing, what motivated you to apply to be an Ephemeral?
2) What is one suggestion that you would give to anyone who may apply to be an Ephemeral in the future?
3) Who have been your favorite Ephemeral characters (note, not the admin because that is rude, but like, the persona that they portrayed; e.g. Kidaen, the Empyrean Bard)?
4) What has been the most enjoyable thing you created or contributed to the game? Bonus points if it was something that you did as an Ephemeral.

1) Quests, and the lore integration, was a big draw of Lusternia to me. Around the time of an eph call, I was getting increasingly frustrated with a couple of quest bugs, so getting to see, and hopefully help fix, things related to that was part of my motivation in applying. I was at a bit of a lull character arc wise, and I also knew how satisfying it was to see something you had written/worked on become official lore and knew I wanted to do more of that.

Jolanthe said:

Terentia said:

I might as well answer my own questions...

1) I was a generally lone player--I wasn't really connected to many people, even though I was a part of a family. But for the most part, I was doing a first-person campaign in a multiplayer game. So once there got to a point where I felt like there wasn't anything more interesting to do as a player, it felt natural to apply to the Havens. I think it was a smart move on my part. My time in the Havens, and then playing other roleplaying games, made me realise that I am not much of a fan of being a "player." Like, it's fun and whatnot, but I think I get a greater enjoyment by having a bird's eye view. 

Sounds eerily like me, except my epiphany was coming to terms with the fact that I simply don't enjoy/derive fun from MUD combat and having to start a new character to really let go of that.

I also have to second Ydryin, because he was such a great concept and I got sad when he stopped coming around because that was the soft signal that the story with his sister was going to lull into the background.

I get this too, Jolanthe, though I like the puzzle-solving part of MUD combat. 

I even remember Ydryin, and I don't usually interact with the ephemerals. Not that I don't want to, just... loner.

@viravain for an awesome opportunity to RP that was also TERRIFYING in a way I have never experienced from a Divine interaction before.