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Re: Lusternian AMA
Terentia said:More questions... this time at midnight!
- What is one thing you would say to a player character who no longer plays?
- What is one thing about the old guilds that you really miss?
- What is one thing about the new guilds that you really enjoy?
- What is one plot thread that you feel never got tied up (this could be a major one or a small one)?
- What is one figure from history that you would love to learn more about?
- This is a selfish question: Unlike some of my fellows, I don't really like "appearing" all of a sudden to a player and RPing with them (either through motes or being visible); but I feel like it makes me miss out on so many experiences. How do you like to experience your roleplay? Side-question to this question: how important is visibility (note, there is a distinction between visibility and activity) for you, esp. in relation to god roleplay?
1) Can't think of anyone since Sapphira started, really
2) Sapphira wasn't in old guilds but as an old player i was - and what i miss is the sense of unity. Skills translated to more than just abilities and most guilds felt much more...well united, in purpose and ideals and goals. New guilds are deliberately broader but in that they have lost a lot of what made guild special in the first place.
3) i do love that a task system exists, and the ability to promote instead of needing a thousand favours to increase rank. Also patron requests, and the new guild halls seem pretty awesome.
4) Man. Well. Technically my last order promotion task is incomplete some...forever months later. A question half answered - Sapphira would definitely love to wrap that up and stop feeling like she a)failed it or b)is not really entitled to her rank. ALSO! As others have said - resolution to things that happened a little before me or as i started but are mysteries in limbo, like the unnamed artist and the people in the Mag jail cell. A few other little order things.
5) i'd love to meet a female d'Vanecu - but in general family history, yes! Also Jamilah in the Magnagoran tea house, i feel like there's a lot more to learn about her and that it would all be epic.
6) Feeling like you're noticed would be a big thing for me. I see logs of people mostly in other orgs and they are getting all sorts of rp from gods and npcs left right and centre, cross orgs and from home and admittedly I sit here in Magnagora and think how nice it would be to get a passing headpat or even the occasional npc piping up on ct or something. I love our divine and am not trying to insinuate they don't rp or aren't active (let's face it, very likely to just be me) but it feels very lonely sometimes! I don't think it always needs to be a god in the flesh, though sometimes for sure, but even just Their voice, or through a priest/npc, or completely unrelated to a divine...much like Kailanna said, it makes it feel more immersive and you'd be surprised how much a line or two of unexpected rp can make our day.
Sapphira
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Re: Lusternian AMA
Terentia said:More questions... this time at midnight!
- What is one plot thread that you feel never got tied up (this could be a major one or a small one)?
The Eye of Dynara. Both Nocht and Maylea don't really
do anything with the Eye. Sure they have done some things here and
there, but for the supposedly most powerful item in all of Creation, I
would think something bigger would happen with it.
I know I'm going to cheat and list more than one, and these are more of quest-related things, but....
1) Iklara. I know there is unreleased parts of the plane and the questline obviously points to these parts... (I also understand this can really only be done by Zvoltz and/or Mysrai)
2) Mirage Prison. the lore book you get at the end doesn't really tell you who the prisoners were, their names being redacted. Perhaps I'm just bad at piecing history together and the answers are actually already there.
3) I understand Gray Moors are a really old area, but the release-the-evils questline also just sorta deadends.
There are a couple of other quests that don't answer all the questions. While I understand this is meant in case an admin wants to pick it up, if an admin never does, those questions will just be left unanswered.
Ayisdra
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Re: Lusternian AMA
- Dear Mrak, the family villa is now home to the Mrak n'Kylbar Memorial Gardens. Both in honor of your memory, and because I know you would hate to see a 30 foot iron statue of yourself, and it functions as a last act of revenge for you leaving.
- TWO things, because I have at least two. 1, LOTS of Nihilist identity - much deeper involvement with each of the Demon Lords, more ceremony for things like pacts, and so on, a bunch of little details about how the Nihilists interacted with each other. and 2, the Progression of Blood (aka graduation ceremony). Part RP, part mechanic built into a chamber in the Nihilist tower. Would very much like to see something like this worked into the new guilds.
- So much FLEXIBILITY. We were really limited with what we could do and affect in the old guilds, and there are almost no limits on how we can build the new ones, aside from time and effort. Much greater flexibility in roleplay as well.
- I feel like there was a mysterious painting in Mag by a mysterious painter that we were trying to find clues about and I honestly cannot remember whether we wrapped that up...
- The first Warlord, obviously. No bias.
- Have to agree with those saying activity is more important than visibility. Visibility is a tough thing to balance, but I think there's a certain value in a bit of shock and awe when a god shows up. If they're around all the time having tea, its less impactful, but if they're never around, people lose interest and wander off. Mortals have short attention spans. Followup, I also think random unexpected interactions with NPCs are just as important as interacting with gods, if not more. One of the things that really drew me when I first started playing was that when you feel like any one of the NPCs could start talking and pursuing their own agendas and interests at any time, the whole world feels more like a living world instead of a computer game. Something like Ardrak chiming in while chatting with a novice makes a big difference in how that novice is going to look at the city. Is this a person, or a pez dispenser that coughs up skills and really likes the word "history"?
Kailanna
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Announce Post #3074: August 2020 Artbard Results
Congratulations to our Artisanal and Bardic winners from August!
If you want to join them for September, make sure you make your submissions by the end of this month. HELP ARTBARD explains exactly how to submit. This month, enjoy submitting - and viewing! - through our brand new system (see Announce 3072).
==( Bardic Winner )==
Afrit
==( Bardic Runners-up )==
Sapphira and Eldrac
==( Bardic Merit )==
Coraline, Zitto, Uzriel, and Faythe
==( Artisanal Winner )==
Gurashi
==( Artisanal Runners-up )==
Kyalrhin
==( Artisanal Merit )==
Esei and Lendren
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If you want to join them for September, make sure you make your submissions by the end of this month. HELP ARTBARD explains exactly how to submit. This month, enjoy submitting - and viewing! - through our brand new system (see Announce 3072).
==( Bardic Winner )==
Afrit
==( Bardic Runners-up )==
Sapphira and Eldrac
==( Bardic Merit )==
Coraline, Zitto, Uzriel, and Faythe
==( Artisanal Winner )==
Gurashi
==( Artisanal Runners-up )==
Kyalrhin
==( Artisanal Merit )==
Esei and Lendren
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Re: Lusternian AMA
1: Dear Forren: You were a major dick to me. But I get it now. Please come back and give Celest someone to rally behind.
2: Guild rites. Some guilds actually roleplayed them out instead of just popping them.
3. I don't think it's intrinsic to these new guilds being new, but the new guildhalls are all pretty amazing.
4. Echoing the Ashtariel thing.
5. Not a person, but a thing. At one point, Someone mentioned something that happened before Estarra returned whereas Taurians were banned from moving in herds because one time they stampeded and massacred a bunch of people. This stuck with me, and I want to hear more about it, as well as other things that happened in history, even if they're never going to impact the game itself.
6. The only way I don't want to RP is have you show up in my room and just stand there waiting for us to notice you. One of your predecessors did that.
I can't speak for anyone else, but if I'm not sitting in my manse, I'm always open for divine rp. If you have a task, or you just want to roleplay, or if you just want to throw Eamna at me and chat me up, it doesn't matter.
Re: Lusternian AMA
- 'Long live the Queen!' To me, there will never be anyone quite as magnetic a leader as THE Queen of the Night.
- Old guilds just felt like they had a much more archetypical identity. Didn't try to be special, just 'yea, we're warriors, let's get on with it'. EDIT: OH MAN HOW COULD I FORGET BLACK SHUCK I MISS BLACK SHUCK THE MOST!
- I don't participate in the new guilds. Not a point against it, I just am not at a point in my life where I have time to do like. Guild tasks.
- Can't think of anything.
- The latest Shikari. I'm very sad I missed out on her playing the role. It would've been truly something special.
- For god roleplay, visibility isn't all that important. I mean seeing the god every now and again is nice, but activity via emotes or npcs or like... I dunno, letters? Is still the key part of it all. Arguably better, since it's creating a richer world.
Synl
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Re: Lusternian AMA
1. Maybe Kalo but not sure, probably info dump about everything that we've learned since he's been gone lol.
2. The old guilds felt less optional. Some of the later iterations it was more flexible with classflexing, but even still it felt like there was more of a reason to join a guild where now, there seems more of a question of "why join one?".
3. I think the new guilds offer broader depth(?) because now there's the dimension of class and guild, rather than those being linked. Like, how a MD could be different as a Listener, Wodewose, and Sower. (Kinda unrealistic hope/idea of the possibility of guild specific skins for classes, like SS summoning different spirits based on their guild)
4. Farella, I have a vague ooc idea of the ooc state but ic still an overt mystery.
5. Also Farella, got glimpses but she seems like a character where those glimpses add up to really different things depending on who you ask
6. No idea why but interacting with actual divine ic gives me anxiety, Elostian's style of like... listening in and just joining in kinda helped with that. Doesn't happen with mobs either for some reason. I guess visibility doesn't super matter by extension but also my timezone and that of the divine Saran'd want to follow seem to very rarely match up.
2. The old guilds felt less optional. Some of the later iterations it was more flexible with classflexing, but even still it felt like there was more of a reason to join a guild where now, there seems more of a question of "why join one?".
3. I think the new guilds offer broader depth(?) because now there's the dimension of class and guild, rather than those being linked. Like, how a MD could be different as a Listener, Wodewose, and Sower. (Kinda unrealistic hope/idea of the possibility of guild specific skins for classes, like SS summoning different spirits based on their guild)
4. Farella, I have a vague ooc idea of the ooc state but ic still an overt mystery.
5. Also Farella, got glimpses but she seems like a character where those glimpses add up to really different things depending on who you ask
6. No idea why but interacting with actual divine ic gives me anxiety, Elostian's style of like... listening in and just joining in kinda helped with that. Doesn't happen with mobs either for some reason. I guess visibility doesn't super matter by extension but also my timezone and that of the divine Saran'd want to follow seem to very rarely match up.
Saran
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Re: Lusternian AMA
I don't know that I have anything In Character to say to people who no longer play (though there are some I wish I could have met that I never will), so 1 is a bust for me but:
2. The old guilds had a much greater sense of identity, I feel, and you were surrounded by people who had similar interests and skills to you, which I feel gets lost in a lot of the new guilds due to either a lack of adequate player leadership early on or possibly a scattered identity as a whole.
3. I love the task system, and I love the fact that the new guilds are a melting pot of characters with different skills and focuses; it does make for a richer experience, even if I miss the camaraderie and focus of older guilds.
4. Ashtariel. We loved Her a lot, and it was such a quick end to such a beautiful character that I still struggle to wrap my head around properly.
5. Emperor Ladantine. Does he have a first name? What was his relationship with Marilynth like prior to him becoming a Tainted monstrosity? Who did he have Marilynth with? I've found some of Sinenth's diary pages, but never know where to find more so my questions are unanswered. WOE. WOE. (Also several Elder Gods, admittedly.)
6. Visibility is not important to me, especially because I know it can be hard to interact with mortals as an Elder God and maybe you'd rather interact with mortals as mortal NPCs to be sort of on the "same level" socially. I've had great RP with Divine who've liked to be around physically a lot (Ein, Manteekan), but I have equally great experiences with Raezon, who is not a Divine I would say is "visible" a lot; nevertheless, I feel His presence is just as valuable even if it's done through OT or merely random emits stalking Vexacion's mind.
As an addendum to 6, I have had wonderful experiences having RP with NPCs in Celest, such as Ariana the (awesome) architect and getting to meet Lantra's kepheran princess. To me, as a player, I would rather the Divine who interact with me are doing it in a manner that makes them comfortable, and if that means 95% of the interactions are done through non-Divine NPCs, then I am happy to just be getting RP at all. (I may not have answered this question correctly, but yes.)
2. The old guilds had a much greater sense of identity, I feel, and you were surrounded by people who had similar interests and skills to you, which I feel gets lost in a lot of the new guilds due to either a lack of adequate player leadership early on or possibly a scattered identity as a whole.
3. I love the task system, and I love the fact that the new guilds are a melting pot of characters with different skills and focuses; it does make for a richer experience, even if I miss the camaraderie and focus of older guilds.
4. Ashtariel. We loved Her a lot, and it was such a quick end to such a beautiful character that I still struggle to wrap my head around properly.
5. Emperor Ladantine. Does he have a first name? What was his relationship with Marilynth like prior to him becoming a Tainted monstrosity? Who did he have Marilynth with? I've found some of Sinenth's diary pages, but never know where to find more so my questions are unanswered. WOE. WOE. (Also several Elder Gods, admittedly.)
6. Visibility is not important to me, especially because I know it can be hard to interact with mortals as an Elder God and maybe you'd rather interact with mortals as mortal NPCs to be sort of on the "same level" socially. I've had great RP with Divine who've liked to be around physically a lot (Ein, Manteekan), but I have equally great experiences with Raezon, who is not a Divine I would say is "visible" a lot; nevertheless, I feel His presence is just as valuable even if it's done through OT or merely random emits stalking Vexacion's mind.
As an addendum to 6, I have had wonderful experiences having RP with NPCs in Celest, such as Ariana the (awesome) architect and getting to meet Lantra's kepheran princess. To me, as a player, I would rather the Divine who interact with me are doing it in a manner that makes them comfortable, and if that means 95% of the interactions are done through non-Divine NPCs, then I am happy to just be getting RP at all. (I may not have answered this question correctly, but yes.)
Vexacion
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Re: Lusternian AMA
1. N/ATerentia said:More questions... this time at midnight!
- What is one thing you would say to a player character who no longer plays?
- What is one thing about the old guilds that you really miss?
- What is one thing about the new guilds that you really enjoy?
- What is one plot thread that you feel never got tied up (this could be a major one or a small one)?
- What is one figure from history that you would love to learn more about?
- This is a selfish question: Unlike some of my fellows, I don't really like "appearing" all of a sudden to a player and RPing with them (either through motes or being visible); but I feel like it makes me miss out on so many experiences. How do you like to experience your roleplay? Side-question to this question: how important is visibility (note, there is a distinction between visibility and activity) for you, esp. in relation to god roleplay?
2. I can't help but feel like there was probably a lot of roleplay and class development that got lost from the old guilds. Are there lots of Nihilist or Geomancer books about their brands of faith that were essentially lost with the conversion? I wasn't in them but it feels like that must have been the case.
3. I think the guilds have a lot of potential to add new layers of depth and roleplay. I feel like there's some work that needs to be done still to develop it though.
4. Ghani's flunkies. Nirena, Melothi, Moana, and Sirsia are still languishing away in Mag's prison waiting for something to happen to them. (Sirsia as a Society scientist would be perfect! Melothi made undead plz.)
5. More d'Vanecu history! Still don't know yet what race they were pretaint, or what sort of form their spirituality was before the taint. Were they Light worshippers? Fatalists?
6. Visibility now and then is nice, but I definitely prefer activity. If an admin feels more comfortable interacting through NPC's instead of their godrole I don't mind that at all, and as some mentioned even if its the same admin player controlling the role, NPC's can feel more approachable for players. I can imagine for admin with more intense roles its less pressure on them and might be more enjoyable for the admin too. As a side note, I actually thought this was an interesting question to see admin to ask phrased the way it was. There's definitely a subset of players that feel like they might be missing out on roleplay because they don't always advertise it as loudly as some who get a lot of attention do.
Uzriel
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Re: I have returned!
Ino is a treasure. Daraius sightings are rare these days so it'll be a miracle if we cross paths, but I'm happy folks will have the chance to RP with you.<3
I could have sworn I put more logs on the forums but I could only find this one.
https://forums.lusternia.com/discussion/1869/ino-and-the-fortune-teller
I could have sworn I put more logs on the forums but I could only find this one.
https://forums.lusternia.com/discussion/1869/ino-and-the-fortune-teller
Daraius
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