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Re: Descriptions: From Divines to Mortals, and Beasts, and Items, and Mobs, and Places!

From events of "After Me, the Flood"
In Maylea's Fulcrux:

"flowers400980" a many-hued garden of faithful blossoms
Glowing like a small swaying garden amidst the meadows, these blossom appear separate from the wildflowers that surround them, having been formed from pure raw immanidivinus etheara. Their petals shift and sway in the ever-present breezes that circle the grove, adding their fragrance to the scented air, the slightest movement causing their energies to scatter and float away. The rippling power feels reminiscent, as of the Elder Divine to whom one is most familiar or faithful. It cannot be told how many such flowers bloom together here, and it is difficult to resist the urge to pluck one in reverent devotion.

The flowers growing here smell simply divine, perhaps you should PLUCK one for yourself?

Taking a knee, you reach and pluck a single flower from the garden here, the slightest touch causing raw immanidivinus energy to scatter like pollen and wreathe your hands in a gentle light. [HINT]: You may TOUCH the flower to attune it to your divine.

"flower415459" a flower blossoming with faith
This beautiful flower blossoms with faith, so imbued is it with the overflowing essence of the Elder Gods. The slightest movement of its petals causes for raw immanidivinus etherea to scatter at the touch, wreathing its stem and bloom in an aura that radiates Divine majesty and strength. Domothean energies pulse from the fragile flower to faintly ripple in the aether, humming with a thrum of latent power.

You reach out and touch a flower blossoming with faith.
A flower blossoming with faith changes under your blessed touch, imbued with Blossoming Faith for Lisaera.

"flower415459" a moonlit flower of the Silver Goddess
This beautiful flower blossoms with faith, so imbued is it with the overflowing essence of the Elder Gods. The slightest movement of its petals causes for raw immanidivinus etherea to scatter at the touch, wreathing its stem and bloom in an aura that radiates Divine majesty and strength. Domothean energies pulse from the fragile flower to faintly ripple in the aether, humming with a thrum of latent power. The petals of this moonlit flower gleam a breathtaking shade of argent, radiating the glory of the Silver Goddess.

Xiran

Re: Tutorial: How to Clean Logs

How to Edit and View HTML files

HTML files can be viewed in any Internet browser, and may open in them by default. To edit the file, you'll want a text editor, like Notepad, or a code editor, like Notepad++, Sublime, Microsoft Visual Studio (free Community edition), etc. Code editors will let you do multiline find-replace and regex find-replace, so I recommend one of them.

Do one of the following:

Right-click (on Windows) or control-click (on MacOS) to get the 'Open With' option in the menu.
Click-drag the file onto the app icon in your file explorer or taskbar (Windows). Or click-drag it to your finder or Dock (MacOS).
Open the app first, and browse for the file through the app

You can have the file open in both your editor and your browser. When making edits, save the file, and refresh in your browser to view the changes.

Xiran

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

These are just a couple little raves, but here they are:

My thanks to @hiresh for letting me crash your city's dice game on my day off! As a new player, it was fun to meet more people and energized me tremendously.

Additionally, I would like to thank Glomdoring (Xenthos, Illyria, Esei, Tau, Gael, etc.) for being so generous and patient with me as I asked ten thousand questions over the past two weeks. This is definitely appreciated and has made my time amongst you enjoyable.

motyl

Tutorial: How to Clean Logs

How to Edit and View HTML files
Cleaning Logs
- MUSHClient
- Nexus
- Mudlet
Glossary of HTML and CSS

These tutorials assume no knowledge of HTML or CSS. Some suggestions here are hacks to get readable logs quickly.

🦋 Side Note: Clean code makes use of semantic elements! If interested in writing webpages from scratch or and creating your own themes (for blogs), check out tutorials like HTMLDog and resources like MDN Web Docs.

Xiran

Re: Bloom! A new and shiny basher and influencer!

@Eritheyl -- That's a huge help, thank you so much. I hadn't even considered looking at the config scripts because I'm so out of it lately, lol.

Pash

Re: end of a character, well, for now

Sometimes our characters and our ambitions for them just get to be too large for what we can reasonably manage. Always the issue with investing so heavily. Been there, done that a few times myself.

Take care out there.

Jolanthe

end of a character, well, for now

Hello you all,

Enough time has passed, now, that I feel like I can write things down and get them off my chest without being mean to anyone. It took me a while to process everything.

As most of you have noticed, Aeldra disappeared of the scenes from one day to the next and only those in celests section of maincord would know that I took a step back. Later on, people may have also noticed that I disappeared from other places too.

I have had struggles with being in Celest for months before I pulled the plug, there didn't a day go by where it didn't grate my gears and for the longest time I could not place my finger on it. And my reaction to feeling this disparity was to pour more energy into it, trying to make it work. Trying to push things into the direction I felt it should be going, ending up ignoring a lot of things that brought me joy in Lusternia and that my character had taken on as responsibility. Both things I'm neither happy with nor proud of.

In the end, after half a year of absence from Aeldra, I can see it now: I don't think Celest's setting works for me. Whenever I come across someone taking the stance of religious zealotry, my very instincts are to oppose their views and to do my best to ensure Celest does not follow down that path. Hating having constant grating conflict with some of my city maters, I tried to turn Aeldra more towards that path, to be in less opposition with my city mates and have a more unified front to the outside. It simply isn't working for me.

And I allowed that frustration, that internal conflict to splll over into my thoughts beyond the game. It wore on me. When some other (inter character and inter person) conflicts arose that shall remain unnamed here, the combination with my already conflicted feeling about Celest lead me to a breaking point. So, I stopped playing, originally thinking I'd be a while away from it and see how it goes. The more I did, though, the more I realized that I didn't want to be back. That I would be back to where I felt that I opposed a large part of the orgs setting on an OOC level and could not find the footing I needed to make it work.

Celest is an amazing setting, with deep lore, interesting npcs, lovely and diverse skills, and amazing divine before and behind the scenes. I adore seeing it grow and have a blast from afar, don't get me wrong. This is an issue that is to a large portion on me. Reading back on my logs with Aeldra and some going over some interactions, I realize just in how much turmoil I put myself in playing that character. I tried desperately to balance what I felt was to be part of that setting/lore with what I had chosen for my ideals for Aeldra and with whom I am as a person. I made what essentially is a game feel like a high-stress work situation. I've learned that lesson now and will not go down that path again.

I have a few regrets from that time. Some go to @Lantra, who is one of the most lovely divine I have ever had the pleasure of interacting with. I attained avatar and a cult and then (due to the above), never really did anything with it. I feel like I wasn't the kind of leading character in an order that one would have hoped for and I'm still sad for it to have come to that. I wished I would've done better. If I ever find myself in such a position again, I'll do my best to do better, for I deeply appreciate all the lovely moments I had in that order and I hold them in fond memory. (I'll also hold on to my Tavi fan club membership card, thank you). To you, if you are still around and reading this, you were awesome and thank you for all your time and effort in this game.

Other regrets go to me for not putting a stop to it sooner, for not realizing what I was doing to myself and others. For robbing myself of the character I adored and for letting her become something I never wanted her to be. A hearty thank you goes out to all the amazing friends I made along the way who have supported me when I was super frustrated with the corner I played myself into, or raging and at tears at other things that I ran into that ultimately led to me stepping back from Aeldra. You know who you are and you are all amazing

Alright, long story short, I wanted to get this off my chest and officially say: Aeldra will likely not be back. Not now, perhaps never. There may come a day where I feel more at peace with the setting and my own role in it, where I decide to try to make this work. But that day is far off.

During that time off Aeldra, I began to realize that I did not have an issue with the game or (largely) the people, that my issues were (mostly) self made, with the setting I chose and the way I pushed my character. So I did make a new character. Who that character is and where they play, is only something I have shared with a few friends and will keep mostly under wraps. If you talk to me regularly, chances are you already know where I went and who I play. Should you seek to reach me, I'm still in maincord and I am paying attention to discord, so just message me. I do occasionally check Aeldra's messages and forum messages, but delay there may be vast.

Learn from my mistakes though, do not push yourself into a situation that isn't fun for you. There are many lovely settings and groups of people in this game, but not every one may be right for every person. Find the one that works for you, find the group of people to work for you and don't push yourself into a corner like I did.

be kind to each other, much Love to all of you and see you around

Aeldra

Re: Portrait Gallery: show off character or lusternia related fanart you've commissioned or created!

Yall I got my first actual reference sheet for an OC, I'm an official furry now.

Image: https://forums.lusternia.com/uploads/editor/lt/ekm924c3cym9.png

This is by @RAZZLEGAZZ (https://razzlegazz.carrd.co/) who is just delightful to work with.

Nepenthe

Veara's Rite of Seeking

A moment passes before Veara answers, her frame trembling ever so lightly as energy travels through her, the crown of her antlers bobbing slightly. Eventually she speaks, her voice solemn. "I have long debated which path to follow, which call to answer."

Veara's Rite of Seeking
Offering belief embedded deep in bone, Veara does wonderfully in ritual.

Xiran

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

Waaaaah I feel so unworthy of such high praise but thank you! Because you did so much to make this festival really splendiferous for us players!! And raves to the reviewers/Charites for pushing through the last minute designs we needed for this morning! The last week has been a delightful and turbulent whirlwind of discussions and planning and writing and graying hairs, but I am grateful for every minute! It reminds me why I love this game so much: the lore. The meaning behind things. Events that bring people together. Inclusion of people we wouldn't normally. There was such a great big crowd gathered for the opening event and lots stayed for the tour afterwards, so I'm hopeful for the rest of Saintstivus

Gurashi

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