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Ascension 2013
Xenthos
Shadow Lord
Seal of Chaos
Date: February 2, 2013
Time: 6:00 P.M. PST
Event:
Amidst the hundreds of hamsters released during this challenge, the
Purple Hamster of Chaos will be hidden amongst this furry hoard. This is
not as easy as it seems as the Purple Hamster of Chaos is not as easy
to hold as one might imagine! Whoever holds the purple hamster at the
end of the challenge will receive the Seal of Chaos.
Seal of Nature
Date: February 3, 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m. PST
Event:
Who knows the geography of Lusternia best? This challenge consists of a
scavenger hunt to find out the answer. The winner will receive the Seal
of Nature.
Seal of Knowledge
Date: February 9, 2013
Time: 8:30 p.m. PST
Event: This challenge is a rigorous quiz about the nature of Lusternia and its history. The winner receives the Seal of Knowledge.
Seal of Harmony
Date: February 10, 2013
Time: 4:00 p.m. PST
Event: This challenge will test the skill of influencing. Whoever influences the most denizens will receive the Seal of Harmony.
Seal of War
Date: February 16 and 17, 2013
Time: TBA - 2 wargames will be run back to back on each day. FFA among winning team TBA (if needed)
Event:
Four Wargames will be held with teams of 3. After all four are won, the
winning four teams will have a final wargame against each other to
determine the overall winning team. Once the final winning team is
decided, the team members are given a choice. Decide among them who they
support for Ascension and who will take the Seal, or enter a
Free-For-All and the winner of the FFA will be the winner of the Seal of
War.
Seal of Life
Date: February 23, 2013
Time: TBA
Event: Who can save the most denizens? The winner receives the Seal of Life.
Seal of Death
Date: February 23, 2013
Time: TBA
Event: A rather dark challenge: whoever kills the most denizens wins the challenge and receives the Seal of Death.
Seal of Justice
Date: February 24, 2013
Time: TBA
Event:
Using the skills of debate, contestants will see who will come up on
top in a series of debate challenges. The winner will receive the Seal
of Justice.
Seal of Beauty
Deadline for Entry: February 17, 2013
Date Winner Announced: February 24, 2013
Time: TBA
Event:
The Trademaster of each trade cartel may submit one design (either
public or cartel-specific) on behalf of the cartel. The artist of that
design must be specified as it needn't be the Trademaster. For example,
Trademaster Tom of the Lollipop cartel may submit a design and specify
Jane as the artist. If that design wins, Jane would be considered the
winner of the challenge. To enter, the Trademaster should message the
Charites with the Cartel's entry and specify who the artist is at that
time. The winner of this challenge will receive the Seal of Beauty.
Final Trial: Ascension
Date: March 2, 2013
Time: 1:00 p.m . PST
Event:
The Nine Seals will merge together and form the Staff of Ascension. The
staff can only be held by the nine challenge winners who are marked by
one of the seals. When the staff is released onto the astral plane, it
cannot be taken off of the astral plane. Whichever of the nine winners
holds the staff for one full Lusternian day shall arise to become the
True Ascendant!
Comments
Minor gripe I know, and I have personal interest in the matter but. Meh.
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!
(you can't please everyone I know...)
The point is, I shouldn't have to rely on other sites to tell me the time something happens in Lusternia. Giving the time in GMT as well as PST would give far more people a better idea of when an event takes place; outside of the US, people compare their timezone to GMT, not to PST, after all.
We will always give times in PST. We tried to do GMT in the past and ended up confusing everyone or having the times be wrong (even when they were set up by experts in GMT, something wasn't taken into account).
So anyway, I will always post official times in PST. If someone feels like converting to GMT, by all means go for it! But if you get it wrong or someone misreads it or inaccurately converts it to their time zone, it won't be my fault!
Ooh!
This is also why I will use real world dates (as OOC footnotes) whenever I do one of my own "events". I try to stay in character as much as possible, but I find trying to use the In Game Dating system to actually schedule events so people know when I'll be around is very confusing.
And we use Pacific because that's what Estarra is most familiar with, and this way we (the admin) have a uniform method of tracking and deciding times without confusion.
Personally, if you ask, I'll gladly tell you the difference between TIME and the current time on the US Pacific coast, but I get very edgy about time conversions because I know some use DST and so do not.
I literally missed all but the last 4-5 questions.
1: I assume Death and Life aren't actually both at 4pm on the 23rd, and that Death is instead 4pm on the 24th?
2: The war seal will be going on 9-10 am on Monday morning in Australia, for anyone over there with work commitments it's locking them out of the tournament. Is there any possibility this could be held Friday evening/Saturday evening instead? I know the Admin have RL as well and may like to socialise/go out etc on a Friday night, but is there a work around that can give some help to the guys already dealing with an 18 hour timezone difference?
The divine voice of Avechna, the Avenger reverberates powerfully, "Congratulations, Morkarion, you are the Bringer of Death indeed."
You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!