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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 13, 2018, 06:42:12 am »

Some notes written in the book of shadows...

I have fear.

Lushen asked for my hand in marriage. The best moment of my life, in the middle of a tribe, near patrician plains.

Hours later, he gave me a protective cloack, predicting they would try to kill me. He only said "To protect you from them, my love"

Of all the options, what comes to mind are the Aasimars. everything directs to this.

I just do not know if they'll stab me in the back, like cowards they are...

Or they'll send soldiers of the swords of the lady to kill me... Or my tribe.


Honestly... No one else trusts the swords. And they can kill anyone who does not agree with them, or challenge and hunt them. People are more and more afraid of them and they bullshit, they are avoiding them. They are thinking that they will kill or pressure people until they break them.

This is horrible.


//This is an icly reaction about the last events. Please be mature and understand that this is just icly. Ok? Everything in character, in her journal. And please, no meta game.

//Note: qiip is paranoid in some level. Survived the massacre of 3 different tribes in the empire wars against the tribes 10 years ago.  She has been taught not to trust arcanes, why they hunt Druids. She does not trust dukarrus, thinking they are killers and hunt tribes. And neither in Roschestii, because of slavery. She does not trust groups or people normally or easily. But she is peaceful and avoids problems, and help if she can. But she stands in everlasting yellow alertness most part of her time. Some game situations that are happening may have an enlarged, exaggerated view of everything. however much of the aasimars has solid foundation icly.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 13, 2018, 06:15:36 am »

Some notes written in the book of shadows...

Amazing.

The aasimars are acting a lot, and again and again. To make life of everyone a hell.

It came to my knowledge, that they have made reports, probably slanderous, poisoning the swords with more lies about people, various people. They have made criticisms, pointed defects, acting as spies, rats of wings. Disturbing, poisoning everything and everyone they go through.

I imagine they are devil fanatics in the skin of Aasimars. They seek to find ways, ways and ways to provoke discord with everyone, using any way they find. They are unable to love and respect others. They must at all times have the attention of all. Even if they do not offend people, try to humiliate them, or do anything to get attention.

Surely the nickname "Winged dicks" is well-suited. It came from a heavenly plane of bullshit to torment everything and everyone with their perverse ways of acting and manipulating others, fucking with everything in they way.

This was made clear at the town meeting. They constantly pestered the mayor, constantly taking the focus of the meeting, to talk about something publicly, which would generate fear and panic. They are so arrogant, that instead of having gone earlier to talk to the mayor in particular, they went about it openly. And in the end, after impressing everyone in fear, claim that selune will save them.


Pure hypocrisy.


When a citizen began to cry in the meeting, they were almost theatrical, seeming to feel compassion, but it was Keelie who went to the woman, hugged her and comforted her. The two did not even move, they looked like rare, fragile ceramic statues that any physical contact will break them. Or they would have disgust or fear of physical contact with people who suffer pain...

During the fighting of the shadows in the swamps, I and several people clearly talked abotu how both useless, directly. They are brave in words, but act like runaways in battlefield. Probably the only way to feel better is to talk, because in combat, in the face of dangers, several others do more and better. After the battle in the old battlefield, where several orcs fought and Alun hiding in the tower, their quality became more and more clear as "heroes".

The temporary banishment that took place in Hadrian is just another reflection of the poisoning of relationships that the two aasimars make. They have poisoned so many different people with their web of lies that it is impossible to trust the swords of the lady again anyway. I do not know how much the swords are protecting them. But it is impossible to have confidence in a group that should defend and protect people and good values, ending in such a ... Shameful way. They are constantly defending both after several shameful moments. After causing pains, conflicts, humiliations, lies...

Probably Raul or Keelie will quit soon. In fact, I found her in the square, really sad, almost crying, such is her pain in dealing with swords these days. The Aasimars have made the swords become so filthy, so poisoned that no one in Hadrian trusts them again. Not even other members of swords. I only saw her so sad when Rod died. Now seeing the swords become so bad, that made her cry is in fact humiliating. I feel angry for her, and her pain, at seeing two idiots spotting and destroying all the hard work that Rod, Snacks, Keelie, Pariah and Raul have done.

In a few days, the two Aasimars transformed the Swords, which was a respectable institution, loved by the people, in synonymous with corruption, lies and fanaticism.

Swords of the Lady, as a military group, I was forced to apologize, because the swords totally protect the aasimars. And today, it does not even have how to feel security in its representatives, after all that the aasimars have done publicly. They would probably use my complaint as an excuse to harm me and hunt me, perhaps by sending soldiers to kill me. With the two Aasimars, anything is possible. No one knows how far their network of lies has disturbed and deepened within the swords.

I would very much like to speak to Warden Kyra de'Pont, of the Order of Red Roses regarding this. Of all this.

But I gave up.

Any problem with swords, they come with everything, threaten with crimes, and nothing changes. They force the force. To the point of breaking people. To the point of humiliating his own possible allies, his old friends. Your own faithful knights.

I saw Keelie sad, as dejected as she knew of Rod's death.

Beloved Earth Mother Jannath. Forgive me, but how was Selune so cruel sending two monsters to cause all humiliation and pain in the swords? How did they become so insanely cruel, insensitive, and immorally arrogant?

I wish I was wrong. But being forced to apologize in public maybe sealed any future attempt to communicate with any superior representative of the swords. I do not know if they are really sincere, and have empathy with people. They come in droves, lobbying, perhaps making Hadrian hostage if nothing is done the way they want. Or threaten others for honor, but they do little to honor the honor of others.

Swords have become all that they should not be. This is shameful.


And extremely painful, seeing Keelie suffer in the midst of it all.


Really, the swords made my friend suffer. And this is shameful.

//This is an icly reaction about the last events. Please be mature and understand that this is just icly. Ok? Everything in character, in her journal. And please, no meta game.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 12, 2018, 12:33:47 pm »

Some notes written in the book of shadows...

I recently had the displeasure of finding out that the two winged dicks are spreading lies about me, my faith and my stance as a druid.

When I heard it, I was in profund disgust. They questioned the lack of communication, but how to deal with two fanatics birdman for selune, who live on goldly pedestals, acting arrogantly with others. And when they have a battlefield situation, like the one that happened today in the old battlefield, they hide, going to a safe tower, while wizards, hunters, warriors and all kinds of people deal with the various orcs of orcs trying to invade southbank , attacking people, animals and plants, destroyed everything by walking?

How to respect and have faith in winged idiots, who hide behind knighthood titles? How do they respect themselves if at the time of battle, they hide from the rest of the group, avoiding hand-to-hand combat?

I learned to fight and hunt as a child. I dealt with tribes fleeing the fury of the empire, which killed anyone with tribal blood, or enslaved them for profit. How to respect two pigeons that fall from the sky and act as if they were better than all? Who spread lies, manipulate people with falsehood?

And when someone reacts, hide cowardly behind knighthood titles, in an orde that is losing its brilliance and honor more and more?

Gradually, after several battles with them, they stopped asking for thanks to Selune. They came to be seen as idiots. People complain about them more and more. People see them with suspicion, for they do not feel any kind of affinity or love coming from them. They can be beautiful embellishments for the swords. After all, having a pair of "knight angels" can be a good way to attract new naive recruits. But lacking content, lacking quality. They are to be seen, but do not have the elements needed to be heroic. Or even knights.

I work for hours, doing rituals, raising resources, producing means to do dozens of wands that take hours and days ... to be used in minutes, to protect nature and hadrian. And I only say "Every healing, protection or lightning, respect nature and earth mother jannath". Without asking for rewards. Just go, go quiet, do my work and duty, and leave the place. Nothing else.

Sincerely? I think they're jealous, with envy. They have no means to gain the respect of others. They feel frustrated, because they can not get new believers for Selune. They feel pressured, unable to achieve everything that Snacks and Rod have been for all in life and now, after death.

They stopped showing sincere love for Selune, and they became parrots, talking about Selune without put your heart into it., but unable to attract the hearts and respect of others. And they began to question my posture as a faithful follower of Earth Mother Jannath, questioning my dogmas, the way I work in the battlefield, or my work as druid. No way to way I talk to them, complete strangers, who have done nothing to have my respect.

When I discovered that they were poisoning the swords with their questions, their lies, I felt revolted. What is the reaction to questioning the faith of others? Are you so insecure that you have no faith in yourself? Are they so fragile and incapable of affinity with other people?


I revolted and publicly made my complaint.


In the end, I had a meeting hours later with a high rank of the swords. I explained the problems about them.

But I doubt anything will change.

The person I spoke to said that it is to abandon the hope of recovering rod bodies and Snacks. Honestly, any order of knights that permits this is terribly and dishonorably cowardly. No knight leaves a brother in arms behind. Be him or heralive or dead. This is really a shame to the whole order of the swords of the lady.

In the end, though she had heard it all, it was clear that the two were hiding behind knighthoods. They could never be the same as other people, and we need to treat them as kids, because they can't understand and deal with mortal thing...

They could never apologize in public.

For the swords, the honor of the knighthood seems to come before compassion and humility.

People hide behind their titles, unable to be equal with others.

How did the swords get so arrogant and twisted?? How did they cease to be people's ray of hope, to become such a sad parody with two chickens, unable to be as beloved as Rod and Snacks?

I was warned that they could not apologize in public for all the wrong they did, for all the discomfort, injury as druid and faithful follower of Jannath, for they were knights. And the law and the code of knights obliged me to apologize in public, or I would be arrested and paid for something that I was a victim.

To protect my friends, my family and tribe, I apologized. For the ranks of the swords, for that alone matters to them.


No more humility
There is no love anymore
You have no respect as equals, for equals.
What matters is the appearances, the titles. Not the people.

I feel sorry for Keelie and Raul, having to deal with the two winded dick day after day. Having to deal with them, coming from selune, but unable to be as great as our beloved fallen friends. And in the end, they weave a web of lies and problems, for they are incapable of being great by themselves for own efforts.

And the only way to grow is to reduce the people around them.


Honestly, they are wolves in lamp skin. Sweet words that hide poison. And postures and actions that indicate how much is false and disturbingly dangerous.

I can not trust swords anymore. You can not wait any longer with them. Only Keelie and Raul. Maybe Pariah. But a whole group, being reduced to 2 or 3 people to carry size-load is to make you cry.

I'm sorry Snacks and Rod. The swords became a sad parody, bitterly ridiculous of the greatness it was before. I hope Raul and Keelie can reverse this.

But it is difficult to have faith in the swords now, after seeing which titles and appearances are more important than people.

I'm sorry, my friends.

//This is an icly reaction about the last events. Pleae be mature and understand that this is just icly. Ok? Everything in character, in her journal. And please, no meta game.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 11, 2018, 10:12:34 pm »

Yesterday was a busy day, but important. After a long adventure together with a group of adventurers, I helped protect nature and the region, in the name of nature and the goddess Jannath, invoking fire, lightning, blessings of protection and healing for various different adventurers. In the end, everything went well. And I was able to reaffirm my love for nature and the earth mother Jannath before all and publicly thank her and her help.

After a while, my tribe decided to make an offering ritual to Jannath, thanking her for everything done before and after. Briland, who laboriously collected land from several different points, thanked the earth mother for a prayer and with this, Jannath sent us a messenger, who sincerely gladly accepted our offerings with great happiness and pride.

Earth Mother responded in a glamorous way to our love, allowing a small but imposing mountain to appear temporarily for a few hours on hunting grounds, disappearing hours later. This would indicate the presence and protection of our beloved Earth Mother in the region. A positive reflection on our efforts to deal with everything.

After we celebrated in front of the place of our probabily future shrine of Jannath, it was a pleasant surprise that in our home there grow up a special glistening tree inside our cave, filling with a magnificent fragrance of flowers and a beautiful feeling of life all over the place, making our dwelling blessed and protected.

We now have 3 cats. Wonderful, loving cats. It protects us from rats and insects, as well as bringing positive forces to our dwelling and lives. Zora and Aurora melted with passion before the three cats. As a druid, the presence of these 3 cats represents a lot to us.

I am still dealing with duties to protect our own tribe and family, but I am also striving to protect other tribes, for they do not trust people of the empire for obvious reasons. And I also continue with my hard work of protecting nature, as well as looking for lost people, without tribe, to help return to normal life, after the consequences of 10 years ago.

And above all this, trying to give help to Chester, Raul, Fjord and Keelie to protect Hadrian as much as possible in different moments, even with the difficulties present in the region, with dangerous and unscrupulous people. Or with people who live on pedestals too high to see people's daily lives and respect as equals, or humble enough to understand that everything does not flow from heavens to earth, and that life depends on deserving its bonds of trust and friendship.

Best of all, I am doing this quietly, stepping in and out without asking for favors or rewards. And without using it as a political or religious platform. Just asking to respect and love nature and understand the values of the earth mother Jannath.

Something reasonable, to be expected of a druid.

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Feedback and Bugs / Problems with "neck" slot in clothing parts

« on: August 11, 2018, 06:46:38 pm »

I noticed that the "neck" in the clothing configuration has been randomly deselected, leaving characters with no neck, or elements of clothing disappearing randomly. And don't return back after some time

My druid character wore a kind of hood made of bear or wolf skins, but after a while it disappeared, and I can not re-activate the look with my clothes, only if I buy a new one. But vanish some hours later.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 10, 2018, 06:04:12 pm »

Some notes written in the book of shadows...

This is another rare specimen in Hadrian. Raul Kuronegro is a cleric of The Lady  of Mysteries, Mystral.

To begin with, his presence in Hadrian is an affront to the arcane guild. His presence reminds all the arcades of the noble houses to use the knowledge and mystical gifts with responsibility. This is cruelly difficult for Raul, living in an empire where archmage cares nothing, only with power. And with noble houses, crazy individuals, and all sorts of crazy with arcane powers, creatures transmuted by magic, wizards who go crazy and hide legally behind the laws of noble houses and empire.

At great cost, he discreetly managed to conquer a small and humble chapel in Hadrian. In a city commanded by a mage mayor, with an arcane guild and noble houses with mages, this is a great sign of how the mages and arcanes in hadrian little value Mystral, little value the responsibility and little love the knowledge. This is shamefully humiliating, to all the wizards, sorceres, and arcanes of Hadrian. For them to give so little value to the goddess Mystral who give them day after day powers and resources, is the same as slapping their own mother after listening her saying "I love you".

Raul is a balanced man. He is not extremely careless or impulsive, and possesses the correct amount of common sense. And he is not arrogant as most Hadrian people are. And also know when to listen, and how to deal with problems. Too bad he took the active lead of the swords after the death of Snacks and Rod. I would actually prefer that he be valued as long as the two were alive. But only Selune and the dame in command in swords can justify this shemeful delay.

Something that Raul has and nobody values is patience. I wonder where he takes so much patience sometimes. I've rarely seen him angry or upset. And also has a cool head enough to deal with several different problems. Several times I have seen him dealing with people and situations where he stopped to breathe, to analyze and to move forward at the current moment, while others still jumped without thinking about dangerous situations.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 08, 2018, 09:10:27 pm »

Some notes written in the book of shadows...

Something I need to record is about Chester, the current mayor of Hadrian.

The election at Hadrian occurred in a confusing, complex way, with candid candidates, or who died, or who were a joke, or who were cadidataram for personal gain or for excuse reasons.

However, even with a confused past (he even called himself a pimp, selling potions in hadrian), I'll admit, I learned to respect Chester.

First, he was placed in a position of mayor, replacing an incompetent. And having to deal with 3 noble houses with their own laws that command and disguise in hadrian, with an Arcane guild that is the voice of the empire, that ignores the desires of all ... And with daily problems of attacks of creatures and monsters, Chestes turned out to be serious, when it's to protect Hadrian.

First, he was placed in a position of mayor, replacing an incompetent. And having to deal with 3 noble houses with their own laws that command and disguise in hadrian, with an Arcane guild that is the voice of the empire, that ignores the desires of all... And with daily problems of attacks of creatures and monsters, Chestes turned out to be serious, when it's to protect Hadrian.

I was already looking closely at Chester's behavior as mayor. During the trial of the assassination case, he was tough and rigid, not giving up pressure and avoiding killing someone, giving everyone involved in the investigation time to search for more clues later, choosing to exile someone who was probably to blame but had no evidence enough to confirm the guilt.

When the swords died, he tried to press for answers, making a trade embargo against Sullivan. And he explained to me the reasons for keeping the embargo, and which to remove it later.

During the meeting with me, Lushen, Raul, the two aasimars recruits, Keelie and later, Chester, the two Aasimars were more interested in dealing with the constant attacks of creatures around hadrian and inclined to obtain glories in battle and war, a subject that already was being accompanied before with Raul Kuronegro, making everyone losing the focus of the meeting regarding the rescues Rod bodies and Snacks with Chester present in the moment. Something that had already been discussed without Chester, but ended up wasting unnecessary time, which was lost...

Because of the emergencies that had in the farms of the east of Hadrian and the tribes to the north, we were never able to finish the meeting satisfactorily. This bothers me deeply, because we waste essential time to do something we already done with the swords present. And in the end, we missed a great chance to deal with something openly with the Swords and Chester present.

Next time, I'll have to restrict myself to Keelie and Raul to talk abour something more important. So, as fewer people present, it is possible to speak directly with the higher rank of swords, summarizing the problems quickly, without losing focus with something without proofs or clear leads to deal in the most immediate moment. Do not we lose focus on meetings or talk about something really important.

When everything else become more calmer, and I had my conversation with Stoneheart, a warrior of the tribes of the north, I called Keelie and Lushen to talk privately with Chester in his office. I did not think it was right to call the two Aasimars to talk about something more serious or important, since they still gave me no reason to trust them yet, mainly because their achievements were only in battlefield, never in personal fields or with other people. They may be the "avenging angels" of battle and sent by selune. But I do not find them appropriate to deal with certain types of subject yet.

Chester was talking in the office with everyone, and he made clear how he devoted himself to the good of the population of Hadrian, who still did not understand all the effort he did to protect everyone. And Chester was clear in demonstrating his deep sorrow and pain in dealing with so many difficulties, without Rod, Snacks and Rassali to support him, advise and talk to him.

Chester is certainly a rare species in extinction in the political field: Someone who cares about his citizens and good people. At least, this is what his actions have shown me to date. I have made clear to him my sincere support in trying to help him if it is possible within my reach.

His concern about the loss of food on the farms, because of the goblins' attacks, about the wounded in the attacks in the region of farms. And various details and traits are difficult to fake. I hope Chester continues to make the right choices for the right reasons. And even though he knows he has more to lose than to win, he remains the mayor.

I just hope someday the citizens of the empire will understand this, for all he tries to do.

About myself, I'm dealing with different problems. Giving support to members of my tribe, seeking rare flowers for someone, seeking to locate the lost relatives of another member of my tribe, or trying to find ways to see the jannath  acting in the future.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Re: Songs and memories of a mother and witch

« on: August 08, 2018, 06:31:00 pm »

Some notes written in the book of shadows...

Recently there have been two Aaasimars, to support the swords. Honestly, this raises a lot of questions for me.

First, if they were sent by Selune, why did not she help Snacks and Rod herself?

Second, why did they send two Aasimars, instead of ordinary people, with mortal qualities and defects, to better understand humanity and thus make the best examples of morals and courage for everyone, the way Rod and Snacks were? Both were full of defects, but they were loved by all.

What is the wisdom of Selune, in sending two celestials, who understand nothing of humanity? Why did she prefer to send two men with wings, instead of reviving, or at least finding, the bodies of Hadrian's heroes?

Another question, is how Alun behaved the first time I met him. I found him arrogant, standing on a pedestal, making it clear that he was superior to Snacks and Rod because they were sent by Selune.

That is an endless arrogance. Snacks may have had all kinds of defects in life, but he fought for others and cared. He lived with constant moral, philosophical, and personal questions that crushed him from within, but he found the strength to move on. Rod was in love with Keelie, he was everyone's friend. he was brave in battle, heroic. He could not read letters, but he could read hearts. He was someone with a nobility and unique courage.

Why did not the goddess Selune who protected the marriage don't gived a chance to revive Rod? Why does she allow Keelie to continue to suffer without giving a way to retrive Rod's body? And in the place, he sent two winged men, who understand nothing of human society, or have any respect or sensitivity to the dead?

Why did she send two winged men, instead of reviving or finding the snack body, which was essential to regaining The Tree of the Moon along with Keelie?

Honestly, I'm disappointed with Selune as a goddess. She sent two men to help the Swords, but she is totally insensitive to the sufferings of those who have survived without access to the bodies.

Sincerely, seeing two winged celestial pseudo-angels coming through her tears (according to Alun) makes me wonder how a goddess is annoyingly insensitive to everyone's pain.

I wonder every day more and more, whether it really is the swords I helped or the people involved in them. The two aasimars have no affinity with human society. They do not seem to be mortal, they stand on their pedestals, saying they came from selune to help the swords, but I do not feel any love for humanity coming through them. No kind of confidence, familiarity, friendship, or sharing with human society.

They can be honored, but ... Honor can appease the pain of many? Can it inspire the gigantic lack that Snacks and Rod have left? Can they represent the elves as Rassali tried to do?

I doubt it.

Day after day, people will resent the two Aasimars. Because they have no trace of humanity. For coming from a goddess, everyone will look and wonder, among them:

"Why did Selune bring these two idiots, and did not bring back our heroes?"

"Why did Selune allow Rod to die? Why did Selune allow Snack to die?"

"Where are the gods? Why did not they bring back our heroes?"

"Why did we get two birdmans, not a human and a half-orc?"

"Where are Snacks? Where is Rod? Why do we have to trust these two winged men, who are nothing like us?"

Everyone who has some love and respect for Snacks or Rod will hardly accept them both. Because the two were sent by Selune to replace Snacks and Rod, not to save them.

Everyone who has love and respect for Snacks or Rod will stop believing in Selune, because she did not help them directly, and sent two people to take their place, instead of sending them off early to hunt and kill Pheroth and fight against Sullivan.

Everyone who has love and respect for snacks or Rod will look at the two Aasimar, and will feel displeasure against Selune, because she sent them to try to replace two heroes, and of nothing they have to be as big and heroic as them. They lack humanity. They lack dignity. They lack compassion. They lack affinity and complicity.

Rod drank, but he was the most positive person I've ever met. He tried to overcome every problem with a smile and a sip. But he was a sincere, humane person who could understand and be understood. Snacks were friendly, playful. He loved to talk and have fun with others. He drank, played games, helped and guided everyone. And he always walked with a stick called stik-stik...

I miss it in these two winged dicks. They have no visible flaws. They are perfect gods. It has no visible fails, no  bad traits or behavioral errors to feel like the same of us. It comes from a heavenly plane or another place that ordinary people never came. And this opens a gigantic abyss. No one can undestand and trust fully in someone of other place, with wings. They need to become more humans, instead acting like angels.

Snacks is a half orc. Overcome racism, overcome problems. He beat everyone he could for valid reasons. He was stressed, he was furious for the right reasons. He was a time bomb when he saw injustice, wanting to do the right thing for the right reasons. And this is something the two do not seem to do.

Rod drank, but he was the most positive person I've ever met. He tried to overcome every problem with a smile and a sip. But he was a sincere, humane person who could understand and be understood.

I miss a lot of thing in these two winged dicks.

They came from Selune and for Selune. They did not come from the people, for the people to be with the people. They are on a pedestal too high for any mortal feel safely and trust as equal. And every moment people see them, they're going to make everyone who knew Snacks and Rod wonder, why did Selune send these two, and did not save our friends?

Sincerely, goddess Selune? I do not understand your plans. I do not understand your feelings. But when Rod and Snacks came out of our lives, you did not have to put the two in to replace them. You are terribly cruel, unfair and ugly, torturing everyone who loved Snacks and Rod, sending two winged dicks in place of our beloved friends.

Probably because of this, that even with all the pain of my life, I still love Jannath.

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Journals & Backgrounds / Burial Rites

« on: August 05, 2018, 07:03:06 am »

Burial Rites

The burial shall be accompanied by well chosen objects associated with the life of the deceased. A favorite torque, a mantle, golden jewelry, drinking horns, magical wands and staffs, boughs of oak and sprays of mistletoe and any other precious object the deceased might have chosen or that is chosen lovingly by others.

A hole shall be dug and stones brought from near or far and placed near the grave. The body shall be placed on a stretcher or a bier and carried to the location of the earthen hole. It shall be dressed in fine clothing or covered in fine cloths and sacred herbs and flowers. In other cases, the body is cremated and the ashes deposited in a place of choice of the deceased, or favorite place, or the choice of the widow or the closest relatives

The people shall visit the body for a day, praying, singing, telling stories and praises of the deceased until nightfall. At night the Druids and those of the kin group who wish to remain in vigil shall sit with the body until dawn. During the night the Druids shall listen and watch for messages from the deceased for it is known that the spirit often remains with the body, even after death.

At dawn, at the time of the rising of the birds, the Druids and kin shall lovingly place the body in the grave. A Bard or a poet shall sing these words or any song or poem from ancient tradition;

"Come spirits across the ocean
join with your brother/sister who waits here
Take him/her across to the bright land
Take her/him across moor and meadow
Take her/him across a calm sea
Take her/him across a blissful ocean
Peace and joy on the day of her/his death
As He/she finds her/his way to the white sun".

And then shall every person present begin to cover the body with soil or deposit the ashes, a handful or a shovelful at a time. And then shall a cairn be lifted from the collected stones, over the body of the deceased. And let every stone be placed with a prayer for the well being of the deceased, for their family and kin and for their spiritual family. Or in place of the cairn or beside it let there be planted a tree in memory of the deceased. And all care shall be taken to ensure the tree's survival. Afterwards let a great feast be prepared with music andcelebration and stories of the deceased and praise of their accomplishments.

Pray the legends and stories, which if the spirit wishes, can return in the form of an animal or plant, to protect those he loves for some time, or for life in this new way. Your memories will have been lost in this new life, but loyalty and love with relatives, friends and loved ones continues eternal.

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Feedback and Bugs / Lack of bone wands

« on: August 04, 2018, 05:37:53 pm »

Lack of bone wandsin hadrian. I can't find this in the arcane guild shop.

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Netherese Library / Re: Historical research (Any DM)

« on: August 03, 2018, 03:08:10 pm »

//The problem is to record the history of the most recent battles of 10 years ago. From the tone of the answer, probably the strong impression that has passed is that any historical information would be incomplete or hidden, or false, or strongly exaggerated because of the empire's patriotism or extreme racism against the nomads or barbarian tribes. And if a library is not careful to record at least a little bit of impartiality or care in their records or in the way they are used...

In this case, from the point of view of the character qiip, it would be really difficult to work with something solid and reliable icly, with this type of source of information.

Even if the library contains useful information, the form they are made available by the npc who asked the question made her change her mind. Probably, any information coming from that npc will bring incorrect or incomplete information. In this situation, it will be best for qiip to try some direct contact with some NPC to share the story if qiip find one playing and develop enough roleplay to gain the trust of the npc for this, or she finds herself a book about the war against the tribes 10 years ago.

But research through npcs in the library or other places always do not always bring good results, because the way they respond or interact with those who have curiosity can limit, defer or destroy icly interest in some topics. In this case, it is roleplaying speaking at the time, and leaving the interest in the background to try something in other ways, I pay attention to other priorities.

Because of this I'm leaving this line of character development and research for some time. The source is not solid enough to be reliable. In due course I will try to find another source or way to collect the information, without depending on the library and their npcs to gain access to very sensitive information for character development and roleplay to go to it.

Oocly, I have interest to research more, but icly qiip will look for other alternatives as of now, leaving the library as the last case, by icly considering that the library is not totally exempt racism and is extremely dependent on the empire's point of view. Not a reliable source of information of her point de view.

A character who dresses as a druid and has physical traits of someone coming from a tribe of nomads or barbarians, looking for something important to her related with the empire against the tribes, and picking up this kind of npc response has a lot more weight than a normal character in the empire.

Shaking her head, going out in silence, disregarding the importance of the library, by the way she heard the answer, regarding the behavior of the library staff is something deeper than it might seem is an icly action. Even having to abandon oocly what I had planned for a while.

Edit 1: I think I can use the material, but in another alternative way, or without the same staff of the vastir library.

Edit 2: Trying to find other ways without using the library. Icly qiip don't know if the staff of the library can help her. She make a proclamation to raise information, after the whole problem with the staff...

https://netheril.net/forums/index.php?topic=1562.msg6612#msg6612

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Feedback and Bugs / Re: How much gold do you spend on supplies for events and questing?

« on: August 02, 2018, 04:28:28 pm »

Being practical:

- If it is to diminish the profitability of the craft system, then it is better to increase the rewards in gold, or something that can be traded for potions and usable items in future quests. Venturing into dm quests or alone has a high cost.

- Maybe it's time to review the way the mobs fight. We're seeing players using buffs because they can not handle fighting the mobs. We see dms making mobs more powerful to give a sense of challenge. And players spend tons money into items to reduce the power difference.

If we lower the profitability of the craft system, then it is highly desirable for dms to be more soft to mobs in terms of personal power. It is easier for dms to break the cycle of mobs overpower than players the desperate consumption of buffs and items to become alive. If a character dies, the character pays with xp. If one mob dies, dm just creates another...

- Craft system is just a way to make up for how difficult it is to stay alive in the game. If we cut the financial resource through the craft system, that's fine. But it's no use seeing a drop system that barely pays anything icly, and everything that comes in terms of items in quests and dm events consumes days or weeks of craft work in terms of gold.

I'm see a lot dms of any server increasing power in the middle of a quest or event, to make up for the power of the players...  And this is a very bad habit.

So at a certain point, players will either suffer a lot of "bad end" in their quests and events, or will have a lot of ridiculous solutions deus ex machina for not killing them or avoiding the constant and strong feeling of defeat icly.

The point here is not just how much profit players make in the craft system. It's just part of a bigger problem. Players will rather move on to find ways to have fun, or will think 50,000 times before going on a quest or event, knowing they will have to be harmed by losing things that they will not be able to replace without spending days or even weeks, or lose something in the end, even finishing the quest / event successfully.

I'm enjoying seeing dms implementing quests, events, and situations that are no longer solved only in combat, and this is great. But it still lacks a lot to find an oocly balancing point that covers character development vs challenge vs time invested vs. risks.

For dms, they can develop events and group quests for all, but for players, character A hardly feels motivated or rewarded in the same way as player B playing the same event and quest, as much of it involves the satisfaction of seeing the character to be useful or developed in the event.

But summarizing all your success to the results of how much you managed to kill in an event, or how much you healed / used wards / buffs / wands / scrolls is a direct reflection of how much this cycle of which I am speaking. Probably this absurd dependence on consuming items will lessen the dependence of the craft system to cover costs when the dms and players focus more on the roleplay of their character classes or unique archeotypes of their characters. And a dwindling of the stupid way of how characters and npcs get ready before combat, using buffs or wards.

Using buffs should be something used only in special situations, of risk and of great importance, not a standard posture. This is a mentality of mmo, not properly roleplaying. This reduces the role of casters to walking potions. And who goes from the front line, in just meat shield. And all other classes, which are between the two extremes, suffer even more, since their roleplays and ingame functions are reduced to damage and buff. And nothing else...

:T

Consider this personal feedback on the whole situation.

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Netherese Library / Re: Historical research (Any DM)

« on: August 01, 2018, 04:55:04 pm »

qiip simply gives up any further research in the vault library, knowing that knowledge free of racism and hate is not possible in the empire.

//oocly: droping this line of developement and topic. thanks.

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Netherese Library / Historical research (Any DM)

« on: July 27, 2018, 08:50:34 am »

qiip goes to the library of Vastiir, seeking to investigate everything that is possible regarding the war of the empire against the tribes. The intention is to raise all possible records that are available, collecting a historical references, trying to cover everything that is possible, from the point of view of the empire, what happened.

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Feedback and Bugs / Re: Should there be ways to get XP outside of DM Events from level 15 onwards?

« on: July 21, 2018, 01:26:31 am »

Personally speaking, I plan to stand still between lvl 13-14 in order to support my group by producing items in exchange for xp. At some point I throw through the window the idea that character level means quality. I'm trying to focus on the fun and group roleplay.

Levels are only interesting if you need to face mobs in high-level maps, dm events or other players. Other than that, it's just numbers.