Just out of curiosity... has it been confirmed that the Divine are being restored soon? i've heard different things from different people..

No, they are yet to confirm that either city will ever even exist, although right now it is a perfectly good assumption that they will.

It is also highly obvious that something big will happen involving Gaudiguch and Hallifax in the near future (The next few weeks or so).

They're gonna come back, but then they're going to turn unstable, and blow up killing everyone inside. Permanently.

If they're frozen in time, and come back, they'll have all the leaders etc in place already probably, and likely won't accept anyone for a while, whilst theres something happening to remove NPC leaders.

Well, I think that could be the case. Maybe they'll be just seperated from time.. and just a few survivors left in the city or somesuch.

Hope your wrong, Gol. There's a couple of us rogues out there hinging on these cities, and are already ICly setting up government types etc.

Well, they'd be shellshocked for a time. After a bit they might begin to accept outsiders, especially the few of us that have family ties to the cities. But it's really up to the Divine about how long it would take for the old guard to cycle out.

You can't assume that they'll be empty, or blank, or anything. They're established cities already, they'll have rules, government type, etc. You won't be making something - You'll be joining something already established... Unless, as I suspect, it's assume they cut themselves off from time, but didn't freeze it for themselves, and have thus all dwindled/starved/turned to ghosts/become horribly, totally inbred. But we can only wait to see. Inbred pyromancers would be bad. Icky bad! Though funny. I can imagine it: "Freedom! a world! BURN IT!" *kaboom goes the pyro*

I believe the general theory is they've been flash-frozen and will suddenly be hundreds of years from where they last were in time.

So potentially they'll immediately begin to wail on each other again? Whee! I just hope the pyromancers don't end up hating Magnagora. Darn racial weakness to fire. Its the fur. Goes up like petrol because of the hairspray, I tells ya!

Guys, as we've said already when DoC was set up, whilst you're welcome to become rogues you're much better working within an already-existing city. We've already said that it may well be a considerable period of time before the next player-run city or commune comes into play...

I also think they'll wake up from the moment they were frozen. It'll have lots of RP potential - people from hundreds of years ago; TODAY.

EDIT: I -thought- it was a little too soon. People keep jumping the gun.

We know. We're secret masochists.

And we *were* able to hide out in the existing cities before everyone went statue-happy...

Many of us still reside in cities. We can be loyal to our current city yet still acknowlege that our heretige still calls us to our homeland.

Or, in your case, join a city in the meantime.

I'm staying loyal to Magnagora for a while. I voluntarily left my minister polistion and the Iron Council clan, as I did not think I should be in such positions if I were to openly plan to leave a city in the future.
Besides that, I still remain an active member of my guild and city.

I still say they're going to blow up, killing everyone within.

We didn't become rogues to join these cities. We are rogues, for various reasons. Some of us, anyway.

I became a rouge for a completely different reason, although Auseklis' post still applies to me

Rexali is a loyal Magnagoran, and will do nothing to betray that trust. However, that loyalty ends should Hallifax be awakened, and he leaves Magnagora. He will take nothing that is not his when he departs.

Cle, hidden in the cave in the Skarch, said it could take decades to drain the city's nexuses dry.

Don't forget that not only do they have to build two entire new cities, they have to code three new guilds each as well, and two planes each for those guilds... That's if they think there's enough players to seriously work on it!