Hello..

I'm here thinking about joining this game.. again..

I like lusternia a lot but being a newbie in both MUDS and IRE games I practically end up frustrated.. I decided to start this time with a strategy..

The deal is I'm making an Aslaran mainly because I like Cats and I want to make a mystic type of character... maybe blind... also I don't like to wait for eq/balance recovery*cough* ... He's supposed to be a nice guy, pacifist and kinda weak(I personally dislike PvP, mainly cuz I suck)... I was thinking of making him some kind of Astrology user or something else.. I have not decided...

what I want to know is:

a) Which one's a good basher(I have to earn exp some way)

Are aslaran good at influencing(same as above)?

c) Where can I find more info about the Aslaran? I just know they supposed to be some kind of plane race that hunt a lot...

d) Am I really lame and un-original?

Well, first, you can't "bash" while blind. And if you want to RP a pacifist, you need to come up with something a bit better than "I'm a pacifist, watch me bash." You could probably do "I won't fight anything that is sentient," which includes NPCs like gnomes, finks, aslarans, krokani.

Aslaran will be semi-decent at influencing with 13 charisma (I rarely ever get a response with 13 charisma myself), and you can still get chains / widgets by begging from the gnomes and finks.

To find out more about the Aslaran culture, you'd want to try and join one of the IC Aslaran organizations.

And no, it's not extremely unoriginal. There are a few Aslaran mystics already (Bheion the NPC in the Aslaran camp), but not many actually RP it themselves. You could probably claim that Aslaran camp as your home, say you were born there, etc.

Did you not watch the movie "blind fury"? Rutger Hauer was all samurai slashing torsos and cutting mellons mid air... and he was blind!.. talk about cool.. also Daredevil... he was all.. daredeviling.. and stuff... using his super powered ear.. and.. uhm.. ok...

About tha bashing.. he would do it for practical reasons, wether it's "food" or hunting to please a God... he would try to kill as soon as possible before they can fight back and if they do he would run...

maybe he's like looking for the Aquamancer of Oz.. trying to gain courage...

noted on the cultural aspect...

anyway.. is Guardian a good basher or not

EDIT: Can a Celestine pray for Kethuru?

*cough*Cthulhu freak*cough*

Guardians suck at bashing, they just suck period. Evil Cosmicfire is weaker than the other skills and it never really gets better unless you have really really high Intelligence and Trans

no newbie bashing? last I recall Wiccan(first character I played) was ok with nature curse

how about them water mages?

Bashing does indeed suck. The only reason some people choose aslaran Celestines is because of the fast tarot. However, tarot's main use is PvP so no use to you there.

Wiccans are different from Guardians. Wiccans use Talismans and upgrade to Athames while Guardians use Cosmicfire and upgrade into..Cosmicfire

who's a good non comune basher then?

Doesn't matter. The game is hard-coded so that, when you're blind, you can't do anything that involves a target, no matter how good your other senses-- well, unless you *always* keep up sixth sense, which can be quite the pain at times.

damn you and your codes

Firstly, I'll agree: Blind doesn't work well. Blindness in Lusternia becomes utterly impossible to work with because you literally can't target anything. Besides, I've found that heavy restrictions on a character tends to be more frustrating than fun in most cases and are usually best avoided.

Ok, enough bashing. Aslaran Astrologer actually will work well, especialy if you want to be rather non-bloodlusty. You can make a general claim that you dislike taking sentient life recklessly and call it a day. It'll still mean you can do most of the quests out there, bash pretty well (though novicehood will be tricky: You'll probably have to stick to rats. After that, there's rockeaters, cows, sea creatures, off plane creatures, ext) and help with many of the more important things for the nation: many of the benificial quests don't involve slaughtering others.

Also Astrology can be used to boost others, letting you help out others without resorting to PK.

I'd recommend either Celest, since I think they support the peaceful side better, or Serenwilde since it's easier to bash as a Wiccan.

It's not the most 'original' style of RP, but, honestly, quicks are NOT how an original player is made: it's how you run with your character. Let your beginning traits fit well with how you want to play and let the game, as the months go on, change your character as it sees fit.

For example: Jacquin was meant to become a cold-hearted killer, starting off rather young and inexperienced but getting more and more involved with learning to fight. Early on, though, she met friends who got her thinking that 'pure fighting' may not be all there is in life. Soon after that her city, which is known to be VERY blood-thirsty, asked for more and more 'passive' help while she found people to care for in a family and loved ones. She's now lost her 'lusty' edge and is now equaly willing to jump into a suicidal raid or step back from a fight to help a novice with their problems.


In short, don't overdo it, the idea you have is fine so just roll with it, go Wiccan if you REALY want to bash or Celest, let yourself change according to the story, and have fun with it.

I'm new here as well. Anyone have any suggestions of interesting characters to play? Thank you.

It's really hard to comment on what will and won't work since people will react differently to you. Some might like your RP, some might not. Fortunately, you can change if things aren't going as well as you like or you're not having fun. Lusternia is hard-coded, but it doesn't mean you can't still be unique.

What's very important is which organization you want to affiliate with and if their thinkings and beliefs match yours. Due to the written history and time since Lusternia has been opened, there are already hard rules of things that you should and shouldn't do. Not to mention each organization has at least 2 other organizations it doesn't like. Serenwilde for example, don't take a liking at all to Magnagora and Glomdoring and won't let any of their members into Seren territory. It's restrictive, it's enforced RP, but again it doesn't mean you can't still have fun.

Sometimes I really wish I could get the same first-timer feeling I once had when I first joined. Sadly it's something you can never get back.

Unless you act for a living, the best characters to play are ones based on your playing style. If you like PK, develop a character with a perchance for violence. If you're the talkitive type, have some family roots. Never play a character who's personality stops you from doing what you find as fun.

Also, don't worry about 'flashiness': crazy accents, very noticible ailments, a secret that everyone MUST know. None of that is really needed to be noticed here; just being active and effective is enough. In fact, I'll go full on and say that if your character's main feature is a 'quirk' then it's back to the drawing board.

Besides: the best 'quirks' and 'secrets' are ones that, even after months of being in the spotlight, are still hidden, even when you're playing them out.

I know at the rate I'm going, NO ONE will know all of mine.

The best class to be aslaran with is bonecrusher (warrior) you get to hit hard and fast, with plenty of stun and good afflictions. (I'm talking as a biased person here)

In terms of your rp, sure have it a bit racial but most people will remember you as you, not your race.

I've changed race so many times, but it wouldn't matter if i was an aslaran from day 1, i'm still Murphy if you know what I mean whether or not i'm an orclach, viscanti, aslaran, dracnari, faeling (ok that one was a bit hard, i mean cmon a fairy!) or taurian. I have been all those races, i don't own a changeling cameo either, which i could almost afford by now if i didn't change up so much.

Anyway, develop your RP around who you want your character to be, as you will be defined by others as that, not your race.

case in point, daevos. He's a viscanti, he likes being one and he is sticking to it although there are better races. People see him as Daevos for the most part, being that everyone knows who Daevos is, as he defines himself. They don't know him as Daevos the viscanti, they know him as daevos the 'don't-get-in-his-way-ever-unless-you-have-a-team-or-are-a-very-good-fighter' type. He doesn't even have to say much.

Anyway define your character as who he is, sure play out some racial stuff but at the end of the day, its how you act, speak and how you lay on the punishment to the bad guys (or your own side) that really defines a character

This is just one man's opinion however, do what you want.

Ooh, and if you want to do the whole "blind pascifist" I'd bash at all, and only influence. I'd suggest as a race a Tae'dae for this. Really high Charisma. Plus you could also quest for levels. It would take a LONG time to level, but if you don't bash/fight level is not too important. Join a Wiccan or Gaurdian for Astrology, and then you can claim a sixth sense for sight. Or a telepathic mage could also work. That's just what I'd do. *shrug*

If you're going to be a pacifist please for the love of god don't join Celest. Nothing persona, but we have enough of them there as it is. Join Serenwilde or something, I think that'd fit the pacifist bit well.

Too bad for you. Sounds like Corinthian prefers cities over communes.

*creates 11 pacifist in Celest... all Paladins... just for spite*

Well.. for one I'm not a good actor.. I am pacifist.. I was about to become a priest but my lust for women won me over... and also that I became kinda non-christian guy...

I also saw somewhere that Astrologers are good support for warriors and every RPG I have played, be it MMO, Table top or free style(writing.. kinda like message board RPG), the support characters fit me better than the direct warriors..

I like a lot the whole forestal thing.. in fact, my favorite character in table top D&D I've ever played is(or was) Enitan(I think the name is in the Lusternia database), my good ol' Elf Druid... but I'm kinda fed up with the forest, so I looked for the city counter part, the priest...

either way, the ball is still in the air.. my own computer is currently dead and it might need some work to get it up and running so I don't plan on creating a character in the next week or so..


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I wanted to know also... information that you can give me about both the celestia priest guys and more about astrology... also about the nihilist and geomancers... they seem wicked

you know, pros and cons, strenghts and weakness, the whole culture.. anything that you can give me

Nilists and geomancers have the problem that magnagora isnt the most hospitable place for a pacifist?