OOCly, you can be sure that things will end much as they were before they began. This is the second (or third, depending on if you cound the Xion incident as seperate, which I don't) time the end of the world was nigh, only last time, we didn't have such flowery and pretty warnings it was coming






.. oh, wait, we did


I pre-emptively blame Viravain for everything that's happening

Shorlen figured it out. It is Viravain's fault yet again...for the millionth time.










Why do the men always believe the hot women to be evil, destructive, seductresses?

It's generally true.

Pssh, if I called You hot right now, that'd be pediphilia

Well, Celest's has also blown up. Lack of upkeep. I wish they had mentioned the upkeep initially, we would have sorted it out, but I didn't see a mention of it anywhere.

So much power.. Gawwnn.

cept of course in the posts Xenthos made hours and hours before your construct poofed due to lack of upkeep :-P This is why forums are a good thing!

It was all part of my sinister plot.

I knew if I posted the upkeep costs, nobody would believe me, and more constructs would go away!

Pah, I knew there was upkeep, why couldn't you all figure it out too?

Hopefully the Divine will have the grace to give Celest back the construct since it was only lost because we didn't know we needed to have the upkeep in the power ministry account.

Mm, agreed. It's not like we don't have the gold. >:( Why can't it take the gold from the treasury?

Blame your treasurer! You should always have a big glob of money in the Power account, because that's where the funds for summoning guards come from. Your treasurer should've replaced the money spent when you build it too.

Enormous swarms of dark, serpentine creatures appear suddenly within the Crystal
Sea, diving through the waves of the ocean. They hiss and howl in the air,
before sinking beneath the waves and vanishing altogether from sight, leaving a
terrible silence in their wake.

A violent tremor shakes the ground, and the Crystal Sea steams and froths, its
azure waters swelling violently to the movement of some great, unseen beast.

The horrifying maw of a great serpent rears out from the ocean waters, her body
covered with swarms of dark, serpentine creatures burrowing into her scaled
skin.

Pulsing like a terrible heartbeat, the massive body of the serpent grows larger
and larger as the creature burrow beneath the skin of the serpent. She thrashes
violently in the waters, creating vast tidal waves that crash into the rocky
shore of Old Celest, threatening to sink the isle with their intensity.

Rearing higher and higher in the air, the serpent hisses a ravenous, maddening
cry, shaking the trees, earth and mountains of the Basin of Life with the
deafening sound. The great serpent dives under the waves, vanishing from sight
in a spray of crystal-clear water as she swims unseen through the Crystal Sea.




The vast serpent rears her terrible head above the swelling waves of the Crystal
Sea again, and dark serpentine creatures appear in an enormous swarm around her,
burrowing into her skin. With each creature that merges into the serpent's body,
she grows larger and larger. The serpent dives again beneath the waves, leaving
only an ominous swelling of her unseen body in her wake.



Visaeris has been slaughtered by the awesome might of the coiling body of a vast
serpent.
Visaeris has succumbed to the power of the coiling body of a vast serpent.

Holy .

The vast, coiling body of a great serpent lies here, stretching out in either direction impossibly far. <-- room.

The fierce black scales of this section of the body of a vast and terrible serpent seem to absorb the light into their impenetrable and fathomless depths, drinking in life and colour around them. The vast, coiling body is impossibly large and thick, something out of nightmare and legend. It stretches off in either direction for as far as the eye can see.
The coiling body of a vast serpent almost glows with nearly god-like power.
She weighs about 3750 pounds.
You see nothing in it.


Sweet.

I found the head.. *singsong*

Only 3750 pounds for something that big? It must be reaaaaaaally hungry now...

Each room has it's own section of the snake, and then there's one (I think) with the head. I think it's 3750 pounds per room. So it's really, really big.

I can't find it

You suddenly scoop up the coiling body of a vast serpent.

Awesome and terrifying to behold, the vast head of a great serpent rises
toweringly into the air, dominating all that she surveys through utterly
heartless and cold eyes. Her gaping maw is filled with endless rows of gnashing,
needlepoint teeth that leer down at you with an endless and insatiable hunger to
consume all that stands before her. An unimaginably long and massive body
slithers off behind her great head.
The vast maw of a terrible serpent almost glows with nearly god-like power.
She weighs about 3750 pounds.
You see nothing in it.

So unfair:

3112h, 4480m, 4252e, 10p, 14460en, 16036w ex-e
sketch serpent

Harbour shallows.
The stars twinkle in the clear night sky. An obsidian eye sigil is here. The
gargantuan serpent's coiling body ends here in a vast and terrible head filled
with endless rows of gnashing teeth. There are 2 sleek dolphins here.
You see exits leading north, south, and west.
3112h, 4480m, 4252e, 10p, 14458en, 16042w ex-
The vast maw of a terrible serpent hisses at you and visions of utter emptiness
well up in your soul as it tears free of your body with a horrible wrenching.
The vast maw of a terrible serpent howls greedily and devours your incorporeal
spirit.
You have been slain by the vast maw of a terrible serpent.
A group of 6 coal pieces falls out of your inventory.
0h, 4480m, 4252e, 10p, 14458en, 16042w ex-
You are dead and cannot do that.