Ew. It posted this in the wrong thread. Weird.

I'm glad there's so many people who are going for ascension. Personally, I wouldn't want to do it, myself. I like hunting, chatting, questing, messing around and being with my friends far too much. With all the rules and restrictions on what you can and can't do, not to mention the microscopic scrutiny you'd be under... Bleh. It kinda sounds boring.








...But I still look forward to seeing a Tae'dae god!

For clarity's sake, since I've been asked: Gwylifar is not attempting this, nor is he coming back. This is just speculation for the sake of enjoying speculation. It occurred to me he would actually be a good possibility because he'd be nation-neutral (or at least could be), he already has hooks into a part of the MUD that could use some RP development (racial culture), and he has no ties left to regret having to sever.

But the actual contest itself has no interest to me, and besides, especially being so far out of date, Gwylifar would have no chance to win it. Plus, it'd be nigh impossible to bring Gwylifar back without him becoming ensnared in his previous life (which is why he remains permanently retired).

If I had a direct path to RP-god-without-admin-duties, though, that'd be an interesting question. (For a lot of people, not just me.)

No persuading my best underling to go for a better job.

I would go for godhood.

But i would be poor god, so i will pass. Maybe will try for some blessings.

Err, she wasn't persuading me. I came prepersuaded on this! Besides, I'm not your underling any more.

Not complaining here, but something still concerns me:



That's from the announce post about the events. Is it not concerning that not only the a number of the tasks, but the final event contradicts the spirit of this? I'd love to get some heads together to see about perhaps finding an alternative to the final astral-free-for-all-of-epic-proportions. It's about a month away now.

I was wondering why the nine who win the seals weren't asked to come up with competing events leading up to their ascension, the admins could have a chance to review the ideas and perhaps ask for the players plans on how they want to play out their ascended character.

Heh it was an idea, the players could opt for essence gathering, powerstones, gold, rp quest around the basin. It would also stretch the event out allowing people who might not be able to participate to have a chance.

Funny that you say that, I just had a job that I applied for within my company (it was a project specialist) that required you to research something and make a presentation -before- you got an interview. It not only let them know you were serious about it, it let them know you could handle it. I suppose though, that it starts making it a question of even though it is an IC ascension, would there be an ooc process/aspect to it? The current selection method is purely IC, which seems a tad odd, due to the nature of the position (you'd be interacting with the administration on an OOC level).

On a side note, I just realized all those dates are on weekends. I'm relieved, I don't have to worry about asking for days off now.

I'm gonna try!



I did!


I was driving back home (10 hours driving a 17ft Uhaul truck! Fun!) And it afforded me time to think what sort of Goddess I'd make Noola into. Here's what I thought of in really, really, really rough-draft form:

Noola's going for the godhood would be for two reasons ICly - 1) the seals are weakened and need strengthening and 2) it would be an amazing adventure.

Noola the Mortal loves adventure. She loves going somewhere she's never been. She loves learning things she didn't know. She loves going into dangerous situations where she could very likely die. That sort of thing. So, Noola the Goddess will, I think, keep that sort of mentality. She'll favor the adventurous. The brave and even foolhardy. Those who love to explore the unexplored and brave unreasonable odds to accomplish their goals.

Noola the Mortal belives that actions create consequinces. If you want an adventure and go into enemy territory to get it (for example) then you should expect said enemies to come after you. If you lie to someone and are caught, you should expect to lose their trust. So, Noola the Goddess will expect people, her followers especially, to accept whatever consequinces their actions bring and will scorn those who try to weasle their way out of it, especially by appealing to her. Not that she wouldn't council anyone if they got into trouble and were trying to get themselves out of it, she just wouldn't try to get them out of it.

Noola the Mortal hates lies and has a hard time forgiving those who break a trust. The very short list of people Noola considers actual personal enemies (that is, as opposed to enemies of an organization she's a member of and therefore her enemy by proxy) are all people who made what was to her an unforgivable betrayal of something or someone Noola cares about. Even people who've killed Noola don't rate as personal enemies that way. Noola the Goddess would be the same. If someone joined Noola's Order, for exmple, and then betrayed her (which is different than deciding their lives were going a different way), she'd react badly.

Of course Noola the Mortal and Noola the Goddess would have to be different in some ways too - cause becoming a God would just have to be a mind-altering event!

One thing is that Noola the Goddess would view the Taint much differently. The Taint would become less of a poison and corruption and more of an oddity. As a mortal she's already a bit curious about it - she just thinks that the 'evil' of it makes it not worth messing with. Once her mind's been tweaked and expanded by Divinity, she'd lose the fear/disgust and mostly just be curious. Though she might worry that mortals aren't responsible enough to handle using/studying it - she'd rather let them find out for themselves. The adventure of learning and all that. So she'd become rather neutral in the Light vs Taint saga.

Noola the Goddess (which isn't what I'd call her if I won! Promise!) would view most mortals exactly the same, no matter where they live - because I think becoming a Goddess would 'blow your mind' to the point that all the differences and so on you thought were important really become less so. I don't even know if I'd try to get her in any Org's Divine Consulate... for a good long while anwway. I might just have her be a neutral unaffiliated Goddess who cares about everyone and no one.

Alright, I thought of a bunch of other stuff, but it's mostly all silly things (like what would Noola's symbol be and her entry and exit message and how she'd react to various family members right after Ascending and all that jazz) which are silly really cause the chances of me actually winning are silm!

But there ya go.

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As long as we get a GODESS I'm most likely supporting them. It would be nic to see a Mag Godess, and boy won't She be nasty! Hmm ah well come what may heh, I'll certainly be rooting for Celestians or female ones (Sham and Ialie perhaps). I'd sure love to RP as a godess, but then again the responsibility will be quite a chore, and even if I manage it, I'd love to be the quite an evil Godess for a change, or an extremely good one. Tough to make a story that would make Alodia into the bad one though.

yah another for female godess! (although Sham is male you know )

and the explanation would be: "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" or possibly Alodia was always evil but was gathering influence in celest so one day she can command them to do her bidding, the deliciously sneaky, backstabbing evil!

as opposed to a male godess?

Male goddesses are totally the best. Anyway, ascending could always come with a gender change we don't know

Shoralien would totally be a male goddess.

male godess or man wife

evil dwarf contractor

Tully: *laughs* If I do come back for the event, I'll be in spirit form aka The spirit of Marina stands here. But go ahead. She is dead. I'm still not sure if I want to participate.

If Marina were to become the ascended mortal into godhood, she wouldn't take sides on which social organization she'd join. I'd let the players decide. Perhaps run some sort of debate and have the players decide the place she would go to. Marina would probably be one of those elusive goddesses, preferring to contact people through visions and prophecies. One trait I could see her having would be a strict sense of judgement if someone killed an NPC child, no matter taint or untainted. She would actually define balance, pointing at what made someone unbalanced and what made someone balanced. Since she is literally Lacostian's daughter because of a ritual that was performed between Lacostian and she, she would still carry on his teachings as well. And mix them with whatever organization she went to.

I've always had a bit of a quarrel with how the gods took sides with something but often neglected other sources of IR life (in-realm to quote Avaer). From village life to spirituality to philosophical thought to child bearing to the Great Spirits and Supernals/Nil Lords and Ladies. Et cetera and so forth. But having that much responsibility can also be a burden. I've Est, Vira, and Fain to thank for showing me being an immortal isn't all its cracked up to be.

I think you're confusing me with someone else, aren't you? I used the term RI for role immersion.

And as a brief side-note, do you have a log at all of your ritual? I think it would be interesting to see how the mortal/immortal boundaries and relationships have been defined so far, and that would seem an excellent source of canon information.

Elryn for god!



(If you ascend, can I have the avaerin? >.>)