Regarding Malicia's concerns over the event, I'd like to point out a couple of things.

The beacon quest is now a permanent quest, just as the necromentate quest is now permanent. Along with the Serenwilde ancestral quest and the Glomdoring summoning night quest, all four quests are now open to give out prophesies (before only Serenwilde was active). This was our first chance to look at the city quests in a long time and we did truncate it in the end (if anyone noticed) and may make revisions in the future. But now all major org quests are active and permanent for whoever wishes to do the honour quests.

As for the event itself, instead of just a snuggly Celest event, we decided to go with something deeper, allowing multiple outcomes. Celest had the opportunity to stop the communes from compromising Raziela. In hindsight, maybe the opportunity should have been greater but from my observations I don't know if it would have mattered. Also, there was a race with Magnagora to free Raziela before they were able to fully brand her. That didn't happen so of course you only saw what happened when Magnagora did suceed.

As with all events, of course hindsight always shows what could have been done better or different. But I think a lot of players did enjoy the interactions with the Supernals and being involved in the story. I think those who didn't enjoy it were more the metagamers who probably (understandably) wanted a more definitive gameplan on what they needed to do to "win".

But, nonetheless, I think this event seeds more interesting future developments, introduces a new god, and the experience helps us design new future events.

(Oh, and Raziela will return shortly if she hasn't already.)

I disagree. I find it hard to enjoy being forced to do a long repetitive quest, being stuck in Muud, fighting 3 orgs while highly neurotic/sociopathic, and having relations ruined with all your allies enjoyable. Maybe thats just me?

As for the event itself, instead of just a snuggly Celest event, we decided to go with something deeper, allowing multiple outcomes. Celest had the opportunity to stop the communes from compromising Raziela. In hindsight, maybe the opportunity should have been greater but from my observations I don't know if it would have mattered. Also, there was a race with Magnagora to free Raziela before they were able to fully brand her. That didn't happen so of course you only saw what happened when Magnagora did succeed.

No, you're a metagamer Acrune. Shh.
@Estarra: I really do not see how forcing an organization to stay put in an area where they build constant insanity and then expecting them to be able to function against other organizations in combat is fair or logical. If this is what is expected in future events, I just won't participate.

This event was a combination of tedious, mindless gathering (be it squid for pearls or essence for Raziela); dealing with massive amounts of insanity; etc. This event, like so many others, allowed for “bad consequences” for Celest (see: Soulforge, Broadcast Center, etc), but provided us with no means to strike back.

This theme wherein certain organizations have viable alternatives and certain organizations do not is old - it’s boring. If you honestly think Celest had a “viable” means to do anything when half of our commands were failing from insanity for the hours we had to “guard” Raziela - you really need to create a mortal character and give it a try in the future.

That being said, the mechanics of the event and the roleplay behind them are entirely separate matters. I’m sure people would enjoy being involved with the Supernals and a story where Celest was utterly destroyed, the Supernals were permanently slain, and the Pool of Stars was void of power.

@Nariah- whatever time you put in, you can triple it for Celest. It started with an 8-12 hour beacon lighting fest. Some admin finally took pity on us and lit four of them. Any fights in Muud were against highly neurotic/sociopathic defenders. 5000 power easily gained, for Mag's part.

The quests for Magnagora and Celest were functionally equivalent - so any effort put in was the same on both sides. Note that Magnagora also had to re-do the Necromentate quest (equivalent to the beacons) to get their prophesy. As Estarra noted, we were watching this part pretty closely - realizing that the quests were tedious - and eventually I bumped them ahead to completion when it was clear just how long it was taking. We have been talking in the Havens this morning about how to improve theses quests and make them less obnoxious in the future. I'm sorry if they ruined the event for you, but hopefully the fact that we are aware they suck and are going to do something about it is at least some consolation.

Don't forget having to try the whole Night-summoning quest (repeatedly) on our end, which (at once every 32 hours) is quite... annoying.

That said, when the Communes first went to Raziela, there weren't a lot of you guys there at the time (either not logged in, or just not in Muud). I'm not sure there was much of a chance of stopping the numbers we had, though Acrune gave it a shot. I don't think many of them were really insane at the time, it just wasn't great timing.

However... I can easily see how it would be frustrating on Celest's part. Even our more... limited involvement was, to an extent.

I thought some parts of the event were great. I liked how it actually pulled on the heartstrings a bit, with Raziela crying for help, going, "I'm so cold... please, Liam, please... you know I love you?" It was the perfect little child, slowly slipping away. From a roleplaying standpoint, it was great in that respect.

I'm not so fond of the "Okay, let's all have war with Celest now" part that seems to be coming.

Any chance of doing something about the once-every-32-hour quests? Or at the very least allowing for a do-over if the child is slain early by eager commune members who really want to see what Night says? (That is, not losing the Council or the Crown, just get told to go find another child). It's not possible to gather everything back up in an hour for another attempt.

Just to clarify, most of everyone participating -were- insane. Some pulled out here and there to recover, but they were. Bad timing probably had a part, but I know Desitrus left his forge to go immerse himself in the insanity as well. Nydekion, Narsrim, Geb and I showed up during some of the 'defiling' to try and guard Raziela, which helped out a bit.

And yes, Liam was a centerpiece in the event, but he was so insane, he couldn't do much. I liked their interactions, but too much bad, not enough good overall.