I'm detecting a pattern here. If I participate in an event, whether something as simple and fun, like slippers, or confusing scavenger hunts like this one, Rika wins. Maybe I should not join so the rest of you have a chance!

But well done, Rika! And congrats to everyone else! Will anybody be posting the answers to the clues? Some of those were haaaard.

I'm detecting a pattern here. If I participate in an event, whether something as simple and fun, like slippers, or confusing scavenger hunts like this one, Rika wins. Maybe I should not join so the rest of you have a chance!

It'll be epic if he finishes the second one and says, "Just need two more books, guys." It'll be like Jordan never left us.

I was loving this event.

I also love that they opened new villages, one kephera and one illithoid. I love how they are expanding the kephera illithoid things.

I just thought that the event ended a little suddenly. I would have liked that the two areas were opened but the revolts didn't start right away. Or even have Ptoma pledge to Serenwilde and Ixthiaxa to Glomdoring considering that those two organisations did easily the majority of the work.

But still, VERY cool!

Also: I hope that Ptoma is uninfluenceable by Magnagora Glomdoring Gaudiguch, and Ithiaxa is uninfluenceable by Serenwilde Hallifax Celest.

I was looking forward to more keph and illie stuff, but got to say the end of this was rather depressing the way it turned out. ):

Zenobia told Serenwilde to go kill all of the illithoids trying to escape and Hallifax to stay and go do something else. Escort escorted to the place and HAY it's a village. And tells us to kill them all, while they send hallifax to start influencing the other. ):

And then it turns into Celest v Hallifax v Seren for one village, and Glom unopposed for the other.

That stinks - I'm surprised you wouldn't just have been given the village (seriously) given how many Serens have been working like house elves for the last 24 hours+ to get matrons or whatever your quest was.

Am I the only surprised to hear that Shuyin reads books? >_>

I know it'll sound like I'm blowing things way out of proportion, but... sometimes, Lusternia's family system's refusal to recognize "alternative lifestyles" like polyamory feels analogous to how it must feel when people aren't allowed to marry because of having the wrong combination of genders, races, ages, etc. in the real world. You get the same arguments made: "What difference does it make whether it's legally recognized? Just do your own thing." Which is true, if you don't mind both that you're denied the legal rights accorded to official marriage, and the public perception of the nature of your relationship as being "not real", both of which matter.

Why does Lusternia refuse to acknowledge this "alternative" lifestyle? For fear people will "game the system" to get Great House faster or something? Surely there must be a better way to prevent that than completely denying people recognition for a relationship that just doesn't happen to fit someone else's preconceptions of what kinds of relationships are "normal".

(I hope I don't seem like I'm trivializing the efforts of people in the real world who fight for rights for people to marry who haven't been allowed to marry in the past. I know this is just a game, and all that. I'm just trying to draw a parallel.)

I'd just like to point out one other detail in this. Say you have 3 wives and 2 husbands and you want to adopt a child, and happen to be standing in a room with all of you present. Who're counted as the parents for the family tree?

I'd just like to point out one other detail in this. Say you have 3 wives and 2 husbands and you want to adopt a child, and happen to be standing in a room with all of you present. Who're counted as the parents for the family tree?

Giving then to Glom and Serenwilde and having them revolt later would have made so much more sense. Instead, the matrons suddenly disappear, and we're sent to go get shiny new village enemy statuses while Hallifax gets a head start, and Celest FINALLY shows up to help, by killing us all. And who knows what Mag is doing, but we were threatened with war from them for defending nurses as well. WHAT FUN.

The only books I still hope the author will finish is 'Song of Fire and Ice' anyway.