New thread 'cus he said so. Also



While yeah, we could, with the RP of the situation though, that would have been a rather awkward thing to do. We had basically been preparing to kill and stop illithoids trying to get out of the prison the whole time, and had Mumhatuti there shouting "Vile! Evil!" at us.

the new village, by the way. Thanks!

Edit: I was curious: were these villages introduced because, as we got more organisations, the number of villages stayed constant? Or was it a long time in planning?

The first one is far easier said than done. Taking a village of orcs, like Acknor, to prevent enslavement is one thing. An encampment of soulless monsters, though? Sorry, years of organizational and personal and racial RP go entirely against it.

The whole event really had built up this whole 'slay them!' thing. And it was pretty anticlimactic for the grind. Bright side is that it isn't as DREADFULLY AGONIZINGLY LONG as the original form of the Kephera quests.

(I'm sure Hallifax just loved being spoonfed RP though.)

(That means you, Rika.)

Edit: (Implement DeAscension before next Keph event/release of Guardian guilds please~)

On a brighter note,



I lol'd.

Only girls have glowbutts...doesn't that mean...lesbianism?

There was almost no way, after busting our tails to raise an army to slay illithoid, after being told to stop them escaping, with Mumhatuti there screaming about their evil, that we could have peacefully influenced the village, unless we decided to just metagame and say "We need a village, screw it, let's have this one."

I liked feeling useful during the event. I love that we have new villages. I just think the ending was rather abrupt (I think you guys mistimed how long 24 hyfae would take, which is odd with the one jar per hour thing) and think that going straight into village revolt was really lame. How did the geomycus get a whole village, or the new illithoid, in that amount of time? Mumhatuti was supposedly trying to train them, she didn't notice a village being built instead?

I think it would have worked a lot better if you had opened both, built them up a little over the next few days, then had them open for influence.

Going to say that the non-grind parts of the event were AWESOME.

I am going to agree with the above posts about Serenwilde not really having a choice in killing the illithoids. Originally, I thought their job was to go in and exterminate the new variants of illithoids while Hallifax was going to lead the hyfae to this new hive but we'd have to stop them from being killed along the way. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist. I can see how the people who spent hours on the grind feel a bit ripped off, though. I can only say that I spent a majority of the last day doing the grind, too.

Edit: I don't think it's fair to say that Hallifax wouldn't have won the village had we not had a few minutes headstart, either. I think we would have managed to get it in the end.

Oh hell yes.

I have little to no problem with Hallifax here. You and Kira helped a lot. Many Serens helped a lot. Celest slaughtered us after having done basically nothing. Had they won, I'd probably be banned and/or shrubbed already from sheer rage.

Hallifax had a monstrous lead that was growing rapidly long after everyone joined in, so their few minutes head start was small.

I'm not particularly arguing whether or not Serenwilde 'should' have influenced Ixthiaxa, I'm simply pointing out they were shown a village prior to anyone else.

The event had several different endings - the general lack of assistance rendered to the illithoid (Glomdoring, the poor guys, were trying alone) lead to one of them (the current one). It could certainly have played in the opposite direction, or escalated to larger-scale levels of conflict with interesting possibilities. There were multiple outcomes but only one could happen - and that was what happened! There were quite a few things that went unused, that may someday be used in the future. Can't really guess - time alone shall show!

And male kephera can have glowbutts too, if they are big enough (I suspect glowbutt possession is relative to your psionic power - Kings and princes were all trained as warders, and are stronger than even the psionically skilled warriors - still no Queens, though! I leave such fine points of kephera culture to you!).

Then why can't they use the glowbutt emote?

Actually the hive has always been there for mining purposes according to it's queen, just hidden and un-noticed since they're not as important as one of the great hives. The hyfae were sent their to help with the mining since they can 'sing to the metals'. Where the illithoid village from with kephera constantly on the look out for escaping illithoids though, no idea ((Since I'm enemied =p )).

Mhm, that had something to do with Serenwilde taking it upon themselves to fight off Glomdoring, then ending up fighting Celest, leaving the Hallifaxians to influence.

I think the mechanical dynamics that have been put into place between Ptoma and Ixthiaxa are interesting, although considering it's Glomdoring, probably won't be used that much.

Because male kephera players are generally not powerful mates to a Hive Queen?

Huh?

It's Hallifax versus Glomdoring.

edit: actually, it's not really that interesting.

But yeah, overall I just think all the Serens who put in hours and HOURS of work into this event, where the final reward was Glomdoring gets a new village with no opposition, and we have to fight over another with two other orgs one of whom had a head start, regardless of how small it was.

Glomdoring put in hours of work as well, I believe. And it certainly was an option for, you know, Serens to work on influencing rather than fighting- or slaughtering what was obviously a village.

RP over metagaming.

RP doesn't mean listening to denizens telling you to get enemy status. There are choices, and if you blindly follow denizens, well, there you are.