What Nariah said. I've got a pipe that looks like it's gone forever.

Also, who gave BatBane to the Cantors? I want batbane in my music spec too

You have gained the following abilities in Starhymn:
Composition You may compose songs expressing your own creativity.
Sustain The ability to maintain a song.
Processional A beautiful hymnal that regenerates willpower and mana.
LoveCanticle Blessed be Raziela, a hymn of love and healing.
DiscordantChord This painful chord shall crush the disharmonic soul.
HopesCarol Thanks be Shakiniel, a hymn of protection.
StarLight The light of the stars replenishes the body's needs.
Refrain A musical structure that allows repetition of a stanza.
MercifulSanctus Honours to Japhiel, a hymn of balanced justice.
CrusaderCanto Glory to Methrenton, a hymn of the holy flame.
LightCantata Praise be Elohora, a hymn of the blinding light.
CaptiveAudience Both friends and enemies hear nothing but your songs.
Batbane Because Mirami wants it, the Cantors get it.
CelestOde Rousing song that inspires the citizens of Celest.
AngelSong Angels who hear will increase their speed.
PrincessFarewell The last song of Princess Marilynth holds great power.
JustChorale Your music brings penance from Holy Celestia.
Encore Play a rousing encore performance.
Recessional When the hymn winds down, it is best not to disturb it.
EverSea Infuse the waters with the music of the stars.
Requiem Lead those unto death with the requiem for the dead.

Bhiele. Get online, yo! We needs teh talkin'!

See, I was thinking specifically about Recessional, which acts... Quite similarly.

This event required so much time in enemy territory in order to stop the nuclear bomb from hitting Glom.

And yet I still cannot make myself not go all-out for Glom-events. Oh events, why must you be such a seductive torture?

This last question leads to: When is the next?!

Um. What?

Our initial "you want to get involved" vision was of the child attacking Glom and driving away all the shadows.

Oh. Okay, it makes a bit more sense.

You have my sympathy, though - having to face an army of demigods with your own army of fledgeling noncombatants, having your morale beat down mercilessly through the course of the entire event, doing everything you can to think ahead because you could never hope to overcome a direct military conflict (and failing), being yelled at because you're the only figure of a leader your organization has left and you aren't doing a 100% job at it because you're still learning.

Wait, wrong org. Balls.

(Edit to your edit: That Prime Seren attack was the highlight, honestly, that whole thing was the tensest I've ever been. "AHHHH GLOMDORING'S ATTACKING PRIME PUT UP EVERY SINGLE DEFENSE YOU'VE GOT" etc. Though I'm sure looking for Hoaracle's temple the next day was fun. lol.)

To clarify, also - to us, she's... uh. Some kid. Blessed by Moon or something.

Yeah, that's about all we've got.

Hey, it gave me something to do, and found a couple of rooms I hadn't had mapped yet.

From our end of things it was a "wait until Nocht tells us what to do," and so we were happy enough to make up things to do to fill the time.

Also: Your defense of Maylea's realm wasn't bad at all, we got wiped out and you took minimal casualties. You just picked the wrong realm-explorer to attack / kill (there were a couple of us).

Yes, well, perhaps you can see why we were going at it all-out knowing that our first introduction to this event was "omg it's going to destroy what makes Glom Glom! And Mother Night too!"

If we had known you could just pick up the mirror... and then everyone started screaming 'GO IN GO IN THEY GOT THE MIRROR WE GOTTA GO TAKE IT BACK GO GO GO YELL YELL YELL' etc and yeah. That really wasn't pretty.



Well, we were going all-out, too. Deliberately spending hours and coming up with everything we could to mislead you and your spies, with moderate success, and in the end we got shoehorned into the violent conflict we were dying to avoid in the first place - which has screwed over the morale of a lot of people.

I mean, we couldn't even defend the realm on our own, in a very much Seren vs. Glom event. We had to call in Magnagora.

And Gaudiguch! Mass Badluck is no fun.

That said, it was a darned close thing on our end; we're really lucky we managed to get it, was by the skin of our teeth. That was about as close as you can get one of these events one way or the other. Don't let it get to ya. We had our morale hit yesterday in Prime Seren (though not quite the same, I know).

And the misdirection was a good idea; only problem is that we were waiting word from On High (and when it came we just focused). The misdirection mostly served to keep a lot of us actively interested and following the event, unfortunately. That said, in general it's a pretty good plan.

We were waiting too, for ... I don't know, really. The mother to show up, so she could reunite with her child and ____ ?

It's funny, though. To you, we're carrying a nuke to drop on your forest. To us, you guys are just being wankers and killing babies - the usual.

The misdirection mostly served to keep a lot of us actively interested and following the event, unfortunately. That said, in general it's a pretty good plan.

If we had known you could just pick up the mirror... and then everyone started screaming 'GO IN GO IN THEY GOT THE MIRROR WE GOTTA GO TAKE IT BACK GO GO GO YELL YELL YELL' etc and yeah. That really wasn't pretty.

Recessional isn't quite as good as Batbane. It doesn't keep them from sipping/eating, it randomly prevents it. If it stops you from sipping/eating, it doesn't take your sip/herb balance, you can always sip again or eat again.