You are, yes.

Ileein is the door-kicking loose cannon cop, you're the straight man, Phoebus is the chief(Damn it, I said ALIVE ILEEIN. The mayor is going to have my head for this!), Sylandra is naturally the mayor, and Casilu is the inside man, who has been pulling the strings the whole time to bring down the system.

I got my first event post mention - good enough for me!

I approve.

Grandmother Scorpion, hidden beneath the Scorpion's Tail mountains, felt the pressure, and knew fear - and so she sent Shyust'i the Onix Witch forth to share the prophesy that one of Gaudiguch's Illuminati had heard, but could not understand.

That's me! I still feel quite silly over missing logging the prophecy by ONE line.

It's because you keep flashing your imaginary cleavage at them, you hypothetical whore.

This explains everything.

I bet s/he's been using his her hir mastery of temporal physics to be both genders simultaneously. This is both way more complex and way more awesome than shapeshifters growing tertiary sexual characteristics for a cheap kick. TAKE THAT, GAUDIGUCH!

Who thought the trunk in the i'Xiia Asylum was a good quest design? Most of the time the thing just decides that you're not going to finish the quest now, oh no, you're going to wait re-spawns because you got unlucky with the RNG.

Or maybe it just knew I was planning to shove the mini-parasite in a empty present box to drop at the aetherplex and wanted to stop me.

A little late, but damn, Talthos' honours quest makes it feel even more like a mini-Hallifax. Influencing and repetition, hmm hmm.

For the Collective!

Why is Phoebus the Chief?

I got the Company and stuff.

You're not likely enough to fly off the handle.

Talthos has an honors quest?

So I was reading through race stuff again, and noticed something I'd never given much thought to before...


HOW DO YOU CHECK THAT? I mean, you try to breathe water and you can't, you's dead.

If the person starts drowning, you know better.

Even if death were permanent, it's still possible to tell if they're drowning before they die.

Still seems like a pretty crappy thing to test on someone. Mainly it was a "how do you test that in a way that isn't totally unpleasant?" Hey, time to test if you're fully merian! -thrown into a pool-

For all we know there are physical markers that make it easier, tossing into the water may be a way of making sure.

Psh. In some cultures, waterboarding is a sign of affection. Just ask Ileein.

That just means that anyone claiming to be fully Merian damned better be ready to back it up.