Hm, my little nostalgia moment.

Back when I started as a dracnari ninjakari novice, I was shy and afraid to even chat with anyone at all. It went like this for a while until Shaylene (his mentor) started encouraging me to start talking during the guild meetings, which eventually led me to become a bit more open with people. If it wasn't for that I would probably not even be playing this game anymore from sheer boredom, (though i do need to start socializing more. (He's eight feet tall but he's a good guy to talk to people)). Also, Janalon and Arimisia were big helps too cause they actually talked to me back then.

I remember when I actually had the patience, nay, desire to bash for 4 hours.

Hahahaha what



Also, what? That's pretty bitter.

I remember when people just had more respect for each other. So many people now are out to "win" and don't care about anything else in the game.

Oddly enough, this is exactly how people are treating each other IRL now. Coincidence? I think not.

But...people have always been like this. The only thing that's changed are who happens to be 'winning' at the time.

I think many of you still think of the past as the 'good old years' when really, Lusternia has had the same number of jerks and awesome people, but they just have different names now.

Remember Dilute?

The great thing about Dilute was that it proved that the admin had already hit their nadir, and they got it out of the way early. No decision or feature that came after was ever quite as stupid, badly-designed, or poorly-thought-out as Dilute. And yes, I include ruptures and first-iteration bards in that statement.

PS. The game has been full of jerks since open beta, there was never a golden age.

I think it is 50/50. We've got the same number of jerks and awesome people but it does seem like the want to "win" is far more popular. People do seem less interested in doing things for an org because it's cool or fun, makes for a good story.

The jerks are still here and under different names, they're just more widely supported. Especially for the win they bring. (Edit, though this may just be perception bias.)

I remember that, as much as I disliked Thoros, he was at least somewhat honourable compared to half of what I see today.

(3AM guard raids and Celestia melds aside.)

Yes, I'm bitter.


Actually, I think it's me who has changed.

Believe it or not, you can have a PK mud where everyone cares about RP, the admins enforce RP to the point they delete chars, respect one another and still have awesome fights. That's why I'm so bothered by it now.

What is Dilute?

Honorable? Kaervas and Daevos were two of the most honorable from my memory. In modern times, I'll keep the current players that I find honorable to myself. Don't need to feed the trolls any.



Spending hours influencing villages is not fun, but someone's got to do it, so I try to. Not everything IG is "Wow this is exciting fun fun fun!"

It was an Aquamancer skill that ruined potions IIRC... was never an aquamancer when the skill existed so I cant remember the specific details.

I miss Shinza when she was in Celest.

Hajamin, I don't miss at all. He mentioned to Malicia and a Shinza that I might be an alt of somebody in Magnagora, back when it was mag, seren, Celest, and they did a test on me, and I trusted my friend a bit too much, and was still new to the game and listened completely, and was deemed an alt and enemied/kicked out. Remember Malicia dropping me off at Serenwilde, and I remember Raguel before he had children, and a slew of other players.

Remember when Ixion used to clog the deathsight?

Remember when Viravain returned?

Remember when Soll became immortal? And Celest held this fight against him, to see how strong he was. Think it was something of 13, 14, against him.

Remember when you could cure by hand, no system needed?

Also remember gossip from being a paladin, on who could fight two targets at once and who's the best curer, and what not.

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There probably is, I'm sure. Though in retrospect Hajamin (and most of my knowledge of him is second hand) proved to be an -interesting- character. Too devoted I guess. There are reasons Divine have to cut ties with the playerbase. A divine just isn't a member of their org, I'm sure they pull for them but in the end they should want to see everyone on top.

It was a 3 power ability. If you used it on someone, their health/mana/bromide potions would work at half effectiveness (that is, drinking health gave you half as much health back)! "Ouch," you say, "That sounds pretty rough."

Yeah, well, it gets worse.

1. It wasn't some temporary pseudo-amplify-damage effect, it was permanent. They would sip for less for not only the entire fight, but forever, without fixing it.
2. It affected every such elixir in their inventory at once, meaning they were all ruined.
3. It affected every -vial- in their inventory, even if it didn't hold that kind of elixir at the time. So not only did you have to recycle all your potions, but you had to actually destroy every vial you owned and make a bunch of new ones or if you ever put a health potion in that vial it would sip for half value.

It didn't last too long, although there were a couple of unscrupulous C-named individuals who put it to plenty of use before it was removed.

Yeah, it was pretty hilarious. To their credit, the admin figured out how stupid it was and got rid of it quite quickly.

My guess would be "spy," not "alt" as that sort of thing did happen with some regularity way back when (the Divine policing, harshly at times, such activities).

Especially since the primary way to 'prove' such things would be to 'run the gauntlet' of statues tuned against specific clans, and his post alludes to being put through a test of some kind as well as saying he was too trusting of a friend.

Essentially: Not enough information in the post, but the information given does seem to lean more towards flagging the character as a spy than an alt.

Shinza was stern but fair paladin and while not Van's mentor, served in a mentor capacity. I remember her dragging me into the arena to finish my aegis tasks because she thought it was time I finished them.

Speaking of honorable. Alger always struck me as honorable. I remember someone losing their swords in a raid and him handing them back even though they were an enemy. It was things like that that taught me that you can rp being someones enemy while still still being respectful.

I remember when there were move active dove paladins than the other two orders combined.

I remember when Gruhk became the first titan.

I remember my first pvp death to Veonira in a village revolt.

I remember when Melanchthon and Aesyra became demigods. In fact I miss Melanchthon being around as well as Ekard, Tarielenwe, Lyren, and a host of other old Celestians and some old Serenwilders like Tsuki and Sivriel. Oh, almost forgot Wepaw.

lol thunderclap.