STEVE HOLT!

Decided on Cririk and Schu-bluhbluh for Hallifax and Gaudiguch. Put up mighty blank pages for each city/commune and copypasta-d the god pages while we figure out what to do there. Going to go through and first fix all the typos in the god helps (quite a few minor ones hidden in there), then rewrite some of them.

On gods that don't have a symbol set in their Help files, it would be great if someone could come forward with what their public symbols are, it would be nice for every god to have one. Similarly, if you have saved in a log somewhere what your (or another) god looks like, it would be great to have!

Elostian looks like nothing.

Glomdoring means Merciless Forest in fae, so yeah, that be a little repetitive, but I don't think all orgs exactly have "good PR" in mind all the time.

I probably have Mysrai, Hajamin and Terentia around here somewhere for descriptions. Just need to search my logs...

Daevos = He is a fiendish brood viscanti demigod and almost like a wall, his ominous figure stands tall, looming high above average for his race. Swathing him like a cloak, shadows cling to his body, hiding his features from casual observation. Occasionally, a flicker of light will reveal faint hints of his face, highlighting the lines of his jaw. High upon his brow glows a runic symbol that pulses with a foreboding crimson hue, its meaning unknown. Piercing through the shadows are mismatched eyes that glow with an unnatural luminescence, one the colour of fresh-spilled blood, the other the glowing yellow of molten gold. Flowing over his shoulders is long silver hair, strands of it intertwined with blue tendrils. It falls forward around his face and draws attention to his strong visage. Parting his hair are the pointed, battle-notched tips of his ears. Gracing his temples are twisted, blackened horns, a ring of crafted silver encircling each, the tips sharpened into vicious points.

Obviously he's ur'Guard, and during his peak he was a Blademaster (though presently he's a Pureblade). Personality-wise he was the stoic, quiet type, and he almost always took the front in combat situations; which meant he was consistently popular in Magnagora.

No Ackleberry?

Of course, besides that *coughpainfulcough* blunder, it looks very cool. I might just try it and toy around with it.

Doesn't he have like a... glowy cloak form or something? Invisible man style?

Are you high jack? D has almost always, traditionally, been a pureblade. 80% of the time he's been pureblade.

Also you shouldn't even bother including Hallifax/Gaudi in the game. 5-6 years of history compared with...what? Some new faces and alts?

Pureblade wasn't even around most of the time, he was definitely BM.

And Hallifax and Gaudiguch are pretty crucial to the game's setting, which is its best part...playerbase age notwithstanding.

what year was pureblade released

He DOES have a "physical form", but he uses it so, so rarely that it would make more sense to just have him be an invisi-bro all the time. Though, there is a statue of it somewhere (which is the only time I've ever actually seen it), so let me go grab that for you real quick, since it is way uncool to hide delicious descriptions from those who request them.


Anyone who manages to make a statue out of marble that has all that glowy stuff has got skills.

So much stuff has happened.

Seriously, the :censor: gone down, you can't even imagine.

Though, to be fair, most of it did happen in closed of boardrooms and in back-room dealings.

It sounds like you're talking about some shady there. Also, quite possibly inappropriate . :

From what I have seen and heard from friends is that Lusternia is pretty stagnant today. I think they should have reduced the amount of orgs instead of adding two more out of obligation. So I'm biased against Halli/Gaudi.

Not sure that's why it's "stagnant", as it seems both new cities have interesting players. Hallifax seems more active than Gaudi. Seeing both and all the improvements is one of the reasons I ended my retirement.

One of the problems is that MUDs can only be virgin "one time", and that's it. My guess is that history will seem better when it begins than when you come in late. That's probably why the memories and proposals for leaders I see here go back to the earliest leaders, of which only some are still around--let's face it, if the primary player age is High School to College, you are going to lose them down the road no matter what you do. But the problem is, there's only so many virgins you can have--for those wanting an IRE experience, the only cure is to create new MUDs, and there's only one on the table right now (sort of stuck in "development hell" so to speak). These places have to concentrate on expansion and retention, rather than creating new worlds, at least IMO.

I'm actually surprised to see after being mostly retired since Spring of 2008 up until the Fall of 2010 all the changes and all the new players. There does seem to be some new growth and development.

I agree with the 'adding more wasn't really a good idea', to some extent. We're recovering somewhat, but being stretched thinner hurts. Anyways, we really like the potential for Halli and Gaudi (both in the original, and conceptually for the TBG). Harmonics is written up already! I think the other guardians are going to have to wait so that ent strength can be adjusted to how strong everything else is going to be. Basic mechanics and allocations for Illums have been sketched out though!
Keep in mind that in the adapted setting, population won't be an issue! And the guilds are going to just be the elite of each city/commune, there will be 'normal people' bumming around.

I think the warrior rewrite is up next on the list, and hooo! Each city or commune will have their own specilization of the basic warrior skill (still wrestling with a name) and each guild will be required to take their respective orgs totem or rituals spec. However, you can choose to be a more traditional knight, taking athletics and more traditional weaponsets or a bladedancer type warrior, taking acrobatics but not being able to wear as heavy armour. You can also choose to be a tracker/hunter and take that path. It's going to be balanced so that you don't get any absurdity (like not allowing heavy armour AND dodging). One of the main focuses of warriors will probably be playing off of and using each nation's special stack affliction (timewarp for halli, plague for mag, and so on), as Fool said earlier. Of course, with so many options, AND options for different weapons (can you say... spears, glaves?) it's going to be a... verbose page.

Thanks for the desc! I think we're going to stay away from any gods that are explicitly destroyed. I'm not sure how all of the inactive gods we DO have up explained being inactive. I'm actually about to check on all of that.

Late 2005/2006 I think, but you'd have to track down the events post to know for sure. He's definitely been a PB more than a BM, for sheer volume of time, but he was a BM during his (first and most successful) reign as Emperor, and I always think of him as a BM, so I think that's more iconic of him.

If he has a figurine, you could go check it out and see what it attacks you with?