KamiKahzy
Tectonic Nomad
Ah, that squishiest of sanctuaries.
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Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
Squishy? If you smash it enough it gets pretty sturdy, if you can hold it together. 
Heyitsjiwon
One Thousand Club
Beck, why you gotta play with my feelings like this?
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Anyways, totally in.
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Anyways, totally in.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
HAHAHHAH. alright, I'll review all recent PMs this weekend and start to post again after Sunday unless I get time earlier. @Heyitsjiwon -- These things are hot and cold... just glad you have a temperature thresh-hold that might be within tolerances. 
--Beck
--Beck
Heyitsjiwon
One Thousand Club
This whole new site thing is quite a mess.
KamiKahzy
Tectonic Nomad
Idk, I think it's pretty streamlined to be honest. It'll just take a while to get used to.
SpiralErrant
Senior Member
Aaand back to follow!
So if we're carrying on with this same group, Kam, would you like to handle the gnoll prisoner issue together since you're back?
So if we're carrying on with this same group, Kam, would you like to handle the gnoll prisoner issue together since you're back?
Prince Vaethorion
Junior Member
Different look...
Hope everyone had a nice summer!
Hope everyone had a nice summer!
SpiralErrant
Senior Member
Given the bump we've hit and the loss of players maybe we should consider a soft reboot? Just a suggestion.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
What's a "soft reboot"?
I did fall off, I'll admit but when I look at the main thread there is a HUGE amount of material I put down and very little response. I don't know why the game stalled, but I'm sorry for letting anybody down.
If there's interest we can see about maybe having a reboot with a jump forward like some people suggested, where old folks could come back, or new folks could be subbed in. If there isn't enough interest or faith in the game continuing, I'll ask around if there is a way to archive it for later reboot.
In any case -- I really wanted to get to the next part of the story, but even if it doesn't continue -- Here is a video of the Dream of the Ratkin Shaman -- the dream of a Huge Tyren Lord, Bearing a flag of freedom through a bitter winter -- with a promise that the ratkin might be born again free. Full of symbolism -- if this is the last post in the story, the ratkin prophesy might give a strange sort of closure... That a beast (and four dirty paws) just might be the key to a puzzle that would unravel the Cull...
I did fall off, I'll admit but when I look at the main thread there is a HUGE amount of material I put down and very little response. I don't know why the game stalled, but I'm sorry for letting anybody down.
If there's interest we can see about maybe having a reboot with a jump forward like some people suggested, where old folks could come back, or new folks could be subbed in. If there isn't enough interest or faith in the game continuing, I'll ask around if there is a way to archive it for later reboot.
In any case -- I really wanted to get to the next part of the story, but even if it doesn't continue -- Here is a video of the Dream of the Ratkin Shaman -- the dream of a Huge Tyren Lord, Bearing a flag of freedom through a bitter winter -- with a promise that the ratkin might be born again free. Full of symbolism -- if this is the last post in the story, the ratkin prophesy might give a strange sort of closure... That a beast (and four dirty paws) just might be the key to a puzzle that would unravel the Cull...
General Deth Glitch
Two Thousand Club
Hello. how did my people fare in the end? Also SUPER FAKIN' INTERESTED. I wont fail you this time.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
I'm noting your interest... and I'll tell you how your people fared, best I can.
With the departure of their leader Maeder -- which while never officially understood, was put forward PR-wise as his going on a pilgrimage into the interior of the continent to seek some artifact of Dracos, or some whispered perhaps possibly the avatar of the dragon goddess herself. The Barbarian Baez kept the faith of Dracos strong in the faction, but faith alone could not keep it intact forever.
The faith survived -- and propagated in the colony. Conditions were drawn, and the more cultured of the faction accepted invitation to become Attolian citizens, while the convict element formed a closer relationship to the 'Platz itself, hiring themselves out as labor in the service of other factions, and as an ad-hoc defense force for one of the center-points of the colony. The conditions of the decentralization of "The Outcast" faction was the construction of a temple to Dracos -- Likely to be adorned with a great ruby symbolic of the fire and beauty of the goddess... the first institution of religion in the new colony. Second to that, Maeder's people insisted that before they could move on, a symbolic funeral for Maeder would need to be held -- a special longship was built, and burned at sea in accordance with custom.*
With their lord honored and the faith's future secured, The aforementioned manpower found it's home with other factions. Strangest perhaps, the Elite countrymen of Maeder's forces sought refuge with the high elves... sharing an interest in asymmetrical warfare... and perhaps a future where the foes of Dracos, in the new world or from the old, would be paid back in blood.
There's a lot more detail in the story, but that's the gist. The convicts while mostly autonomous were valuable support of the attolian forces in the first battle of Mud-elf aggression... and the general populace advanced their station with Attolian citizenship. In the end, their future seemed bright -- though they paid some of the harshest costs for the colony...
...Highest of note, they held onto their faith -- and sought not just to propagate the dragon faith in their own numbers, but dreamed of the faith being a cornerstone of culture as the settlement might grow.
"Praises to Dracos, warmer of the hearth, fire in the night and star in sky, who's breath is in the torch of every believer -- lighting the way into the dark of the forgotten lands."
*I have imagry relating to this, but I won't post it in the thread because it didn't occur yet in thread. PM me and I'll send a link.
With the departure of their leader Maeder -- which while never officially understood, was put forward PR-wise as his going on a pilgrimage into the interior of the continent to seek some artifact of Dracos, or some whispered perhaps possibly the avatar of the dragon goddess herself. The Barbarian Baez kept the faith of Dracos strong in the faction, but faith alone could not keep it intact forever.
The faith survived -- and propagated in the colony. Conditions were drawn, and the more cultured of the faction accepted invitation to become Attolian citizens, while the convict element formed a closer relationship to the 'Platz itself, hiring themselves out as labor in the service of other factions, and as an ad-hoc defense force for one of the center-points of the colony. The conditions of the decentralization of "The Outcast" faction was the construction of a temple to Dracos -- Likely to be adorned with a great ruby symbolic of the fire and beauty of the goddess... the first institution of religion in the new colony. Second to that, Maeder's people insisted that before they could move on, a symbolic funeral for Maeder would need to be held -- a special longship was built, and burned at sea in accordance with custom.*
With their lord honored and the faith's future secured, The aforementioned manpower found it's home with other factions. Strangest perhaps, the Elite countrymen of Maeder's forces sought refuge with the high elves... sharing an interest in asymmetrical warfare... and perhaps a future where the foes of Dracos, in the new world or from the old, would be paid back in blood.
There's a lot more detail in the story, but that's the gist. The convicts while mostly autonomous were valuable support of the attolian forces in the first battle of Mud-elf aggression... and the general populace advanced their station with Attolian citizenship. In the end, their future seemed bright -- though they paid some of the harshest costs for the colony...
...Highest of note, they held onto their faith -- and sought not just to propagate the dragon faith in their own numbers, but dreamed of the faith being a cornerstone of culture as the settlement might grow.
"Praises to Dracos, warmer of the hearth, fire in the night and star in sky, who's breath is in the torch of every believer -- lighting the way into the dark of the forgotten lands."
*I have imagry relating to this, but I won't post it in the thread because it didn't occur yet in thread. PM me and I'll send a link.
General Deth Glitch
Two Thousand Club
I'm noting your interest... and I'll tell you how your people fared, best I can.
With the departure of their leader Maeder -- which while never officially understood, was put forward PR-wise as his going on a pilgrimage into the interior of the continent to seek some artifact of Dracos, or some whispered perhaps possibly the avatar of the dragon goddess herself. The Barbarian Baez kept the faith of Dracos strong in the faction, but faith alone could not keep it intact forever.
The faith survived -- and propagated in the colony. Conditions were drawn, and the more cultured of the faction accepted invitation to become Attolian citizens, while the convict element formed a closer relationship to the 'Platz itself, hiring themselves out as labor in the service of other factions, and as an ad-hoc defense force for one of the center-points of the colony. The conditions of the decentralization of "The Outcast" faction was the construction of a temple to Dracos -- Likely to be adorned with a great ruby symbolic of the fire and beauty of the goddess... the first institution of religion in the new colony. Second to that, Maeder's people insisted that before they could move on, a symbolic funeral for Maeder would need to be held -- a special longship was built, and burned at sea in accordance with custom.*
With their lord honored and the faith's future secured, The aforementioned manpower found it's home with other factions. Strangest perhaps, the Elite countrymen of Maeder's forces sought refuge with the high elves... sharing an interest in asymmetrical warfare... and perhaps a future where the foes of Dracos, in the new world or from the old, would be paid back in blood.
There's a lot more detail in the story, but that's the gist. The convicts while mostly autonomous were valuable support of the attolian forces in the first battle of Mud-elf aggression... and the general populace advanced their station with Attolian citizenship. In the end, their future seemed bright -- though they paid some of the harshest costs for the colony...
...Highest of note, they held onto their faith -- and sought not just to propagate the dragon faith in their own numbers, but dreamed of the faith being a cornerstone of culture as the settlement might grow.
"Praises to Dracos, warmer of the hearth, fire in the night and star in sky, who's breath is in the torch of every believer -- lighting the way into the dark of the forgotten lands."
*I have imagry relating to this, but I won't post it in the thread because it didn't occur yet in thread. PM me and I'll send a link.
Wow.. that makes me UBER happy
SpiralErrant
Senior Member
I'd be hyped for a reboot or do over of some sort! Always thought of this one as my favourite RP on the site.
Heyitsjiwon
One Thousand Club
Holy. The gods have answered my prayers. I've been lurking this forum and checking occasionally to see if this would come back. I would be more than willing to partake and help with a reboot.
Leusis
Two Thousand Club
I would be interested in a reboot as would my brother im sure. I meant to form a second faction after I had left, however I never really received any message back about my idea.
If it will be a reboot however, I definitely have something planned.
If it will be a reboot however, I definitely have something planned.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
I'll take a peek at this after the new year... traveling a lot but it's good to see "the core" interested. I think the reboot would be a flash forward, maybe kicking up again in the spring of the next year, or the late winter... taking into account how the factions were heading the colony would be developed along desired or specified lines, and maybe I'd at the start (or quickly) introduce the idea of immigrants-- influence gained from the first seasons would have an impact on priority or amount of manpower gained, and whether immigrants were different or similar to associated factions could make things more interesting. Also the idea of a bigger colony -- becoming a town, could bring new ideas of scale, and of course... the time of "the cull" will be drawing nigh.
we'll see.
we'll see.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
I took a peek at discord but didn't see anything partaining to our game. Let me know if it is or can be used as such.
General Deth Glitch
Two Thousand Club
Well I would be more then willing to host it but I can tell you other RP's I am/have been in use it successfully
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
If it worked it could get lots of cool consensus/debate and quests evolved quicker. I don't dount, I merely wait to see if this beats fruit.
Heyitsjiwon
One Thousand Club
Just waiting with bated breath.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
Me too! I've been doing some stuff behind the scenes and if we don't mind starting mostly updating on weekends I can begin before April, after April 1st, my schedule will get much less busy.
If there weren't time sensitive events I thought it might be cool to jump WELL forward to a higher stage of the colony, but maybe that's in the cards after we get moving.
The current Chapter's primary plot is finding out what can be about the lost continent and it's inhabitants, and the more immediate threat of the cull.
I'm glad you're still interested. even if we only get a few of the old guard the game will rock as hard as it ever did.
Probably randomly assign loot in the future though, and let people trade if they want... in fact, that sounds much better as it's a great way to leverage cooperation even in the face of racial tensions. XD
If there weren't time sensitive events I thought it might be cool to jump WELL forward to a higher stage of the colony, but maybe that's in the cards after we get moving.
The current Chapter's primary plot is finding out what can be about the lost continent and it's inhabitants, and the more immediate threat of the cull.
I'm glad you're still interested. even if we only get a few of the old guard the game will rock as hard as it ever did.
Probably randomly assign loot in the future though, and let people trade if they want... in fact, that sounds much better as it's a great way to leverage cooperation even in the face of racial tensions. XD
Heyitsjiwon
One Thousand Club
By all means, don't feel rushed. It's meant to be an enjoyment not work.
SpiralErrant
Senior Member
@Beckoncall Speaking of the time sensitive stuff I'd be up for a collab of the gnoll prisoner situation whenever you're free. I think that might be an easier way of doing it rather than the usual play by post deal.
Beckoncall
World-Weaver and servant to the most-holy PC
I like that. Collabs are often faster and have high levels of agency. I'll be in touch!
