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BM General Discussion / Re: That's a brave peasant. (The poor bastard...)

« on: June 02, 2014, 11:29:06 PM »

Hah, is that even physically possible? As in, is there enough surface area on the human body for 6584 arrows to hit?

A great many of them probably just split other arrows already hit.

Now, if we assume that each arrow weighs about 4 ounces, that's 1,646 pounds worth of arrow embedded into the body of this one person. That's not so much a hedgehog as a hedge with potentially a hog somewhere inside. I like to imagine that the peasant in question literally kept charging until the weight of accumulated arrows crushed him, because there was no other way, he kept on coming.

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Dwilight / Re: Sanguis Astroism

« on: April 14, 2014, 04:16:38 AM »

This whole conversation is a tad ridiculous. The notion that Jonsu and only Jonsu talks about SA theologically is just silly; Constantine for example had a number of private sermons and religious discussions concerning balance and prophecy during the power-struggle (though since then I've had little time to play which is why I'm resigning him) and in fact I distinctly remember a public discussion involving Jonsu, Constantine and others regarding the exact nature of balance and embracing one Star over the others.

Furthermore the notion that SA needs more sermons to flourish has been counter to my experience playing there for a number of years. Apart from the discussions on the authority of the Prophet and balance during Allison's heyday theology rarely sparked significant controversy, and when it did it was often just a few players who would dominate. And even then such discussions were rarely based on huge block-text sermons but rather more dynamic discussion.
Of course I'm not saying that we shouldn't have as much theology/religious rp as possible, I'm just saying that attributing SA's decline to "not enough sermons" seems to run counter to my experience of the times when SA was flourishing.

Also can someone please tell me exactly when SA became this "kick-everyone out" machine that Stabbity and dustole are complaining about here? Admittedly I did take a break but both before my pause and since Helm took over casting someone out of SA has been the usual nigh-impossible lengthy process. Did something happen while I was away that changed this? And since SA's decline has really been brewing since long before I paused can it really be said to be the main cause of the problems?

The only time I saw a kick-everyone-out phenomenon going on was when Rabisu started the Inquisition and started going after Niselurians and anyone who sympathized with them. It was a whole Thing, briefly. (Started in an effort to make SA more interesting!)

And you're right about the sermons. Making sermons, or for that matter writing lengthy spiritual texts (cough), doesn't lead to more activity or involvement. I wonder if it might actually have an opposite effect? Who knows.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Hi Everyone!

« on: April 02, 2014, 08:49:09 AM »

Rabisu had a boating accident.

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BM General Discussion / Re: April fool's event - Daimon!

« on: April 02, 2014, 03:36:31 AM »

Every April Fool's joke Tom plays winds up being a really interesting idea. I think the Courtier class started off as one, didn't it?

But yeah, the Daimon thing, I would venture to guess, is not ever going to happen.

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BM General Discussion / Re: April fool's event - Daimon!

« on: April 02, 2014, 01:31:03 AM »

The REAL April fool's joke is that some of the Daimons actually are totally real Daimons.

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Roleplaying / Re: The Daimon Chronicles

« on: April 01, 2014, 10:27:38 AM »

The thing called Ixion made its way to Qubel Lighthouse. The human guards here were alert and wary, but they weren't terribly suspicious of yet another commoner. He hunched his shoulders and kept his head bent down, shuffling along like a beaten dog, and didn't warrant much attention. People paid more heed to the fish.

Ixion possessed a few coins. It had been days since he'd incarnated into this wretched realm, and longer still since he'd had a true meal. He felt ashamed that his human shell was getting hungry, and more ashamed still that his eyes saw the fishermen and fish mongers hawking their juicy fresh catches and that he wanted to eat the fish. Fish! Still, it would serve as sustenance, at least until his powers grew.

His mouth worked to form words in their crude language. "I will have a fish."

"One?" the fisher looked Ixion up and down, mouth twisting in suspicion. "Two coppers."

In a just world, you'd be paying me for the gift of peeling the skin from you. But he couldn't say that. "Two. Fine. Here." He fumbled the pieces of metal out with his clumsy, weak human fingers. The fisherman took the coins with a look of distaste and handed him some sort of fish, holding it out at arm's length as to ward away the smell.

Ixion walked away gnawing on the raw fish. There was a disappointing lack of blood. He looked resentfully at the humans, gathered around their barrels and markets. Always with the transactions and trades, these people. As if mortal existence were not really just a farcical veneer poorly covering up the petty and meaningless suffering that was everywhere.

Even the lowliest of these miserable creatures thought him some kind of fool. But soon, soon he would burst forth from his shell, and reveal his true form. Then they would at last understand. They were the real fools!

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Roleplaying / The Daimon Chronicles

« on: April 01, 2014, 10:24:12 AM »

Ixion prowled the lands.

In Qubel, the farmers and villagers gave him sullen, expressionless glances before shrugging and returning to their mundane activities. As if to say to themselves - another adventurer. Another wanderer of the roads, a hunter of beasts, prone to delusion and mad hopes.

Fools! They were the deluded ones.

One day they would learn. He would find the secret weapons, and train up his abilities. And while they were tilling the earth and paying taxes to their leering liege-lords, he would be doing acts of unspeakable might. He would unleash anguish and death upon the whole of the world!

But for now, the thing called Ixion had to wear his human skin, waiting until the dark powers within him could grow and burst forth.

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Far East Island / Re: Infernotentacles

« on: April 01, 2014, 05:12:37 AM »

Beware the tentacles, lads.

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Far East Island / Re: The Walls of Winter

« on: March 01, 2014, 02:44:18 AM »

Good news for the drinkers in the Far East. Now they can get their drinks on the rocks.

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BM General Discussion / Re: T Minus 28 Days

« on: March 01, 2014, 12:20:34 AM »

Oh dear.

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Dwilight / Re: Sanguis Astroism

« on: February 27, 2014, 09:56:56 PM »

Dude, I'm not a winner and I find the whole situation the "losers" have made this out to be as stupid. He did roleplay, and if he didn't do it to the degree where he would have no chance of pulling it off, well !@#$ing tough. Stop whinging about the whole thing and move on. It's you people who are making this to be much bigger than it really is, and won't treat this like the free game it is.

You're only making my point. I wasn't even talking to you.

Same with you, Glaumring.

What are you even posting in this thread for? You're not part of SA, and by your own words you don't think SA is important or means anything either. You just want to tell me what a whinging powergamer I am. Gee thanks! It's awesome that you're here to insert your unwanted opinions constantly into other discussions!

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Dwilight / Re: Sanguis Astroism

« on: February 27, 2014, 05:49:32 AM »

I'm still surprised by the rage-quits. You can't turn around in most continents without seeing someone make a dick move that will inevitably destroy a realm. A gang-bang here, unreasonable diplomacy changes there, backstabs/betrayals/secessions and allegiance changes scattered throughout. Everyone seems willing to fight in the most Machiavellian ways they can muster to make sure their team turns out on top.

I have seen lamentations and gnashing of teeth on the forum from dick moves. People usually carry on, though. I'm starting to think that some of the quits/deletions were just looking for a reason. I think it was Vellos who said he had been waning on the game for quite some time.

Even now I don't regret the decision to delete the character because it was much better than trying to muddle through an incomplete game system made broken by what I still consider a rather crummy attitude on the part of some people. The "winning" attitude, which has in this thread reared its head whenever the "winners" talk about the "losers;" in your case, painting them as rage-quitters gnashing their teeth who were just looking for excuses to stop playing; it's been described by someone else as "getting outplayed," and so forth. This is just not how I see the game, and I would rather 'quit' by deleting the character than go along with situations that, if the religion game had been completed (to the extend that the dev team would consider complete, taking into account the unprecedented size and scope of a religion like SA), or if certain mechanics hadn't been played to the near total exclusion of role playing, wouldn't have happened because they are unrealistic, implausible, and frankly kind of stupid. But I've tried explaining this before and it's just not sunk in with anybody so, eh, whatever.

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BM General Discussion / Re: T Minus 28 Days

« on: February 27, 2014, 01:39:50 AM »

Honestly I've been sticking in the game mostly to see what happens with this much anticipated island freezing. I hope the result will be more character interaction.

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Dwilight / Re: Sanguis Astroism

« on: February 25, 2014, 12:21:07 AM »

SA hasn't had a presence or even priests in Asylon for ages even after Asylon repeatedly called for SA priests to come preach to their flock. I think what we have here is SA actually thinking they are important when really years of corruption and stagnation of ideas and a prophet who can't even be bothered to play has brought the whole rotten carcass down around it and even then you have these kind of delusional golden robed bejewelled nobles wandering around the smoking hulk tittering and oblivious to the fact that their entire world has changed and will continue to change.

Yes, your indifference towards SA is notorious. That's why you're posting here so frequently. Because of how unimportant it all is to you.

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Dwilight / Re: Sanguis Astroism

« on: February 22, 2014, 06:06:23 PM »

Yeah, I don't really buy it. You may be on the sidelines, but you cheer and shake your pompoms one way or the other.