Hi fellow adventurers!

The summoning glyph is still in the process to summon our beloved GM's Uadjet's new mightily powerful PSUnreal client running machine. (For what else would you use a computer anyway  )

But fear not, adventures can still be had!

Already last week we had a nice player event: Daevaorn's Yliakum Quiz: https://www.hydlaaplaza.com/PlaneShift/smf/index.php?topic=43722.0

And this evening, usual time, there is another little player event: Lost In Yliakum.

It has been heard that it might start at the Stonehead Tavern in Gugrontid...

Best of luck and success for you, Uadjet, to obtain your new QC[1]. Looking forward for exploring new realms and mastering new challenges in new adventures as soon as you are back!

[1] Quantum Computer

So it happened that a group of brave people rescued some Pterosaurs from a situation that scared them. [Please do fill in some details, I joined the event very late!]

Of course these Pterosaurs needed to be brought somewhere and while Damola was still in the hospital caring for a patient, she somehow felt that there would Pterosaurs coming to the city. She finished her work with the patient and then looked for them from the city walls. And surely enough she found the group approaching Amdeneir and rejoiced, summoning her drifter Shirwa to get there as quickly as possible.

Eriz was kind enough to let her ride the Pterosaur he rode:



Damola was so happy to ride a Pterosaur again. Happy enough that she did not really care to find the place where they were to be brought to quickly. But eventually she made it to the place and had her drifter Shirwa and the Pterosaur make friends with one another.



Reluctantly, very reluctantly she brought the Pterosaur into the stables, thinking that it would somehow look a bit sad to her:



But before she brought another one into the stables, she flew with it to one of the towers at the city wall of Amdeneir:



She eventually brought it into the stables as well, Gonger standing next to her:



… to be continued

Hi there!

Now what has



and



to do with this



In that last screenshot health is already good again after I cast a really spell. But it really was "0/0" initially, as well as physical stamina, mana and mental stamina.

All the other stuff reappeared after I closed and re-opened the respective windows.

In somewhat like 8 years of playing PlaneShift I never saw this little gem of a bug. I can say I was a bit scared at first and thought whether the database entry for Damola has gone broke.

Something new is coming…





Maybe… maybe… even today after the Hydlaa Market.

Love,
Damola

Something wierd is going when you see…



… a gobble helps spider Damola to put a keg of cider onto a bar table while gobble Weased plays the lute and a maulbernaut also came to help.

Or…



… when tloke Sulaika helps a tefusangling to drink Red Delicious out of a bucket and…

later a gobble tries to help as well, while a maulbernaut helps with transporting a keg of mead



Some favorites of mine during this special opening of the Den´s:

A gobble begins to whisper something into the tefusanglings's "ear", "If you drink all, you will be a big tefusang."

Sulaika looks to the Maulbernaut, "Feel free to eat all the cookies. Do you need any drink? I think I have asked this now the third time." The insect blushes in light green color

(names of non RCD team members removed or replaced by name of the species, reveal your PS identity yourself, if you wish to    )

Hello!

Just as an announcement for anyone who took part in the event but didn´t notice what I wrote to gossip – and also as an more in-depth explaination on why I handle it this way:

ICly Damola did not take part in the event and thus wasn´t blown off by a GM from the bridge and thus also didn´t die.

Why?

Cause for Damola´s character it would be totally inconsistent to go onto such a bridge and let a strong way blow her into death. She is very cautious and she actually still fears DR ICly quite much. There is no way that she would risk her life so easily without any apparent need to hasten that much.

What happened?

I read the warning about the wind, but as player didn´t recognize that the wind would be that strong that it would threaten Damola´s life. I was about to play Damola as cautious, watching whether the defensive wind spell may have worked, stepped back a bit, but before I could finish writing that a GM already blew Damola off into DR. Actually she fell down with me having written half of the reaction.

I didn´t feel like having had enough time to RP my reaction to the wind thing. I´d expected some kind escalation of the warning like "A strong wind comes up and the bridge staggers dangeriously" or something like that together with some realistic time to RP any response to it before Damola being blown of with no chance to react it. For me it as a digital "You are dead". Thats not much fun to RP. And unlike that last time that happened to a char of mine in a pen and paper RP Damola didn´t accuse a God where something like this actually can be realistic.

I tried playing as if Damola really died there this way the GM have blown her off, but it just didn´t work for me, so I am doing what worked before, I am taking Damola out of this RP completely. ICly she wasn´t there, she didn´t die in a way that would be totally inconsistent to her cautious character. Sure she is much into helping others, but without need she wouldn´t risk her life that easily.

This is not up for discussion for me. I will play her this way, whether you respect it or not.

What would probably have worked for me would be:

1) The wind blow would have been totally unexpectable and Damola wouldn´t have had any chance to react to it. Which it was for me OOCly as a player, cause I didn´t notice that the wind was that strong before Damola was blown off without any chance to react anymore, but not ICly as there has been some warning at least even when on short notice. In real life I would have felt the strongness of the wind and sure I would have respected that, but here we just read text, I didn´t grasp the severity of it as a player. What would have helped me to do would have been some escalation of the warnings like "A strong wind arises and the bridges staggers dangeriously" together with enough time to RP my response to it. Sure Damola would have stepped back then.

2) Damola didn´t die on having been blown off. Actually I got the impression on being blown off Damola fell down from quite a distance from the side of the abyss. I had the impression Damola wasn´t that much into thin air already. And that she may would have fallen down but not all of the distance and would have survived it. But as thats just my perception, she may have been off that far already.

So what would have worked for me would be to carefully being able to choose the amount of risk Damola would take. I didn´t feel that I had this option like in other RP events where Damola stayed in the background instead of attacking a strong NPC. I considered to discuss solution 1 with GMs, but I didn´t feel like there would have been a enough time to reach an outcome that would have worked. Solution 2 only came into my mind after I quitted playing PS already.

Again, I am not willing to discuss this. For me as player this experience has been very frustrating and it feels like a punishment for playing out courage with Damola. Yet, while Damola can be courageful, especially when helping others, she also is not that naive to let wind blow her off that easily. So the way I didn´t notice, I didn´t receive the severity of this wind thing as a player while still having a chance to react to it put her in a place where I didn´t know how to play her anymore, even after I tried one idea. So I am doing what recovers her consistency, I take her out of this.

I did take Damola out of RP ICly before, but rarely – in a situation where I thought I wasn´t give a chance to react in a way that would be consistent to her (although back then I might have had such a chance). And there I even still RP´d it in a way, but in a way that didn´t leave the other party a way to react either – it was before I learned that this is important for RP as a player.

If you think me taking Damola out of this event like this is lame or something like that, feel free not to RP with Damola. Its how I play her. I may stay away from events for a while, as taking out Damola out of RP I initially enjoyed like this is quite frustrating for me as a player. But having to play Damola inconsistently with the core of her character for a longer time would be even more so.


That all said: I liked the general idea of the event and I am grateful for GM´s organizing events like that. So do not let my reaction spoil your fun with the event. Just please respect that Damola wasn´t there. (If you don´t respect it I will still play her that way.)

Greetings, Citizens of Yliakum!

It is with great pleasure to announce that we, Waesed, Kabitar, Mishka and I will be opening the Den´s this evening [ that is Sunday, 2014-08-24, 20:00 GMT+2 aka CEST ].

It will a special opening with some special surprises that you can find out about if you attend.

To all artists, if you want to have play of your favorite new song or bring forth your performance, please talk to one of us or leave a reply in our postbox.



[Sorry, for short term announcement, have been really busy with this and yesterday wonderful event. Mishka, bring your new menu cards ]