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Illysia

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« Reply #465 on: September 10, 2013, 03:02:13 am »
Even the roof has gotten empty-er.

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« Reply #466 on: September 10, 2013, 03:10:57 am »
I don't know when you last played, but for a while the RP was so horrible in the tavern that people avoided going there. You might recall the pokemon battles... yes, pokemon. It seems there's more RP going on at the forge and in the plaza. Funny how thing change.


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« Reply #467 on: September 10, 2013, 03:25:02 am »
i want to say the last time i actually logged in, was circa 2007-ish. 

i take it that's why my ring of familiar doesn't do anything any more? 
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"Jekkar is an old one-eared smelly elitist party-pooper jerkface."  - Neko K

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« Reply #468 on: September 10, 2013, 03:28:00 am »
Yep.. that would certainly explain it.  Many changes since then.

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« Reply #469 on: September 10, 2013, 03:46:07 am »
give me a rundown and i'll give you this healing pot i have in my inventory.  i don't see an expiration date on it so it's probably still safe to drink.  :innocent:

i figured the rp stuff has been relaxed when i logged in and found a menki with fishbreath or some such for a last name running around.  course, when i'm only seeing avg 20-25 peoples online, the forums go hours without any new posts made, and the overall general atmosphere to be kinda gloomy and downtrodden I assumed as much.

ah well, i made a promise to a certain some one a long time ago, and since i'm apparently still alive and in good enough health to type I aim to get this off my bucket list one way or another.  regardless of the fact she seems long gone from here as well, i'm a man that keeps his promises.
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"Jekkar is an old one-eared smelly elitist party-pooper jerkface."  - Neko K

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« Reply #470 on: September 10, 2013, 03:56:36 am »
The tavern still gets used, probably just not at the hours you're on. But I agree about having too much world.

I wasn't there for the Pokemon battles at that exact moment, but I remember having something of a grasp on the game and roleplaying in MMOs at that point, and hearing the complaining about them. 'Bout the same time, there was an RP that I did catch - maybe four people were in one tavern room, roleplaying having tanks and guns in main. Myself and a few others managed to convince them that this line of RP was better suited to a group. This was also during the tail end of the whole Epic Tavern Battle thing (and yeah, I participated in a couple of those, myself >_>; )

I don't know, I think it's a quality-quantity thing; there was bad RP, yes. There was also LOTS of RP. You could hardly move anywhere within the cities without running into someone roleplaying. The more people there are in-game at a time, the more leeway there is for "bad" RP; just take a look at the retail version of WoW for that. I haven't been on there for months but I'll bet there's even worse with the Starter Edition free to play version now...and I'm talking even worse than Catgirl-Demon-Ninja-Vampire-Night-Elf-High-School. I'm not even exaggerating, THAT was a thing (if I recall correctly, night elves and vampires were the only officially canon parts of the lore, but even the vampires were just some low-level mobs for one little quest - unless I'm thinking of another game). It's just a fact of gaming. If you don't like to see what you consider bad roleplay, that's what the /ignore feature is for (people often boasted to me about how many others they had blocked. Knowing what I do now, that'd probably land them on my own list).
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« Reply #471 on: September 10, 2013, 04:03:20 am »
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« Reply #472 on: September 10, 2013, 04:12:09 am »
xD

I think those folks left too. Anyhow, there's a bulletin board behind Harn's that might be of some use for getting in touch with what's happening in the game. Good luck.

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« Reply #473 on: September 10, 2013, 04:25:13 am »
so to recap:

the RPer's and the nonRPer's finally squared off in an epic battle that encompassed both game world and forums in a battle to the death over who would have superiority, and after many long, hard years of fighting, with several attempts to end the war peacefully, (eg splitting of the masses into 2 realms, one for each type of player), ultimately both sides nearly destroyed each other into oblivion, leaving behind the now broken and long forgotten planes of existence to be found by generations later that had somehow survived the fallout; the pieces of what was a grand idea for a community and game scattered to the winds, with only a small handful remaining that really knows what awful events unfolded so many years ago, and even a smaller handful that still grasp onto the hope and dreams that some day, when all the fallout has subdued, there will come a time of the great renascence, where the community will unite once more, both RPer and their nonRPer brethren, where peace and harmony rule the land, where each player works together to build the community to beyond the greatness that even the founders had dreamed of; the day when the game would be stable, the day when the movement and camera controls weren't designed like we were still in the 90's, where the skill leveling system made sense and the GUI didn't make your eyes hurt, where all the main features were working and balanced, where the world was full of interesting places and things to see, and the day when the forums had a thriving community where people helped each other and trolls were locked in their cages.
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"Jekkar is an old one-eared smelly elitist party-pooper jerkface."  - Neko K

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« Reply #474 on: September 10, 2013, 04:35:41 am »

Yeah, that sounds about right. Condensed it into a single paragraph like that almost makes it sound like an epic storyline. Sadly, its been more like a crippling disease that refused to go away. Anyhow, that's all behind us now. There are some very good players on now. Enjoy.

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« Reply #475 on: September 10, 2013, 04:46:18 am »
I'm pretty good at being able turn the mundane into exciting. That was just one sentence, btw.  paragraphs require at least two :P

I won't be around for long, however.  Just don't have the strength to be able to devote the appropriate time that it would require.  RL reasons.  I'm no spring chicken any more.

I'm here to finish that story that got started oh so long ago and put those characters to rest with proper justice.  Once done, I'll be on my way to work on crossing more items off the list while I'm still around to do them.  But hey, we always got the memories of days past to cheer us up.  Well, until dementia sets in, but I'm not completely there just yet!
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"Jekkar is an old one-eared smelly elitist party-pooper jerkface."  - Neko K

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Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« Reply #476 on: September 10, 2013, 04:57:11 am »
Don't forget the unicorns laying golden eggs that hatch into mouseketeers!



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« Reply #477 on: September 10, 2013, 05:03:24 am »
*pricks Rirenil's dream bubble with a pop*

Gotta pop it before someone ruins it.

But, one correction here:
so to recap:

the RPer's and the nonRPer's finally squared off in an epic battle that encompassed both game world and forums in a battle to the death over who would have superiority, and after many long, hard years of fighting, with several attempts to end the war peacefully, (eg splitting of the masses into 2 realms, one for each type of player), ultimately both sides nearly destroyed each other into oblivion ran off most of each others supporters, leaving behind the now broken and long forgotten planes of existence to be found by generations later that had somehow survived arrived long after the fallout had settled.

I think that the community could probably revive on it's own with a fresh influx of people but it's hard to manage that and the numbers grow too slowly to sustain a noticeable increase.


Yeah, that sounds about right. Condensed it into a single paragraph like that almost makes it sound like an epic storyline. Sadly, its been more like a crippling disease that refused to go away. Anyhow, that's all behind us now. There are some very good players on now. Enjoy.

Even a pandemic can be epic, but, to be fair, I think the community is too chill to have the same problems it used to have. What passes for a flamewar now isn't even enough to cook a few hotdogs.

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Re: The "I'm Bored" Conversation Thread
« Reply #478 on: September 10, 2013, 05:19:51 am »
What is this thread about?

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« Reply #479 on: September 10, 2013, 05:20:46 am »
Ah, the dramatic flame wars and the silence that was left in its wake. Glad that's over.

Seriously, I've been hopping on a little at night and enjoy the RP that I've been running into. There's some good players running around and I intend to spend some more time here assuming that real life is not too demanding.

You should not return Illysia, there is nothing here that would be of interest to you. Just dark, conflict RP and killing and torture and stuff. Stay on that nice, safe federation ship of yours ;)