mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Jul 4, 2024 18:42:24 GMT -5
For as long as Armageddon has been a roleplaying game, spoilers have been discussed in the shadows of hidden IRC channels, AIM instant messages, and Discord clique group chats. The shadowboard serves as an equalizer, granting access to these precious rumors with a mere click of a link to those without friends in the right places -- or friends at all, for that matter. Those who wish to have the wonder of the game removed from them may either seek out such friends or continue reading. Those who cry and stomp their feet when the shadowboard does anything remotely subversive may choose to click the Back button, or persist in the doomed world they have created.
Spoiler alert!
As many have guessed, and as is made exceedingly obvious in the secret role announcement, Usiku's Secret Clan 1 is the Kuraci Archives. Once House Kurac's wetwork arm, it has since been reformed into a group of spies and explorers bent on getting an advantage over Salarr in the copper race that is totally and definitely happening. By seeking new sources of copper, better means of refining it, or even a source of new metal that Salarr doesn't have access to yet, the Kuraci Archives will lead the way. Based in the new village east of the ruins of Red Storm East, which I will call Red Storm East East, the Archives and Kurac in general can expect to do a lot of exploration of the southeast part of the map.
Spoiler alert!
House Salarr isn't out of the game just yet! Its own copper mine, Helwith's Redemption, northwest of the Oash Plantation, is infested with ankhegs and needs a group of dumb motherfuckers to go down there and clear it out! What will happen after that remains unverified*.
* "Don't spread unverified rumors." That's what my uncle always told me. Spoilers are only spoilers if it's actually happening!
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Post by Azerbanjani on Jul 5, 2024 21:01:28 GMT -5
How the fuck do you better refine copper you can melt the shit in a campfire just put it on some heat and pour it into some molds or something damn.
I actually have no idea if there are ways of making it better I assume there are actually but I'm being needlessly aggressive.
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Post by uncoolio on Jul 5, 2024 21:28:29 GMT -5
Copper and tin make bronze. Never actually heard of tin in Zalanthas, but I have seen bronze. I believe some northern templar had a bronze sword once.
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Post by Azerbanjani on Jul 5, 2024 21:30:33 GMT -5
You can also make a type of bronze with silver and gold but I think its mostly a decoration thing.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Jul 6, 2024 1:21:37 GMT -5
How the fuck do you better refine copper it's actually a similar process to making a katana out of obsidian that doesn't shatter when you sneeze too close to it |
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Post by mehtastic on Jul 6, 2024 12:51:17 GMT -5
Spoiler alert!
Thinking about joining a combat clan like the Byn or the AoD because it'll bring you closer to those sweet, sweet plots? Good idea! Yesterday, Armageddon reached its highest player count since opening day, reaching a peak of 80 players, by arranging the most engaging RPT of the season thus far!
In this exciting battle, 20ish PCs from the combat clans, the Oash Circle and House Salarr rode out of the western gate. After paying their respects to the steel dragon statue with a choreographed upnod performance, they spammed "west" while saying things like "scrab spotted south" and "tarantula two west". They referred to "buffs" as they paused to make sure the finger-wigglers were able to cast helpful spells on their allies through what was reportedly a beautiful display of magick karma requirements.
They then ran into an NPC Rukkian who tried to hold back this impressive, professional force with walls of sand, despite the party's ability to simply walk around them or destroy them with Highlurd magick, followed by easily-outnumbered groups of raider NPCs which were easy to gangbang to death thanks to the game's old-ass flanking code.
But why? Why would these seasoned veterans slaughter their way westward? It was, of course, to reach an important cave that may have been of tactical use to the raiders. When the PCs finally arrived, an epic battle between raiders and PCs occurred, thrusting the players into the ultimate tac- hold on. puts finger to earpiece. I'm being told the cave was actually completely empty, and they returned to the city after a short investigation.
Stuff is happening, folks!
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Jul 6, 2024 13:52:16 GMT -5
They referred to "buffs" as they paused to make sure the finger-wigglers were able to cast helpful spells on their allies
ugh
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Post by Azerbanjani on Jul 6, 2024 21:49:04 GMT -5
In this house we use the colloquially correct term 'weaves' to refer to me getting every Ruk spell known to man.
Honestly I'd even take someone being funny about it in character and coming up with a funny name for it.
Or....you know.
Anything.
I don't think we always have to be serious about magick, especially in a world where it's consistent 99% of the time, but damn I do not like me some WoW terminology.
(Someone quote reply to this about how this is hateful to blind people)
Personally I'd call it getting 'mulled up' because you're being made faster/stronger/more durable like a Mul but other options are valid.
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Post by mehtastic on Jul 13, 2024 16:53:36 GMT -5
Spoiler alert!
No-story woes got you down? Think that the game's plot is nonexistent? Wondering why the hell you're wasting your time? Think again!
A character named Gled has been finding and selling unusual rocks. A genius was able to figure out that the rocks contained copper by doing "look malachite" with the item in their inventory, then proceeded to spread the information based on that. Now that's what I call Armageddon-quality roleplaying!
It would seem that these items have been hidden around the world's forage lists using Staff Logic, AKA eeny meeny MINEy moe. Good luck, and may the game be awash with more miners than qwerty can handle!
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Post by jkarr on Jul 14, 2024 13:10:34 GMT -5
lololol
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Post by generality on Jul 14, 2024 14:02:04 GMT -5
I have decided to throw any rocks that fit the description of copper ores in the silt sea, or in a bag belonging to someone who doesn't talk to people.
We have the decided pleasure of a gladiator role call / Blood Festival. So people like Famous Amos can watch other people's characters die at no risk to themselves.
Stuff is happening, folks!
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Post by Azerbanjani on Jul 14, 2024 14:05:16 GMT -5
I'd unironically love to play a blacksmith sort of character but
-Idly looks over at the merchant houses and staff-
Well
That
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Post by pinkerdlu on Jul 14, 2024 15:54:32 GMT -5
We have the decided pleasure of a gladiator role call / Blood Festival. So people like Famous Amos can watch other people's characters die at no risk to themselves. I think the gladiator rolecall w/ weekly fights every Friday is pretty great. Especially if they follow through with the promised wish. I do have gripes with how gladiators are done in Armageddon, but I can't hate on the rolecall. Knowing Arm, the winner will probably be a dwarf who rolled exceptional strength and wished for a copper codpiece but yanno... you can always hope something cool happens. |
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Post by uncoolio on Jul 14, 2024 16:49:04 GMT -5
Remember when they opened up for like half a dozen gladiator PCs and had them fight regularly, and then there was one particular gladiator with wildly superior skills and max strength + etwo bludgeoning and shit who beat all of them every time, and then it turned out that it was an NPC. Basically, a number of players were invited to play gladiators and then none of them really had any chance to win because staff decided to just ensure that they would always lose by using some overpowered NPC that they presented as if it was just another gladiator PC.
And then one day, someone forgot to move the NPC from the arena waiting room after a fight and some random idiot went in there and killed it while it stood unarmed and unanimated. |
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Post by mehtastic on Jul 15, 2024 8:09:22 GMT -5
Spoiler alert!Ever wondered what you could do with a network of OOC friends willing to play whatever character you wish, 12+ hours a day to play, and... shall we say... significantly relaxed social attitudes towards non-human races? Wait, we already know how that goes thanks to Malifaxis/Shalooonsh? Pretend you don't know that already, and look no further than Arion, the elven proprietor of the PC tavern, the Shady Oasis! Let me begin by saying: I don't think it was a mistake for staff to select an elf for this position, given what they were trying to do. Had they chose anyone else to play an elf, the choice probably would have been very interesting. However, they chose Doublepalli. If you don't know who that is, he was the guy who spent the entire off-season telling stories about his Thryzn PC, Grudash. Outwardly, he is a very eager and ambitious player, if perhaps a little too excited to tell stories about which humans his lizardman was able to bang. But like most players who are like this, they push just a little too hard and step on everyone's toes, both ICly and OOCly, and demonstrate they don't understand what good sportsmanship looks like in a game like this, not only through their own actions, but by the reactions of the players around them. What has Arion done? He: - amassed coins by buying raw materials from grebbers, crafting them, and selling them to NPC shops. You would think a proprietor of a business would actually focus on that business, but alas. Instead of making food and drinks, he has been making high-end jewelry and clothing and cornering markets that could have been filled by player clans. - threatened to take over the Elven Market, pitting his lonefoot self against the city elven tribes, then proceeded to share this plot OOCly to get buy-in from other players. - routinely embarrassed and shunned the Guild publicly in his tavern, then proceeded to seek information on Guild players OOCly. - threatened multiple people, including a Byn Sergeant and an indie crafter, that he can easily pay tens of thousands of coins to have them killed. Then proceeded to share these threats with OOC friends who could potentially play an assassin for the job. Somewhat hilariously, one such friend was playing one of the threatened PCs. - talked smack to a noble, then proceeded to share said smack OOCly hoping that others would pity him for how bullied he is.
However, just as interesting to me is just how many of Arion's enemies are engaged in similar OOC nonsense. So here are all of the plots to kill Arion that I have heard about on the OOC grapevine, from players seeking additional buy-in through ill-advised means. - A Guild plot to break into Arion's warehouse, lure Arion into his own warehouse under the guise of doing business, followed by attacking him once the warehouse door is locked. - An Eastside plot to gank Arion when he is traveling between the Shady Oasis and the bank, which is a trip he makes very often. - A plot within House Fale and the Templarate to slander Arion's name and let him get killed by the two groups above.
- A Byn plot to kill Arion, by making him suffer an accident on the road, should he ever hire them for a trip escort. Notably, this is the only plot that was not discussed IC yet.
For the first time since starting this thread, I was conflicted with the idea of releasing this information versus holding this back, and letting things play out as they tend to do. However, it is in my best interest as a filthy MUSH player for Season One to help the game survive and quarantine the MUD community's worst people, and so I am duty-bound to expose the vast OOC game network the game has fomented in the past four weeks so that players and staff have a chance to clamp down on it before it festers and ruins the game in its entirety. After all, Season One still has two years and eleven months to go, and it would be nice if the game was functional for at least some part of that time period. My recommended action: reboot the Shady Oasis with new leadership and clean house in the game's criminal clans.
As our lord and savior Nergal said, "Some of you simply disgust me." Amen.
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