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Post by lulz on Mar 10, 2014 22:22:54 GMT -5
Like I said, I never used it. I mean, what are the odds you'll meet and befriend a fellow nilazi?
I'm sure there's a use for it, and I think a previous poster offered one such possibility.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 23:01:15 GMT -5
travel gate lets you open a gate to a location you've previously transcribed onto an item. Portal lets you open a gate to a person if you are connected to him psionically. Which is by the way how drovians who make too much noise die. A sorc or a nilazi finds his mind while they're sending shadow, opening a portal, looking in to make sure no one is there, entering, and fucking the drovian up while he's unaware of what's going on. A drovian cannot have barrier up while sending shadows.
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Post by nyrocrisy on May 14, 2014 9:29:32 GMT -5
I've played a handful of Nilazi PCs over the years. I consider it my second most enjoyable magicker guild. Here is a quick fun thing that I did with one of mine. I operated out of the Labyrinth for a brief moment and at night I use to raise a small army of undead assassins and thieves. I would then order them to shadow me and I would walk down into the city-state proper and cause a bit of a ruckus. Me? I would obviously look like a piece of shit 'rinth rat in rags and the such. Though, I would have this army of rotting death slinking and following me about.
Your undead retain all the skills/abilities they had when they were alive. One thing I always wanted to play with and have not had a chance yet, is killing some of the gemmed elementalist and seeing if they can still cast their spells. Kill one of those whiran and then have it cast invis and fly on me? Tehehe.
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Post by donglepants on May 24, 2014 17:23:54 GMT -5
They can. I've raised a dead pc I found once with my early-days Nilazi, still pretty unbranched, and when an aggro NPC came into the room, the undead flamestriked it.
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Post by drunkendwarf on May 28, 2014 10:48:47 GMT -5
Depends on the power level. At anything other than mon, when you possess a corpse your original body goes lifeless and sits in the room where you cast the spell. You can 'leave' to return your body, or you will return to your body when the corpse you are possessing is "killed". At mon, you assume that body though. Your old body is no more and if you are killed while in the new body, you are killed for good and will be staring at the mantis head.
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Post by jkarr on May 28, 2014 11:07:12 GMT -5
so what happens if at less than mon level ur original body is killed/disposed of/beheaded while ur in the new one?
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2014 12:07:36 GMT -5
so what happens if at less than mon level ur original body is killed/disposed of/beheaded while ur in the new one? You die! MUAHAHAHA!!!
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Post by drunkendwarf on May 28, 2014 13:10:13 GMT -5
Yup. You die. So don't leave your body laying around in some unsafe place while you go exploring in your newly possessed corpse.
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Post by jkarr on May 28, 2014 13:14:46 GMT -5
be hilarious if some asshole buried a nilazi body only to see him rise from the sands like a zombie!
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Post by grumble on May 28, 2014 16:12:42 GMT -5
can u still die of old age if mon posses young corpse? wat about elf nilazi mon possess half-giant? can ride or no?
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Post by jkarr on May 28, 2014 18:32:48 GMT -5
could justify it rpwise by becoming 'beyond ur race' by communing with the void if u ever possess a nonelf
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Post by BitterFlashback on May 28, 2014 20:03:28 GMT -5
can u still die of old age if mon posses young corpse? wat about elf nilazi mon possess half-giant? can ride or no? I think age is one of the physical traits you inherit when you possess a corpse.
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Post by Patuk on May 29, 2014 7:05:22 GMT -5
.. Mantis. Ha. Ha. Ha.
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Post by legendary on May 29, 2014 7:12:28 GMT -5
Once upon a time, in the golden age of Allanak, there was a truly horrible Nilazi that was rejected by a Borsail noblewoman, a woman he had been obsessing over for some time. She dressed him down in public, in plain view of a large number of VIPs for his pretension, her scorn costing him his job and social standing. It may be difficult for newer players to understand, but this was at a time where noble houses were of extreme importance and events like political weddings, public assassinations and even the occasional rash of violence in the streets or between House loyalists happened and were acknowledged at being a Big Deal.
One's social standing was of tremendous importance, as opposed to now where it exists to decide whom may way silk panties in the Gaj and who may not. To lose it, in a public manner no less, would be life destroying if not immediately fatal.
When he learned she was a lesbian and having a scandalous affair with a nubile young northern girl (you could have "girl" in your short descriptions at the time, so it made for some very disturbing couples), he used his power to take possession of her and lived with the noblewoman of his dreams for about a year before she became suspicious. He had done his research thanks to a Drovian contact (whom he killed prior to the body snatching, as he would later gloat), but he didn't know many of things he should, such as how women pleasure each other without the benefit of a phallus that the "former" girl knew oh so well.
To be quite blunt, I think the player viewed some "lesbian" porn and winged it. It was simply embarrassing to observe.
The noblewoman suspected something was wrong and confronted her young lover about her odd behavior, where he informed her of the situation in stunning, heartless brevity. She responded... poorly, to say the least, so he cut her with a tainted dagger, paralyzing her. She had chosen the location for the confrontation with privacy in mind, confident with a blade as she was, so there was no chance of them being discovered by accident. He had severed her connection to the rest of the Known World almost immediately, leaving her at his complete and utter mercy.
As it turns out, he had none. When the token villains exposition was taken care of, he molested her in graphic detail, then bled her from the wrists until her heart stopped.
And that, as they say, was that.
For all their utility in grand, world inclusive plots, that isn't where they truly shine. It's in the way they can infiltrate your characters life and be close to them, live with them, sleep with them, be loved by them and you, the player, will never know about it until it's too late. Have you had a romantic relationship between your PC and another, where you came to know the other players style well enough that you 'know' it's them under their hood by they way they emote or their manner of speech? It can lead to a feeling of comfortable security for a lot of players, myself included.
That one or two other PCs that have been with yours for game years, that you can trust to look out for you. Those PCs you aren't afraid to go AFK around while resting and vulnerable. You've even exchanged a few joking OOC messages with them over a typo here (like when you emote shit in the chair, rather than sit) or an accidental targeting when they walked in on a sparring session. They've had chance upon chance to betray you, leak your secrets, kill you when you're at low HP and resting, but they haven't, even when offered rewards from others for doing so. You know they aren't out to get you.
Only, they are out to get you, quite literally, and you've been playing with a stranger for the last 90 RL days. You've been playing with the corpse of that trusted friend, controlled by a stranger.
You had no idea, right up until they delivered you to the mantis head.
Salt in the wound, you run into your old character in the bazaar, who strikes up a conversation with your new character, emulating your former character perfectly thanks to weeks of real time observing how you, the player, go about playing your character; the way you emote, the figures of speech, daily habits, likes and dislikes. Everything. They were getting to know you before they moved in and moved you out, permanently.
It hits you right in the chest, leaving you sitting, staring, stunned that you, as a player, never had a clue what was really happening.
It's a special kind of betrayal, one you have to experience to really understand the full effect of.
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Post by jcarter on May 29, 2014 7:25:22 GMT -5
awesome story. loved the trip down memory lane about when nobles were a Big Deal in Allanak. I laughed pretty hard though that the impostor was spotted due to poor mudsexxing though.
nilazi are such a fantastic class and so well-implemented in the MUD. the powers are perfectly suited for the game - taking over another player, traversing a dangerous world in the blink of an eye, raising the undead, able to gate to anyone they can contact in a moment's notice. So much so that they're one of the few classes where magick is scary not because of how hard a fireball can damage you but the insidious ways they can go right through your defenses.
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