So about Tuluk

I don't see how anyone on staff could miss how game-breaking that is. I mean, what could they possibly have been thinking when they created that? And the way Sanvean defended it when Taeri's player complained, just ripping posts down off the GDB. Wasn't there any staff discussion about how destructive she was to anything happening in Tuluk?

By the way, Mekillot, have any of your characters ever been summoned, then threatened and/or killed?

 I have to agree with this, she is has a high level sponsored position after all and instead of making the area more enjoyable she is part of the reason Tuluk is dead. From what I've seen over the years, she mostly hangs out somewhere remote most of the time, just mindbending quietly. Someone here mentioned that Samos could basically also read bios and potentially destroy plots, but no one complains about him or that. I am guessing thats because he as a player contributed more to player enjoyment then he took away. I personally try not to completely blame the player, especially since staff could have stopped them a long time ago just like they did with drunkendwarf's whiran.

 I have to agree with this, she is has a high level sponsored position after all and instead of making the area more enjoyable she is part of the reason Tuluk is dead. From what I've seen over the years, she mostly hangs out somewhere remote most of the time, just mindbending quietly. Someone here mentioned that Samos could basically also read bios and potentially destroy plots, but no one complains about him or that. I am guessing thats because he as a player contributed more to player enjoyment then he took away. I personally try not to completely blame the player, especially since staff could have stopped them a long time ago just like they did with drunkendwarf's whiran.
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Agreed, but I'd like to touch on the bolded points, if you would. It is IC, it is purposeful, not the player attempting to twink out, etc, but actually trying to be a good lirathan, that had them doing that. If you got the impression she often hid remote places to do it from afar, you'd be right, as to all of the lirathan npcs as they DID rather, outside a tiny handful, so again, this is her acting in accordance with the role. Finally, a mundane given sorcery, and then psionics, is not the same as a born psionicist that has been trained and weaned onto a neural network vast enough to watch the entire known at once, and physically addictive (as is the case with Lirathans, vs the case with a southern templar who gets granted a little psionics). Again, I really can't lay it at the feet of the player just because it's horrible for the city. Every bit of the reasons WHY it is horrible... is because of them trying to actually do their job. The job simply shouldn't exist, or at the very least, shouldn't extend to prevalent.

Qoriya, Qoriya, Qoriya. The Lirathan before had the same identical methods. Serilla? I forgot the name. Also lived forever, also probed bios, also killed plots. Samos did the same thing.

I dont really see how you're expecting Tuluk to work without psionics. They dont have magicks to fall back on. How are they going to maintain the "superpower" status? Some Red Fang/Guild/Mage Gang variant would just annihilate the entire playerbase of the templarate and legions, if it wasnt for Tuluki access to psionics. Coded and virtual.

It's a shitty thing. And the people playing psionic templars should be a little lazier in their actions and dont be super-effective in their jobs and data mining. But you cant really seriously suggest removal of psionics from Tuluk. If that ever happens, they will get such massive, stupidly crazy alternative abilities, you'll 'miss' lirathans.

There's a lot of options... Obviously the best way for Tuluk to combat magic and move away from ninja mindbenders is technology. Tuluk occupies a lust location. They have clearly focused on culture, art, and history as their cornerstones. Give them flashpowder bombs (disrupt casting) Poisonous fungus spores (causes wild thoughts or inverse think/speak) Give them a mine within Tuluki walls and have the metal have an anti-magick quality to it.

PS - Dujat shells and Duskhorn scales supposedly have anti-magick properties.

If her character is a loyal lirathan, then she has to play however loyal lirathans play. However if she learns that playing this way is creating a lot of grief for the rest of the playerbase, is the #1 cause of death for all mage PCs combined, and is one of the main reasons (other than Nyr) that no one plays in Tuluk, then the player should accept that responsibility and maybe - store. Voluntarily. And send a note to the staff telling them that she won't be responsible for fucking up the game anymore.

The staff might be responsible for letting her do this and encouraging it. But she is responsible for the implementation.

qoriya should store for the good of the game - disagree, personally, I think she should just lose any psi powers that were lirathan based and keep only her innate ones, and yes, she should definitely store, but not because anything is getting ruined. largely because 3/4 sponsored roles in tuluk have been around for multiple rl years and have very stagnant, rut-filled interaction with each other, and most of whom have already achieved all the things they can expect to achieve, so letting in new blood for half the northern sponsored roles would, I think, breathe life into politics, and thus plots, there. Actually, 4/5 pcs in sponsored roles, even, if the tenneshis are still around and it's still Raleris Winrothol, and the fat tenneshi chosen and his wife and qoriya, with an outlier that might be shorter lived, sometimes as a templar, sometimes as a noble. change it up.

@ghaati - she runs her lirathan like most of the npc lirathans are ran, though I animated one once to mindblast someone in Luir's for attacking a soldier and then running off. that was interesting.