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Upside, by all reports involvement for combat-y type characters in this RPT is much better than the volcano HRPT.

Perhaps, but it can be achieved without giving players real influence. It's all a matter of positioning and involvement. If I have a blue robe NPC whisper to a blue robe PC about how the Black Robes have been keeping Blue Robes from progressing for decades (explaining the ban against players ascending to Red Robe since whats his face) then if that blue robe PC agrees and "signs up" to be part of the plot you have emotional involvement. Give them little missions, tell them to get their ducks in a row for when it happens, let them participate in some cutscene. They don't have any real involvement (if you don't want them too) but the investment is still there because now you've positioned the story and event in a context that benefits or harms them in a meaningful way.

I doubt it, no one is associating Ness with it at all or Adhira. Everyone is referencing Nyr (currently).

One potential way to do what they're doing is to try something I did on TSOSmud when I was a storyteller. I created a PC (normally) then set them to the skill I wanted them at. I made it appear like it was a very old player that was playing it and the entire point of this PC which exists for 2 months, was to die during an event to stress to the real players how imperiled they really were.

Staff could have easily made some role calls for players with max karma and put them in the position of the black robes with very strict instructions. Let them build up the emotional balance for both of them, get people invested in their cause or whatever. Then have both of them nuked (as per the plan) thus leaving everyone shocked!

How important are nameless black robes that see less interaction than a Cenyr based male dwarf? I mean it's like introducing an admiral in star trek, discovering they're evil or slug aliens, and then removing that admiral all in 1 episode.

The Allanak civil war has been brewing since the Senate nonsense.

From what staff have said, they indicated that the closure of Tuluk is a staff side decision. They want to "consolidate staff" not consolidate players. I believe they even said Tuluk's players are doing great and there are enough of them but that keeping Tuluk staffed is difficult because of rollover and some staff just do not want to oversee Tuluk.

So it is a purely OOC decision as quoted by Nyr. The final RPT will give an IC excuse for so many Tuluki's to be out in the world and not back at home, but it according to staff posts nothing ICly changes about Tuluk. I imagine they're doing this in order to re-open it further down the line. I also imagine they expect Tuluki concepts to diminish so players don't have to answer why they can't enter their own city.