OOC Info [Alvadas] False Impressions

[Fable]

Crafty little spider folk, I tell ya. I'll be making an official summer announcement later today! Welcome to summer everyone!

[Fable]

Well well well, here we go again!

Welcome to Summer!

Firstly, I'm excited to see what this season will bring, both in terms of faces new and old and all of those delicious plots you all have been fermenting since the spring! I'm looking forward to seeing what stories you all will weave.

So, I thought I would just try to steal a little bit of your time with this post to discuss the calendar as well as a few things I'm going to be adding to the city location-wise as well as rewrites and such. So here we go!

I'm sure you've all noticed that the calendar has some nifty little interactive events. Unless there is a specific note attached to the event, they do not need to be moderated. However, do try to use common sense with that. If you're wanting to befriend, tame, and capture one of the bears, I would need to see extensive roleplaying put into that to even think about running a little moderated event in which the possibility of winning the bear's loyalty could even be considered. (Though I would suggest against this specific course of action.)

So the first bit: Imagine something like a diamond mine, only instead of terrible forced labor and blood diamonds everywhere, there's caves and the occasional rock dwelling! The flat bit at the bottom is actually quite large... Sort of like a massive city plaza. The paths themselves are relatively wide, more than enough space for two wagons to pass side by side.

The next span of "bland" is like developmental housing. Everything is neatly quartered, all the houses are the same square, grey design, and the roads are straight and even. Streets will still shift, but there isn't a whole lot of illusionary variation on this one. The Pudgy Men will appear at the corner of every intersection, so there are quite a few of them. They can't be killed, though keep in mind the general opinion of them is a fair amount of fondness, so violent acts will probably be met with resistance from the rest of the community.

Finally, the segment with doors. It's like never stepping outside. Each door leads to a new place, though it should be noted that any outdoor locations are inaccessible for the duration of the event period, though windows will be able to see outside, they cannot be opened. You can break them, if you like, but there won't be anything behind them but wall.

Bonnie and Clyde are, for the time being, more rumor than NPC. If you would like to write seeing them, that's fine, but please do not self moderate them.

So with that... We have another new location! The Cravens are a longstanding family of spritists who protect the city from a plethora of undesirables. Do give them a gander, and if any of them spark your plot sense, feel free to send me a PM with thoughts and we can discuss!

The Womiyu rewrite is coming along nicely. I have several more things I need to do, but as it's getting close to completion, I am leaning more towards a new set of NPCs. There is a good chance the old NPCs may still be used for various plots, but I'm going to just say now that if you have included them in your plots for the future, now is the time to revamp those without them.

I'm also (very slowly) working on more of a player's guide to Alvadas. I'm having a little bit of trouble getting all of my thoughts down into a neatly ordered list of sorts, so again, if there was/is/might be anything you're uncertain of with the available information or wish specific things were easier to find in regards to know-how, please don't hesitate to point them out to me. I've been inundated with Alvadas lore from the moment I became AS, so my ideas of what people might not understand are a little warped from what a new player coming into the city might find confusing.

Very lastly, but certainly not leastly, we have another birthday!

Happy Birthday Aislyn!

I hope your day is filled with sweet things and giddy excitement. Congratulations on another year, and here's to many more to come!

And with that, I think that's everything I wanted to say! If you've put up placeholders for your job threads, please finish those and submit them to my office for wages. If you're needing a job, please submit a request in my office as well. As always, if you need any help or have any questions, don't hesitate to PM me, and I'll do the best I can to address those things with you!

May your quills never still and thoughts never flop!

[Vizayas]

I figured I'd post this here just in case you haven't seen it. Keep up the amazingness, Fable!

The Djed Storm of 512

In Alvadas the storm itself will weather the very walls concealing the illusions before it makes its way further into the city. With the cities first line of defense is taken down, along with the containment field which holds in Alvada's illusions, the very nature and power of Alvadas will leak out of the city spreading over the wilderness nearby warping the space illusion touches, twisting it with the fierceness of the storm. Unpleasant things will come from this as a hoard of everything nasty assembles to attack the city after the storm.

Within Alvadas the storm itself will be silent from screams of the people to the vast destruction of the buildings therein everything will be silenced, muted in a strange but oddly poetic fashion many will perish. The wild Djed won't stop with just destroying random buildings, but will seem to target buildings of importance. The Colosseum of Alvadas will be completely leveled, destroyed, with no trace of the old stone that makes up the building. Shale, the ringmaster, also will disappear without a trace. The red sand which once graced the Colosseum grounds will turn into red stone, a ruby like substance. This stone will spread over the immediate area around the colosseum, covering the ground and those touching it along with it.

The Underground will remain woefully unaffected by the storms ravages. The red moon which is in constant shine above the place will wax and wane as the storm progresses, even red stars will start to appear in the sky, oddly if anyone would notice a star will appear from each persons death within the Djed storm. The cities own way of counting and remembering and mourning the loss.

The very heart of the city with an aura extending to the very edges of the Alvadas, the fabled Inima, will be affected by the storm as well. Its presence twisted and warped by the massive amounts of Djed new things will start arising from it, creatures and plants of pure thought, of abstract concepts and the simplest of ideas. These beings will rise and thrive with the spark of their creation, the Djed storm.

[Aislyn Leavold]

Happy 200 posts! I'm going to celebrate this minimal achievement by finally finishing my god dang job threads!

Woo!

And can I just say that, I don't know how, but I missed the happy birthday from Fable in that post. I guess I got distracted reading the lore on the Cravens. I'm a month late, but thank you very much! Keep up the awesome work~

[Mirage]

A short announcement please read

http://www.mizahar.com/forums/post452871.html#p452871

[Karin]

Hi!

I just thought I'd introduce my character, and say that I'm really looking forward to getting started with threads and stuffs!
Not sure how long Karin's going to stay here, but she wants to save up money so she's going to have to stay a while, and after reading people's threads I'm wanting to stay more and more, this place is awesome

[Phobius]

Welcome the ever-great City of Illusions, Karin! I can already tell you that you're gonna enjoy it, here. c:

Excuse me as I get ready to throw Pho into your thread. He could really use some more human buddies, heheh.

[Karin]

Aw, thanks! That's awesome, I look forward to it ^_^

[Karin]

And didn't realise that I couldn't rp with an intervention, so unfortunately I had to delete my thread for now apologies if there was anyone wanting to join, but I'll be Bach ^_^

[Oceane Fougere]

I have the happy little green mark on my CS now, so I thought I would post and say if anyone would like to develop some plots, send me a PM. Always open to thread about practically anything.