Verilian's Soapbox

by **Verilian** on February 13th, 2013, 3:33 pm

Hi everyone! I have two videos today. The first one is a discussion about the Ebonstryfe and Black Sun.

And the second one is a discussion of why anyone would choose to follow Rhysol.

One thing I want to remind you all is that every character is different. Your character's reasons for choosing to serve Rhysol are their own. These are just some examples. The same goes with the differences between the Black Sun and Ebonstryfe. While the individual player might have a completely different experience from another player, the stuff in that video is more general. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the videos, or at the very least took some sort of insight from them. And now.. I go.

~V

by **Wrenmae** on February 13th, 2013, 6:33 pm

I remember us discussing this yesterday, thanks so much for putting up vids. I think it's important to give Rhysol some more face time, and to call a few more characters to follow.

Great stuff as always Ver

Thanks for the explanation.

by **Gossamer** on February 13th, 2013, 7:08 pm

I just wanted to point out...

The Syliran Knights don't want to destroy anything. They want to uphold peace and civilization and provide a safe healthy thriving community for themselves and their people. They actually don't have a long history of interaction with Ravok and probably most of them don't know much about Ravok. The distance and culture is so separate that its not really a bridge there. Most Sylirans around Syliras don't know much about Rhysol or Ravok or the culture there.

This regional quest is probably the first interaction any of them have had... and I don't really know where its going or how far its gotten. So its influence on their culture at this point is probably a minimum.

by **Verilian** on February 13th, 2013, 7:32 pm

Yeah, Jen's right. I had to replay the video to see what I said, exactly, but yeah, I wasn't trying to say the knights are actually going to destroy Ravok. Sure, they're enemies of Rhysol, but they aren't like.. actively trying to attack the city or anything. And what she said about the not knowing much about each other is also something I really would like to see more played of. There isn't supposed to be a lot of interaction between cities. Everybody isn't supposed to know everything about everywhere. The only thing a Ravokian usually knows about Syliras is what the Black Sun tells them, which is that Syliras is the enemy.

As far as the regional quest goes, I doubt it will have much impact culturally on either city. I don't even think the two factions have interacted yet. But I guess we'll see. I know Chev and I were trying to spark up some conflict, but that didn't play out, and it still wasn't going to be anything massive.

Anyway.. um.. that is all for now.

~V

by **Verilian** on February 18th, 2013, 3:11 pm

So I made a video describing how I grade threads, or rather, my process I go through when grading a thread. I did this a few days ago after discussing it with someone else, but decided not to post it. But then Jules mentioned it in her video and someone asked about it and I was like, "I made a video like that" and she told me to post it.. so here it is. Actually, it's two videos, because I realized the first one was incomplete. Anyway, here goes:

http://youtu.be/pM9CibsLAAw

And here is the one that goes into a bit more detail:

http://youtu.be/6yX68RjtH-E

by **Verilian** on March 1st, 2013, 3:14 pm

http://youtu.be/yBlPIh1go2g

Here is a video describing my new feature/location thread in Ravok, known simply as The Spot. Check it out, watch the video, and if you have any questions about it, or anything else, feel free to post them here. Remember, I need questions to make good videos, otherwise I'm just rambling about whatever is on my mind.

by **Verilian** on March 2nd, 2013, 1:31 am

Here is a video aimed at answering the many questions about The Spot so far.

http://youtu.be/rMUVDU1wIh4

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask, and I'll try my best to answer.

by **Caweyre** on March 2nd, 2013, 2:25 am

You mentioned you want to LARP: you should see if you can convince someone to youtube LARP with you, Mizahar style. That would be pretty cool. I'd watch it.

^_^

And you're right... vampires don't need to breath underwater.

by **Verilian** on March 6th, 2013, 2:48 pm

Salary, Seasonal XP, and Fedoras

http://youtu.be/mKlCAKn7hWs

by **Rayage** on March 6th, 2013, 3:11 pm

You are way too comfortable with Miza

I laughed out loud when you started to order food. I was writing all happy listening then I heard something that made me click away and actually look at the video XD Just so awesome. Hope you enjoyed it!

Also dont ask why I found that so funny. Im not sure.