A Warning To Sympathizers Of Silver

[Demotheus 651]

Merylynn tilts her head at the news, frowning. 

 

She writes down a note.

 

"What happened to Malinor? What happened to the elves? I barely remember anything past a few moments, but I do have some memories from long ago. Why wherever I look are elves scrambling for power and thirsting for the blood of others? Do you know forgiveness? Stop dwelling on the past, don't dwell on the future. Dwell on the now. If the high elves attack you now, deal with it now. And to the high elves, the same. And know that not every high elf and not every other elf is at fault when attacks or hostilities may happen. It is the few who carried them out, and the ones that ordered them, that are at fault.

 

What happened to Malinor, and the elves? I barely remember anything . . ." *this stops here, as she notices that she's already written that, and she pins the note.*

 

~"Merylynn~"

[Giga 357]

Archdruid Gi'Garun frowns, simply shaking his head.

 

"Elves are so...corrupt as a whole. They bicker amongst themselves like children. I honestly prefer Uruks...much more civilised...at least in a comparison, I feel safer around them than I do my own kin..." 

 

He dips his head slightly in approval of his own words.

[Baconthief 682]

Mizziyrn stands at the pool site with the other Div'cruan who discovered the taint. Mizziyrn states, irritation evident in his voice.

 

"Such hypercritical nonsense. If these pool were truly a reflection on elven division, they would of tainted the moment the high elves splintered from elfen society, when a high prince threatened to remove all dark elves from malinor, or when our kin killed every dryad, wood elf, and faerie alike that  stepped into dark-haven's forest. Division has always been with us, Malin has been fractured the moment we left Aegis.. Some of these damned faeries are so arrogant they actually believe they are a misunderstood benevolence."

 

Mizziyrn kicks a lose rock into the pool of red

 

It's more reasonable to state a high elf's pursuit of knowledge lead them to necromancy, they then cursed the cavern in spite. Just as they did with the library, courthouse, and the rest of the mess we must now clean."

[Stag 3234]

OOC

 

((RPly the pools are what Kalameet said. Borked. They weren't functioning properly when we first arrived and they degraded due to a some inevitable reason which was a mere coincidence with the arrival of Iblees and the wood elf rebellion.  However in RP you would be metagaming  out the wazoo to figure that out since you don't/wouldn't have any past knowledge researching the pools and wouldn't have had that relative knowledge during the time line of them degrading unless you spent the time to break into the locked golden pools in Anthos and Athera like my character who took care of them, hence his name "The Caretaker."

 

Plus it is an event area that I eventually want to work with the high elves to fix.

You wouldn't ask a non-druid to help with the re-birthing of an elder tree, a non-dwarf to deal with their runechanting events or a non-orc to do shaman events which is precisely what I am doing with the high elven artifact site. Some events can be fluid and involve many groups but some events require a specific group of players. Also it should be known that any IC knowledge I post is in the bias of Iatrilemar since the timeline from his perspective seems to state that the wood elves are responsible. Along with that to clarify Iat is saying that war gives more power to Iblees, the daemon of chaos. From his view he sees the amount of chaos going on AFTER the release of Iblees to be the cause of it since he believes Iblees is the cause of rot in the pools.

 

So yeah, not sure when the revival event for the pools will happen. I need to write up what these pools are since each pools have the potential to be different. The original was mana driven, the Anthos was deity driven (connected to the waters that flowed into the ascended temple) and the Athera pools which again were already flawed from the beginning.))

[CosmicWhaleShark 2488]

OOC

 

 However in RP you would be metagaming  out the wazoo to figure that out since you don't/wouldn't have any past knowledge researching the pools and wouldn't have had that relative knowledge during the time line of them degrading unless you spent the time to break into the locked golden pools in Anthos and Athera like my character who took care of them, hence his name "The Caretaker."

 

 I need to write up what these pools are since each pools have the potential to be different. The original was mana driven, the Anthos was deity driven (connected to the waters that flowed into the ascended temple) and the Athera pools which again were already flawed from the beginning.))

 

So, I'm going to go ahead and address this, because there are a few things that appear inconsistent to me.

 

1. How in the world would it be metagaming if you have yet to even write the actual reasons for the pools being dysfunctional in the first place? How are you RPing this if the lore hasn't even been created yet, basically. Use the original mana driven methods if you don't have something yet.

 

2. Deity driven, what? High Elves predominately are either atheist or dismissive of religion and their associated deities. That's old school knowledge, you can't just suddenly special snowflake yourselves with Aenguals. Clerics were outlawed for a period - my character had to kill a cleric to defend the High Elven leader.

 

 

They weren't functioning properly when we first arrived and they degraded due to a some inevitable reason which was a mere coincidence with the arrival of Iblees and the wood elf rebellion. 

 

3.

 

 

I was at the pools rather recently in the scheme of things. This was taken around mid-September, and we visited a few times afterwards as well. The only signs we saw in the area were "OOC: If you break any blocks in here you WILL be banned".

 

I'm calling bull on all of what you said, basically. The pools were at no point showing degradation before the warclaim, Iat was trapped in a darn impervious crystal and survived somehow without food, water or oxygen for IG months at a time - his perspective is delightfully knowledgeable and poetic considering that fact. Most importantly, you can't just accuse people of metagaming whenever it's like "oh dang, there's taint here, these pools are quite obviously not working anymore because they're flowing with blood". On top of that, you just concluded with the fact that you haven't actually wrote out the reasons yet.

 

Seems convenient.

[Dohvi 622]

((Woah. Chill there. The pools thing is connected to several recent happenings, and didn't just come out of no where. I had been speaking with BNK about this for a while, and he mentioned having a chat with Firespirit about the idea he was thinking of before he even changed the pools to a rotted version. Why's this such an OOC issue? Keep it in RP.))

[CosmicWhaleShark 2488]

((We've been trying to. Did you think it was our idea to warclaim an empty district?))

[Supremacy 3361]

((You made your rebellion obvious IC. Thus the high elves walked out knowing while they definetly outnumbered the wood elves, they didn't outnumber their friends. Keep in mind that the high elves had no obligation to allow you to conquer their city, that was a willing choice OOC— Thus what you got is what you got, you're lucky enough you had a group willing enough to have built a city for you and let you have it after moths were spent planning it. You chose to take the high elven construction, deal with what was planned for it)).

[Dohvi 622]

((I just don't understand why there's such passive aggressive bite to so many of the recent posts. No one has more reason to be annoyed than me, but I couldn't care less. Just trying to have fun. What's the issue with the pools being rotted? Why does everything have to make perfect sense the moment you see it? Doesn't that kill the mystery?))

[CosmicWhaleShark 2488]

((There is no issue with the pools being rotted, we're trying to solve the issue -RPly, mind you - however and BNK is saying they cannot be healed - he went on to say that he has not written the actual reason why they cannot be healed yet. That is the frustration.))

[Stag 3234]

((It is a high elven event and has been since it's conception. I apologize for any the inconvenience that may cause.))

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

((There is no issue with the pools being rotted, we're trying to solve the issue -RPly, mind you - however and BNK is saying they cannot be healed - he went on to say that he has not written the actual reason why they cannot be healed yet. That is the frustration.))

 

 

((It is a high elven event and has been since it's conception. I apologize for any the inconvenience that may cause.))

 

((So what you're saying is that you're OOCly blocking any attempts to RPly interact with the pools unless it's a high elf who RPs with them?))

[Stag 3234]

((You can try to RP with the pools but you will not succeed in reviving them at this time. That goes for any high elf who attempts at this time. Again, sorry for the inconvenience but the work to go into the event area was not done by you and I reserve the right to design events as I please. The same can be said for any event. Anyways. This thread has gone beyond off-topic so locking.))

[Birdwhisperer 1174]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.