Wyvernbane

Salem stepped into the Keep of Sunbreak, pacing into the great hall. He would pause, pulling the letter he found pinned to the wall free. As he read, he would find himself nodding along. Carefully, he would return the letter to its place, smiling, "Those of us who devote our lives inevitably find ourselves needing to roam. May your travels glow with the guidance of the Lord of Sunlight, Sister."

To those that remained in the Grove as the others boarded their vessels to move into a new realm, they might see a strange creature, one not previously seen among the brush. An ancient, decrepit squirrel wandered through the undergrowth, albino and white as snow. To those that attempted to commune with it, he would have no words, no sentences- except one. "Guide owl Home." The great-great-great-great-great grandchild of a squirrel that once graced the figure of the Owl would sit nearby, watching Taynei, Owl, and the others ready themselves. It would follow them up from the Undergrove to the Fae Ring, meandering across the stone and wooden steps with the same slowness of an old man. It slowly climbed a small tree, more a bush really, near the Fae Circle, its red eyes blinking hard with each bright flash of green. When the deed was done, it turned slowly as the waves of Druidic Energies crashed over the realm of Arcas. ~~~~ Over the coming days and weeks, the abandoned Grove would be the home of a growing number of squirrels. Much like the Druids who felt the pulse of pure agony, these squirrels mourned. Though there were no eyes to see, no ears to hear, none except those of the Aspects themselves, these creatures gathered. Perhaps some working of a soul long passed through into the Eternal Forest, they cautiously wandered into the Fae Ring where Owl passed on. They filled it, day after day, with all sorts of seeds- pinecones, acorns, sweetgums, samaras, pods, and nuts. The pile grew and grew until even the mushrooms composing the circle were hidden beneath them. At last, the albino squirrel emerged once more, leading a small pack of others that carried a long lost length of wood. After centuries separated from its master, the length of a long-dead Mother Tree branch would be dead itself. An unpolished emerald sat still clasped in a claw-like vice at the top of this stick, the length covered in brown and shriveled vines. The elder squirrel would seem to direct the others to the pile, and after several moments of struggle, the Staff of the Squirrel Druid, lost to the ages yet maintained by a line of squirrels still in some ways bound to the realm beyond, was placed within the last mortal destination of the Owl Druid. An eternal monument to her memory. Blessed be. ~~~

gotta go sicko mode MC skin: https://gyazo.com/fe0ae77953675f528dd372eac21288eb Artwork: in forum signature for 'Salem'

Hello! I’ve been gone off the serve for a little bit, and while I was gone I deleted an email account associated with my old forum account. (which the profile name is currently ‘Inactive Account’. I also seem to have forgotten the password, and without the email, have no way of recovering the account. The account has over 5 years of content, rep, and association with myself contained within it, so I’d like it back. If any admin/FM/whoever deals with this stuff now could help be recover it, that would be greatly appreciated!

You know those memes that are absolute **** in the first place, and were never funny? Yeah this is one of those. Let it die, for God's sake.

yep, totally not a new actor.. +1

You and I have been playing on a very different server, then. There is no such thing as a freebuild ghost town thus far. I've never not seen anyone RPing at the crossroads. The cities? I have warp. I go around to those cities all the time. I've seen maybe three people. "Shitty OOC bullshit protection", eh? How about nation protection? Nations have been around as long as they have because they are wired into the server as immortal. I don't know if you played the last two maps, but nations failed. Both maps, they failed to provide RP. I understand partially your hesitance to open freebuild to unlimited protection. I agree. But the idea of "no raid cap and unlimited destruction" will only lead to OOC toxicity. If we're going to do anything even remotely close to that, then settlements that can sustain activity should be given the opportunity to receive protection. The answer, however, is not to say "**** freebuild m-muh nations must continue". Instead, work to improve your nation so that you can actually sustain activity. Freebuild thus far has brought back a ton of old players who missed the system. By spouting off that it is a cancer to the server, you're immediately driving players away. If you want more RP, a good start is to have more RPers, not try to force everyone into an area they hate.

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Useless x2. Never used them.

A certain, grizzled old squirrel would follow Taynuel back to Axios, as it had followed and watched all this time.