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Angkar: Wet season. Precipitation is common during the late afternoon and evening hours. Vegetation grows significantly during the summer, but flooding is a danger due to the monsoons that ravage the country. The rainforest sees evenly distributed rainfall throughout the season.

Ashoka: Desert: Extremely hot and dry. Violent, heavy downpours following long dryspells. Jungle: Hot and humid with frequent, violent rainstorms.

Morrim: Relatively hot and dry, but with a chance of thunderstorms from time to time. The heat may cause forest fires.

Soto: Hot and humid, tree cover is dense while ground growth is restricted. Thunderstorms see the most amount of rainfall during the season, and it can be very windy. On occasion, there are flash floods that can destroy homes and farms built on flood plains.

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January 16, 2018 As you might have noticed, Elenlond has a new skin, all thanks to Mel! Don't forget to check out the new OTMs as well!

December 2, 2017 Winter has settled on Elenlond, bringing sleep for some and new life for others.

September 26, 2017 With the belated arrival of autumn come some interesting developments: new OTMs, a Town Crier and the release of the Elly Awards winners!

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May 31, 2017 Summer has arrived and so has activity check! That's not all though – we also have some new OTMs for you and some staff changes!


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    Let's get this straight; Abilities
    Topic Started: Sep 20 2011, 07:30 AM (556 Views)
    Vor
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    A vampire in control of his urges

    Can staff please be consistent with how you do the abilities? On my second character, you tell me I have to use ability slots for every one of Vor's racial abilities. Yet for Tahl, on his first character, you say Oh no! Please, go ahead and don't use one!
    Yes, I'm a bit angry, so please don't ask if I am or why.
    Also, I had a few ideas for the abilities, and could you please take them into consideration instead of shooting them down?
    Okay.

    First of all, I think simple abilities should be able to be upgraded with other simple slots. Listen. Only slightly. Very, very small upgrades. Speed goes from 1.2x normal, to 1.3 or 1.4x normal. Seriously. Tiny. Not a big deal.
    The reason for this is because I dislike having to make up new, shitty, unfitting abilities for characters. Sometimes the character just wants to specialize. Is that so weird?
    Second of all, if you can't do that for whatever reason, I'd then like to be able to trade in simple abilities for higher ones. Like two simple abilities to make a low intermediate, or something.
    Because like I said, most of my characters are not going to want to arc out and do EVERYTHING. BADLY. For a LONG time.

    That's all I can think of. Thanks for taking the time to read.
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    Sphynx
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    Oil on Fire

    Oh, my PM was too slow! I did actually just send you one regarding the sense abilities, and I can completely understand your concern, since it is a tricky issue. Also Chrome kept crashing for me last night, I wasn't able to explain it as well as I would have liked. So the ability tutorial does say that the following DO REQUIRE and ability slot: Enhanced senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell), Abnormal or above average speed, Abnormal or above average strength, Abnormal or above average weapon prowess, Abnormal or above average accuracy. Enhancing senses is a thin line to cross, and it is definitely a good idea to use an ability slot for them if you are enhancing them beyond average, even if they already would be enhanced for that race, and plan on using it a lot, and Tahl did still use a slot for them. Now things like natural gracefulness, cunning, or even knowledge of a forest/cave/mine/etc; those kinds of things don't need abilities. It gets tricky for some races because there is no set definition for how well an elf can see, how strong a dwarf is, or anything like that. So it is on the Required list because we don't want someone to make an elf character who can shoot an apple with a bow from ten miles away and then say they are good with a bow and have that amazing of eyesight just because they are an elf. It isn't fair to characters that don't play elves, and we want people to be able to play whatever type of character that they want and have the rules be the same throughout. So it's always a good idea to use those ability spots to explain any sense enhancements to your character, especially if you plan on using them IC. If you do have abilities for them, and use them, then no one will question it. If you have the ability, but don't ever use it, then you are more than welcome to change those abilities to something that your character might use.

    There is nothing that says that you can't upgrade simple abilities with other simple abilities, but it gets tricky since simple abilities are just that, simple. So any upgrades like that, we would take on a case by case basis. Like I said though, there isn't anything saying that you can't do that, especially as you gain more posts and get closer and closer to the higher brackets. Obviously if someone tried to do this with their first two abilities without even having any posts, we wouldn't accept that.

    However, I can completely understand the frustration wanting to specialize in something, and it gives me another idea as well. If you did want to have your character specialize in one certain thing, and if a character does only do one thing, realistically they'll learn that thing faster than if they are doing several different things. So, and this is just a suggestion as well, what if a character could use two of their simple abilities to gain an intermediate one to specialize in something earlier than the post bracket? I know we have had issues in the past with people abusing the abilities system, and we don't want that to happen again, but for cases where a person does really want their character to only do one thing, it might be nice since they may not use all their abilities otherwise to give them lots of things that they won't really use. Just an idea at this time, but if that was an option, Vor, would you use it?

    Whoa, and I totally just wrote that entire paragraph above without reading your last part; I was responding to your post section at a time. XP So it sounds like you would use it if the option was available. I can talk to the rest of the staff then about figuring out a way to do that and keep track of it; keeping track of who does it may be the tricky part to start.
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    Vor
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    A vampire in control of his urges

    Okay so that sounds nice. For Vor I'd be focusing on several things really, but those are pretty much all racial. I did try to increase two of his simple abilities when the time came around, by a very small fraction each, but was denied that so I had to come up with other stuff.
    And with Ira...idk. She'd want to learn a lot of stuff at first, then specializing in one ability at a time or something. But nah, since she's a mage she'll be wanting to learn lots of stuff.

    But I guess I do like the faster abilities...like, just reduce starting from the fifty posts. Before that isn't very hard to reach. Maybe down to fourty or fourty five to get that simple and intermediate, and then instead of eighty make it seventy...or you could do it case by case too, like if a character really want to specialize in magic resistance and super strength, or even just one ability like shielding, then they should be able to use the next ability slots to full advantage, and since they'd only have a few abilities, they're gonna be weaker than others, so them getting upgrades in that ability or two is only fair; it's evening the ground actually.

    I know it is a very creative way to make skills and abilities for your characters, but in some ways it's quite limited xD
    If I may, I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of small details like that, and I'm on...pretty much...24/7. So having something to do other than wait for replies and occasionally post would be nice?
    I guess it could be kind of like the compendium, but more specific, obviously.
    Btw I did a compendium type thing on a site once, and kept track of it for many months. But then I couldn't be around as much cuz of...personal problems. But it was fun : D
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    Kestrel Sumner
    And then she was gone, her hips swinging as the knives jostled her thighs, passing by guards with her head held high, a haughty smile upon her lips.

    We (the staff) can definitely discuss saving up slots in order to reach brackets earlier, but we'd need to work everything out before we implemented it, as I wouldn't want to see this being abused or problems cropping up because we didn't account for certain scenarios. I would rather not play with the post amounts/when characters reach brackets as we've done that in the past and it's created headaches all around, so those will remain as is. I am definitely not opposed to saving slots, however, as I do know that sometimes your character only looks to have one or two sets of abilities that require upgrades and nothing else.
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    Ira
    Young mage with an affinity for animals

    Okay, that sounds good. While I'm on a roll...what about those quotes at the top? Yu should add some cuz it's just the same ones over and over.
    Oh and I said this in the cbox, but this is a better place for it anyways.
    What happened to the thread that was talking about the...little...this is so annoying. Well, the award type stuff for being a member for a month, following or liking Elly. The colourful spheres that Sphynx has a bunch of, and Vor has three. Also Ira should have those too (both accounts belong to me, and I followed and liked Elly...and both these characters belong to me - unless you want to make some sort of post somewhere detailing what characters belong to who? THAT would be a great help too).
    And I've reached a month with both of them, so I wanted to know where that thread went, and why I keep watching threads disappear from the announcements board, and not seem to come back.
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    Kestrel Sumner
    And then she was gone, her hips swinging as the knives jostled her thighs, passing by guards with her head held high, a haughty smile upon her lips.

    This thread is for IC quotations and generally people do find it because it's in the Den, but not always. Occasionally I or someone else posts in there looking for new quotes, but nobody has responded. The quotation generator has been filled by members who have really liked certain phrases that characters have said. You're more than welcome to submit your own.

    We could do a Census for people playing their characters, and I've thought about it, as well. If there's a general call for it, we can definitely set something up.

    Aaaand I answered your Achievement thread location in the Cbox. :3
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    Vor
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    A vampire in control of his urges

    Other people should post here saying if they like the character census thing. I'm sure plenty of people read this >_>
    And were you gonna do something about the quotes? There are a LOT now xD
    I was gonna ask something...the whole reason I came back here to post again...but...-flail-
    I guess I'll ask when I remember >_<
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    Yorishine
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    Shadow's Little Cartographer <3

    Actually, I don't think many people read other people's help topics. Especially as people are more likely to only read the first post and help topics don't usually stray off the original subject as such.

    Quotes are updated whenever. It's really not a priority.
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    Vor
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    A vampire in control of his urges

    Well, you don't know for sure. It seems plenty interesting to me since none of this is anywhere else on the site, or atleast hasn't been talked about in a while or with any seriousness. And it keep getting posted on so by now I expect some people have gotten curious.
    Also I was only asking.
    ANYWAYS. On a sidenote, still don't remember what I previously came here to ask -_-
    Edited by Vor, Sep 23 2011, 02:55 PM.
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    Kestrel Sumner
    And then she was gone, her hips swinging as the knives jostled her thighs, passing by guards with her head held high, a haughty smile upon her lips.

    The quotations will be updated when I have a chance to do them. Generally, they're done with other forum updates (ie. the achievements, housecleaning, new season, etc.) so until one or several of those events come around, the generator will probably be left as is. I do intend, however, to take out all of the super old quotations (especially those belonging to characters no longer here) when that time comes. And since we have such a large stockpile now, it'll be a lot easier to do.

    Likewise, I'm going to lock this topic because it's deviating from its original purpose. If you remember your question, Nera, you're more than welcome to post a new topic or you can PM me or one of the other staffers.
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