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RiDaku
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Here's what I got to see.

From the start of the RP, I knew things were going to be bad. I didn't voice them publicly, but instead in a friends chat (Runekian, Serenity and myself) which we had for OOC chatter, and in a group chat on discord that I share with Pyro and Void. I made note of how rather conveniently, the rebel side was packed full of people who reportedly weren't involved in the rebellion previously, and who were very notably part of the problem that "our side" had, that resulted in the "Canon Catastrophe". Being that Pyro wasn't online to have the final say in how the plot progressed (since it was happening inside his PoK), Runekian and I decided to roleplay it out until such a time where Pyro would get on to make a decision.

Despite what might be said, Alysa's roleplay was not a driving factor in the issues we had. They were resolved quite easily. Instead the issues partly revolved around that, in the form of the attacking rebels continuing to reposition, reload, and attack while the OOC problems were being handled.

The RP started off with Karma going for a parley, only for the crossbowmen- entirely made up of the people that are seen as a problem to us- to ready and aim. My character, "The Sage", a renowned battlemage of considerable strength famous for his work in repelling the vyres during the RP to repair the salve so many years ago, opened the fight by casting a spell that was charged and detailed as being charged in the introduction post. This spell ruptured and destroyed the entire bridge, the earth magic sending the large fragments of stone flying at the defenders with the intent to kill, either by crushing or impaling them if they didn't move. This action was entirely played down in to being nothing more than pebbles bouncing off the leather armor the archers were wearing. (cont) The Sicarius |
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20-Jun-2019 23:47:22

RiDaku
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Bolts were fired at the Sage, and Runekian's character, dressed in heavy armor, stepped in the way to absorb the blows. The initial wave of bolts was described as not dealing any damage due to the heavy armor, and then the bolts and crossbows were revealed to be of "siege" quality, meaning they're very heavy and pack a lot of power in to them. The weight becomes something notable later on.

The Sage began to charge another spell, and I detailed the majority of the runes he was palming as being water runes. So he was gathering a very strong water spell. Karma began to do the same. At this point, Alysa's golem character used a Surge across the broken bridge. This is not a surge-level spell, but instead the in-game ability. I contested this and it took a few minutes for it to be resolved as they talked about it, and while Alysa was considering and voiding her action, the crossbowmen continued to reposition. One of them started swimming across the river and on to a little island. This was all done while the defense- myself and Runekian- were involved in that OOC issue. So, they gained ground and got to reload their weapons during a time-out.

I had my character step backwards, as did Runekian, and Karma attempted to use the river's water to drag Runekian's character down. This acknowledges that going in to the river in armor or while weighed down is probably going to result in death due to the depth of the river not just being some 2 feet deep like the game shows. The Sage contested this spell with his own, instead seeking to steal the water from Karma's control and raise it as a barrier from the bolts that were being cast. I was later accused of powerplaying this , despite my action having been an attempt with the assertion that should succeed due to the Sage being a much more talented mage than Karma, and Drak even writing that Karma had no proper training. The Sicarius |
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20-Jun-2019 23:47:25 - Last edited on 20-Jun-2019 23:54:15 by RiDaku

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At this point, another roleplayer showed up who wound up being a troll. They weren't known to be a troll upon entering the RP, and they started to cross the river. I accepted this as a possibility despite them being decked out in armor because I had a counter-move; being that I released my hold on the water and let it rush back into the river, further whipping up the currents and I detailed it as likely washing away anybody who was in the river at the time. This would have the added effect of making the water very treacherous and pretty much not safe to cross by anybody, since Karma's magic and my magic combined had produced a tug-of-war with the water for a turn, and then I just let a massive flood back into it.

This troll roleplayer did not acknowledge this move, and so a few minutes more of being held up OOC happened, and in that time- you guessed it- the archers continued to reload, reposition, and set up to fire again while we were handling the problems. At this point I lost track of who they were aiming at, because Syncreticeye came in as a couple rofl-guards with shields to help make the RP more fair. (Notably, he didn't get made fun of for playing multiple npc's at once, and this was in an RP where the other side actually decided to go IC.)

After this I wound up tied in to a fight with Alysa as their character lept the gap using air magic to launch themselves, and that part was pretty fun! I enjoyed the battle of technicalities and outsmarting the golem's design to overcharge it and then shut it down by draining it as it hit critical mass. Around our fight, I watched Karma leap across the bridge, though this apparently was a juke and they wound up falling into the river and crossing it like that. In full armor, in the raging waters, just fine. I looked around and everybody had somehow gotten across the river, with all their heavy siege gear, with no bridge, most in some form of armoring or carrying something considerably heavy. (Cont next post) The Sicarius |
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20-Jun-2019 23:47:31 - Last edited on 21-Jun-2019 00:00:42 by RiDaku

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Around this time is when Pyro logged in and walked over to where we were all RPing, watched the fight for a few minutes and then said "This is a mess. I'm voiding this RP." This is because that I (and possibly Runekian, though don't yell at him because I'm making an assumption and don't know for sure) was DMing Pyro screenshots of the RP and filling him in on what was going on, as well as who was involved, being that it was chock full of roleplayers that are part of the group that "our side" ejected from ""our"" canon for various reasons, and in fact there's currently a locked thread on this very page of the forums where we were asked to stomach them and we replied "no". So why they were all piled in on this rebellion, I can't tell you..

..except I can. Because last night, Oxtus had like a three hour conversation with Runekian about how there's some OOC ploy to kick Pyro out and drag this Misthalin over to the Vekon canon. Oxtus talked about how both the rebellion and the witch coven plotlines were leading up to it, which is directly against how both plotlines were pitched to Pyro in the first place, meaning the goal of the two roleplays changed dramatically. And I promise you that had Pyro been properly informed that the goals were changing, he'd have shut the plots down - probably why they weren't told to him, but regardless that's just metagaming.

Throughout this roleplay, we were hilariously outnumbered through OOC, our efforts to defend were downplayed, people took the ooc time-outs as opportunities to reposition and reload, people ignored the environmental threats and damage it'd cause, and thanks to Oxtus having no clue he was talking to someone that didn't support all of this, we have a good idea on just how much ooc deception is going on revolving around it.

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21-Jun-2019 00:00:46 - Last edited on 21-Jun-2019 00:22:23 by RiDaku

Waychaeology

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Why is "The Sage" and Runekiann's character (I thought Runkiann's character allied with Karma) fighting for a queen who executed without evidence and cast a spell to hex the majority of the knights and probably more than 50% of the guards in the city?

Not to mention the fact that pretty much everyone who is anyone has heard that the "queen" is not actually the queen? And of course the rumors that the king's illness is because of the queen.

Karma, along with Lumbridge and Draynor are fighting to restore King James to the throne. "But we can fight."

"Then we fight."

21-Jun-2019 00:10:26 - Last edited on 21-Jun-2019 00:11:49 by Waychaeology

John McAfee
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Waychaeology said :
Why is "The Sage" and Runekiann's character (I thought Runkiann's character allied with Karma) fighting for a queen who executed without evidence and cast a spell to hex the majority of the knights and probably more than 50% of the guards in the city?

Not to mention the fact that pretty much everyone who is anyone has heard that the "queen" is not actually the queen?

more like why is a character that's only suited for private interactions being used in a battle. " Good maps make good plans ."

21-Jun-2019 00:11:05

Lord Pyro I
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Waychaeology said :
Why is "The Sage" and Runekiann's character (I thought Runkiann's character allied with Karma) fighting for a queen who executed without evidence and cast a spell to hex the majority of the knights and probably more than 50% of the guards in the city?

Not to mention the fact that pretty much everyone who is anyone has heard that the "queen" is not actually the queen? And of course the rumors that the king's illness is because of the queen.

Karma, along with Lumbridge and Draynor are fighting to restore King James to the throne.

From Karma's actions it became increasingly clear that her goal was a full rebellion against the crown. She refused any plan that would simply remove the queen with minimal bloodshed in favour of actions that would lead to a civil war. Lumbridge agreed to support the rebellion only to avoid an invasion attempt by the rebellion that would have been a pointless waste of lives. It was decided the rebellion had to be ended before the queen was dealt with ((actually we would've just stopped the queen first if lyl wasn't on holiday but what can you do?)) "The greatest endeavors are achieved because of their selfless intent"
#WarIsComing

21-Jun-2019 00:18:35

RiDaku
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(cont this post from my last one)

Would the roleplay have progressed differently had the defending side more people? Yeah, maybe. We'll never know. Would certain peoples' behaviors and actions have changed? Definitely not, because them doing that is a recurring theme.

In response to W a y's question about why the evil false-queen is being defended;

A problem I raised in the Misthalin thread a while ago actually. After I finally started getting my sleep schedule back on track (which is the reason I've missed a lot of roleplays and couldn't start working on things sooner), I finally had the Sage meet with Countess Ines and from there the Sage was filled in on what was going on. After that I asked in the Misthalin discord if there was anything preventing King James from being teleported out to safety, and was told yes. When I inquired about doing a roleplay around that, I was told to wait until Lylandrea and BattleGinger (the two that would primarily be defending) were back and able to RP that out. Meaning that the Sage's response to the bigger threat of the two is forced on to the backburner, meanwhile other plots that are based on people being upset about the bigger thread can continue - Example being the rebellion. Had I been able to have an attempted-saving roleplay before this rebellion, people would know that the Sage is similarly against the false-queen and either would have attempted or succeeded in rescuing King James. Continuity errors arising off of that. The Sicarius |
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21-Jun-2019 00:19:37 - Last edited on 21-Jun-2019 00:26:16 by RiDaku

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