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    • SnacknessS
      Snackness @CUmush
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      @CUmush Naka was a delight!

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      • tsarT
        tsar @CUmush
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        @CUmush Hi! I played Cristoph, me and Mabelle’s player were just talking about how great you were.

        Naka WAS a delight. ❤

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        • juniperskyJ
          junipersky Administrators @CUmush
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          @CUmush LOVED Naka!!!

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          • RinelR
            Rinel
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            Ok wait actually I have two questions because I’m legitimately curious:

            1. what the HECK was the deal with Driskell Stillwater

            2. what was the nature of the Thirteenth? Was it a divinity of its own accord, or some sort of natural rule of the universe, a mirror through which the gods were reflected, or both?

            bird's still the word

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            • RozR
              Roz @Rinel
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              @Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

              Ok wait actually I have two questions because I’m legitimately curious:

              1. what the HECK was the deal with Driskell Stillwater

              He was a PC whose player made up a bunch of stuff.

              1. what was the nature of the Thirteenth? Was it a divinity of its own accord, or some sort of natural rule of the universe, a mirror through which the gods were reflected, or both?

              Tehom was Aion’s counterpoint.

              she/her | playlist

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              • saoS
                sao @Roz
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                Relevant on the question of Driskell Stillwater, from the AMA Apostate did (https://play.arxgame.org/dom/cal/detail/7532/)

                Apostate says, “Bless Driskell, but one should take everything they said, tie it up into a tastefully decorated package, and then yeet it into the sea. By happenstance they might have said something accurate somewhere in there but I have not yet seen it.”

                let it be a challenge to you

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                • SmileS
                  Smile
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                  Tehom is basically the Abyss. Much like Aion is the Dream.

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                    ThatGhosty @Snackness
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                    @Snackness One of THE MOST emotional scenes of my Arx career as Khanne, that gargantuan scene! ❤

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                    • SnacknessS
                      Snackness @ThatGhosty
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                      @ThatGhosty ❤ It was good stuff.

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                        dvoraen
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                        Kind of adjacent to an Arx secret, but did revelation 30 (“Fable Knows Your Name”) have a large impact on PCs? Or was it more aimed at people during the time it was first introduced?

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                          Quibbler @dvoraen
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                          @dvoraen I just know I played Oswyn freaking the hell out when he got it. I thought he was in Big Trouble.

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                          • saoS
                            sao @dvoraen
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                            @dvoraen it scared the fuck out of me when I first got it, lol

                            let it be a challenge to you

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                            • kalakhK
                              kalakh
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                              I came on staff well after a bunch of people had got that one and it was fairly normal, but my impression was it was one of those things where it was useful to keep track of who had hit a certain milestone of knowledge, but was otherwise just a neat thing to freak PCs out.

                              The way revelations work is that clues are assigned to them, and they’re given a target number, at which point the revelation is triggered. The target number is based off a clue’s rating, so if your target number is 60, and you’ve got two clues with a rating of 30, the revelation pops. You can do more with it, like require certain clues to be known before a player gets the revelation even if they’ve passed the target number, etc, and there are a number of revelations that were never meant to be obtained by PCs that have a number impossible to reach with the clues assigned, that were used largely to organize GM notes/information.

                              So the Fable revelation has a massive number of various clues assigned to it, particularly ones about magic, and PCs could hit the target number with any combination of those. Staff can also look at a revelation and see who actually knows it, so if we wanted to send a vision out to everyone that had got a certain revelation, it was pretty easily done.

                              RE: Tehom, one thing I think might not have been entirely clear to players is that Aion and Tehom aren’t really entities in the same way the gods are, they’re more like the two basic forces of reality. Aion isn’t just the Dreamer, but the Dream (aka, the physical world) and Tehom is the Nightmare (aka, the abyss, the physical world’s dark reflection). This is why Aion didn’t have a seraph or Tehom a herald…they don’t need agents to enact their will or be their representatives, because they basically are everything, or at least contain everything.

                              Edit: for the curious, unless I’ve missed some, there were 60 clues attached to Fable Knows Your Name:

                              Primum in the blood
                              Blood magic frauds
                              The Castle of Count Corso
                              Curious Case of Countess Cosette
                              Copper’s notes on magical sleep
                              Inquisitor Dalere’s report
                              Unnatural coincidences
                              Red Warden Memo
                              Laughing at a Leer
                              Sanguis Primus, a fragment
                              Let the sleeper awaken
                              Aldwin’s Memories
                              Mad Murderer Of the Boroughs of 993 AR
                              The Ring of Duchess Vedette
                              I Must Forget
                              Writs, An old journal
                              Thus came the Despite
                              Breaking Mirrorborn
                              The First Conclave
                              Francesca on Galling Brass Censers
                              So, You’ve Joined the Forces of Evil
                              The Triarch Demanded It
                              A Fractal Forgiven
                              Haunted Mementos
                              The Thinnest Point
                              Obsidian, Onyx, and Jet
                              Hard To Read With No Light
                              The Unwritten Word
                              Lianne’s Analysis of Ravings
                              A shadowy, smiling monopoly
                              On Demon Binding
                              A Treatise on Prophecy
                              Navarre Strongoak Don’t Live Here No More
                              Teatime with Onyx
                              Interrogation Log of Prisoner #7835
                              The Madman of the Panopticon
                              Death and Oblivion: A Cautionary Tale
                              Demonic Tissue Sampling
                              Lord Barton’s Ravings
                              Weaving - the style of Pure Magic
                              Casting - Shav Nonsense
                              Demon Worship and Black Stone
                              Alrec’s Evil Twin
                              Dying Old Gods
                              Mostly Normal Bringer Head
                              House of Questions, the living taint
                              Petrichor’s Prayer of Stewardship
                              Palladium’s Recollections on the War
                              The Twin Sister of Lydia Nightgold
                              The Blighted Land Soil Conditions
                              Lovely Groves in the Oathlands
                              Missing Headstones
                              Percephon’s mirror at the blight
                              Perrach and the Bringer
                              Sugan’s Mirror
                              A Puzzling Genealogy
                              A Dream of Pyrite
                              Claw for Claw
                              Say My Name
                              Fractal of the Abyss

                              They’re all mostly from season one, I think.

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                                Raaspra
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                                Some people already know some of this…

                                Enyo was a Cardian agent, loyal originally to Ostrumadin, spying on Malar and his goons. Started out low, eventually climbed her way up in the ranks. But…

                                Enyo was also Katya.

                                …and Dagny. Then Katya.

                                Then Enyo again.

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                                  watno @kalakh
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                                  @kalakh said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                                  Say My Name

                                  How many people had this one?

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                                  • kalakhK
                                    kalakh @watno
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                                    @watno said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                                    @kalakh said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

                                    Say My Name

                                    How many people had this one?

                                    Three.

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                                    • EvilgraysonE
                                      Evilgrayson @dvoraen
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                                      @dvoraen Ray - who got that revelation in the Murder of Crows while discussing Lowers secrets and specifically the things that had happened to people who said the wrong thing in the Murder of Crows - hid in his secret subterranean lair for a week.

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                                      • Duke WhiskyD
                                        Duke Whisky
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                                        Martino’s initial secret was that he served Malvici, directly Calypso and Eirene, as the House Spymaster. Did a few actions around building up a base of this, and mostly drawing in more-and-more clues. This worked great for allowing some good RP with others about clues, information and trading that sort of thing - but always skirting around the edges of the metaplot. Was one of those secrets where you are fiercely loyal to people, but we went through a little revolving door of Calypso.

                                        Was later when he was sent a black diamond ring that previously belonged to someone that he became more hooked in with the metaplot. Wearing it and carrying the curse of inflicting acts of cruelty upon people. Wore it every day since November 2nd 2021 and had 3 people OOCly chat about it after seeing it. Only 1 ICly. Would emote about rings tapping glasses, wearing gloves indoors and removing them to reveal a set of rings.

                                        Eventually after performing one cruel act after another, started poking it somewhat more and freed his mirrorborn who killed some Archivists. Damn staff. Never giving him the journals and clues he was looking for. Met said mirrorborn again later and came to an agreement that in offer for the mirrorborn’s magic, his direct descendants would work to free Diamond.

                                        Sorry kids. Dad wanted power at any cost.

                                        Current Projects:

                                        Twitch -> https://www.twitch.tv/dukewhisky

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                                        • SmileS
                                          Smile @Duke Whisky
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                                          @Duke-Whisky That mirrorborn was actually 1/13 of Diamond. Each ring represented a facet (haha) of Diamond, so this one was Diamond’s Callous Indifference To All Other Life. Sorry Templars.

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                                            dvoraen
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                                            So what was the full story about Diamond? I understand he was split up, but I was never really clear how he became immortal (the trip to the Abyss?) and what his general angle was, alongside Primeria. That whole era was highly interesting to me as a player, but ICly I knew zero about it so I never got the opportunity to pursue the subject of the events leading to the Dance of Skulls.

                                            If it’s answered in clues, does anyone want to spill the beans to me with clue shares? >.>

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