The Arx Secrets Thread
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@Smile said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
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.
Yeah he was a sweetie that mirrorborn. Was very fortunate that pLianne did a RP session as them and Tino meeting, one of my favourite scenes ever.
Could have had like Diamond’s intolerance to dairy but noooo. Got indifference to all forms of life.
@dvoraen - If I remember right as well, there was a clue where it was discussed what to do with him. There was a side in the clue about not wanting to send him to the Wheel since he could be reborn, and then having to track him down again. At least split into 13 parts, it is a little easier to stop him coming back.
@Quibbler said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
@Duke-Whisky Did Martino mention researching/interest in Fable and working with others on it to Gianna once?
Very likely, there was the group that met in one of the bars to discuss plans about Fable.
@Quibbler said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
I remember thinking, oh, Oswyn would be better for that, I wonder why Martino hasn’t mentioned it to him. And then I thought on it some, like why someone might not want to contact Captain Good Boy Book Nerd about it. And then I was not wholly surprised when the thing with the Mirrorborn and the Archives happened.
Asking the good guy for the books about demons and the abyss is a sure fire way to get an eyebrow or two raised.
“Yeah these are for ‘research’ purposes so I stay reaaaaally safe.”
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@Rinel Correct me if I’m wrong but, weren’t you the person that whose character was told by a literal deity that said character’s IC beliefs were actually wrong?
If that wasn’t the biggest flag by staff to say ‘stop doing that’, not sure what is.
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@Testament said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
@Rinel Correct me if I’m wrong but, weren’t you the person that whose character was told by a literal deity that said character’s IC beliefs were actually wrong?
If that wasn’t the biggest flag by staff to say ‘stop doing that’, not sure what is.
All the deities! That was long after the issue had arisen, though. After that, Rinel ended up going, uh… druid-ward. I don’t think she interacted with the Faith much at all after it.
@hellfrog said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
You were told MORE THAN ONCE by staff that you were wrong about lore. You were told what to do differently if you wanted to play with the Faith.
Yeah, but I misinterpreted those as being IC corrections and not OOC ones. ¯\(ツ)/¯
ETA: Staff on Arx absolutely took time to try and fix my misunderstandings. I don’t want to imply they didn’t. The issue, and it was my fault for not going about it this way, was that I struggled to understand what was an IC interaction with motives and what was an OOC truth. What I should have done was ask for OOC clarification more frequently. I usually walked away from those interactions with fewer wrong ideas.
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@Rinel said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
@hellfrog said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
You were told MORE THAN ONCE by staff that you were wrong about lore. You were told what to do differently if you wanted to play with the Faith.
Yeah, but I misinterpreted those as being IC corrections and not OOC ones. ¯\(ツ)/¯
buddy. BUDDY.
listen, people would not bring this up if you didn’t keep bringing this up, trying to insist that all the trouble you caused for folk were just silly misunderstandings that couldn’t have been helped. it’s like this weird thing where you bring things up in a “hah hah oops sorry about all that trouble! :3c” sort of way and misrepresenting stuff and kind of putting other people in the position of correcting the representation.
you were given OOC corrections. many times. from early on. a whole series of tehom dogma lore files were written for you. you just didn’t want to give up your interpretations of things. you clearly really liked the story as it had formed in your head, and i get that, and i’m sympathetic to the fact that when you end up in that situation, it’s hard to let go. but the issue you had wasn’t the moments of ignorance: it was that you did not change when given correction. and that became the problem of a number of other people to have to continually deal with.
i would say that the lesson you should take away isn’t that you should reach out earlier to staff about confusion. (not that you SHOULDN’T, i think that’s a good habit for everyone.) it’s that you should listen to and internalize the corrections, and learn to adjust course.
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I honestly don’t even remember exactly what I had wrong about the gods, because there’s been a lot of stuff that’s happened since then and my memory is particularly terrible these days. So I can’t argue with anything you’ve said! I don’t remember OOC corrections, but I also don’t remember a lot of things much more recent than that (I don’t even remember my password; I wanted to go look at some of her black journals yesterday and couldn’t), so I’ll accept the remonstrance.
I do remember being very upset and confused at accusations of purposefully misrepresenting lore when I thought I was doing my best to puzzle it out, so I know that there was some level of miscommunication happening. But I think your statement about the correct takeaway is a wise one.
ETA: I really am very sorry for all the people who had to spend time and effort cleaning up in my wake, especially given the info I’ve been given in this thread about my ignoring obvious attempts to course correct my being wrong.
ETATA: Also sorry about derailing this thread! Let’s get back to secrets. I’m happy to have a separate “correcting Rinel’s misrepresentations” thread if we need one.
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ANYWAY
GETTING BACK TO ARX SECRETS
How evil was the Inquisition? I heard gossip.
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@Rinel ACAB but we weren’t particularly evil by the end. Idle, maybe. Evil, nah.
Faye had the best named weapons on the game.
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As a secret member of the Inquisition, I can definitively say it was disappointingly not evil.
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Man. I got told by someone that there were geases being handed out left and right.
I am disappointed that this was not the case
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The Inquisition? What a show.
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How about the Iron Guard? Kenna was always PRETTY sure there was something hinky going on but she was super loyal to Silas so kept her mouth SHUT.
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@junipersky I know the Iron Guard STARTED corrupted with Everard and everything. But all the major institutions kind of had the same thing there.
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The only time I ever got to do anything as a member of the Iron Guard was when the Knights of Solace called one of us over to arrest someone, and I showed up, and that player RP’d resisting that which I was fine with, we had a bit of a slapstick. And then the KoS players were like you can’t RP struggling with a suspect here because there are guards. And I was like why the fuck did you call me here then. And then there were a bunch of MSB posts ragging on people rping about secrets behind a closed door, but I didn’t even see or get told about the secret thing?? Even though I was behind that door??
@junipersky other than that ^^ we did do a lot of cleaning up cells after someone was obliterated in a cell, which was shady af.
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@TNP said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
The Inquisition? What a show.
Fact: Inquisition meetings were the best meetings.
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Pretty sure every institution run by PCs was actively not evil. No matter how corrupt they were before, PCs taking over pretty much scraped a lot of that away. Even the Triarchy, when PCs were made Voice and the Eater was ousted, stopped being apocalyptic and actively fought against some of the big bads.
ETA: Though the Triarchy was still pretty evil in the grand scheme of things.
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Lie, the IG’s had people being eaten by a couch.
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@watno said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
@TNP said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
The Inquisition? What a show.
Fact: Inquisition meetings were the best meetings.
Everything’s better with a musical number.
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@Roz said in The Arx Secrets Thread:
And that’s why that PC type was so shitty and disruptive to the game. It constantly put other players in the position of having to clean up misconceptions and reinforce theme on overdrive, while people angrily insisted that the person was right.
I made stuff up constantly, but I really don’t think I mislead anyone because… obviously clueless and out of her depth himbo. If anyone took seriously Leta’s theories on cats detecting elves because they compete for the milk in saucers, they deserved it.
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I was wondering if I could keep asking about “secret” parts of lore. >.> There’s just so much I’ve been curious about, and staff did such a great job at creating story that was engaging in the amounts I was able to engage with. But there were some things I just couldn’t get to (like the above Dance of Skulls query) and some of it, as shown below, I didn’t really know much about IC so the topics never became a pursuit.
In short, I was hoping I could siren song (lower-case s siren) details about points of lore.
Destiny
- Was Destiny among the first creations, and was Aion the one who created them (presumably alongside the Kindly Voices)?
- What was the world even like when Destiny was alive? Were the inhabitants that existed then basically “puppets” subject to Destiny’s whims as to what would transpire? In other words, was the world like a theatre production with a rigid script that had to be followed?
- Did the Kindly Voices have to intervene in matters relating to Destiny? If so, how did that even work, if Destiny presumably had control of the Dream?
- What circumstances led to Destiny’s death? I don’t mean Skald’s concept of Choice entering the world, but more what caused Skald to even incarnate in the first place? Were the creations in the Dream becoming resistant to Destiny’s narrative and this led to irregularities that caused Skald and Choice to form, leading to Destiny’s death?
Zircon
- To my understanding, Zircon was basically the “Agent” of Destiny in the primeval world. His +finger quote is very suggestive of his motives, and becoming Herald of Stasis made a lot of sense to me if he was big on Order preservation. But what did he actually do in the primeval world while Destiny was alive? Was he the equivalent of Destiny’s Kindly Voice, which is to say, the director of the metaphorical play that Destiny was writing?
- Why did Zircon end up aligned with Stasis after Destiny’s death? Was it because Stasis best aligned with his ethos? I wasn’t really clear why Zircon aligned with anything elysian or abyssal when it’s my understanding he predated both…? Similarly, why was he desc’d as a Rex’alfar and took a Fractal name if he predated all that?
