An Arx Peeve Thread
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Yeah what the heck!
Right when it was just starting to get good too. Sheesh
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It tickles me a bit that, because of the need to wrap up a bunch of stories by a very strict deadline, canonically a whole bunch of ancient big bads, lurking horrors, and long term threats all got their shit pushed in within the space of like…four months (though, granted, half of that was because evil kirby ate them).
The First Reckoning lasted generations, for comparison. The Second Reckoning was a speed run of Fucking Around and Finally Finding Out.
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Humans are just THAT BAD ASS!
Personally, I did have a sort of internal sense that things were happening in a more drawn-out fashion.
Certainly not generations, but there were a couple of days where I thought to myself, “Okay, so that was actually weeks or even a month’s worth of stuff/travel/learning things we did today.”
Altogether, it felt like we fit at least a year or two into those last few weeks and the fast-paced RL scheduling of things didn’t upset my sense of IC time too much.
Great opportunity for flashbacks - even real-time flashbacks - in the sandbox to go back and fill in some of those periods with whatever you wanted to scene about in the build-up, or if you had a cool action or request in that you wished was a scene, or several. I dunno. And be able to do it without having to use the flashback code/system. (For people who are into that sort of thing)
Overall though, phew. What a ride. I had a blast.
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I feel like this showed GROWTH and ADVANCEMENT on their parts. They learned that the slow burn sucks so they tried to be quick!
Next (?) Time maybe they will try some thing else.
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Being the sole active person in a house of 2 wasn’t a good experience on the game, and probably shouldn’t be encouraged in the development of another Arx game in the future. Houses don’t have to have huge amounts of people but it should be more than 2.
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YEAH force people to play in certain houses or give up characters if population dips too low
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Meteor the house. Nature is healing.
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I don’t want to discredit your experience because it does sound frustrating. However, I don’t know if it’s something that can be policed. I’m sure when the house was created originally the ones to create it had all these amazing stories and ideas. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe it was friends wanting to have a house with their other friend and staff was like, well it won’t hurt anyone to make them happy.
It can happen in large Houses too. I think there are countless writers (us) behind the characters that are just out of spoons over and over again.
I’m sorry though that you had a frustrating experience with that — also — I am soooooo not staff, so this was not an official anything, Just my brain spewing out. Uninvited. With minor worry of offense now.
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The peeve is that I miss you. It was nice to have a place to go if nothing else to hang out.
Fuck you.
I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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@Testament said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
The peeve is that I miss you. It was nice to have a place to go if nothing else to hang out.
Fuck you.
To expand on this peeve, a long commute means that I finally have an excuse to get back into reading for the first time in an embarrassing while (or listening, but whatever), and the first book I picked up was “The Way of Kings”, and now I have such a freaking longing for magical fantasy again.
I miss Arvum, I miss how scary magic felt, I miss Adepts, I miss the people I played with all the time, and I am cursing my total inability to get it together enough to want to try to bother to sandbox.
Popping by the Murder for a drink and a truly questionable stew, or the Training Center and bouncing around and hero-worshipping the folks who were kicking butt, or were brave enough to step into the ring. Miss lurking by the beach on a cold winter’s day, perched on a little rocky outcrop and gazing in the general vicinity of Cardia. Slipping through the darker places between the boroughs into the expansive world between and feasting on a truly unhealthy amount of wine and lemon bars.
Curses, y’all.
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@Solstice said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
the first book I picked up was “The Way of Kings
GOOD LUCK, be ready to join me in shouting into the void for a Cosmere MU
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@Solstice said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
@Testament said in An Arx Peeve Thread:
The peeve is that I miss you. It was nice to have a place to go if nothing else to hang out.
Fuck you.
To expand on this peeve, a long commute means that I finally have an excuse to get back into reading for the first time in an embarrassing while (or listening, but whatever), and the first book I picked up was “The Way of Kings”, and now I have such a freaking longing for magical fantasy again.
I miss Arvum, I miss how scary magic felt, I miss Adepts, I miss the people I played with all the time, and I am cursing my total inability to get it together enough to want to try to bother to sandbox.
Popping by the Murder for a drink and a truly questionable stew, or the Training Center and bouncing around and hero-worshipping the folks who were kicking butt, or were brave enough to step into the ring. Miss lurking by the beach on a cold winter’s day, perched on a little rocky outcrop and gazing in the general vicinity of Cardia. Slipping through the darker places between the boroughs into the expansive world between and feasting on a truly unhealthy amount of wine and lemon bars.
Curses, y’all.
Definitely in the same nostalgia boat. I’ve been missing it all year (though given the damn year I had, I’m not at all sure I would have had the energy to actually RP, let alone staff). I’ve got much more time and brain now, and hooo boy I’m going to miss having the outlet/distraction this year.
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Is that a hint that we won’t see Arx 2.0 in 2025?
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@Arik No idea!
