Is it still a thing? How much is the entrance fee?
Asking for a friend...
Is it still a thing? How much is the entrance fee?
Asking for a friend...
I have not seen it mentioned for a fair while. Nobody's asked after it. I don't think it runs anymore.
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Matriarch of the Gilded Lily and of its brothels, associated establishments and the army.
Characters:
The family triplet: Philomel, Vaeron and Celandine.
The god and kenku triplet: Stare, Avin and Vixen.
The Primordials: Professor Charles and Moros.
The Dajas Pagoda was retired on the old version of the site, but I do wonder if, perhaps, the time has come to look at reviving it...It is something that I never got a chance to experience and would have liked to have done.
Boss lady, what do you think?
Who wouldn't want to spend money to have their characters beaten up by master role-players? Take my money and sign me up!
My thoughts on the Dajas Pagoda:
Bring back Scara Brae as a starting zone. Once you leave Scara Brae, or never if you don't start there at all, you can't return until you're level 10 (I just picked an arbitrary number). At level "10," you can return and challenge for a spot on the pagoda, and the challenged member must defend, or be forced out of scara brae. The loser has to go back out into the world and level up at least once before being eligible to return and challenge the pagoda again (paying the fee in full. it should probably be a sizable amount of gold that would reaaally make you think twice about challenging).
The defending master has one month to reply to the challenge, and replies also have a one month time limit. Failure to post in time results in forfeit.
Masters are chosen from a pool of active players above level "10".
Pagoda masters determine the current state of Scara Brae or some other executive power to sculpt a limited form of Althanas, but their mark is immediately removed if they are dethroned.
Idk. Obviously it wont be me designing the mechanics of the thing, but if something like this were to be a feature on althanas, I know it would be incentive for me to up my writing game, take advantage of work shops, and really push out content to reach higher level, rather than make new level ones (that deep sea worm guy wasn't me by the way. I don't know who that was, but I want to see that little fishy evolve into some titanic horror. Wherever you are, please come back and do something)
The Pagoda was really before my time, so I'm not sure. We've also recently redesigned the starting area, to make it more flexible, so I don't know if that would be necessary. I wouldn't like to see all the hard work that went into that placed to the side.
But we could certainly see if there would be popularity for a version of the Pagoda. Shinsou, I'll have a chat with you about it and see what we could come up with potentially.
*admin at your service*
Matriarch of the Gilded Lily and of its brothels, associated establishments and the army.
Characters:
The family triplet: Philomel, Vaeron and Celandine.
The god and kenku triplet: Stare, Avin and Vixen.
The Primordials: Professor Charles and Moros.
I was just spit-balling ideas =] I understand why Stonevale exists and why its an important fixture. I was just trying to spin flavor text on my idea is all!
It was a thing for a really long while.
I agree some incarnation of this thing could be neat and worth exploring at some point.
My only suggestion here would be to take it back to the drawing board and not scrap it.
Think it's long due a huge overhaul anyway.
But yeah DD I was around when it was a thing was basically (In layman's terms) a Citadel for lowbies.
I think a lot of past ideas on the site were over ambitious and became bogged down with too many complex like...stuff it did not need.
But at it's core level the Dajas was a really good idea.
The site needs more like areas were newcomers can congregate and scheme newcomer schemes. A overhauled Dajas 2.0 could work for this.
For the record Scara Brae never left it's still there.
It's up to people to use this feature or not.
Kind of in the same vein as the Pagoda, does Althanas still run tournaments? I remember that being super fun. I suspect there are concerns of turnout, but yeah, I can't seem to find much information on this subject either. Are tournaments still a thing?
::EDIT:: My favorites were always the ladder style tournaments, where characters fought 1 v. 1 and the winner moved on to the next round with the other winners. I always found grand melee styles to be overwhelming and a lot to keep track of for anything more than like, 3 or 4 players max.
Last edited by DarkDelights; 04-09-2020 at 10:46 PM.
Yes we still run tournaments, but due to several things including an activity decline, we have not had one for a while. Would it be something people would like to see?
With the current climate we are definitely going to have to wait until things are a little steadiee if we did run one.
*admin at your service*
Matriarch of the Gilded Lily and of its brothels, associated establishments and the army.
Characters:
The family triplet: Philomel, Vaeron and Celandine.
The god and kenku triplet: Stare, Avin and Vixen.
The Primordials: Professor Charles and Moros.
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