[Yourstruly]

(Or I, a Supernatural, could take the Temple or Vigil up on an offer, concoct a way to get hurt, and go OH NO THEY BROKE HOSPITALITY! Hence why it can’t be ‘no harm whatsoever.)

[Yourstruly]

So I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘no harm’ because then a third party could come along and boop harm someone and ha ha fucked it for everyone!

Hospitality is generally: I, myself, will not harm you and I will do my utmost to see that no harm comes to you while you are here. In return, you are expected, as my guest, to not harm me.

And I fully believe that the Venetian take on this is the same. Otherwise… well, I, a Super, wait for the Vigil to extend the offer and go and merc them. It has to go both ways for the Temple and Vigil both to even be tolerated.

[Yourstruly]

I do want to point out that escaping unethically isn’t a “one time use,” there is just some caveats to using it again:

If they use escape unethically: They will escape however they can even if it
involves betraying or screwing over other victims. They will be able to raise
their tier back up after a month, but their moral tier will never be able to go below
that of what it was before they were kidnapped. e.g. a T3 who is kidnapped would go
down to T2, but if they escape unethically they won’t be able to go below moral tier
3. If this is the second time someone has been kidnapped and escapes unethically,
then unless they are now a higher tier they won’t be able to tier up again for two
months.

And I will point out that when the Wild Hunt happened and we had talks about it previously, I did point out that T1 might be the way to go if you want to RP a character long-term, yes. I am even working on a character for exactly this purpose. I do also believe that those who got grabbed by the Wild Hunt this past time are unlikely to be grabbed again as Nova noted that their timers have been reset as if they were just created (putting them at 3 months when the next one rolls around). HOWEVER, I am sorry to say, but Nova’s claim of 4.5-5.5 months is false. My character who got grabbed was at 4 months and 3 days, roughly. So there is a risk (unless the December Wild Hunt was, indeed, bugged in some way and we were lied to about it running ‘correctly’ which is also possible).

But IN THEORY, provided we were told right that peoples’ timers were ‘reset’ as if they were just created: no one that was picked up in December should be picked up again in March. And I say that ‘in theory.’

The fact of the matter, however, is that it is clear that Nova does not want people to take characters on journeys and tell stories of character growth and development. The stories we’re meant to tell, I think, are snapshots. Glimpses into their lives before they move on. Which is… disheartening, to say the least. If I put as much effort as this game requires into making a character (hence my T1 not yet being on grid: I get exhausted every time I go and start working on her again), I want to be able to actually tell their story… not play a glorified NPC for a few months before I have to go back to it again.

[Yourstruly]

You keep promising but not delivering. 🙁

[Yourstruly]

[Yourstruly]

Girl you haven’t even told people what you want.
It’s just a lot of all caps, fifth grade level English gibberish.

Go back to school. I’d say they miss you, but no one does.

[Yourstruly]

I needed a good laugh this morning.

[Yourstruly]

Interesting. I know there were others who were made around the same time who did get taken (primary). There were also some who were made in November who got taken, also.

Teagan was created on August 20th. Navessa a couple weeks prior to that. So not terribly sooner.

[Yourstruly]

Navessa is almost guaranteed getting deleted. I just can’t see any point in continuing. She was my laid back, casual play character when I was getting overwhelmed / needed a break on Teagan. I don’t even know why Navessa got picked up other than I’d had her marginally longer. I made Navessa toward the end of August and Teagan as soon as I had a character slot open. Teagan had far more XP spent on her.

But there is… no timeline here. There is no 7 month window or… anything. My theory is that every single character in your ‘primary’ account slot got taken. Regardless of time since creation. Yes, some people had 2 characters taken: I’m not convinced they didn’t have ‘faenap me’ toggled. Because Teagan should have been taken. She was made prior to September 21st. Had way more XP spent than Navessa. She would be far more of a target.

This isn’t an ‘incentive.’ It’s telling us, yes. Character churn.
Do not make stories.
Do not make character arcs.

Make caricatures and jokes and tropes and do whatever because in 3 months, you’re going to be locked in The Other with blank, empty rooms and nothing to do except sit around and play campsite for an indefinite amount of time. You can’t escape after 48 hours, it won’t let you. Someone said it wouldn’t allow them to reset reroll, either. Only option: delete.

As someone who likes to craft stories, who likes narratives, it’s really crushing to me.
I tried the first couple of days, I did. But more and more I just felt myself getting depressed over it. And getting depressed over a game is dumb. So weighing between quitting (and I do like most of you) or staying… I’m choosing the latter. And that means deleting a character that this event has zeroed out completely. Nav was barely past what a new character at creation is. The Wild Hunt was such a hard hit that she is below what a brand new player would have their character at.

If this is intentional: I would have preferred to be told up front that there would be a reset every 3 months.

But if you do the math, this means it is mathematically unlikely, if not impossible, to reach T4. Hell, unlikely to reach T3 even because this will happen again March 20th. If I can only submit a storyidea every 4 weeks, even if every single one is approved, even if I get good rewards on the plot, even if I do an encounter every week, even if I only Tier up with karma and buy no additional FP…

We might as well all just sit at T2 and fuck around and ignore the game systems, IMO. I’m really close to that point.

[Yourstruly]

I am just adding further context:

I believe this hit every single person’s primary character slot. I have only been around since mid/late-August. 4 months, not 7. There is no way this is not a bug. 63rd Lieutenants got hit.

This is a net-negative across the board. Those who were not taken are left with little to no RP because the mists are now deadly, full-stop. I can only think of two? people not taken by the Wild Hunt that might possibly maybe be able to do rescues. Emphasis on maybe. Those who were are now faced with everything noted already above.

[Yourstruly]

Yes, that would close down the investigation. However, I suspect it would just wipe your board/progress, not solve the investigation. And due to how long it takes to conduct an investigation: I don’t want to run it and risk losing all of that time/progress.

[Yourstruly]

Jesus christ I did not realize the code block would look that bad I apologize to everyone.

[Yourstruly]

Hour can be designated to any time with proper argument.
Hour without argument sets it to any.

Bumping this as a PSA specifically for this line. I just realized not having done this is why my opportunities never pop. And in mentioning my ‘d’oh!’ moment to someone else: they had the same realization.

So, if you, too, wonder why you never get a pop on lookfor… double-check your opportunities and what ‘Hour’ they’re set to.

[Yourstruly]

There is the temporary ‘hotspot’ command and I have used it before. Unfortunately, since it is very difficult to navigate the campus (like if you find the cafeteria and ‘hotspot’ it- how will others find it if they never have before?), it isn’t entirely useful (for the campus: it can be useful in other places of course!).

It would be very nice if there were maps on the website of areas. I know there is the user-made city map, but it does not ‘drill down’ into places. The Mall and Windermere are the main two I can think of. The mall has some very neat stores in it, but I hate going to it because I get lost every single time. ‘map level’ is helpful in some cases, but once you have multiple floors it gets trickier to use.

I do think a trust system could work. Maybe it could be a vouch sort of thing. People could submit a vouch for college staff they trust and if enough people have vouched for an instructor, they get access to make those changes (and vouches can be withdrawn). This way, someone like say, Matias who everyone sees put in the time and effort (and has for months) could have that access while someone who has been on grid for a week would have to earn it.

[Yourstruly]

I have gotten mixed results with imprint resists. Some have been free, some have had LF costs.

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