Darkmatter

EXEGESIS (2 spots left!)

Cool stuff, I'll get to my character this evening and should have it done tomorrow evening!

Who are you people?

It's gotten to the stage where I recognize about 1% of users. Sad times.

This kitty video cheered me up though.

EXEGESIS (2 spots left!)

Are you still accepting at this point? I am interested.

NIGHTCALL: An 80's Styled, Neo-Noir, Urban Fantasy Adventure

Still taking applications or has this trailed off?

P.S. One of my favourite songs ever.

The Seven Cities

@sparrow I'll try catch you on this evening, I need to discuss a couple things with you so I can properly edit the rest of my post before I post it!

The Seven Cities

The Citadel Of Vrent

The Room Of Words

Stout internal buttresses dominated the Room of Words. It was a ‘small’ room in that it only measured a a few dozen feet across and a few dozen long. The ceiling however, was much further from the floor than one would expect, creating an almost cavernous space above the heads of the seven of those sat around the single table which occupied the room. Draped in yellow and and red embroidery, the stone table and chairs fixed with it, dominated almost all the space in the room.

“It isn’t something we can just lay back and wait for; letting history repeat itself is idiotic, we need to be proactive, or at least active!” called Trodd, Speaker of War.
His views were stern, and often apt. The Vrentian warleader spoke of course, of the seemingly impending whispers of conflict with Abelon. Whispers had reached them of troop mobilisation, nobles’ words and a general opinion.
“I still stand to the opinion they’re only mobilising the damned paleskins.” Rumbled Danus, the Farrg, Speaker of Magic. “ They’ve raided at least two towns now. We can’t worry about the imperial army just suddenly appearing at our doorstep when we need to be worrying about the rambling bloodletters at our border!”
Danus was resolute if nothing else. Well respected for his intricate understanding of magics and The Way. He was though, somewhat old fashioned and less than happy with Trodd’s current antics and rabble-rousing.
“By the Eye!” cursed Trodd, “You have your head dug in those tomes all day, surely you of all people know we cannot afford the same mistakes of the past?!” Trodd was becoming increasing frustrated in his attempts to convince the others. They’d be going around the table for nearly an hour now, with mixed results to say the least. The other Speakers seemed to maintain the cultural illusion that the Empire was a slumbering giant that would leave be if unprovoked. Naivety of the highest magnitude, in Trodd’s opinion.

Aiste had sat silent this entire time, The Listener doing her eponymous role quite well. She remained calm, doing her best to simply absorb the information as best as she could. At end of all this bickering, despite the authority wielded by each Speaker, the final decision would rest solely with her.
“Trodd is right.” She proclaimed, instantly silencing the others. “He is correct when he says we should not take the Empire so lightly, lest we forget our history and the very formation of our proud city.” Aiste spoke sternly with a tone of authority though not patronisingly so. “Yet, Trodd, our own instant mobilisation to the border would do nothing other than give Abelon an excuse to launch and invasion. And as we all know, Sfel is the real crux of any impending conflict. If we lose the northern bay, they’d swarm us like locust.”

All six Speakers ruffled in their chairs a little, a collective mental sigh issuing throughout the group. “We need to be clever about this. Trodd, we all appreciate your dedication to protecting our people more than you could ever know. But right now we’re dangling from a thread.”
“Trodd,” spoke Aiste softly, “I’d like you to mobilise slowly, I want doubled patrols along the border, double time, not double the men. I do though want moderately heavy additions to Sfel’s standing forces. Roll cannons there, begin construction of a fort, it’s up to you. I trust you. But I must ask you don’t openly, actively mobilise along the buffer zone.”

The Speakers all nodded accordingly, and the group began to leave. Aiste remained sitting, still having not moved much since the meeting had begun. “Ruwnda, I’d like to discuss something with you quickly.”
As the others filed out of the room, The Speaker of Secrets made her way over to the Listener. The two women wore similar robes, were of similar age and shared many worldviews.
“His last report was almost five weeks ago.” Informed the Speaker. “Either he’s had to go dark, or he’s making progress. Either way I won’t know until I know.”
Aiste sighed and nodded. The answer she had expected.

If war was to come, then the report they awaited held the future path of Vrent.

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Quite a bit more ready to go. I just want to run it past @Sparrow before posting it!

The Seven Cities

Hey, sorry my post isn't up yet. At 60,000 characters and climbing, I keep finding myself going back and tweaking things all over.

It will get done eventually. I just find myself with a lot of stuff to cover.

@Terminal

Mines only like 2000 words and I've been sitting on it for a day mulling it. Jeez terminal, stop making me feel inadequate.

I was mostly waiting on asking sparrow something, but sure look, I'll write it anyway.

Destiny PS4

@mdk

Cool. Thanks for the informed answer, I appreciate it.
I've been doing the vanilla and dark below quests and very much enjoying them even if I do feel a bit OP for them.

Really what I'm trying to find is some more people for raids!

Destiny PS4

<Snipped quote by Darkmatter>

It depends on how you are. For me I'm a bit of a completionist so I'd end up doing it just to get done, because even now I want to do the previous raids even if I don't get anything out of it. Though the story isn't the best to begin with in Destiny, it starts getting better, especially towards House of Wolves because they start having characters talk more, which is just more fun in general.

@The Darklight Project

Ya I've been doing some of the older stuff and really enjoying it even if the loot drops that are worth it are few and far between! Everyone says the real good stuff is only in raids! So I'm really looking for a group to start doing those with.

Destiny PS4

<Snipped quote by January>

Light works differently now. If you jumped into Taken King, you'd be (I'm guessing?) level 32, and playing the story quests would bring you up to 40. Light is simpler now and makes more sense -- it's just the average value of all your gear. You can get up to 290 in about a week (or less if you go hard), and that's all you need to start raiding again. The new max light value is 310, but I don't think anyone's actually there yet.

@mdk

Yes I took the free level jump to level 25 and did the first taken king mission. This was after regularly leveling to level 10 though. So I haven't played house of wolves or dark below, missions or strikes or raids. Obviously I now feel I'm missing out on them!!
Going back and playing them at higher level is fruitless no?