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Cat Lyxen · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:10 am Post subject:

Hiya Alexander!! Nice to see ya posting!

I volunteer to be in yer harem but I'm not an elf, does that mean I can't???
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Cerydon · Visitor Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

My reference to "real 'Elf'" is purely based on being a part of the original Elven guild with "Elf" as the acronym. I also stated that there are kin that still roam the land. My apologies if my words were misunderstood. By kin I mean anyone of Elven descent, whatever species that might be. Many variations have emerged over the years and that is a players right.
However I will say the original elven lore of the Atlantic shard has been long forgotten; and I am stubborn in my ways *smiles*

I pop in every once in a while to visit Molly, attempt to find a location where there is a persistent RP world anytime of the day, or visit my house in Rivendale.

I'll come back if everyone moves back to fellucia, only wears normal crafted armor, and large orders/kingdoms/clans are consolidated. At least 2/3 demands must be met!

Dealthagar · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:42 pm Post subject:

Cerydon · Visitor Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I don't know of Tur Mur, Isilmea's offspring, or this council of elders of Elf seeing as Elf is gone. (Was the stone reclaimed?) Who sired Isil?
"Uber armor" has nothing to do with RP. It only taints it.
Fel has fallen yes.
Consolidation doesn't mean homogenization, just structure.
Really all this points to is I have no intention of returning to this relic. UO is my favorite gaming experience to date and the community of ATL's golden age unmatched and I will always cherish that. Much respect to the die hards. I really hopped on here to see if anyone was transitioning to GW2 as i hear its the UO of 2012, then saw this thread Very Happy

Ceinwyn ab'Arawn · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 5017

There is a GW2 thread, somewhere around here. I didn't know there would be housing? I checked the site out and it looked a lot like the original guildwars, which I did play and which wasn't like UO at all.

I am now curious to know why you heard it was the UO of 2012. There is so much unsaid in that statement, like in what way is it so?

Dealthagar · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:19 pm Post subject:

Isilmea was the daughter of Rhama Locke. Zilthai was her son and sat on Elf's council of elders during his reign as King of the Elves. ('03-'05ish that was when I originally quit)

Uber Armor is a joke. GM made stuff really cant handle the PVM needs of the game, but wearing it during RP stuff has long been acceptable.

Fel has fallen hard. As the last mayor of Caina...it was bad. Once Trammel opened we flocked away from it. There have been returns to it, but the reality is, it's more bother than bonus. I disagree with you about large scale organizations. The community is at a population now, if everyone was in large groups, We'd have room for three, and none would really fit everyone. Humanis has it's human0centric agenda. DA has the Gargoyles and Singularity focus, Stonegate is Darwinisitic in nature. Ashencrosse is Gypsys and Celticism and other romantic concepts.

Sanctus is all but forgotten. The Ebon Skull is a ghost. The real paragons of good and evil are gone. So now, people go to the morality and surroundings that fit them.

Why is Elf as a guild no more? Because not enough people wanted to play Asur. It had a good run, but in the end wasn't enough to keep people interested. There are still elves and serious elven RP, but now Elves find themselves intigrating with the world rather than locking the world out. (Like Asur did.) I have found in my 13 years of UO, that the guilds that find reasons to exclude people, rather than include people tend to fade once the original few founders get bored with the game and leave. Don't believe me? look at Sanctus, OES and Elf. Good guilds, but all examples of excludtion over inclusion. Great RP. all of them. Would never question or doubt that. Seeing as I was a member of all three on different characters at different times, i was there for the great RP they did. But to be exclusive in a shrinking community is like putting a shelf date on your guild. The hard times Humanis has fallen on as core members have been drawn away from UO is a perfect example of this happening as we speak.

I played during "the golden age" and the RP was great, but it wasn't better. It was simply different. We tend to look at the past fondly, through rose-colored glasses. We're a smaller community now. We don't have as much pick up and constant random RP like we had back then. We don't have the population to support that. But we do have good events. We have great tavern nights and we have good community communication between the scattering of small guilds across the shard.

I came back in '09. I have had just as much fun as I did in the pre-tram days of Caina. I have just as good RP as I did while debating the virtues with Zym Dragon, Aleph Aires, Wildboy and Malicite in the Hungry Halfling. I have had as memorable events as the Yew invasion of Caina, the assassination of Aleph Aires and the siege of Awakenings Castle by Dayel Stormcrow and the Regency.

Live in the past and remember it fondly and fading, or come back and play and make a new story; a new legacy.

Oldest rule of this shard: RP is what you make of it.
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Cerydon · Visitor Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Defensive in nature but well said and spot on about the evolution of the shard. I've came back numerous times but just wasn't grasped.
I still don't remember Isil's son seeing as she came after Rhama was all but gone and I was still very much so present well after his departure. (again who's the father?) When the twins were still in the stone I guarded them while planning and ideas were still being tossed around.(why does no one ever refer to the brother, *sigh*) I imagine I would have been on this council? Was I? I could just be senile. btw Asur was long gone at this point and this was a revival attempt. I similarly attempted regathering the Orcs too with Gub'lud. (Lord of the Blok Trug)
I've been around a while too. Kept tabs on things. I get it. Need on lecture my friend.
Everything else is a matter of opinion. I personally enjoyed the shard back in the day. I understand the population factor and game play is dynamic completely. Again I say, the comments weight more upon the fact that I have outgrown the game. GreyPawn pegged it perfectly in his post. Shoulda just ditto'd him.