There are permadeath massively multiplayer onlone games, like Day Z. From what I understand, the players spend most of their time wandering around looking for other players to kill and loot.
I heard there was also a game in the works where you literally cannot play anymore after you die. Not sure how the business model on that would work though…
To continue Gravedust’s threat from the alt-text: “Then, when all of you are shot, my associate Grave shall swallow you up. Grave is the bigmouthed monster hiding behind you guys. What, you doubt he’s there? Just check the tags, fools!”
So, it sounds like he is giving up the mystic arts, and I don’t understand why. He’s saying something about how their rules violate free will, but I don’t follow.
As mystics, their job has been. basically, to enforce the ‘nope, you’re done’ rule. If someone’s will is strong enough to linger on, its probably because it has unfinished business.
It’s not really someone else’s job to tell you that you can’t. Ultimately, mystics are people, and if it can be done, then by god, take a crack at it. In this particular case, Byron is the key to an interdimensional puzzle; the laws of the universe were done broke when the berserker curse came into existence, and now a dimension-jumping super-wizard is literally breaking the world.
The age of rules is over, yo.
“Our laughter will shred the dark days! That’s the only sensible way to face oblivion, Jack. If the world dusts out, my gapped-tooth grin is the last thing they’ll see. It’s the Fool’s prerogative. It’s why we taint our honor with irreverence. In the mad days, respect is going to get the world dead. Doing the impossible is a rudeness to reality. So I practice the sacred obscenities.”
It was also the mystics’ job to help ghosts with unfinished business gain a sense of fulfillment in order to move on – often, when possible, by helping them finish that unfinished business. Like putting souls into the arrows that harm/kill those that killed the soul.
He might also be about to “let the time of the mystics pass” by sucking them all into an arrow and shooting them past the Point of No Return. Then they’ll all be fired.
Cliffhanger is the one who makes sure that the most vital part of every task is done…after lunch. Or the weekend. Maybe after a vacation, if he’s feeling ambitious.
So the mystics are the ones that are responsible for putting your spawn point at a 10 minute run from your body, perhaps with a mountain range in the way.
Well, we got Grave and Gravedust. I think that’s just a typo if trying to put Gravedust in twice, unless Grave is the name of the mountain thingies in the distance.
Hrmpf. It’s not that we made up these rules. And as the last mystic, your job is not to be fatalistic but to train successors.
….
Hmmm….maybe there IS a way…
And then the ghost gendarmes came and took Gravedust to ghost Bastille.
Who died and made you boss?
Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Snowpeak Icegrip, and Stonecutter Moonchild.
Well I didn’t vote for you.
You don’t vote for Mystics…
Literally all the other mystics. The will of the cosmos is manifest in the form of natural selection
Um you do know, Gravy, This is a video game and as such ya kin always earn an xtra life. Ain’t no big deal.
Usually in MMOs there’s just a handy little “Resurrect” button that shows up when you die.
If the whole ‘you cannot come back to life’ holds true in game mechanics though this could be a rogue-like MMO.
Would be interesting to see such.
Wonder if that’s the case or it’s just a lore-only thing, has it been clarified?
There are permadeath massively multiplayer onlone games, like Day Z. From what I understand, the players spend most of their time wandering around looking for other players to kill and loot.
I heard there was also a game in the works where you literally cannot play anymore after you die. Not sure how the business model on that would work though…
A game where you’d have to buy a new copy with each “game over”?
It’d draw the hardcore like nothing else. But only the hardcore. Repeat sales would be dazzling. Twitch players would brag about their purchases.
To continue Gravedust’s threat from the alt-text: “Then, when all of you are shot, my associate Grave shall swallow you up. Grave is the bigmouthed monster hiding behind you guys. What, you doubt he’s there? Just check the tags, fools!”
So, it sounds like he is giving up the mystic arts, and I don’t understand why. He’s saying something about how their rules violate free will, but I don’t follow.
They are robing people of the free will to come back whenever they want, obviously. :P
As mystics, their job has been. basically, to enforce the ‘nope, you’re done’ rule. If someone’s will is strong enough to linger on, its probably because it has unfinished business.
It’s not really someone else’s job to tell you that you can’t. Ultimately, mystics are people, and if it can be done, then by god, take a crack at it. In this particular case, Byron is the key to an interdimensional puzzle; the laws of the universe were done broke when the berserker curse came into existence, and now a dimension-jumping super-wizard is literally breaking the world.
The age of rules is over, yo.
“Our laughter will shred the dark days! That’s the only sensible way to face oblivion, Jack. If the world dusts out, my gapped-tooth grin is the last thing they’ll see. It’s the Fool’s prerogative. It’s why we taint our honor with irreverence. In the mad days, respect is going to get the world dead. Doing the impossible is a rudeness to reality. So I practice the sacred obscenities.”
It was also the mystics’ job to help ghosts with unfinished business gain a sense of fulfillment in order to move on – often, when possible, by helping them finish that unfinished business. Like putting souls into the arrows that harm/kill those that killed the soul.
Some people are just never content sticking with one class.
He might also be about to “let the time of the mystics pass” by sucking them all into an arrow and shooting them past the Point of No Return. Then they’ll all be fired.
Oh ho. Is Gravedust about to invent (or fight to enable) resurrection spells?
Y’know, apropos of nothing, “Cliffhanger” would be a great dwarven name.
… hanging from a cliff!
and that’s why he’s called Cliff Hanger!
It’s Cliffhanger’s job to ensure that every job is left only 90% of the way done so that people keep going on hoping to get that last 10%.
Cliffhanger is the one who makes sure that the most vital part of every task is done…after lunch. Or the weekend. Maybe after a vacation, if he’s feeling ambitious.
“In this instance, Byron need not follow our ‘red shirt’ rules.”
Gravedust just taught them all a Frig-ing lesson!
In the words of me “I’m going to frigg the shit out of you”
Gravedust is evolving. No one press B!
So the mystics are the ones that are responsible for putting your spawn point at a 10 minute run from your body, perhaps with a mountain range in the way.
ahahaha, that was some alt-text worthy of the convoluted click-hover-wait maneuver I have to do on my sh*$%y mac
And thus PVP was born.
└ Tags: Byron, Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Grave, Gravedust, Snowpeak Icegrip, Stonecutter Moonchild
I see 7 names and 6 people – are we mysting a Mystic?
Well, we got Grave and Gravedust. I think that’s just a typo if trying to put Gravedust in twice, unless Grave is the name of the mountain thingies in the distance.
they’re all in the grave
Also, since no one has mentioned it, poor Kif.
Hrmpf. It’s not that we made up these rules. And as the last mystic, your job is not to be fatalistic but to train successors.
….
Hmmm….maybe there IS a way…