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Deep within the swamps of the 95th Ring, ancient magics are woken in preparation for the coming of something....



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It looks like i've somehow stumbled into being a DM.

Can't wait to see you all server side!

I am playing Naeberos Zinyaras, an elf wizard. I have hit the penultimate stage of planar sickness (intense) where normally more flashy visuals show up. However, they only appear briefly after resting, and then I turn translucent, lacking even the normal color shifting of plane sickness

The bonuses to my druid wildshape from base str/dex/con apply normally on wildshape cast, and then a short time later, the wildshape green vfx plays again and I lose the aforementioned benefits
character is Khaazkax the Beastwelder

Might be due to the custom property on Ghyls?

I'll be making a thread for Telak, Akthos and Amonkas shortly, as I finally can be assed to look up their screenshots.

I made Telak as a Tchunite to explore the religion and just get back into the swing of things after Akthos. And went with the flow from there.

SCREENSHOTS
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He joined the butchers at one point, thinking he'd find kindred spirits. And found motley company.


He betrayed and was betrayed in turn by Krown over one of the Serpent's gems.



Visions




Lizards


Bloodbeards



A door told him to kill people (Or so he thought). Voices from the Mad God


A heroic figure, dissapointed by a blood relative's choice of allies.


Not even other Tchunites were safe.



He hunted down an Arbiter and killed him, after a few encounters...

A long chat.
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Fell rituals


The death of a changeling at an Inquisitor's hand.


Someone burned down the Courthouse. He was not pleased.
















After receiving his 5th circle relic, he became a little scary



Telak with his freshly annointed helm of blood




Telak near the end with one of his oddest allies. The Aasimar Virgil

Sadly I don't have logs of the brawl that got him mobbed, or his death at the hands of the Arbiters.

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Sepitus started out as a cursed man, vaguely inspired by the Tomb Colonists from Fallen London, with a Curse thrown in that would demand him make enemies allies, and constantly be amidst risk and conflict to survive. He started off as a simple sellsword and duelist, and well, quickly went from there. Ending up as a Knave, Assassin, and much more.

Can't have a thread for Sepitus without thanking Cat, Stranger, and Lannister, as well as a few others who shan't be named at this time. They're probably the majority of the moments here, and I can't thank them enough for the fun.

Props to DM Ironside, Abala, Vlaid, Halfbrood and a score others for all the amazing interactions among the DM team.

This shot sums him up well.

Screenshots, in rough order.
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Young Sepitus with some of the people who would be most influential throughout his life, summoning and slaying a Slave of the Sibilant.


Again, a number of important people, who he might have even considered friends at one point, before betraying horribly.


Runes of fireball are fun, kids. Especially when you blow up your own team.



Travelling with Merredith, Visimar and Acathos, frequently. At this point there was a Demonic plague coming about- from some Blackguard named Virgil.


The same Virgil he hunted down and almost caught alone in the Mongrelwoods as many hunted her. He extorted her for all she was worth, and then as soon as he left, pointed others right at her. This was one of the moments that let up to him becoming a Knave


An interesting figure...



Induction into the mysterious order of Knaves.


Travelling with his good friends even more. All over.


Meetings and deals with an odd fellow. The beginning of a long and strained friendship.


Slip ups from Merredith as her marriage to Visimar approached.


Conspiring with his Mercenary Company


Merredith Winespill was one of the kindest souls Sepitus ever met.


Besting trials with friends and allies, for pay this time.


Another great interaction. He meant to follow through, too-


But due to him, that day never came.


MANYWORM (The aftermath of the introduction of a certain druid faction...)


He made some more interesting friends. Though the relationships grew further strained, by fell deeds.


Fell deeds scarce go unrewarded. (See loot section.)


He fought in quiet a few dispensaries. And they were key to his greatest assassination, and also poetically, his end.


He ventured with Annette Winespill occasionally. The woman who would eventually kill him. She could be a bit odd.



He wasn't always paid for murder. Sometimes just delivering some innocent mail.



In the employ of fell powers he enabled terrible and gratuitous deeds, looking on with little a care besides a good fight and a fair amount of groat.


For those same fell employers, quite a reaction started up...






Though the Gnomish Sibilant Slaver eventually died before he could get a new batch, and he though it better to discard the rest he'd not gotten around to with lack of further pay.



BEES



A strange ritual in a strange plane.


More Visimar discussion and so on.



A failed murder came with grand and painful consequences.


Even still, Merredith was always there. (As was Visimar, and Acathos.)


Beseeching the Good Abbot.


One last deal before the greatest of betrayals.


Scheming. Before or after... perhaps both.




You do NOT fuck with the Adamantine Vault and get away with it. Lots of text here in spoiler.
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Swashbuckler could be fun- When it worked and didn't hamstring you.


Employing new techniques, the King was able to prevent one ringrunner from retreating for hours on end, until a brilliant man with a charm animal scroll showed up.






The assassination of one of his closest friends, Merredith Winespill- As decreed by Old Grandfather.


Sepitus worked alot with Jeor. And also was hired by alot of people. ALOT of people to go after the Arbiters at one point or another.


He did always pay his debts, though....


A cross (and buggy) planar chicken.



He ended up killing a few people. This one offered to him as a reward for service- and to sustain his cursed and dying form without the magics of Melkoth, Acathos, Hawthorne or the score of other dark mages that offered him succor at one point or another.


Stalking about under Knave guise, he witnessed and caused a fair  few interesting things.



Ever get the feeling someone's watching you?


He was claimed to be a cold hearted killer by some.



And then he finally got caught, at a dispensary no less. A poetic end from a poetic... poet?




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What you all know you want to see- LOOT
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Purchased from a certain someone in a similar line of work after one of the few grand heists the Knaves pulled.





The Red Queen's Kiss
A beautiful and potent blade that Sepitus wore proudly and openly for a good portion of his life. After all his wizardly allies were dead or betrayed, it was one of the few means he had of staving off the curse that was consuming him.



Santa has a thing for Knaves?

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See you on the next!

One of the exploreables has a very large elemental, and a series of crystals. The reward for this is 'earthen relics' which were all empty. Likewise in the Stone Monster EQA, all of the loot placeables titled 'Earthen Relics' were broken, and the boss seemed terribly weak. Unsure if the last part is a bug.

Considering the content of the quest, I think raising the cap of it to include higher powered characters (Likely the people who will be able to do the quest anyways) would fit well, as well as allowing higher powered characters some more content to interact with... Escpecially considering quests such as kobolds in the mines and goblin ghost are 11/12 cap

My spawnpoint is normally set to inside the Ticker Square temple, but occasionally after a reset, I will randomly spawn in the 94th, near the gate to the 93rd.

I do not think i'm set to the 'Temple' stronghold faction, but was told this should not matter.

This happened before when I had my spawn point set to the tower in the 93rd. If I was the first to log in, I would get shunted from the tower to the 94th, and also be unable to enter the stronghold.

I /think/ the cause is that when no others who have the stronghold tag log in before me, it does not think i'm allowed into the area, and tosses me elsewhere.

on trying to learn the spell 'ward area' from a scroll it says 'you are only able to memorize arcane scrolls' and does not allow me to memorize the spell, despite it being an arcane spell, and usable to me.

When casting future pain, the 4th level divination spell, if you hit a target with it multiple times before they 'hit' the target will only have the spell affect them once.
Unsure if intentional or bug.
There was also a bug with the DC at one point, it showing up roughly 7 points below what it should be

In ring 99 - the drips - ancient prison, the basin of healing water drops acid fog, instead of healing

The primal obelisks in the silverspike do not cast the spells from the runes when picked up.

Silkroot has you roll for addiction, but does not apply any effects on use.

The quest does not add the 'quest taker' to the quest, but it gives an invite tool that can add others. It also does not add people like a normal quest bubble.

Unsure if this is intentional, but the NPC 'Simon the Stabber' in the Alley exploreables was using a warmace, instead of a dagger....

Bakyr has fallen.
He never, in all his time, turned down a duel. And to my knowledge, the only three people to ever beat him in a duel were Eledrik, Kirk and Jard and Taros the Blue (pesky RSD's).

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with him, going from Mad Cyric worshipper, to something entirely different in the watch. Amusingly enough he never lied, especially during his time as a Cyricist.

Many thanks to Pascal for Kirk begin an awesome frenemy. Thanks to RwG, for being RwG, Ozkar for being an awesome monk, and many others who I got to interact with.

thanks to Elmo for running all sorts of crazy events, from the mad scramble across the underdark, to all sorts of duels and tournaments. Kudos as well to ironside and the rest of the amazing DM team.

See you soon...

In the Strange Surface Exploration - Interiors, there is a 'Tyrant of the Lost Lands' who is surrounded by locked treasure chests. When you kill him, his corpse never despawns to drop the key.

At the end of the corridor just inside the formian hive, the lowerdark -rotlands-rot tunnels, there is a spot on the wall where it will make your character make the 'Something found' emote, yet nothing is there/ revealed by this

Well Malcer was my Longest living PC, and saw and lived through a great many things...


Screenshots!

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An Evil Lich with a Terrible Hunger, and an even more terrifying maze.
Terrific.











Questing with his Ally and Compatriot at the time, Hector Thorn



Negotiations with Orogs and Mur Duergar, in interesting Company



The Meeting of The Minds, and the Death of several Legends



From the Sanctuarian side




The first of Many deaths


The Most Durable and Terrifying Character i've ever seen.



And Finally Malcer biting the dust.




And some choice words from the BOM, on two different occasions, mind you.




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and Loot!
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The most Major piece of loot i've really earned thus far, and the only one I took a screenshot of.

"Ghost-Hands"



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Thanks for the ride everyone!