No one

That is simple ;
1. get some strong men ON horses
2. pull the old man into pieces
3. stuff its pieces into altars
4. eat a cake while waiting to see if anyone recognizes the corpse as being Rophs

 

That is simple ;
1. get some strong men ON horses
2. pull the old man into pieces
3. stuff its pieces into altars
4. eat a cake while waiting to see if anyone recognizes the corpse as being Rophs

 

old players too (would like to change their creatures).
I think these events should be kept for those that subscribe to them and not to be forced on everybody ... especially when there is nothing beneficial in this AL for the rest of MD.
As I see it, this is becoming a duplicate of PO's mass dream (to be read abuse).

old players too (would like to change their creatures).
I think these events should be kept for those that subscribe to them and not to be forced on everybody ... especially when there is nothing beneficial in this AL for the rest of MD.
As I see it, this is becoming a duplicate of PO's mass dream (to be read abuse).

old players too (would like to change their creatures).
I think these events should be kept for those that subscribe to them and not to be forced on everybody ... especially when there is nothing beneficial in this AL for the rest of MD.
As I see it, this is becoming a duplicate of PO's mass dream (to be read abuse).

after a brief skim through this thread, i think the main issue with this Al segment comes from just how limiting it is for the whole realm, if it was just a small change in how the game plays for others then the impact might not have been so severe, however, its affecting gameplay for those not involved, and have no way to get involved.
i'm all for elements that affect the realm as they do bring life to the game in some aspects, but this current Al is doing the opposite, its locking down one of the main things that are keeping some of the players active here. a story should enhance the game, not limit it, provide discussion, not opposition.
that being said, why cant a compromise be made? even if it's just opening up one altar somewhere, even if it's just for a brief moment every so often, just to allow both things to exist. does it fit the "lore" of the quest? i dont know, but it would make the the state of the game easier to swallow for the people who want to participate in the aspect of the game that is now locked.
new players who come to the game may want to change out their creatures or play around with these features, and cannot do so beacuse of a situation they cant participate in, i feel like a temporary solution should be reached. i'm sure there exists some solution that allows both parties to participate in the areas of the game they want to, without treading on the feet of the other.

Oh..I think I am the most patient person in this whole MD but this is not about that. It's about the fact that I called on your bs and now you are trying to bs me some more. Basically what 95% of MD population is doing: bragging with no real support. Because why not? Words don't cost anything.

Yep. You CANNOT do anything . You're just bragging. I've seen this sooo many times. People like to brag with that they WOULD do, you included. I never do that. I brag AFTER I do stuff.

I'd like to spend some time and explain to you what I said above (the same way like I do with my less gifted peers) but why bother? You still cannot do anything although you've named yourself the puppet master (the ones that cannot do, teach  ).

That's bs. It doesn't adress the current issue. Plus, as lashtal and Lintara said, we are waaay behind today's events in the AL.
Although I am like Burns here with little time to play (meh...sometimes I believe that it's also a lack of motivation but that's my fault) I still don't think the current situation is helping the game.
Personally I think AL is a bunch of cr** and that we could do just fine without it but if you (=whoever resurrected/written/maintained the story) started it, it would be common sense to continue and eventually finish it.

Considering that he desires it ... 30 days for himself and all those bones and all lands loyalty ... that would be a holiday.
 

*voice from the off*
You all probably realized that i turned into a silent reader a rather long while back, but 'taking it to the game' is nigh impossible currently. As of this moment (which used to be a good time to be online), there's 14 people logged in, 7 of them idle. You seriously can't expect people to wait around for the exact right people to play with and do nothing meanwhile, there needs to be some stuff people can do on their own while hanging around. Otherwise they won't hang around long enough to find any catch to push the story off.
I admit that i wouldn't even know about the fact that the altar is closed if it weren't for this thread, but that's because i don't have time to even play by myself...
*voice goes into the off again*

Currently I agree that the altars not being functional is a bit excessive as that takes away a large portion of the combat system, being unable to recruit further and sacrifice creatures that you've been training being the main issues. If any character needs to lose heat I have had a heat loss ritual set consistently for a while now,  and I'm rather active so I can help you build a combo ritual if you want.
On one side I see how it can be annoying without the altars, but on the other I see some emphasis on player interactions as far as heat loss goes and further for wanting players to band together to fix the altars. I'm conflicted as on an individual level worse things have happened to players in the name of roleplay, although I don't agree with detriments as opposed to benefits to emphasize activity/effort. I would be more open to the altars being broken if we were shown why or if it was mentioned in the Adventure Log in some way, as it hasn't been yet. I'm open to seeing where it goes and for that reason I don't agree on any punishment towards the organizers, I'm just glad we have more of the AL to read as it has been years since the last edition.
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As for the community aspect, I have really yet to see  any sort of ingame activity in regards to the AL.There was the eclipse where the old man showed up in some sort of support for Aia and that is nice but somewhat unrelated as the eclipse effort has been long awaited if rather renewed lately. The old man has also appeared around Necrovion I guess. I went into Necrovion myself and offered blood  but I was on a side mission really, to help Fang Archbane, so my character (not that I roleplay much, he's kinda just me...) really has yet to see any sort of AL happenings as I was not around during the blood service.
We had the PM conversation related to the AL, but I dislike confining these subjects to PMs which will remain hidden. I much prefer these topics to be discussed openly so we can all see and look back on them, hopefully learning something in the future. Much like these topics:
^Somewhat unrelated, and rather related:
So if people want my (and others) thoughts and opinions I request you would make dedicated topics such as these so we can all input openly. Now I really must agree that we should bring these things ingame whenever possible, talk to eachother ingame and try to create events to make more things move forward. The forum is a good resource but shouldn't replace the game, and I suppose vice versa.

Just to point out a slight discrepancy there. 
I slightly agree with NoOne here. If I may point out the obvious here and without meaning to be rude or disrespectful to anyone, I think the issue with this instalment of the AL is that it seems to be targetted specifically at a handful of people (I'd say 2-3) and while it affects the entire community it doesn't involve the entire community, or the involvement is superfluous at best. It feels like it's just to keep appearances up.
I was there at the Red Service and perhaps I should have voiced my dissatisfaction at the time. I don't know how the others present felt, but to me it felt like it wouldn't have made any difference whether there were 2 or 20 people there, as the entire event was addressed entirely to Aia. It made the community involvement feel like an afterthought rather than a driver for the ritual.
To whom it may concern, please consider I am not pointing fingers, I am trying to highlight what I find to be an issue with the AL at the moment. 

Trouble is, unless given meta knowledge by those who were there, nobody else can join in the AL because the AL still hasn't caught up to the actual reality of the game. The Red Service is months since over yet the AL is still stuck covering the middle of it:
It has indeed been dragging on for too long. It would be understandable if the organizers were still waiting for MRF to return, since he was one of us "summoners" and he did have a task of finding some mp3's to spar with in Necrovion in front of the Little Old Man. MRF worked separately and his efforts at the time were overshadowed by all the hype about the Eclipse. However, even if MRF returned now, it would be a separate arc, especially with the Little Old Man changed to what it is now. As such, how many months should it take for the AL to at least finish the Red Service arc when there's already a log of it posted up on the forums? How many remember the green text message right after the ceremony pointing at the dark clouds gathering above Necrovion? Did anything even happen there then or was it just a false foreshadow?
As for the altars being blocked... It's a terrible choice either way. If they are meant to be restored by the players, then the clues given for that are too scarce for RP right now. If it is a story element, then it has outstayed its welcome in an arc that should already be finished. If it is just meant to cause an uproar later to get some fire going when the action dies down... well, congrats, it kind of did that but at what cost.

I enjoyed the AL and was really interested to see where it was going, especially when the altars stopped working. What I don't enjoy is it being dragged out with no activity for so long. Thanks to your little 'jolly' what has happened to things like TTC? What happens to the couple new players trying to train who hit the heat cap but don't have the VE to drop in a reasonable time? Forget them, they and everyone else are just ignorant and can't see the *cough* solid foundation.
No, No One, I mean the people messing in Necro should keep him company

BigC doesn't need my help.
MD is being shut down in the name of a "quest".
@Nava: you should try to know be better. I don't demand. I don't request. I point out.
If MD wants a new player pool, the game has to be opened.
If MD wants to keep its current players ... it just needs to be playable.
So, keep MD available or MD will wither faster.
@Nava: if you like that thing called RP, fine, then you play that game. For me, maybe others too, RP is just junk. Thank you for the advice Nava I'll just say pass.
 
 

Consider this as a formal complaint against the AL "One Man, Many voices" organizers.
True, AL should be possible and should impact the game play of others.
So, considering that:
altars are one of the top most important parts of MD directly blocking character improvements by getting/exchanging current creatures and by blocking the stats from the currently available creatures there has been no progress on this for a too long time in this AL 3 months already since last post the altars have been stopped for no reason - as there is no info in AL yet as for the altars to be blocked . in the AL timeline you could have added an action which would have blocked them, but this is not the case (as I see) I request :
a symbolic punishment for the AL driver - regardless on which of the following actions will be taken restoration of the altars (until their blockage is really needed) and/or action on AL : stopping the AL and thus restoring the status of MD OR somebody else to take over the AL so that it would bring it to its end  
 

BigC doesn't need my help.
MD is being shut down in the name of a "quest".
@Nava: you should try to know be better. I don't demand. I don't request. I point out.
If MD wants a new player pool, the game has to be opened.
If MD wants to keep its current players ... it just needs to be playable.
So, keep MD available or MD will wither faster.
@Nava: if you like that thing called RP, fine, then you play that game. For me, maybe others too, RP is just junk. Thank you for the advice Nava I'll just say pass.
 
 

BigC doesn't need my help.
MD is being shut down in the name of a "quest".
@Nava: you should try to know be better. I don't demand. I don't request. I point out.
If MD wants a new player pool, the game has to be opened.
If MD wants to keep its current players ... it just needs to be playable.
So, keep MD available or MD will wither faster.
@Nava: if you like that thing called RP, fine, then you play that game. For me, maybe others too, RP is just junk. Thank you for the advice Nava I'll just say pass.
 
 

I see your point, the only thing that really annoys me about this altar blockade is that nothing happens anymore so it looks like the altars wont come back anytime soon

Consider this as a formal complaint against the AL "One Man, Many voices" organizers.
True, AL should be possible and should impact the game play of others.
So, considering that:
altars are one of the top most important parts of MD directly blocking character improvements by getting/exchanging current creatures and by blocking the stats from the currently available creatures there has been no progress on this for a too long time in this AL 3 months already since last post the altars have been stopped for no reason - as there is no info in AL yet as for the altars to be blocked . in the AL timeline you could have added an action which would have blocked them, but this is not the case (as I see) I request :
a symbolic punishment for the AL driver - regardless on which of the following actions will be taken restoration of the altars (until their blockage is really needed) and/or action on AL : stopping the AL and thus restoring the status of MD OR somebody else to take over the AL so that it would bring it to its end  
 

I'm looking for a way to sac birds.
I'm willing to trade any of the 20 birds with over 100age for being able to sac creatures.
 
Mod Comment: Removed the tags from the topic, unrelated to market. ~B

Consider this as a formal complaint against the AL "One Man, Many voices" organizers.
True, AL should be possible and should impact the game play of others.
So, considering that:
altars are one of the top most important parts of MD directly blocking character improvements by getting/exchanging current creatures and by blocking the stats from the currently available creatures there has been no progress on this for a too long time in this AL 3 months already since last post the altars have been stopped for no reason - as there is no info in AL yet as for the altars to be blocked . in the AL timeline you could have added an action which would have blocked them, but this is not the case (as I see) I request :
a symbolic punishment for the AL driver - regardless on which of the following actions will be taken restoration of the altars (until their blockage is really needed) and/or action on AL : stopping the AL and thus restoring the status of MD OR somebody else to take over the AL so that it would bring it to its end  
 

Consider this as a formal complaint against the AL "One Man, Many voices" organizers.
True, AL should be possible and should impact the game play of others.
So, considering that:
altars are one of the top most important parts of MD directly blocking character improvements by getting/exchanging current creatures and by blocking the stats from the currently available creatures there has been no progress on this for a too long time in this AL 3 months already since last post the altars have been stopped for no reason - as there is no info in AL yet as for the altars to be blocked . in the AL timeline you could have added an action which would have blocked them, but this is not the case (as I see) I request :
a symbolic punishment for the AL driver - regardless on which of the following actions will be taken restoration of the altars (until their blockage is really needed) and/or action on AL : stopping the AL and thus restoring the status of MD OR somebody else to take over the AL so that it would bring it to its end