Aelis

We have our final scores! To make things short, I'll report a the total score per judge here and send a detailed report with the judges scores and comments on each marking rubric to each player. If anyone else is interested in the detailed scoring, feel free to contact me and I'll gladly send them your way. Before making the entries public, I'll contact the authors to see if they would like to refine their entries. As soon as that is worked out and I get an okay from them, I'll post the final versions. So, without further ado: Entry #1 - Else on "Important Events in Necrovion" Scores Judge 1: 18/25 Judge 2: 20/25 Judge 3: 12/25 Total: 50/75 Entry #2 - Granos on "The Brotherhood (of Void Destinies)" Scores Judge 1: 16/25 Judge 2: 16/25 Judge 3: 14/25 Total: 46/75 Since Else also won in terms of "binary" judge victories (2 out of 3), I won't make any adjustments in terms of scoring bias. Therefore, that makes @Else our big winner, with @Granos as a close second! Congratulations to both and thank you again for participating! Unfortunately, we didn't have enough submissions to fulfill the WP requirement, but I hope you enjoy the other fine rewards. In the following days, I shall contact the winners with the codes.

Archives are finished (until phase 2). There are a lot of lang strings missing in there.

Following Aia and Syrian, I'll work on converting MDA today.

Hello, everyone. Submissions are closed now. I'll send the two received entries to Kyphis and Chewett (additional surprise judge!) and the winner shall be announced within a couple days! PS: I know of one additional person who started working on a submission, but still didn't finish it. If there are others, please contact me so we can work out some reward for when you submit after the deadline, as I plan to make this a permanent thing

Teleport to Paper cabin stone for me as well, please

Current lang strings for the Lands of the East are finished. However, there are a significant number of clickie strings missing. Those will be left untouched until phase 2.

I'd like to work on the Lands of the East.

I remember Emerald Arcanix, a good friend and a true Seeker. From time to time, I recall our discussions and reflect on the impact that they had on me back then. I am sure that everyone lucky enough to exchange words with him will also agree that Emerald was one of finest minds you could come across in this realm. I hope that he is well and that someday I'll meet him again, quiet as usual, at Wind's Sanctuary.

Hi, everyone! As per Ann. 5237, I tried listing everything I could find that took place right after the 15th birthday up to today. I know I missed some months, so please help me in updating this work in progress (also sorry if I added stuff from before the 15th birthday) I thought about sending a PM to Chewett but then I figured it would be better for us to work together instead of listing the same stuff on our own, so I made it public. I tried defining "major categories" for the events, but feel free to suggest other ways to organize those. Here comes the (quite big) list... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Realm-wide" Announcements Rework https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5021 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5034 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5036 Work on Consecutive Days - Rewards and updates https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5023 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5065 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5105 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5140 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5145 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19113-365-consecutive-days-reward/ Resource Stack System Change https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5026 Donating Hours Project https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5027 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5048 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18985-a-new-value-unit-donating-hours-of-my-life/ Darvin's brain 2.0 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5028 Backdoors to guilds and alliances discussion https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5079 Game Masters (GM's) - Chewett and Mur https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5080 Nominated Leaders in Alliances https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5081 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5082 Doors to experimental realms https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5115 Partially transferable and no transfer items https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5123 New creature released https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5153 Introduction of Anniversary Pin Badges https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5165 Gathering Tools Change https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5168 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19143-ann-5168/ MD Rework 2021 Project https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5171 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5221 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5222 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5235 Creature Cards https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5177 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5193 Creature Shards https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5178 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5182 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5191 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5234 Altar access rules https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5192 Creature Marks https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5209 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5223 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5225 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5230 Introduction of The Bees of The Dead https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5217 New bringinallonline spell https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5218 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5219 Upcoming work for A25 team https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5224 New item: view previous battles in location https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5232 Discussion on progression https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18995-of-relative-advancement-and-its-lack-of-progressive-difficulty/ Work on testimonials https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19026-testimonials-and-teasing-presentation/ RP Reality discussion https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18937-discussion-on-rp-reality-and-similar-other-concepts/ Location-related Necrovion got closed (again) https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/4990 Logs back in MDA https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5000 Functional Bed at Knator Vacation House https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5015 Dreamcatcher at the Howling Gates https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5042 Scene Improvements https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5046 Challenge at Champion's Challenge https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5054 Raven Hold heals LR citizens https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5126 Unholy Guard in Necrovion https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5152 Player and/or role-related BFH is now Mr B https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5018 Rophs steps down as Wiiya Bubble Weaver https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5019 Aia handling Avatar and Item images https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5045 Ungod the Highly Esteemed Treasurer of Marind Bell https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5047 A25 team: Steno in, Shemhazaj out https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5055 Ledah rises as the new leader of the Caretakers https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5059 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19022-new-caretakers-leader-ledah/ The Caretakers Shovel https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19219-the-caretakers-shovel/ MRAlyon receives Mark of History https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5144 Demonic God receives Wind Ward spelldoc https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5162 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19134-a-hunt-for-darvin-permanent-quest/ Aia receives Invisibility level 3 spelldoc https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5163 Neno returns as avatar manager https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5189 dst retires from official roles https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5200 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19076-a-hello-and-a-farewell-at-least-for-now/ Dark Demon says goodbye (for now) https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19020-hello-for-the-last-time-for-a-long-time/ Sunfire leaves the East and joins Underground https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19003-the-end-of-an-empire/ MaGoHi and Ledah killed Granos / Aelis killed MaGoHi / Granos killed Ledah / Syrian revived MaGoHi https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19194-proclamation-regarding-death-of-granos/ https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19231-yet-another-proclamation-regarding-the-revival-of-magohi/ Granos killed Curiose (See Bees of the Dead in "Realm wide" section) https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19235-murder-death-kill/ Cyrus Siridius died and vanished (see quest section) Interface changes/fixes User details page updated https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5129 Changes to achievements page https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5147 Fixes on research library page https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5150 Exploring points shown on recruitment page https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5154 MDA scene fix https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5167 Gateway Guardians Improvements https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5179 Personal Papers/Docs/Notebook fixed https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5183 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5184 Server time panel made visible https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5196 Combat log updates https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5229 MD Technical updates Migration to PHP7 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5004 Storenow functional again https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5006 MD moved to new server https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5185 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5186 https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19187-md-has-moved-server/ A25 technical updates Item Templates for A25 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5012 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5020 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5032 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5033 A25 Tool Release: NPCTalk https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5072 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5074 Multiple uses for clickies https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5076 A25 Checks: playervars# https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5077 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5078 Animated Clickies https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5112 A25 Triggered scene alterations and animated overlays https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5113 https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5114 A25 activation rule "daterange" https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5122 More sounds https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5124 Healing and damaging with A25: vitality# action https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/5125 Quests Steno - Word Puzzle https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18964-md-word-puzzle/ Steno - My budding role https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18946-my-budding-role/ Steno - Awesome Autumn Adventuring Quests https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19043-awesome-autumn-adventuring-quest-registrationrules/ Steno - Chewett's Proclamation https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19049-chewetts-proclamation/ lashtal - Cyrus Siridius & the long wave of plushies https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18936-cyrus-siridius-the-long-wave-of-plushies/ lashtal - Spread the Taint https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/16156-spread-the-taint-mutate-a-drachorn/?tab=comments#comment-187381 Ungod - Mazes https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18942-mazes/ Ungod - A Constellation Chart https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19051-a-constellation-chart/ Ungod - The Telescope https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19050-the-telescope/ Ungod - Between Heaven and Hell, the six types of demons https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19100-wp-quest-between-heaven-and-hell-the-six-types-of-demons/ ignnus - Truth or Dare https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19121-quest-truth-or-dare-ask-your-right-questions-necrovion/ Multiple creators - MD 16th Birthday Quests https://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/19200-md-16th-birthday-megathread/

Best times for me would be from about 17:00 to 23:00 ST on Sunday.

First post was a Oct/2009 quest submission where I dressed as a Dark Archer (I'm glad the picture isn't there anymore haha). Been questing like crazy ever since. First PM was a Nov/2009 conversation with Pamplemousse regarding another forum post. That was shortly after (a month or two) she had left the Archivists to join the Sentinels and fight in the war that culminated in the burning of Khalazdad's cube. Young Aelis felt he was exchanging messages with a celebrity back then.

Method + explanation In order to create a Death Anchor, we first need to come up with a way to locate the dead and make them stay in place. To do so, we will need special stone tablets which are made of locate and movelock stones. The combination of these spells manages to properly locate the dead and keep them in place for a while, and since the Dead are hard to keep in place, the movelock spell would not restrict them completely and they could still move if they wanted. Since we need at least 20 memory stones for a basic stone tablet, this one should require 15 movelock and 15 locate stones (due to its increased complexity). Those should be combined using the Loreroot Stone Tablet Combiner and we shall obtain a Death Handler (name pending). Now, this would certainly not be enough to keep the dead in place and avoid their collection. For that, we need to add something extra to the tablet. We’ll do that by binding the dead to that location using memories! Our main ingredient for this part will be Reality Shards: We bind these memories to the identity of the deceased by combining those with Wiiya (pure identity) using Heat and Syntropic Dust. Now we need to store that concept in something tangible in order to add it to the tablet. We’ll do so by using Fenths (pure matter) plus more Heat in the process. This should give us a Reality Anchor (name pending). Note that in order to handle Wiiya and Fenths, we need their associated tools: one Wiiya Bubble and one Reality Coagulator. As a final step, we mix the Reality Anchor with the Death Handler in order to obtain our Death Anchor (inactive). Note that this step should also require heat. Finally, since the tablet contains an extremely complex combination of spells, it should require at least 10 heat stones for activation. Before activating, drop your Death Anchor at a certain location (just move there, game mechanic-wise) and use the stones to activate it. Once it is finally active, watch it adapt to the memories of that location, interweaving those with the memories of the deceased and making them immune to being collected there. Note that once it is done, you cannot handle the Anchor anymore as it has already become a part of that particular place. Ingredient list 15 Locate stones 15 Movelock Stones 01 Stone Tablet Combiner (the LR one should do) 10 Reality Shards 01 Wiiya Bubble (not consumable. aka you get to keep it after the process) 01 Reality Coagulator (not consumable. see Wiiya Bubble) 10 Wiiya 10 Syntropic dust 10 Fenths 20 Heat stones (for all the heat involved in the process + activation) Other references:

Hello, everyone, 16 years, wow! That's a lot! Throughout these years, we've seen a lot: the rise and fall of many alliances, RPCs, Queens and Kings, not to mention countless events and quests. We have also witnessed the appearance of new lands, creatures and even concepts (Wiiya and Fenths come to mind, for example). I could go on and on, but I'll try to keep this short (and ultimately fail), so bear with me! Mur once said: I, for one, find this quote fascinating, especially when we acknowledge the many "coincidences" that take place in our beloved realm. As a (tentative) researcher, I often have to dig through old records to look for said events when trying to identify and/or predict their associated collisions. When doing so, I frequently find myself picturing an ideal world where a certain concept or topic would be well-documented and whichever public information regarding it could be easily retrieved by any interested party. While at first this is a rather selfish thought, I really think such scenario would greatly benefit our community and, as such, I'd like to propose this quest to thee: TLDR: QUEST DESCRIPTION HERE! Pick a topic of your choice (anything, really: a particular event, a principle, a resource, an alliance, a faction, a land... hell, even the history behind a certain medal, why not? :P) and document everything you can about it as if you were an Archivist writing a book on that subject for current and future generations. References to relevant announcements, adventure log entries and forum posts are encouraged, as are screenshots, artworks and chat logs — feel free to add anything you'd find appropriate. Bear in mind, though, that we're interested in PUBLIC information here. For the love of our Demon, keep it spoiler-free! Oh, one last thing: due to the nature of our goal, multiple submissions per player are more than welcome, so, the more the merrier — only one pack of rewards per player, though! With your entries, I plan to start organizing (and contributing to) a "new generation" of documents for the MD Archives. I hope that in the future everyone will enjoy heading to the Archives to browse the bookshelves for clues! Oh, and since there isn't a predefined "editorial style" for these, I'll draw inspiration from our submissions in order to determine that as well. Finally, I invite anyone inspired by this quest (even if you don't submit an entry) to join me in this endeavor! If you're interested/curious, feel free to send me a PM (forum or in-game would be better... though I might also be available on Discord during the birthday) so we can discuss stuff. Enough with the wordy bit! Here comes some important info: Submissions Entries are to be sent via FORUM PM. Please don’t make them public before the quest ends as I’d like to see a lot of variety in your entries. After that period, I’ll contact you to find a way to make all of them available (we’ll see how that goes, depending on the formats and whatnot). Judging We have managed to get a very special Archivist to judge your entries: Kyphis the Bard! Hooray! Oh, also some random guy that goes by the name of Aelis will be acting as judge (don’t trust that one). Entries will then be judged on: Presentation (10 points) As I said, there’s no predefined editorial style, so feel free to innovate. Make it interactive, draw stuff, use pictures where one would expect text and vice versa, etc. Go wild on the format and surprise us! Historical accuracy (10 points) We expect you to present good references for the stuff that you write. Try your best to provide “proof” for your sources. Writing (5 points) We won’t look at your grammar or vocabulary here. Just aim for some degree of cogency in your texts, that’s all! Rewards (the good part, finally) 1st place: Anniversary creature + Wishpoint (if we have at least 3 entries, if not we’ll see) 2nd place: Anniversary creature + 1 gold 3rd place: Anniversary creature + 5 silver Additionally, all entries, regardless of score, will receive some amount of silver or spellstones (the exact quantity will be defined Soon™). PS: I have been given the power to award Anniversary creatures to good quality/score entries that don’t make it to the Top 3, so try your best! And now the coolest part: if your entry doesn't make the cut, you’ll have some time to improve it and try again if you’d like. Deadline April 29th (end of birthday). After we post the results, you get an additional week if you want to improve your entry to go for an Anniversary creature. Okay, that was a bit lengthy... thank you for your patience thus far! Please post here if you have any questions. I'll try to answer as fast as I can.

Now, on the visual side: I found two very different violet/purple/indigo occurrences (to me, at least). Let me know what you think: The first one is an alliance symbol (which I've never seen in-game, I found it by exploring the urls): And the second one is from an old screenshot that I found in my folders. It seems to be a colored version of an illusion (in the original picture, I can also see the black and white version of this). I really like the colors on this one, especially on the head. I think it's a very unique color. I totally get this feeling Mur mentioned from the second one, but not from the first one.

On the textual side: I've only found mention of the color purple twice in the Adventure Log. I don't know who wrote that part of the AL, but in it, Mur is seen carrying and opening a purple box. This festival was related to a RPC/PWR contest: https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/493 ... which I believe to be this one: https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/461 I don't know if purple here would mean the "end of line" for the contest or the "all powerful and unusual" concept associated with RPCs, but I find it quite interesting that the purple object was a box...

I'd like to join this one.

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That which is always there, but will never be here.

I'd like to participate

I'll try to show up, but I might be late due to work hours/timezone issues.

Totally not me ????

I had completely forgotten about this. If those are still available and assuming I have 46 plushies left from the auction, I'd like to purchase: Item 2: Anni custom pin badge (first of a collectable series). Price: 10 plushies (limit: 1 p.p) Item 5: Send to Gazebo - 15 plushies Item 7: Acoustic remains stone. Price: 7 plushies Item 9: 15th anniversary spicy pickle. Price: 5 plushies Item 11: 15th anniversary piece of cake. Price: 5 plushies Total 42 plushies

Item 2 - 7th Anni - CID 58 - 776716 - 65 plushies!