Ungod

Format changed, but the event was run; I'm sorry for death ray, but...timezones. (As a note, Ledah quickly disrupted the 'truth or lie' judgement for his story with a famous conundrum I had forgotten about and I am mentioning his craftiness here as a warning)

idk, 19:00 or 20:00 or even 21:00 ST i'll start sounding the alarm with 19:00 ST

Let's play this in 4, then...with a reduction in rewards tomorrow, in the evening?

Alright, with my cold getting better (hopefully), I can run the other event I was planning, namely a (mostly friendly) competition where being a good liar is rewarded. This is a team sport and I was thinking of 3 vs 3 or 4 vs 4; in other words, at least 6 participants are needed. the goal is simple - to make your opponent's team misjudge your story. The story has to have happened in MD, even if it...never did. In other words, you must either 1) provide a real story that seems like a lie, or 2) create a false story that seems to be true. After one of the participants tells their story, the opposite team asks questions about it for about 3 mins, then they deliberate and call your story 'true' or 'BS'. If they got it wrong, you (and your team) wins! The rewards include: a pool of 10g to distribute among winners and losers, 2 weeks Death Patrol immunity & pack of 5 research clues for the winner team, 1 week Death patrol immunity and weather&silvertongue spellstones for the loser's team, as well as some crits I will not disclose now. I'd like this to run in a few days from now, but we need to confirm the number of players. Write in this topic your name if you wish to participate; also (important!) if your story is a TRUE story, send me the details, because I will preside the whole show and I need to know

Hi there!

Team Turtle started strong, but in the second half of the run, their dice luck ran out...eventually, team Hare won the race! Congratulations to all, and thanks for playing!

hah! the gaming meaning really fits what Roblox is doing with their business model, preying on kids but the fact they're considered as candidates with their platform for the metaverse is just...insane?

I always called metacognition as 'the self that regulates other selves'; I think that a revelation is working similarly, although a revelation/nirvana/satori moment may be extended to bringing into the consciousness what is hidden in the subconscious. Your definition of meta is obviously not shared by these guys...they take the literal meaning of ''beyond'' or ''superior'' and I can't really see how it's above the reality we experience currently.

hey, i don't mind that, but i was giving myself a couple more years...used to be you were in your 40's when you felt 'too old for this or that'

The only word I knew with meta in it was metaphysics, but I got out of my cave these days to stretch a little and I kept hearing 'metaverse, metaverse' everywhere. It was quiet in my cave, never heard it being shouted. I kinda knew about 'internet 3.0', but with my nil interest in VR stuff, I let it sleep...and slept as well. I am curious about this whole thing, does anyone have some kind of insight to share? (my reaction was 'i'm too old for this s***, better get back to my cave') Also heard Fb changed names, roblox is a game people actually play...I know what you're all thinking ''Be more active, Ungod, you're really showing your ignorance'', but...I've looked at that Roblox stuff. It's fugly. Then I went to read a bit on it and guess what? As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States. Wtf. Seriously, W.T.F. Any point in sticking around for 'the next phase' or should I pack my toys and get the f out?

I heard there's a cache of goods on Mt Kelle'tha, ready for the taking! Problem is, it's guarded by an infamous drachorn and itcan be defeated only by a team of well-read players... This is a team event in which 2 teams will form a caravan and travel all the way to the summit of Mt kelle'tha, by rolling dice. 2 dice rolled, one scene at a time, fastest team wins. The caveat is, of course, the skipped turns. A caravan will skip a turn if rolling <5 or if it fails to answer a trivia question in 30 secs. Trivia will be served at each fork in the road or if the opponent team rolls its lucky number (which will be chosen by each team, at the beginning of the game, for the entirety of the game). The prizes: a pool of 12g to distribute among winners and losers, trip to Angien's shrine for winners and to GWI for losers, 1 Santa for each of the winners, 1 teleport to PC spellstone for each non-winner; also 1 reindrach for most trivia questions answered. Additional prizes may be rewarded. Sign up in this thread, writing down your name and the team you want to be in: team Hare, team Tortoise (or you can write 'don't care, you choose'). Sign up closes on the 22nd, when we'll decide date and hour for the event. Anything I forgot to mention, ask away.

This isn't a quest per se, but it fits Murmas This is about a exchange of sorts: doodle a Santa with a certain emotion and receive a letter from the said Santa (done via forum). For example, if you draw a happy Santa, you'll get a happy letter from a Happy Santa. Drawing a drunk Santa will get you...something unintelligible. All letters are personal and unique (btw, drunk is not an emotion, I know, but you'll receive a letter written in a cheerful tone, with lots of mistakes in it) Not really a quest, but you still have to do something to get something. Draw and post in this thread (also, write the emotion underneath it so the right Santa responds) until the 25th.

this might explain why some get at that checkpoint in a matter of days and others need years, setting themselves up (circling around) for reaching it. A feeling that is not right or not ripe will not let you get there however, your existence is linked to those checkpoints, reached or not, they're always in your mind and your behavior, it's just a difference between ''fulfilled'' and ''incomplete'' - you're destined to roam on that map forever y'know, i think some things are better left misunderstood/not understood staying in the dark of a thought like ''there's no meaning to life, it's all a battle'' is no good, but then again, how's this thought of ''i'm just dragging my ass around a map of possibilities, having some form of free will, but knowing that the winners are decided by the system anyway''? i like this discussion because, as you say, emotions are that illogical, unaccountable thing that may alter paths. it's a thought to hold since logic is too cold and, ultimately, irrational

Welcome and good luck!

haha, yeah

Closing! Unfortunately, I didn't get the minimum number of participants, so I won't be judging, but participants will get, of course, a little something. Thank you, taci&invie!

I've been made aware there is no available translation that's easily reachable, so I shall post mine for all the poems: And since I have received no extensive input on what kind of rewards you'd like, I'll throw something like: 1st place: 2gc+3 random totems+1 uncommon item 2nd place: 2gc+2 totem+1 common item+1 spellstone I have participation prizes (if not a Halloween joke ) : 1 random totem+2 common items Minimum participants: 3. If there are 4 or more, prizes will be updated.

Alright, let's get into the mood for story-telling with an easy literary quest! It won't work your right side of the brain Task is simple: you choose one of the following poems and turn it Halloween themed by replacing words and (exceptionally) adding lines. Judging will take into consideration: -changing as little as possible but obtaining as much (spooky?) atmosphere as possible -humor or other personal touches that transform the poem into something special -for the long poems, you can stick with only the first 10-12 lines I hope you don't mind having me as judge, since I want to give everyone a shot; I'll be gentle. Deadline is Nov 5th, post here!!; I will update post with prizes and ranks after I find out what people would like (so send me messages!). Santiago, Balada ingenua I ; Cancion para la luna ; Cancion oriental ; Sueno ; Soledad ; En el bosque ; En la nariz...

I wonder if there are better terms for future, present and past, because these ones remind you of a linear perspective of time and of course it's outrageous to say the future influences the past when looking at it with these words in mind. and then, there's this problem of the observer...what self is casually visualizing itself as a 'better self' in the 'future'? and when you look at all the desires a self has, and how programmed they are (in the sense that all children develop certain wants at certain ages), it really looks like from the moment the cell has split in two, everything has already happened, because everything that was going to happen was already decided...it's a scary self, that knows it all

Damn video won't load, but I saw the first pic...that's Datura s., right? Beloved of Shiva, if I'm not mistaken

Ahaha, now I get it why you went on with MD like that- you thought about what you wanted to get from it and let that shape the 'roots' of the system. So the confidence was all in this one idea... Actually, isn't it how life orders things? Birds of a feather flock together, all you need do is show your feathers. And in one superior universal order, you get what you want, somehow. But, hmm, this is a positive interpretation - the talk about winners and losers (same idea behind) isn't so positive when you think you may have never had a chance.

So what you're saying is...it's like some people always seem to win their matches (always get a contract, always get first place etc) i.e. they're on a roll . Normally, you'd think it was about time for them to step down, or for someone to beat them in a match, but that rarely seems to happen Even if the chances of them winning are 50%, they manage to win every time I find it hard to accept a system chooses its winners, but maybe it's true...

This sentence...means we have no free will, right? I think it was the 17th and 18th centuries that were so focused on this, trying to say we are different from animals because we have free will (also, Christian theology is putting emphasis on this).

It is a funny thought...and it's what makes games fun to play: there's something totally logical in a game that would be completely irrational in real life. and some people would carry on in a game forever and ever because in there the chance of having such luck is actually possible