Mallos

While it may be harassment in a sense, I wouldn't consider it abuse unless your role was specifically geared towards using your tools or available methods to help the dead. Which you say you would help the dead in your topic on it. It is not helping to revive someone that wants to be dead. You can't have it both ways, to say you will help the dead and that reviving players against their will is doing better work than the caretakers, while also saying your role isn't geared towards reviving when neither was the caretakers. If you don't want to flounder I suggest you answer what your role is supposed to be in relation to helping the dead...

Does anyone have a good explanation of what the voice of the dead is supposed to be or do? Maybe it is self explanatory but in the recent topic on it by Blackshade, outside of explaining what the dead means to him he mentions more about how he will help Chewett punish depleters than he does saying how he will help the dead. I am all for self established roles/goals but they can easily go unnoticed or not tie into the realm in any significant way, like me spending time at the fields of abandonment or spending years not defeating the shades, even if you noticed nobody would really know why I do this. If there isn't a good or obvious why there is nothing to do with this role from an official standpoint. The voice of the dead role isn't like this though, it has been officially recognized and yet here he is obviously to the public going against the wishes of an established dead character. Is the role just something he seeks to fill because he could or is it something that meant something to him before he was offered it?

I voted Nep out of pure nepotism!

Claim 1: this was part of a larger quote that was mostly sarcasm mixed with talking up Ledah's love for mischief. Perhaps one of my favorite accomplishments, killing Aeoshattr was a targeted message that didn't require language to get the point across. The point was taken immediately, the Necrovions thought they had a monopoly on death, and I showed them that wasn't something they should use lightly. My main point was not actually that they were killing, as I killed as well, rather the manner in which they procured their targets. They were selling their killing power for monetary gain, which I took major issue with, as it in my view results only in indiscriminate/senseless and widespread murder. Ledah had very little to do with the plan if I did tell him about it, actually it was one or two other non caretaker players who I mostly decided to confer with about it, before ultimately requesting Phantasm for a use of his kill tool which he obliged. Claim 2: My idea was we could transfer the Caretakers into being a Necrovion alliance under her claim to the throne which I have even since the disbanding of Necrovion seen as legitimate, much like how I still see the Caretakers as a legitimate alliance through its own untimely and perhaps just as preposterous disbanding. In doing so we could have opened up the land again, though proven not to be required. I didn't speak much more about this idea than I did in that quote. I would not have been doing that because I want to be a part of necrovion, I much prefer the east or even MDA, but because of the connection the Caretakers has to death which I have seen Necrovion represent more aspects of, including housing the land of the dead within it. Also due to my preference to be altruistic, specially to my friends. "Caretakers have a love for the end of things. Sometimes the end of things do not come as fast as they would like, so they….hasten things." Going to reiterate this quote because it has always stuck with me and one of the main reasons I joined the Caretakers, but I see it not so much as we need to cause the end, but that the end is something we fixate on. I was not too long before joining the Caretakers a mortuary driver's assistant, I have brought dead people from their homes and hospitals to the morgue. Reviving the dead is not something I am capable of. This is to say that my idea of what the Caretakers are has never been about life or rebirth or some sort of revival. Caretakers would be something more like a caregiver for those who are alive and a caretaker for that which isn't. The distinction is that we provide support to people, and provide continuity to everything else. So the "mostly true" part wasn't sarcasm, I do think we shouldn't be going around killing people, causing death, but to preserve it where possible. When it's not possible, we ensure that the status quo, if you will, remains in balance. Yes my activity has been lacking this year, but this whole year essentially has been less than ideal for me, I didn't have a phone for a period and am currently homeless in a shelter, among some other stuff, so I have much less time to do things this year. So I have to apologize to Mur and Chewett who I have obligations for and anyone else who might've been hoping to see me around. But overall I see removing an alliance as similar to removing roles or tools from people, that it should be done sparingly with good reason, not just because they are inactive, as often it will just rob the realm of what could have been had they still had the chance to do what they wanted. So I will say now that this is a good chance for us Caretakers to do what we want now instead of doing what we were "meant" to do.

"Mur has given specific reasons for disbanding the Caretakers: no revivals by its members over the last year, no flowers-for-revival cases, and guild tools being lent outside the alliance. If that account is incomplete, then the missing work should be brought forward. Being active and fulfilling the guild’s purpose are not necessarily the same thing." The account is definitely lacking. The page says "Revives and kills: the game's own record of every revive and kill item and clickable, all years." When a wreathe made from flowers is made, that is usable for revives. It is a one time use consumable. If I gave that consumable to someone else, the revive obviously never gets registered to me. I had gathered thousands of flowers in the past to make the wreathes, all before the marigold flowers revive method was added, which I did talk with Azull some about as he was in the process of adding a new method for reviving, as I was concerned that players could not revive themselves and how tedious the only method other than a permanent revive item was. The aspect of gathering a byproduct requires that I give the flowers to others in the process. As a result, I have never actually held a revive tool myself even for a moment. I am not a quester, I don't have access to plethoras of wish points, which I would certainly use if I could to obtain a revive tool as it's the main type of tool I want. So yes, I don't have any revives to my name. But that is not my main concern, to revive people. Gathering the flowers is something I did because there was an implied goal for the Caretakers to help people revive, though it is not something that has been instructed to us or something we set out as a goal for ourselves. It is something the dead see on their own profile as they are dead to "contact" the Caretakers for how to revive, not for a free resurrect that we are burdened to perform. As for how many times I have been contacted, perhaps none or only a few times, but you wouldn't see how many times and neither would you see how many times I have contacted the dead players. My concern was with the dying process itself but I will not elaborate that here on this topic as it is better fit elsewhere. But short to say that I gathered the flowers in a period where there were more murders and kill tools available than the periods previous to that, and mostly stopped when the self revive was so efficient that using a wreathe is practically a complete waste, and really only recently has this problem of people being murdered become rampant again. Short aside, still over one hundred thousand trees set on defense, you can find me idle at the GoE if you need them.

Reduce the amount of gold avatars you can list at auction, disincentivizes this behavior, doesn't mess with people who like to use gold avatars

I state otherwise and I think... Necrovion needs an alliance still? Since Syrian has joined us, something I wanted years ago but convincing ex-Necrovions to join us back then felt like a fools errand, I believe the Queen of Necrovion may have some idea of what we could do with the Caretakers alliance... Just me being vague here though. Ledah I am disappointed you have left but don't worry you will still be my friend second only to Fang, no offense.

Aelis should have been leader if not for him leaving for Soldiers of the Inner Sun... Rather than that pesky Ledah character causing all kinds of trouble like forcing me to deplete Loreroot and kill Aeoshattr. I support this new direction in the alliance statement. Let me leave some passages I think about often and are related ... "In the quiet, heavy amber of the fading afternoon, when the shadows stretch like tired limbs across the floorboards of the empty house, I find myself standing at the threshold of a memory that I have spent years trying to pave over, realizing finally that some ghosts are not residents of the places we leave behind, but are carried within the very marrow of our own bones, refusing to stay buried no matter how deep the silence we craft around them."The horizon is a line where sky and earth meet, serving to gather all our prior movement into a single, coherent vision of a journey defined not by its destination but by the expanding scale of the view, a sustained line of thought where the tension between the reach of the hand and the reach of the eye becomes the engine of meaning, proving that the most complex structures we build—whether they are paths across a continent or sentences across a page—are ultimately evidence of a controlled escalation toward a truth that remains, beautifully and necessarily, just out of reach.

On the archway I have marked in red, you can see it is a separate archway than the underlying archway that we see on the door in the top image. This might give the illusion that there is a larger space through the red archway, evident in the green square in the second image at the bottom left of the square, there is tiling that leads to another area, this could be the area that is in green in the first image. However the archway in red itself when taken a close look at has an unconventional form, the bricks holding it up are not placed in a straight manner, it suggests the archway is not flat but curved in a sense as to which direction you go through it is brought into question. Looking at the left side of the red archway it suggests you could walk through to the green square area, but the top of the archway and the right side could suggest more alignment with the underlying door archway. This is done away by the tiles that lead inside to the green square, but how much space is actually available inside that square is to be determined, there could be another room inside that is not visible. The door itself would suggest it is either the same door from the same side, or a different door in the same position (often if facing the same angle the doors might be used in this position) due to how it opens. That would suggest the area in green could be the same area in both pictures. I think the idea that the specific structure surrounding the door is different has some validity if there is no heavy shifting of perspective to see an area that is not contained in the second image or for a more detailed perspective, the bricks and surrounding wall/ceiling are more worn and smooth in the first image.

welcome back there are plenty of new things to discover since last time

This has been resolved

This is the date of the last bounty email I have been sent, 3/30/2024, I've been collecting them since but none are in my emails

very interesting, crits are sold now looking to buy a colored fire ele paying gold/colored water ele

I have one 2k aged along with a 2k aged elemental, not exactly looking to trade them but possible I will trade these also. If you are offering the joker I am not interested.

want to buy colored fire elemental the red one pm me

They added a black cat and Handy Pockets got one

https://magicduel.com/member.php?p=Mallos&override=true pretty much the only way, I don't see the error you describe

I check often enough, mostly for bounties to redeem and to keep my account logged in as a training dummy. If someone wants to talk there is always the discord for people who are there, although this is a bad substitute for the game and can siphon activity from here to there, to a lesser degree the forum does this too. A lot of the activity I used to manage was directly people related, quests run by people that I no longer have interest in rewards or activity for. Or more specifically people that I had questions for, about lore of the game or game related features, most of which the questions have dried up now. Some specific time is an idea I had recently to spur more activity but what I learn from time based games is you often get different crowds to show up for different times, so whoever may be relevant may never be there at those times. Moreso people tend to get very small time windows that they will show up at and adjusting a time to suit any wider range of people is near impossible and doing certain tasks takes too much time. Essentially you need to find the regulars and cater to them and you will only have so many of them on average. I think there needs to be more "daily quests" type of materials, just something to bring us here, historically this was resource gathering as those are reset daily and people would come around to gather, spells and item resets are more of the weekly type of quest. Perhaps mp6 and kingship/alliances/housing could be expanded to accommodate these types of daily activities in order for those active to participate in the related power structure.

Ok so Ledah has won the last contest! You can receive your reward from Aia. Nobody actually won second place prize, though Ishtari was close to qualifying, I will give them a gold coin consolation when I see them next. I was going to give an extra reward for anyone who could bring the info to me but nobody really did, oh well, was just some fun since I wasnt around to reward the victors immediately (no computer)

it has been reduced in frequency to a point that I'm not so bothered by it any more

Studies show I may have not checked who the winner of the last contest was, if someone can correlate the information well enough I will reward the victors

Yes I will accept this sponsorship, and move the 10 gold note down to the 2nd place prize, and remind people they have half a month left to use a heads clicky (I have placed in 3 separate lands) 3 days in a row to qualify.

My mistake I thought that was a new player roles and legends post. This head contest in part one is also similar to a heads contest I ran previously, the main flaw in having to pass heads to a player is requiring the player to be online constantly through the quest duration, for this I had Fyrd develop a code to check heads for me and the clicky can take place of the player. Passing the heads to the player has some specific implications though easily remedied if you are allowed to take the heads back.

I am holding a heads contest at the start of the month February until the end of the month, highest head count wins - only valid if a player has used a location 3 days in a row. 10 gold note reward for the winner.

"There also needs to be some more incentives for fighting for alliances, it could be something simple tied to sacrificing, maybe there is a service offered that alliances uniquely posses. Any alliance with a high enough score (of some variable?) can provide the usage of altars for people who are not balanced - that player would need to give the alliance some offering for their usage, that will then go to the respective stock." Here is the basis for a new idea surrounding alliances. It could be a clickable item in your land that is unique to it, it may have multiple functions. One such may interact with heads, others described above. Overall I think there needs to be some agreement between alliance members in their land as to what the function should do for them. Here we may discuss this.