>>[The Crossing, Hodierna Way]
The hustle of crowds making their way between the secular and religious centers of town that converge here carries you along with its momentum. The granite and marble facade of the First Provincial Bank catches your eye, standing before you as solid as its name. A Gor'Tog guard armed with pike and crossbow is posted at the door, while a few well-dressed merchants congregate outside. You also see a town guard, a large parchment, and a big orange sign with a picture of a smiling Dwarf.
Also here: an immobilized Life Mage Tolena, Manze, and an immobilized Medic Tursavidus.
Obvious paths: east, southwest, northwest.

I know in some of the more remote areas empaths will just find a quiet, rarely used corner instead of going to an inn. That's fine, at least they don't get stumbled over. But...c'mon...in front of the Crossing bank is one of the busiest places in Elanthia. I always thought shifting was supposed to be hush hush for fear your guild leader would find out. Would be nice if Annael had some sort of mechanism that would allow us to go directly to the guild and lodge a complaint about this sort of thing.

~Lyonesse (Since half of you have figured out who I am anyways.)

>flee e

You wonder if your envelope is the home of an evil spirit.

> I think the guildleaders realize that the possibility of that happening again amongst one of us is next to zero.

Hi, I'm Raudhan. Perhaps we haven't met?

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Renegade Empath Raudhan just arrived.

A cutthroat gasps, "I can't get UP!"

You begin to lecture Reexa on the proper use of the brawling skill.
You cackle!
You strike a heroic pose.

<<But if you just see a shift in progress, how do you know that the two people aren't having a staring competition? You don't.>>

Well, except for the whole hair turning a different color, or nose changing shape thing...

GM Reexa


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>> If it is NEARLY visible, that means it is NOT visible.

Indicates nothing more than the fact that something more than mundane vision is required to "see" it.

IIRC aren't you able to see that messaging more consistently when you have higher power perception?

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Rev. Reene

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo."
-- Enoch in Neal Stephenson's The Confusion

Squiff has advocated public shifting for quite a while now. he's endured the wrath of the GLs after openly shifting in front of the Baron in Therengia and continues to encourage others to speak openly about our empathic skills.

After a discussion with K'Wyllen he's become a little less vocal, but all the same he'll shift openly when and where he likes as a matter of principle. Most of the GL's aren't as anti-shifting as they first appear.

I say good on you Tolena! Keep up the good work!!


SQUIFF
Not circling, SHIFTING!

I think Reene hit the head on the nail because I was told that it was a "safe" place to shift.


~Lyonesse (Since half of you have figured out who I am anyways.)

>flee e

You wonder if your envelope is the home of an evil spirit.

Why did you not research before you did it. Your ignorance of shifting is not the Empath's fault.

>>Why did you not research before you did it. Your ignorance of shifting is not the Empath's fault.

Are you serious? Maybe the customer should have known but the Empath definately should have known. I'd say it's more the Empaths fault than the customer.


Jaedren says, "Alas, no Khri Ronco (Set it and forget it!). Woe."

Don't sweat it Tursavidus. I like Tolena, but I think she owed you a little background here and she certainly shouldn't have jeopardized your standing in the guild by shifting in such a public place. I don't know her RP relative to shift though.


~Purehand

>There has to be a change in how we deal with shift. It's not a secret!
>Almost everybody you look at has been shifted in one way or another.

I wonder if that is part of the problem? A lot of folks that get shifted (in my experience) do so because that is how they envisioned their character all along. And then someone comes along and points and makes some comment about how they've been shifted - and in the characters eyes - they haven't - that's just how they look.

I think it's all a matter of perspective, and I was just throwing another side of the dice out there.

~Chris

<<I think the guildleaders realize that the possibility of that happening again amongst one of us is next to zero.>>

especially with the recent downtweak to shift.

::grumbles::

bashful in tf, who just lost all his body shifts.

::grumbles::




<<If nothing else, maybe some Magic Using guilds will now feel the joys of "You cannot steal here.", at least for a while.--Solomon>>

>> actually, when you go into a room and someone is immobilized, unless you are "in the know" it looks EXACTLY the same as when someone is under the influence of the paladin "HALT" spell.

Disregarding the almost visible link thrumming through the air between the two immobilized people? Sure.

There's also the fact that there's probably some visible morphing of features involved... It would be nice if the messaging reflected this.

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Rev. Reene

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it also effected the difficulty of force shifts as well from what I can tell.

-bashful da dwarf -




<<If nothing else, maybe some Magic Using guilds will now feel the joys of "You cannot steal here.", at least for a while.--Solomon>>