Re: Dead Houses 03/11/2006 07:40 AM CST
I thought the Black Fang was an army led by Palefox and Miilo.

Was it also an Elothean house? Pretty funny coincidence.
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Re: Dead Houses 03/11/2006 07:40 PM CST
Yeah the Eloths of the time flipped out pretty hard about that.
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Re: Dead Houses 03/12/2006 03:26 PM CST
>I thought the Black Fang was an army led by Palefox and Miilo.

>Was it also an Elothean house? Pretty funny coincidence.

Yep was why some of the more vocal members of the BFA were killed on sight around Shard.

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A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/10/2006 04:59 PM CDT
Eagle-eyed observers will notice that a new building is now open on Shard's Crystal Lane. It's designed to function as a temporary meeting place as well as a new home for the (also temporary) joining scroll.

Enjoy! :)


~GameMaster Nhia
Elothean Champion Duo
Weddings Team

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/10/2006 05:42 PM CDT
Very nicely done! I really love it even if its temporary. Just nice to see something Related to the Houses IG. Will there be a chance for those who lost their affilation titles though the bug with Milita Badges to get them back?


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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/11/2006 08:32 AM CDT
Wow, I really like the Consulate building! Very nice! I especially liked the butterfly garden and was extremely pleased to find some rice wine. I always thought it odd that it was so difficult to find in Shard! Now, if we could just get a little suur and some tea-ice...

Great job!!

~ Gwynfydedig

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/11/2006 10:56 AM CDT
>Will there be a chance for those who lost their affilation titles though the bug with Milita Badges to get them back?

Yup! You'll be able to get them when the whole House is released. Right now there's 1 in the final stages of QC, 1 in preliminary stages of QC, and 2 in various stages of construction. Why so few? 'Cause I'm making them big instead of just a room or two, and adding all the neat little touches I can find! They take a while doing it that way instead of making them a couple of rooms.

Also, if you email me with your character's name, I can fix you by hand so long as you have a spot available in your affiliation titles, which not every militia person does.

~GameMaster Nhia
Elothean Champion Duo
Weddings Team

"I was married once in an online fantasy game. We were thinking of having children, but it would have severely drained my power crystals." -- The Simpsons, comic book guy
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/11/2006 03:20 PM CDT
I checked out the building yesterday but had to go and was not able til today to post about how awesome it is! Very nice descriptions. I also enjoyed the butterfly garden. Would be kinda nifty if we could hear tinkling occasionally from the waterfall hehe.

I was wondering if we will ever be able to read a scroll for each house listing the names of players who belong if possible or would that not be a good idea?

Thanks again!

~Entyy
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/11/2006 11:07 PM CDT
If we did enable reading other names, that'd be something for the 'main' structures. :)


~GameMaster Nhia
Elothean Champion Duo
Weddings Team

"I was married once in an online fantasy game. We were thinking of having children, but it would have severely drained my power crystals." -- The Simpsons, comic book guy
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/15/2006 06:03 AM CDT
Is it intended that the Grey Storm room doesn't have a banner?

~Aeth
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/18/2006 01:34 AM CDT
+100000000000000 points for Nhia!
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/25/2006 01:41 PM CDT
I think we are missing a House in the Consulate Building ...

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"When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now." Iago - Othello II.iii
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/25/2006 02:10 PM CDT
Which House do you think we're missing?


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Elothean Champion Duo
Weddings Team

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/25/2006 04:02 PM CDT
If you are referring to the House of the All-Seeing Eye:

House of the All-Seeing Eye -- This is the infamous house of the Melyo Rensh'a, which is purported not to exist. Since it does not exist, there is nothing to say of it. Legends say the children have black hair and pale eyes, and that they are either chosen or born. If the house has been betrayed and if there is a punishment for such betrayal, no one knows since no one has ever met one.

On that rational, having it listed on the scroll, joining it and wearing the title would go against everything that this house stands for.... That is if it exists at all ;D

~Arwinia

It's mind over matter. I don't mind, because you don't matter.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/25/2006 09:18 PM CDT
The other day we searched the consulate building for the scroll and could not find it. Where is the scroll now?

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 07/25/2006 11:12 PM CDT
The scroll should be on the fourth floor landing. :)


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Elothean Champion Duo
Weddings Team

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/01/2006 01:37 AM CDT
<<House of the All-Seeing Eye -- This is the infamous house of the Melyo Rensh'a, which is purported not to exist. Since it does not exist, there is nothing to say of it. Legends say the children have black hair and pale eyes, and that they are either chosen or born. If the house has been betrayed and if there is a punishment for such betrayal, no one knows since no one has ever met one.

Well, that was written almost a decade ago prior to the Outcast invasion and the subsequent arrival of The Grey. Now justice in Shard is metted out via grey cloaked assassins who kill from the shadows. So, it seems that the House of the All-Seeing Eye are not acting as secretively as they have in the past. I'll bet my pale colored eyes and dark hair that there are those among the citizenry of Shard who have met members of this House.

Shadowmancer Stolas, Darkling of the Progeny

"When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now." Iago - Othello II.iii
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/01/2006 06:40 PM CDT
I always think it's cute when people think the Grey are that House. :D


~GameMaster Nhia
Elothean Champion Duo
Weddings Team

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/01/2006 11:20 PM CDT
the melyo rensh'a are a political house probably under direct control of the ferdhal and not necessarily focused on justice in any sense of the word.think of them as the C.I.A of the elotheans.where as the grey could sorta be considered an extremely over zealous F.B.I
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/02/2006 03:42 AM CDT
I've always considered the grey a organized crime syndicate that was established in Shard in old times. Using undershard as a base for their activites (Grey Market). The reason i've never assumed they were from the house is because if you seen most of the grey assassins there is a wide variety of races involved, Not just elothean. Which doesn't actaully fit the house as far as anyone knows.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/02/2006 08:21 AM CDT
<<I've always considered the grey a organized crime syndicate that was established in Shard in old times. Using undershard as a base for their activites (Grey Market). The reason i've never assumed they were from the house is because if you seen most of the grey assassins there is a wide variety of races involved, Not just elothean. Which doesn't actaully fit the house as far as anyone knows.>>


Well, I don't think the grey are from the Grey Market, and I don't think the Grey are from the around here, as it were. Here are a few exsrpets from the Grey by the Grey.

You see Asesino, Voice of the Grey.
He is wearing a twisted demon mask. Gaunt skin is stretched tightly over his skin, and tiny yellowed horns stick out from the forehead. Utterly suave and sophisticated, he smiles with charm and class, a thick, well-groomed mane of black hair hanging down his back. Sanguine eyes glitter with confidence, he has a nicely oiled black goatee and leathern wings that hang straight and tall from his shoulders.
His age is unknown.
He is in good shape.

He is holding a small red-veined snake in his right hand.
He is wearing a fluid grey robe embroidered with a dark grey seal, some grey leather gloves with spiked cuffs, some dark grey leather boots adorned with a string of bronze beads and a twisted demon mask.

You see The Grey Lady, Mistress of the Grey.
She is wearing a twisted demon mask. Gaunt skin is stretched tightly over her skin, and tiny yellowed horns stick out from her forehead. Utterly suave and sophisticated, she smiles with charm and class, a thick, well-groomed mane of black hair hanging down her back. Sanguine eyes glitter with confidence, and leathern wings hang straight and tall from her shoulders.
Her age is unknown.
She is in good shape.

She is wearing a gold ring set with a single ebony star sapphire, some sand-scarred leather gloves with spiked cuffs, a fluid grey robe embroidered with a dark grey seal of Ilithi and a twisted demon mask.

Asesino speaks in a soft ethereal voice, "That was not what was asked, but in this outer plane, she whom brought me forth has given me the physical name of Asesino."

Asesino speaks in a soft ethereal voice, "The flesh finds such humor in your words, she is the Mistress of course, and I the voice."

Asesino speaks in a soft ethereal voice, "She says, there is no need for apologies here. She is happy enough there will be a Ferdahl ones again, and the Grey suppots such."
Ruffling its feathers, a small black raven sings a few twittering notes on Asesino's shoulder before falling silent.

Unforunity I can't find all the quotes I was looking for however, they give the impression that they are from another plane of being.





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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/02/2006 10:42 AM CDT
>>I always think it's cute when people think the Grey are that House. :D

hahaha I love Nhia. I love her even more when she says "Sorry, you're wrong" in such a sweet way. <3

~Arwinia

It's mind over matter. I don't mind, because you don't matter.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/06/2006 01:53 PM CDT
>Unforunity I can't find all the quotes I was looking for however, they give the impression that they are from another plane of being.<

A friend managed a brief conversation with Asesino a little ways back. He flat out said he is from another plane, and the form you see him in is what he uses for Elanthia. I admit I tried to get him to take off the mask, but I get the feeling it's best he doesn't. I personally find him fascinating in a creepy, kill-you-with-a-look-if-I-feel-like-it kinda way. Never seen the Mistress before.

Verkatt t'Elbronn, House of the Rowan Branch
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/06/2006 09:48 PM CDT
I am from another plane.

Because I said so, and it's true.

To add to you know, my mystique and stuff.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/07/2006 01:46 AM CDT
Won't catch me arguing...
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/07/2006 06:45 PM CDT
Just because you said so Miss M? I dont think so.

Some of us are not the mindless apes we portray ourselves as ;-)

Diane


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Cry for the land that was taken away
And then yet you'll find, Hawai'i."
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/09/2006 08:56 PM CDT
<g> I was being snide, and implying that just because Asesino SAYS he is XYZ, does not make it true.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/11/2006 12:55 AM CDT
Your absolutely right, Asesino absolutely never in a million years could be of the House of the All Seeing Eye. There are so many Eloths who are GMPCs that love to enact violence and go against the grain of normal Eloth mores.

Shadowmancer Stolas, Darkling of the Progeny

"Everyone has a plan till they get hit." -- Mike Tyson
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/11/2006 10:44 AM CDT
<<Your absolutely right, Asesino absolutely never in a million years could be of the House of the All Seeing Eye. There are so many Eloths who are GMPCs that love to enact violence and go against the grain of normal Eloth mores.>>

Let me make myself clear: I am not disagreeing with that fact.

The fact that he insists he is from another plane? That is a different story. Meanne, personally, feels that it is un-basised "hype" meant as some sort of psychological tactic.

That the Grey=the Melyo, I happen to agree with.

-m-
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/12/2006 01:08 AM CDT
>The fact that he insists he is from another plane? That is a different story. Meanne, personally, feels that it is un-basised "hype" meant as some sort of psychological tactic.<


Still, being as it is he speaks with a ethereal voice, and Meanne does not, I'm more inclined to buy it about him. IF it is a "psychological tactic", it's a good one. I don't really care one way or the other, I find him interesting.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/12/2006 04:51 AM CDT
Maybe the grey aren't Elothens at all, but another race entirely. Something that gives them an etheral voice


Not all of us follow a code. That much is evident.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/12/2006 09:57 PM CDT
Hm, never thought of em as Elothean anyway. So that'd make sense.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/13/2006 11:39 AM CDT
My theory is that they are a race of shape shifters, picking the form they wish to be seen in. It is part of their mythos that they came from another plane. I'm not sure if they are the only such race about though. After all we really know very little about the world we live in as a whole.

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/13/2006 07:25 PM CDT
Wouldn't that be the (sp)Ocular? From the gorbesh empire?


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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/14/2006 08:13 AM CDT
Ocular are shape shifters, yes. I haven't however seen Assesino or his ilk feasting on furfoot flesh, nor have I heard reports of such. Aside from being shape shifters, Ocular have an uncontrollable appetite for tart-fattened halflings.

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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/15/2006 01:04 AM CDT
<<Still, being as it is he speaks with a ethereal voice, and Meanne does not, I'm more inclined to buy it about him. IF it is a "psychological tactic", it's a good one. I don't really care one way or the other, I find him interesting. >>

Interesting he may certainly be. Unfortunately, I'm a skeptic ;P

But he is nontheless a very fun character.
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Re: A new home for the Elothean Houses joining scroll in Shard! 08/15/2006 06:07 PM CDT
Next time you see Assesino, wave a juicy halfling in front of him and see what happens.

Shadowmancer Stolas, Darkling of the Progeny

"Everyone has a plan till they get hit." -- Mike Tyson
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Elothean Houses Update! 08/08/2007 01:40 PM CDT
Okay, here we go!

House of the Silver Star - RELEASED

House of the Steel Dove - RELEASED (with housing!)

House of the Gilded Longleaf - RELEASED in Plat, likely being released within the next week or so in Prime.

House of the Grey Storm - Fully built, just needs a few finishing touches and QC. This will likely be the next released -- give me a couple months, though!

House of the Ivory Scroll - Built, needs several things and QC.

House of the Silk Strings - Built, needs several things and QC.

House of the Gentle Lion - Being built.

Floating Reed, Waxen Moon, and Rowan branch are all still in the design phase.

Whew! I have to give huge amounts of praise to ALAE (Architectural and Landscaping Association of Elanthia, available in Platinum where players work on building areas) who have done an excellent job far exceeding any expectations I may have had. They're cranking them out faster than I can do the GMly background things to the areas, and are the reason we're getting so much done!

With the opening of these areas, it's my hope that it will become a way for Elothean RP to flourish. Most of the Houses allow non-members to be escorted in by members, and I think people will find the amenities something to come back for.


~GameMaster Nhia
Weddings Team Coordinator
Elothean Champion Duo

"I was married once in an online fantasy game. We were thinking of having children, but it would have severely drained my power crystals." -- The Simpsons, comic book guy
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Re: Elothean Houses Update! 08/08/2007 01:45 PM CDT
Mm, goodies. Now the hardest part, picking which one to join. Would any volunteer to escort others into their house or give us impressions?




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Re: Elothean Houses Update! 08/08/2007 08:30 PM CDT
This is SO cool! ::wipes the drool off her keyboard:: I can't wait to get down to visit them!


~ Gwynfydedig

The frostweaver sobs piteously, "Help! I've fallen!"
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