OLD [Syliras' OOC Thread] The Calm within the Storm

by **Waheed** on May 12th, 2012, 8:19 pm

'ello there folks, If anyone wishes for a letter or parcel to be delivered from one place to another in our fare city, please don't hesitate to ask for my services, with my know-how of the towns shortcuts and my running speed, I'd guarantee you a quick delivery eighty percent of the time.

by **Chevalier** on May 15th, 2012, 3:54 pm

Hello there my lovelies, thought I'd throw down a bit of an update. While I'm grading threads and coming up with Patrons for Squires, I'm also going to make sure that Syliras has a Calender of Events in this upcoming Season, so look forward to fun things happening. Remember that huge surge of energy from the Djed storm? Just how did it effect the Wind Oak, the very heart of Syliras' existance, hmm? Maybe we'll find out!

by **Chevalier** on May 20th, 2012, 1:03 pm

Heyo folks. I updated the Staff Storytellers thread since it was getting a little dusty. It's a good way to learn a little bit about the thread types us different mods enjoy modding and grading, and offers a quick way to get to any office with ease.

by **Mordechai Zoltar** on May 22nd, 2012, 12:24 am

Hello everyone. My name's Mordechai and I'm an animator of sorts. If anyone would care to use my services in their story let me know. I can play a wicked bad guy if need be, or I can be a somewhat shady, but gold hearted good guy. Take a look at my CS and message me if you're interested. I certainly am, seeing as the stories I've joined lately haven't had an update in days.

Sincerely,
Wizard, Animator, Taxidermist,
Mordechai Zoltar

by **Marian Tarmikos** on May 27th, 2012, 1:19 am

New guy alert. I won't get crazy with my threads until the season change, but I am looking forward to writing with everyone in Syliras. Let's see what crazy stuff I can get into.

by **Chevalier** on May 31st, 2012, 9:55 pm

Welcome to all the new guys, it's good to have you! Now, as you may or may not know, we're at the end of the season. In just a few hours (depending on where you are in the world) Mizahar's current timeline will move into Summer, 512 AV. Make sure to wait for the official post from a founder mentioning that it's occurred before you start making posts involving a timestamp of Summer, 512 AV.

Now, beyond that, seasonal experience and seasonal wages. If you have a job in the city, it is required that you have two threads which are considered 'work threads' in order to get paid your wage for your job. These two work threads don't need to be 100% completed and graded, but you should be approximately at or past the halfway mark. Obviously work threads are threads that involve you...doing whatever it is you do for money.

When you submit this stuff to me, feel free to put it in my office. You don't need a fancy method of submitting it, just make sure to put the dates of your employment and links to the 2+ work threads you have. After that, I'll look them over and send you a PM involving your wages so you can add them to your character sheet.

Seasonal experience is a totally different animal. There are a lot of examples on what seasonal experience is, but I figure while I'm here I'll just make my own. Seasonal experience is experience you might get involving your work related skills due to threads that you had which indirectly mention or involve work related skills. Let us say you are a hunter and you write a thread where you go out and hunt a deer. Good for you, that's one work related thread and works toward the 2 you need for your seasonal wages. Now lets say you make a thread where you bring the hide and the meat you obtained from the deer down to the bazaar in order to sell it, and while there you meet up with another PC and do a little socializing. You could submit this for seasonal experience. Clearly you're still involved with your hunting, but you are not directly doing it in the thread. Seasonal experience you can submit to me in my office just like seasonal wages, just mention that they are threads you'd wish for me to consider seasonal experience threads and give me links. Just like seasonal wages, if I feel the thread/threads deserve some seasonal experience, I'll PM you the results.

Anyway that's it, any questions let me know!

by **Kiandra Thalassa** on June 2nd, 2012, 7:03 pm

'Ello there
This here is Kiandra, Svefra of the Suvan sea, she's hear in this fine city of yours to try and buy some parts for her boat, so if you think you can lend a hand with her building or spare a few parts for less than 100 Mizas would be fantastic, so give us a shout! She doesn't know much about the city at the moment, having only just arrived for the first time in her life, so she may seem a little clueless about the 'land walkers' as she so calls them

by **Chevalier** on June 7th, 2012, 5:31 pm

Hey there Kiandra! Well we've got quite a few new folks within the city, so hello to everyone. Feel free to talk to each other on the board here, set up some RPs for yourself, and otherwise have a good time. I've got two things I want to talk about today, the first is just a quick in-game mechanic to get new people informed and used to it. That mechanic is timestamping. Timestamping is dating a thread so that you can keep track of your character's timeline.

This is incredibly important as you start to aquire skills and items, or as you experience things so that you remember what you do and do not have during certain parts of your character's life. For instance, if you made a thread on the 34th of Winter, 511AV (we're in Summer of 512AV right now, but this is just for example sake) in which you get into a fight, and made a thread on the 88th of Winter, 511AV in which you bought a sword, you wouldn't be able to utilize that sword in your fight, as based on the timeline you haven't bought it yet on the 34th!

The second thing is epic quest stuff. The time is almost upon us when I'll be posting an epic quest for the people of Syliras. When I say epic, it's epic level epic. This can be amazing or terrifying for your character. Why amazing? Because...it's epic. This means that you'll get to experience all sorts of things, and potentially be rewarded in extremely satisfying ways, both skill wise and compensitory wise. My hope is that it's the kind of quest you can put into your character's history and be like "That's right, that epic thing that happened in Mizahar, I was there for that."

Why terrifying? Because with reward comes great risk. It's not going to be an easy quest, and depending on the amount of manpower and the methods of attempting to complete the quest, there's the risk of failure, injury, and other unsavory results. But they, that's what makes creating a history in the now for your character fun! It also means, however, that if you get involved and then disappear from the quest on me, I reserve the right to maim you and leave you...where ever it is the quest is heading to in Mizahar (that's a secret for right now):P.

Anyway, keep an eye out, I'll be sure to make another OOC post when the quest is up, and as usual you will find it on the quest sign up sticky.

by **Kaeson Dakano** on June 11th, 2012, 8:22 pm

Hey all!

Kaeson grew up in Syliras and I'm trying to get some flashbacks going that'll date from Spring 503 to Summer 509 (503 - 10 yrs old to 509 - 16 yrs old).

Anyway, if anyone is interested in threading a flashback with me just send me a PM and we'll get started!

by **Chevalier** on June 13th, 2012, 5:11 am

This is it, folks. The epic region-wide event quest sign up is here. If you want to be a part of Syliran history, now is the time to sign up. Great and powerful rewards await those prepared to dedicate themselves toward the missions success, and thus illuminating the very future of Syliras. But do remember, should you sign up and then drop out on me, your behind might very well get left in Sahova, city of the dead and island of magical research.

This quest is going to be long and extensive, so should you join be prepared to be away from Syliras for what could be a long period of time. Never fear though! You wanted to get out and see the world, didn't you? You wanted to have your name marked within the history of Mizahar, right? Now's the chance. The dangers of this quest are plentiful, however. Just as a group of player characters will be fighting for the cause of Syliras, there is the potential that other players may rally for different cities. You may very well have to fight for the future of Syliras. Are you ready!? If so head to that sign up thread and say so, and be added to the roster. Do note, you should be a citizen of Syliras to apply, or at least be willing to be probed and interrogated by the Knights at length. No chances can be taken in allowing a conspirator into the quest!