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First, you make a helmet.
Then you put red cloth inside and hold it in front of a bull.
Third you wait for it to drive its head into the helmet and chop off the horns.
Fourth, run!

Misjbar wrote:Her name is Caitlin. Just so you know.

I cant remeber names... how i even remembered what sounded like a name was hard enough... i think he got the idea though..

To Salathe :: you seem to be obsessed with them... you cant have EVERYTHING..

Well he IS the master smith on this island so it maybe somewhat frustrating to him if he cannot smith an item.

So i wonder why he is asking us, who are less than him... if the best doesn't know... what chance have we?

Actually, the chances are quite good. There is always the chance that someone experimented and got it right while Salathe failed.

Moirear Sian wrote:I opened this thread for random RP-related questions, if anybody else has any.

*cough hack ah-CHOO*

Right then. RP-related, per favore .

For my question, I've always wondered what RP is most commonly used to explain the periodic server wipe. That is, the random disappearance of items .

Items "rotting away" seems to be common enough, of course, but can we hear a show of what else you fellow RP-ers out there also use?

I seem to somehow have misplaced my stuff...

A wizard did it?

This isn't the same world... it just looks like it... hey they must have forgotten to transfer my stuff... aw....

Adano Eles wrote:I seem to somehow have misplaced my stuff...

*promptly imagines characters going around saying things like:.....

--"I seem to somehow have misplaced my 50 sheeps' worth of wool..."
--"Oops. Now where did I put that double-axe?...."
--"Have you seen my mummy intestines? I was scooping some into my depot, and the rest of them just suddenly disappeared! Look, even the floor is dry!"
--"Arr, Gimli. I seem to have misplaced me 30 ton o' coal! Confounded wizards..."

That would certianly be rp...... however not very practicle...

"Oops i lost the armor... and i was wearing it.. now where could i have put it....?"

That would make a good RP-
Wheres the greatest theif ever stealing my armour off me without noticing it?!?-

Answer you find-
Acid came in and dissovled everyone of you items 'cept you!-

Wouldnt that be interesting?

Delakaniam wrote:For my question, I've always wondered what RP is most commonly used to explain the periodic server wipe. That is, the random disappearance of items .

Items "rotting away" seems to be common enough, of course, but can we hear a show of what else you fellow RP-ers out there also use?

I took it an easy way, I roleplayed Sian to be trying to escape the island (again) and return to Salkamar, but his boat to the trade ship sunk in a storm and his equipment was lost to the bottom of the sea. When I "re-launched" the character post-wipe, it was pretty fitting that he appeared in town with the beaten-up ragged clothing and the rusty arms. If you ask me, it doesn't take much imagination to come up with some decent explanation. Just think about all the possibilities you have irl to lose things. They're endless...

Some random ideas off the back of my head:

• • Lost everything in gambling
  • Sent everything to relatives
  • Pawned off everything to make end's meet (streak of bad luck in business)
  • Gave them away out of kindness
  • Natural interference (i.e., a flood, cave-in, monsters ate it)
  • Robbed
  • Transport accident (i.e., waggons, horseback, ships)
  • Forgot it on the mainland
  • Forgot where it was all hidden
  • Lent to friends who went on a journey
  • Left behind in a battle/war
  • Destroyed everything in a frenzied outburst of blind rage
  • etc.

No real excuse for forgetting the skills though...

Hadrian_Abela wrote:No real excuse for forgetting the skills though...

Got lazy and sat on the couch eating medieval cheetos for a year.

Not very RP is it.... you forgot ALL yr skills?

There seems to be no explanation.. . an act of the gods?

That topic has been discussed over Hadrian. You can find it by using the nifty search function.

1)i didn't start it

2) What topic?

Hadrian_Abela wrote:No real excuse for forgetting the skills though...

Yes Hadrian, you did start it.

oh.. sorry about that.... back to the MAIN topic...

Sian dear, I'm talking about the RP we all come up with for why stuff that was on the floor next to us one moment isn't there when we look back 2 minutes later (^^). I do appreciate your suggestions in the other area of "item-loss", however.

All my chars have a firm believe in midgets, who take shiny (and non-shiny) things after 2 minutes. And they are too small to appear as graphics!

To explain skill lose and item lose....

We have a mass case of amnesia ((Wrong spelling)) So we all ferget everything execpt our names!

Delakaniam wrote:Sian dear, I'm talking about the RP we all come up with for why stuff that was on the floor next to us one moment isn't there when we look back 2 minutes later (^^). I do appreciate your suggestions in the other area of "item-loss", however.

Again, allow me to aid:

• • A gust of wind picks up the item and blows it away
  • The tide comes up and washes it away
  • Little critters might take little items
  • Criminals and bandits are everywhere
  • The item is picked up again but falls apart in the character's hands
  • You RP in a #me that the character picks it up again but then throws it away
  • The character got carried away with something and forgot where he/she placed it
  • etc.

Aagoth wrote:To explain skill lose and item lose....

We have a mass case of amnesia ((Wrong spelling)) So we all ferget everything execpt our names!

That was already suggested, and imho, it's a silly suggestion.

Besides the point, why does anybody need to "explain skill loss"? The only person who can *see* your skills is the player behind the character. That makes this point completely void. Items however, were something you could hand around or openly show. Skills only gave you a display of how many different things your character could craft or how powerful your character was with magic or combat, or yaddi yadda. So if some new character comes along with higher skill - nobody will stop you from playing along with that.

You also have two billion rational explanations why a character can't do something they could before:

• • Has been neglecting the practice
  • Grew old and venerable
  • Followed other trades and interests
  • Spent more time exercising in a trade or vocation that is independant of the skills we have in Illa
  • Forgot some important things
  • Character doesn't *want* to use the skills like he/she used to
  • etc.

Why stuff next to you disappears??

It rotted away.. simple as that.. [must be strong decomposers to eat through.--> iron, gold ect...]

Avoid cluttering of junk from monsters.

RP question-->

If the languages are -> human, elf ..ect.. and common

What would be German and English ingame?

It doesn't seem right calling them languages "I dont understand your language"

[both talking common]

So i call them dialects.. any more ideas?

German -> the old language
English -> the new language

english is the new tongue, german the old. so english elven would be new tongue elven, and so on.