Post by Luna on Jan 27, 2015 23:44:32 GMT
Premise
Unknown to all, due to a lack of interference from opposing parties, a cult in the Miasma Realms summoned a strange black knight, using themselves as living sacrifices. After the black knight's summoning, a strange voice echoes from the miasma realms, speaking directly into the minds of those who hear it. At first the voice was in a strange unknown language, some even called it gibberish, but as time passed on, it slowly turned into English, as if the source was learning the very language from the minds that heard it. Soon it went from an in-understandable gibberish to a clear plea for help:
"Help me…"
A request has been placed for a group of adventurers to venture into the Miasma Realms to discover the source of the voice, but be warned. Groups of Lander scouts had been sent, and many have reported a strange black knight, covered in a thick black mist, wandering the Miasma Realms. Every attempt at communicating with the black knight have ended in slaughter. If possible, defeat the Black Knight, but your main goal is to determine the source of the voice. Do not engage the Black Knight unless you are certain you can defeat him.
Maximum Party Size: 6
Level Requirement: Main Class 30+; the party's level will be scaled down to 59 or the lowest party member's level, whichever is lower. As such, all Tier III and higher skills will be disabled for the duration of this quest.
Rewards: A DM'd thread doesn't go under the same post claim mechanics as most threads. Instead you will be rewarded with AP that you may put into any current class of your choosing regardless of whether or not use have used that class during the thread. The amount is not based on word count, but will be determined based on the party's performance and the overall length of the thread in post rounds. Finally, special items that are not found anywhere else may be awarded at the completion of this thread.
Post Round Length: Up to 168 Hours per round. If all party members post before the 168 hours (7 days) have concluded, the next round may begin sooner. Those who do not post before the round ends will be skipped. If you are skipped three times in a row or a total of five times (whichever comes first), you shall be ejected from the thread and your rewards reduced or forfeited depending on how far the thread has progressed.
Death: Due to the dangers of this thread, it will be limited to adventurer characters only. Characters that die may be automatically resurrected at the end of an encounter at a respawn point (more on that later) or by a resurrection skill at any point.
Respawn Points: A new prototype item was developed for use by the adventurers to replicate the respawning features of a cathedral. However, it is unstable and can only function for a limited number of times and will stop function once another nearby point is placed or after a certain period of time (after the thread ends). Each point can resurrect 3 times; the party is given 10 points to place for up to 30 automatic resurrections. The points are placed in a shared inventory so any player may place one at any time. In the case of a party wipe, the point will respawn as many players as it can, starting from in order of who died first before a new point, assuming there are any remaining, automatically places itself. Placing a new point before the previous point has used up its charges will deactivate the previous point and charges will not carry over. In the case of a total wipe and no remaining respawns or no active points, the quest will be considered a failure (unless otherwise stated by the DM in the situations of a scripted wipe scene).
Failure: In the case of a failure, the quest will be considered finished and there will be no retry. The players will be rewarded based on their progression and will have priority in a new quest that is based on the results of the previous quest.
Note: As this is a DM'd thread, you will not have control of NPC's or Mobs, only the DM will. You only have control of your character and anything under your character's direct command such as a Summoner's summon.
Current Party
-Steel
-Saskia
-Zyrune
-Slot 4
-Slot 5
-Slot 6
Unknown to all, due to a lack of interference from opposing parties, a cult in the Miasma Realms summoned a strange black knight, using themselves as living sacrifices. After the black knight's summoning, a strange voice echoes from the miasma realms, speaking directly into the minds of those who hear it. At first the voice was in a strange unknown language, some even called it gibberish, but as time passed on, it slowly turned into English, as if the source was learning the very language from the minds that heard it. Soon it went from an in-understandable gibberish to a clear plea for help:
"Help me…"
A request has been placed for a group of adventurers to venture into the Miasma Realms to discover the source of the voice, but be warned. Groups of Lander scouts had been sent, and many have reported a strange black knight, covered in a thick black mist, wandering the Miasma Realms. Every attempt at communicating with the black knight have ended in slaughter. If possible, defeat the Black Knight, but your main goal is to determine the source of the voice. Do not engage the Black Knight unless you are certain you can defeat him.
Maximum Party Size: 6
Level Requirement: Main Class 30+; the party's level will be scaled down to 59 or the lowest party member's level, whichever is lower. As such, all Tier III and higher skills will be disabled for the duration of this quest.
Rewards: A DM'd thread doesn't go under the same post claim mechanics as most threads. Instead you will be rewarded with AP that you may put into any current class of your choosing regardless of whether or not use have used that class during the thread. The amount is not based on word count, but will be determined based on the party's performance and the overall length of the thread in post rounds. Finally, special items that are not found anywhere else may be awarded at the completion of this thread.
Post Round Length: Up to 168 Hours per round. If all party members post before the 168 hours (7 days) have concluded, the next round may begin sooner. Those who do not post before the round ends will be skipped. If you are skipped three times in a row or a total of five times (whichever comes first), you shall be ejected from the thread and your rewards reduced or forfeited depending on how far the thread has progressed.
Death: Due to the dangers of this thread, it will be limited to adventurer characters only. Characters that die may be automatically resurrected at the end of an encounter at a respawn point (more on that later) or by a resurrection skill at any point.
Respawn Points: A new prototype item was developed for use by the adventurers to replicate the respawning features of a cathedral. However, it is unstable and can only function for a limited number of times and will stop function once another nearby point is placed or after a certain period of time (after the thread ends). Each point can resurrect 3 times; the party is given 10 points to place for up to 30 automatic resurrections. The points are placed in a shared inventory so any player may place one at any time. In the case of a party wipe, the point will respawn as many players as it can, starting from in order of who died first before a new point, assuming there are any remaining, automatically places itself. Placing a new point before the previous point has used up its charges will deactivate the previous point and charges will not carry over. In the case of a total wipe and no remaining respawns or no active points, the quest will be considered a failure (unless otherwise stated by the DM in the situations of a scripted wipe scene).
Failure: In the case of a failure, the quest will be considered finished and there will be no retry. The players will be rewarded based on their progression and will have priority in a new quest that is based on the results of the previous quest.
Note: As this is a DM'd thread, you will not have control of NPC's or Mobs, only the DM will. You only have control of your character and anything under your character's direct command such as a Summoner's summon.
Current Party
-Steel
-Saskia
-Zyrune
-Slot 4
-Slot 5
-Slot 6
