the LAG

They are hitting on Tasim in this Quest. Mr Bombs Man would like to gauge Tasim's romantic availability. Inane.

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I can't believe they wiped my extra XP. I hit level 106 the moment I logged in but anything above what got me there was... erased. I'm at 0 now.

Man.

 

The lag is actually crippling. I cannot focus on all the cool cutscenes because LAG. RUINING THEM.

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The Sovvies look very silly.

 

It sure is conspicuous that this Zhiraok guy keeps using mathematical terminology in grammatically unusual contexts.

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Well, that's definitely an interesting ending to the first Fruma quest. The vibe is established very well. They're rich, powerful, and... deeply troubled. And we're fundamentally a footnote. Whatever games are going on here, we are not privy to them; we are not important to them. Queen's Recruit has an overwhelming vibe of pawns watching knights and rooks.

 

Aw yis. First try on TNT puzzle. (After scrapping it halfway through. No failures!)

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I love the Gate of Unfathomable Difficulty. This is extremely funny.

 

Lot of conspiracy going on. I'm going to assume this is not just plot but a Theme.

 

So, ostensibly, I just killed every guard in Fort Torann and need to flee. Yet, every single shopkeep in it is completely A-OK with me being there, and there are two Constables at the door, also completely OK.

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Those gates are spawning on top of each other and producing some insane... what's the word. They look bad.

It also feels very strange to me that you're allowed to freely use the Fruma Gate immediately. You are not allowed in here and it is heavily guarded.

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I like the exploration. Getting set loose immediately is fun. First place I discovered was a "Wellspring of Eternity", which immediately brought to mind the Fountain of Youth/Lazarus Pit thing. Looks to be imperial gardens.

...My DPS is terrible. Luckily I have insane sustain and also Teleport so I can skip the guards. Gardeners don't seem to care that I'm here.

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Definitely is a source of immortality.

The Auburn Forest music has a vibe of "beautiful, dying empire". If it focused on a different section of the track, it could easily be the theme of the ruined, overgrown gardens.

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The lag makes this borderline unplayable.

...Droughts don't cause perpetual autumn. Is that a bad handwave, or is it secretly some element of the plot of Auburn?

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The description for the Frog Bog seems to imply that this area used to drain to the ocean and correspondingly that that Gate wasn't carved through mountain but rather constructed to block a pass... seemingly with no concern for hydrology.

I've definitely noticed how some Gathering levels have been bumped around. I'm pretty sure Dernic used to be level 110, so the fact that Maple is now implies that stuff's getting shuffled, or symmetries broken. And what's with the level 80 Bald Cypress? I can't investigate myself because my Woodcutting is only ~75 - I didn't bother grinding more during the 3xp weekends because Gathering is boring.

 

I like the Fruma portraits. Got used to them pretty quick. They're fun. Esp. the Queen's.

...but, the models are... eh. I don't like the models that much. Especially the first two Sovereigns, they look ridiculous. The artstyle dissonance and the exaggerated proportions do not do it for me. That's too jacked, I'm afraid, it looks wrong.

 

you magically befriended the remaining ones. totally. definitely.

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pregnant man emoji

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It's a fantasy setting, we can bend the rules of real life to make an interesting visual and some neat worldbuilding

 

I think you're supposed to roleplay no being allowed / it being and so not approach these places until the quest officially "fix it" like when you get banned from a town during a quest (DND Rodoroc, wynnex Troms) cause else it'd be really annoying for a bunch of reasons to actually make the settlement innacessible