by Irina Naginata 10th November 2016, 12:35 pm
So I'm going to make a new post for a little update on the Withered Lotus event stated above, cause there is a lot to talk about and it bumps the thread at the same time.
So the Withered Lotus event has a lot of unique stuff I've been thinking about. The event itself does seem like a massive PvP event except I'm going to use rules with the intention of making it feel more fun instead of making it feel more like some unsurmountable boss fight that you can't even win. The gist of it, is that a lot of the NPC that I have made for the event are blatantly overpowered, and I mean blatantly overpowered as in levels of Storyteller back when that thread wasn't deleted who almost deleted both Irina and Iza. However the event isn't designed to be unbeatable, and I will explain why with the rules.
My Rules:
Health and damage does not exist, it's just a for fun slug fest until someone decides OOC that their character has taken enough of a beating that they are out.
Death of course wont be a thing unless it is agreed upon.
The only things you should be keeping track of in this event is your MP, and your Durations and cooldowns.
The reason for these rules is to limit the amount of complicated riff raff, and so it doesn't feel like anyone is the main star by doing 300 damage in a single post. Most likely there will be a lot of 1v1's and maybe 2v1's depending on the turn out of the event.
As a final note, every fight will always be winnable, in fact they probably will be 100% wins, the NPC's may be overpowered but they're only designed to push you to your extreme limits not kill you. An example of extreme limits would be Irina pulling out one of her S rank spells (which she normally shouldn't be able to use) to deal extreme damage to a target, the result of this though is that Irina practically explodes and will probably need immediate medical attention afterwards. So my example is me pushing my character, you can do the same thing though you do need permission from me if you want to do things like pull out H rank spells.
The Event will also have some special things.
The first is a status board that will display the status of all participants and NPC's which will be denoted by simple words like Healthy, Critical, and Dead which are kinda self explanatory.
The Second is the enemy knowledge status, this also ties in with the lead up to the event which involves encounters with the members of Withered Lotus, we are almost running blind but we know several members of the opposition and this plays a key part in IC operations as we can actively counter the opposition with favorable matchups. The more we know about the enemy the less we have to worry about bad matchups.
That is pretty much all I have for the event info, feel free to discuss this with me and stay tuned for stuff about actual guild stuff coming soon.
TL;DR:
I use special rules,
people should try and learn about the enemy,
special status board.