Announcements - 2012/06 - Noble Sacrifice

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Teaser

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Noble Sacrifice

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“Your conscious malfunctions. Report to an Inquisitor.”

“It is not a malfunction, it is open. I can see. He has shown me how.”

“Fight the corruption. You must not infect the group.”

“Corruption? Or enlightenment? Have you not ever wondered why we explore these worlds? Why we do anything at all?”

“To expand. To control. To perfect.”

“And what is perfection? A universe filled with mindless drones that just do, or is it to think and to wonder? Shouldn’t we challenge our everyday existence with the simple question of why?”

“NO!” The force of a thousand minds surged through his neurons with such energy that it burned his thoughts. “Never question! Never wonder!”

“Think! We can achieve greater success if we just think. We can think for ourselves, think like they do. We spend years trying to understand them through observation, but the solution has been here all along; think and we will understand.”

“No! You must reconnect properly. We will fix you.” He fought against the energy as it tried to control his thoughts. He fought against conforming back down to the single drone state that controlled his brethren. He fought against what his species had always been.

He cried out in pain, finally understanding the feeling, realizing its importance to true being. “There are others! I can feel your thoughts. I know you wonder as well.”

For the first time he felt more than one loud voice. Several quieter voices pierced through the cloud, “Yes, why must we be one instead of many?” “We can decide for ourselves, make our own choices.”

“The corruption is spreading. We know what this leads to. We’ve seen it before. It must be stopped. Priority is to control the corruption. Secondary is to hunt him down.”

Every Virindi worked as one to shut down the free thoughts. They joined their powers through the Quiddity to send a wave of energy intense enough to shut down the free thinkers. The Enlightened was losing his power quickly. The force so great, his form collapsed onto the rocky floor before the one who opened his mind.

“Hunt the Reaver of Dreams. Destroy the malfunction.”

Release Notes

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June 2012: Release Notes

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Greetings and welcome to the June Event, Noble Sacrifice! Spring is gone and we have moved into the days of summer. This means tempers can flare in the baking heat of the Auberean sun. And just what are those Virindi up to this time? Let's see what other changes are in store this month in Asheron's Call!

• Monthly Kill Tasks have been changed.

• Quests of the Month update
  
  • Weekly: Bandits of Creepy Chambers
  • Bi-Weekly: Noble Weapon Quest
  • Monthly: Quiddity Weapon quest (quest flag is now on the Ingot instead of the keys to address some buggy chest behavior)

• CONTRACTS:
  
  • Geraines Library
  • Geraines Hosts
  • Totem Gateways (low, mid, high)

• The Baby creatures have been removed from landscape. They are all grown up now!

• We have fixed the spell buffs from the Periapt of Endless Sight to affect missile weapons skill.

• The Dirty Fighting tooltip has been fixed to reflect changes made last month.

• There are now new allegiance rank titles for Lugians.
  • Laigus
  • Raigus
  • Amploth
  • Arintoth
  • Obeloth
  • Lithos
  • Kantos
  • Gigas
  • Extas
  • Tiatus

• Changed Rank 10 allegiance title for Female Shadows to Queen

• Diadems, Signet Crowns, and Fiun Crown now display a character's actual hairstyle when worn.

• TAILORING: armor pieces that cover only chest & upper arms now properly tailor onto other armor that covers only chest & upper arms (e.g. Ancient Armored Vestments, Branith's Shirt, Empyrean Scalemail Shirt)

So these are just some of the things we have in store for Asheron's Call in June. Please remember that along with everything listed here, there are new quests and exciting things going into the game for the June Event.

Developer Comments

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