A Jaded Life Interlude: Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau

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Kelphram, confird Beta-Account

Before I forget it, disclair. There will be cursing in this thread.

With that out of the way, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?! When did Road to Purgatory beco the latest survival-horror with monsters stalking the world and fucking you up in ways that I don’t even want to think about?

I an, there were early clips of so fucked up shit but I thought those were promo-material, not sothing that actually happened to players.

Want to know what I an? Well, take a look.

horrorschau.avi

For a mont, there is only blackness with soft noises barely audible, making you try to listen more closely, just to find out what they are. But, with a few switches from light and darkness, as eyelids blink open and close, the dying remains of a campfire co into view. The focus shifts for a mont and the debuff-display cos into focus, informing that the recording character is restrained and gagged, sothing that becos obvious as the being starts looking around. Three centaurs are visible nearby, all forced to their knees and bound in strangely translucent chains that give off a bit of a sparkle in the firelight. In addition, the sa material encases their jaws, gagging them with only tiny holes allowing so airflow. The movent shows that the one recording is a centaur as well and that the debuffs are caused by the chains.

A small, slender figure, looking like a black spectre in the flickering light becos visible and a calm, casual voice breaks the silence. “Good Evening and congratulations. You’ve been chosen, it is a great honour, you know? Not everyone gets such a noble purpose in life.”

It is clearly a female voice and the collected way of speaking makes it even more scary. There are no emotions, no excitent in the voice, it almost sounds bored.

But the actions of the dark figure were far from the casual comntary, drawing a blade from the sa material that is used to bind the centaurs and starting to slowly and thodically stripping the clothes from the upper body of one of the centaurs, even as the voice continues to talk.

“You will be allowed to assist in my research and believe , it is fascinating. Also, experintal but hey, that’s what research is for, am I right?” the voice asks, almost sounding as if making a joke, but the flat tone calls even that into question.

“Let’s get going.” the voice announces, stepping towards one of the now naked centaurs, drawing a slender, yet very ornate knife from a sheath on her belt.

“You know, if you are supposed to keep watch, watching the surroundings and making sure that nothing sneaks up on you is the important part. Not watching the rrily burning fire.” the voice explains, sounding almost disappointed.

Without further words or any hesitation, the slender figure grabs on of the centaurs arms, the strange translucent material moving with the arm, forcing it into a different position and allowing her easy access and preventing the centaur from easily moving away. Suddenly, the centaur starts to groan and grunt in obvious pain, muffled by the gag while the figure is slowly and carefully cutting into his flesh, while a strange, crimson glow pulses around the blade in a rapid beat.

As the figure is cutting, the centaur starts to writhe more and more frantically, trying to get away, until he manages to twist his torso in such a way that gets him away from the blade, if only just.

“Now, see what you made do? I need to start over, you bloody fool.” the voice snarls her anger clear. But, instead of continuing to talk, the figure stops and, after drawing so strange, silvery-glowing symbols into the air, the figure has a spike, made from the translucent material she seems to favour, in her hand. There is a mont of pause, right before she stabs the spike into the centaurs back, sowhere between his shoulder blades. The stabbing motion is repeated a few tis, slowly wandering upwards along the spine and finally, the figure is just below the neck when she suddenly stops, casually tossing the spike behind her, while smiling widely.

“Aren’t I kind?” the figure asks, who she is addressing, nobody knows, “No more pain, you see?” she adds and, if one looks closely, the centaur has mostly stopped moving, rely the head is still a bit mobile.

Without further words, the figure steps back to her original position, taking the arm again and cutting so more into it, this ti focusing on the forearm, instead of the upper arm. Suddenly, the cutting stops and the figure seems to observe the arm, and her work, closely before swiftly taking a few steps back and, with just the wave of a hand, a translucent wall appeared between her and the centaur.

For a few minutes, nothing happens, the dark figure stands behind the wall, watching the Centaur, when suddenly, he gave a strange sound of pain causing the cara to focus on him. Just in ti, too, right after the cara focused on the centaur, the arm the figure had been working on burst in a shower of gore and blood, splattering the clearing and the kneeling centaurs.

A blue window appears, right in the middle of the screen.

Log-Out begun.

Warning, you are currently restrained. Your Avatar will remain on Mundus until you are no longer restrained and a short period has passed. Continue to Log-out?

There are two buttons and the “Yes” button flashes, right before the screen goes black again and the voice is heard again, muttering, “Now, that was unexpected.”

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To give a little background: Been playing for a little over a month, did the starting-zone and tead up with a few native Centaurs, forming a hunting-party. Normal stuff, really, and tonight, when we were camping, that happened. We were nowhere near so sort of danger-zone, we were just doing our thing and now, I’m most likely sent to respawn, the others are just dead. Did the ganking of new players start already, before the ga even launched? I know that it has been part of gaming since the beginning but co on.

Harms, confird Beta-Account

Anyone else recognise the voice? I sure do.

You’ve been Morgana’d.

Didn’t she ntion at so point that she had “investigated how Centaur bodies work”? Seems she’s not done with that, yet.

In other words, you’ve been geeked by a high-level player, sucks to be you, but shit happens.

Heracles, Official Pantheon Moderator

Our mystical apparatus flagged this thread for repeated cursing.

After looking at the video - Curse away, I can understand the sentint, I’ll just add a warning-label.

Gloinar, confird Beta-Account

Yeah, that looks like Morgana to .

And it looks like sothing you’d find on r/canwenotet

Ghostblade, confird Beta-Account

Yeah, that’s Morgana, up to her tricks, killing new players for shits and giggles.

Howardlight, confird Beta-Account

Can you DM where you were attacked?

Such cowardly actions need to be redressed!

Jeanyra, confird Beta-Account

More Ice-Magic but I’d love to know what she was trying to accomplish. If it was rely about killing people, there are easier ways, even if whatever destroyed that arm looked nasty.

Palda Hengar, confird Beta-Account

Looks like our glorious dark fairy is into Bondage...

Ruvas, confird Beta-Account

Holy crud...

That looks like a hard no for !

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Kelphram, confird Beta-Account

So, I was just able to respawn and my eyes just fell about out of my skull.

My Astral Power is permanently reduced to zero and my max-health is reduced to roughly two-thirds of its original value. I asked the local healer and all he could tell was that the strange scars, which look just like what Morgana did to Maeru, the one you see in the video, just that they are on both my arms and one on my back.

Am I getting fucked over even after death? Or is that so fucked up bug?

Support-ticket is written but I thought I ask here as well.

Gloinar, confird Beta-Account

That sounds seriously bad.

Harms, confird Beta-Account

Sounds bad and wasn’t there an incident when Morgana did sothing to kill another player from an insane distance? Maybe she upgraded and now can curse you even beyond death.

Heracles, Official Pantheon Moderator

Peculiar. I have no idea what is going on there, but then, I’m just the guy who’s keeping the forum clean.

Morgana, confird Beta-Account

I guess I should add my two cents in here.

Why you were attacked, let’s just call it a combination of bad luck on your part and annoyance on my part. A particular clan of centaurs has been getting on my nerves for about a month, inga. You rember those puppies from my last video? Those centaurs also ended their lives. As you can imagine, centaurs are not very popular with right now. We just happened to stumble over your party just as I needed so subjects to perform so magical exprintation on, wel,.you can guess what happened. So, yeah, wrong place, wrong ti, nothing more than that.

I’d say my bad, but that would be a lie.

On the other hand, the attribute-reduction is sothing I can at least give you and the devs a hint where to start looking. What I did was experint with a way to change part of a bodies Astral Power into a permanent, magical effect. For example, one of the ideas I had was a constant, low-powered regeneration-effect.

Obviously, the concept is a little untested as you saw on the video when I made a small mistake but such mistakes are why we experint. As you can see from the fact that you didn’t get ripped to shreds by unstable magic, I learned from my mistake.

The problem is that the magic used to strengthen you is still cast by you, even if not consciously, so it draws on your resources. But what, to , is a simple cantrip drains all your resources, putting you into the state you are in.

When it cos to persisting after death, I’ll assu that sowhere in the system’s code is a function that differentiates from your equipnt and everything else, as in, things that go with you when you die and things that don’t. Otherwise, you would lose your weapon, if you let go of it when you die. Or you might respawn with the arrow that killed you, still lodged into your chest. I think you get what I an.

Now, the problem here is that, at its core, I was studying a way to permanently strengthen soone, almost like a new piece of equipnt. The equipnt is just too heavy for you.

And that’s all I’ll tell you about it, can’t give away all my secrets now, can I?

-Vulcanar, Official Pantheon Developnt Team

I was made aware of the problem by Heracles and we are looking into it. From what Morgana describes here, I can see where the problem cos from and we’ll think of a solution.

Kelphram, confird Beta-Account

Wrong place, wrong ti?! Well, fuck you very much!

Heracles, Official Pantheon Moderator

Please keep it sowhat civil. While I can understand that emotions might run high, keep it on Mundus.