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-Kess, confird Beta-Account
For once, I understand the grievance of soone who wants to know how they died. Or maybe that’s why they died?
Either way, I’m trying to figure out if there’s an event going on that I missed, or what I’m missing, why was I ganked by so burning deer on steroids with a high-enough level to return only question marks when using Observe on it?
I’m in the fraggin’ starting area, so what’s going on there?
Tarrin, confird Beta-Account
So more information is needed, maybe you stumbled sowhere you shouldn’t have, or it might, as cruel as that sound, simply have been a situation of wrong place, wrong ti. Rember, Mundus is a living world, or at least Pantheon Entertainnt did their very best to make it feel like one. If, in the real world, a mudslide takes out a road, there’s no agency behind it, only bad luck for everyone involved.
You might just have gotten caught up in so magical mudslide and there’s nobody actually to bla.
Marud, confird Beta-Account
Pics or didn’t happen, or maybe even a vid, so we can see what happened for our own. That way, we might be able to help. If not, Dhaha.
Kess, confird Beta-Account
Well, I guess, here’s the video. For context, I was just outside of Whitebridge-by-the-river, my starting town in the Human Empire, collecting so herbs for the local alchemist to complete a quest. You know, your bog-standard gather-quest that is basically infinitely repeatable, at least as long there ain’t enough player to swamp the area. I’ve done similar quests the last couple of days and never ran into anything more vicious than a fox that stole my lunch.
Stupid little bugger.
But see for yourselves what sent to respawn.
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A young human female, dressed in sturdy-looking, brown leather armour is slowly making her way through the forest, using a long staff to push aside branches and vines that might otherwise block her path. Sheathed at her side is a short blade, while a crossbow is strapped to her back, partially hidden beneath a green cloak that lets her blend in with the surrounding pines.
For a few monts, nothing much happens as she pushes aside yet another branch, making sure that it doesn’t snap back and hit her face when a strange noise, sowhere between reeving car and angry bull is heard, coming from sowhere to her left.
Freezing, she moves into the space hidden by the branch she had just pushed aside, pulling her hood down to completely blend in with the tree, crouching in an attempt to vanish completely. Her cloak flutters a little, as she prepares her crossbow, her staff leaning against the tree next to her.
The noise becos louder and she is staring towards it, trying to spot the origin, when suddenly, the forest ahead partially bursts into flas, so of the trees igniting like tinder, only instead of actually burning to ash, it looks more as if the flas animate the trees, turning them from stoic, enduring forest-giants into burning torches with an appetite for destruction. The trees start moving in the most unnatural fashion, burning branches waving back and forth, one of them even starting to move across the ground, carried by tendril-like roots.
“What?!” the female mutters, only to fall silent the next mont, when a giant deer, easily twice her size, struts into view, regal, red fur and, most eye-catching of all, a wide crown, its ten points all ablaze with flickering flas.
Focusing on the strange monster, the female instinctively raises her crossbow and in the shared log, a blue box appears, displaying the result of her skill usage.
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Radiant Stag, level ??
The stag, possibly disturbed by the Observe, focuses on the tree the female is hidden in and lets out a snort, a few flas shoot from its nostrils and suddenly, it becos obvious where the earlier noise ca from. Despite, or maybe because of, the abysmal failure of her Observe, the female raises her crossbow, intent to not go down without a fight. Sadly, there is no fight, the tree she is hiding in suddenly bursts into flas and while the flas don’t seem to bother the tree too much, it happily starts moving around, getting engulfed in flas most certainly bothering the female. Even before the tree branches between which she had sought shelter could bludgeon her to death, the heat and the flas had done her in, leaving behind nothing but a corpse that quickly turned to ash, even as her essence was drawn back into her sanctuary.
As the ssage of her death is displayed in the log, the video ends.
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So, that’s what happened to . A single look, a single snort and I was turned into ashes.
I don’t mind dying, okay that’s a lie, I don’t like it, but if I die, I at least want to know why, not just get smashed to death by randomly falling rocks or deer with a penchant for pyromania.
Tobiuno, confird Beta-Account
Not sure if it’s related to your situation, I don’t know all the small towns in the Empire, but there’s been a report about so major trouble in the east, near the coast. Nobody could actually tell a lot and we in Highever are quite so distance away, so we only got the most basic information.
There was ntion of Life and Sun-Astral Power in that missive we got, which could very well be what you saw. I an, Radiant Stag sounds kinda sunny, if you know what I an?
Doesn’t help you, but I think it might simply have been a case of wrong place, wrong ti, but I’ll try to look into it, I’m curious.
Dean, confird Beta-Account
At least I’m not the only one who burned, pretty much the sa happened to . Only for , it wasn’t a giant, burning stag that stared at , it was a sounder of wild hogs, all of them on fire and even more ornery than ordinary hogs that happily trampled .
I managed to get an Observe through on one of the smaller ones and the system told that it was level 74, making think that the rest of those things were higher in level. Makes my little, scrawny level 30 ass feel reeallly good, to get stomped by a gang of those things.
Additional Fun fact, I was a few days march away from Whitebridge, so it’s not even really localised, it stretches across at least a hundred miles, maybe more, who knows.
Not to be a bitch about it, but I’d like to have an explanation from Pantheon, it’s no fun to get murked by surprise-hogs, burning or otherwise. Low-level areas should be exempt from high-level events or your newbies will die off faster than they can join and soon, your ga will be a graveyard.
-Kess, confird Beta-Account
Thanks, Dean, it makes so happy to hear I’m not alone in getting burned to a crisp… Not.
Anybody in Whitebridge or one of the nearby towns and can share what’s going on there? Are those things only out in the woods, or did they light the towns on fire?
Tobiuno, if you manage to find out anything, I’d be grateful.
Dean, confird Beta-Account
You’re very welco, trouble shared is trouble doubled, as mum used to say.
Still hoping for an official statent, but getting so info would be neat, Tobiuno.
Tobiuno, confird Beta-Account
Well, I managed to get a bit of info from native sources but sadly not a lot, simply because there’s not a lot t begin with.
Day before yesterday, in the morning, a major event happened in one of the local Wild Magic Zones, from the reports it’s called Forlorn Forest. Danger-rating by the Empire is High, and outsiders are prohibited from entering, regardless of level, so what actually happened is unknown. The event itself was picked up by Imperial Diviners, looking out for such things and involved a major release of Life- and Sun-Astral Power, by so unknown chanism.
The released Astral Power seems to have morphed the local Astral River and infused a wide variety of beasts, turning them into Monsters that, as one would expect, have begun rampaging, either fighting amongst themselves or getting forced out of the region, into the rest of the Empire.
Most towns have magical formations to withstand unless there’s so serious assault so the towns are safe but outside of the walls. The Eastern Empire has just beco a much more dangerous place.
That’s all I can tell you, sadly it ain’t much, but it’s what I could gather. I’ll keep asking around.
Tarrin, confird Beta-Account
Why does that remind of the situation in Kolyug not that long ago? Bunch of magically enhanced beasts, all hell-bent on raising the town because so cooky mage got a hate-boner for the city.
Anybody got an incredibly powerful, ancient witch sitting around in the Empire and could call them? Maybe that’ll help.
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