The air tastes like ashes. You step. You stumble.
Portals make no sound as they close, but behind you there is still the sensation of something sealing shut, and momentary fear digs its claws deep into your belly.
Around you the world is a desolate expanse of grey ruin. Skeletal buildings hunch against one another, half buried in rubble. Roads and pathways split and scatter like torn ribbons. There is nothing but this for as far as the eye can see, and even that is dominated by the shadow of a great, stone spire.
It towers above you, piercing into a sky wreathed in clouds. Thunder purrs in the distance. It begins to rain.
This is home now.
Welcome to Caido! Caido is the continent upon which you currently stand. The next few rounds of posting will help introduce the setting and get everyone set up IC and OOC. This thread must be your first post. You may post elsewhere after!
So that we don't duplicate efforts, we suggest a few Personal Quests be started!
Suggestions:
- Finding housing/shelter
- Finding food
- Exploring the land
- Setting up a perimeter/defenses
Key Quests will be popping up shortly as well - keep an eye out for those!
beauty in darkness
madness in light
madness in light
We don't want to give away too much of the ending of TW, or this current plot, so forgive us for being a bit vague on the details.
- The three year time-jump and the EQ are technically not canon. You are free to have your character 'remember' these events as having happened, but just note that the majority of the characters who are transitioning with you won't remember these things as having happened. The reasons for this will become clear later.
- Dead characters can return if you want them to ... ;)
- In order to have your characters transition from TW to CotF, they must do so now. This doesn't mean you must play them right away, just that they are 'pulled' at the same time as everyone else. The way this works OOC is you make their account and set up all their information, and we set them as inactive. IC, basically they are pulled into a different part of the map (meaning you may have to wait for them to 'come back' depending where we are in the plot). Speak to an admin about this for more info!
- How much time has passed between when you last posted on TW and posting now? Let's just say that's hard to say ;) If you want/need this to affect your character's age (as in the case of children/pregnancies), chat with us.
- Currently there are no ranks or professions; how could there be, ya'll are in the WILD. Set up your own titles and systems if you want, or you know, focus on surviving.
- Honor Points = Merit Points
- We have the same 4 stats but you're going to reset all of your values and go off of our system (it means more stats for you!)
- Though the races are all now slightly different, for simplicity's sake, Accepted = Original, Attuned = Shapechanger, Abandoned = Magic, and Ascended = Bloodfiend
Basic changes for shapechangers: You automatically start out with one animal shift like before, however you lose the ability to use telepathy and partially shift. These are unlocked fairly early so don't worry! You can also unlock more animal shifts as you go, gain the ability to compel/control other animals, and can even unlock a mythical form later on! Also no more shape changer cuffs. This means you aren't immediately recognized as your race, but also you need to find a way to carry your own shit :| When you shift you'll keep your clothing, but nothing else. Attuned are created through a different mechanism than TW, via a pact with deities known as the ‘Old Gods’.
- - A shape changer's hair no longer needs to resemble their animal forms.
Basic changes for blood fiends: No more daylight rings (sorry!), instead as you level you unlock daylight resistance. You are still super fast, but we nerfed those abilities a bit because, physics. Bloodfiends are no longer sired in the traditional sense: they are 'made' by deities known as the 'New Gods'. You still have fangs and can feed on others (and you gain temporary powers by doing this!) but ultimately to stay alive you need to 'feed' from one of these New Gods. Basically you are a biologically upgraded and superior race; by questing with your gods you can get all sorts of cool body modifications ;)
- - Their hair also remains the same colour as it was!
Basic changes for originals: Ya'll are now jacked stat-wise and are beloved by all of the gods and are more likely to receive gifts and things. You also start with Willpower (the ability to resist certain types of magics).
Basic changes for magic originals: On TW we felt like the magic originals were OP as hell, so you'll find that at lower levels you don't have access to as strong magic. However we've eliminated the elemental/magic original distinction and though we still have magic 'types' (light/dark/grey) you can have all three if you like (the only exception being that life drain and healing are incompatible). Basically how magic here works is that you unlock 'slots' and then need to fill them. You can fill them by participating in RE (Random Event) encounters, meeting gods, winning/earning them, etc. As you unlock magic, you can then upgrade it to make it more powerful, and once you're at a high enough level you can earn custom magic slots that can be whatever you want them to be!
- - A lot of the magical consequences have been removed (e.g. dark magic makes you 'darker' - though definitely play this up if you want!). There is also no more resurrection magic (this would be a custom magic), and all consequences of healing have been removed as well.
- Minimum WC of 100.
- The description field below the thread subject when making threads is for mature content/trigger warnings (or whatever else)
- 18+ to join.
- Discord server for chatttttttttts.
- Mini quest = Personal Quest, with some differences (about content/difficulty, etc).
- Core Quest/Epic Quest sort of = Key Quest. These are still admin run, but happen much more frequently and are usually plot-related.
- New prizes for using your MP!
- We now have seasons! 1 season = 2 months OOC time. Because being pregnant for 7 months is a pain, if your character gets pregnant they only remain that way for 1 IC season.
- We'll be doing CotS (Character of the Season) ToTM (Thread of the Month) and QotM (Quote of the Month)!
- There are lots of gods and other beings flailing around. Better be nice to them! Or don't! Up to you.
- Your character can now have an animal companion.
- All information is now tracked on your profile.
- Your former avatar size is the same as it is here, so you can just copy/paste (or use our image uploader).
