My thoughts on PvP

[Acacea]

Well, you don't actually 'meet' the soul mother, and she's not exactly a goddess of death. Contrary to a few accounts I've seen, you do not 'see' the Soul Mother whenever you lose a Soul Strand...nor is there really any huge wail effect as far as I know

She has the Harvester to do the dirty work like that, anyway. But it is most certainly IC knowledge, and a very traumatizing experience. Think of it not so much as dealing with a goddess of death but as when you die and the bindstone you bound yourself calls your soul back to it at the moment of your death, so that you will not continue on to the Plane of the Lost, a piece of it is ripped away... lose an arm, a leg, a few fingers or an eye, what is that really, compared to losing a piece of your soul? It's a very IC perspective, yes, but I'm not sure why someone with 9 strands lost would attack someone for calling out their mother if they're wary of npc creatures...not any different, there. Caution and wariness all around - if you're near permadeath, you don't go by yourself to the Underdark, right? Even if you really hate drow? The restraint goes in either case.

But it's kind of a moot issue, anyway.

[Gulnyr]

LightlyFrosted - 3/1/2007  4:04 PM

Returning to pseudo-life after being killed...

Is this a reference to the white glow around a character after respawning or being raised or resurrected?

I'm asking because I know that glow causes a lot of confusion, and "pseudo-life" seems to mean that whoever came back from the dead isn't really alive.  If a character respawns or is raised or resurrected, she is completely alive, with a body and all the other usual trappings of a living person.  No one is "half alive" after respawning.  No one is a ghost or a bodiless soul walking around.  

The glow is not so much an in-character thing as an out-of-character indication that the character isn't quite well.  Dying is a nasty business, and being brought back doesn't immediately remove the emotional baggage and memories of the trauma.  

Personally, I'm not a big fan of the glow.  People react based on what they see, and posts here on the forum about people not being ghosts or bodiless souls get lost or missed, so "people become ghosts after they respawn" becomes some sort of truth, even though it isn't true.  It also makes it difficult to have some normal RP in town waiting out the reflections, since every other character you know comes up saying, "Oh my!  What happened to you?  Can I help?"  I'd rather choose to RP having died or not rather than have it forced on me by someone else.  Yeah, this paragraph is a little off-topic...

Anyway, glowing PCs are fully alive, and are not ghosts or bodiless souls.

[Acacea]

Hehe yeah, I've seen the "*looks down through himself in shock*" a few times and feel bad saying that you're not REALLY supposed to be transparent...just creates unnecessary confusion I think, as it doesn't say anywhere handy that it is not the case, so people go off what they see. Ahem...anyway yeah. *Shifty.* Topic...topic...