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« on: January 08, 2011, 11:39:05 am »
Hi everyone, I have to say ... it's been a great run! That said, this post is to let the community know that I have just stepped down as a GM. The decision to retire was actually some months in the making, but I stayed on a little longer to make sure my work with Center rolled out smoothly, and to finish off my last commitments to CDQ requests. Time. If only we all could have enough! But with my university days over and my full time job becoming more full time by the day, I know in my heart that I don't have the time for the responsibilities of GMing anymore, and it is time to step aside. My deepest thanks to the community. You are what makes GMing here worth the time we give up. So thanks, for your commitment and passion to the world, for your creativity on quests and during every day roleplay, and for all the support you give the GMs as we try our best to weave stories for you, puppeteer a dozen NPCs at once, and keep the monsters on a short enough leash that you can at least try to solve the world's problems in a non-combative fashion. Mine were always a little unruly, and apologies to whoever they took a swipe at accidentally during a quest. I do seem to recall a few strand refunds during my tenure ... ;-) I can say with honesty, it has been my sincerest pleasure to eavesdrop on all your RP conversations, snoop through your character's backpacks and leave the occasional surprise, bash you on the head with the XP wand from time to time, and torture your characters through development quests! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. ~Carillon
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« on: December 24, 2010, 04:57:09 pm »
Sure, it may only be something-PM where you are but it's 8:44am on December 25 where I am so ... [SIZE=32] MERRY CHRISTMAS LAYO!!![/SIZE] Hope everyone has a safe and happy day!
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« on: December 13, 2010, 10:03:31 am »
[SIZE=32]Are you new to the world of Adventuring?
Do you want to help the people of Hlint?
The Coalition is collecting aloe, comfrey, and greenstone dust to make into medical supplies to be donated to Hlint to help those suffering behind the town's walls.
Any interested should come leave notice at the Dapplegreen Tower. All donations will be processed for the exclusive purpose of helping Hlint.
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« on: October 18, 2010, 05:16:47 pm »
Our server hosts have notified us of downtime for ALL of our servers between Friday, October 22nd 2010, between 11:30PM and Saturday 2:30AM Eastern Time. I will be shutting the servers down a few minutes before the downtime. This means all nwn servers, forums, irc, lore, web site will ALL be down. I will monitor the downtime and be prepared for any problems after the servers come back up. If there are any serious delays or problems where I can not communicate through normal means I'll tweet it and post it on our wall at Facebook. Below is the message our hosting providers sent to us for those more interested. I apologize for any impact this may have on any planned excursions. Today we have been advised about an electrical problem with the UPS system powering our suite J1 @ 1250RL.
We are required to perform an electrical maintenance on this UPS system that will cause a 30-45 minute interruption of electricity. Unfortunately there was nothing Netelligent could have done to foresee or prevent this problem. We will be attempting to safely shutdown each server a few minutes before the maintenance window indicated below. However, if you would like to login remotely and power down your server beforehand, our technicians would find it very helpful.
We apologize for this inconvenience and understand the impact it has on your business.
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« on: October 17, 2010, 10:24:28 pm »
Hey all, I'm sure you've seen by now at least one mention of me saying "in the next update" and "almost done" and the like. Well...it's really almost here. The last few details are being sorted out, and while I'm hesitant to give a specific day (yet), you can count on seeing it in the very near future. [SIZE=-1]In preparation of this, you'll need to download some files: http://nwn.layonara.com/downloads/files/layo_resv3r1.rar (HAK) http://nwn.layonara.com/downloads/files/layo_ctrlv3r10.rar (HAK) http://nwn.layonara.com/downloads/files/layonara_v24.rar (TLK) You can download these files now and place them in their appropriate locations. They will not impact your ability to play before the update. Regarding the HAKs, the first one listed, the "res" HAK, is new. The old "control" HAK was getting kind of large, so I split off all the large graphical resources that had been stuck into the "control" HAK up to this point, so that future HAK updates in the "control" (now "ctrl") will be smaller and easier to manage on my end and yours. That's it! Happy downloading! [/SIZE]
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« on: October 15, 2010, 07:39:20 pm »
[SIZE=16]Announcing[/SIZE] [SIZE=16]an Angels Guild Sale[/SIZE] [SIZE=16]on Enhancements and Resistances[/SIZE] Starting now, and continuing at the discretion of the guild. Current plans are to end it in one RL month. Elemental Enhancements (cold, fire, sparks only) Minor: 1010 sale -- +2 elemental damage for weapon or glove Lesser: 2590 sale -- +1d4 Intermediate: 6560 sale -- +1d6 Greater: 9970 sale -- +1d8 Note: Our policy has always been, if you buy a minor or lesser enchantment you get a visual of the same type for free. Changing the type of visual costs extra (see below) Visual Effects--different type than enhancement purchased, or no enhancement purchased Cold, fire, electrical: 335 sale Holy: 825 sale Evil: 825 sale Sonic: 600 sale Silver enhancements Minor Silver: 2025 sale -- +2 damage to undead & shapechangers Lesser Silver: 3660 sale -- +1d4 Intermediate Silver: 5870 sale -- +1d6 Advanced Silver: 13350 sale -- +1d8 Titanium enhancements Minor Titanium: 7115 sale -- +2 damage to outsiders
Lesser Titanium: 10183 sale -- +1d4
Intermediate Titanium: 13252 sale -- +1d6
Advanced Titanium: 16320 sale -- +1d8
Elemental Resistances (cold, fire, sparks only)
Lesser resistance: 2590 sale -- adds 5 points of elemental resistance Greater resistance: 4725 sale -- adds 10 points of elemental resistance Emerald enhancements & resistances (acid) Using our emeralds, either an enhancement or a resistance is 50,000 trues. If the customer provides the emerald or emerald dust necessary, we will make the item for the sale cost of an ordinary elemental enhancement or resistance. Please note: Adding enhancements or resistances will increase the level needed to use an item. Certain items may lose natural enhancement or resistance by adding a new one.
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« on: October 01, 2010, 12:07:06 am »
happy Birthday Silverdraco!
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« on: April 01, 2010, 11:09:40 pm »
I can't say exactly when (as it all depends on what I decide to do about a couple of things) but sometime soon, there will be an update coming which will require everyone to download updated TLK and HAK files. I've put them up on the server for download, so everyone can get a jump on the update. These new files will not interfere with anyone playing before the update, so you are welcome to download them and expand them into the proper folders: Updated "control" HAK: http://nwn.layonara.com/downloads/files/layo_controlv3r9.rarUpdated TLK file: http://nwn.layonara.com/downloads/files/layonara_v23.rarHappy Downloading!
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« on: December 16, 2009, 07:01:26 pm »
Hi guys, Sorry I havent been around much. Of late..been fighting the ever evil pc destruction thinger. First it works..then it whirrs... My system recently had a umm...meltdown for lack of a better term. O.o A word of advice...burning plastic is never a good sign. So my pc is now DOA until i can get a new one. After 10 long years of replacing parts and much love (and hate) it finally kicked the bucket. I am now surviving on an old mac laptop (how you macheads use these things i will never understand..im sooo confused). The right click button seems to be missing...  :\\ O.o Oh well, thank goodness for xmas (I have been a good little girl..mostly)! Hopefully the new year will see me back with a shiny new pc. Happy holidays everyone!
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« on: November 28, 2009, 01:25:38 am »
Greetings everyone, There is a hardware issue with one of the Layonara servers and at this time. In order to mitigate the random downtime of the forums; we're disabling the LORE character updates for a few days. As well, at some time during the next two/three days the entire layonara.com domain will be taken offline for general maintenance reasons. This downtime will last anywhere from a few hours to possibly more and there's no way to forecast this accurately. These things have nothing to do with the MMO development and there are no hidden announcements here. About the only thing that's related to the MMO with all of this is that we've been so busy working on the MMO that we haven't had the time to do the needed housecleaning that's now in a state we cannot ignore. Nothing "bad", just need to make things "right" again. So, just to clarify, the following services will be completely offline at some point in the next few days and you should all rest assured we're going to try and minimize the downtime as best we can. - The World of Layonara
- forums.layonara.com
- irc.layonara.com
- devlog.layonara.com
- lore.layonara.com
- NwN Server (xora.layonara.com)
- and any other service layonara.com provides that I've failed to mention in the above...
Currently the only planned means of official communication regarding status updates during the outage is via twitter. Please stay tuned.
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« on: November 03, 2009, 01:15:51 pm »
While exploring the Battlehelm Moors, three warrior women were swarmed by uncommonly large numbers of Swampkin, close to the entrance to the platinum mines. According to one, what seemed like dozens appeared to just rise out of the mire, almost directly in front of them. Fighting valiantly against overwhelming odds, one fell and the other two were forced to flee for their lives, fighting as they went. The monsters pursued these two to Dapplegreen and beyond. One fought and vanquished her pursuers at the very gates of Vehl, while the other fought and died on the stone steps at Stormcrest. The third, rushing back from her bindstone, arrived in Stormcrest just in time to see her battle sister fall and promptly slew the remaining two monsters there in a quite unladylike rage. After guarding the site of their comrade's death in Stormcrest until she could return to reclaim herself there, they gathered some reinforcements and prepared to head back into the moors. As this group of, now five, women left Stormcrest, the one who had fallen there spoke eloquently for them all when she issued a bear-like roar of defiance that is rumored to have been heard all the way in Vehl. Seeking both vengeance and redemption, the group marched directly and purposefully back to the original battle site, without pause and with little comment, slaying everything in their path as they went. Nearly each battle on the way was with, again, uncommon numbers of foes. Once they reached their destination, and the last had recovered herself there, they immediately set about to clear the moors of any remaining Swampkin that still drew breath. The valor they repeatedly exhibited, both coming and going, and the piles of bodies they left in their wake leaves this reporter thinking the appellation of "the weaker sex" to be somehow inappropriate.
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« on: September 19, 2009, 06:02:08 pm »
For Real!
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« on: May 27, 2008, 05:08:09 am »
Weary traverler (Mariners hold): If you find that the portal is not in the first locked room on the right of the bar. Go out and close the door. Now walk to the right side of the building, you will see a door there. Use it. Once you did that, go back inside, buy a new key, and go back to the first locked door at the right side of the bar. Voila! Orcs Bashers shop (Hempstead): The same principle applies, close the door, then go to the Alurial district. Turn left after coming out of the At and access the first door you meet. Once that is done, go back inside the Orc Bashers shop and Voila!
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« on: January 29, 2008, 12:48:52 am »
It's come to the attention of the GM Team that there are some misconceptions and misunderstandings about what RP value and special properties these rings may have. From the item's description: The soulstone of your one true love glows brightly whenever you wear this beautiful ring on your finger.
"On its surface is engraved in flowing script: "Love Eternal"
Light Low (10m) Green Now, RP-wise, these rings are constructed using imprinted Soul Stones from one's partner set into a gold band. The rings can't actually be made in-game mechanically, but there are various ways to obtain them with GM assistance. Let me state: there is no objection to characters obtaining these rings for RP purposes.However, it's come to our attention that players are RPing these rings as imparting additional properties upon the wearers. Most specifically is the ability for one to know or "sense" when their partner, the one who's bound to the stone in the ring, is killed, hurt or in some sort of distress. This simply is not the case. It has never been the case, and anyone who is RPing this, or any other special properties of such things should not only cease doing so but retroactively remove it from their RP (i.e. Character Development threads). RPing this kind of "sense" as being imparted through the rings, or more accurately the Soul Stones set into the rings, is dangerously close to telepathy, which was expressly forbidden from RP (and it doesn't exist for PCs anyway) a couple of years ago. Beyond that, Soul Stones themselves simply do not have that sort of property at all. Now, I'm pretty confident that no one was trying to skirt the rules or invent powers. I'd guess, as most things like this, that someone along the line either assumed or got some incorrect information from somewhere. These things have a way of snowballing, and I'm not going to blame anyone for this at all. But I am asking, on behalf of the GM Team, that this not continue and that it is treated as if it never happened. These rings are intended, in both IC and OOC senses, to be symbolic gestures for in-game couples. From an IC standpoint, these rings contain an imprint of one's soul within the stone itself. Symbolically, it is like giving a piece of oneself to another as a symbol of love and devotion. This has tremendous RP value, but that is absolutely where it ends. I do apologize if this impacts anyone's RP thus far. I normally don't like raising barriers, but this is a liberty that should never have been taken. As I said, my purpose is not to point fingers, lay blame or take any sort of action against anyone as a result. I'm simply asking that it stop.
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