The Sacrifice of Mathais

So... Mathais died. He flew into the aggro. hamlet and killed himself, by accident.. but, with the 70 souls he brought down from Heaven, he and his allies managed to retake the Sky Gate on YM from the recent invaders. That stats loss didn't bother him a bit.. (I would have been very reluctant to lose anything I have to fight a war.) I'm too much of a stats hogger to risk my life for any cause.

Necromancy

As I pointed out the other day, I finally got Necromancy and now can selectively ressurect souls who have been sitting in Heaven, doing nothing for a long time. (But never Enix again... that was such a blunder!)

So, I know that Ilandioc is not likely to come back to Chaos on his own, and decided to bring his body to Yellow Grotto Land. I did not perform a horomancy reading when I started the spell so it was a bit of a surprise when he appeared "in my hand" as Chaos. His name color keeps changing. I scried sirius and saw that from his point of view, this is what happened:

The air screeches backwards across your ears.
and
Ilandioc's body materializes in xiaomu's arms.

Seems to me that this process if quite tender, with the Necromancer taking on the responsibility of caring for the silent partners who will otherwise not have the ability to move or to feed themselves. I don't know whether Ilandioc will be as helpful to me as sirius is but I shall try to make this work.

The Mystery of It All

Someone posted on the public forum that what we want in our universe is the "mystery" that the older souls experienced at the beginning of the existence of our universe. This made me believe that the current slow changes occuring in our universe is in some way the archangels' ways of creating that particular brand of mystery. And it also made me wonder if I should have collected so much data and made it so easily found in the Public Library, so that newly incarnated souls couldn't quite experience that kind of tantalizing mystery and couldn't resist exploring and making allies.

Message to Tempolis

Recently, I received an urgent call from Tempolis to give assistance or recruit souls to become Zefiel's assistant, since there is only ONE remaining in heaven, namely Raiden.

Here's my message to him:

Raiden, the benevolent assistant,

The sad truth is that most souls in Chaos regard the need for assistants to help new born souls with naming and entering the world below as a really bad turn in the decision made by those who hold the power of the universe. Few people would like to perpetuate such inefficient and damaging (to the spirit of the new souls) practice.

A few recent forum posts seem to indicate that a possible boycott of heavenly assistantship is at work.

And, by the way, the Council of Life was not set up to "take care" of Tempolis Assistantship -- it was set up to give feed back, advice, and sound suggections from those of us who have been in Chaos for quite some time and who wish to contribute to the betterment of GoKrida. It degenerated to the current state because our opinions were never taken seriously. This is to clarify our role. Please understand.

Best,

-- XiaoMu

Moonleaf

The Moonleaf is rare magical herb used in elemental magic.
This item is produced when a leaf soul is killed by a metal soul, and can be alchemized into earthbone.

And it can be conjured with Leaf Magic in conjuration. I have the knowledge, but, oh my, it costs 40 SE to make one and it takes TWO Moonleaf to make one Earthbone. That's a high price indeed!

GK Changes

I finally have a little "revelation" into why the admins of this game are and have been changing the mechanism and other aspects of the game. I believe that since there have never been a large amount of players sticking with the game, they were trying to think of ways to "make the game more fun" for us GoKridans. However, they failed to see that the ones who used to play heartily are the ones who can create their own fun without anyone's meddling hands. Even if there are few, these players are thoughtful, creative, and highly intelligent. So far, it seems that most of the changes have backfired and we are just annoyed and so many solid players had to quit because what they had worked so hard to achieve for a few years were suddenly taken away from them. I really think the admins do not UNDERSTAND the incredibly personal nature of the game and the pride that players take in playing their characters. This ignorance is reflected in the continuing recruiting of heavenly assistants, as if anyone can just abandon Chaos and all the businesses at hand and go and perform the chores in Heaven, without compensation. It makes one quite mad!

Earthbone

Earthbone: An Earthbone is a smooth warm stone prized in terrestrial alchemy.

This is one of the ingredients that can help forming, alchemically, land squares and entire new planets. Earthbone is also needed to construct Earth Gates. It is formed when a water soul kills an earth soul, or when it is alchemized from moonleaf.

Necromancy Rocks!

So. TransProp got on Yellow Grotto Land and taught me three high level knowledges: Sorcery (so now I can use Magic missile to do serious damage to my enemies, not that I have any); Necromancy (so now I can resurrect dormant souls from the Greyness back to the colorful world of Chaos); and Terrestrial Alchemy, also known as TA, (so now I can create a world bigger than an Escape world if I have the necessary materials!)

It's really amazing! I got my old friend Sirius back to TAG worlds and now he is helping with terra-forming on YGL. It was truly fortunate that he came back as Leaf, his old element. And I refuse to call him a zombie. He is my "glazed comrade."

We reside peacefully together on a single planet. See:


I found out that when you rez'ed someone, he/she is already under your "command" so there is no need to hypnotize them again. Sweet.