Bye Bye friends and worlds and forums

JWR died... forum abandoned and then disappeared.
dojcjfreak died... forum (TAG) abandoned and disappeared.
BTV no longer exists.
Laharl died.

Illusion

I guess someone found this occasion a real cause for celebration and fireworks!!!

End of the World Update

I'll keep updating the progress of the end of the world in this same post:

(Aeneas, 10 minutes ago) » Vile storms ... Synopsis: La-newa converted hamlet, forgot to set peaceful, Shzuru died. Vile storm message. JWR's forum goes abandoned, and then disappears about 3-4 minutes later. Shzuru says "only have a few hours." Or something like that.
			(Evyndd, 1 minute ago) » This whole deal is a lot less "party" than one would like >.>
						(Temujin, 1 minute ago) May I assume someone just did an illusion? add comment
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			add comment (Tol-wernan, 10 minutes ago) Planets Might want to track somehow planets that are disappearing? (La-newa, 10 minutes ago) Forums become abandoned, then disappear regardless of their strength. We should be able to know when Black Grotto or wherever disappears, when this forum vanishes. (Tol-wernan, 5 minutes ago) Are all populated planets represented here in our nexii list? Might want to have updates kept by those that aren't so that once the updates cease we can realize that the people aren't able to post any longer. I suppose they can just come back through the gates though and update then as well though. :D add comment add comment (Inquisword, 10 minutes ago) We can track them by people, if we know who was on which planet. As long as this forum is up, Black Grotto is still there. add comment (Temujin, 10 minutes ago) YM is still okay. 2:10 Come to think of it, I've only seen 1 hex drop in my sight since the vile storms. add comment (Inquisword, 3 minutes ago) I can cast "search" on any name that might be linked to a planet to see which ones are gone. Just need names. add comment (xiaomu, 2 minutes ago) RP still exists. I'm taking snapshots from the gate ring and posting them here: http:// xiaomugk.blogspot.com/ edit (Sproo, 1 minute ago) Blue Twin started falling extremely quickly. I've lost all my dreamwalkers there at this point, so I can't say what's left. 3 minutes ago I started getting reports of dreamwalkers on Rainbow Forest. My other escape planets seem unaffected as of yet. add comment add comment add comment

Vile Storms

20 minutes ago...
Vile storms devour the sky and all life seems to drain from the earth....

This is the beginning of the end...

Shzuru died.
The planets probably will be torn apart by these storms very soon... life as we knew it for the past couple of years is no longer. See you all in Heaven. Let's have a party on the Rim, the Origin, or Greyness... I know Zefiel wants us to stay out of Tempolis. Shall we respect his wish?

This is my view of Rainbow Portal Gate Ring Area -- from the Earth Temple.

The Earth Rumbles

Rainbow Portal seems to be the only planet receiving this message...

In one day, we got 4 Earth Rumbles. I speculate that this is an earthquake caused by all the heavy flooding eroding the land foundation. RP is simply too big. I am now heading back toward The Earth Temple and planning on putting quite a few charges to see if it makes any difference.

It's disheartening to hear even Sproo is upset with the new changes -- his recent post on the forum spoke much of what we all feel, that this GK reality is no longer a history that we create together as denizens in an ever changing but always exciting and enjoyable universe. We are puppets. (I said that since the shifts started last year and Sproo and I had quite a bit of healthy debate on how I should have been more complacent...)

Angelic / Leaf

So. I DIED due to Alcarde and his multies. Oh, well, my own doing in some way.. thinking that at the end of days, souls would be more collaborative and less aggressive -- but, hey, we're talking about an abnormal soul here.

Anyway. I had TD cast, so didn't quite actually DIE with lost stats and stuff... HOWEVER. This new GK made me Angelic, which pretty much stank! So, I ascended (thanks to Silverius who taught me this not long ago). Found my way to the Elemental Plaze. Clicked on the Earth Gate -- and WOUND UP IN GREYNESS.

I faded back to the Rim and jumped... directly on Yellow Moon, as LEAF! LEAF! What can I do with a Leaf Body? grrr... Now, I'm on YM and is trying to get back to Rainbow Portal and reading all the interesting and weird convos between other souls and Zefiel an Shzuru.

And, did I mention that the entier Chaos is basically being FLOODED? Very biblical!

The End, or a New Beginning?

So, it looks like we are losing the universe... at least losing Chaos: the planets are suddenly flooding with streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes meandering everywhere regardless of the terrain and height. Shzuru is glazed and no longer has the ability to endow the souls with SE. All the planets are losing power rapidly and dropping squares left and right. Hamlets depletion rate has been accelerated, and certain skills (such as Ingenmination) no longer function.

We are awaiting the tearing apart of all the atoms and the severe storms that occurred in ancient GK history to come and wipe out everything again.

But the optimistic mind hopes for a restart and a better universe.

LOLCats

Drayn, JWRTolkien, and Sproo captioned these cat pikchures: if you don't get them, you don't know GK.

Broken Sorcery

After months of inventing in vain, I got a system message today: Eureka, you're onto something.. and that SOMETHING is Broken Sorcery! Not that I'll EVER wish to use this powerful magic but it's still exciting to successfully invent a knowledge!

So much has changed in my beloved GoKrida Universe of late, that I've decided to publish another Descryer issue in two weeks, chronicling some of the major shifts. The old issues is kept in the Vault. I'm also going to try updating this "Travel Log" as dubbed in the link on the Gokrida.org's Gokrida Community Portal, since I feel ashamed to be linked there with the previous entry being 6 months old!

One of the most distressing new phenomena is the rapid depletion of large Hamlets. I will post a more complete study in a few weeks when all the large hamlet I can see from the Tower in Central Rainbow Portal dwindle to their stable sizes.

New Skill

Zefiel came back to Tempolis a few days ago and as promised, he "bestowed" upon me the ability that is needed if I were to help Cimi. I said "bestowed" because it is not a skill that I actually learned from him and it has no name. I met Zefiel in the Sanctorum again and there he enchanted me with a spell. Now I can see pathways and portals that I could not see in the past. And he taught me a spell that I can utter to open hidden doors.

I have been experimenting on how to use this new skill and discovered ways to carry objects (including souls) to the different realms in heaven. (Each Realm, such as Origin, the Rim, and Tempolis, is a separate Realm where an ordinary soul would not be able to pass from one to another carrying materials.) It is both thrilling and yet, at this moment, useless, for the most part.

I wanted to see if any of these new skills affect my Chaotic existence. I came back to Chaos today and found out that I do not possess the means to utilize these skills. What a shame! It would have been so cool if this new skill allowed me to travel between Heaven and Chaos without dying or ascending.