Examining Alzadaal

[Metah]

If I play saria's song will you dance?

Never on 1st dates

I like you Darunia, welcome to BG

[Kuya]

If I play saria's song will you dance?

Never on 1st dates

I like you Darunia, welcome to BG

k, either you're cheating on me, or we're gonna have a treesome(sp?)

[Metah]

If I play saria's song will you dance?

Never on 1st dates

I like you Darunia, welcome to BG

k, either you're cheating on me, or we're gonna have a treesome(sp?)

Well you don't use the mouth, no one uses the mouth back home but these American girls, they do.

[Priran]

we're gonna have a treesome

I agree, trees light my fire.

see wut i did thar

[Suiram]

Halvung's Astral Plinth, taken by one of my PT members when we won the ACBC there. Bottom-right is lit.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7...nithuk4.th.jpg

[Omaedon]

I don't have anything to contribute, just wanna say threads like this are why people come here

[Spira]

If I play saria's song will you dance?

Never on 1st dates

I like you Darunia, welcome to BG

k, either you're cheating on me, or we're gonna have a treesome(sp?)

..dendrophilia o.o?

[LD]

Well, this topic has done a good job of getting me genuinely excited about the next update.
I find the Hazhalm stuff most interesting.
Being able to search the area is more significant than one'd think.
The various gates and structures in the area and the deepening darkness reminds me of one thing and one thing only:

Deep Dungeon.

Fighting a bunch of monsters in an area you can barely see in while moving closer and closer to an ungodly powerful being.
I don't think I'll speculate any further, but it could be a promising concept.

[Taj]

Halvung's Astral Plinth, taken by one of my PT members when we won the ACBC there. Bottom-right is lit.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7...nithuk4.th.jpg

I love how your red mage is off staring at the Astral Plinth while you're quite clearly in the middle of killing shit.

Edit:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2...3156bn3.th.png

The "ruins" are obviously meant to move/change shape/do something besides sit there.

[Kyreth]

How about this: We're clearing beastman out of Alexander at Hazhalm. After so many mobs are killed (say every 5000) he comes to life and an event happens, a special Besieged. Odin senses Alexander is awake and is attacking along with some/all beastman. You would have plenty of notification time (not 30 minutes like Beseiged, more like 1 day) so there would be a large turnout, epic battle with a few special NPC's (Alexander's keepers or guards?) and no lv40's. 2000 is reasonable, that's how many tend to be on a server at any given time and with advanced notification for this rare event hopefuly *everyone* would show up.

Gonna get laggy with 2000 people in one area so it would have to be split somehow, Besieged is 700 so 1 area for each Beastman. Drop 300 or so items which allow people to to fight the final battle against Odin with Alexander after all 3 Beastman are completely cleared.

They have said they are going to make alternative drop methods for Abjurations. He's the one who will drop them for the lucky 300, if they can beat him.

Nice, but Odin's got other reasons to be stalking around out here. Some of his charges are out and around and he wants them back.

*point* Ashu Talif crew and captain, namely. When you break out of Hell itself for revenge, the warden's coming to slap your ass back into eternal punishment. He doesn't give a flying fig about anyone else unless you aggro him, after all.

[Amadeo]

On the topic of Candescences and their whereabouts, didn't Aphmau and Ovjang find a Candescence replica in Aydeewa? Or something like that ><

[Gwynplaine]

Yeah it was a "replica" or a piece of one, something like that. I forget how it's described in the game. I think Shanttoto wound up snaking it to return to jeuno with to inform the other nations.

[klvino]

The candy is the glowing orb, the plinth is the big metal thing

edit: the glowing orb in the curve thing towards the middle

The AC is actually the turning mechanism found "plugged into" the plinth. The glowing orb is the production of the astral wind from the plinth & AC together.

Next time you get the CS of the AC being taken from Al Zhabi, note that the mechanism is missing from the plinth.

[klvino]

On the topic of Candescences and their whereabouts, didn't Aphmau and Ovjang find a Candescence replica in Aydeewa? Or something like that ><

It was a piece of Olduum technology. Olduum technology is still more advanced than the current automaton technology.

[potenza22]

Here's a shot of the first AC recovery on Phoenix Server, Arrapago Reef.

Notice the lit up part, it's also different from the other zones AC.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ene22/Reef.jpg

[Taj]

I'm willing to bet the one in the middle is Nyzul's, but I can't find my screenshots anywhere. Wish I remembered.

[Sagacious Sundi]

I'm willing to bet the one in the middle is Nyzul's, but I can't find my screenshots anywhere. Wish I remembered.

Long time reader, etc etc. I saw Xaru's post and ran around to the other remnants, as well as Nyzul lsle, and sure enough, each one has something like that over it.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/406...enseum5.th.jpg

The position of the thingies have nothing to do with their position on the map, unless you look at them in a weird sideway way. They could have something to do with forelegs (Zhayolm & Arrapago?)/hindlegs (Bhaflau & Silver Sea?)/body or heart (Nyzul Isle)/head or brain? (Gordeus/Gordius?).

[Taj]

This is really interesting, could someone check if the Astral Plinths in each of the Beastmen territories match up with their respective remnants?

Edit: Nevermind, yes they do.

Edit edit: Whoever said that the Plinths in the Beastmen territories are probably the missing Plinths you see in Salvage is probably correct. So I wonder where Al Zahbi's is from?

[Gwynplaine]

Oh ho ho ho

That would mean, perhaps, the Empire of Ephmaraud had the fourth, and it was stolen by Aht Urghan when they took over?

Rocl pointed it out earlier that the Empire probably took the plinth and A.C. from Ephramad which would have been taken from Silver Sea Remnants. I think he's probably right.

So just to summarize:
Arrapago Remnants corresponds to the Plinth in Arrapago Reef.
Silver Sea Remnants corresponds to the Plinth in Al Zahbi.
Zayholm Remnants corresponds to the Plinth in Mamook.
Bhaflau Remnants corresponds to the Plinth in Halvung.
and lastly Nyzul houses it's own Plinth, making it the only one remaining in it's original position in the ruins.

If I were to guess I'd say that Nyzul's A.C. is probably still intact on its plinth (AC doesnt show up in zone viewing programs). And perhaps the Alzaadal ruins' mechanisms can function off of an intact Plinth and AC (to supply the oil covering the windows etc.). Maybe removing all 5 plinths and their AC would "kill" the ruins, or at least stop it from functioning and allow aging and dilapidation to begin. If a second AC is on Nyzul's plinth that accounts for 2 (Al Zahbi's, and Nyzul). For the remaining 3, queue an NM fight on the 3 Engraved Tablet island's next mission update to make 5.

[Suiram]

I love how your red mage is off staring at the Astral Plinth while you're quite clearly in the middle of killing shit.

In his defense, all 3 mobs used 2Hs on first pull which we weren't expecting, and we wiped at the start and RRed; the last one was at like 1% with 1-2 min left when he took that screenshot. (You win the BC by clicking the Astral Plinth after defeating all 3 enemies.)