I've been wondering, if you were hartstone and then you quit and went to blacktalon, would you only lose the specialized skills like druidry and stag but keep the ones like nature and totems and runes/dreamweaving?

I'd think you'd just lose Stag o_O And by lose, I mean, you have to forget it before you can join Blacktalon.

Isn't druidry different though? I mean like the scarab thing instead of sap and the different cudgel and all?

To my great amusement, a friend of mine has discovered something very interesting. A blacktalon druid without Crow lays the same demesne as a hartstone druid. Once they take Crow, all of the extra abilities filter in.

Har, anyway. A druid would ONLY need to forget Stag. As a novice, they can HAVE Druidry, but they cannot put anything into it, until they're out of novicehood. It was the same with the Shadowdancers, we had a lot of novices w/ Fae, because they came from the Moondancers.

Woah, so a Blacktalon could choose to not take Crow, and then they could do things like meld the Etherwilde and Seren villages?

Edit: Not that they couldn't meld Seren villages anyway, but that would just be *confusing* as anything to we non-druids

Yes, they could. I urged him not to take Crow, buy some credits, and meld the Serenwilde. They'd never know it, until it was too late. >:)


Sadly, not everyone is as sadistic as me, I guess.

AND meld Faethorn, WITHOUT forceforesting.

Nice.

Ah yes my slave.. he is so much fun. Makes being Keeper worth it.

Heh. Yes, I've heard. I suggested that collar, by the way.

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This is exactly what they do, isn't it? I think it would be an interesting viewpoint to take on, wielding forest-based powers but being interested in causing natural areas to become rotting and rank with disease. Remember, you are TAINTING forest. Not making it unpretty. Ruining the natural essence of it, twisting and corrupting it into a more powerful but abhorrent form.

Insanity or sadism seems to me some of the best options there.

THEY don't view it as tainting. And, just because your brother is sick and ill, might have skin necrosis or leprosy.. he's still your brother, mate. Still a part of your family.

Yeah, but if your brother sets about burning down parts of your house, murdering your parents and playing games with their corpses... you generally don't overlook that.

And even though they don't see it as tainting, they still see the results, presumably.

Maybe more people would be willing to join if Nyla wasnt your admin. I heard about his recent stunt regarding village defense, and his ordering all of Blacktalon not to defend one of your village. And it just makes me wonder how you can all tolerate him.

His hatred of the taint also annoys me, I can understand not acknowledging it like Viravain. But to hate it you must first acknowledge it, and if you acknowledge that the taint exists, you cant deny that it exists in Glomdoring.

Here is a example: Nyla tells you, "The taint is wretched.

Yea, see, I don't understand it either. Har. But I find it utterly amusing. All he needs to do is change "taint" for "Cities" or "civilization". Bam. Done. Or, even better! "They're wretches who use the higher-planes." Woot. Buut no. "I can't see taint, don't recognize it, don't believe it, but, hot damn, you're tainted!"

I am tolerated cause I do a good job. And Nyla wouldnt be anti taint if certain people in the Glomdoring were giving the Blacktalon the finger and running to nurse from Magnagora

It's not that you're doing a good job. You're just doing a better job than the rest of the administration.

Do I need to take away your cool points damnit?

Cool points? o.o