Each bloodline has revealed its leader and given a call for others to join.
Each vampire that joins a bloodline empowers their sire whether it is a leader or another of the bloodline, too many, and those at the top may become too strong, capable of feats no other mortal can achieve.
However, humans once hunted the vampires to near extinction through ancient methods, and as those are uncovered, the way to kill the vampires, permanently, will revive.
Mechanics:
- A lot of this has been knowledge to the vampire leaders for many years, as they agreed to it when they took the titles. Two players even completed the quests first, and turned it down for that reason. So none of this is by surprise.
- Vampires gain power when they have vampires sired under them, pyramid scheme style. So the master vamp who sires directly gains the most power, but if he sires those, who sires others, the master still gains, and the person under them gains, adding more total power to the bloodlines.
- Vampire power affects their abilites, damage dealt and taken, and their vulnerability to sunlight. Master vampires do not have the daylight weakness the others do.
- Vampire leaders can suffer permanent death. However, it is an ordeal to perform, requiring multiple players and length time, so it will never happen by accident or bad luck, and can be defended against or stopped.
- When that permanent death occurs, each master will have a choice. Immortalize themselves in stone, and take their bloodline with them, eradicating it, but saving the rest of their bloodline from the same fate, or turn to dust and pass on the title of master to the next in line, granting them the same benefits and risks of permanent death(can be refused, but refusal abandons your bloodline). If a master abandons their bloodline, the characters must find a new sire, or they will slowly revert to their race prior to being turned or human if they were "always" one.
If no vampire in the bloodline takes up the mantle of master, the bloodline is eradicated.
- If all bloodlines are eradicated, vampires as a race, will cease to exist.
- At the point only one bloodline remains, all new vampires will automatically join that bloodline, empowering their leader.
- The secrets of how to permanently kill a vampire will be spread out over quests, items, npc conversations, and the lore will be added slowly and at random over the next few months, so it is not that easy to spot.
- The vampire masters each will have slowly learn that they have tasks they must complete, which forces them into the daylight and outside the safety of their coffins regularly, giving the other races a "fair" chance, although many will attempt to complete their tasks in secret.
For more information, check the events channel in the discord.
The night deepens;
The white moon shines;
The heartbeat quickens;
The wind races;
The truth is concealed.
Time ago, events were set into motion,
Now those events reach their zenith.
A brief calm before the storm,
As the next chapter opens.
EDIT: Done, it is back up now.
Hail, and well met, from Obsidian Shard!
The world is in shambles, the people are cowering, and everyone yearns
for a simpler time. A time when they ran free, had less worries on their
mind, and could just sit back, and engage in the simpler pleasures in
life:
Crafting
Hunting
Talking crap at Vesper Bank
Ganking in Despise
Getting that last mustang to complete your collection
You know, when we weren't all working each day to exhaustion.
Well it seems a lot of us have some time on our hands, and I'd like to
extend this opportunity to come back, hang out a bit, and pretend life
isn't so complicated.
Friday, March 27th, at 7 cst, going until the last of us pass out, we'd
like to see you all, make some memories, and catch up on what's been
going on with you all these past few years.
dxgaming.com/obsidian
dxgaming.com/forums
Installer download from
And if you can't remember who you were? No worries, we'll get you back
on, I'll be checking every evening for pms or posts in forums to reunite
people with their hard earned avatars.
Hope to see you all there!
Reason: Moving the server, it'll be on a new fiber gigabit connection after this.
There will be another downtime at some time in the future(days later) after this move, when i switchover the underlying network with some new hardware and layout. But I'm hoping that one will be measured in minutes because the network buildout is entirely new equpiment so it should just be a switchover and re-authenticate situation.
EDIT: Moved it later by 2 hours due to changing plans.