Missed Atys, returning to Silan

[crowsfeet]

Like many refugees in the MMo world I have drifted in my gaming over the last 2 years. I stumbled over ryzom before the r2 expansion was added in mid 2006.
Genuinely i adored the world and concepts but unfortunaltely I left for the mainland too early and also struggled with the content away from Silan.

I am very keen to try this game again, and wonder what is the state of things now?
I will be starting on Silan afresh and my memory is lacking anyway.

Please gie me feedback.. if its negative then please feel free to mail me if you would rather.
Thanks.

[crowsfeet]

Khadasa!, the way had been hard, but finally i was here, the camp the other refugees had talked off. The journey had been long and tortuous but finally I had arrived. With the other refugees I ran in to talk to Chaing The Strong, at least a fellow Zorai....
The Rash'tikar tribe of the Zorai had always been nomadic, charged by the kamis to study the world of Atys for information on its flora and fauna.. the Kamis had sent us to that Kitin nest... The kitin attacks, no almost a persecution had left us almost extinct, spread far and wide lost in the roots to be hunted by those fearsome predators. The warriors and mages were the first to perish, over a series of days they were taken, slowly at first but the attacks gaining speed and ferocity with each new attack. Once they were gone, well the rest of us never had a chance.
I lost my beloved N'kara the second day, a valiant warrior she was, in fact my coudlings often joked that she was the real authority in our pairing. She was scouting before a terrible attack, she was never seen again. I miss her, she was always a light even when days were darkest, before she was taken she spoke of how we should complete the studies charged to us by the Kamis, she always talked of it with such passion, such vigour. But how can I? she is gone and for all I know those Kamis knew of the hive, knew of the terror our exploration would unleash, did they help us? NO. Would they? I don't know, All I have left is the study, the work we were charged with.. and N'karas coompa shell. Sometimes if I hold it close to my ear I swear I can hear her breathe. Now I must at least try to complete the work our tribe were charged with, for N'kara, if not to give myself purpose. And revenge? well if the Kamis are not resposible then the Kitins shall feel my wrath, if the Kamis knew? Well I should not speak of that here, but someone will pay...


It has been two long weeks, I have barely paused for breath.. but finally there is a pause and I have a chance to enjoy a flagon of that so wonderful brew Miles introduced me too... it is has unpleasant side effect, not that I mind it makes me forget the pain of missing N'kara.
Well Silan was probably my biggest surprise, it is rapidly becoming a haven for refugees as they leave the shelters, homins of all races are beginning to flock there, noone from Rash'tikar though, in fact in the two weeks I was there I tried to avoid other Zorai, they remind me of my loss and I want to forget at least for now.
I am working hard and the promise the elders always had in me is beginning to show, I hardly sleep to stop my training, I must progress, i must become strong, otherwise how else am I to complete the task ahead of me?
I think two of the hardest things I have had to do so far is travel from Zora to Pyr, my wounds are still healing from that terrible trek, it is but a blur to me, there were others but the Kitin O Khadasa they are everywhere, infesting the lands of Atys like the filth Goo.
Zora ws hard a magnificent place, full of Zorai optimistic for the future and pushing their spiritual beliefs to new levels with the Kamis that advise them, but to me they are fools, can they not see the darkness ahead? can they not see the pain in the faces of refugees such as I?
My leaving Zora was like a thief in the night, I fled, i could not stay, everywhere I looked I saw N'kara or at least reminders her, the way one Zorai might have her hair, the way another laughed the reminders are constant and my solace is Saurona Juice.
Well for now my life is in Pyr, the fyros are a good people and some of the refugees I met on Silan are either here or have pledged to arrive when able.
For now I try to work with my new companions and try to find a place I can call home, where perhaps my memories and thoughts can turn to my tasks in hand and perhaps the happier time I spent with my betrothed...

[kuroari]

OOC::

can't read through your post entire atm, but glad to have you back with us again the state of things? i'd say community is a little more bitter, a little more sour, but in all honesty its still a great loveable game (by community i'm being stupid and mean "old players" )

good to see another RPer on board! we're slowly losing (if not already almost completely lost) our RP community and need it to be pushed back up! .. this is something i believe is because of a recent focus on PvP updates over PvE (where i think a majority of RPers spend their time? i'm easily wrong though) but thats debateable

anyway gotta run have fun on silan and don't leave before you feel ready! also a note - don't join any guilds until youve met the players and gotten to know them! find out who's for you, and then join. i've run into many a player who ended up in a guild they weren't happy with and quit the game.

: :O OC

[katriell]

The dwindling of the RP community had nothing to do with PvP. It was simply a series of unfortunate events, if you'll pardon the phrase - the removal of the Jolt CSR program, the release of Vanguard, the viral marketing of a certain text-based RPG, and the assorted drifting-away of other RPers.

But it's not all gone. *points at signature*

Anyway, welcome back crowsfeet. ^_^