Oops, All Nightmares w/ a side of ice

[steadypulse]

Because I realized it could be fun for some if I made notice of this if some of y'all wanted to;

Due to 76's going Full Noctaere, as part of a small player plot heavily involving the Glowing Dawn flowers he helped discover and get in to certain peoples' hands, there's an uptick of Noctaere/nightmare energy corrupted wildlife around town and the residential district, and of course spreading out through the Wildlands. There are also zones of extreme burning cold with an overgrowth of rock-hard frozen thorny vines and other plant overgrowth spread throughout the same areas depending on where he moved for his escape towards less populated areas. This is where they'll be mostly populating and just drawn to.

There's also a few of these wolf-shaped things moving in small packs turning these critters corrupted for a good Nightmare Meal for big ol' Noctaere 76 that spawned them. These things are mostly made of shadow and are little more than Noctaere puppets, but still vicious if encountered.

I'll answer questions about this stuff if needed/wanted, but still have fun if you decide to play about with any of this.

Comments

[perfectenn]

In that case, and after reading the comments below, I do have one more question… or a jumble of several?

Now that I’ve had a chance to read around and think about it some more, I’m realizing that I’ve been very confused about the cave’s description and access. The cavern and flowers were announced in the Monthly Dream Notes and put into the World Directory, implying that this is a location open to all players. However, from your replies, this was actually a secret location for a player’s plot, and therefore known only to a few players. Also, the destruction of the area wasn't announced in this month’s Notes, and the Directory still lists it as healthy and thriving with flowers and ents. So I’m finding conflicting information depending on where I look for worldbuilding updates. it’s Schrodinger's cave

Likewise, I’m also concerned that new players coming into the game will have no way of knowing this is an exclusive – or changed – location. In the Directory, it looks like just another place characters can find and wander around.

There seem to be multiple snags here, and admittedly, worldbuilding games like this with lots of individual story threads are a challenge to keep organized! I wanted to broach this to you first, but I can also comment on the State of the Game post if that would be easier for the mod team?

[steadypulse]

I can see where you're getting confused, honestly. Lemme see if I can word it well;

It's not exclusive, but the knowledge of it hasn't ICly been widespread, yet alone used by anyone save for the listed characters that do know of it. It's open to the public, but updates about it's condition since it was added just haven't been publicly spread yet.

Any actual updates will not go through until March, due to things not being finished. There's still more to be done as I've mentioned to the Zelda-player.