Talk:2023-03-31 Video - Alpha Two Story Arc Systems Preview and the Lore of Carphin

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Hello everyone and welcome to another stream from Vera.

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We have been building up to this moment a little bit in the showcase for the tower at

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Karfen.

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I think there's been some lore that we've released during last November's Extra Life

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livestream.

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We played through a portion of this tower and now we have an opportunity to take a look

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together, a little sneak peek, a small portion of this area and the lore behind it.

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And we're also going to take a focus with some of the developers that will be joining

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us here in a second, I'll introduce them, into the system of our story arcs and how

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that system works in reflecting the changes that players elicit from the world of Vera.

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So I want to introduce one of our senior designers, Scott.

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How are you doing buddy?

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Doing very good, thank you for asking.

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Welcome to your design become reality.

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Thank you.

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Scott has been working on the narrative for this particular story arc that we're all

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going to see in a second with his team, with whom we are joined by one of our designers,

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Aimee.

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Aimee, how are you doing?

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Hi, I'm doing good, Stephen.

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Welcome.

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Is this your first time on the stream?

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It is, yeah.

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That is awesome.

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Aimee is one of our incredibly talented designers who is helping create the narrative around

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Vera, and you guys may have played some of her quests in Alpha 1, actually.

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One in particular is the, I believe it was the Lost Pages and the, that spider quest?

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Is that right, Aimee?

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Were those yours?

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Those were my quests, yeah.

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Thanks for remembering them.

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I know, they're great.

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Yeah, I'm super excited to join today.

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We're very excited to have you.

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And then in addition, we have what is soon becoming a regular on the streams, Mr. Jeremy,

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one of our senior designers.

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How you doing, buddy?

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I'm doing good.

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Happy to show off Scott's masterpiece creation here.

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Easy.

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Story arc on the stream.

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Oh my goodness.

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Laying it on thick.

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I know, wow.

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Love it.

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Pretty exciting.

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It is exciting.

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It is exciting.

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I mean, I've always said that Nodes is the new hotness that we've been showing and story

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arcs are the new hotness we've been hiding.

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Yes, agreed.

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Totally agree.

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So one of the first things that you guys are going to notice in this environment is that

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we have this perspective of the tower.

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And I think, Scott, do you want to talk a little bit about story arcs as a system?

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Yeah, sure.

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So it's helpful, I think, to think about story arcs as kind of like a prepackaged tabletop

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campaign.

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They contain like all of the NPCs and quests and monsters, like all the things you need

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to make like a cool fantasy story.

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They're not procedurally generated.

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We author them.

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We write all the dialogue and we construct all the narrative beats and everything like

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that.

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But they will enter the world dynamically depending on the state that the world is currently

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in, how players have built up specific nodes, like what races control various nodes.

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We have plans to include lots of different things on top of that.

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But yeah, we don't have any quest hubs or anything like that in this game because players

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build up all the cities.

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So we had to get a system that kind of looks at what players are doing and can inject content

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into the world that makes sense for what they're doing.

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So we see it as like the world decides in the state that it's in that we're going to

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now play this module.

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We're going to because of the state of the nodes being in this way and certain races

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have this one, we're going to play Purse of Strahd.

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We're going to do Blood Still Do.

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We're going to do this module.

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So one of the things that I find most unique about our story arc system is that they're

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intended to represent change, change within the story of what Vera is telling.

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And we don't just do that through these new quest logs and dialogue, but also by literally

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changing the environments and showing these active states that represent what is happening

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and what choices the players have made previously in the different chapters perhaps of other

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story arcs.

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Scott, I know that we have been working hard on this.

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Your team has been working particularly hard and with engineering to kind of stand the

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system up over the last several months.

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But you have the ability to push us into the next chapter manually, correct?

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Yeah.

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Normally this is a story that would require us to have built up some of the nodes in the

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area.

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Here you could just build up Miraleth directly to get access to where we're going or any

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of the nodes in the Riverlands could have leveled up to a certain amount to have basically

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enabled the story to spawn.

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But I'll just turn this on for us now manually.

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Let's see.

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If that's good.

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Get ready, ladies and gentlemen.

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All right.

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Welcome.

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I push it.

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It takes a second, but it will kick on.

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To the Tower of Carthen.

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And Houston.

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There it goes.

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Uh oh.

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Oh, things are getting red.

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The complete...

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What is that?

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The blood.

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Oh, the blood still do?

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There it is.

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It's paying right now.

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Oh my gosh.

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So yeah, when Storics come online, they change a lot in the environment.

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They update what monsters are in the world.

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They create quests NPCs.

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As you can see, Orin, he's not normally here.

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We've moved him for the sake of this.

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And then yeah, new pathways can open up through the environment.

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Is the bridge moving?

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Yeah.

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Oh my gosh.

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Oh, that's nasty.

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What are the vines?

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It's corruption.

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So a very terrible curse is sort of remaining here after a sort of desperate spell was cast

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during the Harbinger apocalypse.

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You saw a bit of that spell being replayed at the top of the tower there.

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But when the ancients were advancing toward the Aelin capital, where Carthen is sort of

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strategically positioned between where the Harbinger comet landed and the Aelin capital,

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the mages here, and Carthen was known throughout the Aelin empire for its magical prowess.

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The head mage here did a very desperate and dangerous spell to slow the ancients advance.

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And that was to buy the time for the capital of Aela where they were building one of the

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divine gateways.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Because I'm sort of opening people to get out.

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Right.

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They needed more time.

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They needed to make space for them.

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They did something pretty terrible to do that.

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They bought them the time.

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But as you can see, this once great city has suffered a great cost.

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Wow, this is cool.

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I like the little jump puzzle.

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This is awesome.

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What is that?

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I hear all the time.

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The story arc helped this bridge form.

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This bridge might also appear if you've leveled up Miraleth enough to create kind of this

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pathway.

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Otherwise, there's other ways to get there, but more dangerous ways.

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Is that a what is that down there?

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That's a fiend golem.

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Fiend golem.

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Flesh golem.

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Fiend version.

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Oh, I like how the light just lit up to showcase the the body.

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That's crazy.

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That's super cool.

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And so now the spawn tables around the city of Carfin have changed as a result of the

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story arc progression.

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Right.

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So normally when the city is not in its cursed state, you've got a whole subset of like constructs

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and various other like arcane things.

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Like you saw the animated armor and stuff like that.

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While the...

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Fences, yeah.

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While the curse is in effect, we've got these watch wolves, these seekers here who they

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have their own sort of story and reason for being here while the curse is active.

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Ultraseekers, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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And they've got their summon watch wolves watching their backs as they're doing what

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they're doing.

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Wow.

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The environment team did an unbelievable job here.

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They did a killer job on this.

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Yeah, this looks so good.

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The whole team was full bore.

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I was like, it's a blood curse.

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And they really took that personally.

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They said, oh, you want to see what corruption looks like?

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I know.

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Well, what is...

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Talk to us a little bit about blood magic versus just normal corruption.

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So yeah, blood magic is a sort of illegal kind of magic.

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And using it in any amounts creates a certain amount of corruption in the caster.

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And that corruption can bleed over into the environments and things that they draw essence

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from in order to cast those spells.

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This was a blood magic that obviously consumed a whole heck of a lot of it.

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She wasn't intending for this kind of after effect?

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No, no.

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Yeah, the major cast of this was not able to understand the scope of the destruction

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that that would cause.

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But also in the final days of ancient vera during the harbinger apocalypse, there was

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not a whole lot of deliberation.

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There wasn't a whole lot of magical research and safety precautions that they could take.

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So yeah, it did its job, but you know.

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Yeah, it seemed to...

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Like even if it delayed a lot of the progress they made towards the portal, it seemed like

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they really created a lot of destruction along the way.

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Carfan itself has a lot of history built into the environment here too.

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You'll see lots of statues and stuff around that go into it.

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One of the five main city states, five primary city states of the Aelan people.

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Then they would form into the Aelan Empire following the Great War of the Undying with

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King Atraks.

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Right now so many people are in charge just like, oh my god, we're finally getting lore.

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We could go all day on it if we want.

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We could, yeah.

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We don't want to give it all away.

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Well the story is kind of told over the course of four phases, four chapters.

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Each chapter will update spawns, change the quest givers, change what quests are available.

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And that's across the server.

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It's not like your individual progress phases that is.

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The actual quests themselves you can progress kind of at your own pace, but as long as it's

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within the window of that quest's phase being active.

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I mean who honestly has this much blood to spare?

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This is crazy.

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We're actually trying to figure out the science of if you took an entire city's worth of people,

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how many cups of blood would you have?

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Probably not very many.

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Less than you think, but it wouldn't be as dramatic if we were super realistic with it.

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It's magic.

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Yeah, it's magic.

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Blood is persistent and eternal.

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Perhaps we could do something about this curse.

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I don't know, Stephen, if you stopped and talked to Ornn and picked up that quest or

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not.

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Oh no, I did not.

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I think you still have all the quests that were in there before.

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Yeah, let me grab it.

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How do I open my journal again?

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What is that?

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It's L.

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Yeah, L to open your journal.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.

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There we go.

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Yeah, you can see there's other story arcs going on as well.

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The phase timers in there indicate how much real world time is available to do the quests

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in that phase.

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I see.

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What quests you do, or the quests that you do, it's not just a matter of completing the

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laundry list of things that the NPC has you do, but you pick from a whole bunch of objectives,

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many of them optional, some of them, if not most of them, hidden when you first undertake

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the quest.

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So go dig up a guide or blaze your own trail or whatever, but depending on which objectives

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you complete, those are the things that help the server aggregate what is going to happen

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in later phases of the story arc.

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And that's across all of the players participating during that time frame, what objectives they

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decide to complete.

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That's what drives what happens in later.

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Awesome.

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What quests are available, what NPCs are pulling ahead of other NPCs in terms of their progress

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toward their goals.

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And how you complete your quest matters.

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Yes.

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Yeah, with some objectives being exclusive of one another, so helping one NPC will lock

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you out of helping a different NPC.

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So yeah, it's...

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Oh no.

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Wow.

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I'm just taking in the sheer beauty, but also like a kind of gross beauty of this environment.

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It is so eerie.

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I think even the corrupted trees, you can harvest them.

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You find some of them that you can harvest.

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You can chop them down.

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Oh really?

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Yeah, they're a little bit hard to spot though.

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Well also, I believe that as part of these environments changing, you're also activating

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rare resource spawners that might only occur during certain events.

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Yeah, that's correct.

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So yeah, like corrupted soul bloom.

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And there was one that Kory had just put in.

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All those things are only available during certain story arcs and every story arc has

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its kind of special things that you want to try and take advantage of.

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And that one particular one.

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If they're in your backyard, swing by and pick them up.

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For herbalism, for making certain potions, sometimes you want to take advantage of the

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limited time you have during the story arcs to get some of these rare resources for crafting

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things.

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Certain poisons and potions from these limited corrupted spirit blooms, right?

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Yep.

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Sorry, I just disabled my HUD right now.

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Like this area is just too crazy.

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Huge tower.

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It looks so good.

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Jeremy and Hal and Adam I think.

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Who's all working on this Jeremy?

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Zach and Brandon and everybody.

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Scott.

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Other Scott.

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Yeah.

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Not me.

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Tristan.

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Yeah, this is absolutely beautiful.

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And talk to me a little bit about the dungeon.

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So the dungeon we're heading to right here, that's the Tower of Carthin.

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That is the mage university that following the Roar of the Undying, the elves, these

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humans, there's something to them.

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Let's gift them the gift of magic and how.

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Let's show them the advanced stuff.

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You can see some of that story reflected here on these murals.

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Build them a university.

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Hold on, I have to grab some stuff.

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And we can teach them the way we want to teach them.

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And the humans said, yeah, show us.

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I think we ran by the deans, the first deans of them, the statues back here.

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Oh yeah, we should go look at those.

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I really love how some of the ornate detail in the buildings have so much symbolism attached

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to them.

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It really makes it feel like there's a kind of deep floor behind all the murals.

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Which way over here?

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Go back this way to the statues we ran past.

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All the former headmasters.

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Oh yeah, these are the former deans.

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Right.

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So this one up front here, that's Tanfilaris Wren.

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He's the elf that came over from the elves and from the Pyrrhen elves at the time.

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And you can see he kind of built the tower for them.

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Started training the first students.

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Then one of the other towers is his best student, Aristod.

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I should point out his statue in a bit here.

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So he was the first human dean.

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And he's this one here, you can see him kind of with the book open.

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That was Aristod.

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He was the first human one after Tanfilaris went back to the elves after a few decades.

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We've got, Dean over here is the woman that's Jenica.

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And the interesting thing about her is that she never died.

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She was into teleportation.

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That was her big area of expertise.

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And she just never came back.

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Hint hint hook.

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Oh.

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I see what you didn't hear.

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What's that mean?

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Yeah.

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Then we have one of Lamont's, Oren over here.

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That's Daren.

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Daren Lamont.

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He was a dean of the college.

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He looks like a wise guy.

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Oren's family is quite central to the story here.

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There'll be lots of opportunities to learn lots of them in this story arc, actually.

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That is awesome.

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And the final one there is Klon Zander.

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He was all into alchemy.

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That was his area of expertise that he really...

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Oh, yeah.

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So if you see a lot of maybe some potions in the game with Klon or Zander's.

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So and so.

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That's the guy.

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What do we have here?

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Just a very normal looking door.

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Probably nothing terrible in there.

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Oh, no.

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I mean this mural.

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Oh, oh.

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The humans asking the Pyrrha for help with magic.

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The periods.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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The period.

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Yeah.

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Very cool.

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They've got a teaching...

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The period teaching the killer or the alien at that point.

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Yeah.

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The aliens.

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And over here.

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Oh, the five moons.

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The tower's construction and the five moons.

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Phases of the moon.

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Three moons.

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The three phases.

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Or five phases.

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Yeah.

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Perfect.

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Very cool.

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And we also have there's...

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Yeah.

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The symbology for the period and the aliens.

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If you notice on the doors, you have a lion head on one side representing humans and

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the griffin head on the other representing the elves.

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Who are the guys pulling the doors open?

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Just a couple of guards.

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What is this sandal?

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Oh my God.

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I'm sorry.

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That made me cough a storm.

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That is hilarious.

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That is hilarious.

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I love it.

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All right.

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So what is our objective here?

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What are we looking for inside right now?

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Now this is just the entrance, the foyer of the tower of the university.

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So we're not going to obviously take you through everything.

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A lot of it's still a work in progress.

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Always remember that this is a work in progress right now.

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This is part of the Alpha 2 experience.

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You'll be able to explore, delve into this dungeon.

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So what are we going to see in here?

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Even more corruption and blood.

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More blood for sure.

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I like the bell.

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The gong is cool.

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Yeah, I guess it is a bell.

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Bowling.

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Oh my God.

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Wow.

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This looks great.

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I love this interior.

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The lighting is so moody.

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Oh my God.

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This is like the supreme edgelord environment.

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Take a look around at this.

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There's a treasure chest over there to get our loot.

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For my styles.

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But after we look around before we get the treasure.

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Even the gothic-esque lamp with the nasty flesh environment.

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Oh God.

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We have some loot.

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Is this like a treasure chest?

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That's a treasure chest.

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Whoa.

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Or not.

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No, no, no, no.

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Not like that.

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Nuke it from orbit.

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Nuke it from orbit.

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Oh, thank you.

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Perfect.

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Where'd it go?

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Where did it go?

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Behind us now.

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Oh.

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Come here.

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Oh my God.

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This thing is crazy.

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Look at it.

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These are just the entrance mobs?

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It's just the entrance, yeah.

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Oh no.

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Oh.

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No.

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This guy is nasty.

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Now these tend to do some nasty things when they die, right?

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I mean, this is basically like a, what is this, a hoarder?

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AKA mimic?

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No, I'm just kidding.

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This looks...

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Baron hoarder.

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Get away from it.

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Get away.

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Run.

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Get back.

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Get back.

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Oh.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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Get away.

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No.

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You're pulling it into the party.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, that is nasty.

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This is absolutely phenomenal.

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Yeah, they did an incredible job on this.

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It just looks so good.

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Well, is there anything else that you guys want to touch on from the story arc perspective?

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Oh, I guess there's one thing people might be curious about.

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I mentioned how you could do what you needed to do as long as the phase, like you can do

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any quests available in that phase while that phase is available.

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So what happens if you miss something, you go on vacation or whatever and you can't log

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in during the week to participate in the quests that are going on in the phase for that story

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arc.

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For most story arcs, they do repeat.

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After they complete, they'll go on a cool down and they will repeat again.

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You'll have another opportunity to get involved with them the next time they come through.

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For our big major world spanning story arcs that will tell your server's own story, those

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ones don't repeat.

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Those are one and done.

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You can replay them.

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There's a different system for replaying previous phases for the big main story arcs.

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However, decisions and objectives you make in those won't count toward your servers,

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what's canonized for your server, which is our way of saying what decisions they make

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for the objectives and stuff they completed.

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All this goes to really creating that experience of player agency being seen through world

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building and actually changing the locations, the environment, the story, and how it influences

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future arcs down that path for the world to reflect.

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It creates such a unique environment between different servers and the histories that they

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create.

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Exactly.

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I think Jeremy said it really well earlier when we were trying to help figure out the

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right words to describe these very complicated systems.

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He said, go ahead, Jeremy.

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In MMO, you have different philosophies on storytelling.

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We're going a more old school, like the world has a story and you're playing within the

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world story.

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In our case, you're helping to guide that by the decisions that you make while doing

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your quests and the different players.

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If a bunch go one way and a few go the other way, that canonizes down that way.

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Our recent MMOs have just focused the story on the player and used instance and phasing

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to tell individual stories at different times and at different durations.

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We're more old school saying the world is evolving.

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You participate in how the world story is going, more on how you owe and EverQuest and

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absolutely those games.

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Lineage.

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Everybody is playing in the same world and the state of that world is something that

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everybody is building together.

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All great games.

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Absolutely.

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Well, go ahead, Amy.

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Sorry, go ahead.

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I was going to say that one of the major goals I feel like we have is to allow player decisions

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to have consequences and to have meaningful results from the decisions that they make.

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It seems like people can really create their own stories.

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Absolutely.

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Phenomenal work, guys.

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Well, I want to thank you three for joining me to help kind of give players a peek, a

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little peek under the hood for the Tower of Carthen as I train your party.

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I apologize.

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And I cannot tell you how beautiful and unbelievable this area is.

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I mean, the artists are just phenomenal.

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So killer killer job on this.

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So with that being said, we're going to go run back to the stream.

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Super exciting stuff.

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And we will be back with you in just a moment.

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Thank you, guys.