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Malakh · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: TPOTS Storyline and IC Knowledge

So after 3 years of never finishing TPOTS, I sat down yesterday and completed it. There is some pretty significant storyline content in To D'ni and TPOTS but now I am stuck trying to figure out how this all ties in with the current Live and what is really IC knowledge.

Just wondering how others are handling this. Do I ignore the things revealed in the XPs or do I treat this as a private journey taking while the cavern was technicaly closed, or some other option I have not cnsidered yet?
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CuzinJohn · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

Frankly... I think it's too soon to tell.

Once the Cavern re-opens 'officially', we may find that the To D'Ni and PotS X-Packs get included as part of the Journey once again.

Don't discount anything yet... when the Cavern opens officially, I expect we'll ALL be starting from square one again. as far as the Journey is concerned. and who knows where the path will end?
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BladeLakem · Great Tree Member Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 514

I don't know how much of the expansion packs is canon. I know most people have been taking it as at least mostly canon - they talk about Ahnonay and Er'cana.
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CuzinJohn · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

Durin Mephit · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

You're quite the pessimist. They've said they don't believe they'll need any more vault wipes. I am hoping that is true!
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CuzinJohn · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

Pessimist? no... just a realist. Wink

I've not heard them say that about no more wipes. If they've become capable of that, then I say "Brava!"

Wipe or no wipe, I still think we'll be on the Path of the Shell at some point...
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Malakh · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

If I recall, Not sure as I am at work, It is on the GameTap info when you launch the game that they say there will be no more vualt wipes.

If not it was on the urulive site (which I can not access from work) that states they do not plan to have any more vualt wipes.

Another point of note is there was a statement from someone at Cyan saying that the TPOTS and TD content would return in the new live but not the same way it was in the expansions. It's very frustrating to figure out what is canon and what is not. As far as the expantions go.
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Durin Mephit · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject:

I ease my frustration by recognizing there are more important things.

Destruction is Coming!
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CuzinJohn · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

Rils · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

As far as the TPotS stuff goes, I certainly view it as a stage in the Journey (a lesson in patience, if nothing else!). It seems we will revisit those Ages at some point (since Cyan has released internal testing pics of them both), but perhaps the lesson will be different this time around. That's the cool thing about really any journey - you can walk the same path a hundred times and see something completely different on each of them!

Beyond personal lessons, I don't remember that the ending TPotS really advanced teh story that much. We learned Watson disappeared while on his own Journey. We learn that Yeesha was prideful, thinking she could rewrite worlds, and ultimately learned the folly of that thinking (iirc). We learn she is indeed the grower, and that Kadish was a fiendishly diabolical liar (or lunatic). But none of that, as far as I can tell, restricts the current Story being told in MOUL...
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Malakh · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

Well the one thing you missed is what I was thinking of mostly. Yeesha stating that she can link without writing/books and how what corrilates with the Dec. 19th event. Not a huge deal but interesting. The other stuff was knowing a little bit more about what happened to Watson although it is still an unknown in the long run, and that Yeesha is ( or thinks that she is ) the Grower.

BTW I got goosebumps down the back of my neck during the TPOTS end sequence. Good stuff.
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Durin Mephit · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

She's the grower of the stuff that makes her think she's the grower. Wink

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homerjay · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: