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We here (Me anyway) at the Cythera board like to think of ourselves as having carved out a utopian niche here on the Ambrosia boards, with karmic abundance, quality chrons, and a rich cultural history that spans many years. Unfortunately, the lack of a sequel to our patron game, and it's growing obsolescence, are making our empire fade into history. Seeing the sad demise of Avara - and the destruction of it's own chronicles - makes me fear for us.

We are part of a grand system which is collapsing into dust slowly, returning to entropy. Like the death of a proud oak, it will take time - but it is already underway. The failure of a Carbon Cythera port or a sequel has sounded the demise, and we can but hope for Glenn Andreas to bring about a renaissance with a new game.

But, even if our doom is inevitable, let us not be forgotten!
We shall commission an Epic Chronicle of our civilization, and make sure that history can never forget what we had done here. We may as members have long moved on, but the Epic History of Cythera will live on, proclaiming the grandeur and superiority of the Cythera web board for all time!


This work, which I believe should be titled 'The History Rise and Fall of the Cytherian Civilization', would, by the recommendation of Ferazel, be divided into seven volumes.

This is my recommendation for their contents:
Volume 1: Prehistory of Cythera
Volume 2: The Lost History (Covering the posts lost in the forum purge)
Volume 3: The Rise of Slayer
Volume 4: The Team Stories
Volume 5: The Chronicles
Volume 6: The Late Cacheian Era (Covering the more serious nature of fictional works in general after the emergence of cache22)
Volume 7: The Decline of the Cytherian Civilization

I'll try to post more detailed contents for each volume as things improve. Hopefully this will work better than the Chron Wars idea from last month.

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Siena College- Like Yale, only not!
"Anything is possible, except skiing through a revolving door."

Board: "But I'm not dead yet!"

Bryce: "You will be soon enough."

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Insignificantly Unforgettable
"The real world can wait, I'm not done with the virtual one yet." - idiotSavant

We won't...we can't...no. Not yet.

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Do not hurt when holding is enough, do not wound when hurting is enough, do not maim when wounding is enough, do not kill when maiming is enough. The greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill.

You know, just to spite Bryce, we all should become really active again.

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"There is a time and a place for everything."

It doesn't hurt nearly as much to write your autobiography too early, than it does to never write it all all because you waited too long.

In other words, if we wait until the board is actually dead, there will be no one there to write it's eulogy.

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But you can't exactly write the complete story of something that hasn't ended yet.

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"There is a time and a place for everything."

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Not a complete one, but in this case, a good deal of it.

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Siena College- Like Yale, only not!
"Anything is possible, except skiing through a revolving door."

You can always add to it, but most of the work wlll be done.

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If you start an eulogy and don't finish it, people will think the board is dying because no-one completed it.

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Insignificantly Unforgettable
"The real world can wait, I'm not done with the virtual one yet." - idiotSavant

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But if it's completed, then it will have ended!

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Autobiography is one thing, obituary is quite another. Besides, as things go this board isn't exactly the oldest. For an example, see [url="http://"http://www.marathon.org/forums"]www.marathon.org/forums[/url] .

Az

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Well, it sounds like a good idea to me. I've always liked this board and its inhabitants, not to mention the actual game.

Can I have a footnote?

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I think this is a good idea. It not an eulogy, merely a history of the Cytheran boards. many countries today have history books of themselves and they aren't dead. The Cythera Web Board will merely have its own history book. If you notice Bryce labels Volume 7 as "The Decline of the Cytherian Civilization", which means it can still live on after that.

I love Cythera, it's one of my favorite games. I hope one day that it may arise from its ashes and reclaim its former glory. But that day may be a long way off, so we must keep the faith and hope that with our perseverance and continually showing our suppport for Cythera someone will revive this long forgotten game.

And yes, posting much more actively sounds fun to me.

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Well, I would hope to write "Volume 6: The Late Cacheian Era (Covering the more serious nature of fictional works in general after the emergence of cache22)" as that is where most of my board knowledge lies, as I entered the board about a year ago in one of the Team Stories at that time. Concerning myself, and perhaps Dusk, I would devote a chapter to the "later influences upon the board."

And they are right... It doesn't have to be a eulogy, but rather a history. After all, we could later perhaps write "Volume 8: The Rise of the Cytherian Renaissance" if that scenario arose.

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Do not hurt when holding is enough, do not wound when hurting is enough, do not maim when wounding is enough, do not kill when maiming is enough. The greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill.

If we can't keep a TS going, how do we intend to get this done?

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Siena College- Like Yale, only not!
"Anything is possible, except skiing through a revolving door."

I come in near the beginning of Volume 4.

Ody has a point, it'll take a lot of dedication from the writers to get this done.

And perhaps we should call Volume 7 "The End of the Pax Cytheria," or the end of the golden ages or something. That way, if the boards do make a comeback, its easier to name future volumes. (like "The Second Golden Age") It also doesn't sound so futile. Would you rather join a board that's dying or one that just ended a notable point in history?

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"There is a time and a place for everything."

It is not dedication that I need to finish my chronicle, I have that. I NEED inspiration. It lacks...oh, it lacks. (My chron, not this idea.)

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I was around in those days, but I fled to the lands of Ferazel.

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Well, here's my 1000th post. I'd rather it not be on one of the cypher topics, but here...

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But wait! The board can't die, as I just recently decided to finally register and actually play the game! What are people like me going to do?

By the way, is there any better way to kill those annoying Hydras other than brute force, like some Hydra-annihilating spell or something?

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ah, well, there's always Slayer's guide for people who've just started the game.

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Siena College- Like Yale, only not!
"Anything is possible, except skiing through a revolving door."

Speaking of Slayer...what is he up to?

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"There is a time and a place for everything."

Don't worry, I'm still here and I read every message. I just don't have a much time to post as I used to because of school and work.

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Slayer's guide to Cythera:
[url="http://"http://www.macclassics.com/cythera/cythera.htm"]http://www.macclassi...era/cythera.htm[/url]

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Well, you can actually get pretty far into it even before you register. I've gotten the first little green thing from under Catamarca, I've learned magic at the Magesterium (although I can't learn anything more important than Night Vision), I rescued Ariadne and questioned the prisoner in Odemia, and figured out that Darius is a big fat liar (but I can't prove it until I register). It basically lets you get just far enough to make you curious enough to register just to find out what's going on. I should have my registration code in the next couple of days.

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