Bad Tidings/Opinions

Speculations about what the Bad Tidings might be all about.

(Write information underneath each heading with further details/speculation if you so wish to, or you could simply sign your name (using the four tildes ~~~~) showing you believe this to be most likely. You can also add your own ideas).

Peasant Rebellion!

Those peasants have had enough of all the the Scandalous Actions of you East Island Ignobles! Now that the most democratic realm on the continent is about to be destroyed you've made them flip! Pitchforks are being sharpened across the entire continent I tell you! The farmers are gonna get revenge for all you high and mighty Nobles eating their entire Harvests week in week out - I can just see it now! Doc being whipped while he works in the Sirion Salt Mines! I think I've got it folks! =P - Revan

Undead/Monster Invasion

Lewis Fox (They're coming...)

Well, i think the undead/monster invasion is very probable, because in Oligarch they speak form the "third appearing" and in Beluaterra the Second Invasion has just finished... Maybe the Third Invasion appears in East Island Shoenaemaeh 23 December 2005 13:14 (CET)

I seem to remember hearing about frogs being used in the first invasion... Well with the dead fish for Old Rancagua, the frogs have less things to eat their eggs, and the population should rise greatly. -- Eurtek

Volcano Eruption

Priests are making sacrifices to their deities, hearing the super natural events are about to unfold. Firstly a monster/undead invasion occurs, wiping out realms. Finally, the volcanoes exploded reforming the Island into a new map. Some cities/realms are scattered very far, and much more land rises up, bring in a new era of feritility and prosperity. -- Jeremy Van Veelen

IIRC, one effect from the first stages of a volcano is a rise in the acidity of the nearby water... which would cause dead fish -- Eurtek

Recent evidence points strongly in this direction (tsunami on west coast, dark clouds in northwestern sky... Matt andrews

That's true, if you also see the message from Colnies.... it's scray but true. Nosferatus

A lot is pointing into this direction indeed. Dead fish, dark clouds, tsunami. Also poeple belive animals have an instict for this. This would explain the strange behavior of the animals. After the last massege there can be no doubt about what is happening. It is an Volcano indeed (10 points for Jeremy van Veelen) May you caracter be save ;P darkmawl

Dark clouds from northwest, global climate change due to the thik dust... guess this theory get a big bingo! -- Gsklee 24 December 2005 19:05 (CET)

There is just one thing that troubles me. The air has an unfamiliar smell. I would think that at least some of the people would recognize the smell of sulfur (if I'm not mistaken that is the smell a volcano would produce). Tj December 24, 2005 19:14 (CET)

Mysterious Religious Jihad

A great calamity is about to befall the creatures known as 'Elves'. They have been creatures of pride and arrogance for too long and the gods are ANGRY with their behavior! Now their despotic ways of 'democracy' will no longer be tolerated and the gods shall smite them with righteous fury! Then there shall be a great schism in the land that will rend the world to pieces and only the chosen few will be allowed into paradise! Repent… REPENT The end is NIGH! (Or so this nifty little pamphlet thingy I got in the mail says. It's got all sorts of quotes from crazy old men and coupons for free ribs at Billy-Bob’s convertarium and restaurant!)

Terrorist Attacks

Dan Raymond (Tom wants to bring in World Wide Events into Battlemaster. Terrorists will come and hide among the population and cause horrible deaths and lost gold. You can only hunt them down by police work and horrible results will happen in Republics. Riots will be caused until George Bush is removed from office. lol. Theocracies will be terrorized and tyrannies will be awarded.

Jesus Rebirth (Tom's Christmas Joke)

Paris Roukounas

The God TOM has declared all rival Gods heretics. He especially thinks any who think he would enact an 'Earthly' Biblical event must be nuts and has spent far too much time locked in a Tilogian Jail cell in the Colonies - either that or you got your hands on some of Doc's Juma Juice! - Revan

Islandwide Domestic Upheaval

This means the realms will be destroyed, making all the regions go rogue for brand new realms, right?
Maybe, though my conception of it is that there are suddenly large amounts of monsters, bandits, unrest, peasent revolts, ect., and ensuring that regions don't go rogue suddenly becomes far more important than the current wars -- not that the wars would end, but trying to fight them with more than a small fraction of the realm's forces would mean that your other regions would be in danger of going rogue. In the political chaos, anyone who can quickly take advantage of the situation will prosper, and there will be dozens of rebellions and sucessions. That would be fun. --Morgan Evans 21 December 2005 04:14 (CET)
Okay, I got it, so, essentially, the Monster Invasions all over again, and in a fully set up and very old continent? Vellos 21 December 2005 04:41 (CET)
Sort of, but not completely. While monsters would certainly play a part, they wouldn't be the overriding focus. There would be no specific enemy to unite against -- just general chaos caused by a dozen different things, among them monsters. --Morgan Evans 21 December 2005 05:53 (CET)

An Undead Realm Capital in Sirion Castle

And Doc is going to be the ruler! -- Gsklee 21 December 2005 08:46 (CET)

5 Year Anniversary

Island will also turn 5 years (If i'm correct. Or was it not the first island?)...maybe the undead bring us beer and one HUGE piem or something else to celibrate this. -- Darkmawl 21 December 2005 09:24 (CET)
It's a 'present' from Tom after 5 years of having to put up with our crap. He is finally implementing the priest class, which he has been secretly coding and testing. That or horrible, horrible smiting, meteors falling from the sky, plagues of locusts destroying all the fields, a huge drought, clouds of ash blocking out the sun for months, and all the dougnuts, oranges, and beer suddenly and mysteriously dissapearing. Tj December 21, 2005 17:34 (CET)

TOm will use the battlemaster map of the people who sent him the anniversary pictures. It will be a continent of 20 regions and 2 cities. People with bad pimple will be badland regions.

Hell Freezes Over

The Entire continent, freezes over! All people and troops take regular health checks and die randomly due to hypothermier etc. The place would look like siberia or the antartic.

I can just see it now! The Vikings of Norland and the Barony of Makar all running to Colonise the new Icy Eastern Jewel ;-) - Revan

Tom vs. Espire

Tom and Espire (Eric) finally decide to settle their differences - on East Island! Sirion Castle and Akesh Temple become the two Capital's for Tom and Espire's new realms. All other realms pick sides and a new order is introduced. Or, conversly, Tom and Espire make two new realms in Sirion Castle, Akesh Temple and then proceed to ally with each other and then attempt to wipe out all the other realms. (Tom/Eric's realms filled with people who left East Island in disgust of it's diplomacy. They come back to get revenge on everyone else!) It's a Tom/Espire versus everyone else! ~ Marc J. 21 December 2005 19:30 (CET)
Great Idea! Robert Wilson

Who'se this Espire chap? :P DorianGray 26 December 2005 15:26 (CET)

Magic A'Brewing...

The world is changing once more, and the power of magic gains its strength... SpellCasters will again take their rightful place above that of the mere mortals of the world.
I've been screaming for this for well over a year now. Let it be so...
Tom wants to link the games Spellmaster2 and Battlemaster. The three temples will work as a portal of Spellcasters of the Spellmaster world. - Lion of Perdan

The Black Death

Nobody ever expects the black plague! AlexTurner 21 December 2005 22:08 (CET)
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

West Continent!

Tom said WC might come any time after 1000 logons per day, we're at about 950 right now! Maybe EC will be destroyed, and WC will coooooommmmmeeeeeeee!!!!!
This sounds strikingly similar to the Volcanoe Eruption thoery, except without the pretty details.
Yeah, I guess. Okay, here's what happens! East COntinent sinks! It is actually a big FLOATING island! The battle in Avamar popped a whole in it, and its sinking! When it sinks, the God TOM will put in a new continent! :D

Haha! The mass off all the people gathered there are so great they fall through the island, making the hole! --Kristian

I'm not fussed on the idea of Avamar being the centre of the island :P DorianGray 23 December 2005 01:27 (CET)

New Secret Weapon

The Undead are coming now but with their new secret weapon... the Giant Wooden Rabbit!!! Like the Giant Wooden Badger but worse!!!--The1exile 22 December 2005 18:35 (CET)

Hey Hey Hey! Lets not :D!

East Continent Reset

With Avamar and Rancauga gone within a couple of weeks Tom isnt happy with East Continent, so her gonna start it all over, just like it was in the begining. Or he might reset it to where Akesh Temple is the Capital of the SA, making whatever realm that controls Akesh temple will be the main force of the SA and vice versa with Sirion Castle. Robert Wilson

The only continent that will reset is SEI (and SWI). And Teehom is a male. -- Gsklee 23 December 2005 04:51 (CET)

New Realm(s)

The latest rumor to appear in Oligarch is "More prophets are appearing in Akesh Temple. They are speaking of "the rise of evil", or of "the third appearing" and other such nonsense." My guess is that Tom is going to create a new realm somewhere mid-continent. To what end, I'm not sure, but ending the NA vs. SA war in some way seems plausible. Think of this as Yssaria MkII, but with lots of RP around the creating, and OOC GM intervention to ensure that it developes as intended.

Plague!

A plague on all your houses! One-third of the noble AND commoner populations will be decimated by a mysterious, contagious disease.

Tsunami

This suspicious sudden lowering of sea levels makes me worry... along with the bad weather and dead fish....

Tsunami Baby! :-P The Colonies message is a sure sign! -Revan

Riot/Rebellion in Sirion, Global Religious Revolution

Tom's crazy prophet's gonna turn Sirion upside-down, many realms are gonna be turned into theocracy with undead skeleton Judge! -- Gsklee 24 December 2005 10:51 (CET)

What about his Cult leader? A Infiltrator in our realm revealed that Tom has created 2 new characters. --The1exile 24 December 2005 15:10 (CET)

Cult Leader, in caligus said that we will find answers, but we may not like them..... Damn him! Why in Caligus?! WHY?!?!?!?!

Whomever posted the above, can you copy'n paste Tom's message and put it in the Day By Day section? I'd be interested in seeing it, especially since I'm not in Sirion or Caligus to see Tom's messages firsthand. ~ Marc J. December 24, 2005 18:49 (CET)

Nevermind, I see it now. :P I'm blind! ~ Marc J. December 24, 2005 18:58 (CET)

Dragon Island

That small island off the coast with the volcano, (I think it's called Dragon Island) I'm guessing it's the cause of the darkness, and that something really interesting is about to happen. Now that I think about it we might see some land rising out of the sea followed by the founding of a third alliance of.... um, atlantians or something. That would be strange indeed. ~ Dalakar December 24, 2005

Dragon Island actually contains Dragons

... who have now awakened and are going to ravage the realms. The alliances are going to have to send tens of thousands of CS against single monsters now, rather than each other. Dragon Cultists will aid the monsters.

Nothing Will Happen

This is just something Tom is doing to get you people active.This can also bring people to play the game.This stuff makes you people want to play the game because there might be something happening later like this but with something happening. ~ Corpse Grinder December 24,2005

The Third?

       "The time has come for the third to rise! 
       Repent your sins. If you have no sins to repent, then go and sin, for you shall not be saved
       without repenting your sins. 
       Cult Leader (Noble)"

Hmm.. If the GOD TOM has two characters already, wouldn't it be possible that "the third" is his third character? Pretty obvious, but still, no-one else noticed. --The1exile 27 December 2005 18:45 (CET)