That's why I still give props to Scion despite the gripe. It still
is the best. Just still feels like being ooky spooky with paper hats
on. I mean, if someone really had to fear Scion due to them losing
touch with some of their magics because of a certain "reversible"
Scion ritual, or causing mobiles of certain areas to perhaps become
defiled and run rampant, or a Scion ritual that causes it to be dark
indefinitely until its reversed by a group of Fortresser's, or an
Empire equivelant being controlling certain cities' guards of towns
they can overrun (and take from Tribunals), then I'd feel the power
of the Scion/Empire/Other Cabal.

Just to backtrack a little, now that I mentioned all that above,
I know the Empire thing isn't feasible unless done really carefully
since it would turn into a 'Oh lets take back Hamsah today, Imperials!
The Tribunals just took control today!', and it would switch hands
back and forth and end up pretty gay and corny after awhile, but there
are some things that could be relatively easy to code in re: ritual
thing up above.

I mean the room descriptions and exploring stuff and finding things
Scion related is cool and all, but I'd equate that to the English
government asserting that it controls the entire European Union by
having its citizens place English flags everywhere. Sure it may
remind you of England, but if everybody you know still has a dentist,
and you're not finding too hard to locate a nice restaurant with some
decent food, then you really don't get the complete 'I've been invaded
by England' experience.

As far as "new" areas having Scion-related stuff in them, I couldn't
exactly say 'The Plains of Takawakaka were much better when the Scion
plagues weren't infesting it' because I never knew a non-Scion'd
'Plains of Takawakaka'. It's as if Saddam Hussein went out and
invaded Antarctica... it's like... um... oh darn, now we can't use it
for... oh wait, no, we can club seals in Alaska. Ah well, he can have
it, I guess.

Of course, I can't sit here and pretend I don't care considering I
just wrote a bunch of paragraphs on this. But I can't help it, I like
this mud, and I do care and want to see if I can persuade someone to
make me like it even more. I haven't ever gotten an IMM response on
this saying 'your idea blows and here's why', so yeah, I'm kinda
curious.

- Kazadan