MagicDuel Festival Records: Volume 1

The first Magic Duel Festival, hosted from September 6th, 2008, to September 14th, 2008, was something new for everyone. It was, in short, a learning experience, not only for us as the players, but for Mur as well. The Festival resulted in many interesting changes, including a large integration of roles into the game. Players from every walk of life were able to create their own unique role, to become someone else entirely if they so desired. Whether the players received a reward or not, honestly does that even matter? It was a way for all of us to become something more than just another player: to become part of something magical.

Now, then, you may be wondering: what were the rewards? This part is simple and complicated all in its own right. In reward for integrating into the game, certain players were given new abilities and titles. There were two different categories: RPC and PWR.

RPC, Role-playing Character, is the first category. Given unique abilities, such as special spells regarding their roles and the ability to create custom quests with special rewards for players, and special recognition, this was one of the highest honors received from the festival. Very few made it to this category, but many more received PWR.

PWR being, Player With Role. This is the stage many receive before becoming RPC and there are nonetheless several differences. The first, and most obvious, being the lack of being placed on the RPC list. This will, hopefully, one day become a fluid transition from player to PWR to RPC.

And, now, for the honors handed out during the first ever Magic Duel Festival.

*As a result of the spread of the players over the game, I may or may not be able to add their custom descriptions in the future. More to come on this soon. There were, of course, several people given the honor of becoming RPCs during this festival. These people were:

*Rex Umbrae Killer*
- +30k max value points
- Spells: opennecro, otherarmy
- Access to secret logs
- Tag: Walker of Mind
- Custom description: Legendary player that solved a very difficult puzzle with over 70 bil combinations by pure chance! Reseacher of all religions in MD, likes hunting for long lost weapons
- Alliance changed to Necrovion
- Promoted to Permanent RPC

*Raven*
- +10k max vital energy, +10k max value points
- Spells: invisibility
- Tag: Loreroot Illusionist
- Custom description: Bringer of chaos and confusion to some, light and hope to others. Caster of illusion spells might make you see different than you should.
- Promoted to Dreamcatcher
- Access to secret logs
- Promoted to Permanent RPC

*Junior*
- Access to secret logs
- Tag: Magician of White Light
- Custom description: A young man that fund his roots in the company of the Angiens. Is in co-exsistance with the Angiens he is their confider and in return they give him the Power of the Angiens. Also Very good at the arts of surviellence and espionage.
- Spells: givevital
- +10k max vital energy

BlackThorn
- Access to secret logs
- Tag: The Bard of Loreroot
- Custom description: Abandoned in Loreroot, I grew up wild speaking only with the trees, birds, beasts, wind and rain. Educated by Knator Commander, I now work for the Artisans Guild and travel around the realm creating avatars, singing songs, and telling stories
- Moved to Loreroot alliance
- Spells: toadspeak, openlore
- +10k max value points
- Custom ability to ask Knator Commander to stand down and open the Loreroot hidden entrance
- Promoted to Permanent RPC

Braiton
- Access to secret logs
- Tag: The Drachorn Experimentalist
- Custom description: Crazy experiments and tests on Drachorns is what I do. Crazy can't describe how the experiments turns out. Cruel to Drachorns, I swore vengeance to the Golemus kind and seek to create new species of mutant Drachorns.
- +10k max value points
- Spells: opennecro, otherarmy, mutatedrachorn
- Custom ability related to his role: genetic manipulation of Drachorns
- Promoted to Permanent RPC

Gargant
- Tag: Walker of Words
- Custom description: A Mysterious character, stooped in shadow and light, surrounded by whispers, known to all and none, My words are heard only by the wind. Information trader, spy, call me what you will but if you need information on a character, I am able to get it.
- Spells: invisibility, mirrorritual
- +10k max value points
- +10k max vital energy
- Custom permission to trade info from secret logs
- Dreamcatcher ability to use only as communication way with his role
- Promoted to permanent RPC In addition to RPC, there was another category: PWR. Here are those people, rewarded during the Festival:

Sol
- Tag: Adept of the Dao
- Custom description
- 20k max vital energy
- 80 loyalty
- Spells: undisclosed

MRD
- Tag: Leader of MR's
- Custom description
- Own alliance: MR Fraternity
- Spells: prot-weaken, mirrorritual
- Gates of Golemus always open

*Kempiniukas*
- Tag: Gardener of MDA Garden
- Custom description
- +15k max vital energy
- Spells: prot-freeze, undisclosed
- Land assigned to archives

Tarquinus
- Tag: Moon Knight
- Custom description
- +20k max vital energy
- +10k max value points

Zleiphneir
- Tag: Guardian of Bob
- Custom description
- +20k max vital energy
- Spells: traveltobob
- Custom ability/curse related to his role: he will be summoned every time the tree blooms, with maxed vital energy, to defend it if that is the case.

SageWoman
- Tag: Dojo Assistant

Liberty
- Tag: Servant of Light
- Custom description
- Spells: givevital
- "Writer" medal for story

Azrael Dark
- Tag: The Silent Reaper
- Custom description
- Spells: prot-movelock, invisibility, prot-holyarmy
- +10k max value points

Ledah
- Tag: The Puppet Master
- Custom description
- +10k max value points
- +10k max vital energy
- Spells: invisibility, otherarmy
- 20 credits

Aqune
- Tag: Storm Maiden
- Custom description
- +10k max value points
- +10k max vital energy
- Spells: weather - storm, mildrain, sunny, heavyrain, heavyclouds, snow
- Custom ability to modify weather, further in-game integration coming soon.

Limbertok
- Tag: The Collector
- Custom description
- +10k max value points
- +10k max vital energy
- Spells: acousticremains
- Custom spell to view full chat log in a location. Spell also comes with a curse/negative effect.

Penelope LightMoon
- Tag: Moon Priestess
- Custom description
- +10k max value points
- +10k max vital energy
- In work: custom ability regarding moon phases affecting entire game world.
- 20 credits

Logan Marquis
- Tag: Observer of Wills
- Custom description
- +10k max vital energy
- +10k max value points
- Spells: locate, earfocus
- Custom spells to see player movement and filter out chat messages of a target player all over map