>glance
You glance down to see a slim silver disk in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.

>turn disk
Letting the silver disk dangle from your fingertips, you twist it and shadows upon its surface rotate, sending it flashing like a tiny moon cycling through its various waxing and waning cycles.

>glance casual
You casually glance around the area.

>look stars
It is too bright out to see the stars.

>wear disk
As you hang the silver disk around your neck, a gentle darkness floats out like a mantle from your shoulders, the disk twinkling where the folds of supple night meet like a clasp.

>tap disk
You gently rest a finger against the silver disk suspended around your neck and a sense of quiet fills your mind, stilling your thoughts. You close your eyes briefly in contemplation, and as you open them again, your surroundings are suffused with shadowed twilight.

>look stars
You gaze up into the sky and see a broad field of lights...
Eight dimly glowing stars form the two scalloped wings of a bat soaring into the darkness as it fades away.

>pull disk
You drag your hand gently over the gauzy folds of the mantle shrouding your shoulders, watching wisps of darkness trail about your fingertips.

>agree
You adopt an agreeable expression.

>turn disk
You pivot sharply on your heel, sending the gauzy folds of night billowing around you like a storm-driven tempest.

>stride west
You stride away, moving west.


switching viewpoints
>look
[Town Square, Garden Niche]
This small niche between two buildings has been neatly landscaped into a tiny garden, its careful mosaic of flagstones interspersed with patches of trimmed grass. A low stone bench rests along one vine-covered wall, and a patch of colorful violets surrounds a painted wooden barrel in one corner.
Obvious paths: east

>look lornon
You gaze up into the heavens scanning for the moon Lornon...
The fierce light of the sun drowns out any hope of seeing Lornon.

Keios just strode in.
>
Night follows in Keios's wake, suffusing the surroundings in dusky twilight.

>look lornon
You gaze up into the heavens scanning for the moon Lornon...
Lornon continues her descent to the west as a thin sliver in the sky. Whorls of darker hue shift slowly across the icy disc, their rhythmic swirling nearly blending in completely with the blackness of the sky.
>

-KEIOS

Keios is pretty amazing. ~Wyrom

Ohhhhhh my.

Oooh!

And a guy could buy it for his honey, and then spend all day reciting, "She walks in darkness light the night..."

One more teaser! For all you night owls awake during the day.

>rem disk
You place a hand against the silver disk around your neck, and the darkness shrouding you recedes like a wind-driven fog, coalescing back into the disk.

>glance disk
You glance at the silver disk in your hand.

>l stars
It is too bright out to see the stars.

>raise disk
You raise your silver disk into the air, and the area seems to grow still.

An uneasy hush falls upon the world.

>pose
You strike a heroic pose.

With a sickening ripple, the heavenly shape of Liabo flickers and then vanishes above you!

The rippling in the sky churns and boils and seemingly out of nowhere, Liabo reappears high in the sky, within kissing distance of the sun.

The looming shape of Liabo slides before the face of the sun, plunging the world into darkness!

>cheer
You let out a cheer!

>l stars
You gaze up into the sky and see a broad field of lights...
Four glimmering white beacons of light form the pattern of a shield directly overhead, each bright star marking one corner of the protective rectangle.

A fiercely bright corona is all that is visible of the sun, blotted out by the looming shape of Liabo.

>sigh happily
You sigh happily.

>l liabo
You gaze up into the heavens scanning for the moon Liabo...
Liabo floats high in the sky, a fierce corona of light surrounding her as she blots out the sun.

>agree
You adopt an agreeable expression.

-KEIOS

Keios is pretty amazing. ~Wyrom

>>Holy...did that just CHANGE THE SKY?

Yes. Yes it did. By making all of Elanthia night for the duration of the solar eclipse.

-KEIOS

Keios is pretty amazing. ~Wyrom

It did! Blood sacrifices sold separately.

http://i.makeagif.com/media/5-23-2015/pszsWe.mp4

Would it would affect things that can only be done at night, such as (a) foraging some plants, (b) refracting moonlight or sunlight for alchemy, and (c) hunting critters that only come out at night (the liches in OTF)?

<<Yes. The eclipse version affects all of those, world-wide.>>

So, out of curiosity, what happens if someone uses this disk that eclipses while, say, an alchemist is trying to refract sunlight in a recipe, or a forager is trying to get a daytime herb?

How long does this last? That's a bit...concerning. Limited number of uses per day?

>The eclipse doesn't trigger immediately, there are world-wide messages about the imminent disaster and doom about to happen

Haha, this is amazing.

Can this be worn with the magical wings that fuse to your back?


As I gaze over the horizon, the wind tugs at my cloak and whispers, "Adventure" in my ear.

AIM: Kaight (Matt) GS4

By the way, this might be the coolest item teased so far.

e.g.

GS4-KEIOS

The eclipse version affects all of those, world-wide.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?

The eclipse was very cool to see today! This seems a bit buggy though, considering the item seems to have been activated shortly before the actual sunset, such that the end messaging of the eclipse ending didn't make sense:

>An uneasy hush falls upon the world.
>A faint distortion begins to appear in the sky above you.
>The rippling in the sky churns and boils and seemingly out of nowhere, Lornon appears high in the sky, poised as if to strike at the sun.
>The looming shape of Lornon slides before the face of the sun, plunging the world into darkness!

[insert many rest messages later]

>A passing cloud plunges the darkness shrouding the land into an almost impenetrable blackness.

[some more rest messages]

>The unnatural darkness blankets the land with an almost oppressive feel.

[some more rest messages]

>Flickering shadows cast by the fierce corona of the sun waver against the ground.
>The setting sun paints the sky with tones of coral pink.

[some more rest messages]

>A passing cloud plunges the darkness shrouding the land into an almost impenetrable blackness.

[some more rest messages]

>The unnatural darkness blankets the land with an almost oppressive feel.

[some more rest messages]

>With one final blaze of light, the darkness abruptly dissipates, and the light of day returns.

I bugged it, but I figured I would post here as well.

I noticed the messaging for the moons changing in The Rift, which seems impossible considering the nature of The Rift.

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