Simp Slayer Arrow - DM.

[Jumpy]

Key/Character: Seifer Gardios
Which Event: Fortuna Arcanum

Responsiveness: During the event the responses were timely and written in time. That being said this even had to be delayed over and over and over and over and over, many, many times. While I can blame weird schedules not matching I do think that you should have been honest and told us you didn't have the time to actually run this rather than hoping you did; the most convenient time had to be delayed and ended up proceeding with 2 people missing in the original line-up, that's half the party.

Balance: These were by far the worst element of the event. There's nothing cool or fun about facing ECs that spam sand bind, shadow cannon, tremor, desecrated land, and scorch, while also being constantly surrounded by sound cacophony. While this was a problem it's only second to the fact you used an icon (the same all along, it wasn't just for 1 EC) that was heavily bugged with wonky states and using what seemed to be the demon racial which literally made every single spell effect invisible on you, meaning we were being hit by ticks of 1.5k every second without knowing actually what was hitting us. The fact that you didn't even change anything after being told of the issue is appalling to me. Not only that but when a player clearly had latency issues you did your best to try and knock them out.

Storytelling: Where my harsh review of Crystik's event praised the fact that despite how he railroaded us in an adventure the content of such was at least good and decent and had a strong payoff + fun IC, this event does not shine there either. We were railroaded into narrate 1, narrate 2, narrate 3 with no real impact on what was happening around us, even going as far as having objects miraculously appear in our hands and disappear from them with no way of interacting with the world built. There was neither rhyme nor reason to anything changing around us; at one point we were in the real world, then in the spirit realm, then in another place, then we get tossed into a portal, and again, and again, and again. We end up faced with mysterious rolls with nothing to interact or change the outcome that then dictates we can't control our bodies and are faced with the EC described above. And it's not like the skills used by said EC made sense, either. If you're fighting a nightmarish thought you'd expect to be faced by shadow/occult/something related to a personal fear but instead we were treated with "how many aoes and masters can I fit on my bar". The only decent thing that happened story-wise was the fact you offered us to fight an extra EC at the end when I tried to get to him after he'd told us that we were the evil ones all along and warped us away with no counterplay. With only risk and no reward involved we naturally didn't take the offer. Speaking of.

Fairness: We weren't KO'd once so there was no real way to judge the actual risk vs. reward of the event. Or at the very least that's what you'd expect; the fact I had to personally tell Chance about your injury table when you wouldn't listen to me telling you that taking a -40 vit perm on a CoI event with RPL 160-180 for being downed four times in total during the entire event was not right should be a good example of how skewed the risk was versus the rewards.

The rewards themselves were also half-assed, thoughtless, and overall a complete joke. Originally we were supposed to be a group of 4 going and you were going to only give rewards to 2 people. Couple that with the possibility of a -40 vit perm and you can tell how bad this is. Thankfully enough you had the courage of asking if you could give the third person, an outsider who joined us so that we could actually go on the event, a reward. That was the only good part about it. The fact you asked. For the rewards themselves?



They don't even have a unique tag or have a senseless one. This is equivalent to me walking up to the shop, buying a pipe, and then using a glamour potion on it followed by an icon change. By all means is it absolutely worthless and if I didn't leave this review or have proofs and logs you wouldn't think I actually got something from an event.

Furthermore, the fact you didn't even know what magic the characters in your event used after 2 fights and multiple mentions of them makes me think you didn't put much care into this at all. Or at least you probably would have wished we just cancelled the event after the first 4 delays.
For those who weren't part of the event reading this, the person who got a poison-themed dev item is not even poison. No one in our party was.

Overall: This was genuinely the worst event I've been on so far on E3. If you don't want to run an event don't run it. If you don't have the time, be honest. You making jokes about turning this in a CoD over and over was jarring and I was already hesitant to even go because of what I'd heard of your events being Hipster-tier of unfair. I personally won't ask you to run my events.

Any other comments: I'm not doing this to be mean, I'm giving my honest opinion. I do think that you have a drive when it comes to DMing and story and making characters but you have to improve on a lot of points. This wasn't even Spires' violent ruthless DM style, this was the wild west except you're the only one with guns and for surviving the assault all I got was a bendy rock.