Hello there, I'm here to explain what was going on with the temple and the circumstances surrounding that.
First of all, I want to preface this by saying that that the temple ruins subplot was never meant to be "important" or "game-changing", and I'm not exactly sure where this misconception arose from. It is true that it was hyped up, and perhaps that's what contributed to this. We created a small subplot, a sidequest if you will, for players to pursue and learn a little bit more about the actual setting of Luceti, and we wanted you all to take notice of it. As long as the game has been running, we've honestly allowed the players to truly learn very little about the true nature of the world. It was strictly meant to be IC knowledge that the characters gained there, and it would fall on them to share (or not share) this information with their peers.
To that end, I recruited a few players (namely, Athena and Vil) to help lay out the narrative as the characters explored the temple trying to find anything new in this version of the temple that had not yet been raided. Through their investigations, they managed to actually raise the temple above the sea (making it accessible in the current timeline for the characters to go to), found a keystone, and used that keystone to access a secret room and find... Well, I'll let you see for yourself. What's contained in the link is what was intended to be found, be relayed by those characters to everyone else, and for the villagers to discuss and pontificate upon what was found and just what it might mean. But that didn't happen (yet). As for what it actually means? Well, that's not something we plan on revealing yet, we're curious to see what everyone comes up with first, honestly. (:
Of course, judging by the length of time it took for this factoid to be revealed, things didn't proceed the way I had planned. My intentions were that by getting several players in on the secrecy of what was going to be revealed, it would speed things up, but obviously it had the opposite effect. That was poor planning on my part, and had I anticipated that, I definitely would have made more of an effort to make sure people were aware of what was going on. It was an attempt at a different method of storytelling than we've usually employed. An experiment due to the criticism over how rigid the last draft had been.. But seeing as it didn't work out, it's not a method we'll be using again, at least not without some serious fine-tuning.
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First of all, I want to preface this by saying that that the temple ruins subplot was never meant to be "important" or "game-changing", and I'm not exactly sure where this misconception arose from. It is true that it was hyped up, and perhaps that's what contributed to this. We created a small subplot, a sidequest if you will, for players to pursue and learn a little bit more about the actual setting of Luceti, and we wanted you all to take notice of it. As long as the game has been running, we've honestly allowed the players to truly learn very little about the true nature of the world. It was strictly meant to be IC knowledge that the characters gained there, and it would fall on them to share (or not share) this information with their peers.
To that end, I recruited a few players (namely, Athena and Vil) to help lay out the narrative as the characters explored the temple trying to find anything new in this version of the temple that had not yet been raided. Through their investigations, they managed to actually raise the temple above the sea (making it accessible in the current timeline for the characters to go to), found a keystone, and used that keystone to access a secret room and find... Well, I'll let you see for yourself. What's contained in the link is what was intended to be found, be relayed by those characters to everyone else, and for the villagers to discuss and pontificate upon what was found and just what it might mean. But that didn't happen (yet). As for what it actually means? Well, that's not something we plan on revealing yet, we're curious to see what everyone comes up with first, honestly. (:
Of course, judging by the length of time it took for this factoid to be revealed, things didn't proceed the way I had planned. My intentions were that by getting several players in on the secrecy of what was going to be revealed, it would speed things up, but obviously it had the opposite effect. That was poor planning on my part, and had I anticipated that, I definitely would have made more of an effort to make sure people were aware of what was going on. It was an attempt at a different method of storytelling than we've usually employed. An experiment due to the criticism over how rigid the last draft had been.. But seeing as it didn't work out, it's not a method we'll be using again, at least not without some serious fine-tuning.