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Downtime 2024 December 20

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[creepy-crowleys]

The darkness behind her eyelids was almost indistinguishable from the darkness surrounding her, and so it took Crowley a few moments longer to process that she was no longer dozing in one of the soft beds of the Tabula Rasa, but on a bare mattress in somewhere entirely new.

Or. Maybe not entirely.

Ancient wood, worn smooth with the passage of countless feet and warmed with a constant flow of anima, caught her as she rose from the unfamiliar bed. A single massive, broken branch of the World Tree jutted from the darkness like a splinter, suspended in nothing and leading nowhere but to a great fall. Even after the End, Crowley had never seen the tree look so gray and lifeless.

With nowhere else to go, Crowley stepped out into the nothingness beyond the branch’s shattered end.

In this dream, I am falling.

A voice caught in the wind that rushed past Crowley’s face as she fell.

I wonder to myself, is this death? Is this how everything ends?

Quiet. Sad. Empty. Resigned.

I think this is what I want.

A woman she’d never met and never would, but sounded so familiar all the same.

But then the ocean comes rushing up to meet me.

It wasn’t until she’d broken the water’s surface like a stone that she fully realized it was there - an ink-black sea, frigid and dark and only broken up from the shadows above by the faint haze of mist clinging to its surface. 

Crowley thrashed furiously to bring her head above water, gasping lungfuls of air and sputtering water through chattering teeth. If nothing else, the biting cold cut clean through the dreamlike fog that had followed her since she’d fallen asleep in the Tabula Rasa. Turning slowly in place, she scanned the horizon for any sign of land or some new destination, anything at all that stood out against the mist.

And there she spotted it: A tiny firefly glow against the darkened sky.

Twisted shadows clamored around her as she paddled through the dark, ichorous tendrils tugged at her limbs, and a thick scent of rot - fish and flesh and seaweed - cloyed at her senses and memories both. Tentacled monsters, real and remembered, threatened to drag her under. She would drown here. She was going to drown here. She-

Her fingers closed around the golden mote of light, warm and buzzing.

[fear-nothing-foundation]

May 23rd, 2017

Welcome, one and all, to the Fear Nothing Foundation! As we re-open our doors for 2017, we anticipate many starry-eyed young adults to join us on a path of enlightenment. Learn to remove yourself from your fears, worries, and your doubts! Separate yourself from the outside world, and let us help you remove all the wrong inside of you. We can set you right. We can set you free.

There’s a lot of brightness in each and every one of you. We are all made of stars. So let yourself shine!

As part of our grand re-opening, we’re creating this blog to better communicate with those interested in our organization. There is an Ask page for all of your burning inquiries, so please do not hesitate. The Fear Nothing Foundation welcomes all!

For even more transparency, we will be sharing pages from the journals of our members as they write them. You will get a glimpse into their mind, and get to see first hand just how free they can become.

We hope you’ll join us, and remember - Fear nothing!

[malaloba]

Tips for Newbees 2.0

Reposting with updated info since we’ve learned a lot since the initial relaunch. 

If you haven’t installed the game yet, go with the minimal install. Trust me, it's worth it. You’ll just get some slightly longer load screens the first time you enter a new area.

Play with the settings! There’s lots of useful ones like autoloot, different reticules and the lock icon in the upper right corner lets you move everything around

Watch the cutscenes. Not only is the story great but sometimes there’s hints on how to proceed

If you’re of the appropriate level and have a bit of self healing, you’re set for normal dungeons. The first level of elites is meant for people with all blues in their chosen role.

Missions you’ve never completed will have blue and white icons on the map. NPCs often get new missions as you level so check your map

9 times out of 10 /reloadui will fix your problem

If you see an orange skull on the mini map, go kill it! If you can’t kill it alone ask for help. 

Useful chat channels (type ‘/join chat [channel name]’ to join): #Sanctuary - general help and discussion, #tumblrmeetup - hang out with fellow Tumblbees, #event - discussion and coordination during events

If you’re not interested in dungeons or other such content, blue/purple gear should be enough to get you through all the story content

Weapons and Abilities

All weapons are viable for DPS but they all have a secondary purpose as well

Hammer/Chaos/Shotgun - tanking

Fists - heals over time

Blood - healing and barriers

Assault Rifle - leech healing

Blade - survivability and exposed (increases damage dealt)

Elementalism - purging and debilitate (decreases damage taken)

Pistols - cleansing and exposed and debilitate

If you’re using Assault Rifle ALWAYS have either a grenade consumer or the Explosive Expert passive

Gear and Builds

If you get a better drop, save your old leveled gear. You won’t get any bonus for using it for empowerment and you’ll want it later for fusion

The dots on gear indicate how powerful it is. This is inherent to the gear piece and can’t be leveled except with a lot of aurum (the paid currency). Ideally you want to focus on leveling 3 dot pieces (or 2 dots until you can get 3 dots). 3 dot pieces from dungeons are currently the best you can get. 

You get a bonus for fusing talismans/weapons of the same type (ie. attack head with attack head will give bonus xp, but not an attack neck or health head). Use that bonus. When you hit blues and purples, fusing gear not of the same type starts being not worth the cost

You can sell gear pieces to vendors, put them on the auction house for MoFs or go into the Trade chat channel in Agartha and trade with people for pieces that’ll give you the xp bonus

You’re meant to sell some Agarthan Caches to vendors for Anima Shards. 1 dot gear pieces and gadgets are also good to sell for shards if you need them

When you can make glyphs, give yourself at least one hit glyph, maybe two if your only unlocked weapons are fist, blood and rifle.

Don’t put hit on your weapons. It only benefits attacks done with that weapon

If you want to start gearing for dungeons, DPS use only attack gear, tanks use only health gear (with maybe an attack minor) and healers use only heal gear.

Don’t use green gear to level once your gear is purple and higher. Stick to distillates (found in dungeons) or you’ll run out of shards and be constantly broke. 

Have some form of self healing in your build. Something like a passive heal and an active “oh shit button” will be fine for most things but you might find that you need more in some places.

Useful Links 

Official 

r/SecretWorldLegends - one of the main discussion and feedback places. There’s a weekly post that sums up all patches, news, things being worked on ect

Discord - the official Discord

Steam Community Hub

Game Twitter

Fan Resources (note that all of these are still updating from TSW. pardon their dust!)

TSWDB - guides, mission solutions, lore locations and more! still updating but much of the info on the legacy site is still good

CryGaia - the wiki run by @rkylo. the best place to find info on the prelaunch events and story!

SWLRP - your hub for everything roleplaying in SWL 

Radio Free Gaia - an in character radio station! does shows and in-game events.

Tumblr

fuckyeahtsw and councilofvenice - the main blogs for everything SWL

theboilingmeme - submit your quality SWL memes

Tumblbee Hive - add yourself and find other Tumblr SWL players!

the tags #swl and #secret world legends

or just whisper into the void, we’ll find you

[tswdb]

Haunted Cache 2024 Comeback

It's Samhain, sweetlings, and the Future-Tech Cache has gone back to the past to make way for the Haunted Cache. The Haunted Cache took its sweet time floating into Agartha and was enabled at 01:42:00 PM EDT (17:42:00 UTC) on 18 October 2024!

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Buzzing Into Tumblr

We're extending our honeyed words to Tumblr! Hello, sweetlings! All of the announcements we typically tweet will now also be tumbled right into your headspace.

Tune in!

[tswdb]

Happy Secret World Legends Anniversary, sweetlings! The beautiful buzzing bees of the community have many player-run events planned throughout the duration of the Secret World Legends Anniversary Event. Spread your wings and see!

An in-depth calendar of events is available on both the official Secret World Legends Funcom Forums and TSWDB!

[tswdb]

The Future-Tech Cache is Back

Rejoice, sweetlings! Time marches on, and for the second time in Secret World Legends, the fabled Future-Tech Cache has returned to proper rotation! The last time the Future-Tech Cache graced Gaia was in 2020. The future is now and it flows so sweet!

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The Anniversary Cache has sprouted from the frozen Winter Cache! The Anniversary Cache is available for its annual appearance and will be dropping throughout Secret World Legends for the duration of the Seventh Anniversary event!

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Secret World Legends Anniversary 2024 Celebration Sale

A shimmering selection of sweet cosmetics and Power Items have been discounted for Secret World Legends' Seventh Anniversary! Spread your wings and celebrate in style!

[tswdb]

Secret World Legends' Seventh Anniversary Event

Happy Seventh Secret World Legends Anniversary! Praise be to the Immaculate Machine – the Anniversary Event has started as of 9 AM EDT on 24 June 2024! See everything awaiting sweetlings with the waggle-dance of our Anniversary Event Guide, woven with love!

[tswdb]

Samhain 2024 Community RP Event - Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour

An exciting roleplaying event is upon us in Secret World Legends! Please note that TSWDB is not the host of this event. We simply want to spread the word, sweetlings! Join Roleplayer "Drina" (@medrina) of Happy Tentacle Radio for the "Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour" as she takes her guests on a tour of Ealdwic with spooky stories and local folklore all along the way through haunting roleplay and accompanying audio and music starting at the Horned God beer garden (140, 220 y 27.6 1000) in Ealdwic, London, at 09:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC) on 26 October 2024 ! The Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour has been a staple of Secret World Legends' roleplaying community events ever since the ghost tour's inception by Roleplayer "Craft" in 2012! Since 2020, "Drina" has held the reins and continues to take Secret Worlders on the Haunted Ealdwic Ghost Tour as his successor.

The tour will begin with the first spooky story at the Horned God beer garden shortly after start time and will then walk around Ealdwic to each ghost story's destination. Meet Up on Drina to ensure you are in the correct instance of London! If you wish to join the tour after it has left the starting point, please whisper "Drina" to find out where the tour currently is in the playfield.

The tour will eventually loop back around to the Horned God for an afterparty of roleplay and music!

This event is a roleplaying event. Messages in /say and /emote vicinity channels will be In-Character unless otherwise specified as Out-Of-Character. Out-Of-Character messages are typically denoted with double parentheses or double brackets. The host will be regularly engaging with attendees, and stories will be told In-Character both in vicinity chat and on the air at Happy Tentacle Music with accompanying ambience! Roleplaying is not necessary to enjoy the stories so long as you are respectful to others.

Audio for this event will be found at Happy Tentacle Radio:

An announcement on the Funcom Forums for this event can be found here:

We will be attending and taking screenshots aplenty, sweetlings!

[creepy-crowleys]

The gunshot was deafening in the mostly empty tomb.

Crowley barely felt the impact.

...At all.

There was a long moment where neither woman moved, equally baffled by what had failed to happen. It hit them about the same moment:

Lorraine didn’t have powers anymore.

And without any kind of magic charging it, the pistol wasn’t nearly strong enough to even break the skin of the fully powered Bee. 

“...Um,” Crowley began, quickly stepping back to avoid a furious swing at her head. “I’m really not,” she blocked another attempt and hardly felt it, “trying to bring you back.” She caught the next swing and Lorraine strained to even budge her grip. “Lorraine,” she said firmly, continuing once Lorraine stopped struggling and fixed her with a steely glare from behind her mask. “I’m not making you-”

The Fragments of the mutilated bee anchored to her anima resonated. The phantom of Lorraine dissipated, and Crowley froze in confusion, realizing too late what was happening.

The Fragments were reassembling.

Crowley lunged for the tiny mote of light. “No! Stop! She doesn’t want this! Please!”  The Buzzing remained silent as she clapped her hands around the reforming bee. “Please. Let her go. She-”

Crowley’s pleas died in her throat as the entirely expectable happened: She was stung. 

White hot agony ignited through every nerve, every neuron, blasting her with a pain and psychic noise her mind blistered to comprehend. She dropped like a rag doll to the dusty stone floor as the little bead of light darted to back to its home and the shining silhouette on the tomb began to stir against her will once more.

[creepy-crowleys]

The Council of Venice had found her, you see. They had made her their agent. They erased the frightful records of her past. But they could not erase the past within her. They did not comprehend. They did not suspect that a terrible drive, given years to work, can do impossible things. How could she live a lifetime knowing what she knew? How could she live forever?

Crowley’s footsteps echoed against the cobweb-coated walls of the seemingly neglected tomb, pockets of red flame illuminating colorless pillars.

And at the end of hall, Lorraine’s final resting place: the remains of her anima, still and silent, bathed in a cold, white light.

Crowley stepped closer to pay her respects to the woman she’d never truly met and yet spent the last week journeying alongside. The translucent form flickered, appearing briefly more solid. 

“You.”

Another flicker and a solid hand wrapped around her wrist, forcing her back as the form of the masked Venetian agent she now knew to have been Lorraine peeled away from resting outline of her anima.

“I sent you away. Nothing to see here, I remember telling you that,” Lorraine hissed through the mask, distress hovering at the edge of her voice as she pressed forward, driving Crowley ever further from her resting place. Crowley felt the woman’s eye’s studying her from behind the lenses of the mask, and she barked a frantic laugh, turning back to her own ghost. “...This is the only dream I really, you know.”

Crowley gently pulled her wrist away from Lorraine’s distracted grip. “I’m sorry. I didn’t think you would still be here.”

Lorraine’s head swung back to her. “You can’t feel it, can you? You can’t feel what Gaia is taking from us.” A smile curled on her face behind the mask, cruel and despairing at once. “And you’re going to bring me back.”

Crowley flinched at the accusation. “What...? No! No, I wouldn’t-”

The other woman stalked towards her, furious and manic. “I don’t want to go. I don’t want to be back there. I not going to let you take me back.”

“I don’t want-”

“This was the only way.” Lorraine’s voice cracked as she levelled her service pistol at Crowley’s chest and fired.

[creepy-crowleys]

They offered me Gaia and I took her because I didn’t have a choice.

Crowley froze for half a heartbeat, fumbling a key into the lock.

The voice was different. But it was no less one she’d heard before.

But she chips, she chips away at us. Can’t you feel it? Don’t you know what she is taking from you?

Lorraine spoke to her through the voice modulation of the plague mask she’d worn when they’d met in-person.

- She had just wanted to be left alone after all.

A key clicked into the lock just as the spikes began to graze the top of Crowley’s head, and the whole mechanism stalled.

The Fragment lay at the end of a short prison corridor, shining gently.