CG Midlander

[Anonymoose]

It may have been whoever or whatever gave us the echo had decided (sentient?) that "you need to see this". While the Derplander's party was already woken by the echo, perhaps Fate saw fit to intervene in a simmilar way?

Unless we get something better, I'm just going to assume that the party from the Echo was actually at The Drowning Wench the entire time The Midlander was having his tweak-out. Maybe they were getting drunk to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the last time they dared pick up a damn guildleve - sitting just a few tables away from The Midlander yelling into their flagons, <Ian Malcom voice> "Oh, yeah - Morbols, light parties - that's how it always starts, but then there's juggernauts... and dragons."

[Mjollnir]

It may have been whoever or whatever gave us the echo had decided (sentient?) that "you need to see this". While the Derplander's party was already woken by the echo, perhaps Fate saw fit to intervene in a similar way?

Or maybe the CG animation was locked down before the rules of the echo were finalized...

Preposterous! Conspiracy, I tell thee!
Though to be fair, this is the only place in CG that you get to see a leve-plate. Is it such a leap of logic to consider that the leve-plate caused the Echo and not Deus Ex Machina?

Unless we get something better, I'm just going to assume that the party from the Echo was actually at The Drowning Wench the entire time The Midlander was having his tweak-out. Maybe they were getting drunk to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the last time they dared pick up a damn guildleve - sitting just a few tables away from The Midlander yelling into their flagons, <Ian Malcom voice> "Oh, yeah - Morbols, light parties - that's how it always starts, but then there's juggernauts... and dragons."

A bold assumption! Ian Malcolm is nowhere in sight. I think it more likely that you CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. I'm sticking to the theory that levequests are Echoes for XP and leve-plates take the place of a person to Echo through, due to their unique distillation through Aetheryte (which definitely has to do with people and not dinosaurs). I suggest the Echo in a levequest starts when the leve-plate whooshes up around the character and crackles with lightning. Zap! Back through time!

If this is a possibility, it's linking Aetheryte to the power of the Echo. Like the Aetheryte is a global memory network that pervades history enabling travel not only through space (ie our teleports), but through time as well.

Also, I'm getting trapped in this delusion.