Guild Wars 2

Who is in charge of LA right now? Is the captains council still active or are the lionguard in charge?
And without the help of the Zepherites, who is taking care of rebuilding LA?
And why does no one seem to care that one of their allies has been shot out of the sky and vines are crushing waypoints and people without warning?
No lionguard searchparties, no fear of transportation failure affecting the economy and no mass hysteria that Mordy will reach from underground and grab you in your sleep?!
WTF LA?!

What I find funny is how there are vines at WPs now in LA and even after the events of Concordia and Fort Salma they aren’t really doing anything about it.

The head of the Pirate council and Kiel are both standing at the fort, overseeing the reconstruction. During the last festival there were a couple of guards who you could follow on patrol and by listening to their conversations you could hear what was happening in LA. I bet it is still all there in game if you want to look for it.

We’ve just got get used to NPCs being out of date with Living Story events. Half of the NPCs in Kryta should have said something about Scarlet’s invasions but they never did. As much as we’d like every NPC to have fully updated speech about every event we do know it is unlikely to happen.

Maybe all of this is due to there not being the equivalent of Twitter anywhere in Tyria. While there is consumer electronics, it is still in it’s 8 or 16 bit (forgive me for not knowing exact specifications) version and mostly used for gaming…

- Your first question has been answered
- B4 the Zepherites arrived there were already extensive repairs being done, likely by anyone that decided to stick around, that was able to hold a hammer or shovel.
- This is due to the lack of Twitter mostly, while those that need to know have likely been notified by a messenger traveling with a waypoint the rest of Tyria will have to wait until this information ‘leaks’/comes out. It is similar to you not knowing who crashed his car today in Kinshasa…
- The vines are somewhat something else, unfortunately we know little of the use of them by NPC’s. But, by the use of Yak trading routes it can be deducted that waypoints are not frequently used by NPC, and seeing a price is linked to the use, if NPCs use them, they are likely people with ‘coin’ to spare. Be it that the major portals in capitals are ‘free’ of use, and we see Yaks use them to ‘skip’ atleast part of travel.
This indicates that if no NPC uses them, no NPC really cares about them, and as long as use is not prevented, it might just be viewed like a vine growing against your shed.
- There is a small group in Dry Top, attending to the wounded, rapport of the events there was with Belinda as she returned to Ford Salma, we all know what happened there. If she had time to relay her rapport to the people that ‘need to know’ and those people are still alive after the attack, we might see some more activity, if it is deemed important enough to spare already sparse resources. News of it may not spread until later, esp. after the attack on Ford Salma, close the human area’s. Some concern about the vines might spread. Or we may at least see guards trying to deal with them, while ‘normal citizens’ wonder why ‘Weed control’ has been added to the ‘to do’-list of guards, esp. seeing that looting might still be ongoing in LA…

Why? because a lot of this is ‘need to know’ information, and spreading of this information among the ‘populous’ might only create chaos and despair. As citizens are just returning to LA, word of another dragon rising and being able to just strike from below, would turn LA into a ghost-town in a matter of days.

Hope this all sheds some light on the why and how in regards to responses from the (day to day) world upon the events that keep us busy. As soon as some Azura invents TV and Politicians see the potential for the influencing of the opinion of the general public, and mass media see a potential to advertise. We might see a more general upheaval upon events of the day. Likely ‘The Tyrian Weekly’ will have to come first, and it will obviously have to depend on journalist being where the action is… in Tyria though, that tends to mean you are also on the forefront of being amongst the first to die…