RoamingRonin

Declan Flynt had heard of the news. He hears everything in this city now. Traveling the streets of Providence alone, hands stuffed into pockets, and a saddened expression plastered on his face. Through the years, he had known Lady Cenobia in passing, seeing her throw herself at enemies and protecting her friends with grace and tenacity to match. 

Now, it seemed that this city had lost one of it's best defenders, and this ageless bastard outlived another person he might have even called  "friend". 

Rest in Peace, and Godspeed. 

Declan Flynt sighs, and reads the pamphlet. 

"So long, lads and lasses. I'm gonna miss ye." 

He folded the paper up, and slipped it into his coat. He sighed once more, as he looked up into the sky, while the bustling docks moved around him. 

"Till we meet again, Alpha. One of d' greatest friends I ever knew." 

Masamune Musashi looks at the leaflet, and sighs. The Carringtons were the first family to offer their hand to him. He, who was commonly seen as an outsider. He quietly sheds a singular tear, before opening a scroll and penning a note with ink and quill. 

"To Alpha, I hope this letter finds you well. I am sorry to hear that the company has ended, but I trust your decision was for the best. The city of Helena just grew that much dimmer, but I hope to see you again in the future. You extended a hand to me when I needed it most, and for that, I am forever in your debt. You may call on me in your time of need, and I will be there. 

Your greatest ally, 

                       Masamune Musashi." 

And with that, he folded the letter up into a neat little package, and raised it into the air. As if by some sort of magic or luck, the wind picked up, and carried the letter off in a flurry of Cherry Blossom petals, to find it's rightful owner. 

”Can’t wait to see how this will end. 

Probably the same as every other coalition before it.

Enough of this, I’m heading back to the desert.” Marc of White sighs, and prepares to pack his things. 

2 minutes ago, HadvarAvMitteland said:

What are your reasons for wanting guns KunLun? And I sent it to everyone incase they wished to participate, you don’t have to! ❤️

Because it gives humans something to add to their repertoire, other than a government. I also don’t know why you still participate on the server issues, seeing as you’re effectively “retired” and banned. 

Declan Flynt reads the note, and goes to find the man. Jasper’s a good lad. Wouldn’t want anything to happen to him. 

I want guns on LOTC, and I don’t know why you sent this to me. 

9 hours ago, Qaz_The_Great said:

If you say that a compound bow and a old bow from the 1600s are comparable you’re nuts, the materials do matter and the ease of use changes drastically between the two. The sentence makes plenty of sense now.

You’re nuts for thinking they aren’t. You can use a wooden longbow same way as you would use a compound bow. They’re easily comparable, you just don’t want to admit it. 

6 minutes ago, Qaz_The_Great said:

I can’t conced the ALL aspects point because I’ve fired nearly all types of firearms (Brown Bess would be the closest thing I can relate to this). Modern crossbows are also not comparable to old crossbows just as a compound bow isn’t comparable to an old bow.

That first sentence means nothing to the argument, and the second sentence makes no sense. Since crossbows and bows are pretty relatively unchanged (as in, the basic concept of the weapon to begin with). Sure, we’ve added stronger materials, but they still use basically the same mechanisms. To add to that, bows from the olden days are CERTAINLY comparable to the bows of today, since people still actively use longbows and such for hunting. Not everyone is restricted to a compound bow, and each weapon has advantages and disadvantages to the other. 

5 minutes ago, Qaz_The_Great said:

I have no clue where you’re getting accuracy from, rifles and such have 100% more range and when shot in vollys will be 100% more dangerous. The scale is in favor of firearms always and it is not fair or balanced. Likewise for crossbow loading speed you must also address the type of crossbow, most effective crossbows are required to be reset via crank or lever.

From the fact that I actually hunt with a crossbow, naturally. Of course firearms are better in the majority, but you stated ALL aspects, when we’re talking about primitive firearms. In which case, that is a false statement, as the guns of the time period were vastly inferior in a number of ways to say that of a crossbow. Hell, longbows were considered better than both, for a time. And I hand pull my crossbow, so... 

1 minute ago, Qaz_The_Great said:

Anyone who understands penetration, range, and production will say you’re wrong. Firearms are simply better than crossbows in all aspects, and are matched simply in the capacity of reload speed (approx 30 seconds). Not to mention that it would make melee weapons useless as Bayonets could fully replace most swords and such as it’d be a 4-5ft spear. I don’t magic RP because it is dumb, so it isn’t just magic role players who disagree with the implementation of firearms. Just because you say something over and over doesn’t make it true.

Except the part where crossbows are more accurate pound for pound and way quieter than a primitive rifle. And I can damn sure load a crossbow faster than a primitive rifle. 

1 minute ago, The King Of The Moon said:

Kinda wild how I’m constantly seeing people call the server “medieval” when no-one but humans have ever RPd feudalism or anything close to peasantry and middle ages culture, social hierarchies and politics. The very same thing that was criticised by the wider server as “boring game of thrones roleplay”.

Wilder still that that same group has RPly progressed beyond that for the mostpart since vailor and has had a closer RP culture to the late renaissance and early modernism, and now is being criticised by the wider server as “too modern”. 

The server isn’t medieval. It hasn’t been culturally close for at least 5 years now and the majority of people I see using this as an anti-gun argument seem to belong to elven, sutican, dwarven and druidic settlements which have never themselves been medieval. 

It’s laughable still that these same people are arguing LoTC shouldn’t ‘follow IRL progression’ but are basing their aesthetic rhetoric on the idea that we’re locked at a certain point of IRL history that has never truly been emulated... It’s not very well thought through.

To be fair, I equate the entire server to boring GoT roleplay at this point, what with the stringent everything locks. 

2 minutes ago, argonian said:

If you’re not going to post your many valid points out of protest, then don’t post at all. Not that hard. Everyone else is trying to actually debate here, you’re just piping up to yell about Oren every 2 seconds and adding nothing. But apparently that’s our fault, we prevented you from making your valid points. 

The blatant Oren hating coming from him gives me VERY SOLID Kurt Eichenwald vibes. 

2 minutes ago, Harold said:

I know u are but what am I 

Not an adult, that’s for sure. 

2 hours ago, armajesty said:

In my opinion firearms hardly make sense with the server. It’s not a medieval server where we are advancing with time as if it was present day, it’s a fantasy role play server. Imagine Gandalf with flintlock.

Imagine Gandalf with fireworks...oh wait...

3 hours ago, Will (TauFirewarrior) said:

Turning this into “Our community vs their community” is a really mature and well minded way of going about this debate, I am predominately an Elf and I couldn’t give a **** if humans get guns. Now wipe the dribble off your chin and use your brain when engaging in this debate.

Bit toxic much, ya numpty? 

2 hours ago, Luciloo said:

 

This is the wrong attitude to have.

If you’re so starved for RP or intrigue throwing more toys at the problem won’t solve it. In fact it will encourage the introduction of poorly-implemented, half-baked ideas to fill the gap, only to be quickly forgotten about a few months later, and then for a number of issues to crop up later. That’s literally where a whole bunch of issues with magic come from.

How is it the wrong attitude? To push the technology forward, to invent and innovate in RP? You’re thinking inside of a box with the possibilities that can be accomplished, and not putting faith in the players to figure it out for themselves. 

The wrong attitude would be to lay down and not let my thoughts be heard. That would be the wrong attitude. 

I think yes, because at this rate, we’re just playing Game of Thrones Mineman Edition. 

We can’t have cool magic, we can’t have cannons, we can’t even have our charters anymore. 

You have to give us something interesting. ANYTHING interesting. Because as of right now, slice of life RP is not cutting it. 

We just had this awesome event for Oren that felt like modern warfare, because that’s what it was. Modern warfare, minus the gunpowder.  The only thing we didn’t have were cannons and muskets, which would have been an interesting thing to see play out in roleplay. We have some places that have basically advanced into the 17^th century (and don’t feed me that BS “just because it’s seventeen hundred in game don’t mean...” garbage) and are basically being hindered by this made up rule that we’re not allowed to make scientific advancements and explore things like alchemy and explosives. I’m not saying we should add friggin tanks and fighter jets, I’m just saying that it’s pretty silly to bury your heads in the sand and pretend like people haven’t been asking for gunpowder weapons for ages. 

I know I have. 

“Dis is d’ Darrowmere I’ve heard about?” Declan Flynt, brother of Cayde Flynt, asked to no one in particular, before crumpling the paper. 

”What a load o’ bulls***e. Does anyone even live there?” 

Musashi Masamune would feel nothing but content for the fall of Sepp. Sitting at the docks of Sutica, overlooking the ships while holding a gourd of sake, he would raise his hand that held his beverage, and pour just a bit into the ocean. 

For the pain he caused his daimyo, the people he had tortured, and the lives he slew for no apparent reason, Musashi felt no sadness or grief. All he could think to muster was a half-smile, and a simple phrase. 

”Good riddance.” 

Talius sighed heavily, and took a deep swig of rum. 

He did not know that man, but he felt a deep pain for those of his kin...

A lonely ronin sits upon the stump outside Sutica, strumming a lute, with his rice hat casting a shadow over his face. 

“Well these are gonna be

Some of my last days here

I’m wasting away, at times too dear

Somebody hold me

I’m afraid

Buy me a ticket, for a place to be saved...” 

2 minutes ago, KunLunKungFu said:

 

"They are finally at rest." He chuckles, taking a hefty drink from his bamboo flask. "Oren won by sheer numbers and training. Impressive."

Just now, Haseroth said:

Let it be known that in this day, my lady’s honor hath been restored. ?

Stacked game stacked fight. Unfair advantage!!!!!

1 minute ago, Haseroth said:

!! How dare you attack my lady like that!! I challenge you to a duel. En garde!!  ?

I would fight you, good sir, but alas, I have so much mina, I can nary move my arm a twitch!!!! 

Oh no, my fictitious ingame money that means absolutely nothing!!! Whatever shall I do? 

Oh, and, banning someone with the tagline "hi =3" explains everything perfectly. 

You guys aren't all off your gourds. No way at all. 

A single dove swoops through the air, and finds its place upon the shoulder of Musashi Masamune. An odd time, as he is currently in travel to Millstone, to speak with Evindal about his new position as Thane of said village. 

The samurai unfolds the letter, and feels the warmth leave his hands. ”Evindal is dead...” Were the thoughts that rang through his head. The sudden shock took the breath away from him, and he fell to one knee upon the roads. Whatever Evindal was going through, he did not help. In his time of need, Musashi failed his friend. 

Rage and grief all swirled into one emotion, and the warrior crumpled the note in his hand. He looked to the sky and roared his pain, if only in one sudden burst. He would then weep for his fallen comrade, and pull himself beneath a tree. 

The samurai is no more. Now, he lives the wayward life of a ronin...