Orlanth

✠ - Rider: Ser Calias Mareno ✠ - Champion: The Blessed Mule of Burgundy ✠ - Realm: Burgundy. ✠ - Liege or Lord: Myself

The fact of the matter is that RP and improving LOTC have never actually been the staff agenda. The truth simply is that the only thing Admins care about is banning the people who make them cry by attacking their nations. In years past, doing this usually resulted in 100 comment threads with 200 upvotes that they were forced to ignore and take the backlash on. Now, with metaplay as a tool, it's easy to just drop a ban and call it metaplay, and no one will care. By the way, the Haense bans were entirely justified and probably the only actual case of correct metaplay enforcement, if one wanted to keep this policy in place. Cudos to Josh for trying his best to enforce the shittery of other admins I guess.

Name: Donny Affiliation: Grensewacht Relevant Titles or Aliases: Footman

T H E A R MY A D V A N C E S [!] The Holy League's army continues their conquest into Balian's territory, with little resistance.

Calias Mareno smiled to himself, recalling a distant memory of some sort kind. It was a chess game, as noted in some distant history as belonging to one of his ancestors and Olivier Renault... "What was it he said again?" He asked THE SKIPPER, vaguely. @Malta

Calias Mareno ran over to @MaltaTHE SKIPPER and began to shake him, whilst shouting "WE'RE GOING HOME SKIPPER!"

"A nation which was built by our hands..." spoke the illusive FERRYMAN from the shadows. "They would be (FOOLS) to think it would not fall by the same means."

Calias Mareno congratulates Snaer on his handiwork @Mickaelhz "A vast improvement! Well done!"

"Heh." smirked Calias Mareno to his friend the Skipper. "We're going home :)"

Footman Donny jolts awake and makes his way to the Grenseplatz early.

Feedback Noted

"Suffer not the unworthy." Azdahir repeated simply.

So glad to see admins finally cracking down on metaplay!

Legendary side kick of Christ Punchsteel, Donald the Damned, turned to the infamous hero and smirked. "Some of these people should really stick to checkers."

Footman Donny does the Grensen shuffle

Calias Mareno read the missive from his beach chair whilst on vacation. He smirked :), before promptly putting down the copy of the bull he'd been delivered and ordering another one of those beach-side drinks with the little umbrellas in them. "Another round of checkers?" He asked his friend @Malta

This guy is on to something. This is 100% how it should be.

@Josh3738 Blink twice if you need help. (hey guys why did my friend sam get banned for 3 months for a joke made by members of moderation team?)

You've been involved in a lot of stuff over the years you've been here. Do you have a favorite event, war, memory or so on?

[!] A flier is distributed, stuck around the streets and halls of Church-loving Canonist nations. The Grensen Games Year 3 With year two of the Grensen Games coming to a close, the village moves on to the final games to take place during Year 3. This year will place the skill of each combatant firmly in their own hands with a Grand Skirmish and Dueling Tournament. Formally invited to partake are: The Monarch and People of Ravenmire @Zqppy The Tar and People of Numendil @AstriaS The Duke and People of Adria @Gaja The Prince and People of Caurost @Unwillingly The Rex-Khan and people of Lurak @Rig (And his underling @Sean_VEVO) The High Keeper and people of Norland @_Elrith_ The Infamous Thegn and people of Solgaard @M1919 The Queen and People of Petra @mothsthetic The Grand King and people of Urguan @Papa Rock, as well as their previous Game Winner Sigrun Ireheart @xMuted The People of Koyo-Kuni and their Grub Bucket Shinobi Ambassador @wowj And any others who wish to try their hand at participating. Grand Skirmish: All participants shall enter the arena with their own choice of equipment to combat each other. All weapons and armor are permitted with the exception of horses. The final combatant standing shall be declared the winner. The prize for winning will be Three Hundred Mina and a Grensen Victor’s Helmet Duelist’s Tournament: To be held in the traditional one on one format, all participants are expected to fight in best of one matches with daemonsteel blades and iron armor. The final man standing at the end of the bracket shall be declared winner. The prize for winning will be Three Hundred Mina and a Champion’s Blade. OOC: November 1st (Friday) at 5pm EST. Grense can be located by going directly north of the Lowlands SS pillar from CT. Approx. x:+1950, z:-180

[!] A flier is distributed, stuck around the streets and halls of Church-loving Canonist nations. The Grensen Games Year 2 “ Following the first year of the Grensen Games, with Sigrund Ireheart victorious in Sumo and Iscesi winning the Foortace, we move on to Year Two. This year will be focused more upon equestrian talent with competitions in both Myrinian Jousting and a Horse Race. Formally invited to partake are: The Monarch and People of Ravenmire @Zqppy The Tar and People of Numendil @AstriaS The Duke and People of Adria @Gaja The Prince and People of Caurost @Unwillingly The Rex-Khan and people of Lurak @Rig (And his underling @Sean_VEVO) The High Keeper and people of Norland @_Elrith_ The Infamous Thegn and people of Solgaard @M1919 The Queen and People of Petra @mothsthetic The Grand King and people of Urguan @Papa Rock, as well as their previous Game Winner @xMuted And any others who wish to try their hand at participating. Myrinian Jousting: The infamous sport by the Myrinian ruleset. Participants are permitted to maneuver anywhere along the jousting arena as desired, with the only exception being jumping over the center. The Joust shall be hosted behind the Village of Grense at the Fairgrounds. The prize for winning will be Three Hundred Mina and a Fine Grensen Lance Horse Race: To be held throughout the general lands of the Holy Regency. All horses are allowed to participate in the race, competitors are encouraged to bring their best racers. The course will feature a start point, and a point to go and come back from, with an overseer verifying at either. Any route to get between these points is permitted. The prize for winning will be Three Hundred Mina and a Grensen Thoroughbred Horse OOC: October 25th (Friday) at 5pm EST. Grense can be located by going directly north of the Lowlands SS pillar from CT. Approx. x:+1950, z:-180

As someone that as been on staff (with varying degrees of involvement, obviously) the single most heinous issue with LOTC in general is the lack of transparency for the staff team. Decisions are not announced publicly until the community tries to actively strong arm a (likely highly PR revised) response from the administration. The unfortunate truth is that either group treats it entirely as us versus them, where Staff are entirely focused on defending each other from the cancel culture of the player base, and the players feel they need to defend each other from inherently poor staff decisions. To be honest, I'll just point the finger of blame and say this is largely staff's fault. The information of everything is always gatekept behind "they know what they did" and "protecting certain people". Decisions are always made based off of conversations in closed discord chats full of people that don't actually play the game they're modifying. I really can't remember the last time there was a genuinely sincere community outreach, "state of the server" kind of address where admins actually talk about the direction the server is going, or anything similar. I know we used to have them, but they're so infrequent they're effectively meaningless. The entirety of staff decisions seem out of touch and for the most part really are here. That's not at all to say the player base is innocent because the weaponization of cancel culture is far beyond where it should be, and realistically it puts staff in a hard position. The unfortunate truth here is though, that the power is in staff's hand to take a stand on these matters and have completely transparent policies but for whatever reason it's been consistently proven that they won't. If there's anything to take away from this whole matter it's that staff need to be entirely transparent about everything, which includes providing full discussions for decisions, thought processes and even evidence. The player base knows when it's being fed PR bullshit, and it has moved past the point of caring into the point of abusing the expected behavior.

[!] Upon hearing of several complaints a new edition of the flier is printed with an amendment to the invitational section.