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esterhase

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  1. They say Krug was cursed with tusks and green skin because he violated the natural order this way.
  2. I wish to play as Grom'aglûp, Grommash's merchant son who uses his large nose to sniff out the finest wares to grow his father's fat money-sac. His character flaw is his homosexuality, a taboo in the orcish kingdom as it does not often result in offspring.
  3. "Light rain." Bluto pulls from the sleet-clouded window to spit a globule of phlegm and ale into the flagstone tiles of the Tunnelsmasher longhouse. "Must be those sick 'umri bastards."
  4. "Theh' say them Veletz umri control t' banks. And t' weather." opines a malcontented Bluto Tunnelsmasher. "Wit' their machines and wily ways."
  5. A wizened elf, long cloistered in a tower, stares at a fast-moving facial glyph to titrate its noospheric powers. "Thy portenous portly sphereings do sear my eyeballs, sigil. Let your bolus of hexed flesh be gone from mine sight lest I rend each frame in flame." He traps the thing in a draw, the glyph rattling at the locks as if pleading in an unspoken tongue to break free.
  6. If you don't see how Haense won, you're not watching.

  7. A Tarhadian Cavalier-Marshal rubs his long-unspurred heels with a calloused palm. His memories of the tea-serving traditions of the Acaelanites knot his stomach. He takes another sup of his pipe, hoping the acrid smoke will serve as some unguent to his moral unease. "Blots ae grease awn all ae creation..."
  8. "Good fer him!" opines Bluto Tunnelsmasher on the radical poet's choice of lifestyle.
  9. [ An aged man, face so embossed by wrinkles and the patina of time that you can only discern that the grim reaper has forgotten about him, holds a tome before you. His robe hangs limp at his wrists, threadbare and loose — possibly older than the man himself.] [ After blowing the layer of dust from the tome's leather jacket, you look upon its gilt title. ] "The Big Bad Book of Slurs" [ Durst you open the book of every slur you are not allowed to say on Lord of the Craft? ] > [ Yes. Burden yourself with the knowledge of the forbidden and let the Gods judge you for it. ] > [ No. This is enlightenment rightfully forbidden by the divine.]
  10. Most administration ban reforms are confused and rehashed ideas that barely worked for the previous administration's playerbase, let alone today's. The butch window-dressing of terms like "indefinite" and "administrative", the non-negotiables and red-lines may make the administration feel butch and in control, but it makes no difference to the players' perception of them. Until there is a behaviour policy (and admins that actually want one) that is flexible, rational and simple enough to cater towards a community the staff are part of instead of a community that the staff are moderating, people will keep being indefinitely banned for the vaguest of reasons. Any spreadsheet boxtick exercise will be delegated to admins to handle with the ease of an indefinite plan as heavyweight policies end up punishing moderators as they add more stress and workload that can easily be shirked by throwing cases upwards. If a server promotes indefinite bans, how confident is the server in helping the community learn from the mistakes of their peers? Threads like this don't happen because they see a player punished for a mistake and agree with the rationale. The server should have a policy that promotes enjoying the server and aims to cull the defiance and disruption that occurs through these disjointed and jarring policy schizophrenes. There is a huge social cost to using indefinite bans more often and only strengthens the divide between moderator and player. This obviously runs counter to developing and growing a community, let alone a community that has faith in the people running it. It has been nine months since the safety policy was promised. This is not just a cudgel to beat the Dusks of the server, but a necessary tool to change server culture into something more positive via a clear and concise community-facing reform. You can try to ban the bad apples, but it wins you a lot fewer friends than creating a culture where they don't grow. Do the players the kindness of making systems that promote a good server culture instead of trying to ban people that don't, it'll be a lot less stressful for everyone involved. But, uh, you're all young adults trying your best, right? That's why you're taking the easy way out and just gassing people post-fact without any serious changes in how these players are coming to the fore in the first place? Get it together. @rukiohiiiiiiiiii!!!!! ;3c
  11. "Strange. I didn't see you at Southbridge!" Comments Hugh Bloom as he reads the blogpost. "If you are trying to be a mincing intellectual that can't hold a sword, I think you are three emperors too late. You are an anachronism, little poofter out of time. Take your wig off and put your cuirass on."
  12. Imperial spymasters decipher the secret code
  13. "as a proud canonist i dont believe in nonsenses such as a hell. only the seven skies, the ground below, and the void without. god does sinners all they deserve by giving them an eternal nothing. cheers." says brother micawber the judite priest as he totters around the swiss cheesed infernum of whatever the last map was called.
  14. Why your marj's roti so dusty ? ullu ke patthe maderchod
  15. "I really really hope they don't double excommunicate the emperor. That would be super embarrassing!" Nudge Neatenthorpe comments to his pet rooster, a big bucket of milk in each hand.
  16. The milkman Nudge Neatenthorpe looks up to the stars and wonders.
  17. "Bein' so close to God." comments Nudge Neatenthorpe as he milked his cow. "Ottomar the Innocent must've died of a happiness unknown to any man."
  18. "I cannot be an homophobe, your holiness. If you can't tell by the horns I'm milking a steer." Nudge Neatenthorpe confesses, nodding to the empty milkbucket.
  19. "An odd time to want to be an Orenian, maybe they've got the same vices as those revealed about the current emperor." Considered Nudge Neatenthorpe as he milked his cow.
  20. esterhase

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    Hugo had been used to having little conversation with his father, coming from a long line of bankers within the city of Reza. From this, he grew to become something independent, more adept at manual labour than the coin-counting of his forebears. Although his family was known widely for being knights of the realm, it was in recent and more peaceful history that they had changed to become merchants and bankers of a more mercantile class. He had little time for the wars of the world, with the AIS uprising and the empire’s liberation of Sutica leaving him with more time to himself as the city swelled with the trade of war and his parents’ business keeping them farther from their farm home. Growing up he had read lots of stories about knights of history especially due to his proud Waldenian ancestors, but quickly grew out of them as farm-work became more important. Hugo became very lonely and withdrew to farming, working day and night in the fields outside the Haense city of Reza to support his family. With this loneliness developing thick and fast, he had little spare time to head into the city and work in the wider world. From this, he became a man of the field, working them during the small hours before dusk as this was where the sun was at its coolest. Hugo worked in the fields by himself until the sun’s smile of his eighteenth year. When a courier from the city of Helena, capital of Oren, came to his family farm, he knew he had no choice but to listen. He was being conscripted to join the Orenian Army in the city of Helena and help fight and defend his empire.Hugo hoped that for now being a soldier would be a quiet career especially due to this time of political peace. powergaming; Powergaming is actions that are unrealistic or forcing actions onto another player. unrealistic powergaming is feats that your character would not be capable of, like a child lifting a full-grown Orc. A forced powergaming action is forcing one onto another character, like instantly stabbing them through the heart before allowing them to block. metagaming: metagaming is using information that your character would not be otherwise knowing of (as it was acquired out-of-character) for in-character effect. This can be from reading forum posts and wikia pages to learn knowledge in-character, or hearing alerts from friends to log in for fights and then logging in.
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