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♫ Music Link ♫ 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮 ♫ Music Link ♫ “Dim Lurs be dim” “Can't put a name to di face then” “Did I not sign my threat wid Zilzibin?” “Since when does an Urukim scrape di sandal sole” “Of di Hyspians whose generation I slew whole” “That you burrow your yurt beneath their walls you vole” “Better I drive you out with fire and hexed soul” “I never seen di back of di ass of a scurrying Lur-snaga” “Mayhaps di Hyspians will run after their jolting alpaca” [For my Mobile Readers] The sorties & forays out of the Rimeglen often led the Taunttongue into the boreal Norland or the autumnal Idunia. One such track he took led him to a conspicuous disarray of yurts under the Hyspian walls of Viru nestled in the forests of the west. The guerrilla spied signs and traces of living and markings of LUR. He felt then repulsed, disgusted, and ashamed. Upon a sun-dried length of bone, he issued his threat. Better to range as nomads or take up shelter beneath the walls of anyone else. ♫ Music Link ♫ 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮 ♫ Music Link ♫ “Di Fenn foray into di Rimeglen” “Pointed ears will our thralls have then” “I spy dem in di village laced with frost” “Which herd will thin quicker?” “If I had it my way, di Fenn will be at a loss” “Suffer not their hunting of small game agh gut di Elves wid vigor” “Porcelain soldiers dim all, fragile and their lustre better den dim sturdiness” “Enough of di banter from me, I have porcelain to add to di Witch King's kitchenware” “The first time I came ta visit di Fenn, all they could do is bitch n' stare” [For my Mobile Readers] The paleknight Zilzibin di Roused Taunttongue tantrically danced around the frozen-over fishing pond of the Fenns. His griot-like recital of bars of boasting, of lines of panegyric praise, chased after the few Fenn he had ambushed outside the village. The guerrilla made his presence known - a stalwart lieutenant of the Witch King.

That is fair. Is it permissible to edit the OP to make it clear that Oathblades can be spears, axes, falxes, etc or is it standard operating procedure that when a CA lore thread is posted that one can't edit it until a verdict is reached? Also, is it the agreed upon consensus of the writers that shields are no longer usable? If it is the agreed upon consensus, I would like to personally push back and say we should be permitted to wield common shields. As to your point about 'lack of stuff to do', I purposely accepted the privilege of receiving a Paleknight from Kunuk (and a player I think who wants to remain unnamed because he plays a very shadowy figure) with the following premise in mind: 1. I wanted to play my Paleknight in a guerrilla fashion so I purposely lean towards creating a psychologically harmful "aura" around my character. This is why I very notoriously use the Devour mechanic. I would say, conservative estimate, 5 times out of 10 of my encounters don't even result in continued combat and instead lean towards players developing a reluctance to visit specific areas of the map or encounter my Paleknight in general. 2. Along with the guerrilla fashion of gameplay, I am likely one of very few Paleknights with an active and un-destroyed Eidola Keep that is actually in the wilds and not inside the Black Sepulchre (I'll show some of my cards, I do belong to Black Sepulchre). My Eidola Keep has stood standing for several months at this point. Kudos to mattiispice of Alba for being a lad and letting me build somewhere in his neck of the woods. I am resistant however to the complaint that 'grr, Paleknights are very strong, this is not fair. Good guys MUST win'. I always found it ironic and laughable that some players complain that there is nothing to do, but then when they resist putting on their thinking caps and go 'hmm, how can we tackle this inordinately strong adversary?'. I do agree and which is why I argued in my previous post that we need to unionize and submit to higher scrutiny from ST/LT rather than vagueposting on the forums that 'certain unnamed paleknights ruin the game for me!' without ever showing screenshots or naming names but that particular issue is unrelated to this nice rewrite for our CAs. Once again, +1 from me and I'd be excited if this passes and we transition from Paleknights to Dreadknights!

Thank you for letting me weigh in with a series of questions and overall, I am satisfied with this potential Paleknight rewrite and wholly content to handle any nerfs and/or alterations to overall capabilities. Let me state outright that it is a +1 from me. I've shared my thoughts on Coursing privately. I really love the premise, but unfortunately I think some among ST/LT do themselves a disservice by abstracting away the very real fact that we are playing Minecraft. I don't see it working unless some effort is made to moderate players from quasi-metagaming coursing Dreadknights. As I mentioned to Pallo in DMs, I want to ask @Hawkeye_Goughwhat is the rationale for restricting weapon type/shape for Oathblades to "greatswords"? Pallo advised that was something I should "defer to hawkeye for a more in-depth explanation on this one sadly". This is not me "calling you out," but just curious if you can explain. I do want to take this reply as an opportunity to encourage something I see severely lacking: Regardless of whether those of us players playing Paleknights convert to Dreadknights or not, I think we can unionize in a sense to both submit ourselves to tighter ST/LT scrutiny on quality of our roleplay while also insisting that we be very visible about whoever among us are playing Paleknights subpar in terms of discernable rule-breaking. I think it is silly that I have to look over my shoulder each time the shadowy "abusive" Paleknight does something stupid and rule-breaking. Out them por favor.

Keep cooking young padawan, you will get better & better with time & effort!

I support this if for nothing else to have an authentic small group v small group conflict in Rimeglen (Witch Kingdom v Fenn). My only request though you are welcome to throw it back in my face is to build this up similar to how Nooblius built up Khron'Hundmar = Dwarf Fortress/Norland/Clanfolk fashion slowly building up the settlement. Would generate roleplay objectives-style for your players but I only suggest that because I rolled with Nooblius back in last map and that was some good spirited fun that entertained the oldheads & the noobs alike.

♫ Music Link ♫ 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮 ♫ Music Link ♫ “Dim Lurs be dim” “Can't put a name to di face then” “Did I not sign my threat wid Zilzibin?” “Since when does an Urukim scrape di sandal sole” “Of di Hyspians whose generation I slew whole” “That you burrow your yurt beneath their walls you vole” “Better I drive you out with fire and hexed soul” “I never seen di back of di ass of a scurrying Lur-snaga” “Mayhaps di Hyspians will run after their jolting alpaca” [For my Mobile Readers] The sorties & forays out of the Rimeglen often led the Taunttongue into the boreal Norland or the autumnal Idunia. One such track he took led him to a conspicuous disarray of yurts under the Hyspian walls of Viru nestled in the forests of the west. The guerrilla spied signs and traces of living and markings of LUR. He felt then repulsed, disgusted, and ashamed. Upon a sun-dried length of bone, he issued his threat. Better to range as nomads or take up shelter beneath the walls of anyone else.

♫ Music Link ♫ 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅮 ♫ Music Link ♫ “Di Fenn foray into di Rimeglen” “Pointed ears will our thralls have then” “I spy dem in di village laced with frost” “Which herd will thin quicker?” “If I had it my way, di Fenn will be at a loss” “Suffer not their hunting of small game agh gut di Elves wid vigor” “Porcelain soldiers dim all, fragile and their lustre better den dim sturdiness” “Enough of di banter from me, I have porcelain to add to di Witch King's kitchenware” “The first time I came ta visit di Fenn, all they could do is bitch n' stare” [For my Mobile Readers] The paleknight Zilzibin di Roused Taunttongue tantrically danced around the frozen-over fishing pond of the Fenns. His griot-like recital of bars of boasting, of lines of panegyric praise, chased after the few Fenn he had ambushed outside the village. The guerrilla made his presence known - a stalwart lieutenant of the Witch King.

I second @woke, @ferdaboyis Ricky Ricardo suave material. He has that 50s sheen and masculine swagger.

Take this from someone who is actually unc status, that isn't the flex you think it is. The moment you start imagining you are going to puff out your chest like a rooster flaring its feathers on some people on the internet, you lost. I am also in my thirties and (fortunately, thank you Allah) financially stable but not once in the history of ever in my head did I think to lord this over an anonymous person on the internet. Sometimes, the best advice is silence. Shh.

Yuh. I appreciate the respect put on my name.

Some of you all could benefit from a straight fast from LotC, a month straight. Ramadan Mubarak!

Absolute f_cking bars.