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Officer Grudgebeard hasn’t forgotten his brothers in Kaz’Ulrah, nor their sons and daughters. “See you ‘round, frien’.”

roleplay doesnt mean much if theres no potential for it to be taken away or dramatically changed without prior warning. conflict, including pvp and banditry, provides stakes and forces people to think about where they go and what they do, making the act of going from one place to another an engaging activity instead of a mindless one. as for upsetting people, the very act of banditry is inherently upsetting; nobody intentionally tries to get bandited, and even when bandits are roleplaying well they still tend to get treated with some ooc hostility by the bandited party. even then, upsetting people ooc’ly through roleplay is not necessarily a bad thing: all roleplay is predicated on ooc emotions, and ooc contempt motivates people to come up with solutions to roleplay problems rather than ignore them, increasing the amount of overall activity on the server. thus bandits, independent bandits and staff-backed server antag bandits, provide a service to the community by acting as a focal point of frustration that players can tangibly act against through roleplay, and in doing so successfully (e.g. defeating a group of bandits on the road) provide emotional and physical release for regular players; none of which can happen if rules are created that deter people from banditry in the first place. of course banditry can be done poorly, and people who bandit poorly should be called out or prevented from doing so, but creating rules to deter or prevent all banditry discourages good bandits and makes the server more dull and predictable

conflict and pvp actually provide some stakes; roleplay is only meaningful when it can potentially be changed or taken away without prior notice. if theres no stakes, or the conflict provided by staff through some event antagonist is intended to be won by the “good guy” playerbase then theres no purpose (or at least no sense of urgency) in getting on because people know the good guys cant lose

Officer Grudgebeard grumbled at the announcement. “The siege of Kal’Ordholm happened on Vailor, not Axios, damn revisionists...”

Officer Grudgebeard whistles an old tune after hearing about the war declaration.

Deep in the Under-Realm, some grey-bearded dwarfs still sing funeral dirges to their kin lost in the war.

Officer Grudgebeard speaks plainly to the other Dwarfs in Urguan, reading the letter off the town noticeboard. “Rather bold of an Orenian to speak of the long and peaceful history between the Dwedmar and the Empire.”

Officer Grudgebeard sings a dirge in honor of his fallen comrade, then oversees preparations with Utak

Officer Grudgebeard vows to help the Dark Elves against Urguan for their insult against Mynebor and the Ironkiln clan

@Johnny_Fat @drfate786 alongside the false info about veganism, ”when the world population hits 10 billion people and half of them are black, white europeans deserve to keep eating the same meat-filled diet we’ve been eating and the blacks/global south can eat crickets and mud for all i care because we white christian europeans industrialized the world and the jungle people didnt”

Somewhere in a remote glade in Arcas, apropos of nothing, Daeron Culnamo fondly remembers chasing down John I after the siege of Dunamis and hearing reports of the latter’s drowning in Vailor’s central river.

watch this @Johnny_Fat

Officer Grudgebeard is unsettled by the blood red eyes staring at him from the new Orenian standard

you arent even an lotc oldhead

black powder and actual technological/engineering progress to pull the server out of its abhorrent deadlock