Samoblivion

The Caverns of Time. Tended by the Bronze Dragonflight, these eldritch gateways to times gone by and times yet to come swim with not only certainty but probability. Travelers and heroes who have braved the caverns have spoken of many strange and unfamiliar worlds - places where the Horde never invaded in the First War, places where the good king Arthas Menethil, ruled his people with valor and dignity, of an Azeroth conquered and laid waste to by the might of the Burning Legion... Though these probable worlds are separate from our own... their stories are no less fraught with blood and glory. ~~~+~~~+~~~~ Hey. Basic premise, is Warcraft nation RP. I've got a nice system figured out, I just need to gauge interest and work out a time period. The paragraph above basically gives us carte blanche lore wise to create whatever weird ass Warcraft world we want. Here are a couple of ideas for settings: WoW Era - Familiar to everyone, but it would mean that in all likelihood players would be stratified between Horde and Alliance factions. We could subvert this of course and have the Horde and Alliance split into their constituent parts. WC3 Era - Its the eve of the Burning Legion invasion. Arthas is still a goody two shoes paladin, Thrall's dreaming of setting sail on the human's own ships and the Night Elves are nice and content with beating the ever loving shite out of any centaurs who go past the tree-line. Plenty of stuff to go with in this era, factions could include Orc Horde, various human nations (New Stormwind, Gilneas, Lordaeron etc), the nascent Scourge and of course the Burning Legion. WC2 Era - The Eastern Kingdoms is split between the Horde in the south and the Alliance, headed by Lordaeron, Ironforge and Quel'Thalas in the north. No Kalimdor, but plenty of small factions and intrigue, as well as forays through the Dark Portal to the pre-floaty islands Outland. WC Era - Orcs come, Orcs kick ass. Alliance versus Orcs, with plenty of little factions and inter-Alliance warfare. Again, no Kalimdor. WC Custom - A gloriously nonsensical mix of all the above. Details can be worked out later, but one can easily imagine Centaur kingdoms, Troll Empires, the An'Qiraj and more being more prominent here if you want, not that you can't play as them in the other settings. Possible Factions A general list of possible factions, not tied to a specific era. Human Kingdoms Dwarves Gnomes Quel'Thalas Orc Horde Troll Empires Tauren Undead Scourge/Forsaken Night Elves Centaurs Naga An'Qiraj Old God stuffs Burning Legion Ogres Nerubians (non-Undead) Pandarens Basically, this is just an interest check and to see if anyone has any ideas on setting.

Rage.

A middle aged dark elf man looks up from his dice game to respond with a cursive note in cyan ink. "Malinor is gone, sadly. Like all flowers it had its time of beauty and glory but it withered. It's seeds landed in the blood fertilised soil of the world and sprouted the towns and states we know today. While Malinor is gone, the dream of a Mali'nor is not."

Alchemical immortality. Alchemical ascension. Attempted creation of a new race. Drink me potions. Youth potions. Polyjuice potions.

Garadon looked to Tao. "Assemble your whelps how you see fit, but do not lecture me on what needs to be done. I shall support your assault, but if you presume to order me again, cur, your spine will decorate a rack." He turns to his marines. "Brothers! The warp has delivered us fresh slaughter, and blood. The Dark Eldar believe that if they slay for Slaanesh then they will escape his gaze. The fact that the Gods have delivered us here says otherwise - before we begin our operations, we will show these gathered Faithful what the chosen of Chaos are truly capable of. Make ready to move, for we go to build a flesh pyre for the Lord of Excess." He draws a demonic chainsword, its whir the mixed sound of pained screams and viscious growls, its teeth not of metal but of real tooth. He raises it above his head to show his brothers. "WE ARE RETURNED!" The gathered black legion raise blades and bolters in response. "WE ARE RETURNED! DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!"

((Oh Big Bang Theory, how I love you.))

Rest in peace Lark Ironwall. In all honesty I've never heard anything about this and I've heard steel being mentioned and used in RP.

Does Orc shaman magic have to be taught or can an Orc simply learn to commune with the spirits? In a couple of things I read it mentioned non-shaman Orcs having a 'feel' for spirits.

((Will post tomorrow, I was a little tied up today.))

This an excerpt from the current top comment of our minestatus page. I read it a few days ago and I've been dwelling on it ever since. The more I think about it the more I feel that it hits on some good points, particularly in regard to two issues: The proliferation of trolling and everyday snarkiness. Staff unawareness/inability/unwillingness to confront it. It's no secret that there is a degree of unfriendliness to the server and forum atmosphere. There are OOC divisions, deep-set ones, that create rifts of palpable tension on the forums and on the server. OOC issues spill over into RP - RP issues more often than not spill over into OOC. There are people who will flat out refuse to RP with others, either due to their character race or their OOC actions or the fact that they're not part of their clique (yup, that favourite complaint from Asulon that everyone's either forgotten about or accepted as a fact of life here) or a multitude of other ultimately inconsequential reasons. Communities mock each other, some relentlessly, some to the point at which it becomes overtly malicious perhaps without intending to be. Some might not see it as bullying, but after looking at that post above and taking a long hard look at ourselves I can quite confidently call it that. For these reasons or others, maybe attention seeking (rep whoring, perhaps), maybe showing off to friends, people troll. I won't name names, but you'll know what I'm referring to. For this part, I'll be focused on forum activities. For no reason, OOC will be brought into RP posts. 'Man' will have a witty and biting ad hominem attack for every occasion. The Jews will somehow be brought up. Elves will be mocked, Adunians spited and Orenians dismissed as morons. And this is daily life - this is fine to all of us. And so I come to my second point, a point that the full version of the above comment is particularly scathing on. The staff are apathetic to this to a man. Trolling is tolerated because its a daily occurrence. The undercurrent of hostility was allowed to occur without any sort of intervention. Yes, one might argue that the job of the staff is to stay impartial in any OOC conflict or whatever, but more certainly needs to be done, and more needs to be SEEN to be done. Staff, if you see a trolly status, lock it, a trolly post or something needlessly malicious from any side delete the hell out of it. Yes, 'TYRANT!' they'll shout 'free-speech!' they'll moan but you'll know in your hearts that what you're doing is right, that you're combating something that has been the CANCER of our community. Hostility, trolliness, the 'sheep mentality' of venom described in the comment, all of it. We need to take a stand, everyone of us, but the staff most of all. Manage your community. I like Elves. I like Adunians. I like human RP, I like the Dwarves, the Halflings, Kharajyr, Orcs, mages, villain RP'ers, half breeds, PVP defaulters and RP fighters. I ******* LOVE EDGIES. You're all ******* great! All of you, you, you and you! But my heart bleeds when I'm caught between two sides - when I'm in one Skype chat or another hearing dear friends being derided as scum, as what's wrong with the server, as something needed to be wiped out, wiped off the forums. WHY? Why, I cry! Why must we fight, must we show this division to one another! As all often say, it's a game! But even though we say this we don't take these words to heart! We treat our paper nations as real, as our own creations, as real life entities that must be maintained through distrust of others as real world medieval nations were. But this is fantasy! In our world, Aenguls live in the heavens, spirits dance in the dreams of greenskinned Orcs. What need have we for these black and tawdry trappings of reality? For the need to distrust in reality as our characters distrust? And what must the new players think, those who come to us looking for, as many recent applicants have said 'a mature community, a happy community, a good and friendly community'? We are none of those things! At least that is the image we show to the world, but we ARE capable of better! I could go on and cite examples of how new players could be put of joining races, of creating the fantasy character of their dreams because of community hatred of their OOC concept, but I won't for fear of alienating people. This message, the message I mean to portray through this post is not one of alienation but a call for unity. In all likelihood it will be drowned, gone, forgotten, but at least I could live with myself, knowing that I had stood up, said these things, spoken my mind. As with my previous post, I am rather tired, and this is rather rambling. Read it if you wish, I hope you do and take it to heart. But I know in reality that it will be seen, probably praised a little and forgotten. But at least it would have been said. Good night, folks.

I love the old Orc stuff. Thanks for reposting, Urara, you out-did yourself with post pieces.