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Alistair of the Blackwald pours one out for the realest Herald and remembers fondly the time him and Draakopf engineered a scheme with child miners to steal thanhium. ((Hotbox is one of the realest RPers on the server and has a greater care for dynamic RP than most the bureaucrats I've seen prancing around this server. Straight up, good job with everything, and have fun with your next character.))

Talis Sylvaeri wishes his great grandkids the Oranors good luck but sneezes horrifically at the other signatures because he hates Elves. Awchoo!

Elysium laid low by the Urukhai. As 7,100 Krughai riders from the Iron Uzg pushed at the Elysian knights and field men. Alas, the de Astreas' army could not rebuke them, and fell after several deft collisions with the enemy upon the field of battle. The Spirits smile. The Elves and Humans of Elysium frown. Their homeland shall soon be torn asunder, if they do not act quickly. The day's events had been macabre and filled with terrors as their bodies were hewn in twine, limb from limb, by the lumbering Orcish warlords. The vulgarities of war made clear by the broken banners, rising flames, and mangled bodies of the fallen. ENROHK smiles no doubt as the Orcs pitch tents on their newly occupied territory, preparing for another offense perhaps. It is not over.

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George Sarkozic prays for the forlorn former Archancellor to find his respite.

The squire to Sir Gustaf de Vilain, Pavel Barrow, smiles widely upon the proclamation's release.

Darwinius Derfey cackled with immodest indecency, casting pebble after peeble unto the mound of flame that has consumed the Cathedral. The Church of Canon, after all, had deigned to ignore his warnings. This was DERFEY'S EXALTED BASILICA. This was not the Argent Star. Not anymore. Darwinius Derfey cast his head back and laughed. A hollow sound, rising with his pitch as the flames danced and he continued to cast stone after stone. "Let that teach them who the true High Pontiff is. Iblees will rise again! My thralls, hark, for the Lord of Crows descends once again! Hark, for the time of the Canonist flock is over!"

DERFEY pours one out for the best Steward a nation could ask for.

Aislin, the Duke of Duck, has a quote. Bear in mind, I do not think many people remember who Aislin is, but he was a big time player from 2012-2014. This isn't verbatim, but: "Next time you want to go make a big post about how to fix the server. Just log on and role-play, you will be doing so much more good for you and the server." You're having issues with toxicity? Block them. Play with people you like. You're able to exercise phenomenal levels of control to put yourself into a better gameplay method by just going and role-playing elsewhere. I've done that and it's hard sometimes, but the truth is it's healthier to just let go and keep on role-playing. Even if people get mad at you, shout at you, freak out about your choices. Simply sever that tie and move on to enjoy yourself.

This is by far not the most toxic war on Lord of the Craft, sorry. Why do I know that? Because in one I was involved with I got DDOS'd and flat out doxxed, and had somebody threatening to drive out to my house. My IP address was compromised by Staff members ages ago as well, about four-years ago in the midst of some highly volatile drama of that time period. Now, I'm not saying your feelings are invalid. I take the server with so little seriousness now because honestly I see other human beings behind the screen and unless I'd say something to somebody in-person (IRL), I opt not to say it online. I trust this is a taxing experience for you. While we cannot expect people to come together and agree about everything, the bare minimum we can all do is shake hands, have some good role-play and a good warclaim. Let us all enjoy this historical part of the game we all know and love and dissuade the sh*t disturbers from both sides from spreading needless hate & drama; because LoTC truly isn't the cesspit it used to be. PBUH. Thanks for coming to Ask Derfey.

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The “mental development” thing isn’t even strictly true, it’s purely a cultural enforcement. 90% of elves act like kids either way cuz they’re played by kids. Beyond that I got no horse in this race

Derfey pins the Sixth Canticle of Derfey: "Burning churches is fun and grand in the Great Piast Nation of Sedan. Bring your willfully ignorant, your disabled and your pitchforks, and let's have a party! ON DERFEY!"

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OOC GRANDSTANDING MINUS ROLE-PLAY = ? I think regardless of what side people are on we can agree this is getting ridiculous. How can both sides claim victory to what is declared a stalemate? Why is it that a 5v5 can end up considered a skirmish and not a battle? How do we define our battles, skirmishes, and warclaims? How do we set parameters for objective writing about these battles on the wiki so that the writing is appropriate and not a tally/jab at the "enemy" (we're all players here). (A wiki post outlining "victory" and "defeat" minus the actual details of the battle, with blown up numbers and ego satisfaction taking priority over objective numbers, goals & reasoning.) What is our system for deciding what constitutes as a victory and what doesn't on paper? I think it's not bad for both factions to think they won in-character for different reasons. But the sheer amount of bullsh*t I've seen on these threads makes this server absolutely unappetizing for conflict. This "battle" that happened today had the numbers of a warclaim. The Haeseni got to have the Imperials leave (I am unsure if a Mod declared it due to raid timer or not, I wasn't there). Regardless of what the story is, the Moderators set a precedent recently that they declare the victories out-of-character rather than leaving it to the interpretation of the participants. Both sides have valid reasons for thinking they won when the rules for deciding it are so up in the air and goals don't seem to matter. The Haeseni-Coalition opinion thus far seems to be that the Imperials left and that equates to a retreat and a strategic victory since none of their buildings burned and arson wasn't committed. The Imperials & Friends think that because they were outnumbered and still got a proportional number of kills that they outperformed initial expectations and claimed victory by achieving one more kill than the other side. Both of these are valid reasons to try and assume victory after a large fight. I think that the system for declaring victory, if it will be decided by mods from now on, will require fundamental rules to decide who was there, what strategic goals were reached & missed, etc... I would honestly consider today's battle a draw, as like the Moderators declared, no goals were reached and it was just a fairly proportional bloodbath. Obviously, the in-character interpretation for these battles can be different. Objectively, I feel we need more rules to help decide what the goals of a skirmish are and how to make these battles more role-play friendly. The debate here today will be whether there should be more policies, less policies, more Mod intervention, less Mod intervention. Go ham! That being said, try and be polite about the other factions you're discussing, no matter what beef is happening on the server. This is a video game and we're all here to have fun. It's fine to argue; but no ad hominem.

EVERDEEN SEXTUS, ANTI-POPE OF THE ANTI-CANON, REMARKED: "So it shall be. The Hundred Year Darkness. The rise of Urguani swords and the Third Majesty of Sacriligious Derfey. Our chosen one, Alstion, comes again. To undo the work of John. Come forth, do the work of the Deceiver; let loose the hounds of war. Unblessed be this Union, Union of Man and Half-Man, coming of the Underdark. Amen. DERFEY's Burning Bush prevails!"

"He pleaded for the Emperor to let him rejoin the Empire he glibly rebelled against, glibly seized land from, and made demands of an Anathema Prince to betray his own Haeseni and Dwarven allies. True Canonists do not lie. As he was not a True Canonist, he died like a dog." EVERDEEN SEXTUS left the aforementioned notice pinned overtop TO ALL THE FAITHFUL. At the bottom of the same paper, was written: "Thoughts and prayers."

Dima Ivanovich, a direct descendant of St. Arpad, muses. "Da, at last! My wayward cousins are under the yoke of non-humans no longer. Perish thee, bearded midgets."

Yeah I'm confused cuz like, that front page was released when I was 16-17, and now I'm 22. LOL Nobody thought, at any point, that we should advertise the present-day server?

A mean-spirited Raevir from the line of Ivan Barrow cackled maliciously, before filling out a form. MC Name: EXCITEDLY RP Name: EVERDEEN SEXTUS Discord: Your discord, needed to be invited to our server. Skills/Reason for Joining: I need another paramilitary group to help the Church destroy Oren.

Sensing other vampires and thralls will be misused just as it was when it was an azdrazi ability. It’s a license to meta game that just ought to be removed.