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I loved my first day on LOTC. We were still in Vailor. I remember trying to punch other players, but of course since I was new the punch did not happen. I remember walking around and punching people and nothing happening. Fast forward a little bit, I was in Felsen. Somehow, I snuck up onto a balcony on the walls. The Empress of Oren was there with 2 of her friends. They were talking about throwing a banquet or some other festivity when soldiers returned from the war. They were standing up on the edge of the balcony looking out of the city. With their backs turned, none of them noticed me. I crouched and snuck up behind the center lady, the Empress, and punched, expecting nothing to happen. This time, my fist collided and she fell off the balcony. She said 'um did one of you punch me?' lmaoooo I ran and hid so fast. They found me but didnt do anything lmao Even better was day 2. I applied to work for Dunamis. I was shown a short tour of the keep and ushered into the great hall, forced into the sidelines, and told to keep quiet. Now imagine me, a fresh-faced newbie, and now imagine my shock when the King of Urguan, Prince of Fenn, Sultan of the Farfolks, Orenian knights and lords, and various other nation leaders walk in to do diplomacy rp. I still have screenshots of the whole conversation on my old laptop.

[!] Signs plastered here and there, rather hastily Tutor For Hire! The illustrious natural scientist Gallo is opening his services up to all men, women, and children to receive his tutelage. Known for years among the Mali for his studies and public lessons, Gallo is allowing up to three (3) private pupils for private instruction.* Areas of expertise: - Aegis History - Mathematics - Natural Science - Literature If any of those are of interest, send a bird Gallo's way!** *Gallo is not responsible for any action taken by any of his pupils outside of the classroom. **Rates start at 4 minae per lesson. ((pm me here or on discord fluffy#8047

Favorite LOTC moments?

"Must be the thousandth time we've reformed this thing," said Gallo, "Kolvar's back in charge? Has he reconciled with Braxus, then? I should head there at once."

Late to the thread. Miss rping with my fellow palaiologosososos :)

"Orenia, fallen so low..." said Gallo, "Great are their iniquities!"

"Absolutely earthshattering!"

[!] This poster is plastered a bit poorly to various signposts across Almaris Lessons at the Library Taught by Gallo Gallo walking to his next class The Eternal Library in elCihi’thilln of Karinah’siol is opening to all for a one-time event! Learn mathematics from one of Haelun’or’s best and brightest: Gallo the Elf! “As is prescribed to each child of Malin, and is so sacred to those of us who are Mali’aheral, learning all that can be learned is a must. A virtue. For doing so enlightens us to our world, and mathematics is the secret to the world around us. Show me a number, and I can show you the universe.” - Gallo All Mali, and indeed all Descendants, are welcome to this lesson. We will be discussing combinatorics, probability, and number theory. Put warfare and politics aside for the virtue of the sciences. We hope to see you there. Signed, Gallo, Natural Scientist Maehr’sae Hiylun’eya Okarir’maehr Aiera Sullas ((hnor this friday at noon EST

"Criticizing our own 'schism' when he himself and his puppeteer wife are dealing with their own schism of faith. Are they not both excommunicated and kinslayers?" Gallo asks rhetorically to the poor sap standing beside him, "Phil's got his own problems brewing up north. Doubt he can even name the last time anyone sat atop the mali'aheral 'throne'... Because we never have had a throne! Ne since Malinor in Aegis!" He taps his foot, getting worked up. "Not sure how proper it is for a monarch to take orders from his wife, anyways."

Gallo tsks, not really happy with either Braxus or Ivarielle. "Unity of Malindom is a necessity for our survival, but installing a clear puppet of elFenn? And this imaginary 'aheral throne...Ne such thing exists. We were only a princedom under Malinor in Aegis, and that was with the 'ame and 'ker."

FULL NAME: Gallo AGE: 113 EXPERIENCE: Evens and Odds https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/201800-evens-and-odds/?tab=comments#comment-1842022 Observations on Celestial Bodies, and Gallo’s Razor https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/201508-observations-on-celestial-bodies-and-gallo%E2%80%99s-razor/?tab=comments#comment-1839919 Notes on Eye Structures https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/202292-notes-on-eye-structures/?tab=comments#comment-1844984 Sulium: Toxic and Wonderful https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/204979-sulium-toxic-and-wonderful/?tab=comments#comment-1862007 Classification of the Elements https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/205313-classification-of-the-elements/?tab=comments#comment-1864296 Combinatorics JOB: Natural Scientist [USERNAME/DISCORD]: Fluffytarianism/fluffy#8047

"And this is to say nothing of the growing tensions between the Mali states," says Gallo, caught in between that tension.

"A mali'ata in peril? What fun!" Gallo exclaimed.

Combinatorics By Gallo 13th of Snow’s Maiden, 54 SA Permutations Commander Uell is a proud Mali'aheral, and was recently promoted in elSillumir. He wishes to organize his 10 sillumiran into a line, but he cannot decide which order to put them in. He thinks to himself for a moment and asks how many possible ways these 10 sillumiran could be ordered? Uell has just delved into combinatorics, more specifically permutation theory. Let us call each possible ordering of a set a permutation. We want to find the total number of possible permutations involving 10 sillumiran. In other words, we have 10 slots we want to fill with 10 people. Well, in the first slot we have 10 choices from which to choose. Regardless of whom we choose to fill that slot, the second slot will only have 9 choices. The third will have 8, and so forth. The final tenth spot will have 1 choice, since all prior slots will have been filled. So we then have 10 * 9 * 8 * … * 2 * 1 = 3,628,800 possible permutations of our 10 sillumiran. Commander Uell has many to choose! Instead of writing these ten numbers out, let us simplify this to say we have 10 “factorial” (from here on denoted as “!”) possible permutations. In general, we say n! = n * (n-1) * (n-2) * … * 3 * 2 * 1 where n >= 1. Choice Theory Suppose now Commander Uell has a special mission that only a handful of his 10 sillumiran need to conduct. Let us say he only needs 4 sillumiran for this mission. How many possible ways can he choose 4 from his 10? In general, how can we choose k things from a set of n items where k is less than or equal to n? Let us denote n choose k as choose(n, k). First we select a k-element string in which the digits are the elements of the set of [n] (the integers 1 through n). We can do this in n! / (n-k)! ways. And yet in these strings the order of the elements does matter. In fact, each k-element subset occurs k! Times among these strings as its elements can be permuted into k! Ways. Therefore, the number of k-element subsets is 1 / k! Times the number of k-element strings. So then choose(n, k) = (1 / k!) * [n! / (n-k)!] = n! / [k! * (n-k)!]. So back to Uell’s problem, we have choose(10, 4) = 10! / (4! * 6!) = 210 possible ways to select 4 sillumiran from our 10 total. Northeastern Graph Paths Commander Uell must now chart the course to his squad’s destination. He realizes that their goal lies 10 miles north and 10 miles east of elCihi (an astute mathematician might notice that the destination is about 14 miles due northeast, but that is a story for another time). To maximize both efficiency and undetectability, Uell instructs his squad to only move either 1 mile north or 1 mile east at a time. How many possible paths can his squad take? Let us define a graph to be a two-dimensional plane formed by the perpendicular intersection of two lines. Both lines contain some number of points evenly spaced apart extending in either direction. All of these linear points are numbered, starting at 0 and extending until some number. In our case, Uell correctly points out that if we were to look at a map and consider elCihi to be at (0, 0), or at the intersection of our two axes, then his squad’s destination would be at (10, 10). We want to find the number of possible routes to get from (0, 0) to (10, 10) by only moving either north or east 1 mile at a time. Let n be the number of points heading either east or north. So for every n, we then have n points east and n points north. So n + n = 2n. If we were to exclusively head east and arrive at (n, 0), we must then by default head north as heading further east would entreat us to head west at some point in violation of our rule. This holds true no matter what path we take to get to (n, n): that we take n steps to get there. So we have choose(2n, n). Back to Uell’s problem, as our n = 10 then we have choose(20, 10) = 20! / (10! * 10!) = 2,217,072. Uell has quite a number of routes from which to choose!

Gallo, one time acquaintance to the deceased, mourns upon hearing this. "Too talented a mind taken too soon..."