Nooblius

Quoth the Noobman, "sTarS!" [For the last 9 months anytime lore writing is mentioned in VC Noobman has interrupted the convo shouting the word stars and asserting this idea.]

Markus throws away his papers in a fury, for the warmonks of Haense had already so succinctly outlined his own thoughts.

The hands of the Duke of Adria began to tremble as he read the letter. With a shaking voice, Markus muttered under his breath. A servant asked him what he had said, and was matched with a furious roar. "She was a Stablemaster of Adria!"

Did you hear they added Diamond armor back?

The Duke of Adria was in his keep when he heard news of the new signatory. He froze, genuinely shocked at what had developed. "Must I bear arms against my every friend, tutor and ally? And not a letter of warning or inquiry from them. Shall anyone I love remain, when it is done?" he cried out, recalling his fond tutelage within Barrowton. Markus damned the war, and sung out a complaint to Godanistan that he must bear arms against those he loved.

The Duke of Adria had arrived at the fight far too late to be of any use- for the Veletzians had quickly routed the Haense led coalition. From his spot along the rocks, he had observed the brilliance of the architect Gerhardt. For what first appeared as a worrying vulnerability where soldiers could with a horse leap into the fortifications, quickly was revealed as a trap! For the great coalition host was choked amidst the ways of the walls, and slaughtered in the trenches of Winburgh. Markus witnessed the blood taint the blood of the moats, and cried out, "Shall this be our war?"

Markus Sarkozic recognizes on the propaganda a mask that he and only he had used during the rebellion, and begins to sweat.

An old dwarf approaches the gates of Urguan with a weary smile. It was finally time to come home. A younger Starbreaker ran out from the gatehouse and greeted the elder prophet to ask him about the shaving of a Grand King. The 31st Grand King Emeritus Norli Norvarsson Starbreaker has a manic episode, denying knowing anything about it and returning to his exile. "It didn't happen, I swear!" he cries over his shoulder as he fled.

Markus frowned as he wondered if the alliance of pagans with the dwarves, the Norlanders, the elves, or any such non-Canonist entity would incur condemnation from this Pontiff. "Since when are Mercenaries and their wars a religious matter?" He shakes his head with worry. "Shall Canondom be so eagerly split over such trivial matters? Shall we excommunicate Balian for their elvish allies, or Haense for their dwarvish? Such would be absurd! What's cousin thinking..." He lets out a long sigh and seeks to consult his wife, who was wiser in these matters than the increasingly stubborn veteran duke.

I think we should ask what the benefits of the Auction House were and seek to replace them without also replacing the negative.

The Duke of Adria angrily scolds his messengers, demanding to know why they have not supplied him with the most recent missives from Aaun. They sheepishly answer him that there was no threat of War from Aaun, only their withdrawal from the Canonist League and a citizen who wrote about the execution of a jester in Haense. The aged duke furrowed his brow as he contemplated what the King of Haense was referring to. "Does he so brazenly consider any complaint against the church a threat at his reign, and validate the conspiracies of the Midlanders? It is true after all, the difference between a conspiracy about Haensers and known fact is a few years time. I think this one seeks to look tough- perhaps why he was so emmasculated by the tease in the first place!" the duke remarked with a hearty laugh. Having witnessed so many controversies, the veteran had found himself less worried about the latest dramatic cries of the Haenser king.

"This bozny shall be rejected by all peoples; for he speaks wise counsel of redemption during an age of Reckoning." The aged Duke shakes his head. "Yam curious what he would say of w prophets, who many were warrior-kings?" Markus Sarkozic gestures for someone to contact the bishop for him.

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The sickly Duke of Adria rolled in his bed, restrained by another bout of mental plague. Some comfort interrupted his sickly torment, however, as his wife grew closer to piety and held him in prayer.

A retired Rhunlord stirs from his slumber far in the north as he hears word of the Ireheart's achievements. "Eh? Avar avenged? Harhar- I'd like to see gray and orange on the dark walls of Norland- but this'll do Sigrun," he remarks as he stuffs the missive into his pocket and pulls himself to stand. "This'll do."

Markus has a fever dream where the royal house of Balian adopted the name Sarkozy as a way of escaping consequence of the Ferrymen. He wakes up in a cold sweat.

Ye i's a lil' smokey mr tel-tel I think the question I'm most interested in is priorities of Moderation- not necessarily rebuking any specific moderators but just that I think the server culture has become very welcoming and open to things that actively make the server worse such as Toxicity and Major OOC Grudges, etc. I think it's a bit bizarre and I think a disservice to both the people who report and the people who get reported that rules on player conduct guidelines are very messily and vaguely enforced, and are a lower priority than people who talk lip to moderation getting banned. I don't really mean "what-aboutism" as a defense against any of the instances I am going to mention, but people instantly copped bans/action against for putting barrels beneath rugs, for karen'ing a mod verdict- all the while you see reports of flagrant consistent rule abuse go ignored. I can sympathize with the desire to not want to eagerly ban players- but I think we need to just hold people to some level of accountability for everyone's sake to keep the community fun. This repeated method of just trying to get players to sort it out on their own has repeatedly made the server more toxic, a higher temperature and yeah; smokey. What would I suggest we do about it? Take player conduct guidelines more seriously and enforce it- that doesn't mean ban waving people but it means just telling them no and giving a warning as opposed to trying to sort it out like you're a mutual friend.

Yes I googled that too but I have a standard for scholarship that extends beyond a dozen words on a dictionary website. What's it's origin? What is it's prevalence?

As a proud Roleplay and Real life racist, I think it's just important when we have discussions like this not to deprive ourselves of context. When talking about OOC conduct and intent of interfacing with server, it's not a light matter to assign thoughts to people they don't express themselves. I don't particularly find myself to be friends with people who are reported for using slurs in Roleplay, but I do find myself sympathetic to them because it is a roleplay server- it is actually a GOOD quality to be willing to roleplay a character with brazen flaws. I think the a good way to combat people using it as an outlet to field genuine IRL malice is to just create the social expectation that characters with these brazen flaws are not celebrated OOCly for those flaws. I'll offer my own experience as an example; Norli Starbreaker is a racist. Not just in the @sshole way of using strong words against people in a lack of sympathy to their emotions, but in the genuine believes in racial hierarchy way- and in a very cruel subtle way as well where he will speak kindly to groups he thinks lesser of. As I became a more veteran roleplayer, I found the best way to deal with that was to call attention to it in the description/action segment of any emote I did. When describing how he says something, describe it as arrogant and flawed. I won't pretend that this is alone is an antidote to dealing with this subject, but I do think it's a good way to deal with playing a character with the flaws- make the fact that they're flaws part of the character. --- As for the specific word "Darkeh", I do just want to say that's definately something used a lot within the dwarves both for dwarves and outsiders. I saw someone comment "but dwarves are black too" and I will reply to them that yes and they call eachother that as well. I think it's worth being cognizant of how/why people use slurs, or at least not over simplifying it. Don't deprive yourself of context- if your position requires you ignore context then it's a bad position. I will genuinely say I've never heard it used at all in real life, and I've definitely heard my share of demeaning words in real life, so I really can't speak to the impact of it IRL. I will observe however that if it is about the same level of prevalence or less than the term "spook" then we should probably permit its use. However I do genuinely feel that I have no awareness of its prevalance, and even in trying to find out more from researching I couldn't find anything.

The Duke of Adria signs the Lorraine as he prays for Johanes' recovery. "Many will damn this man, claim that he eagerly made war e was reluctant to make peace. Perhaps I should know to scorn him so more than any other, as his head diplomat. But Johanes was an honorable man, whose spirit was marred by the cruelty of war that he only fought an existential threat with his every ounce. The midlands would be weaker without him, and Adria would perhaps have faltered once more without his support. GODANI bless him," he ends, saying these words to those around him.