frill

the JCB 1CX backhoe track loader is actually a t5 dwarven runic creation. Perhaps the elves rented the equipmnt

elves existed in medieval times but do not exist in 2020 due to global warming, housing crash, financial crises, etc

ive stood at city gates while doing other stuff and watched people do it in front of me. its sillymode common

“I’d dared not question how Frederick got to a vantage point so high as to chart the world so accurately.” puzzled a Harrenite relative of the cartographer, brow furrowed in some confounded perplexy.

T H E D I A R Y O F A P R O U D J O S E P H I T E So dictated by Archduke Lord “Lordy” Owyn-be-Good Horen de Mardonnic-Metz to his servant-girl who he assures the reader is paid the fullest amount required by Imperial law. *** I find it the most perfunctory necessity of all matters of politics to make myself known as a common and good man, cut from noble stock but of finest poor-man disposition (without the scent, I beg!). Much like the serfs and servants of the common-land, I too was born to a small hereditary estate - although unlike the humble peasantry folk I did go forth to inherit it - which, according to the tradition of the village where it lies, was bounded by the same hedges and ditches in Godfrey Horen’s time that it is at present, and has been delivered down from father to son whole and entire, without the loss or acquisition of a single field or meadow, during the space of six hundred years. It is here we were good humble and pious men who took to the errors of that Canonist rank idolatry, something a young up-and-coming labourer-duke saw as a subversion of all civil as well as religious liberty, and the utter disgrace of reason and of human nature. It is through the trials and tribulations of my peasantish upbringing in my family’s manor that I believe that it is the right of all Josephite men to worship any God, male or female, elven or Kha, that he may please. Upon the death of my father, the eminent Knight-Duke of little New New Brelus-on-sea (although I stress that he preferred to be simply be called ‘sir’ than any other title of office), I was resolved to travel into foreign countries, and therefore left the broader empire, with the character of an odd unaccountable fellow, that had a great deal of learning, if I would but show it. I am sure that my stockings, breeches, wig of white, gentleman-sandals and doublet of finest padded linens made me the most common of worker-men that I had yet to see. An insatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Asulon and beyond, in which there was anything new or strange to be seen; nay, to such a degree was my curiosity raised, that having read the controversies of some great men concerning the antiquities of Krug, I made a voyage to Kruggemare, on purpose to take the measure of a orc tomb-barrow: and, as soon as I had set myself right in that particular, returned to my native country with great satisfaction and a dab hand in wrangling orcs into voting for mineself politically. Through my schooling at the finest imperial colleges I was acquired to the most brutish of Haensetian or Orcish tongues, conversing with both these beasts with stunning degrees of flourish and splendored skill. I have passed my latter years in this city of Helena, where I am frequently seen in most public places, though there are not above half a dozen of my select friends that know me, of all such paupery working-mens careers as Judges and Chancellors akin. There is no place of general resort, wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at the court Varoche, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at the lounge-rooms of Anpalais palace, and, whilst I seem attentive to nothing but myne fine-cut tobacco, overhear the conversation of every seat in the room. But it is through hard worker that I did inherit the position of my father, and his father and a seat on the highest board of politicks in the land, and implore the beastly Everardines to pull themselves up by thine bootstraps and achieve the same - for we were borne with nought and shall leave the world with the same, it is a pity to see these Everardine brutes so choose to be poor. If this success were not seen as some close-guarded secret I would not have to resort to canvassing Kha and other nasty beasts (but I am not brazen enough to give such votes to actual beasts of the field) to tick the ballot-boxes that my working-men of the empire would leave absent for favour of more ‘common’ parties.

“Are we not brothers, my base-born friend? Now vote for me, don’t you know who I am?” T H E J O S E P H I T E S A R E N O T T H E C O M M O N P E O P L E A missive by the P A U P E R F I S H E R M A N known by N A M E O F ‘Curon Pete’. A PEASANT WITH NOT ONE MINA TO HIS NAME “THE OPPOSITION CANNOT PROPOSE A VISION OF THEIR OWN SO THEY RESORT TO DEMAGOGUERY” Josephite Sir Konrad Stafyr at the convocation of the first Josephite Summit. It is the creed of the Josephites to portray the base-born and common voter, bound by their own reason to be a staunch Everardine, as an uncultured brute to obfuscate the fact that the majority of the Josephite party are aristocratic elite. To refer to the Josephite party as “valuing democracy” with a “responsibility today to ensure that no citizen is subject to the vices of malicious powers” is a disingenuous concealing of the fact that through being the chair of the supreme court, two long-serving president pro tempores of the senate and the duke of Helena and chair to the empire, they are themselves these powers. No Haensetian brotherhood levy-man has any “malicious power” over his fellow man, but a nepotised aristocrat is often shunted into a seat of power the moment the silver spoon is removed from their mouth and they begin to form their first words. To insist that the good Everadine common citizen, instead of the Josephite elite, is a threat to these unnamed “civilians” is but to conceal one artifice; the Josephite aristocracy see the Everardines as a challenge to their anciene aristocracy. The Josephite title-hog, the dukes and presidents and tight-wearing “sirs” degenerate and fall from the peak of his own self-handed achievement, having become accustomed and wanting of vanity of titles and patronage for the reason that, swollen with pride because of the honors he had acquired, pride has destroyed his very capacity of understanding of the issues of the common-folk and he instead grows fat on the wealth and titles of empire. To say that the Josephite exists out of “love and compassion to the welfare of every individual that calls this Empire their home” is only due to political expediency; with the real men of the empire as firmly Everardine, they must resort to soliciting foreigners and nonhumans to garner votes. There is no honour or politics in their solicitation of support, but the intrinsic acceptance of knowing that they are not the true people of the empire, but instead remain those lucky few that are “tasked” with running it. This “honoring the social obligation of governing and governed.” is but an insistence that the common-man must remain below the unequipped nobility. The time of old-empire families running every facet of the judiciary, legislature and government is something that has been reviled by the Josephite elite without the acknowledgement that they too perpetuate this form of governance. But it is due to it now being their personalities in power, not those of the old Pertinaxi-Renatian, that they do not protest. Oren must be an empire for its many, not its few.

Veikko Harjalainen leaves his cabin after reading the poem in his daily letter-reading, his porky old chest swelling with fresh country air and imperial pride to see such a fine poem! He makes note to send a bouquet of flowers to its author, if but only to thank her for the work.

if guns get as aggressively clique-locked as every magic (fantasy server btw) then that wont be an issue imo

I believe guns should be the human racial magic.

Just dropping in to encourage everyone taking part in this discussion to keep it as one regarding the lore and not the personality and your gripes of each-other as people. A discussion conducive to improving the lore should, and will be, always encouraged, but anything that drifts into name-calling or schoolyard mudslinging will not be allowed and punishments will be handed out. Best, Frill.

wait it was there a minute ago

enjoying reading the wonk expansion dlc,. thank you. +1

Leave the rest for a player report thread, if but only to let you have your keyboards rest for a few minutes. This circular arguing is going nowhere and resolving no issues, so please address any grievances formally. ?

As much as it offends my sensibilities to see this issue tackled by such an obscure and circuitous skirting of the player report procedure, if this conversation remains civil and conducive to a resolution to your issue, the thread will remain open. Anything less, and I will lock it and encourage you as strongly as possible to file a report for the metagaming, moderator interventionalism and all other maligns you’ve listed. There are avenues for redress that you must, in the future, use. Public airing of dirty laundry just leads to needless drama.

yeah i can’t support this

“Get out of my house.” demands Veikko H- as his bedtime legal musing was met with a response from the floor below, goose-down feathers spilling from his padded bedding as he suddenly sits upright in shock.

“John of nowhere makes a legal judgement on matters that have no basis in law and further tries to legislate provision to force his screed to function as a law, disregarding both the senate and sense itself. Any of those mentioned would be a fool to take this seriously, and twice so if they ever pay such a ludicrous fine. Why have senators voting on laws if all you need is one adulterer with a duchy and a gavel?” A Harrenite whig snorts, fingers curling from the paper in disgust as he feels some apprehension at even holding a document so fundamentally offensive to his sensibilities.

On the ruling of Crown v. Karoly Reflections on post-Pertinaxi court judgements in the ”new imperial” system. 6th of Godfrey’s Triumph, 1761. It was said that during the era of the late Pertinaxi high-magistrates that their legal rulings - often, admittedly, dramatic beheadings for contrived fictions of law - would not face any publishing beyond the verbal immediacy of the court-room, so they would be a rarefied commodity and difficult to gain knowledge of, thus entrapping unfortunate peasantry into inadvertent violation. A legal system that determines legal judgements without expounding any basis in law of these judgements raises a similar tyranny. It is the law that governs, not the intent of the lawgiver nor emotional response of the judge to whatever sordid affairs are being discussed in his court. Although there is a brief moment for moralising, this is a moment wholly possessed by the lawgiver-senator in the promulgation of the law, it is the necessary duty and binding compact of the judge-and-law to interpret the law with an emotionless textualism. It was the intent of the framers of the edicts of Alexander II to form a government of laws, not a government of men and personalities. It is by virtue of the mutual agreement that men may intend what they will, but it is only the law that these men enact that has any binding authority. To devote the majority of a legal judgement to espousing an emotional diatribe with regards to the reception of some verdict instead of expounding the basis in law of this judgement is a legal misstep and an anachronism at the highest level of imperial legislature. The precedence, now, for the highest court in the land to fill the majority of its judgement with a diary entry that waxes lyrical about the sacrosanct burden of the court as “something to be disagreed with” and interdepartmental government politics unrelated to the case at hand is disappointing for legislators within the senate and the parties involved alike. It is a surety that an analysis of the legal argument and basis-in-law of the eloquent John Everard Pruvia’s arguments would have been both good legal study and a tool for future barristers. I can only see the removal of such as either a person attack on Pruvia or a political one on the state that referred to the prosaic judge as one of “ineptitude and failure”. I do hope Pruvia, Adler, et al. are issued an apology and a more useful judgement of law than the glib fact that the court “elected to acquit” is issued.

Where is the judgement for The Crown v. Karoly? It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the Holy Orenian Empire to render a judgement for The Crown v. Karoly. Did the framers of the edicts that established the then-nascent judicial system expect for judgments to be ruled without any publication or documentation of them? Unlike the other cases of such a court system that have a written catalog of events and proceedings to enable further judicial action and study at countless imperial places of education, it appears that the supreme court does not care of any original intention of the judicial system: the judgement delivered but only to those in the room at-time, the jurisprudence and case-law of such a decision being limited temporally and physically, such judgement muted outside the walls of the court-house. Judgement of the highest court of the land, then, should not be a folly rarefied by time and place. It is a thing of importance and should be published for viewing, study and preservation by more parties than the paltry few in the strangers’ galleries of the court. From the legal personhood of farm-animals and the hidden trials of the Supreme Court, historians will acknowledge that we live in interesting times of law.

mina or die

Veikko Harjalainen shudders at the idea of a blood-sucking parasite in the courthouse, especially one representing somebody accused of being a vampire! He writes the joke on a slate and considers sending it to a local newspaper.

Plaintiff withdraws suit prior to initial hearing.