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  1. consider this @markuhz

     

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  2. Old Vic continues to dream of the silence of the sea, and after the events of today that's perhaps all he will.
  3. The auditor of the tribunal sleeps soundly, dreaming of crashing waves rocking a clipper as it traverses the oceans unknown. He did not fear the waves as they buffeted the ship to and fro. God is in control and God is good.
  4. ok, i'll bite. what's a bboon?

    1. Laeonathan
    2. Ryloth

      Ryloth

      every time i think of bb00n i think of a baboon 

  5. Wilven sanctuary monks were exactly this type of player-ran group until being co-opted and mutated by the community team. They stripped away the majority of the roleplay elements and now only use it as a tool for guiding new players. Things like "monk magic" were roleplayed scenarios instead of little more than an OOC premise. I made a long argument for the removal of the group as just a veil for personas with staff of pex and a return of actual monk roleplay many months ago but it was met with a community admin that replied with a misplaced and tangential line from the terms of service about intellectual property rights. Many of these current monk players make the persona the first day on Community Team and don't care for the lore behind the Wilven sanctuary. Most probably don't even know who Wilven Adonan was. As it stands, people have no reason to invest in the server and those who remain are people who are either steadfast in a community or somebody who has already invested in the server back when it was less stultified. The avalanche of rules for basic conduct will continue to smother free-form RP and choice for new players when it is stressed to them when whitelisting that the server is a relatively sandbox setting. It's reassuring to me that there have been new players that talk of their adventures fighting trolls and freeing slaves from orcs to carry them across the map to a medic's care, but these events become rarer and rarer as the server's body focuses on keeping the quotidian tea-sipping RP as the standard. If you don't want to sit in a tavern or grind for copper there is just not much available to immediately do; any grand adventure that people might have assumptions about being able to do will be stewarded by event teams with player caps and set dates with little spontaneity to action. But what is there to do in the meantime for a new player? They don't have the jaded knowledge to sit playing different games until there is a Discord ping about an event, or have the contentedness to sit in taverns and talk until something arrives to do. There is no interim activity that can offer adventure, most players wanting to be spell-slinging knights end up sat doing gate duty in some human nation as the closest they can get to having action and excitement is a bandit knocking on the bars and running away. Mounting rules, mechanics, and a growing disinterest of the average player to be proactive due to the latter two reasons mean that the server's legislated itself to a state of adventure-by-appointment instead of being a truly organic setting.
  6. Just what is there to actually do?
  7. "It is not in my right to question the divinely appointed Himself but I must question the purpose of His Holiness himself to draft laws excommunicating those questioning the legitimacy of the church mere saint's days before an inquiry into his own legitimacy led by his own curio. Why is such a severe thing as removal of communion with the Church immediate when it is in the interest of all Canonist souls to remain in communion of the faith? Why have this be something outside the realm of reconciliatory penance or judgement of ecclesiastical court? Why does this only arise so close to my own inquiry?" Father Vic. queries with a raise of his porcine right pinky to the tent-top, darkly bag-framed eyes peeking past his moustache to read from the notes before him. His fork briefly clatters against the table as he sweeps through the reeves with some sceptical glare before finding his next line of query. "I hasten to further question as to why a cardinal voted against the veneration of two pontiffs while voting for the veneration of two temporal politicians. What is not venerable about leading the faith but venerable about sitting in a house of politics? I would much rather an acolyte or a priest in the least-learned of parishes gain the courage to hit a politician, or even refute him, rather than that he should sit as a cardinal of the faith and venerate him over past fathers of the Church." "Without any hypothetical to justify this, my hand is forced to yield."
  8. The construct of this council is lacking and its content outrageous. It is the nature of an ecumenical council to have quorum of three-quarters of the priesthood and we have severely restricted the presence to five cardinals of the septarchy and five bishops. To be both binding by the laws of the faith and keeping in harmony enough that the bishops are both aware of and accepting of the laws they expect their own flocks to follow, you must allow them to be present among us. I see no part of this council that is either a folly, already existent and a redundancy to accomodate twice-over, or an affront to the sensibilities of the church. I). To receive a mandate to completely overhaul the structuring & typography of the current Canon Law. No -I see no reason to call an ecumenical council to change the font or aesthetics of script of the current codices. I). To add a stipulation to Canon Law that makes the (Princely) Archdioceses of Providentia, Jorenus & Albarosa permanent within the Holy Mother Church, in name and in scope. No - Both Jorenus and Providentia are states ruled by a Canonist monarch so fulfil the criteria of prince-archdiocese. The only defining extent documents for Albarosa do not qualify it as such. II). To update the definitions in Book II, Title II. Chapter III., expanding the Curia roles currently present & outlining their tasks more concretely. No - This proposition is dangerously vague and I cannot assent to it without exhaustive clarification of what is to be modified, to the exact wording. IV). To change in Book IV, Title IV, Chapter III., that only one attributable miracle is necessary for sainthood: as not all current saints have two. No - It is the nature of those blessed by the church to be responsible for one miracle. It is not the criteria for sainthood but the sainthood of these individuals that must be redressed. V). To add in Book V, Title II, Chapter I that inciting sedition against, questioning the legitimacy of or conspiring to harm the High Pontiff commits a crime and excommunicates himself automatically. No - There are already provisions for those inciting contempt of or sedition against the Church. It is the first crime against virtue in Canon law. Refusing communion for those that express doubt will turn the faith into fools and dogmatists as even the most pious and reverent question things. I am at all impasses against enshrining contemporary politics into law and see this as nothing more than a will for the Pontiff to expedite the removal of dissenting voices from the fair courts of the Mother Church. To increase what penalty there is from a hearing of the ecclesiastical court to excommunication ad initio is a folly that will send every acolyte out of the faith within weeks of them joining it. Only fools do not have doubts and we do not want to be a faith of fools, the tools of the faith allow us to mediate and find right penance for those questioning the legitimacy of any organ of the church. Excommunication does not meet that healing end and simply removes them from communion and the eye, a sweeping under the rug. VI). To add in Book V, Title II a chapter that describes Papal Briefs. No - The canon law already outlines and clarifies the purpose of pontifical letters. To refer to them as breve is a description of their nature; they are brief and subsequently not as solemn as bullae. VII). To overhaul Book VI, Title II. Chapter III., rendering Minor Bulls ‘Archdiocesan Decrees’ and further streamlining them with the Golden Bulls of His Holiness. No - Book VI, Title II. Chapter III is explicit in its reference to the purpose of minor bullae as those issued by provincial pastors for their provinces for matters that may not supersede or conflict with canon law or golden bullae. They are minor in their nature due to being promulgated by a pastor instead of the pontiff himself, so the name minor bull must remain and be used in writing. X). Although it is within the High Pontiff’s authority to venerate any Canonist at will, His Holiness seeks to gain popular approval for his nominees regardless: Yes - I raise no issue with venerating previous pontiffs as shepherding the faith is a venerable and pious deed. It was until recently a tradition for a pontiff to show unity with the faith to venerate his predecessor, except in the case of schismatics and those in a state of undeath, and it would be wise to restore this tradition and allow good men access to skies further. These men were the venerable by any definition and it is my greatest sin to have never met either. No - Richard Reden and Lemuel Lengford, whoever these men may be, have no record of active worship nor interacting with the faith so I would struggle to acknowledge them as possessing virtue more than the average man. In the case of your friend Lengford, would pity what fool who prays for the intercession of a politician through prayer. Veneration is final and may not be revoked unless there are factual errors at play, to use it as a folly and political reward to your Everardine political era peers is a stain on the escutcheon of this pontificate. I understand that you may have longing for nations of yore and a love of old homes, but the church is not a tool of personal reward for old peers. Do not sully the realm of the spiritual with rewards for your temporal friends and venerate those worthy of veneration instead. XI). To beautify XII). To beautify, and then proceed to Canonize XIII). To Canonize, No - you ascribe no miracles to these people, just a list of names. There is far more to sainthood than being a name alone. Should these become private petitions that the curia may work over, investigate and vote upon, then that will be a worthwhile cause, but it is a fool’s errand to busy an ecumenical council with matters so spurious, vague and severe. Those interested in beatification or canonisation of these individuals may make individual petitions that elucidate their merit but it is not the place of an ecumenical council to expedite them so.
  9. Inquiry of the Auditor of the Tribunal. ✟ No man should believe every word and suggestion, but should carefully and reservedly consider all things in accordance with the will of God. Such is a weakness of Man, that evil is more often readily believed and spoken of another than good. Even a perfect and most pious man will not easily believe every tale that is told to them, for they know that man’s nature is prone to evil and his words to deception. It is wise to not be hasty in action, nor to cling stubbornly to our own opinions. We must not believe all we hear nor hasten to report to others what we hear or believe. Many take counsel in a wise and conscientious man, and seek to be guided by one who is better than themselves, rather than to follow your own opinions. A good life leads a man in nearness to God, and the more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. Remember that whoever puts his full confidence in men or in any other beast of this world is very foolish. There is no shame in being a servant of others for a love of Virtue, and to appear as many mendicants do to appear poor to this world. Do not put this trust in yourself but your whole confidence in God and God will bless your good intention. It is God alone who knows the heart of man. ✟ It is the duty of the Auditor of the Tribunal to judge, apply and enforce ecclesiastical penalties of the Church. His office is that of an executor of the High Pontiff, his position the second-highest of his curia due to the authority bestowed. As much as the accused is never bound to confess guilt, it is the duty of a cleric to investigate to presume neither innocence or guilt of the accused as to not taint the reputation of the faithful and the church alike. The High Pontiff is judged by none but God and clerics are bound both oath and faith to show reverence and obedience to the High Pontiff and their ordinary. It is only through unanimous agreement of the College of Cardinals to rebuke a High Pontiff, which they are charged to do prudently and remains the only avenue to remove a living High Pontiff from office beyond his own resignation. Interdiction and excommunication remain ecclesiastical penalties that can only be issued and lifted with the approval of the High Pontiff. A rebuke is something that is without appeal, stripping the High Pontiff of his office while retaining his clerical state as emeritus. As a trial of the highest office is beyond my authority and without any provision in canon law, I wish to meet on the following date in the Basilica of Ex. Godfrey to enquire further on these claims before I personally argue them before the College of Cardinals. We will sit at a table as peers and discuss the merit of each claim. ✟ 10th of Tobias's Bounty, 1805 [ 358ES ] Basilica of Exalted Godfrey. Providence, HOE. ✟ IN NOMINE DEI Illustrissimus et Reverendissimus Dominus Vicary Episcopus Rochefort Auditor of the Tribunal of the Church of the Canon Servant of God.
  10. Fr. Armas reads the piece in the midst of his supper, nodding along in bob-headed agreement before inhaling a crumb of rye loaf in such sharp shock that he has to slam the base of his spine into the back of his wooden chair to dislodge it from his wheezing throat.
  11. The auditor of the tribunal, Rev. Armas, wipes his biscuit-crumbed fingers on his deskside jaycloth, running the flat of his palm across the paper before his desk before beginning to write to the chamberlain. His sleepy hand raises a cheese-knife above a candle for a few long moments, mulling over the mail cast throughout his chamber. After the heat begins to reach the tips of his fingers, he whips the tool away and entreats the treated blade to a fine cheese-cake, the hot blade making light work of carving the monsignor a slice. He begins to write a private correspondence in reply, soon sealing it with the wax seal of his ecclesiastical office as to prevent any contemporaneous tamperers and ne'er-do-wells from playing messenger. Fr. Carl. It is the nature of the sacrament of penance to prescribe private penance for a private sin, as to not throw feed into the maw of gossip and tea-party whispers and make souls whole. All Canonists have a thirst to confess their sins more than a desert beast thirsts for water; but all men naturally object to confessing them while others, guilty of equal sin yet without the public demand for penance, sit by and laugh at them. A sin confessed and adequately repented is an abolition of a wound to the church, but it is a duty of the sinner alone to confess the sin. There is no sincerity nor contrition in sitting a man in the confession-box by coercion of sword nor quill. A priest, as a shepherd of his flock, may offer warnings of sins prior to commission or further, but these are tools to spurn reconciliation and not cast scorn. It is a morbid concept for a man of the faith to conceive that some may not confess their sins, but it is far more morbid for a member of the clergy to confess somebody else's. Private sin is healed with private penance, and public sin with public penance. To conflate the two casts the church down from a saver of souls to the gossip column of an afternoon penny gazette. Recant and apologise for this abuse of the trust placed in your clerical office or I will see fit to bring you before an ecclesiastical court to adjudge restitution proper. I hope that you may join me in prayer for a church that is far more apostolic and reflecting of the light and love of the scrolls. Rev. Mnsgr. Armas.
  12. frill

    thought sheffield was just flat caps and whippets. didnt know they made moderators too

    1. GMRO

      GMRO

      I will lose it if you say I am from sheffield once more

    2. frill

      frill

      guess its just flat caps and whippets then

    3. Borin

      Borin

      I'm a flap cap and a whippet

  13. [!] His Holiness affixes his episcopal seal to this document in his bed-bound state, the Auditor of the Tribunal publishing it in his stead. Excommunication in Breve. -- As written in S. Auspice, Horen alone God has made ruler over all peoples and kingdoms, so that he may preserve God's children in the girdle of charity and unity of the faith. The number of the ungodly has so much grown in power that there is no nation in Almaris nor the world that they have not tried to corrupt with their wicked doctrines. Antony of Hyspia has embraced the errors of heretics and incurs automatic excommunication for refusing communion with the mother church. Seeing his mind so indurate that he refuses the admonitions from his people that have tried to cure and convert him, we are compelled to take up against him the weapons of justice. As a heretic and favourer of heretics, Antony of Hyspia and his adherents incur the sentence of anathema and to be cut off from the unity of the mother church. We declare him deprived of his pretended title of princedom aforesaid, of any dominion under man, and any dignity and privilege afforded to the worshipful. All nobles and subjects and people of the Hyspian realm and all others who have sworn oaths unto him are forever absolved from such oaths and duties arising from allegiance and obedience. Those who shall act contrary to this shall be included in the sentence of excommunication. IN NOMINE DEI Illustrissimus et Reverendissimus Dominus Vicary Episcopus Rochefort Auditor of the Tribunal of the Church of the Canon Servant of God.
  14. I'll give you $20 if you reply to this status

  15. Iunius Visaj daubs the nib of his quill into his cut-glass ink-well, propping the feathered nib against the neck to let the spare ink bleed itself free from the ability to sully the page with smears and rivulets. Turning loose three thin sheathes of paper from a jotting-pad, he raises it to the lamplight and peers through it with the speculative stare of a vintner taking colour of a recent bottle. He casts his response to the missive in three deft sweeps of his pen, the middle-aged 'thill looking to the the letters on the vellum with such a grin of affected smugness as an ape or some other simple beast is apt to assume upon similiar occasions. He began to smile, eyes sparkling with some malice as he pursed his lips, any watcher through his house-window could see by his face which letters he was working at; its*
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    guess which one we're using atm 😞 come on!!!!

  17. The Reverend Monsignor Armas raises his bedtime nightcap to the notion before drinking it down with a hum of an old chant he'd heard in passing from a Judite monastic many summers prior. "There is a que‎er and mad notion that the church is against scepticism and critique. This judgement shows that the mother church is only against pride. Those protesters feel themselves too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by themselves, the smallest of all. It is by Grace of God that Cardinal St. Publius and Father Dima are men of faith at heart, able to make his truth the test while retaining full communion with the faith whose principles they very embody. They know God." He concludes to the knitted owl sitting above his hearth, the ever-victim of the audible drafts of his letters. He gives his neck a tentative rub from when some of the rioting blood had attempted to garrote him, before making his way to his bed with an affirmed blow of his midnight candle to snuff it.
  18. frill

    Stress break

    I would never say an Americanism as gross as "back sass", only that it is childish to give up and outright insult people you're disagreeing with. I am sorry for removing your Discord server rank and asking for you to apologise for calling people ***** in order to have it returned. I didn't expect it to upset you and I would've been more tactful in asking you to not insult people in the future if I knew you would become this upset over it. I hope you stay safe and have an eventual return, hopefully cooler heads will prevail in the future regardless. I am sure there will always be a community for you on the server, even if you currently believe there isn't one for you in the church. xx
  19. "Truly the believers of miracles accept them as they see all of the evidence for it, the disbelievers of the miracles deny them because they have a doctrine against them. If a priest were to reject the testimony of another priest, we either deny the main principles behind the canonization all saints within the legenda sanctorum, or we affirm a materialism in the faith that supersedes the transcendental nature of the sacred. Much how one of those splendid Haense Royal Armyman would never be disbelieved by his peers if he said he saw a man murdered in the street, as he is trained well and member of one of the militaries best versed in the realm of combat, a priest would struggle to disbelieve his peers if the miraculous was stated to be witnessed. It would be a stain on the church to declare anything else and would surely bring down the papacy by taking the wind from under its metaphysical wings. There is some praise to see these cardinals actions do little more than state an assumed miracle and deliver their speech at these basilicas. I do not see them when other men stir the winds for schism. All the cardinal and priest prompted was rightful scepticism of a new head of the faith." Rev. Monsignor Vicary H- Armas concludes with some muted happiness at the judgement. He gives his shoulders a rolling shuffle as he inks his reply to the papacy, a jarful of humbugs being pushed away from his bed-candle by the blunted nib of his quill. Wouldn't want those melting and getting all sticky, would make a mischief of his cassock.
  20. edit 1 line for image scaling on mobile but add a background instead ig

     

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