Pipstickz

What is a Land Weapon? A representation of each Land's greatest strength and its fatal flaw How many are there? Five Where are they? In the case of two, in the centre or close to it. In the case of another two, beside an almost-closed gate. In the case of a fifth, in the last place you'd look. What do they do? Loreroot's can pierce your core, Marind Bell's can close its land off, Golemus' can attract or repel certain things from its target, Necrovion's reveals a truth hidden within yourself, the fifth traps your soul. How are they activated? Two are activated by mechanisms that must be fulfilled by multiple agreeing voices, two are activated by a single strong-willed participant, and one is activated in turn by everybody. How are they powered? The altars of each land produce various natural effects which by their nature power the mechanisms How are they controlled? Two have control mechanisms, three cannot be controlled and produce the same effects regardless of input What would happen to it if a Land were to lose its Weapon, or access thereto? The land would likely crumble apart from the inside, its essence and "keystone" removed For each Land that contains a Land Weapon, imagine you are a citizen with full control over the Weapon and explain how you'd use your Homeland's Weapon to help your fellow citizens. Loreroot - I would use it to soften the hearts of warring lands Golemus - I would use it to bury Necrovion Marind Bell - I would save it for a rainy day Necrovion - I would invite everyone to use it to their heart's content Fifth - I would reveal its nature For each Land that contains a Land Weapon, imagine you are an infiltrator who has seized control of the Weapon and explain how you'd use it to disrupt your enemies. Loreroot - I would use it to turn citizens of every land against each other Golemus - I would use it to bury everything, causing every land to be "Golemus" and therefore erasing all lands Marind Bell - I would use it always Necrovion - I would ignore it completely Fifth - I would reveal its nature

He was not involved in the happenings, except through his influence on me from the past.

I suppose nobody cares. The image was a challenge for those involved to talk to eachother and figure out the story: If I can go and merely talk to all those involved and bloom such a beautiful flower as that event was, then why couldn't those ten people do so again without me? This was, of course, my attempt at stealing Granos' legacy for myself and it was successful, but I abdicated that option in the end, and so he remained external to me rather than on the inside with me, but ever whispering in the back of my mind. I found the original of this image rather recently, the one I hand-drew. In the middle, past me had written, and it stung me deeply: Pipstickz Everyone trusts him...for once.

I have constructed for myself a makeshift theatre out of things I had lying around. The stage is logs and branches tied with string, just barely supporting the weight of a tablecloth curtain, the floor the grass underfoot. I have been performing the last few days and nights to my creatures. Here I will log some performances, others will be lost to time.

I am not taking questions at this time. If you actually care to get an answer, you can come find me in-game and we can have a chat.

1. Claiming my crown (here on the forum as well as in-game, though I doubt anybody noticed or paid attention to the in-game part, as with most things I do. To remind folks who might have noticed: "Pathway to Pips Palace") and having more +rep than -rep on my initial crown claim 2. Having a plan to protect the herbs in the East (before Eon got his crown point for copying me, I should note) 3. My Kdoc and other pages researching the East. Realizing the MBTB Confluence 4. Having taken a seed from each of the four Mainlands and planted it within myself, through Pip and Lordy (stole/destroyed alliances respectively) 4.5. Also being the first to destroy Necrovion, even though dst was given undue credit for it. Muratus' hopefulness to avoid this outcome was shown when he gave Azull rulership to that land after it was first emptied by myself in the form of Lord Pip, under my leader's direction 5. Outdoing dst and Eon, two of the most successful villains in MD history (when Eon took Guerilla [and then apparently accidentally traded his points for a Mansion, though that might be hearsay], essentially forfeiting his claim), as well as when I intentionally abdicated the option of adopting Granos' legacy as my own, which I could've done rather easily at one point 6. Choosing and adopting my title and role as King: Feral Queen of the East 7. Having reached the Throne Hall through my own loyalty and volition (back before the AP cost was raised that is, I'm nonetheless still working on returning as are some copycats) 8. Performing admirably for my King (in taking TW) and staying loyal to the East even after losing my badge (referring to SoS, I consider TK to have been an administrative role and apart from this) and citizenship, despite my opportunities, wanderlust and, more recently, extensive derision from those who wish to hold their privilege above my head and look down their noses at me for "doing nothing" among other things 9. Being a friend to even those who I've wronged and those who have wronged me, and especially those who I know nothing of (altogether something, to my knowledge, nobody else in MD has ever accomplished without promptly leaving afterwards) 10. Judging Zleip and his Established Housing for being inactive and careless (I noticed a Gateway newb [or alt, I don't think I've seen that account again since] had depleted Bob's lumber so I proceeded to deplete the resin. If Lin hadn't come along and debated at length I would've actually depleted, but instead I left it at 5/20) These are my 'crown points'. I only intended eight but I ended with ten (point five). I refuse to take them, in grovelling, to Muratus to hope that they be accepted. I know my destiny as it was set out by me and my progenitors which include Muratus himself, by my opinion. If you must know: My original intent was to claim rulership of even the Dominion, and then settle for just the Tribunal once Muratus pushed back as I expected he might. It seems that tactic was too advanced for Muratus to realize and respond to, and so here I am.

There's already creature shield for that.

Oh is this why so many GWI newbs don't have flags? Yes please

There are so many sanctuaries in the realm already I hardly think we need more, just politely ask (read as: attacklock) your participants not to fight during seedwalks, and one or two hit and runs won't hurt too bad, could even spawn an impromptu many-vs-one situation, which could be fun and interesting. Also wouldn't it mess things up on Old Man's Road, with the NPC battle? Also to counter your argument, Awiiya's roots don't spread far enough because his leaves have been gone for so long, they don't have enough energy.

Just checking, since I got first choice does that mean I get an Anniv as well? Bumping so Chew hopefully doesn't forget

Would this use all types of herbs or just some?

I have a policy of trying to talk to every new and returning player that I come across, to try and convince them to stick around (I did it to you Poppi!), so at least they don't leave because "nobody noticed/cares about me". It can have a huge impact on the realm as a whole, and it can be kind of fun. You can tell new players by their Gateway Island citizenship, they're always interesting to talk to, even if they're alts. If you wanted to be a Gateway Guardian it could be rather helpful, as there's only one guardian from the other side of the world (from me, I'm referring to timezone concerns) at the moment. It's a nice island vacation, but...you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave!

The question was answered and the answer taken in good faith, I didn't ask for proof or explanation (any more than Ungod's concise explanation) quite purposefully, going as far as I thought necessary to make clear that I did not know the circumstances around this event. Not far enough it seems, as you mistook my curiosity for attack anyways, as I had feared you might. I have more to say, but for the sake of not accidentally baiting a response and dragging this topic further off track, I'll send it privately.

Not Ungod? He was the only one I saw RPing about this, and on multiple occasions (doesn't mean MRF didn't, not trying to invalidate his efforts obviously, as I wasn't around when he made them), even camping out East for a while rather than his usual MDP hangout Just asking

To note, I have seen both my Elu eat candy and some candies melt. Pretty sure the melting took longer than the prescribed two weeks, maybe Mur changed it while hanging out at the East Pub one night! Or perhaps he and Chew had a passionate encounter at the Sunny Bedroom and bumped around the cabinet downstairs

Mr "Imperial" Look-Down-His-Nose (name pending, no promises I'll actually name him that! Unless you make it a condition of transfer...) needs to humble himself by sharing rituals with his brothers, my beautiful collection of Annies (Anniversary Aramors)! I'll eventually corrupt him in ways much worse than your past transgressions ever could've...muahahaha

Or caffeine speeds up your metabolism or some other pretend-scientific explanation, you get my point tho

Some of you might remember this image I created it at the time as a visual representation of the web I had weaved among those participants my intuition pointed me to as I tried to follow it solely, with no rational involvement. The end result of that web, its beautiful climax, was Eon taking over Guerilla Golemicarum (you can see my response to that here, for context). Let me be clear, that was not my original intent though it pleased me greatly, and I capitalized on it, and I said certain things to dst to imply that it was my intent (she took the bait of course) so as to attempt to assure her disqualification from the following, as she'd be the one most able to solve it and so deserved a handicap: I want to tell you what this image truly was, as it still makes me smile to think of it: It was a challenge for all those involved. All those involved failed that challenge as far as I'm aware, so now this goes public with a bit more explanation. If it's not clear to you what exactly the challenge was, have a think about it and post your guesses.

How many distinct syllables are there? And how much effort (and would it be prohibitive) would it take to memorize them? For example, to solve the last layer of a Rubiks' Cube (at least with the generally accepted "standard" method) one must memorize 57 algorithms to orient the pieces and then 21 more to permute them properly, giving a total of 78 possibilities sorted through in a single look for each step (some with overlaps for similar cases that help ofc, I imagine language would mirror that aspect nicely) that many thousands if not millions of folks can and have memorized with some effort. I can't think of any other clear-cut example, chess comes to mind but you generally memorize things but alter strategy as you go in response to an opponent, doesn't ring as similar to language to me.

That sounds like a reasonable proposition, but I would have trouble giving up the stumbling nature of English, where I can interpolate ideas that were in fact never intended...I'm not sure if that exact sort of thing works as well with other languages, since I only know a tiny amount of French (thanks education system...8 years, 1 hour a day, and all I can do is conjugate some verbs and recognize a few words!) and not much else. It's why I love loose translations (at least since starting MD, I should give Mur his due credit), folks who don't necessarily have a full grasp of all the silly rules of grammar and spelling often (at least to my perception) bring out the best in my native tongue

I'd think there should only be a light distinction if any at all between those two types, afterall RL is incorporated in MD too Perhaps a tag-system (as Sushi suggested but in-game instead, atleast I took her suggestion to mean 'on the forum') for the quests on the list explaining what land they're based in, who's running them, permanent vs. temporary, etc etc etc. The tags could also help determine who sees the quests if some are to be hidden on the list.