de la Rey

I practiced karate for eight years, so.. it figures out. And no, the coffee didn`t cost a thing. I didn`t have my id with me, that`s all. But the asphalt.. [size="1"](I still fell..) [/size]

Goddammit, I`m full of bruises. The asphalt still doesn`t like me . And on the way home I took a small detour through a police precinct. They were quite nice, gave me coffee. Amongst other things. Now that`s the way to finish an MD meeting!

Hmm, if I remember it correctly, in Piranha I once ate that delicious romanian dish called ''mici'' (phonetic translation: ''meech'', english translation: ''littles''). Hope they still serve them there, they work like a charm with beer! [img]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons//cool.gif[/img] And please, do not let yourselves be fooled by their appearance. Really, come on, people... [img]http://www.servingromania.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mici.jpg[/img]

I am in, anytime. And this time I don`t have to go to work. Ooops!

I looked around, saw no similar topic, thus decided to create one myself ([i]of course, this was the point, after all. Hah.[/i]). So, here is a song that shook my morning. Mongol throat-singing (yep, the kind Gengis-Khan used to perform to his lover), combined with some guitars and (quite) well-known lyrics.. The thread`s title says all - listen, think about it and maybe you have other stuff to share. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiI5MnambH4"]Yat-Kha - Come along[/url]

I would like to know... Since I go to work from 21.30 to 06.00 and usually I [b]can`t sleep[/b] during [b]the day[/b], that makes me an insomniac, or rather an anti-insomniac? (At some point in my life I wished I`d suffer from narcolepsia, though)

I only hope that the new King of Loreroot would remember he was [i]elected[/i]. Ave, Firsanthalas! May the power of the people make you great, and Loreroot with you!

I know, [b]stormrunner[/b]. I hope the whole idea of citizenship is based on something serious, on what can`t be bypassed easily. I may have a relative sense of morality, but I am picky when it comes to using it. Mercs are everywhere. The difference is within them, it depends on what they do with freedom of choice.

[quote name='stormrunner' date='22 October 2009 - 06:51 PM' timestamp='1256226695' post='45468'] mercenary adjective 1. working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal. 2. hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc. noun 3. a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army. 4. any hireling. [/quote] Stormrunner, I believe no guild would qualify for the term ''mercenary'', for the simple reason that being a hired hand requires a state of servitude to the employer. And I believe no guild would submit to an alliance, or King/Queen. It`s not servitude, it`s strictly business. And by the way, even mercenaries may have honour.

[quote name='cryxus' date='22 October 2009 - 06:22 PM' timestamp='1256224935' post='45462'] i personally feel that here in MD guilds are working for the good of all of MD (...), just my view on things and my view on why guilds are given such a higher degree of immunity. [/quote] I agree with you, but this is just theory speaking. As I see things, a guild should be formed with a higher purpose in mind, than to serve the partisan wish of one or the other. But who can quarantee they shall remain in line and not cross their principles? I`m thinking hypothetically, of course, but this is what I do, think of all (or at least those that come to mind after some analysis) possible developments and outcomes. Let`s say that for the sake of the game (to add some pepper and salt) the Archivists start forging some papers in order to help an alliance against another (decision taken after heavy negotiations), what is to be done then? Would Mur say, ''abide thy code of conduct or be disbanded''? Each guild should have the right to choose its own destiny and path to follow. This is the natural way to separate the worthy from the mediocre, this is the only way one can learn. ------------------ I`m sorry if i have an appetence for complicating things, but this is just me, speaking my mind.

[quote name='cryxus' date='22 October 2009 - 05:27 PM' timestamp='1256221673' post='45455'] Guilds working for the greater good of all people... provocative... but whatever, crafters can dabble in all the LR affairs they want, though, and claim neutrailty although that seems counter-intuitive to me. [/quote] Usually guilds work for themselves, not for the good of others. Of course, there are exceptions. If there`s a war, a guild can decide to support one side, the other, both or none of them. In case an alliance attacks members of a guild, as retaliation for meddling with the so called neutral status, the guild might choose to set an embargo on tradeable goods over that alliance, and so on. The possibilities are innumerable. I strongly believe lands, alliances and guilds should differentiate and the relations between them should be reglemented.

Well, this is one difficult conversation. Esmerelda, if you belong to a country and you pledge your allegiance to the secret service of another, that`s treason. A citizen of the land is by all means a civilian. If he wants to become more active and help protect its borders, he signs in for one of the military alliances of THAT land. If he doesn`t want to have anything to do with the military, he signs with an alliance or guild without borders. If he wants just to roam around freely, he just remains a citizen of that land. Now, by role-play or by wp, citiyenship might be able to be changed. But you cannot let it be freely changed, like socks. And its stupid to allow citizenship in a land and membership into an alliance of another land. It`s like, I`m a citizen of Romania and I want to sign up in the japanese regular army. Plus: in MD, would it be a good idea to be a citizen of Loreroot and a member of the GGG? How can you be a citizen of a land and a member into an alliance who might decide to attack your land? What`s that called? And.. To avoid confusion, alliances should be those entities bound to a land, while guilds should be neutral and 'international' organisations.

If you get citizenship within a land, yet you enroll into a foreign alliance, then the citizenship changes too? Each player should be entitled to three things: a Land, to belong to a land wether is or isn`t a member of an alliance of that land, an alliance and a guild (which would be a cross-borders organisation). If one moves from CoE to KotB, then the land should be changed also. But then that makes no sense, it`s nothing unusual, there are no restraints and citizenship has no purpose. It is impossible to be from Loreroot and be a part of the Sentinels at the same time. I say once you choose your land, then you can be a part only of alliances from that land (like, taking the example of Loreroot, are the Savelites and CoE) or from guilds, if no alliance wants you. But guilds should be marked accordingly and be considered of lower state than alliances.

Then, once you chose your citizenship, you can only sign up for alliances within that land? I believe this is quite alright.

I liked Azrael and Ledah`s ideas, especially those ones about the archive and the arcane researchers and I add a few ideas of my own, even though no one would take me seriously. It`s just my opinion - I am not of Necrovion, nor wishing to be leader, I just shared some ideas. First of all, the Tainted Warriors should be recruited from the ranks of the Sentinels. You know, pride and glory of the corps, Necrovion. How? Well, once TW has a leader, this guy makes a list of let`s say 3-5 Sentinels and asks the approval of the queen (I understood she`s the one to decide) to promote them within the ranks of the Tainted Warriors. This should be the nucleum of TW (if those 3-5 guys are specialized - a warrior, a clerk, a researcher, a spy - it would be great). This team should work in two directions. 1) to organise TW, prepare a statement, a purpose of meaning, a code of conduct, an organigram 2) to help the Sentinels cope with the loss of manpower, actual and future. I see the TW not numerous at first. I would like them to be more than a group of brawlers and palookas, that`s too easy. I believe a warrior isn`t just someone with a sword. It can be also a diplomat, a writer, an artisan, a researcher. They are all fighters in their own field of expertise. TW should be an alliance of enlightened soldiers. If they`re the best of the Sentinels, they can definitely fight. Now, let them specialize themselves in other domains. You`ll have one (or more) archivist, one arcane researcher, one spy, one.. whatever. A thinktank, if you know what I mean. And if or when their numbers will increase, then and only then should the TW have branches. Shock troops, archivists, whatever you want.

Well, `simple` isn`t always best, I say. Now, everyone does what they like. And how and with whom they like. Oh, and I remembered: the thread starter, Gargant.. Should know that before his character name was borrowed by a game, some guy called Rabelais came up with Gargantua. Tough guy, that one..

I always said that half of a good RP character is represented by his/her name. And I am not exagerating: it`s easier to create a story around a good name. But I`m not the one to give lessons, that`s just my opinion. Usually I take various `weird` names I encountered in my life and put them together. Character`s names, I mean. When it comes to places` names, toponyms, that`s another story. I like to `invent` them, starting from a common name. And I follow a real easy recipe. Let`s take... something like `[i]Chris[/i]`. Sayin` it out loud countless times empties it of its personal value.. And then I start playing. It`s Chris... Kahris, Kahriz, then change the wovels between themselves, and you get Kihraz, then you can play even more with apostrophes (or whatever these are) and obtain Kih' Raz, the add some common extensions, like: Kih`Razzar (turn around the last three letters) or Kih`Razzah, Kih`razzaiyeh..If Kih doesn`t seem to be a strong word, then make it Kah'Razzah, turn the H in l, and get Kal`Razzah.. The idea is just to play with the letters. If one would have knowledge of foreign phonetics, or knows history and culture, or traditions, everything gets easier and easier. Then you can turn regular names into '[i]specific[/i]` names. Enough about that. The story of `[i]Rhah de la Rey[/i]` is quite simple. One of my favourite movies of all time is [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/"]''Platoon''[/url]. One of the characters (some american soldier) there is called ''Rhah''. De la Rey is the name of a famous boer general, who led [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_Wars"]the boers during their wars with the british[/url] at the end of the 19th century. My love for the boers began many years ago, after I read a book called [i]''le capitaine Casse Cou[/i]''. So I just put together Rhah and de la Rey. Maximiljen came later on, from the need to go full circle with the name. Then I kept Rhah as a nickname, and Maximiljen as the official name. There is no MaximilJen in this world, I just changed the i into j... for it looked more boer`ish (dutch) than Maximilien. There you go.

That last pic.. Man, am I ashamed... One would say I was almost drunk, when looking at it! And that wasn`t the case!! Really!!

"The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth."

No more beer... For beer is evil! Prohibition wasn`t such a bad thing afterall. We must treasure alcohol in all it`s forms. Free booze is no booze.

R Hah, they left, Me n` Totenkopf remained on the battlefield.. and i`m at work now, dig that!

Ooooh, me head...

Someone should have a big banner with MD * Romanian Mafia. And name tags, we need name tags. And a band. And some cheerleaders.