Ravenstrider

I think I'll just go on believing that Mur is just an acronym for Manu Under Reconstruction.


You shattered my dreams. You... you... :'(


Just joking... This is more insight into your personality than I would feel comfortable sharing with strangers, then again whole MD probably is... And gives a clearer picture to some parts of the "MD mystery", so I guess a "thank you", and a "you ruined it for me" are in order after all.


Edit: Oh, and I hate you... Your post made me think about some stuff, and I like my brain as inactive as possible.

How did I miss this one...

I'm Bob!

[quote name='Malaikat Maut' timestamp='1289397619' post='71828']
The actions of a king or a leader should never be, and are never, observed at face value. The fact that Pample may or may not have been plotting treason is absolutely important. However, the related facts aren't open for discussion and neither will they be determined within this thread. What we can glean from it, however, is a sense of Jester's capacity for diplomacy and his abilities to lead and to unify a nation of people.

So, let's look into that shall we?[/quote]

For one, i don't see why would you have any concern of how Jester leads his people. You are not a part of Necrovion any more, if I recall correctly. Besides, Necrovion isn't a "nation", it's a heterogeneous group of people, and a small one at that... I would rather call it a court then a nation.


[quote name='Malaikat Maut' timestamp='1289397619' post='71828']Right out of the gates something as important as the appointment and inauguration of a king's equal is likened to a rash and hastily conducted experiment. At least he apologizes for it... [/quote]

Everything in MD is an experiment. It's the nature of the game. One must try new things in order to try and escape this rut the realm has gotten into. And who are you to say this experiment was rash and hastily conducted? Just because it went south does not mean it was hastily done.

[quote name='Malaikat Maut' timestamp='1289397619' post='71828']Well, which is it then? The king's fault for making such a poor decision or Pample's fault for taking advantage? What began as an appropriate admission of failure quickly became a platform for cowardly ad hominem attacks. [/quote]

If you try to deduce blame in a situation like this, good luck. Besides, one has to be bitter when someone close to you betrays you. Friendship and all that... You do know what that is? Besides, stating an opinion is just that... I don't believe it was a major attack on Pample's persona.


[quote name='Malaikat Maut' timestamp='1289397619' post='71828']Once again, this seems like an excellent opportunity to admit wrong and prove to Necrovion that you've learned from the mistake. Why weren't you controlling your own queen? If you couldn't or weren't willing to lead such a powerful and prominent figure, why should anyone assume you could govern a kingdom? [/quote]

Again, why would you need to control your queen if you consider her your friend and close associate? If you are controlling everyone and everything, you become nothing but a sad puppet master, alone, tugging the strings.


[quote name='Malaikat Maut' timestamp='1289397619' post='71828']And it concludes with more slander and ad hominem. Nothing of the future. Nothing of repairing damage done or the glory that is yet to belong to such a deserving people. Only embarrassment.[/quote]

Actually, this was all a statement about the excommunication. The words were bitter and full of resentment, yes, but easily understood if you put yourself in his shoes. I don't believe Jester has an obligation to state his plans for the future here. I don't see why he should. Again, Necrovion isn't a people, it's small group. It would be different if it was a nation...





I'm actually pretty amused by your replies. And by this I mean all of you... It is nice to see your true nature... Nothing but scavengers, waiting for a wrong move. It's pitiful.

Since we all know knowledge of the realm obtained in one way or the other is generally jealously kept, I suggest a weekly discussion event on various topics, where those who have researched can share their conclusions and discuss various mysteries of the realm.

The reward for this would be expanding the boundaries of ourselves and learning more, because even the ignorant can teach you something from time to time.

I was thinking that this event should have 5 different locations depending on the topic discussed, to add to the feel of it.

Your opinions and suggestions, please.

I was thinking that it would be good if the logs of these conversations could be made public on the forums.


For those too lazy to read the whole thing, a clarification:

Uh, the topic title is misleading... I'm rubbish at naming things. This was mainly what I had in mind... Discussions about ideas and personal viewpoints on things... Maybe Free Thought Movement would be more appropriate as a name...

Not giving knowledge as in: "Here, this is what I know", but more: Here is my viewpoint on this, here is an idea about a direction concerning that, etc. Something that would maybe cause people to step back and reexamine their own personal research... One man can only do so much without someone to discuss things with...


And yes, I know this would be very hard to maintain, and organize... This is why I opened the topic, to see how people would react to it and would they be willing to participate...

And once again, I wasn't thinking about talking about sensitive information like land weapons... But something like: Why don't some people need food to survive in MD and why do some do? (I'm quite tired atm, so I can't think of anything better) And no, the discussions wouldn't be limited to MD, they could go in various directions...

If that is not copied work, I don't know what is... If five or six different details are just going to mark it "influenced", then I should start copying positions from the internet and just adding my details.


The forum post I found was from December the 3d 2009. But I'm guessing the artwork itself is older than that. I'm searching for the original as I'm typing this.


Edit: Artwork was originaly done in 2005 by an artist called Jason Chan, as a part of his Sorceres and Unicorn "series". http://www.jasonchanart.com/gallery/2005/unicorn/swordsman_02.jpg

a) I am still a citizen of Necrovion

b) I tried to fight the things that lead to this situation in the first place... If you think that was treason, good for you...

c) I wasn't a part of the first "rebellion"... I helped quench that one, if I remember correctly. Also: Necrovions downfall started long before the rebels... And in it's core was stagnation and inactivity... do your research before you jump to conclusions.

Also: My role in both the realm and in Necrovion was one that required me to insult people... Should the fact that they have some kind of an official position spare them that? I don't think so.

You can either track Ravenstrider down and try to do an interview with him somewhere in the realm, or I can issue a statement about things that happened from a non-Ravenstrider point of view (with a lot less insanity and donkey jokes and a bit more truth).

Or we could try both an ooc interview and an ic interview, then you can combine the two.

Of course, if you're still interested.

I think that the second or third option would be best due to the OOC nature of the "first" rebellion, but it's your call.

You can either track Ravenstrider down and try to do an interview with him somewhere in the realm, or I can issue a statement about things that happened from a non-Ravenstrider point of view (with a lot less insanity and donkey jokes and a bit more truth).

Or we could try both an ooc interview and an ic interview, then you can combine the two.

Of course, if you're still interested.

I think that the second or third option would be best due to the OOC nature of the "first" rebellion, but it's your call.

@Chewett and Sasha: Yes, I saw your tweets... so you don't have to report it.

@Backlash Ro: You didn't include @magicduel in two of those.


[color="#8B0000"][size="4"]Important Notice: If you do not include @magicduel in your tweets, they will not be accepted as valid entries.[/size][/color]

I'm doing my best to catch everything, but I can't go trough your profiles to check if you tweeted something for this contest.
It would be like posting the LHO thing for Facebook on your FB wall.

I know some of you don't have Twitter experience, so whenever I catch a tweet without the hashtag or mention, I message you... But I'm not all-powerful and can miss things, so this rule is to avoid any: "Hey, you didn't read my tweet, and it was better than the others" later on.



[u]And another thing unrelated to the contest:[/u] I will try to reply to your mentions (that aren't contest related) when I can, but I don't want the page to be filled with replies, crowding the official announcements and stuff, so if you wrote something to me, and I don't reply, I was probably going to include a donkey joke in the reply and thought it was inappropriate or I did a bunch of irrelevant tweets and thought it was enough for one day.

[quote name='backlash ro' timestamp='1306936037' post='85540']
And how do you know if I tweeted it or not?
[/quote]


I'm the Temp Twitter MagicDuel Admin. I'm omnipotent.

Now seriously: If you include the mention in your post, I get it in the mentions feed, and it stays there for a while. That's one of the main reasons the contest requires every tweet to have it.

Popular hashtag or a trend word. I'm guessing that at the time of the forum post, Manchester and Barselona were in the trends.

Though, I wouldn't choose that tweet, because there isn't really any connection between the two statements... Seems pretty random.


For instance:"@MagicDuel Grido and Chewett are the Batman & Robin of #MagicDuel" would be a proper tweet. (but not a very good one, so don't use it)

(Batman & Robin syntax was in the Trends today)

Clarification:

Trends consist of two things: Popular hashtag topic and popular words (or syntaxes). You can see them on the side-panel and they are quite hard to miss.

I will accept common hashtags as well... Things like #death, #life, etc., if the post is interesting.

[quote name='backlash ro' timestamp='1306921544' post='85533']
ok.

But I don t understand it really...where do you wan t me to post it exactly?
[/quote]

You just tweet it.

The @MagicDuel mention enables me to see the tweet.

Please do it on Twitter. It's a Twitter contest after all.

[url="http://www.twitter.com/magicduel"][color="#8b0000"][u][size="4"][b]Ravenstrider's Trial Period Twitter Quest[/b][/size] [/u] [/color][/url]
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[b]a)[/b][b] [u][color="#ffa500"]MD twitter page description.[/color][/u][/b]

[b]b)[/b] [b][u][color="#ffa500"]Funniest MD related tweet.[/color][/u][/b]

[b]c)[/b] [b][u][color="#ffa500"]Most creative MD tweet that includes a popular topic in it.[/color][/u][/b] [color="#ffa500"](i.e. #death, #roses, #kittens or the Twitter trend of the day) [/color]


The winner of the first two categories will be decided by the twitter page team, while the third will be rated in a completely different manner, which will not be revealed until the contest ends.

[size="3"]The rewards are:[/size]
[color="#8b0000"]a)[b] SW and a chance that your tweet will be the new MD page description.[/b]
b) [b]10 credits[/b]
c) [b]15 credits[/b][/color]


[b][u]Entries in [color="#8b0000"]all of the categories[/color] must have [color="#ffa500"][url="http://www.twitter.com/magicduel"]@magicduel[/url][/color] in them.[/u][/b]

[b][u]Entries in category [color="#8b0000"]b)[/color] and [color="#8b0000"]c)[/color] must have [color="#ffa500"][url="http://www.twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23magicduel"]#magicduel[/url][/color] in them.[/u][/b]

[s]
The contest will run until June 5th 23:59 server time.[/s]

It will now run until June 15 23:59 Server Time. ~BFH

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May I ask that everything that Lorerootians say in my gloating topic be stricken?

And can Jester wear your French maid costume when he packs the cookies, Mur?

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
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Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
[attachment=3653:nvcoa1.jpg]




Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]

As many of you might know, I'm not much of a people person (which is an understatement) and I have never been able to work well with a certain type of people (the ones who weren't able to look past my social "awkwardness"(let's call it that) and see me for who I am).

Upon returning from my long absence, I found that most people left in Necrovion were the ones who wouldn't be happy to work with me, interact with me, or even spend long(ish) periods of time in the same scene as me, and most importantly, who don't have the same views of what Necrovion should be as me... (And some of them are people who I don't really like much... Yeah... Sue me. )

Now, I could have stayed, playing the rebell, and wasting my energy on trying to mold Necrovion into my personal view of how it should be from the outside, but I feel that it isn't worth it. Not because I don't feel that strongly about being a part of Necrovion, but because I know I'd ultimately fail. (And this isn't just about ingame things, it's also about my private life, which is a mess right now, and lack of time I'd have available to devote to doing anything MD related).

I will still be willing to talk about Necrovion related things, and if anybody wants to know about Necrovion from my point of view, or about things I've researched about it, they can still ask me. (I might not tell you everything, but in most cases I'll try to point you in the right direction)


I just thought it would be good to clear things up, and to avoid questions...

As many of you might know, I'm not much of a people person (which is an understatement) and I have never been able to work well with a certain type of people (the ones who weren't able to look past my social "awkwardness"(let's call it that) and see me for who I am).

Upon returning from my long absence, I found that most people left in Necrovion were the ones who wouldn't be happy to work with me, interact with me, or even spend long(ish) periods of time in the same scene as me, and most importantly, who don't have the same views of what Necrovion should be as me... (And some of them are people who I don't really like much... Yeah... Sue me. )

Now, I could have stayed, playing the rebell, and wasting my energy on trying to mold Necrovion into my personal view of how it should be from the outside, but I feel that it isn't worth it. Not because I don't feel that strongly about being a part of Necrovion, but because I know I'd ultimately fail. (And this isn't just about ingame things, it's also about my private life, which is a mess right now, and lack of time I'd have available to devote to doing anything MD related).

I will still be willing to talk about Necrovion related things, and if anybody wants to know about Necrovion from my point of view, or about things I've researched about it, they can still ask me. (I might not tell you everything, but in most cases I'll try to point you in the right direction)


I just thought it would be good to clear things up, and to avoid questions...

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
[attachment=3653:nvcoa1.jpg]




Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
[attachment=3653:nvcoa1.jpg]




Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
[attachment=3653:nvcoa1.jpg]




Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
[attachment=3653:nvcoa1.jpg]




Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]

Maybe a skull impaled by a black-bladed dagger, with it's eye sockets bleeding liquid dust.

Something like this:
[attachment=3653:nvcoa1.jpg]




Ok, just realised it looks a bit too much like the Caretakers badge... So, maybe a skull with a black/white mask, which is made out of two separate skulls... Something like this:
[attachment=3655:necrocoa2.jpg]





Edit: Third idea: The skull, with the b&w mask, impaled on 3 daggers, bleeding liquid dust.
[attachment=3656:coatofarms3.jpg]