Curiose

Dear Yala, I must confess-- I am a thief, and I am here to take your heart. Paradise does not lie where your beautious bossom may lie, holding your heart, but paradise is surely farther south! Forget that cheese brain Agis, he cannot compare to me! You are mine, baby, all mine, and you say it every time in the sheets. ; D So, baby, let me check my watch, and ask: What time do you gotta be back in heaven? For dinner, I think we should have you, because you look mighty fine this lovely day. But one more thing, I must ask: Are you a surgeon, because I swear, you just took my heart away. So, baby, shall we escape across the desert to our sunset or shall we saunter on to our nightly get away? ; D It's all yours, and you are [i]all[/i] mine. Curiose.

Alright, then it is settled. OFF TO GRIDO I GO. ; D Even though this is a big undertaking, I feel that it will lead to a lot of other things in MD, such as more activity, people actually doing things that are worth writing about. People will probably get hyped and want to know what is going on, and will be more attracted to coming to MD, and giving more to it. I mean, I am even excited. I know I won't be able to man this, because I have other projects and besides, who wants one person running everything? : p Thank you all for your suggestions! They are wonderful.

I was fiddling on the idea of MDNP with Burnsy, and I think that maybe he could get something done with it. He has some good ideas which will be wonderful. I had no intention of ever drafting people in MDA. If they want to join, they can. My only fear is people being affiliated with things that are affiliated with MDA, and then having those people being yelled at for it.

I wasn't sure if MDP was made an alliance, but I did state something abotu factions, alliances and guilds. but meh.

I actually just re read your post, Seigheart and one thing stands out to me: [quote]Those who have endured years of torment for their sexual preference should be admired, not pitied, or made fun of. They chose to be outwardly DIFFERENT. [/quote] [quote]For those of you who pity those who are "gay", where do you get off pitying them? Protecting them? This is just as big an insult to these people. They do NOT need protecting, nor to be coddled.[/quote] These two sentences to me seem to contradict each other. You're fighting for homosexual rights, while, at the same time, saying they don't need protection or being coddled, or whatever. Sometimes they DO need protecting, when open gay bars, and students still get brutalized and attacked and overall harassed. From personal experience, I was harassed for being 'lesbian' and to this point, I beat the living day lights out of anyone who decides to insult me in such a way. Not just because I find it offensive, but because I will NOT have someone judge me on my sexuality and therefore try to control me via insults and harassment. Not the point. Again. There is a point between being an advocate, and then being a blow heart. To be honest, I don't think ANYONE on MD needs to have to be told that using ANYTHING derrogative is unacceptable, and the first thing that comes to mind when you post something like this is trying to give yourself good PR for whatever reason. I used to always harp at people for using gay as a substitute for stupid, but it was so frequent that I gave up. Does that make me a bad person? Not necessarily, considering I live in a strict republic state.

what I was meaning by drama fest was him calling out the people involved who would then attack him for his post and things would just go down from there.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Thank you, Kafuuka Bear. x3 I will get started as soon as I can talk to some people about this. One thing that I find, is that it is hard to recruit people because they normally get gobbled up by other alliances, or they find MDA too boring [this is just my perception]. Do you think that if MDA is back on its feet, that perhaps other things will follow, such as more activity in the land? Because, just because the AL is gone, doesn't mean the stories cannot be written, that they cannot be published. I mean... hell, when Knatty was taking over Tribunal, I found that to be a perfect thing to write about and, yet, there were not any resources of which to write it for. As for Legend Speakers, the best way that I was told about our alliance function, was that we were the 'extension' to the Archivists. But at that being said, I feel it steps on their toes. But, if we look at it as Archivists write the hard copy of what goes on and then the Legend Speakers go out and talk about it, do events, have people talk about it etc, then maybe that would be a more fitting role. However, as I see it, it would take the work load that you described, Kafuuka, to make all of this actually happen. This is what I was talking about. I was partially wanting event ideas, but at the same time, I knew that it wouldn't do anything. I just knew that something had to be done that wasn't overtly expressed and that is what I meant by saying I didn't know what to do. Now that I know what could be done, I was right to suggest that I can't do it alone because some of this takes outside hands to take care of or just an extra pair of hands. So again, thank you kafuuka for your insight.

I agree, Master B. I mean... I had a debate with someone about this, and I know it is totally going to derail this conversation, but WHY do people become homosexual? Supposedly, scientists believe it is genetic. And, this isn't the entire debate, but rather, a snippet because the rest would become too 'graphic' for young ears even if it is just biological terms.

I don't see what the big issue is. Honestly, I am all for homosexual rights, I even defended them and risked my own neck for my senior project by stating they should have legal rights to marry. But that's not the point. What the point is, it was a personal issue between them. If they want to hang by the jury of their peers, then maybe you should let them, instead of making a post about how wrong it is by using the term as an insult. I don't think it is going to do anything OTHER than start a drama fest about the whole thing. So really, why poke the bear?

This reminds me of a facebook app that says: Gay is not a substitute for stupid. But anywho, I don't see why there is necessarily a need to post about this, when you could have told them this in person, imo. : x

Thank you, Rhaegar. It's just this isn't something someone can 'physically' restore, i.e. build it up with bricks and mortar. Sure, there is the idea of recruiting people and stuffing up those alliances/factions up again, but then where would they go from there? I don't know how MDA ran before I came here. I don't know how they did things, or what went on or how they were before. I only heard stories, and I thought that by maybe getting the community involved it would help at least get them something to do. Anywho. I can do the digging in the forum, and I know a couple other forum worms who could probably help. For Story Night, we're going to be doing something different and asking people to speak about history, or philisophical ideas, or basically anything in triguing like it used to be. Other than that, I think I might warp the idea of legend night into something more of a history class, and then work in what you suggested, Veggie. It'll just need volunteers and some figuring out to get it done.

I am not that old. I only have 200 days. I was not trying to have people hand feed me ideas. I have Story night and I have tried doing something for a legend night and then another thing which hasn't kicked off the ground yet. I want the community reaction to ideas, and I like the community getting involved more than one person doing things. If anything, if a newbie wants to start something, wants to plan out an idea they are more than welcome to try Edit: Mur recruited me for his own reasoning. I had no influence whatsoever. Have an issue with it? Bring it up with him.

Thank you, Kyphis. My hopes is that maybe MDNP and Artisans will return to normal.

I was not asking for jobs of which to do it. I was asking for ideas of which to HELP RESTORE my land and maybe the COMMUNITY could possibly partake in because it seems that people don't really care. I did not right this to be attacked. I did not write this to have people attacking what I am trying to do. I AM DOING THIS BECAUSE I CARE. DO ANY OF YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT?

I wasn't complaining that there isn't enough people to do the jobs. I was objecting because: 1. It is taking funds out of MDA of which belonged to An MDA guild which could still be restored 2. Advertisers is NO LONGER part of MDA. Lastly, when I checked, I'm sure that all the other lands have more active members than MDA. I see NO problem in asking for ideas or thoughts or SOMETHING to bring it back to its activity and to being what it once was. Last I checked, people didn't care enough to restore MDNP, Nor the advertisers until Mur made it a tribunal thing.

I was not sure where else to put this, so I put it here. I don't know if I am just paranoid, or if I am simply over rationalizing everything, but, I am worried about my land. It may be needless worrying, but none the less, I believe it is warranted. Overall, MDA has only 4 active members. Fyrd Argentus, Curiose, Rendril Revant, And Kyphis. Innocence isn't all that active any more. Other members have gone away. Is this the first sign of a decaying land? I certainly think it is. In the past, MDA used to have a lot of factions and guilds/alliances of which many people have been part of. Most of which have died off. From the list: [s]The Crafters[/s]-Moved to Loreroot [s]Artisans[/s]-Inactive [s]MDNP[/s]-Inactive [s]Advertisers[/s]-Moved to Lands of the East [s]Sotis[/s]-Moved to Lands of the East [s]Dimensional Shifters[/s]-Inactive Legend Speakers Archivists Out of the eight, only 2 are now left. In each, there are only 2 active members. What happened to the thrive~? What happened to the work that used to come from MDA? What about the importance that was laid upon it which has now been reduced to nothing? There is no Head Archivist. There is no activity other than what meager work Myself, Fyrd, and Rendril put into it. I am not trying to complain, but I am needing help. I am wanting to restore my land to how it once was and [b]I can't do it alone.[/b] I can try, I can literally work my naked little rump till its raw and bleeding, but I don't think I can get anywhere without help. This is important to me, and if any of you ever gave a damn then I am sure you wouldn't have let it come to this. I do not know how to fix this. I don't know if recruiting members will fix it, or if volunteer work will do it, but something needs to be done. Please give a list of ideas or thoughts of what you can do to help. Please. I don't want MDA to go with all of the rest of its alliances.

It's simply that, as I see it, they were given those credits to be used for the hard work they did for the people. To me, I kind of see that as stealing, even if it is disbanded. But despite that fact, if it does happen to get put back together, then what do the newly rebuilt members of the guild have left to it? If anything, I do agree that it should be distributed back to those who have rightfully earned it, and were once a part of that guild, instead of just handing it to some random alliance such as BFH's.

Why BFH? WHY him specifically? Certainly there are OTHER starving alliances and organizations within the game which could benefit from that better than he could. I mean, hell, if he really wanted to, he could commission the Advertisers to advertise for people for say, a gold coin for a month of work. That could easily give them a form of payment, or otherwise something for their treasury. Edit: To make myself clear, I am against taking ANYTHING from an old alliance for the gains of a new one. I was making my previous paragraph to defend my questioning of BFH's Guild.

Well, as you explained earlier, the Kris is associated with a taint of sorts. The Kris, may have remnants of said taint, which then infected the earth but was given said ability by the gains of your magic backfiring. However, the fact the shard was in there MAY have also been why it backfired in the first place. My thoughts is that the shard is not a large enough sample to do testing with. So, if you wanna play with sharp things, I suggest piecing the shard with the entire body of the Kris. Mind you, these are only hypotheses. Unless we are wanting to plainly speak about whatever elements make up the kris in the first place.

Its components, mind you, may have been part to what has actually caused it to react. Kind of like how metal oxides to create rust.

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