Brulant

I'm splitting this from [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/11486-connections-to-the-realm/"]this[/url] because I really do think it's an interesting idea and want to see if there's any discussion to be had about it.


[quote name='Brulant' timestamp='1327121612' post='101562']
I think it would be interesting to have a period of time that acts as a Masquerade.
Everyone could be put into an illusion that, say, changes their name, hides their papers and inventory, removes their creatures, and otherwise "resets" their profile. No one would know who each other are after the reset takes place. Then, for that period of time, the game could be played as if everyone had started at the same time.
When the illusion ends, everyone would return exactly to normal (as has been demonstrated recently) and the Masquerade would be over.
Of course, there would probably be a few spoilsports who immediately tell everyone who they are, but, overall, I think that could be fun. Or at least interesting.
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The opinion has been expressed that if you want the effect of starting fresh, you could just make an alt, but to that I have this to say.

[quote]

[b]Player X: [/b]It's interesting but I think I'm with whoever said "Just get an alt"
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]See, the problem with "getting an alt" is that everyone else hasn't changed.
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]You're still operating in a world with characters that are already defined.
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]There's something to be said for the fresh-slate-for-everyone approach, I think.
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]Because, let's say that I make an alt right now and walk over here.
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]I see you, and I know you're you, because I ([i]as a player[/i]) know who Player X is.
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]I won't be able to not treat you like Player X, unless I'm consciously trying really hard to do so.
[b]Player X: [/b]*[i]mumbles[/i]* not the first time that's happened this week
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]That's what makes playing an true "alt" so hard.
[url="http://magicduel.com/dlg/dlg.userdetails_arena.php?eid=9Ddr5Q7p3rciYB2mlzfMWA,,"][b]Brulant[/b][/url][b]: [/b]It'd be fun to see if the same people became friends, if the same enemies hated one another, or if the die would roll differently.
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Is the type of mass illusion I talk about mechanically possible right now? Would it be interesting? Thoughts?

Edit: Disclaimer: This is a suggestion for an event that would last for something like a week, NOT a suggestion for a new type of illusion. Think of it like a Masquerade Carnival, I'm just piggybacking on the system that's already in place to see if we can make this work.

103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

[quote name='apophys' timestamp='1298690066' post='79638']
What about for people without avatars? An empty space?
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I would assume that they would then receive the armor mannequin to use. Using your avatar would probably be something that you would buy in the shop and be able to toggle in the options.
Personally, sometimes I like seeing my little armor mannequin.
But other days, I would much rather prefer to have my avatar, especially now that I have one, shown.

Your avatar is supposed to symbolize who you are as a player, so shouldn't that be present in our fights?

103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

I'll see you when you're back in a few months after you've calmed down.

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103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

I don't think that this is a very good idea either.

I like some of the changes that viscosity has brought to the Realm and, while I do sometimes get frustrated when I'm stuck somewhere, it does make sense...

You keep saying "affinity". To me, affinity with a scene would be judged on how much time you've spent on a scene, not how many visits you have there.
For example, I'm someone who spends a lot of time running around. I have 2k visits to scenes that I've never said a word on, just because I have to pass through those scenes in order to get to where I actually want to be spending my time.

Also, it would quickly negate the raising of all of the Land Gate's ap cost. People could get into Necrovion within their first couple of weeks if they just stood around swapping between scenes over and over and over again. Even faster if they wrote a script to do it. (The Necro Gates would cost 29.3k visits, by the way.)

To echo Shadowseeker, the land loyalty option seems best. I would like to be able to move around easier, but.... this isn't the way to accomplish it.

Here are Wikipedia's citations. On something as big as Republics, I think you can take most of what Wikipedia has to say as correct. As a quick forum definition, it should suffice, even if you wouldn't use it as a paper source.
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[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-0"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu"]Montesquieu[/url], [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Laws"]The Spirit of the Laws[/url][/i] (1748), Bk. II, ch. 1.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Britannica_1-0"]^[/url][/b] "Republic". [i]Encyclopædia Britannica[/i].
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-WordNet_2-0"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/republic"]"republic"[/url], [i]WordNet 3.0[/i] (Dictionary.com), retrieved 20 March 2009
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-M-W_3-0"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic"]"Republic"[/url]. [i]Merriam-Webster[/i]. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-4"]^[/url][/b] See Aristotle's [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_(Aristotle)"]Politics[/url][/i] [url="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0058%3Abook%3D2%3Asection%3D1265b"]1265b[/url]: "In fact some people assert that the best constitution must be a combination of all the forms of constitution, and therefore praise the constitution of Sparta （for some people say that it consists of oligarchy, monarchy and democracy, meaning that the kingship is monarchy and the rule of the ephors oligarchy, but that an element of democracy is introduced by the rule of the ephors because the ephors come from the common people; while others pronounce the ephorate a tyranny but find an element of democracy in the public mess-tables and in the other regulations of daily life）." Aristotle is considered the crucial surviving source for understanding Polybius and Cicero's comparisons to Greek regimes. In[i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics"]Nicomachean Ethics[/url][/i] 1160a34 he says [i]politeia[/i] can mean the same thing as "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timocracy"]timocracy[/url]". In the [i]Politics[/i] 1293b22 he says [i]politeia[/i] can mean what is today often translated as a "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_regime"]mixed regime[/url]".
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-5"]^[/url][/b] Montesquieu, [i]Spirit of the Laws[/i], Bk. II, ch. 2–3.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-6"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html"]Constitution of the United States.[/url]
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-7"]^[/url][/b] Rubinstein, Nicolai. "Machiavelli and Florentine Republican Experience." in [i]Machiavelli and Republicanism[/i] Cambridge University Press, 1993.
[*]^ [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Ideas2099_8-0"][sup][i][b]a[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Ideas2099_8-1"][sup][i][b]b[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Ideas2099_8-2"][sup][i][b]c[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Ideas2099_8-3"][sup][i][b]d[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Ideas2099_8-4"][sup][i][b]e[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Ideas2099_8-5"][sup][i][b]f[/b][/i][/sup][/url] "Republic" New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Vol. 5. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. pg. 2099
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-9"]^[/url][/b] Lewis, Charlton T.; Charles Short (1879). [url="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dres"]"res, II.K"[/url]. [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Latin_Dictionary"]A Latin Dictionary[/url][/i]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
[*]^ [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Haakonssen_10-0"][sup][i][b]a[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Haakonssen_10-1"][sup][i][b]b[/b][/i][/sup][/url] Haakonssen, Knud. "Republicanism." [i]A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy.[/i] Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit. eds. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995.
[*]^ [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-William_R._Everdell_2000_11-0"][sup][i][b]a[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-William_R._Everdell_2000_11-1"][sup][i][b]b[/b][/i][/sup][/url] William R. Everdell. The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-12"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Bloom"]Bloom, Allan[/url]. [i]The Republic.[/i] Bsic Books, 1991. pg. 439-440
[*]^ [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Kingsxxiii_13-0"][sup][i][b]a[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Kingsxxiii_13-1"][sup][i][b]b[/b][/i][/sup][/url] William R. Everdell. The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans. University of Chicago Press, 2000. pg. xxiii
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Monarchy_14-0"]^[/url][/b] "Monarchy" [i]New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.[/i] Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Vol. 5. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-15"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Finer"]Finer, Samuel[/url]. [i]The History of Government from the Earliest Times.[/i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press"]Oxford University Press[/url], 1999. pg. 950.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-16"]^[/url][/b] Nippel, Wilfried. "Ancient and Modern Republicanism." [i]The Invention of the Modern Republic[/i] ed. Biancamaria Fontana. Cambridge University Press, 1994 pg. 6
[*]^ [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Rahe_17-0"][sup][i][b]a[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Rahe_17-1"][sup][i][b]b[/b][/i][/sup][/url] Paul A. Rahe, Republics, Ancient and Modern, three volumes, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1994
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-18"]^[/url][/b] Reno, Jeffrey. "republic." [i]International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences[/i] pg. 184
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Pocock_19-0"]^[/url][/b] Pocock, J.G.A. [i]The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition[/i] (1975; new ed. 2003)
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-20"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://p2.www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074639/Vaisali"]http://p2.www.britan...9074639/Vaisali[/url] Vaisali,[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica"]Encyclopædia Britannica[/url].
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-21"]^[/url][/b] Bindloss, Joe; Sarina Singh (2007). [url="http://books.google.com/?id=T7ZHUhSEleYC&pg=PA556&dq=Vaishali#v=onepage&q=Vaishali"][i]India: Lonely planet Guide[/i][/url].[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_Planet"]Lonely Planet[/url]. p. 556. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number"]ISBN[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1741043085"]1741043085[/url].
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-22"]^[/url][/b] Hoiberg, Dale; Indu Ramchandani (2000). [url="http://books.google.com/?id=DPP7O3nb3g0C&pg=PA208&dq=Vaishali#v=onepage&q=Vaishali"][i]Students' Britannica India, Volumes 1-5[/i][/url]. Popular Prakashan. p. 208. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number"]ISBN[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0852297602"]0852297602[/url].
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-23"]^[/url][/b] Kulke, Hermann; Dietmar Rothermund (2004). [url="http://books.google.com/?id=TPVq3ykHyH4C&pg=PA57&dq=Vaishali&q=Vaishali"][i]A history of India[/i][/url]. Routledge. p. 57. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number"]ISBN[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0415329191"]0415329191[/url].
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-24"]^[/url][/b] Sharma, RS. [i]Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India.[/i] Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1999 pg. xxix
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-25"]^[/url][/b] Radhey Shyam Chaurasia [i]History Of Ancient India Earliest Times To 1200 A.D.[/i] Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2002 pg. 296
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-26"]^[/url][/b] Alterkar, AS. [i]State and Government in Ancient India.[/i] Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 2002
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-27"]^[/url][/b] Martin Bernal, [i]Black Athena Writes Back[/i] (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), 359.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-28"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/15"]Aksum[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO"]UNESCO[/url]
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-29"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://upress.kent.edu/Nieman/Concepts_of_Democracy.htm"]Concepts of Democracy and Democratization in Africa Revisited. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy. by Apollos O. Nwauwa[/url]
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-30"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iceland-free-speech-20110403,0,5332545.story"]http://www.latimes.c...0,5332545.story[/url]
[*]^ [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Finer_1999._pg._950-955_31-0"][sup][i][b]a[/b][/i][/sup][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-Finer_1999._pg._950-955_31-1"][sup][i][b]b[/b][/i][/sup][/url] Finer, Samuel. [i]The History of Government from the Earliest Times.[/i] Oxford University Press, 1999. pg. 950-955.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-32"]^[/url][/b] William R. Everdell. The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans. University of Chicago Press, 2000
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-33"]^[/url][/b] Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge. Law in Medieval Russia, IDC Publishers, 2009
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-34"]^[/url][/b] Finer, Samuel. [i]The History of Government from the Earliest Times.[/i]Oxford University Press, 1999. pg. 955-956.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-35"]^[/url][/b] Finer, Samuel. [i]The History of Government from the Earliest Times.[/i]Oxford University Press, 1999. pg. 1020.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-36"]^[/url][/b] "Republicanism." [i]Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment[/i] pg. 435
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-37"]^[/url][/b] "Introduction." [i]Republicanism: a Shared European Heritage.[/i] By Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner. Cambridge University Press, 2002 pg. 1
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[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-39"]^[/url][/b] "Latin American Republicanism" New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Vol. 5. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-40"]^[/url][/b] Anderson, Lisa. "Absolutism and the Resilience of Monarchy in the Middle East." [i]Political Science Quarterly[/i], Vol. 106, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 1–15
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-41"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lewis"]Bernard Lewis[/url]. "The Concept of an Islamic Republic" [i]Die Welt des Islams,[/i] New Series, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (1955), pp. 1–9
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-42"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED"]OED[/url], [i]s. v.[/i]
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[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-44"]^[/url][/b] Article VII, Constitution of the United States
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-45"]^[/url][/b] Article II, Para 2, Constitution of the United States
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-46"]^[/url][/b] The novelist and essayist [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.G.Wells"]H.G.Wells[/url] regularly used the term crowned republic to describe the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"]United Kingdom[/url], for instance in his work [i]A Short History of the World.[/i] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson"]Alfred, Lord Tennyson[/url] in his poem[i][url="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tennyson/alfred/idylls/chapter13.html"]Idylls of the King[/url][/i].
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-47"]^[/url][/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montfort_Dunn"]Dunn, John[/url]. "The Identity of the Bourgeois Liberal Republic." The Invention of the Modern Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-49"]^[/url][/b] "[url="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/republicanism/"]Republicanism[/url]" [i]Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[/i] Jun 19, 2006
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-50"]^[/url][/b] McCormick, John P. "Machiavelli against Republicanism: On the Cambridge School's 'Guicciardinian Moments'" [i]Political Theory[/i], Vol. 31, No. 5 (Oct., 2003), pp. 615–643
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-51"]^[/url][/b] Pocock, J.G.A [i]The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition[/i] Princeton: 1975;2003
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-52"]^[/url][/b] Philip Pettit, [i]Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government[/i], NY: Oxford U.P., 1997, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0198290837"]ISBN 0-19-829083-7[/url]; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-53"]^[/url][/b] William R. Everdell. [i]The End of Kings: A History of Republics and Republicans.[/i] University of Chicago Press, 2000. pg. 6
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-54"]^[/url][/b] GOVERNMENT (Republican Form of Government)- One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people ... directly ... Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, P. 695
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-55"]^[/url][/b] W. Paul Adams "Republicanism in Political Rhetoric Before 1776."[i]Political Science Quarterly[/i], Vol. 85, No. 3 (Sep., 1970), pp. 397–421
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-56"]^[/url][/b] Bailyn, Bernard. [i]The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution[/i]. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
[*][b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#cite_ref-57"]^[/url][/b] Kramnick, Isaac. [i]Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America.[/i]Ithaca: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University_Press"]Cornell University Press[/url], 1990.
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Or, you know, there's always the dictionary.
[quote]
republic |riˈpəblik|
noun
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
[/quote]

103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

Whenever a new public meeting location becomes important it inevitably becomes a Sanctuary so that people can travel there and feel safe while things are discussed/introduced/whatever.

Like Eon recently posted in the Mood Panel
[b][quote]Eon[/b] - [i]Why delay the inevitable? Just go ahead and make all locations a sanc[/quote][/i]

I feel that Sanctuaries are becoming too common. In No Man's Land, there are five Sanctuary locations that I can think of off the top of my head. If things continue as they are, we'll have more Sanctuary scenes than regular scenes soon. And that's not fair to the people who like to fight.

But, I do like that we can have a safer haven in which to hold discussions and meetings.
So, I would like to propose a spell that will temporarily render a location as a Sanctuary. Maybe for 2 hours at a time.

That way we can still have our safe meetings and the fighters are appeased.

"Lets brew some tea."

Okay, I've gotten this question… a lot. So I'm going to make a comprehensive list that I can just link to for future reference. If I misremember anything about making tea (it's been a while) or details get too specific and it's considered a spoiler, let me know. I hope this helps all future tea-brewers!

- B

P.S. [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10398-tea/page__p__90279#entry90279"]Here's Mur's original post[/url], should you want to read it.

Here's how you run the teapot. (Full step by step instructions)[list=1]
[*]Collect a teapot, tea recipe book, water, branches, tea leaves, aromatic herbs, and tea cups from their various locations.
[*]Gather enough heat to fuel the teapot in a heat storing device (i.e. a heat jar).
[*]Open your inventory
[*]Open the teapot.
[*]Load the required heat into the teapot. [i]Warning: When the heat that you have loaded into the teapot reaches zero, the branches and water will be consumed and you will have to reload them[/i].
[*]Load the required branches and water into the teapot.
[*][b]FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BREW TEA WITH[/b]. This is necessary because the teapot holder [u]cannot[/u] provide ingredients for making tea nor can they give themselves the instructions. Cauldrons were meant to be community items, use them in groups! This should/could be step number 1!
[*]Give your tea making partners the tea leaves, water, aromatic herbs, and tea cups you will be using to produce tea.
[*]When the water, branches, and heat are loaded and you click continue you should get a screen like this.
[*][attachment=3589:teapot3.gif]
[*]That little countdown timer next to "Next instruction in…" tells you how quickly and when the teapot is checking chat for instructions. [i]Warning: If they are large amount of people talking where you are trying to prepare tea, things could get a little sticky[/i].
[*]Now you must clearly say [color=#000080]"[/color][color=#0000cd]Lets brew some tea.[/color][color=#000080]"[/color], "[color=#0000cd]Lets prepare some tea.[/color]", or "[color=#0000cd]I will prepare a nice cup of aromatic tea.[/color]" You should get a green message in chat that confirms that you are now brewing tea and states what the necessary ingredients are. At this point your, the teapot holder's, part in this is nearly done. Now your tea making buddy (TMB) steps in.
[*]The tea recipe calls for specific resources; aromatic herbs, water, tea leaves, and tea cups. Your TMB(s) must possess all of these ingredients in their necessary amounts and "give" them to the teapot by using the words, "[color=#0000cd]I will provide the [blank].[/color]" Where you substitute the name of the item in place of the blank. [i]The ingredients do not all have to come from one person nor do they have to be provide in their full amount by a single person.[/i]
[*]The teapot will then tell you in chat and in green text that all of the ingredients are loaded and it's ready to go. If you have not provided all of the ingredients it will tell you what you still need to provide.
[*]At this point your TMB(s) have to give you, the tea-brewer, the Instructions. The Instructions are basically (sort of) the steps you would need to brew tea. They need to be stated one at a time[i] per one cycle of the "Next Instruction In…" countdown timer[/i]. If you feed the teapot too many instructions at once, it will miss some of them.
[*]The instructions are as follows:
[/list][indent=1]1. "[color=#0000cd]Spread the leaves over the teapot's base[/color]."[/indent]
[indent=1]2. "[color=#0000cd]Add some water.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]3. "[color=#0000cd]Boil the water.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]4. "[color=#0000cd]Pour the hot water into the teapot[/color]."[/indent]
[indent=1]5. "[color=#0000cd]Wait for five minutes.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]6. "[color=#0000cd]Serve up the tea.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1][size=2]note: There are other phrases that work for each step, those are just my favorite.[/size]
17. The teapot will dispense a red completion message and you will smell a wonderful smell. There will be tea in your inventory.
18. [b]Divide up the tea with your TMBs! [/b]They helped you, they deserve some of the tea too.
[/indent]

103) A Council rotation doesn't mean that the membership of the Council changes, it simply means that they all stand up and move a chair to the left.

The Treasure Keepers have decided to hold a Bettingfest(not sure what else to call it)

Basically,

You choose one of the three possibilities (Team I. Team II, Team III).
You place a silver/higher amount for that team to win.
Once they win, you will get an equal portion in relation to your bid of the jackpot.
So, if ten people bid 1g on Team A to win, and the jackpot is 100 gold. Each of you will get 10g.

I will [b]not[/b] be taking any share of the winnings, what so ever. The TKs have a bid, but all winnings will be put into the TK Treasury. All silver/gold collected will be distributed amongst the winners. (In the case of any left over winnings, they will be put into the TK Treasury.)

[u]TKs will put 1g on each of the Teams.[/u]


Teams and participants can be found here:

Team I:

Fyrd Argentus
dst
AmberRune
gonzalocsdf
*MasterB*
Lone Wolf
Rannel
Fenrar
tom Pouce

Team II:

Maebius
*Shadowseeker*
Tarquinus
darkraptor
Soothing Sands
*MRAlyon*
redneck
The Warrior
Jubelee

Team III:

Chewett
apophys
Brulant
tal
*Clock Master*
Ivorak
Nimrodel
Valldore Nal
Phantom Orchid
lashtal


You can bid either through Forum PM, IG PM, or at the treasury email address.

When you bid, please tell me which team you are bidding for.


I will also be collecting all bids immediately, so that the winnings may be distributed immediately as well.


Current Pot: 3g

Okay, I've gotten this question… a lot. So I'm going to make a comprehensive list that I can just link to for future reference. If I misremember anything about making tea (it's been a while) or details get too specific and it's considered a spoiler, let me know. I hope this helps all future tea-brewers!

- B

P.S. [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10398-tea/page__p__90279#entry90279"]Here's Mur's original post[/url], should you want to read it.

Here's how you run the teapot. (Full step by step instructions)[list=1]
[*]Collect a teapot, tea recipe book, water, branches, tea leaves, aromatic herbs, and tea cups from their various locations.
[*]Gather enough heat to fuel the teapot in a heat storing device (i.e. a heat jar).
[*]Open your inventory
[*]Open the teapot.
[*]Load the required heat into the teapot. [i]Warning: When the heat that you have loaded into the teapot reaches zero, the branches and water will be consumed and you will have to reload them[/i].
[*]Load the required branches and water into the teapot.
[*][b]FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BREW TEA WITH[/b]. This is necessary because the teapot holder [u]cannot[/u] provide ingredients for making tea nor can they give themselves the instructions. Cauldrons were meant to be community items, use them in groups! This should/could be step number 1!
[*]Give your tea making partners the tea leaves, water, aromatic herbs, and tea cups you will be using to produce tea.
[*]When the water, branches, and heat are loaded and you click continue you should get a screen like this.
[*][attachment=3589:teapot3.gif]
[*]That little countdown timer next to "Next instruction in…" tells you how quickly and when the teapot is checking chat for instructions. [i]Warning: If they are large amount of people talking where you are trying to prepare tea, things could get a little sticky[/i].
[*]Now you must clearly say [color=#000080]"[/color][color=#0000cd]Lets brew some tea.[/color][color=#000080]"[/color], "[color=#0000cd]Lets prepare some tea.[/color]", or "[color=#0000cd]I will prepare a nice cup of aromatic tea.[/color]" You should get a green message in chat that confirms that you are now brewing tea and states what the necessary ingredients are. At this point your, the teapot holder's, part in this is nearly done. Now your tea making buddy (TMB) steps in.
[*]The tea recipe calls for specific resources; aromatic herbs, water, tea leaves, and tea cups. Your TMB(s) must possess all of these ingredients in their necessary amounts and "give" them to the teapot by using the words, "[color=#0000cd]I will provide the [blank].[/color]" Where you substitute the name of the item in place of the blank. [i]The ingredients do not all have to come from one person nor do they have to be provide in their full amount by a single person.[/i]
[*]The teapot will then tell you in chat and in green text that all of the ingredients are loaded and it's ready to go. If you have not provided all of the ingredients it will tell you what you still need to provide.
[*]At this point your TMB(s) have to give you, the tea-brewer, the Instructions. The Instructions are basically (sort of) the steps you would need to brew tea. They need to be stated one at a time[i] per one cycle of the "Next Instruction In…" countdown timer[/i]. If you feed the teapot too many instructions at once, it will miss some of them.
[*]The instructions are as follows:
[/list][indent=1]1. "[color=#0000cd]Spread the leaves over the teapot's base[/color]."[/indent]
[indent=1]2. "[color=#0000cd]Add some water.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]3. "[color=#0000cd]Boil the water.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]4. "[color=#0000cd]Pour the hot water into the teapot[/color]."[/indent]
[indent=1]5. "[color=#0000cd]Wait for five minutes.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]6. "[color=#0000cd]Serve up the tea.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1][size=2]note: There are other phrases that work for each step, those are just my favorite.[/size]
17. The teapot will dispense a red completion message and you will smell a wonderful smell. There will be tea in your inventory.
18. [b]Divide up the tea with your TMBs! [/b]They helped you, they deserve some of the tea too.
[/indent]

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I'd like to apply also. I've looked a lot at the avatars, though I usually don't trade them myself (mostly I've helped others with them). I watch my messages very closely and am moderately active.

Princess Katt
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Forum reputation should now be fixed, as are various other small bugs that were broked on the new version. If there are any issues, pm me

Okay, I've gotten this question… a lot. So I'm going to make a comprehensive list that I can just link to for future reference. If I misremember anything about making tea (it's been a while) or details get too specific and it's considered a spoiler, let me know. I hope this helps all future tea-brewers!

- B

P.S. [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10398-tea/page__p__90279#entry90279"]Here's Mur's original post[/url], should you want to read it.

Here's how you run the teapot. (Full step by step instructions)[list=1]
[*]Collect a teapot, tea recipe book, water, branches, tea leaves, aromatic herbs, and tea cups from their various locations.
[*]Gather enough heat to fuel the teapot in a heat storing device (i.e. a heat jar).
[*]Open your inventory
[*]Open the teapot.
[*]Load the required heat into the teapot. [i]Warning: When the heat that you have loaded into the teapot reaches zero, the branches and water will be consumed and you will have to reload them[/i].
[*]Load the required branches and water into the teapot.
[*][b]FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BREW TEA WITH[/b]. This is necessary because the teapot holder [u]cannot[/u] provide ingredients for making tea nor can they give themselves the instructions. Cauldrons were meant to be community items, use them in groups! This should/could be step number 1!
[*]Give your tea making partners the tea leaves, water, aromatic herbs, and tea cups you will be using to produce tea.
[*]When the water, branches, and heat are loaded and you click continue you should get a screen like this.
[*][attachment=3589:teapot3.gif]
[*]That little countdown timer next to "Next instruction in…" tells you how quickly and when the teapot is checking chat for instructions. [i]Warning: If they are large amount of people talking where you are trying to prepare tea, things could get a little sticky[/i].
[*]Now you must clearly say [color=#000080]"[/color][color=#0000cd]Lets brew some tea.[/color][color=#000080]"[/color], "[color=#0000cd]Lets prepare some tea.[/color]", or "[color=#0000cd]I will prepare a nice cup of aromatic tea.[/color]" You should get a green message in chat that confirms that you are now brewing tea and states what the necessary ingredients are. At this point your, the teapot holder's, part in this is nearly done. Now your tea making buddy (TMB) steps in.
[*]The tea recipe calls for specific resources; aromatic herbs, water, tea leaves, and tea cups. Your TMB(s) must possess all of these ingredients in their necessary amounts and "give" them to the teapot by using the words, "[color=#0000cd]I will provide the [blank].[/color]" Where you substitute the name of the item in place of the blank. [i]The ingredients do not all have to come from one person nor do they have to be provide in their full amount by a single person.[/i]
[*]The teapot will then tell you in chat and in green text that all of the ingredients are loaded and it's ready to go. If you have not provided all of the ingredients it will tell you what you still need to provide.
[*]At this point your TMB(s) have to give you, the tea-brewer, the Instructions. The Instructions are basically (sort of) the steps you would need to brew tea. They need to be stated one at a time[i] per one cycle of the "Next Instruction In…" countdown timer[/i]. If you feed the teapot too many instructions at once, it will miss some of them.
[*]The instructions are as follows:
[/list][indent=1]1. "[color=#0000cd]Spread the leaves over the teapot's base[/color]."[/indent]
[indent=1]2. "[color=#0000cd]Add some water.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]3. "[color=#0000cd]Boil the water.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]4. "[color=#0000cd]Pour the hot water into the teapot[/color]."[/indent]
[indent=1]5. "[color=#0000cd]Wait for five minutes.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1]6. "[color=#0000cd]Serve up the tea.[/color]"[/indent]
[indent=1][size=2]note: There are other phrases that work for each step, those are just my favorite.[/size]
17. The teapot will dispense a red completion message and you will smell a wonderful smell. There will be tea in your inventory.
18. [b]Divide up the tea with your TMBs! [/b]They helped you, they deserve some of the tea too.
[/indent]