Maebius

You drew my avatar.

What others said, above..   Plus, these would be perfect in the MDA bookcase clickies. 
 

What others said, above..   Plus, these would be perfect in the MDA bookcase clickies. 
 

Aurea Isle

What others said, above..   Plus, these would be perfect in the MDA bookcase clickies. 
 

It would be cool if someone (The Archivists maybe?) hosted regular events like this where we do performances of the various AL chapters. It would make the daunting wall of text feel a lot more approachable. I'd greatly appreciate it myself because I've personally only read two chapters of the AL and one of which I would not have read if it weren't for the fact that it was happening while I read it.

Democracy is overrated, I will pick  the plushie myself "soon"

I'll be the coach, not the captain.   You know, the guy who stands there on the sides and says "Go team!"  and then gets all the cash & fame when You win.   
Otherwise,   Love this offtopic idea. 

I would love to see how someone would be Me.   
Just as Time flows in the same direction, and with the same result, the in-between details can change.    How profound a story!
+Liked.

I'll be the coach, not the captain.   You know, the guy who stands there on the sides and says "Go team!"  and then gets all the cash & fame when You win.   
Otherwise,   Love this offtopic idea. 

I would love to see how someone would be Me.   
Just as Time flows in the same direction, and with the same result, the in-between details can change.    How profound a story!
+Liked.

I'll be the coach, not the captain.   You know, the guy who stands there on the sides and says "Go team!"  and then gets all the cash & fame when You win.   
Otherwise,   Love this offtopic idea. 

If there's interest maybe there'll be "Classy MB team" (classy=legendary (football) players from all of MD's history...), "Classy LR", "Classy Magicduelist_serial_killers" captained by Dst and sub-captained by Eon, "Team questers" (Dst and Nim capt and sub-capt), "Team Grinders" and "Classy team Grinders" etc.
But unlikely, we don't have a sport audience here
Anyhows - now we go to current Marind Bell football squad! (filled out the starting eleven on a quickie, sorry if I missed anyone)

 
On the goal we have our team captain, No. 1 - Maebius!
We'll go straight to me (or my old me), substitute captain, No. 8 - Princ Rhaegar, playing as a not-that-pacy but a good-passed center midfielder.
Star of the team - Clock Master, No. 11, left winger, quick, athletic and deadly!
Injury prone Rikstar with his No. 9 leading the attack, Conc No. 14 covering his right side.
Nadrolski, No. 3, classy full left back that covers the whole left side if required.
Ungod, classy No. 10, need I say more.
Sir Blut and WittyleWat have to go in pair and they hold our defense!
Klawdees a youngster on the right back, came fresh out of the academy, has potential.
And last but not the least, Junior, aggressive ball-winning center midfielder, has a tendency to get a yellow card in every game.
edit: the kit is white as intended, the red collar was a poor addon from me, forgot to remove it. Let's call it, Rhaegar-flavored MB alternate kit.

Everyone always forgets our lovely Barren Soul that my suggestion.

Necrovion got disbanded, shade sentinel did not appear even for the ex necrovion nobility...at worst you could achieve by messing with necrovion powers is that you become part of the wipeout,....and the best you can get is a mercyfull kill be the death patrol
 
cruel reality

I figure it's an April Fools trick..  and this is all a bad dream. 
 

There's only one true rookie of the year. ;)

Almost 8 years after the story about friendship and betrayal (you can read about it here) I come to you with a story about friendship and revenge.
 
Yes, this is about the TW takeover. Probably most of you know that it was not a bug or an exploit that I used and probably some of you (ex necros - wow! how fun to say this :D - for sure) know how I was able to take it over.
 
Not to prolong the "mystery" : it was Ary who invited me in.
 
And now for some background: about 2 or 3 years ago I was casually playing MD when a team quest was announced. For some reason I ended up in the same team as Nimmy and a new guy called Ary Endleg (btw: it's the anagram for Legendary if you haven't discovered by now). I don't remember what happened to that quest but what I do remember is that one day my skype window popped and a guy called "Ary Endleg" added me. At first I was annoyed because I thought he was a noob :D. He asked me to guess who he was. I failed several times. He got bored and told me :D.
 
We began to chat and to plot things. Our mutual goal was to destroy TW/Necro/whatever resided in that land. And we set up a plan.
- Get NC citizenship
- Get in NC hidden forum
- Get in TW
- Wait for opportunity to take over TW
 
First 3 ones were pretty easy and went smooth. Last one was a female dog because the paranoid Necros didn't leave an open spot for the life of the Spaghetti Monster!
 
Yes ex-Necros! You were sooo paranoid...I had so much fun tormenting you! Remember few months ago when one of you exit the ally and I used an illusion to take on the badge? Sy got to freaked out that she used the tool to remove NC citizenship. Btw: that tool is bugged. None of you noticed that the uses didn't go down. Or...you didn't want to. I had to report it to Chew because you didn't care to. I got in that illusion several times along the years but you never seems to care or to remember. Your memory is short. Waaay too short. You should lose the hive thing :D. It damages you.
 
Back to the story. I started gaining enough loyalty to always be ahead on azull and have the number so in case of an opportunity to jump right in.
Meanwhile we were thinking of other options in order to get one of you out. Yes, believe it or not I cannot use illusions to take over allies. I can do other stuff but not this. And even after Chewett confirmed it you still didn't believe it. You couldn't believe that one of you was a mole. Believe it! He fooled you to the core!
 
The first real opportunity showed when peace announced she's leaving the game. But you were right there and replaced her with aeo. Oh well...we missed it. We moved on.
 
Days passed, both me and Ary and No one and the rest of what I like to call The Team went on with our lives and played MD and did other stuff. Disband one ally here, kill one player there, do a quest everywhere (this one's Nimmy :D), win some other quests and adventures, make players quit, business as usual.
 
Then one day (Friday evening or Saturday morning? - my mind is fuzzy cause I was incredibly tired that week-end) Ary told me that eara is leaving the ally and she'll be using "wookiee magic". That was our chance. But guess what? I slept from 6 PM until next day at 9 I believe. Poor Ary! He called, he yelled he probably pulled his hair that night. I think he cursed me more than any of you combined.
But we were lucky. Next day eara was out and the free spot was not filled in. So we acted. He invited me in, I got more loyalty than azull and then kicked ALL of ally members out.
 
Next step: send Mur the e-mail containing the log I pulled 4 years ago :D. That was a brilliant move (yes, I am VERY modest) I had so much adrenaline in me that I couldn't find that damn log (I must confess I am not a very tidy librarian :D). I passed Ary all the logs I had from that period and asked him to search for the piece cause I was unable to :D. He found it. I e-mail Mur and Chewett. I made the post on the forum.
And then the waiting game began.
 
And things happened. I haven't seen so many changes in such a short time since MD's old days. And they are not over. There are changes still to come.
 
And who is the one to thank for all this? Ary Endleg. He infiltrated you up to the highest level. He gained your trust. Yes, he did help you with stuff. Meanwhile he kept me updated with your moves :D. He's the best spy in all MD History!
 
                                                         He's the Legendary [spoiler]LIBERTY[/spoiler].
 
And now you know the reason for the takeover. REVENGE!
 
 

I agree and tend to feel the same about the myriad list of similar Stories. Almost all popular Myths (from children's Fairy Tales, to epic novels, to Religious Texts, to the tales told by travelling bards, etc) All have the same "quality" if they stand the test of time. They define "Good/Bad/other" and thus, offer insight to one's self.

Myths are True, not factual, and this relates to the popularity among multiple cultures, of "The Trickster/fool" (The devil falls into this more universal Archetype).
These stories are essentially "Don't do this", and in showing them done, (or in the case of a Dystopian culture, showing them "In Effect") we learn about ourselves. If the reader/listener agrees with the setting or action, that's a learning moment or at least affirmation of themselves. If they disagree, it invites the unspoken question "Why?" in their minds. Even if not consciously asked.

The threads are the same, be they Biblical, or Mythic, or from a different culture.
But the tone is the same. "Here's some goodness" and "Here's some badness". Wrapping those in an engaging Story doesn't change the inner Truth of the concept.
So I agree, that it's merely a Story, updated to more Modern society (or, vaguely historic in the case of 1984, since it's 2016 now).
The factuality is unrelated to it's inherent Truth.

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I started reading Orwell's 1984 a couple of days ago and I couldn't go past 5 pages. True, it *was* midnight, so maybe that helped in letting it go, but I realized something the next day.
 
   From what I read (and I know the story, the 'message'- wiki), it was a somewhat correct depiction of the general feeling that people in Eastern Europe felt during the communist years, but it was so exaggerated...It was a painful read and, most importantly, boring.
   I understand the term 'dystopia', I understand that it has exaggerations, but such a society could.not.exist. The mixture of elements simply makes such a 'construction' impossible. More believable is Huxley's Brave New World, but that one portrays the human being as just hedonistic, and that is simply untrue. If man craved only pleasure, his book would have never been written. All in all, these texts not only bore me, but seem to me to be simply expressions of fear.
 
   But I remembered the reverse - utopias. And then it hit me - these are just modern (well, modern...there are utopias written from antiquity onward) heaven and hell depictions. Nothing more. I know it seems such a big difference - what's 'punishing your sins in an eternal pit of fire' have in common with 'a totalitarian government is watching you, cameras are everywhere and you can't say what you really think'? well, they're both untrue, for one. also, they scare you and, last, but not least, they give you a wrong perception of what a human being is. It seems so weird to me that all these texts ignore the bigger context - the natural one, and focus so much on the human-created environment, coming up with outlandish stuff.
 
  Now, I'm not particularly interested in correcting people's mistakes or beliefs, but I do have a huge list of books on my disk (and it's enough to visit some bookmarked sites and I can add a few hundreds easily) and for me utopias and dystopias are classified under 'bullshit, not gonna happen' category now. Yeah, I read a short version of the Bible and some sensible bits. To me, 1984 and (let's give an utopia name) City of Sun look like modern Bible bits to me, kind of saying "I dream of..." (and you can have nightmares or sweet dreams).
 
  Anyway, it's a long text, I'm wondering who will ever read this, but if you do, and you have an opinion, you can write it down here, maybe. I am more interested in opinions that disagree with mine, though it is unlikely I will change my conclusion.

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Check Trigger box for "nmportal" references.   Certain people have been known to make it glow randomly, and often, when bored.  (aka: me)

Happy Happy [belated due to camping] Birthday Wishes!   :D

See also.
http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/17198-nc-citizens-and-recent-events/
 
 
Four years we were guests in Necrovion. We were given much freedom by the Shades and we built a strong and enduring society. But all things come to an end.   Events in Necrovion have shown us that perhaps the time has come to move on. Other lands have their reflection in this land. In the land as well as in the people at the core of it's society. Thus we become landless yet, in a way, part of all lands. We'll travel the roads of this realm and make our camp where it suits us. We become nomads. But we won't forget where we came from or what Darkness taught us.   Syrian and I relinquish all rights to the crown. I don't know what the future holds for Necrovion. That will be in the hands of others, what- or whomever they may be. I do know this will be a new chapter in MD and that will be interesting.     Azull,  former King of Necrovion