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In Hellenius, Queen Anastasia ruled. However, she had a hard life. Being sexually abused and raped since childhood, she has become somewhat shy and inward. She also gave birth once, to an illegitimate daughter named Helena who lives with relatives of Anastasia.

Anastasia took care of Helena despite being illegitimate and still has a solid relationship with her, mother and daughter.

In Hellenius, the Living Church is the state church, it is a mix of Orthodoxy and Catholicism. For example, the Living Church uses the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (the Greek Orthodox, etc rite) but in Latin. The head of the Church is Christ, though the ''Manager'' is the Archbishop of Hellenius (Bishops are the second highest rank in the LC).

Anastasia still remembers the rapes, etc. As a child, she had many nightmares and she still remembers them today.

Anastasia is a pious woman, known for her devoutness in her Christian faith. Anastasia's illegitimate daughter, Helena is a nice girl, still young but intelligent.

Demetrios Maganas, an advisor of the Queen, is Helena's tutor. He has taught her many things, like the Latin language for example. Greek is the offical language, though Latin is spoken, especially in the Living Church.

The LC uses sometimes ''Hellenized Latin'' which is Latin written in Greek.

Anastasia has ruled for sometime and is well respected. She hopes for a good reign.

What will Anastasia's and Hellenius' future hold? We may find out some time......

''Today, Hellenius has come onto the world stage. We are interested in building for our nation, diplomatic ties with the established lands of this Earth. We ask that if you are interested in diplomacy with us, that you contact us. Thank you for your time and may God bless you.

In the Trinity we trust! (National Motto)

Signed,
Demetrios Maganas''

I'm a newbie to NationStates. Can some people come and help me out? Introduce me to things? I hope to have a ok time here and I would appreciate help from others.

I'm a newbie to NationStates. Can some people come and help me out? Introduce me to things? I hope to have a ok time here and I would appreciate help from others.
ooc: I'd be willing to try and answer any questions you might have.
Also welcome to NS.

ooc: I'd be willing to try and answer any questions you might have.
Also welcome to NS.

Thanks for your welcome, Theao. I am glad you can help me out.

I have one question at hand:

1. What is acceptable to post? Like, are we allowed to post things like ''He slashed the woman's head off?'' or graphic descriptions of things like rape or murder?

I am checking my mind for any more questions to ask. Thank you for your help.

Anything sexual can't go into any detail - you have to use 'fade to black 'instead, though referances are allowed - eg, 'I made her suck it.' would be allowed, as would 'she was raped' , but a graphic detail of what happened would not. Blood and gore are fine, as far as I know.

Welcome to NS and have fun!

edit: I guess that kidnap thing is OK. YOu're allowed to RP basically everything as long as it doesn't get described too graphically.

Anything sexual can't go into any detail - you have to use 'fade to black 'instead, though referances are allowed - eg, 'I made her suck it.' would be allowed, as would 'she was raped' , but a graphic detail of what happened would not. Blood and gore are fine, as far as I know.

Welcome to NS and have fun!

Thanks, Questers for your info. I don't want to mess around on here or anything. Thanks again for your help.

ooc: Rape is a big no-no. Murder is fine as long as it doesn't get too explicit.

Anything sexual can't go into any detail - you have to use 'fade to black 'instead, though referances are allowed - eg, 'I made her suck it.' would be allowed, as would 'she was raped' , but a graphic detail of what happened would not. Blood and gore are fine, as far as I know.

Welcome to NS and have fun!

edit: I guess that kidnap thing is OK. YOu're allowed to RP basically everything as long as it doesn't get described too graphically.

I may do a kidnap thing here on NS, my first RP (it is called RP, right?) on NS. It would involve kidnapping and other things.

ooc: Rape is a big no-no. Murder is fine as long as it doesn't get too explicit.

Thanks for your info, Theao.

Just a moment.


1. What is acceptable to post? Like, are we allowed to post things like ''He slashed the woman's head off?'' or graphic descriptions of things like rape or murder?


Sexually, no, you can't go into much detail at all. Combat-wise, I've seen and done some what I've been told are fairly graphic things. Example below:


The patrol, one of the near-constant Russkyan patrols, walked into a nightmare landscape. At one time, it was probably a nice place. What was left of trees and bushes and what was lush grass suggested that. Perhaps this small part of Gromadin Forest had been the place for a lover's tryst, a quiet and green-shaded place for a family picnic, maybe there had been a child's tree-house fort in the branches above the forest loam.

There were no branches now. That was a lie, there were branches, just devoid of their leaves. Most of them were broken. Pieces of timber, hewn from the trees that had not survived the bombardment, often manifested themselves as shards of wood, stuck into the ground. Sharp-edged and harshly pointed, these splinters were everywheres, in a few areas, where it looked like a tree or two had taken a direct hit.

Worse, far worse than the splintered trees, dissected bushes, and cratered ground, were the corpses. What was left of them, anyways. Artillery did strange things to the human body - overlapping concussive waves of tremendous force, screaming metal shards called shrapnel, red-, even white-hot, then the environment was even turned against you. Trees created their own shrapnel, wet Earth became very hot steam, and rocks, blasted from the ground and zinging low along the ground violently amputated limbs, steam and blast burnt skin, ripped flesh from bones.

The eight men walked in a double-column, well spaced. The pointman's fist rose in the air, at the level of his shoulders, his left hand, rather than his right. His right remained on the pistol grip of his AKS-74M rifle, issue to the VDV. The section halted, kneeling, facing outwards to cover their sectors of responsibility, and the section leader, a junior-grade NCO, hurried forward to meet his pointman. He knew the man's abilities, he had been combat-tested in Sorachoak, those brutal battles with fanatical Sorachoakai having lent him seemingly sharpened reflexes and senses. The NCO turned around to look over his shoulder, just to confirm what his mind thought, the suddenness of the change.

Behind them lay a nice, albeit dense, forest. Ahead of them laid a wasted zone, with smears of bright blood still fresh, the lingering smell of cordite... and blood. A heavy, coppery tang of a scent hanging mist-like over the ground. Pieces of corpses, entire corpses, flung around, strewn everywheres. More than a few limbs were in tree branches. Half a corpse, pale from blood-loss, pooling beneath it, lay in the fork of two branches, hands reaching upwards, beseeching a God that the Artillery ignored, blue intestines spilling downwards to the ground.

This was not the first time such scenes had been encountered. The patrol spread out, constantly looking, constantly scanning. A desantniik's foot landed next to a broken FN-FAL rifle, its loaded magazine shorn in half, reciever dented, and stock imbedded with a piece of shrapnel. A finger was still inside the trigger guard. Such was the power of modern artillery, as another Estonavian patrol had learnt. Soon the combined Estovakian and Russkyan forces should be through Gromadin Forest, through Gromadin, along and over Highway 10, and into Karadjevo's outskirts.


That's acceptable, apparently. Sex, not so much. It's a funny standard, but I can understand it.

ooc: Internal kidnappings(kidnappings of your own people) is fine, if you want to kidnap someone else's citizens/character, you need to confirm it with them.

I think I know about RP's, etc but can I get some info from people? To refresh my memory. How about you, Theao or Questers?

Sure, shoot.

Just a moment.



Sexually, no, you can't go into much detail at all. Combat-wise, I've seen and done some what I've been told are fairly graphic things. Example below:



That's acceptable, apparently. Sex, not so much. It's a funny standard, but I can understand it.

Thanks for the info and for the excellent example, very well done indeed. I am a newbie here and I'm glad people are helping me out.

Sure, shoot.

Can you tell me about RP's, etc? I think I may know some things but my memory may need refreshing, if I do know anything. Also, it would not hurt to review things.

It's all about the writing and the ability to tell a story. OOC conversations through telegrams or even instant-messenger programs help hugely.

Proper grammar, syntax, and spelling, are a must! The more legible your post, the better a reaction from people you will get, even if you've made some mistakes otherwise.

ooc: Internal kidnappings(kidnappings of your own people) is fine, if you want to kidnap someone else's citizens/character, you need to confirm it with them.

I would do internal kidnappings, I think. I don't know about external kidnapping.

It's all about the writing and the ability to tell a story. OOC conversations through telegrams or even instant-messenger programs help hugely.

Proper grammar, syntax, and spelling, are a must! The more legible your post, the better a reaction from people you will get, even if you've made some mistakes otherwise.

Thanks for this good info, Russkya. I may do my first RP soon. It does involve kidnapping and other things. Thanks again.

Remember that in combat, a surprisingly low number of people are killed. A higher number are severely wounded / lightly wounded than killed, unless its say, artillery on a soft target in the open. Then it's just bloody.

Also remember that equipment, so long as its in the same general decade, works fine against other equipment. It's all about how you use it - I've (In off-site RPs) smashed up enemy M1A2 Companies with my T-80UM platoons.

Just because it sometimes looks like a number-fest, does not mean that tactics don't apply. Always get a good picture of the terrain in your head first, it will help a lot with the story writing process.

RP'ing is mostly descriptive writing anyways. Dialogue is difficult, in terms of writing, but it's difficult to have good posts without dialogue. Fortunately, if you end up in a discussion with someone IC'ly, it's just like talking to them as you would face-to-face, so the dialogue issue is simplified somewhat.

Try to give your characters differing personalities. In some RPs you'll notice that everyone seems to think and act the same to various stimuli, that's a function of "shifting conciousness" to a different character, rather than taking the character's mindset and applying that to the situation.

Sorry, that's pretty awkward. Hopefully it makes sense.

Remember that in combat, a surprisingly low number of people are killed. A higher number are severely wounded / lightly wounded than killed, unless its say, artillery on a soft target in the open. Then it's just bloody.

Also remember that equipment, so long as its in the same general decade, works fine against other equipment. It's all about how you use it - I've (In off-site RPs) smashed up enemy M1A2 Companies with my T-80UM platoons.

Just because it sometimes looks like a number-fest, does not mean that tactics don't apply. Always get a good picture of the terrain in your head first, it will help a lot with the story writing process.

RP'ing is mostly descriptive writing anyways. Dialogue is difficult, in terms of writing, but it's difficult to have good posts without dialogue. Fortunately, if you end up in a discussion with someone IC'ly, it's just like talking to them as you would face-to-face, so the dialogue issue is simplified somewhat.

Try to give your characters differing personalities. In some RPs you'll notice that everyone seems to think and act the same to various stimuli, that's a function of "shifting conciousness" to a different character, rather than taking the character's mindset and applying that to the situation.

Sorry, that's pretty awkward. Hopefully it makes sense.

Thanks for this info. I will try my best on RPing. Thank you for this info, it will help me out, I am sure. Thank you, Russkya. Also, I am starting my first RP soon!

I've started my first NS RP! :D