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if you look closely, the base form noun, verb, adjective, and adverbs are English words.

mostly, it's a hybrid of English, Finnish, some imagination....

and some other random things at random. mostly those though :)

and, a reply is posted. more Angerman for you :)

edit: think English, with more logical and consistent grammar and spelling [well apart from the fact that it uses English base words, and thus their spelling is a bit... off... from the other standardization] then slap on the Finnish tendency to use prefixes and suffixes for everything that must be attached to a specific word, [so as to make allowances for their... decided Lack of formal sentence structure] and the need to make allowances for a somewhat... bizarre alphabet [it's punctuation is Totally different, for one thing.] apply a little of the same mentality that produces my weird rp tech... then whack it periodically to get it to work right.

that's about what Angerman is :D

prodding of doom!

apparently, jolt has decided i don't need e-mail updates for your thread, Newer Kiwiland.

and...

does this RP have ANY other activity at the moment? yeash....

and posted.

heh. at least this is giving me plenty of practice with this. working out a Lot of the bugs, as it were :)

even if i still can't express the solutions properly in any formal manner.

does this RP have ANY other activity at the moment? yeash....

Hello

I'm still active but no-one near me is, I could get Philli to have a war with me I guess :P

prod him with a stick. see what happens :D

And I return! I've got an improv show on Friday, so I won't be on too much this week, but I'll be more active after that.

and posted.

heh. at least this is giving me plenty of practice with this. working out a Lot of the bugs, as it were :)

even if i still can't express the solutions properly in any formal manner.


Hey Angerman, somehow I managed to miss your reply... Anyway I'm posting now, although I can't be on very often until the weekends.

Hey Angerman, somehow I managed to miss your reply... Anyway I'm posting now, although I can't be on very often until the weekends.

yeah. jolt's not being friendly about updates and things.

oys.. fun how your guys have absolutely no clue :D mistaking pronouns for prepositions, and the like... "Na" is "you" and "mi" is just a generally questioning sound, essentially a verbalized question mark. [it gets modified to specifically come out as what/who/why/where/when/how when necessary.

the ending "ade" simply denotes a verb, and 'ij' and adjective. 'jin' is the equivalent of 'ing'

not that your characters need to know this of course :D

heck... should i add all this stuff to my factbook post? *Laughs* it'd bulk it up a lot :)

edit: incidently, that word she's translating as "incest"? it's actually "in our" [in-che-z. in-we-ownership. sounds more like "inncheese" than anything :D]

Posted. Just wondering though, how're we gonna overcome the language barrier?

probably with several IC weeks of fluffing around, of the sort 'tis best to get to a point where it begins, then write off as done.

heh. in fact, that's probably the best way to do it, and something i would have expected quite some time back.. if we keep going like this, it's just going to bog down. [oys, you should read some of my fics where that happened :S]

as for the Angerman speech... i was getting a little sick of typing it to no real benefit, and there was no way you could tell what it would sound like to your guys that way, either.

not to mention i couldn't possibly write it in angerman script, due to a number of factors [including lack of font]

also, i REALLY would have expected your guys to have come back... or... Something... by now.

and the "they did what he said" "they gapped like stunned fish and were incoherent some more, and it was translated" posts were getting a bit old :p

just trying to force some progression here, you know?


now, i have to figure out what i'm going to do next... or do you want to make the next post and actually have something happen?

yea, i'm going to make my groups link up. I halted progress there coz i wasn't too sure what's happening on the ships :P

playing the 'incompetent officers' bit right up to the hilt, aren't you? :D

so now we simply await the captain, who, hopefully, will Not abdicate responsibility. hehe. you can be sure that at this point Luis is the only one Devinon has anything even approaching a positive opinion of :D

As opposed to those two genuine idiots, Dudley's just bidding his time ;)

Actually, he was supposed to have rowed back onto the beach after your guys, but apparently that post vaporised with one of those 'database errors' that jolt's been giving me recently....

one quickly learns to copy all text written in the post box before hitting "submit" when one uses jolt for any great length of time... it Delights in eating posts, I'm sure of it! *laughs*

anyway, I'm not quite sure where you're going with the island's natives, so, unless you've got something specific set up, i'll just leave the survey parties ... umm... surveying... and write about it later, rather than trying to write "they did this" and "they did that"

I'm not sure what to do about your ship... if it's not doing anything untoward i think it can have the first move :) [and if it's doing something observably dodgy, i need to know about it before i can react to it :D]

argh! mixed tense! bad! evil! menacing! [just went back and re-read it to make sure i wasn't forgetting anything :P]

that's all.. I'm sure there's something else, but it's escaped me for the moment.

Yeah :(

I thought it got through though.... by the time I realised something's missing it's gone >"<

Anyway posted; the Swan is supposed to be a quite bigger ship, but lucky for us onboard there's a professor who hopefully has studied the ancient languages ;)

you know, all my officers and crews and the like seem to be utter slackers when they're not actually doing anything. you don't see the captain or admiral standing looking impressive for hours on end to no good purpose, or hiding in his cabin. nope. if he's not doing anything significant, odds are good he's lounging in a hammock or chair on the deck, enjoying the sun and breeze.

hehe. of course, that says nothing of what is done while they're actually doing worthwhile stuff.

i had a point when i started, which is useually the case... but it's gone. which is also useually the case :confused: :( :confused: :D

umm... NK, did you really just bypass the major interaction hook there?

because the current post, my only response, really, can be a vague nod on the part of Devinon...

unless i assume you didn't answer the hail... in which case your ship gets blasted...

yeah. whatever happens now, you get next move, be it editing or the next post.

Oh... I think I misunderstood you then, sorry :eek:

So what's the hail like?

And I've edited. BTW, is anything happening here other than our little encounter?

i didn't want to go through the whole performance again... so it was just a general "who are you, what do you want, identify yourself" kind of thing.

enough that if your linguist hears, he can actually do something.

enough to make the captain stop and think [given all the 'not friends' ships floating around]

generic "oy, you!" kind of thing, really.

Ah right. Well, your people's move now then.

and, jolt's being weird. [but functional]

I'm curious as to why you keep using the present tense [it's better than mixing them, but it's still odd :S]

you do realize that, being close enough to communicate, and given that it's already stated that they're being hailed...

at that point your guys should actually communicate.

bouncing it back to me at this point is a dead end. there's absolutely nothing there for me to work with that i haven't already dealt with.

... bad enough when i do that to myself :S [hehe. seriously, go look up www.fanfiction.net for the user name Chargone ... the third story, last couple of chapter/pages... you'll see what i mean]

this probably sounds mean and whiny and stuff, but i really... can't do anything with what's there.

Ah right, well I don't really mind although it is kinda ambiguous how ships are going to meet. Anyway made the changes.

About the tenses, yeah I have a bad tendency to mix them around :S

So I'm making a point of sticking to present atm, for this RP anyway, just so I don't confuse myself any further...

So is there anyone else posting on this world?

If I weren't currently on the E coast of the USA, I would be. With everyone else having seemingly disappeared, apart from Cala who was Japan, I might move to W Coast USA (California, maybe Washington and Oregon as well). Pretty similar society to what I have now, different location. Then start getting involved.
Not til next Monday or thereabouts though.

coolness :D

humm... NK, you got msn?

if so, could you tg me your address?

situations like the current one are easier to write if worked out first.

actually, Terra, i need to talk to you on msn about the Exploritar thing before i can move that along, too. [nothing to do with this rp, i know, but relevant to the post.. sort of.]

Due to sheer laziness, I've edited my old factbook, to be found here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12186791)

Contact, trade, war etc all welcome. I don't think I can really spare the time to start stuff rather than respond right now, but Elara will be out causing havoc...

coolness :D

humm... NK, you got msn?

if so, could you tg me your address?

situations like the current one are easier to write if worked out first.

actually, Terra, i need to talk to you on msn about the Exploritar thing before i can move that along, too. [nothing to do with this rp, i know, but relevant to the post.. sort of.]

Err, sorry, I do have an account but I pretty much don't use it at all.....

huh. it's just a lot easier to work past sticking points [like what we seem to have come to] in real time than in forums, is all.

on to the actual point then:

what language is he calling in, and is it before or after my guys hail them?

that post is awkward to respond to. a hint, from past experience, on things that make RPing easier:

always end dialog to which a response is expected with either a question, or something significant that will be responded to [a glaringly obvious error on the part of a character, an insult, an accusation, that kind of thing. there are situations where statements work ((war counsels, for example)) but not many]

in a post always include either some kind of action, or the aforementioned dialog. 'they continued what they were already doing' is Not action, unless it is in defiance of a previous order to "halt or be fired upon" or something of that nature.

also, neither of these are any use at all if they are not done in such a place that the other player can respond. if their guys can't see it, know about it, or hear it, then it is, for the purpose of responses, as good as not posting. [though it may well provided details needed later for it all to make sense, and thus is useful]


actually, come to think of it, most times i get stuck is due to someone not following the above 'guiding thoughts', as it were. sometimes i do, of course, simply run out of ideas... *shrugs*

occasionally i fail to apply the above thoughts myself, but i do try not to.

and i think the biggest problem I'm having in your thread, NK, is posts that don't follow this.

hopefully that doesn't sound overly critical or anything, but I've had this problem for ... ages... with various people and finally managed to work it out in such a way that i can actually express it :D

you know, Osteia and Caladonn are both still [theoretically] involved... Osteia's just got no one to talk to.. hehe... and Caladonn just really, really sucks at responding to my posts :(

don't know what happened to the others.. they didn't withdraw so much as... vanish...

I keep saying, I'm still here!

in the sense that you're not anywhere else *laughs* ehh... send out explorers, look around. do some internal stuff...

wait...

that sounds like a line from something... a movie, or a book?

*ponders*

huh. it's just a lot easier to work past sticking points [like what we seem to have come to] in real time than in forums, is all.

on to the actual point then:

what language is he calling in, and is it before or after my guys hail them?

that post is awkward to respond to. a hint, from past experience, on things that make RPing easier:

always end dialog to which a response is expected with either a question, or something significant that will be responded to [a glaringly obvious error on the part of a character, an insult, an accusation, that kind of thing. there are situations where statements work ((war counsels, for example)) but not many]

in a post always include either some kind of action, or the aforementioned dialog. 'they continued what they were already doing' is Not action, unless it is in defiance of a previous order to "halt or be fired upon" or something of that nature.

also, neither of these are any use at all if they are not done in such a place that the other player can respond. if their guys can't see it, know about it, or hear it, then it is, for the purpose of responses, as good as not posting. [though it may well provided details needed later for it all to make sense, and thus is useful]


actually, come to think of it, most times i get stuck is due to someone not following the above 'guiding thoughts', as it were. sometimes i do, of course, simply run out of ideas... *shrugs*

occasionally i fail to apply the above thoughts myself, but i do try not to.

and i think the biggest problem I'm having in your thread, NK, is posts that don't follow this.

hopefully that doesn't sound overly critical or anything, but I've had this problem for ... ages... with various people and finally managed to work it out in such a way that i can actually express it :D

Err.... um, how about I just delete that last line and just wait for your people to hail first? Because right now I have no idea what my guys are are up against :confused: (well I have a fuzzy idea of foreign ships surrounding the my first ship....)

Heh.... I think we should advertise this a bit and try get some more of those blank spaces filled up.

I would [send out explorers] but no-one anywhere near me is still active, I'd need to travese the Indian Ocean to make contact, not that that's impossible within the current tech levels but it'd take a bloody long time.

Do what I did - move your nation.

Do what I did - move your nation.

Oh yeah, Angerman would love me

I have too much associated with Egypt and my nation, and it's not that bad, I mean I get both the valuable trading of the Med and Colonial resources of India and South Africa.

I'm pretty sure things'll get better when I've finished my expansion RP, it'll set out Colonial Trading Toopoxia and I'll hopefully have more reason to expand my explorers.

actually, i almost suggested that myself.

higher on my list though, would be "send ships"

come on, it takes 12 weeks to circle our globe if you follow the good winds and currents. expiditions of the contact sort arn't exactly unlikely :P

oddly: read this (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=516233) see how many non Future Tech RPs you can find that Wouldn't fall prey to this, in whole or in part?

most of mine, for one... [i tend to utterly ignore my actual nation due to it's stupidity.]



NK: what you're up against... is 6-12 ships floating around in a vigilant but not overly aggressive stance. [which has already been mentioned if you look back a bit]

deleting the last line wouldn't exactly help. i'd just then have to make a post saying "the officer of the watch hailed the other ship 'who are you? heave to and identify yourselves'" or something to that effect. which i've already established would happen.

of course, icly your new ship there knows nothing. hehe.

Hmmm, maybe a ship or two could be spared from the current campaign in Africa, I'll see what I can do in so far as RPing goes.

humm, Terra, unless we assume that the languages are close enough to identical still that they understand each other perfectly [highly unlikely in verbal communication], further progress there will have to wait until we work out what's happening with that.

NK....

you really need to go read some grammar books or something :p :D

anywho

where do you want to go with this? because... frankly, I'm stuck.

short of blowing up your ship for the hell of it, [it'd be... interesting, anyway] i seriously don't know what to do next... you've put me in a
"they walked closer"
"i do something that should actually cause things to happen"
"they walked closer"
"i do another thing that should do something
"they walked closer "
"what the hell? they were 2 feet away when we STARTED"

kind of situation, a bit [and I'll admit i exaggerate somewhat :)] , here ....

only, with less anger and aggression and stuff than that sounds like :D

I vote blow 'em up! :cool:
For one, blowing stuff up is cool, for two you can have a lot of diplomatic tension and other such fun stuff negotiating that sort of clusterf*ck.

Returning to my ships, I think the aim is to achieve a good understanding of one another, with the eventual aim of uniting Pi and Elara in an utterly world-beating team :D
More directly, we want Tazkook to realise how alike Pi and Elara are, we want a bit of communication, and possibly a bit of dealing...

Whoo, and I finally return!

I'm really sorry about that... some random stuff came up, and I was away from the computer for like a week. Before that, business/jolt had stopped me from responding to Angerman already for... God knows how long...

But I'm back now! Yay!

Caladonn gets prodded to remind him to post/edit so i can actually respond.
Newer Kiwiland gets prodded for the same reason.
several other 'participants' get whacked in the head with a stick for vanishing.

this is a bump of sorts.

Hello, hello! I see Greenland is unclaimed, and I would love to rp it. I would like to claim the entire island, but name it Hyperborea. I'll make more clear in a factbook, but here's the general idea:

Hyperborea is the home of a centuries old civilization, who first arrived when the island was full of jungles and temperate climes. Slowly, as the ice began to grow, Hyperborea fell, entering a dark age. Now they seek to come to terms with the cold waste that is now thier beloved homeland, and rise once more.

"For the eternal glory of Hyperborea!"

(Can I play a non-human race?)

the policy on non-humans is messy, but amounts to "dwarves are cool, lizard creatures are cool, anything who's abilities remain in the human 'norm' are cool. magic users, immortals, or things with ridiculously long life spans and/or other significant physical advantages are not. sub humans are fine... but probably pretty pointless.

assuming they haven't died since the last time they posted... we have a couple of nations in Europe, i think, who would be Delighted to have someone near by.

everyone insisted on spreading out all over... then most complained that there was no one anywhere near them despite the massive reduction in the surface area of the planet... maybe you're being there will drag some of them back.

it's... easier, all 'round, if you give your nation (in the rp) the same name as.. well.. your nation (user name), rather than calling it different things. but it's not a huge issue.

so far as i'm concerned, it's all good. make a factbook/internal thread, prod some people, and you're good to go :)

I'm still still here, but also bored out of my mind :P

would this (http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/blog/images/GreatRace.jpg) be ok? No extra strengths or anything like that, they just look very weird. If thats ok, I'll write my factbook!

would this (http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/blog/images/GreatRace.jpg) be ok? It has no special abilities, just looks really strange. If this is ok, i'll write my factbook!

no one's fault but your own if you're not contacting anyone, and you did chose a rather out of the way spot...

actually, i had some ships headed over your way... but they got caught up in the whole bit with Newer Kiwiland... and that... stalled.

gonna have to get Terra to update the map when he gets back. and then i'll have to go through and trim the dead threads. such as the Scandinavians... i don't think he ever did fix his rather broken race.

no one's fault but your own if you're not contacting anyone, and you did chose a rather out of the way spot...

Are you kidding? it's Egypt, you've got the best of all worlds, open access to the trading markets of Europe, the population of Africa which can be easily exploited for slavery, the rich resources of Indonesia and India plus the fertile lands of North America, the reson I havn't explored much is cos the threads are either dead or the people are inland which is a pain cos then you have to man a mission inwards which isn't very IC unless you're going for colonisation.

the upper tech limit is roughly Napoleonic. what this means is simple: no breach-loaders! the longbow still reigns supreme as a ranged weapon, short of artillery. of course, even it has it's downsides. all this in no way prevents you from running around with wooden spears and rocks if you really want to...



Actually, even in the late reniassance, the Belly Bow and cart-mounted crossbows put the longbow to shame. It was the Belly Bow, in fact, that influenced the state of warfare to the point where, even when the musket became available, european wars were still "stand 'em up and shoot 'em down." It took the American Indians to bring back guerilla tactics. This is because you CANNOT hid behind a tree or such while carrying a Belly Bow.

--I'm not going to be back to this thread, and this point is little but academic to me. I'll be happy to converse on the subject, but only through telegrams.

*shrugs* all i know is that the longbow out did the rifle in every reguard save training time until such time as the breach loader was invented.

i've never even Heard of a belly bow. and cart mounted crossbows sound either a little silly, or like balista... *shrugs* which isn't to say you're wrong, of course :)

humm... also, part of the "stand 'em up, knock 'em down" thing can be attributed to the effectiveness of the Spanish terraco, i think. not like you can use a halberd or pike effectively from behind a tree either, and anyone with a gun was insanely vulnerable while loading, and had to be standing to do it, if i remember rightly.

anyway, there were a lot of factors, and....

i just read the last line of that post properly. gah... come on.... *sigh*

whatever. if anyone wants to use the belly bow... find some info and point me at it and I'll probably be "yeah, sure"... if it puts the long bow to shame [which i truthfully doubt it does over all, even if it does in some areas.. one could easily claim the musket does in some areas, without lying, after all (as usual, i could well be wrong)] then it's better than the long bow. *le shrug*

Are you kidding? it's Egypt, you've got the best of all worlds, open access to the trading markets of Europe, the population of Africa which can be easily exploited for slavery, the rich resources of Indonesia and India plus the fertile lands of North America, the reson I havn't explored much is cos the threads are either dead or the people are inland which is a pain cos then you have to man a mission inwards which isn't very IC unless you're going for colonisation.

out of the way in terms of where everyone else is :p

and there is actually only one nation in the entire game with no coast line.. and that centers around the great lakes. hehe.

besides.. the whole thing is in the colonial era, roughly.... if you go take a look at my thread and terra's, he and i are both going expansionist/colonial, so *shrugs*


humm, i seem to be shrugging a lot today.

Could I be this (http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/blog/images/GreatRace.jpg) alien race? I will have no extra strengths, but I will look very, very weird.

Um, I suppose...though why you would want to escapes me, and you'd have to explain quite what they are...

Posted my factbook, but of course the moderators have to check it, which means it could take days. All is very well explained however.

Alas! Hyperborea has once again risen!
Hyperborea Factbook (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12369702#post12369702)

We have been cast across the myriad intersecting tendrils of the great web of space and time...
We have given proud Atlantis to the sea, shattered ancient Lemuria beneath our fist, and razed the arrogant spires of Ys to gleaming rubble.
We were ancient when man's ancestors were naught but protoplasmic slime!
Mankind, how ignorant thou art.
Yes, death glides silently on gossamer soft wings,
but her touch is harsh!

ok, this is gonna get very friken weird...

first little thing [and it's a very little thing] ... did any officialdom ever decide if Australia is an island or a continent? if it's an island, it's bigger than Greenland. just a thought.

I'm Really dubious about your back story there... it's one great big gabble of magic and high technology, both of which are outside of 'reality' so far as this RP is concerned.

i find that extremist religion entertaining :D

any who, they're gonna have problems if they ever hit the pacific or lands there-bordering, i think... *ponders* in fact... hehehehe... i have ships headed up that way. sort of.

gah... i'm not sure if i should let that pass as is, or make you change the bits that don't really work... so... a vote of sorts, i guess.

humm. call it two days from this post... does it pass or does it not?

if i get no response at all I'm going to go with "ok, but you'd better not mess it up."




oh, and regarding those gossamer wings.... wait until your guys come across my hawk troops *manic laughter* well, if they ever do, of course.

Ok, um...this RP has always been considered to run strictly within the realm of physics. So if the magic is either myth or high-technology misunderstood, then fine, but if not it has to go. This is not a fantasy RP.
Equally, nothing available in the RP can go too far above the tech-limit (1800), so if there once was high technology, fine, as long as it is irretrievably lost/inoperable.

Other than that, it looks ok...weird, but ok. I'd appreciate a bit more info on current population etc, but what is there is fine.

Don't worry, all that high technology is long dead. The only thing they'll ever find is where thier ancient cities once were. On the history I would add that the history is recorded from thier standpoint, so any magic is just technology. Thier past of high technology will no way effect the rp....save me searching for lost cities, retrieving strange artifacts, and what not. But I can PROMISE that they won't take us out of reality. All the high technology is as lost as Atlantis. They may find a ruined gun, but it won't fire, so it's no better then a club. I'll add the population. I was thinking 2 million, is that ok?

Why would I have any trouble in the pacific? Just wait and see what I do to the inhabitants of Iceland!
Many thousands of years ago, they ruled the globe.
But the pressing fist of great power carried a heavy price, and now their dominion has fallen beyond time and shadow.
---Liber Zenikith

We may have fallen, but you vile apes shall feel our wrath!

That puts my mind at rest that they won't be rediscovering lost magicks and taking over the world :p

If anything 2 million is quite low, we have nations of around 15 million kicking around, mysef included, though of course Greenland couldn't support that many.

And what he means by trouble in the Pacific, is that that is where my people would start being their anthropocentric selves.
Basically for the form of society I have, it's a push to have them not be totally racist and sexist. Speciesism is unavoidable, I figure, besides which it's entirely natural to be a bit freaked out by something that...weird.

Oki, seeing as my RP about taking lands in Africa has been going for... months...? would it be okay if I RPed the end of my colonisation and just having claimed those areas? Pretty big ask but no harm in trying...

If it would be ok I plan to have a population explosion after the Hyperboreans colonize some more...bountiful areas. Also my first thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=519258) is up. I'll be looking for someone to rp the few(and I mean few) inhabitants of Iceland. Also if any of the more northern nations wish to have one of thier ships wreck off my coast and wash ashore, that'll be fine too.

Oki, seeing as my RP about taking lands in Africa has been going for... months...? would it be okay if I RPed the end of my colonisation and just having claimed those areas? Pretty big ask but no harm in trying...

ehh... don't see why not. i can't remember what you were claiming, but go for it.

If it would be ok I plan to have a population explosion after the Hyperboreans colonize some more...bountiful areas. Also my first thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=519258) is up. I'll be looking for someone to rp the few(and I mean few) inhabitants of Iceland. Also if any of the more northern nations wish to have one of thier ships wreck off my coast and wash ashore, that'll be fine too.

leaving aside that issues with your fact book are still ongoing... [one day left, i thinks, to hear any more issues and then see what ones actually matter/fix 'em, etc.]

stuff like that thread would go in the same thread as y our fact book. makes things much easier to keep track of for all concerned.

still, looks promising. and interesting.

*ponders* i never did specify what weapons my marines carried, did i? ehh, probably a mix. i'm just going to skip over whatever is happening [or, more accurately, failing to happen] with newer kiwiland and half the group of ships that are meant to get over there... well.. get to whoever they're going to run into next on the way to Europe.

I plan on something...big. Ok, would it be ok if:

a) I find a new race on iceland

b) they were engineered by the ancients as slaves

c) they view my warriors as gods(from the inscriptions on sacred sites and such)

d) instead of a population boom I just have them added to my pop

e) eventually they rebel and wipe out the true Hyperboreans

f) they try to assume the role of their former masters


this would be a long story arc and I think I can pull it off. Thoughts?

i begin to suspect that this rp, as a cohesive earth, is somewhat doomed. ahhh well.


anywho, regarding the aliens or whatever.... seriously, if I'd done some rp with you before and knew you could do it, I'd say yes right off the bat. it'd be interesting.

as it is... well, sure. but be prepared for it to get interrupted by other events. this is, after all, meant to be an earth, of sorts. and be prepared for it to get stepped on if it gets too... out there...

oh yeah, and your fact book is... tentatively... approved. if anything in it starts resulting in 'unprovable' effects, then it'll get looked at again. honestly, when i said non-humans might be allowed, i wasn't thinking That non-human. but sadly, we need players *laughs*

also... i'm utterly fed up with diplomatic threads. anyone up for a war? ... last time i wrote a battle scene in an rp was last Year, i think. heck... several months prior to the end of the year too, cause of the situation i wound up in in the napoleonic one.

i'll prod terror to update the map at some point. and... i guess i should update the list of threads too. *sigh*

I plan on something...big. Ok, would it be ok if:

a) I find a new race on iceland

b) they were engineered by the ancients as slaves

c) they view my warriors as gods(from the inscriptions on sacred sites and such)

d) instead of a population boom I just have them added to my pop

e) eventually they rebel and wipe out the true Hyperboreans

f) they try to assume the role of their former masters


this would be a long story arc and I think I can pull it off. Thoughts?

Weelll....yeah, I spose. My only reservation is this: where does anyone else get involved? RP lives and dies on interaction; if all this is background to others dealing with you, that's really good, whereas if you're just doing this and nothing else that's not so great.

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Are ye kidding, this RP seems like it's been given a new lease of life, also I'll RP a war with ye, I'm both bored and in a bad mood so i'm more than willing to annihilate someone.

I'll get involved in the war if I have time. We'll see; looks like I might be heavily committed in FT warring - FT is shaping up for an epic struggle, and I'm somewhere near the middle of it.

Are ye kidding, this RP seems like it's been given a new lease of life, also I'll RP a war with ye, I'm both bored and in a bad mood so i'm more than willing to annihilate someone.

ehh, i didn't say the rp as a whole was doomed... just that it seems to be having problems in the 'earth' department.

anywho.. yay war. or battle. or what have you...

should be about 6 vengance class ships headed your way. you could start a war by picking a fight with those.. as long as at least one gets away :)

ehh, i didn't say the rp as a whole was doomed... just that it seems to be having problems in the 'earth' department.

anywho.. yay war. or battle. or what have you...

should be about 6 vengance class ships headed your way. you could start a war by picking a fight with those.. as long as at least one gets away :)

I can spare a First Rate and mebbe a couple of Seconds but mostly gonna be Thirds, having just sank a Pirate Armada i'm gonna be highly paranoid of foreign vessels so the first markers for war are there, just post your ships moving up to my Southernmost colony and I'll take it from there.

all righty. on it :D

hey, if anybody wants to come and visit the Hyperboreans they are free to do so...but it seems all the action is in the pacific...or somehwhere near there. Maybe we need a recruiting drive?

definitely.

if you can get people on bored, newbies or veterans, who'll actually stick around and who Don't suck [not as in they'll lose, but as in they god mode and whinge about it and generally aren't very nice] you will have earned much gratitude :)

and yeah, most of the "action" is in the pacific... what action there is. which, isn't much.

edit: though the current little round of shooting is on the south east side of what would be the Suez canal, if it existed.

somebody could rp the petty barbarians whom reside on ancient iceland if they wish.

Sorry I can't join, just inserting a note to say kudos to Caladonnia; I'm biased towards anything in the Feudal Japan theme (that being the region I occupy) and it makes for entertaining reading. I've linked to this RP from our regional forum so others can enjoy.

Hey...anybody want to add my factbook to the front page?

I'll do it eventually. I've got to remove a few too. and the map needs updating and... ehh.. *shrugs* it'll happen.

oy! you lot!

check your threads

post

update!

DO SOMETHING!


i know most of you are active, i sees you, presious... posting in other placessss... yessss... we seessss you.....

this is a bump. if posting does not commence soon, this RP shall be deemed dead and gone. like far too many others. le sigh.

:( on limited 'net access, and also not sure what stage has been reached, and whatever. Still here, just not sure what to do with the limited time I have online...

Being nuked in MT, by 5 people not including myself, understood that i'm kinda busy.

ok... this RP is officially dead. go find something else to play *le sigh*

or we could restart it....

or we could restart it....

But that wouldn't matter, cos it'd just happen again, you need the right sort of moment to release things like this.

Take for example the original release of this thread, it wouldn't have worked without the coming together of so many dedicated PT RPers and the sudden rise in PT RP's of the time (like half our recruits were recruited from unrelated RP's) you have to remember that II is very fickle and if you don't get the right combination of elements to match the trend then you've got an instant failure on your hands.

That "Fantasy World RP" seems to be doing just fine. In fact I was thinking about maybe starting up a Sumerian city state rp, or maybe just a more traditional rp. What do you think?

That "Fantasy World RP" seems to be doing just fine. In fact I was thinking about maybe starting up a Sumerian city state rp, or maybe just a more traditional rp. What do you think?

Well I was gonna join the Fan world myself but the map kinda put me off.

City State RP's don't really do it for me either, however I have been mulling over an idea for quite some time... I mean it's not really original, it was the first RP I ever got involved in, an RP about the rise of your civilisation from like the Stone age right up.

A fantasy rp where you start off with one city and slowly build your region might be fun. Everybody gets so much map space, and they create the enviroment in thier "zone," and try to build thier little kingdom. Or make it into a haven for barbarians with a few tents.

You see, if we connect all the maps, we won't have the problem of people being far away from the action. Sound iteresting to you?

A fantasy rp where you start off with one city and slowly build your region might be fun. Everybody gets so much map space, and they create the enviroment in thier "zone," and try to build thier little kingdom. Or make it into a haven for barbarians with a few tents.

You see, if we connect all the maps, we won't have the problem of people being far away from the action. Sound iteresting to you?

what do ye mean by, collect all the maps?

Lets say I made a map. It has my starting city/castle and the enviroment. You make yours. We then decide your map is directly next to mine. With each small map we keep adding them to the bigger map.

Lets say I made a map. It has my starting city/castle and the enviroment. You make yours. We then decide your map is directly next to mine. With each small map we keep adding them to the bigger map.

I was gonna suggest something which is like an almost direct variation on that, I'm totally up for it...

I have to work tommorow, so I won't be able to get on, but I can think up some of the rules during school. Wednesday I'll post the interest thread.

Hmm, sounds...interesting.
CMI (count me in) in the hope it can survive...