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The Terrak Empires finally have confirmed borders, I posted maps in my Wiki factbook.

OMG, Alex Nones.
Well played Negarakita.

Negarakita

Vancouvia wrote:
December 6, 2018

Despite the dozen telegrams I've received over the past couple weeks, and not to mention the person who decided to come on to our region's RMB last week for a few days and bash us for not having enough "democracy" over a series of twenty or so posts, The Western Isles has not given in to increasing demands to burn down our embassy with The Pacific. Why?

First, The Pacific was the first and only game created region to accept our embassy request two years and 206 days ago, as of this writing. We have had no other game-created-region embassies since, and not for our lack of willingness to have more. Ironically enough, their embassy rules don't even allow us to post on their rmb, but hey, at least they were willing to accept it. We appreciate that. The Western Isles has arguably been one of the most active, if not the most active role-playing region on this site for the past few years and, yeah, it's nice that one of the largest regions lets us stack our name below their WFE and we do the same. So, it seems a bit ironic when delegates from regions who have refused our embassy requests try to tell us to break one we have had for almost three years.

Also, The Western Isles has been and still is, largely autonomous and isolationist. The few attempts we have made at involving ourselves in any sort of inter-regional anything have resulted in pure stagnation. It's very difficult to do anything between regions past the point of embassies, which anyone can tell just by reading these "treaties" the GCRs and Europeieieia like to plop out every couple months, where the main points are usually "collaboration" and "communication" and "fairs." The Western Isles has existed in our realm of good solid role-playing, and our community has repeatedly reinforced that this is the niche we do best in and want to continue to excel in.

The Pacific did nothing wrong, and The Western Isles has no qualms against them. Personally, I think coups/expanding to other regions is cool as hell and the best and most entertaining part of the worst part of this website - raiding/defending. The ability to use a little subterfuge and a lot of time to gain control of a GCR or other big region is impressive. Raiding/defending on this website sounds about as exciting as playing with a frisbee by myself, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would care enough to take part (which may be why they have to shove fork fulls of digital medals upon the loyal privates who enlist) but I can understand why couping a region is fun. Who among us hasn't dreamed of being in control of a GCR and savoring all of those free, limitless future soldiers region-members? It sure would save on stamps.

All embassies (usually) do is enable some slight inter-regional communication. It's also a nice little way to get some free cross-advertising. That's why when I was President in my first term, a couple years ago, I made sure to accept almost all embassy requests, and plan on doing the same now. Because, honestly, why not? The Western Isles is not some elitist, better-than-thou region nor do we care to be. We seek excellence internally, mostly in our quality of role-playing. We don't try to somehow rise above by only building the crème de la crème of NationStates embassies, which it seems so many other big regions do. "You must apply on our forums for an embassy." "They are reserved only for allies." Okay, all power to you, but don't try to attack The Western Isles' divergent policy of liberal embassy acceptance.

In short, the people trying to get The Western Isles to drop their embassy with The Pacific couldn't give two, or even three, shifts about The Western Isles. Their entire motivation is just to make The Pacific look ever so slightly worse. We don't care. We haven't ever been involved in inter-regional affairs to a significant degree, nor have we attempted to. We have, however, attempted to create embassies with many of the regions now attempting to convince and/or guilt us for having the ever so slightest bit of loyalty to the one GCR that was willing to click the "accept embassy request" button on this website - a website whose primary purpose, at least according to our members, is to answer weird issues and role-play with our friends.

Hail independent thought.

Read dispatch

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this got downvoted from 22 to 1 overnight

Xrevaro and Negarakita

I wonder if anyone has gotten all the banners.

Vancouvia wrote:this got downvoted from 22 to 1 overnight

The salt is real.

This has convinced me that even on NationStates, there is the reddit mentality: a circle-jerk where the popular opinions are upvoted to infinity while controversial opinions are downvoted into oblivion. Sad, really.

Ainslie wrote:Past Two Weeks: Now with even less dignity than a report from the Information OfficeTM

You challenging me to a round of fisticuffs, knave?

Vancouvia, Athara magarat, Xrevaro, Belle ilse en terre, and 1 otherThuzbekistan

Vancouvia wrote:this got downvoted from 22 to 1 overnight

must got past those who brought the resulotion

I am the hero. It's up to 2 now

Vancouvia, Xrevaro, and Belle ilse en terre

Verdon wrote:Fair enough, and to that extent, I absolutely agree. It's just a shame that it ended up shelved so quickly.

Yeah sorry about that one, was maybe a tad ambitious for my first post. Will defo have a go at rewriting it soon, as soon as this time of year stops being a pain when it comes to uni :s

Negarakita wrote:Menna shuli probably relevant to you

wut...

Menna shuli wrote:wut...

That is a fair question tho. How did they blow this dam?

Thuzbekistan wrote:That is a fair question tho. How did they blow this dam?

First, they didn't blow up the whole dam. They caused damage to a not inconsiderable portion of it and water streaming through did even more, but much of the dam still stands.

The plan was mentioned in passing here, although with no detail: viewtopic.php?p=34625315#p34625315

Long story short, MS is tectonicly active and the KHF wasn't particularly well-maintained. I mean, it is Mênna Shuli we are talking about here. Anyways, Natkut Sumi has connections and followers in a lot of places, and it wasn't that difficult for them to get bombs inside over time. It has been months since the plan was first mentioned.

Thuzbekistan

Soviet roman reichs of america

hello

Soviet roman reichs of america wrote:hello

Welcome to TWI.

I’m sorry if this is insulting, did you literally mash up all of the NS clichè nations into one?

Wellsia and Dragao do mar

So my back-up character for my friend's DnD campaign might have one of my favourite backstories I've ever come up with:

Dr. Arturio Maligna (born Arthur Miller) always prided himself on his eye for talent. Dr. Maligna's Travelling Carnival of Curiousities housed an array of only the finest freaks and geeks from around Golarion and, as Dr. Maligna protested, other worlds. For only two copper (or one copper for children and seniors, five copper for families, no refunds, caveat emptor), one got to see the bizarre and the crazed, put on stage for the amusement of the public. The Woman with the Iron Beard, the Three Headed Man, the Walking Tumour...the shocking depravities that nature and the gods themselves could create knew no bounds (at least, once Dr. Maligna made a bit of an effort to push nature in the right direction with his alchemy lab and surgical kit). The most horrifying of these creatures did not require any alterations, however. It only required a single payment of a gold piece and a bit of effort gestating the pulsing, slimy orange-black orb that the sailor handed over.

"The Terrifying Deepspawne, A Thinge The Surfase Was Nott Meant To Knowe" was a humanoid creature from the depths of the ocean. Black, slimy and with eyes (and a scent) that made you want to vomit, Dr. Maligna just had to make sure the creature grew to an appropriately hulking size and, of course, had the appropriate serrated smile. A bit of scarring for the right look and an hour a week in the dental chair with a file, and The Terrifying Deepspawne could make even the bravest men walk away quavering. Of course, the Terrifying Deepspawne didn't have much say in the matter.

As it might be clear, Dr. Maligna was not exactly the finest guardian or employer for a young, growing locathah, especially one forcibly removed from a very specific breed of his race before he was even born. The light dazzled him constantly, and it took years for him to be able to shuffle at even a pace remotely close to human. His legs weren't meant for the surface world, nor were his eyes. The beatings hurt, but what hurt more were the stares and jeers of the people Dr. Maligna made him growl and snarl at with each day and each show. He didn't get near enough water (Dr. Maligna wasn't going to pay for a tank and horses to lug around what was basically just a prop), and he lived each day with even the kindest of his fellow freaks pinching their noses at his strange smell and trying not to meet his glassy, empty eyes, which were meant for deep sea trenches and not for being seen in the light.

Dr. Maligna was an evil man, and the carnival was an evil place, and there are those in the world who root out evil, no matter its size. One of these people happened to be in the nation of Varisia when Dr. Maligna rolled on through, and while her power and deeds had far exceeded such trivialities (or so many would assume), she herself was a follower of the Dawnflower, and knew that such horrors were not in line with Sarenrae's vision. She was horrifyed by the carnival, and went to speak with Dr. Maligna. Dr. Maligna saw the twelve-foot tall warrior woman Brazza and, in a spate of utter lack of common sense, saw only gold pieces in his vision. He ordered his hands to capture her and turn her into the next act or the show.

This was a bad decision. An hour later, the carnival had been systematically dismantled, Dr. Maligna had been sliced to pieces, and the freaks were freed. Brazza brought many of them to the nearby city of Korvosa to find them help. Many were taken in by a local cult of Arshea, the Empyreal Lord of Freedom. The terrifying Deepspawne was among them. When the city fell to chaos after the death of King Eobard, the cult's priest/ess (Arshea is the god of alternate gender identities) died and the rest of the cult ran from the city. Again, the Terirfying Deepspawne followed, having nowhere else to go. He followed the cultist named Anais to Sandpoint, where she left many of the cult's wards at the local hospital to aid them. By this point the cult had basically broken apart. After a while, and not making headway with the locals, the Terrifying Deepspawne (Terry for short) decided to follow Anais' trail to Magnimar, to see the sea that had never been his home...

The story ties together a bunch of former characters from our living campaign world.

Just an FYI I've been planning a dam destruction in my nation as part of a disaster/survival rp for quite some time as part of the larger story of my nation. I've been building a political and economic environment for many months that would see this disaster completely cripple my government. Not into revolution or anything, but just to tell a story that I want to tell. So I hope it doesnt look like I copied anyone on it.

Xrevaro

Polar svalbard

Agadar wrote:The salt is real.

This has convinced me that even on NationStates, there is the reddit mentality: a circle-jerk where the popular opinions are upvoted to infinity while controversial opinions are downvoted into oblivion. Sad, really.

You challenging me to a round of fisticuffs, knave?

We live in a society...

Thuzbekistan wrote:Just an FYI I've been planning a dam destruction in my nation as part of a disaster/survival rp for quite some time as part of the larger story of my nation. I've been building a political and economic environment for many months that would see this disaster completely cripple my government. Not into revolution or anything, but just to tell a story that I want to tell. So I hope it doesnt look like I copied anyone on it.

Sorry, man. If I had known maybe I would have backtracked on this. I had the idea months ago and felt like this was the right time to implement...

Wellsia and Thuzbekistan

Thuzbekistan wrote:Just an FYI I've been planning a dam destruction in my nation as part of a disaster/survival rp for quite some time as part of the larger story of my nation. I've been building a political and economic environment for many months that would see this disaster completely cripple my government. Not into revolution or anything, but just to tell a story that I want to tell. So I hope it doesnt look like I copied anyone on it.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Soviet roman reichs of america

Dormill and Stiura wrote:Welcome to TWI.

I’m sorry if this is insulting, did you literally mash up all of the NS clichè nations into one?

No, I failed to incorporate some reference to Korea. This should be addressed.
Is this region set on earth or in its own reality, I'm sorry if the map description explains it I didn't understand? Sorry.

Soviet roman reichs of america wrote:Is this region set on earth or in its own reality, I'm sorry if the map description explains it I didn't understand? Sorry.

Oh boy.

Thuzbekistan wrote:Just an FYI I've been planning a dam destruction in my nation as part of a disaster/survival rp for quite some time as part of the larger story of my nation. I've been building a political and economic environment for many months that would see this disaster completely cripple my government. Not into revolution or anything, but just to tell a story that I want to tell. So I hope it doesnt look like I copied anyone on it.

We will have to start a League sub-committee for dam inspection.

Dormill and Stiura, Athara magarat, Wellsia, Belle ilse en terre, and 2 othersThuzbekistan, and Almorea

Negarakita wrote:viewtopic.php?f=4&t=357511&p=35012513#p35012513
Alteran Republics something for Keith to react to as well

I'll respond presently!

Edit: I responded.

Negarakita

Soviet roman reichs of america wrote:No, I failed to incorporate some reference to Korea. This should be addressed.
Is this region set on earth or in its own reality, I'm sorry if the map description explains it I didn't understand? Sorry.

*clears throat in corner*

Menna shuli wrote:Sorry, man. If I had known maybe I would have backtracked on this. I had the idea months ago and felt like this was the right time to implement...

I actually asked you for advise about it sometime ago.

Greater pretoria

Thuzbekistan wrote:I actually asked you for advise about it sometime ago.

Oooooo ouch

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