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Hopefully my app is okay. If not, just tell me what I need to change, and I'll get on it.

Nation:
The Kingdom of Romania

Leader:
King Vlad I of the Romanians

History: Romania entered the Great War with the guarantee of Russian support. For a while, they received just that, managing to push into Transylvania, occupying it for a short while. Meanwhile, down South on the Bulgarian front, things weren't going as well. The Russian aid had managed to secure the Romanians Transylvania, but when aid was requested in the South, Russia refused, leaving Romania and Bulgaria to fight a bloody war, with no ground gained on either side, and the death toll rising and rising.

When Russia backed out of the fight, Romania tried to follow suit. A peace with Bulgaria was secured, but the Austro-Hungarians would not accept it until Romania returned Transylvania, which it refused to do. With it's guardian to the East no longer keeping it safe, the war in Romania quickly escalated. With no aid, and backed into a corner, Romania fought hard for years, eventually agreeing to surrender, unable to withstand the Austro-Hungarian armies alone. The state was quickly occupied, and Romania was added to the list of conquered Balkan states.

A few years later, when Austria-Hungary began to waver, a large group of Romanians revolted, clearing the enemy out of their lands, Transylvania included. Unable to send forces to deal with Romania at the time, a peace was achieved, and Romania finally had it's victory.

At the end of the war, Romania secured it's Northern border, fearing the actions of the now-free Hungarian state. Like everyone else, Romania had suffered greatly, and their deaths totaled an entire 12 percent out of the entire Entente. They gained their territory, but at a grave cost.

Cleanup after the war went as planned, and there were no border incidents with Hungary or Bulgaria. After the oil wells were repaired, money began to flow into the country once more, providing the lifeline the country needed. When Yugoslavia formed, Bulgaria and Romania entered into a shaky alliance, in which they would only aid each other if the Yugoslavians decided to expand. This alliance was strengthened when Hungary attempted to invade Ukraine, and even more so when Ukraine formed a Union with Poland.

As far as economy goes, Romania thrives on it's diamond and jewelry industry, but more so it's automotive industry. In the mid 1950's, there was a boom, and Romanian cars became extremely popular in Eastern Europe. While this was a surprise, it was quickly taken advantage of, and has remained a major source of income to Romania since.

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, many refugees ended up in Romania, since most of it's neighbors weren't too friendly with Turks, being former holdings of the empire. While it seemed harmless enough at first, it has led to a major homeless problem within the country, to the point that Romania has had to begin turning away people looking to live there.

While still far from a powerful country, Romania is doing quite well for it's part of the world. The King is beloved by the majority, and most people outside of the Turkish transient camps have all the necessary resources to live a decent life. There is a small ring of organized crime in the country, but it doesn't cause enough problems to be seen as a major threat, and the police force is competent in it's work to stop those involved.
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I'mma wait for word from Rare on the alliance part (unless he mentioned it in his app but I forgot) and input from our local euro-powers before I make anything official. But it looks good.
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Isn't he Hungary? Because the alliance is with Bulgaria. Sorry if the wording there was off.
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Oh, I thought I read it Hungary.

So I guess we're good then. Unless Hugs or someone has something to protest.
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And thus the world took care to hide their valuables and lock their automobiles.
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So, now that I'm here, anyone mind telling me what happened on the MCF that prompted the move to here? I was offline for literally all of that.
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Necronomiconomist said
So, now that I'm here, anyone mind telling me what happened on the MCF that prompted the move to here? I was offline for literally all of that.


The Red Chat happened.

The moderators cracked down on us because we were too fucking cool. They stripped me of my moderator-ship because they discovered I didn't enforce their shitty rules and instead protected people from their bullshit. So, with us being targeted, no longer having me around to protect us all, and the RP section being utter shit anyway, we decided fuck it and left. No regrets.

But a lot of blood was spilled.

EDIT: As for the Romania app, I'm cool with it.
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Necronomiconomist said
So, now that I'm here, anyone mind telling me what happened on the MCF that prompted the move to here? I was offline for literally all of that.


As Hugs said, the mods started to crack down. Hard. We suspect we had a mole in the community who reported us the moment RPGD turned into a .gif party. And when the admins found out Hugs was just hiding the posts under the rug and not issuing out the suspensions they demanded they demodded him without the civility of granting him the title of "retired".

Once more Feo even contributed to the .gif party and he got to keep the title of "retired staff" when he was demodded.

With GD locked, we began the process of moving. Esspecially since in talks with the admins they weren't going to budge on their decree and were making it known MCFRP wasn't the unchecked back-closet it was (and frankly should be). And given the content of PoW and our other RPs we moved out as to not call attention to those and raise suspicions.

And as we were walking out the people who weren't happy with our year or two of authority came out to denounce us and to try and fill the void.
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Necronomiconomist said
So, now that I'm here, anyone mind telling me what happened on the MCF that prompted the move to here? I was offline for literally all of that.


The Red Wedding, basically.
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Yo, we should issue out a medal for the survivors. We could have a salad bar in our sigs with our MCFRP Division Medal, Red Chat Survivor Medal, and RPG Expeditionary Medal.
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I think I channeled Evan with the first part of my last post.
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An anguished yelp and the smell of ozode filled the bus,


What does oZode even smell like? Space operas?
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Dinh AaronMk said
What does oZode even smell like? Space operas?


If his smell fills a bus, it's either heavy cologne or heavy BO. Considering the context, I'm assuming the later.
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For those unaware, Red Orchestra 2 is free today only on Steam. If you can run it, it might be worth the download.
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Dinh AaronMk said
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Now I almost want to find the threads where this happened, just to laugh at how fast shit can hit the fan sometimes.

On a side note, god damn it feels good to be able to swear again.
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Shit post because I kind of ran out of time.

But shitpost is better than no post.
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Sorry it took me so long to get this post out. It should have been done a long time ago, but I really just wanted my story lines to be completely sorted out and organized this time around, rather than the "on the spot, with small planning ahead" stuff I did last time.
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I don't think anyone here really plans anything. I think most of us have very rough "plans", but nothing down to the details. Just like, an idea of where we want to take things. So, I can't really talk considering I still haven't posted myself, but you shouldn't really be planning that hard. I mean, if you want, you can. But over-planning stuff isn't necessarily the way to do things right or whatever. If you start to plan things out too much, you might just end up tiring yourself out. It might be better to just have fun with whatever you're doing. Be what GRRM calls a "gardener". Plant a few seeds and then just roll with whatever sprouts from them, doing things in a more reactionary fashion as you go, instead of laying every detail down like an "architect".
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Generally, this is the way I do things:

I have several ideas about what I might do with every character. I have ideas about what I want to do with all of my stuff as a whole. These are vague ideas and they change when I come up with better ideas, or when somebody suggests something that I think might work better.

Then I have more specific ideas about what I want to do. Could just be a line, or it could be an event. Could be how I want a character to die. I remember some of these and play with them in my head, and some I write down.

So you take something like the Rouge General. I had a plan about how he was going to die, and I knew the general rhythm of the war (when he was going to win and when he was going to lose). But the rest of it I just sort of made up as I went. I had his death scene planned something like a year in real time before I actually wrote it, but most of the other details like where exactly the battles were fought or how they would be won or lost were not really planned at all.

Similarly, I have a general idea on how I want Sahle's arc to end, but i'm not completely sure on how i'm going to get there. And I know how I want several characters to die, I just don't know when yet.
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I know where I want Jun's adventures to go, and consequently Ulanhu's. Shit'll be fun. Problem will be finding the pacing to do it.
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