Letter Bee

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Dinh AaronMk, as you're here, I have to ask: What exactly was so wrong with the Egyptian Sheet? Or would it have been accepted if not for my attitude?

The Ghost of Napoleon

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@Yam I Am

Oh. I meant the map Dihn posted on the OOC OP. That was the IRL map and not the RP Map?

Edit: Nevermind; I was blind.

The Ghost of Napoleon

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Welcome to the club

@Yam I Am

I notice that the map still has Greece as Ottoman. Can you help me remedy that ICly?

HORIZON: In Wastes, Our Dreams

@Letter Bee You can play as a Human. They’d just not be an Outsider.

@Dog And yeah, I can try running it for nowwww.

@ERode

Thanks, btw.

The Ghost of Napoleon

@Letter Bee Bee, gotta be honest with you. Didn't think I'd wake up and do a shift of work to come back to forty-some-odd posts of squabbling with you about shit. Especially when I can say without any irony: damn you got the whole gang laughing. And if this is the sort of thing I can expect, and the absolute inflexibility of anything then I will have to deny you. And not only for that, but for the first time deny you for posting cringe.

If you want to be a part of this RP after this, then I will have to state: you must now go to the Balkans or the Baltics.

God damn it.

@Yam I Am
Checks out chief, welcome aboard.

@Dinh AaronMk

And I will respect your decision (Yes, this is an edit).

HORIZON: In Wastes, Our Dreams

@Dark Cloud
Most Outsiders were born and raised in Sancta-Manzst. Remember that a new group of them showing up out from Talze-Utera is a very rare thing. Being a first-generation Outsider is possible if that’s what you want your backstory to be, but otherwise, like I said, it’s prettttty rare.

For your list of races, living as a kobold or a goblin is going to be a life in fear of getting murdered out of the blue because you look pretty much like the monsters that people kill. Dwarves are mostly treated like shorter humans, but being short and hairy comes with its own set of prejudices. Half-Giants are likely kept a closer eye on, but don’t lack work due to physical capabilities.

@Letter Bee If you’re a pure blooded Human, you’re not an Outsider.

@Lucky To clarify, the dimension that you need to connect to for Magic is a different dimension than the one you exist in.

Magic is powerful, but limited. Think spell slots without cantrips. Most pure casters have a side arm or play a strategist role as well due to being a back liner. Even a new caster could one shot a big boy. He just can’t do it more than twice without getting gassed…and then he gets got by all the other small boys.

Magic refers to the generation and manipulation of energies and fluids. Generally doesn’t have anything to do with the animation of the dead or golems, nor would it be able to heal, physically enhance, or do any truly psychic shenanigans. Stuff like that is more under the purvey of miracles invoked by worshippers.

The very nature of magic is a bit taboo, because you’re essentially denying the very real power of faith in pursuit of some extradimensional thing. That being said, there’s nothing out of bounds within the realm of energies and fluids.

There won’t be defined classes. Engineers and artificers as understood in the context of DND magitech dudes don’t exist though. If you just wanted a science fellow though, they would be more like, Royal Alchemists or Scholars under the employ of a lord rather than a stinky Outlander. There’s ways to make that work as an Outlander thoughhhh.

Artificial life doesn’t exist. As far as the characters’ lived experience goes, it’s swords and sorcery fantasy with a few “modern” plumbing conveniences.

Magic is wild and pretty rare to be melded with technology. It’s basically just something that’s not reliable enough for any advances to affect daily life. As an example, “schools” that teach magic just make their students go through the exact same lifestyle as famous mages in hopes of somehow lucking out into an interdimensional interface.

The universal language is Human. There’s regional dialects, and Outsiders come with their own languages, but Human is the base upon which everything spins.

@ERode

Oh. And one cannot play as Human?

The Ghost of Napoleon

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Immediately afterwards? Sigh... While true, you should have noticed by now that instead of continuing to yell and threaten, I managed to regain my composure and keep myself coherent. Compared to my previous shows of bad temper, my current behavior, though not perfect, is still an improvement and can be negotiated with, whereas before I would have shouted and screamed for four or five hours.

@Letter Bee

I realized how arrogant this statement was, true or not. I feel bad about it.

Nevertheless, I still feel like Pagemaster's phrasing could have been more clearly stated; he could have just said that my nation's backstory would have steered it to the point of open war with Britain (which didn't happen for two more years IRL and only after a second Egyptian Invasion of the Ottoman Empire). The grand majority of what I had was from IRL history, and I don't think any of you argued against that part.

(The exception was siding with the minorities in the Ottoman Empire close to the start of the RP.)

Edit: Sorry for the quadruple post!

Edit 2: Also, here is proof that my nation's history is IRL History:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian–Ottoma…

Edit 3: After consulting with someone else, I found out that I was dead wrong about Pagemaster's intentions and that he wasn't actually trying to intimidate me into dropping my nation claim through OOC smack-talk. I will admit fault for this, and also that I didn't know how the NRP community worked.

That said, despite my foolish and harsh words, it was an honest mistake; I was ignorant about how other people worked and I still am. But now I know just why I was wrong.

The Ghost of Napoleon

Either way, be right back in 3 hours or so.

The Ghost of Napoleon

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So since the joke flew right over the ol' dome there...trying to invade Britain is where he got his ass beat, here.

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Eh, don't sweat it. We're used to it by now.

@Yam I Am

Thanks, Yam; sorry for the double-post.

The Ghost of Napoleon

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LB, with all due respect - you keep apologizing for your outbursts, only to proceed to do outbursts immediately afterwards. I have trouble believing these apologies are genuine at this point.

@Jeddaven

Immediately afterwards? Sigh... While true, you should have noticed by now that instead of continuing to yell and threaten, I managed to regain my composure and keep myself coherent. Compared to my previous shows of bad temper, my current behavior, though not perfect, is still an improvement and can be negotiated with, whereas before I would have shouted and screamed for four or five hours.