(IR) 1st ooc-thread of the 5th IR (open)

[Airwhale]

Airwhale / Zelda: Elven player. Likely to ally with the other elven players.

See, the way Zelda and I have figured, different members of our faction want different things. The Elves, they want what is good/right/etc... blahblahblah. boring stuff like that. However, the majoraty of our faction, Ginsel and the free traders, just want to make sure trade is not harmed through the sphere, want to increase their own personal power, place the safety of their homes above the greater good of the sphere... etc.

We are hoping that this will create many chances to roleplay, as different members of our faction may want vastly different things at times.

 

[James Heard]

And for my part, I think that my faction's more neutral than anything else. Sure there's a lot of good creatures and such, but they're xenophobic and more than a little self-involved.

 

[Guilt Puppy]

Filled out the faction list with up-to-date colors and such... A couple of things had to be fudged (I used dark blue for the illithid, since black would hide borders, and blue-grey for the Kabalim, since grey designates unclaimed regions)...

Edena, big thanks again for going through and designating all these -- it's a tedious process. Also, I fixed the Hold of the Sea Princes... Turned out there way a "leak" in the border (it just flood fills a source image til it hits black, so if it's not completely black all the way around, one territory can get colored over by another)... If you spot any other situations like that (where changing one territory causes the one next to it to change, or one territory refuses to change) let me know.

 

[Zelda Themelin]

See, the way Zelda and I have figured, different members of our faction want different things. The Elves, they want what is good/right/etc... blahblahblah. boring stuff like that. However, the majoraty of our faction, Ginsel and the free traders, just want to make sure trade is not harmed through the sphere, want to increase their own personal power, place the safety of their homes above the greater good of the sphere... etc.

Just to add, that this is indeed so.

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Airwhale

Read your e-mail (I used original one)

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

I'm fine with blue-grey for my color.

Pending approval from Serpenteye I've added the County and Principality of Ulek to my provinces.

 

[Rikandur Azebol]

Rikandur Azebol

[sblock]A messanger from Gallador, calling herself Meliana, Priincess of The Veil, wants to speak with Iuz. She looks like a young human girl around 10 years old, but closer examination and magic would reveal her to be a powerful Undeath, and her very old eyes seem to be piercing through everything they see.[/sblock]

Melkor, Lord Of ALL !

[sblock]When Maliana entered Iuz's throneroom, instucted first by withered old hag of a human descend how to behave to not get Almighty angry, first thing that she perceived was smell of goblin fear, blood ... And the source of this all was kneeling in the front of throne of bones and skulls of thousands of people. Their spirits wailing quietly, tied to their mortal remmants in undescribable agony. With the corner of the eye she perceive that pathetic slave was chewing with great dificulty on some meat. Tears running down his cheeks ... but her gaze was fully absorbed by being sitting on the throne in relaxed stance, playful smile on his lips, ending just above mouth. She can see every line in the withered old form of a half man. Every feature of his old face is a map of debauchery and excess, wickednes beyond comprehesion of mere mortals, cruelty without bonds and rage that could consume evrething and not being sated in even the smallest extent. But the repulsive face of the male crone and his wasted body, thin and skeletal as if all muscles were sucked up by abominable power ... all this is nothing compared with the baleful, crimson eyes. Burning like hot coal in the deep eyesockets. He laughed and his laugh was like scream of the dying, like sound of children's skulls crushed by uncaring power, like croaking of ravens fighting over the eyes of the slain, like sound of descending avalanche, like sound of tornado sweeping aside innocent village. Goblin vomited, and exploded in shover of blood, when Iuz's eyebrows crisscrosed in slight irritation. Creature's bloodied skeleton standed here as if animated by evil force before collapsing into the cheap of bones.

"Welcome in my home ... Will You join me during the dinner ? You may tell servants what would You like to ... bite. You are my honored guest."

With a wave of the hand Iuz summoned the same old crone, who advised her about behaviour, and old woman waits patiently for Princess to follow her.
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Och ? Maybe, just maybe ... If Melkor would agree. We could try that: Nobody of Us controls Ivid the Mad NPC, we influence about one third of his servants, each of us.The remaining third is as insane as their Overking. And trough this ... to influence Ivid we are forced to combine arms. Since We cannot enter Rauxes personally to ... "explain" Ivid how ... tiring his lunacy is.

If not, well I prefer Demons to Undead ... so, I nullify my claim on the Ivid.
And Eclavdra will have a lot to explain.

(OOC: Nothing to worry, no offense intended ... Unless the thing would be too iresistible for Iuz. )

And Paxus ? Wolf God and bureaucracy ?!
Ach, Yes ... Thou art lawful.

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Great Serpenteye ! Evil visions tell Iuz that on Monday my comp will be repaired ... so everybody beware the wrath of Iuz !

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I filled in the League of Athyr. Haverhill would go to Nac Mac Feegle, if he has the Principality and County of Ulek.

Geoff (all of Geoff) and the Hornwood are mine.
The drow deserve a forest of their own, don't you think? (the elves have dozens of forests!)

Is anyone claiming the Phostwood? That's the wood that borders the Empire of Iuz, Greater Nyrond, Paxus's Griff Mountains on the east, and Xael's Theocracy on the southeast/east.

Since Anabstercorian claimed the Gnatmarsh, and Bugbear hasn't contested it, I'm putting the Gnatmarsh in Anabstercorian's colors. You two can argue about it amongst yourselves.

EDIT: Regardless of what the map tells you, Knurl belongs to the drow, not to the Great Kingdom of Aerdi. We may have the same color, but that is aside from the point.

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Hey, Airwhale, feel free to correct me, but here goes:

Just one thing. We arent "elven players".
We play trading alliance with military force, that consists of different races;
humans, dwarves, elves, gnomes and quite a number of weirder or just rarer creatures.

Also, our relationship with spacefaring greyspace folk is not same as our relationship with Oerth races/folk.

We've had quite little contact with Oerth people, beyond trade relations. Some inviduals among our faction have probably been visiting or living on Oerth, but quite a number of our faction's folk have never set foot on Oerth.

So, lot of other factions here, have good chance to make either good or bad first impression, and same stands for our faction.

 

[Airwhale]

I agree... the human crecent world is by far the largest part of our faction. The parts of the imperial elvish navy that are stuck inside grayspace are basicly along for the ride... We all have a vested interest in keeping grayspace safe though.