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You could say a straw broke the camel's back.

I have profoundly enjoyed EfU over the 1675 hours I have played on it, but recently the absolute untransparent treatment I have been subject too over... Really, I have no clue, complaining in Player Advice on Discord? Has just been too much. Add to that the fact that i am deeply uncomfortable over the current political matters in EfU and that I feel like I'm being lied too (DMs telling me not to worry and that everything is fine with me just to be told a month later after being Zenmained 90% of that time that I am someone making people uncomfortable and that I should not be allowed to interact with the Community at all) have led me to simply leave for the time being. Perhaps I will be back. Afterall this server has still given me some good dopamine and some wonderful friends, and I know I am beloved by many here despite what some may say. But right now it's time to jump in a hole and let the storm of hatred pass.

There is a mighty forge in a far away mountain range, in the ruins of a Dwarven Hold. Apothar Zol Nur has gazed on the auld city, Condotierro and Balladeers have seen the forge. This shall be my workbench, a forge powerful enough to reforge the Dawn itself into a weapon... One first, but if we have enough Shards, we could even forge in such an expedition a collection. Hereby presented is a blueprint of the Hammer of Rays, the first, perhaps last, but symbolizing the rays of hope it might bring to the Well.

::This is a Frostport-styled blueprint. It is of Impressive Quality. The yellowish-paper is adorned with runes alongside the edges, with a legend on the back describing each. Each Runes point to a part of what is drawn : a Great Maul, made of an alloy of steel and carbon, highly resistant to heat, to benefit its core : A Shard of Dawn embedded, lighly melted on its edges to fuse with the Great Maul surrounding it. Interrogation marks are pointed to it, with a line saying that the Blacksmith hasn't yet examined metalurgicaly a Shard. It is a weapon of high make and quality for anyone who knows his Smithing work.::

-Crowbell Spelldelver

Hail Legate Argent, Dragon of the Well,

You may remember me as the Dwarven Petitioner last allotment. I'm a proud member of the Gold League, although these recent days have seen a lull in political activity. I am well versed in history, law and various crafts... But I am first an Oathsworn, dedicated to bear the truth and preserve it. As such, I have integrity that could serve you well as one of your Magistrates.

To the pleasure of hearing back,

Crowbell Spelldelver

Dear Golden League,

I, Crowbell of the Spelldelver line, communicate that I have received this message. I communicate my readiness, per my contract, to work with the League of Gold and to help it strenghten itself. I shall be scrutinizing you all with the help of our two new Magistrates, so that we may shine our metallic appearance into radiant gold and not one dirtied with Blood and Mud.

First Event : Odds or Evens Battle Royale

A master of the dice will be placed in the middle of the participants, rolling two eight face dices. The players must call if the result will be an odd or even number. The participants will hold five lives each. Each time they are wrong, they lose one. When they get to zero, they are eliminated. If they are right twice in a row, they gain a life. Between each roll of the dice, there are 1 minutes increment. You can use 1 life, verbally saying so to the Dicemaster, and voting on a number to be decided on one of the dices.

Rules on that : There needs three votes for a dice to not be rolled. Then, the majority of the votes will decide which number it falls on. Both dices can be influenced that way, guaranteeing survival for a lucky player. Votes are whispered to the Dicemaster.

Each person stand on an Odds and Even side before the Dicemaster rolls. If, after a roll or a decision, they lose a life, they move to the Signs saying the number of lives they have left. That prevents cheating from an overabundace of players.


The game ends when only two players having a different amount of lives remain.

Second Event : The Great Pet Showcase

I strongly believe that pet owners, snakes, dogs or turtles, have an hidden potential for artistic realization in their hands. I want to see all of those pets being pampered and stylished! We will ask participants to showcase their animal companions in front of the spectators for that competition. Either athletics, tailored clothes for small dogs or theatrics.

A pet has to be living and breathing. It can be summoned, called or brought. It cannot be a chair, a construct, an object or any other non-living creatures. Pet rocks are not permitted, for example, but a water elemental is. The criteria will be how impressive your training of the creature, pet or animal is!
 

Third Event : Improvised Poetry Duel

Each participant will be paired and will be given 5 minutes to write a poem about each others. The twist?! It has to be one that attacks the other. They will then take turn reciting them to the others in front of judges. The judges will points to each. The poets with the most points will be crowned winner and second place of the Event.

Fourth Event : Musical Chair

For this last event, we will install a number of chairs equal to our participants minus one. As the music goes, they move in a circle around the chairs. When the music stops, they must seat themselves. The person that doesn't manage to do that is eliminated. Repeat the process until one person remains!

The spectators will be able to throw harmless spells and objects that can impede the process! Tanglefoot bags, Slow Spells, Grease Spells... The participants will need to overcome these obstacles to triumph!

So! I suggest here not really knowing how viable the idea is, but I still really like it and feel like it could be cool to implement so here we go!

There aren't any fishing spots in the module (that I've seen near any of the water sources, either the Sea or ponds or others). I find that sad because Fishing is a fun IC activity with a whole skill that has items buffing it IC. So, my suggestion that wouldn't require changing existing locations would be to add a dialogue option on the Captains in Qadira and Frostport letting the players pay X to rent a boat for ten minutes. The Boats would feature Fishing Spots on each side, letting players fish in the sea for a while. I think I remember the Kobold Pirate quest from V5 having custom ships things so I think it would be possible, but again, I dunno how easy it would be.

This would be pretty neat and would bring back the use of the Fishing skill, letting some PC Chefs, Hunters and others have activities to travel for other than just hunting animals.

Thank you!

Acolyte Kellyn,

I welcome your help and I am sorry for my reactions. I had thin skin upon this day and little self control while being assaulted on all sides by jeers. I respect your order greatly and would not want to offend a member of it.

I would be there to meet with Marcellus tomorrow, at the time of your convenience.

-Soldier Korril Lionan

Ladies and Gentlemens

Please addend to this paper your name, the date you desire to dine, and the hour you desire. Also, if you are not alone, please add the desired numbers of guests.

[SignedMarl Marlson]

Signed

Marl Marlson

[SignedMarl Marlson]

It is returned with the signature :

Signed

Marl Marlson

I've seen, in my long, sixty four years of small existence, many a women, small, medium and giant sized. Ugly none were for women are all beautiful in their ways, but some had flaws that the others didn't have. Some had more bounce, some had more muscle. I've always seen this wit in these ladies, this grace in even in the most rude and dirty lasses, a charm that can touch the most virtuous man...

So I understand flirting with them, I truly do.

But love is something that I, as a man that as forsaken every worldly pleasure of lust and heart, see as something that should be regarded as pure. It is something that is come from the breaking of souls at birth, something akin to that we feel toward our father and mother should they treat us well. It is love that make it so that our lives are so harsh when our parents mistreat us, for we then lack this fundamental love toward them. But we can only have one true father, and one true mother.

And one true lover.

That is why flirting with more than one person at the same time is questionable, and more than three raises many eyebrows (or should). Should you raise that number even higher, people should rightly turn their heads in scorn.

Careful, I do not criticize compliments and politness, I criticize hormonal attacks of flirtiness, messages and words that are clearly made to charm another, to get them eventually to lay their lips upon yours, to lay them near yourself for when it is time to sleep. I know how to tell one from the other, for when you disrupt someone talking simply or complimenting another, they do not really care. When flirting, someone is taken, riding on a cloud, per say, toward their charismatic goal. If you disturb them, take away their desired prize for but a moment, you break their stride, offending them truly.

Charming should be reserved for the one target of your heart, it should not be distributed like candies to children. Those who flirt like there's no tomorrow, trying to charm every women of the Sultanate that has a modicum of charm, are vicious. They are of a path to a blackened heart, destined to create jealousy, envy and other dangerous feelings in the hearts of others.

Most importantly, their behavior in public seems unnacceptable, for flirting is something private, something romantic, that should be given in circumstances leading to an advancement of the heart of both, to truly realize themselves. You cannot share the love, the true non-platonic love, not the B'aara type of love but the one of passion and lust and marriage. Trying to share it is, fundamentally, a road to blasphemy toward the Wheel, but most importantly, toward the blackening of one heart.

-Eucledeos Pytheos

Dear Estelisse Azimi,

I am deeply saddenned that you did not enjoy my thesis, but you need to understand that it is not in deep theories and profound scientifical analysis that the most profound knowledge is found. After all, a scholar of olde once spent fifty pages in describing the effect of weights dropped in water. I'd also like to say that no, the rock is not the sole argument toward the fluidity of water, but it shows us that water adapts, that it will find its way whatever happens, as I describe about the watery tunnels you seem to have not mentionned in your letter.

For the stopping of time, it is quite simple : You cannot draw nor represent water in its free flowing form. Putting water on paper, so to speak, implicate that  you stop the time of the water, to better study it. Then you can calculate the various effects that any movement or shapes might have on it. I do not revendicate Chronomancy, although the mastery of such magics would interest me.

I'd love to meet you, to see if your understand of theories is deeper than your answer seems to indicate, or you can simply find paper and ink to inform me otherwise. Simply give me a date and an hour in which you want to debate, I will bring falafells from the Souk and we can have an informed discussion.

Regards,

Eucledeos Pytheos

::The following thesis is attached : https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=706439.msg747849#msg747849 ::

Live and Drink!

Following our talk last night with Zenithar Gaius Abael, I couldn't wait and finished my first thesis. Here it is and I hope it will convince you of my potential, and the advantage of accepting me into the Tower.

Truly yours,

Eucledeos Pytheos

What is water may be a strange question. For it is more important than anything else in our waste filled lives, keeping us from shriveling up like mummies and dying in the desert. But instead of focusing on why water is important to us, I want to explore one of water’s most fascinating and overlooked feature : Fluidity.

Water cannot survive without movement. If you leave a glass of water immobile for months, making sure in an interesting experiment that it doesn’t move, it becomes stale and undrinkable. Foul, if you will. Immobility isn’t the natural state of water. The nature of fluidity is the aspect of movement that touches water and makes it so that it always tries to move. Give water space and it will try to take it all, stretching his watery tentacles across the surface. Even before the Ringfall, water carved its way where there was none. There were great tunnels underground caused by erosion, rivers stretching across multiple rings in humid caverns.

But mortals and humanoid in particular love to try and control water. Yet, in its fluidity, it makes it much harder to manipulate than when it is in the form of ice or snow, for example. It tries to escape you and as such, trying to exploit it for anything other than canals and drinks is extremely hard… And yet look at the Pilgrim in the Pyramidal Plaza, overlooking hundreds of passerby each day, with a bowl of water perpetually flowing into its fountainous well, creating beautiful mist. How do we understand such mechanisms, such architecture?

Water cannot be understood in the present, ever moving, flowing eternally. Let us freeze time to better understand the Pilgrim and its mechanism. The bowl is a system that pumps water from underneath the statue, perpetually, with many mechanisms. That is clear enough, it is how fountains are made. But let us say I put a stone, while time is frozen, directly in the conduit of the pilgrim. Water will, like a pillow, receive the stone, accommodating its strange nature. It will try to adapt, like the people that it quenches. And when time starts again, the rock will either flow with water, that adapted around its shape and is now carrying it, or will block the course of it, stopping the flow of water, of life itself.

Water accommodates, water fills, water is the only element apart from gasses that adapt so well to everything. Liquids, you may say, are all very fluid, but water is pure enough that it isn’t stopped by much. Next time you see the pilgrim, try to imagine stopping the course of time and manipulating each foot of water there. Every move will be received and should the flow of time start again, overtake the changes, becoming a new shape. That is fluidity.

-Eucledeos Pytheos

Harassed!

Beaten!

Murdered!

Butchered!

No more.

No more shall the non humans of Little Ticker bow their small heads in front of the humans. Raise your knives, your pans, your picks, drapped in the shadows of our alleys and of the buildings blocking the sun from reaching our forest and underground used eyes. Soon, we will become an autonomous district, in our homes.

Hello people! I am Pandito! The controversial celebrity of EfU!  I am looking for fellow players, whoever wants to, to play nonhumans residents of Little Ticker. The goal is to strenghten Little Ticker and make it a territory that is the propriety of non humans, as far fetched as that is in the political climate. I am looking for all kinds of nonhumans, but gnomes will be the front face of the Crusade, with Halflings, Elves and Dwarves being the main force of the crusade.  Half-Elves, Half-Orcs and humans are also welcome, but it's prefered to play one of the aforementioned four races. You're free to go at it however you like. This will be heavy conflict as far as concepts go, for obvious reasons.

Reach me on Discord under Pandito24 in private message for more information :)