OOC Thread and Chatroom 2

[Smowz]

My deepest apologies for my long absence,

I have been absent on my holidays and I feel somewhat guilty that I have missed such a large portion of events. It took me a couple of days to digest all the recent events and am happy to return to hopefully play my part in this epic once again.

As for my holidays, I had a tremendous time touring around the countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. I would recommend the cities of Tallinn and Vilnuis to anybody (that is not to say i did not enjoy the other places i went but those two stood out). The trails in the Carpathians in Romania were superb as well.

Anyway enough of that Nevoulas has some catching up to do.

[_Tristan_]

Welcome back, Smowz !!

Seems like Asteri needs you...

[Privateerkev]

Nice stuff FD.

Just a general comment to everyone.

It would be best if people didn't take the distances from the Magnaura too seriously. The issue came up before in KotR and it far more preferable to actually attend the Magnaura personally rather than send representatives.

Please note this is not aimed at anyone, but simply a general comment. Given the large time scales involved it is not inconceivable that people can get around and attend in person. It's probably a little bit of a stretch but not too much.

Unless of course you actually want to send someone as a replacement.

The feeling of interaction is greatly increased when our characters are actually "face to face" in the game.

I'm far more likely to deal with someone if they are there rather than talk through a proxy.

I totally agree. I'm noticing there is a "scribe's convention" in the Senate lately. Having your proxy argue with the other guy's proxy gets old.

Having a scribe give basic information to the Senate is one thing, but having him arguing is another. Like AG, I think the game is richer if we have our characters debate in person.

I almost wish you hadn't...

It would have given us another outburst by Makedonios...

You spoiled our fun, Kag...

Stop... trying... to... goad... me... OOC...

And Mak wouldn't care about that anyways. He could care less if Ioannis adopted random people. His beef with him IC is that he didn't checkmark a simple form.

[_Tristan_]

Stop... trying... to... goad... me... OOC...

I wasn't goading you, PK... I just love when you get nasty... Is all...

Grandmaster of the Order of St John the Golden-Mouthed or is it the Foul-Mouthed ?

[Privateerkev]

I wasn't goading you, PK... I just love when you get nasty... Is all...

Grandmaster of the Order of St John the Golden-Mouthed or is it the Foul-Mouthed ?

Wait till I get nasty at your character...

And he was golden-mouthed until he got to the Senate. Now, being in that "wretched hive of scum and villiany" has left him cranky.

[_Tristan_]

Wait till I get nasty at your character...

I could start on some innuendo right there but I beg to differ...

[Andres]

I totally agree. I'm noticing there is a "scribe's convention" in the Senate lately. Having your proxy argue with the other guy's proxy gets old.

Having a scribe give basic information to the Senate is one thing, but having him arguing is another. Like AG, I think the game is richer if we have our characters debate in person.

Yes but having my character constantly walking in and out of the building, 'tired from a long journey to Constantinople' sounds a bit odd as well.

Poor Savvas will get grumpy if you don't allow him to have his secret decadent bacchanalias in peace and out of sight of his fellow noblemen.

[Privateerkev]

Yes but having my character constantly walking in and out of the building, 'tired from a long journey to Constantinople' sounds a bit odd as well.

Poor Savvas will get grumpy if you don't allow him to have his secret decadent bacchanalias in peace and out of sight of his fellow noblemen.

Savvas is grumpy to Mak anyways.

Sorry, but from an OOC point of view, I much rather interact with Savvas, than Savvas's scribe.

IC however, I do admit Mak is enjoying the peace and quiet.

All the more reason to have Savvas stick around more. You want to keep Mak on your toes don't you?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

My deepest apologies for my long absence,

I have been absent on my holidays and I feel somewhat guilty that I have missed such a large portion of events. It took me a couple of days to digest all the recent events and am happy to return to hopefully play my part in this epic once again.

As for my holidays, I had a tremendous time touring around the countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. I would recommend the cities of Tallinn and Vilnuis to anybody (that is not to say i did not enjoy the other places i went but those two stood out). The trails in the Carpathians in Romania were superb as well.

Anyway enough of that Nevoulas has some catching up to do.

Good to see you back!

You didn't happen to visit Tartu while you were in Estonia?
Anyway.. Tallinn is a great place to visit.. but personally I wouldn't want to live there.

[Smowz]

I did spend a few days in Tartu yes, I stayed at a small inexpensive B + B in a closeby suburb. It is a nice little place I thought, nice little square and centre, with plenty of friendly people to talk to. I actually took a day trip from there to Otepaa as well. If I would have stayed longer i would have taken the ferry out to that big lake nearby but alas i did not have time.

[Ferret]

I'm glad that Templar guy is blocking the way for the Jihadists as well as us

[Privateerkev]

I'm glad that Templar guy is blocking the way for the Jihadists as well as us

Unfortunately he won't block the Germans. If you click on the Crusader army, the yellow shows that they can just walk past the Templar general. I had hoped that the Templar would have stopped both the Germans and the Egyptians there so they could kill each other.

But it would be nice if the Egyptians went and killed that guy for us. He turns a 1 turn trip into a 3 turn trip.

[Ferret]

Just to let everyone now I'll be in Berlin from tomorrow till Friday, so no posts from me.

[Privateerkev]

EDIT: did nothing since Savvas still has the "Troops despondent" treat (needs to spend time in a settlement).

For such a jovial guy, Savvas has a very unhappy army.