OOC Thread and Chatroom 2

[Ferret]

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Is this, along with your double posting, just a sly way of upping your post count?

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Ha ha only two this time

[Privateerkev]

Is this, along with your double posting, just a sly way of upping your post count?

I can think of far less aggravating ways to up my post count...

[Privateerkev]

Scopia...

The province no one wants, but no one wants their opponents to have.

[AussieGiant]

Good god, it's like an episode of Bold and the Beautiful.

[Privateerkev]

Good god, it's like an episode of Bold and the Beautiful.

Which one is which?

[TinCow]

For the sake of historical accuracy, I feel the need to point out that few Byzantines would have thought a little whipping of an opponent and a collision in a race (the collision had nothing to do with the cheating, btw) were worthy of outrage. Chariot racing was a vicious sport and racers often died in collisions, while bribery and cheating were both pretty common as well. If you want to protest the Hippodrome result for political reasons, or because your character has a chivarlous stick up his butt, that makes plenty of sense, but try to remember that the events that occurred in that race probably wouldn't have struck most Byzantines as unusual.

In fact, I built a cheating system into the chariot racing rules from the very beginning, before any player even thought of trying to interact with the races in an IC manner. It simply didn't occur in the first two races because the dice rolls went against it.

[AussieGiant]

While all true, the point I'd like to make is that the Supreme Ruler of the £%^ing largest Empire on the planet just used it as a decision maker...AND in public.

Cheat all you want, that's as normal as can be, but in this particular instance don't expect the man with the largest pipe hitting set of bollocks on the planet to take kindly at being shown up that way...just a little twist on SOP of the time in my view.

[_Tristan_]

And Methodios may have chivalry up his butt...

[Privateerkev]

*waits patiently for first homo-erotic comment*

[TinCow]

While all true, the point I'd like to make is that the Supreme Ruler of the £%^ing largest Empire on the planet just used it as a decision maker...AND in public.

Cheat all you want, that's as normal as can be, but in this particular instance don't expect the man with the largest pipe hitting set of bollocks on the planet to take kindly at being shown up that way...just a little twist on SOP of the time in my view.

Are you saying that the Basileus is upset that his ultra lazy and completely unjust method of resolving disputes didn't work out very well? Shame that...

[AussieGiant]

Are you saying that the Basileus is upset that his ultra lazy and completely unjust method of resolving disputes didn't work out very well? Shame that...

I'm not one to judge what the Emperor decides to do and not to do when it comes to just about anything.

Hell, if he says it's a sack race in women's clothing, then hey, strap the fake breasts on and get jumping.

Take the piss, at your own risk. As an option, I think everything I mentioned as a plausible follow-up is typical and IC.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Scopia...

The province no one wants, but no one wants their opponents to have.

Who said that no one wants it?