The Masters

[Victoria]

No. There was no posts missing. I deleted your previous one because it was unneeded. There was an announcement for such problems, and well, such problems are gone, so technically your post right now is just spam. >.>;

But anyway. I just recalled something. A while ago, PM attempted to join the BOD, and apparently had left TM. (Apparently stated so in a post in this exact thread some time ago. o_O; )

So.. I'm just wondering. Is PM still considered a member of TM? o_o;

[Prodigal Madness]

I leave and rejoin fairly constantly. >_>

Ano would reaccept me again, if not, Godean would in his place. If you want it official, despite that BoD said outside members would be welcomed.

I'd type more, but my eyes feel bleedy. Wheeeee.

;_; /eyes

[Slim Perfect]

As I myself had almost made the terrible decision of converting to the Brotherhood in a time of peril I can understand to an extent his abandonment. However, if as he says he leaves quite frequently, that I can not say I am happy with. What to do with him lies out of my control, unfortunately.

P.S. I did not see the warning that there would be problems. I'm just glad it wasn't my computer crapping out on me. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Anomaly]

My my, what fools there have been in my absence.

Prodigal Madness, our little prodigal mage leaves our ranks all the time because he's a weasil and a back stabber. We love and hate him for it, but I don't think he ever left simply to join 'the winning side'. Though trying to pretend that anything the BOD might say about 'outsiders being welcome' in this conflict would hold ANY MEANING to the Circle of Nine is ignorant, even for him. But yes, as he says, I would probably accept him back...but I won't accept him as a participent in this conflict.

Nor will I accept you Slim, you traitorous dog. Less for your turn about to the BOD but more for your idiotic posturing do I believe you are not fit to be a Master. As if being the only Master here in this dead little offshoot club grants you some kind of say in what the clan as a whole will do. What a joke.

I have had howls coming at me ever since my return to do something about you. But all I will say is you're no longer welcome here, no longer a Master...and leave you to lie in the bed you have made for yourself. You are no longer my concern.

To Slims friends, to GrimmJaw, to you lot that want so badly to fight the BOD, feel absolutely free. Just not in this conflict. If this is to be a battle to decide if this pathetic excuse of an offshoot club continues to exist on this backwater forum, then it will be Masters only, and will be handpicked by the Circle of Nine. You want to join the club? There are procedures you can go through, but joining is no gurantee of participation.

Now that the riff raff are out of the way, GREETINGS BOD! Did you miss me? I know you must have, given you waited until my back was turned to try and launch a war! And after I'd been trying so hard for a month to get your cowardly little princeling to accept an invitation to battle, one on one, to kick off this little party. Well if your not up to foreplay, I've no problem skipping right to the good stuff.

Oh, but there is one thing. You want to attack us? You want to have a battle to decide our destruction, or your destruction? Then I'm afraid you will have to contend with the Fortress. You see, it is the seat of The Masters power, our home and energy source all in one beautiful little chaotic package. Thats not to say you'll have to fight inside it...no, I don't even expect you to be able to GET INSIDE our fortress, but if its a real war you want, a true victory, than you cannot hope to merely vanquish a handful of us an expect us to go away. You have to assault The Masters Keep.

Now...what else. Ahh, yes, the stipulation that we play by TFF rules. This was a real suprise to me coming from you lot. I would've thought you'd want to kill your enemies, eradicate them from the face of the earth, destroy their very characters. Of course, you could not do this by TFF rules anymore than I could turn into a three headed dragon. But then I'm happy to not play by the rules if you are...I know your honor is paper thin and that excites me. I'd hate to have a climatic last stand battle and think my enemies were not giving their all.

Oh, but you made the rules of this conflict non-negotiable...and my word...if we do not agree to the conflict it will count as some kind of loss?

Cute trick...Prodigal Madness tried it on us about two or three years ago when he tried to crash an airship into the Floating Fortress. We told him to **** off. But what kind of victory can you call it if you never fight us? PM paraded around his so called victory for about a week...and then realized no one cared. Thats not what you want BOD...such a young clan...you want Glory...gorey, gorey, Glory. You want to try and decimate us...we want to try and obliterate you. But if you don't want to play ball with me...with the Grand Master, Ambassador of The Masters, lord of the clan...then there's no rule anywhere that says we can't just ignore your inane prattly and continue about our business. Everyone else does.

Hah...even if that business IS to drift and die, eh Vicky?

Still...five on five sounds about right, unless you want to fight the entire Circle of Nine. I'll be performing the Kolobos ritual on your charming, if deluded leader and I'll have the Pillar of Mind, Time, Nature, and hopefully Conflict by my side. More on that as Masters trickle in from other, more important areas.

I'll be around...I shouldn't be as busy this weekend as I was last, and I look forward to lengthy discussions with the ever so intellegent members of the BOD. Oh, and I will only be accepting one ambassador from the BOD at this time...that being Toromor. All others should direct any 'official' words or 'authorized' comments to LocoColt. Save the unofficial ones for my pm box and reputation points...they do amuse me so.

Slim...if you have anything to say in your defense, keep it to PM...you're not allowed to post in this thread anymore.

[LocoColt04]

Now...what else. Ahh, yes, the stipulation that we play by TFF rules. This was a real suprise to me coming from you lot. I would've thought you'd want to kill your enemies, eradicate them from the face of the earth, destroy their very characters. Of course, you could not do this by TFF rules anymore than I could turn into a three headed dragon. But then I'm happy to not play by the rules if you are...I know your honor is paper thin and that excites me. I'd hate to have a climatic last stand battle and think my enemies were not giving their all.

There's also that clause regarding "unofficial" rules and the ability to create a battle (in this case, a series of battles) which have custom rules. As long as there is an OOC statement included at the top of the opening post and in a copy of the updated character profile (i.e. you should post a copy of your ungodly characters in their true, unrestricted glory and note that they are not for normal usage), then you can do whatever you feel.

If a fight to the death is to be had, so be it. It is not my decision to make -- that is one solely between yourself and Toromor.

[Alexander]

I would like to join. If you want an example of some writing I'll send you some, but I'm afraid its a bit long to place in here; a non-Rp thread.

As for the battle, I agree with Andromeda in one of your first pages, I have always been better at RP, though I can still write a good RPB. So just throw me whatever and I hope I impress.

I know I havn't been on here long, but I've been writing for a good long while.

Let me know.

[Shadrach]

Err? So, there are custom rule-set allowances here. My my, that's intriguing.

*Looks over to Anomaly and applauds*

Nice speech there pal. It's quite entertaining to watch someone with some semblance of a clue put others in their place and I must say you did so quite well. Hahaha. With your little appearance here I'm even more intrigued to join this group, and it isn't often I care enough to join a group of strangers.

Anywho, that application I posted is a mere taste (as is the character being used). I have others that have been in development for nearly ten years straight, one of which has never lost a battle and if someone wants the number I'll PM it to them.

The point I'm getting at here is that I'm a 'born and bred' fighter. I prefer to sew deep storylines into my battles, but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, I am right at home with "senseless brawling". A ...resume, if you will. If there is a place for a ruthless slayer in your 'Club', then that is what I'm applying for. I was told to just post right in here.

I can also supply a link (in private), to the current site I roleplay the most at, pointing to various threads...as well as the War that is now coming to a close. That is, if anyone is bored or...even cares. That war in specific, eh, the opponents were morons so it may not be an entertaining read in the first place.

meehhh, whatever. Now I'm rambling. *Shrugs* Anyway, if there's a spot for me, I'd like to know soonish. Whether or not I fight in this encroaching skirmish isn't a make or break detail anymore. You could say I have an inexplicable hunch....yeah.

[Anomaly]

There's also that clause regarding "unofficial" rules and the ability to create a battle (in this case, a series of battles) which have custom rules. As long as there is an OOC statement included at the top of the opening post and in a copy of the updated character profile (i.e. you should post a copy of your ungodly characters in their true, unrestricted glory and note that they are not for normal usage), then you can do whatever you feel.
If a fight to the death is to be had, so be it. It is not my decision to make -- that is one solely between yourself and Toromor.

Excellent. Then I suppose its entirely up to Toromor...lets see just how lucky he feels. It would seem that though I'm available of a weekend, he has more interesting things to plan than war in his chatroom.

I would like to join. If you want an example of some writing I'll send you some, but I'm afraid its a bit long to place in here; a non-Rp thread.

As for the battle, I agree with Andromeda in one of your first pages, I have always been better at RP, though I can still write a good RPB. So just throw me whatever and I hope I impress.

I know I havn't been on here long, but I've been writing for a good long while.

Let me know.

Well lets see that example if you can send it via pm. I'll look it over and share it with the Pillars and consider it the RP part of your application. If you're up to snuff, we'll set up a small demonstration battle for the RPB side of it. At the rate this so called 'war' is progressing we should have plenty of time to review your abilities.

Nice speech there pal. It's quite entertaining to watch someone with some semblance of a clue put others in their place and I must say you did so quite well. Hahaha. With your little appearance here I'm even more intrigued to join this group, and it isn't often I care enough to join a group of strangers.

Anywho, that application I posted is a mere taste (as is the character being used). I have others that have been in development for nearly ten years straight, one of which has never lost a battle and if someone wants the number I'll PM it to them.

The point I'm getting at here is that I'm a 'born and bred' fighter. I prefer to sew deep storylines into my battles, but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, I am right at home with "senseless brawling". A ...resume, if you will. If there is a place for a ruthless slayer in your 'Club', then that is what I'm applying for. I was told to just post right in here.

I can also supply a link (in private), to the current site I roleplay the most at, pointing to various threads...as well as the War that is now coming to a close. That is, if anyone is bored or...even cares. That war in specific, eh, the opponents were morons so it may not be an entertaining read in the first place.

Hmm...I like the taste of what you've provided. Hand cannons and white russians are a pleasant mix and I've always adored weapons capable of not only decapitating ones enemies but decimating chunks of property. I believe I will accept your application. All that remains is for you to show your skill in a fight one on one with a Master.

Now with the war prep on, you might think we'll be a little busy to handle that little detail, but we'll see what we can work out. As I've already said, it doesn't look like the BOD is in too much of a hurry to get back to us at the moment.

So I'll open the floor to fellow Masters...does anyone wish to test Shadrach? (If you're looking to get in my good graces Mage, this would be a good chance for you. As our former 'headmaster' I've faith you can put him through the fire.) Otherwise I've no problem shaking the dust off of my wings for a little prelude to my march on the Black Shitidel, or whatever its being called at the moment.

[LocoColt04]

As you are leaving the decision to Toromor, I have some things to say.

If he chooses to accept the proposal of custom rules, the two of you will need to collaborate with one another to reach some sort of mutual agreement. Even though this is his challenge, some boundaries need to be placed.

Will there be restrictions on godmodding?*
If not, then no whiny complaints will be honored as valid.

Will there be restrictions on magical-type powers?
If not, then no whiny complaints will be honored as valid.

Will there be restrictions on death?
If not, then no whiny complaints will be honored as valid... so long as death is handled in a mature fashion rather than "oh n then i kil u lulz," which I doubt would be something to worry about with the writers at hand here anyway.



*note: If the rule of godmodding is lifted for this series of challenges, note that FULL control of the opposing character would still be restricted. Partial control for the sake of smooth writing would be allowed in this case, but again this is only if the godmodding clauses are deemed null and void. Furthermore, you have every right to break down the godmodding clauses and choose which you will allow and which you will not. The glory of "no-rules" (custom rule) fights is that you have the freedom to keep what you like and toss what you don't.

[ToroMor]

I have to be very brief.

The conditions of battle stay. It will be a 5v5 battle. We have outlined our warriors and still await yours.
Anomaly, my personal challenge stands. Whatever you pretend, chickening out will brand you as a loser.

We will use customized rules regarding superhuman skills/magic.
There will be no restrictions on death and zero godmodding.
Details we be outlined before the war starts. I am willing to collaborate with Anomaly and the judge(s) on those.
Is there already an affirmed judge? Vicky said she'd do the job. Can someone confirm that? (Feel free to edit here.)

One more thing (before I continue my well deserved vacation muhahaha):
we did not wait until you "turned your back" to us. We give you a last chance to terminate your existence (in this realm) with a trace of honor instead of vanishing unnoticed and pitiable. You should kiss my boots for this, Anomaly.

[Victoria]

Yes, I'm still doing it. Although it'd be nice to have a second to have a second opinion and such.

[Shadrach]

*Nods* Alrighty then. Good to hear, I'll be waiting for that order to be carried out. I'm trusting you need this assessment battle to last at least a few turns so as to display at least some sort of 'range' of ability.

I'll do this 'spar' against any one, but would love to see one of your toughest opponents hehe...^^.

[Anomaly]

The conditions of battle stay. It will be a 5v5 battle. We have outlined our warriors and still await yours.

Five on five is fine by me.

Anomaly, my personal challenge stands. Whatever you pretend, chickening out will brand you as a loser.

I'll take you anytime, anywhere, but that doesn't make me a fool ToroMor, nor does that give you any authority over me when it comes to dictating this conflict. If you want to call me a chicken for standing up to you, that makes you nothing more than an overgrown child.

We will use customized rules regarding superhuman skills/magic.
There will be no restrictions on death and zero godmodding.
Details we be outlined before the war starts. I am willing to collaborate with Anomaly and the judge(s) on those.

That sounds acceptable, though I suggest we collaborate over PM to avoid people piping in with comments and suggestions that could bog the process down. Though of course if you want deaths to be included, those can only come at the end of battle after a victor is confirmed.

Is there already an affirmed judge? Vicky said she'd do the job. Can someone confirm that? (Feel free to edit here.)

I refuse to accept Vicky as a judge, be there a second judge or otherwise. I suggest LocoColt as the sole judge. If you can't accept this term than you might as well retract your challenge right now. If Colt refuses to judge...then we'll naturally discuss other alternatives.

One more thing (before I continue my well deserved vacation muhahaha):
we did not wait until you "turned your back" to us. We give you a last chance to terminate your existence (in this realm) with a trace of honor instead of vanishing unnoticed and pitiable. You should kiss my boots for this, Anomaly.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, right. I come and go as I please, fade away and am born again from the Void at my whim. The day I kiss your boots is the day you convince one of your lackey's to impersonate me. If anything, you should be thanking me for sparing my time to give your pathetic challenge my attention. To give your peons something to do aside from spam up there little offshoot here.

But if you think you're doing me a favor, whatever. How sweet of your ToroMor.

[LocoColt04]

The conditions of battle stay. It will be a 5v5 battle. We have outlined our warriors and still await yours.

I am glad to see this. Anything more would have seemed too cluttered. It also works because, as an odd number, there's no possible way for this war to come to a draw.

That sounds acceptable, though I suggest we collaborate over PM to avoid people piping in with comments and suggestions that could bog the process down. Though of course if you want deaths to be included, those can only come at the end of battle after a victor is confirmed.

This would be accurate. With ZERO godmodding allowed (excluding rules regarding strength/power; previously noted as acceptable), death would be unacceptable in that regard. It would have to be a post-judgment action, which is acceptable under the circumstances.

I suggest LocoColt as the sole judge. If you can't accept this term than you might as well retract your challenge right now. If Colt refuses to judge...then we'll naturally discuss other alternatives.

I'm down with that. We'll discuss possible time-caps and rulings at a later time. I'll want to hold a little pow-wow with the two of you so we can hammer things out and make sure we're all on the same page. It's tough, with Toro being ten hours ahead of us, Anomaly, but we'll find a way to plan out a discussion amongst ourselves.

This is really important because I will need to know what each side deems as important qualities so that we may come to a mutual agreement as to what is and is not imperative. Not everything is always judged TOA style, and sometimes it's better that it isn't. This is an epic battle with a ton of amazing visuals (at least, it should be). Therefore, character depth might not have to be important if you don't want it to be. We could discount spelling and grammar altogether, or I could be a nazi about it. There are probably a dozen other judgment-type things I look for in posts that we'll have to discuss at our conference.

[Anomaly]

Where before there was a clamoring and shouting of many voices, there is now silence.

An update for those that may take our silence as inactivity.

Negotiations have begun with myself, ToroMor and LocoColt in private. There are rules that are already nailed down but there are several more that will require discussion, and a few more that were brought to my attention just today. It is our hope that we can resolve these matters in a timely fashion, but do not expect actual battle to begin any earlier than August 15th.

To those Masters who may be truent from the offsite forum, we have begun a thread there for the posting of BIOs for those participating in the war and the reservists. If you are participating in the war, or would like to, I'd urge you to go to the offsite forums and post your profile. (Prodigal Mage, Godean, this means you)

Are there any questions?

[LocoColt04]

Anomaly, you may wish to check your PM box. Upon receiving the combined applications of yourself and ToroMor, I have put together a list of suggestions, requests, and questions that require attention before we get this underway.

To the rest of the faction:

Consult your leaders regarding character alteration. There will be a separate forum which only the participants and the reserves will have access to post in (though all will have read access, making for quite the show). Prepare your characters accordingly and have them ready for review as soon as possible. Ideally, this new forum and the character thread will be in place within the next two days.




edit:
Side note... all this talk of war seriously has my blood pumping. I will be posting a restricted open challenge to those who have previously competed in a Tournament of Arms in a battle -- just for fun -- to keep me occupied. It will move at a slow pace as I work often, but I want something to occupy my downtime outside of reading and videogames. I figured I would leave a note in here (and in the other faction) in case someone is looking for some extra side-action. Only characters legal by standard rules would be allowed for the fight, but I just want some fun. First come, first serve. A post in the thread, whenever it goes up, claiming acceptance of the challenge will be allowed.

[LocoColt04]

Pardon the double post.



All warriors should now have access to post in The Battlegrounds. I created a new usergroup titled "Warmongers" and added it as a secondary group for all participants. It /should/ grant access to post for all members of the group. If for any reason this doesn't work properly, I will have to swap it to your primary usergroup when I get back home. My apologies in advance if you find yourselves unable to post during this time period.


edit:
Okay, I have two hours before I have to be back up at work for the midnight Madden release, so I need to know for sure whether or not you guys are able to post in The Battlegrounds forum. If anyone has a character profile ready to go, I implore you to move forward and post it. If the access rights are screwed up for any reason, I need to know this before I leave, as I won't be getting home until 2am or so.

[Zephyr]

A little late, but I guess the access rights are fine. I just posted my bio and something in the Q&A thread.

Oh snap, I've got a set of mid-term exams right in the middle of the 'war'. W00t. That makes for awesome times. I'll be studying physics and plotting moves at the same time.

I do love a challenge.

[Anomaly]

War.

It has been a long time since I have had the ability to speak on this subject without casting my thoughts longingly to the past. It has been so long since we have fought a true war.

I look back at so many battles to bring down the tyrants who oppressed our fellow Masters. I remember the absorption of the Dark Omen, that battle which laid the foundations for our Military Division. After that…I remember the cold wars…the sometimes short lived, sometimes long drawn out dramas, that presaged the destruction of those who so unwisely opposed us.

But even those times have long been lost to us…until now.

We who were born from chaos and strife. We who return, to be bathed in the fires of that chaos time and time again, do so once more!

This time will be no different. Did we not obliterate the Empyrean when their lord sought to master us? Did we not drive out the Fortuna Diaboli when they screamed for our blood? Did we not send the Legion of Angels hurtling into extinction? Have we not mastered one clan after another, devouring what would make us stronger and destroying what would make us weak?

This is our hour! This is our day! Will you let them take our victory away from us? Will you let them sit in their tower, snidely chuckling away when we know, not think, but know DEEP in our marrow that we...are...BETTER!

No my Masters, I do not think that you need to prove yourselves here today. Nor do I feel that we face some great enemy that must be destroyed at any cost. No, rather I feel that for us to continue here, we must continue to be WHO WE ARE…and do what we do best.

We shall destroy, my Masters...or be destroyed in the process.

Some of you may die. Know that your sacrifice will be remembered, honored, and sung so long as a single Pillar stands. Do not lose heart. Do not let the incompetence of our enemies stir you to pity, nor their arrogance cloud your judgement. We will CRUSH all who oppose us...and devour those that remain.

Let there be Salvation in our Domination.

To our enemies I say only this.

Join us, or Perish!

[Prodigal Madness]

When the hell is the war supposed to be getting started? =/

[Anomaly]

Last Friday ^_^ isn't it grand?

*sigh* well I hoped it wouldn't have to come to this, but we may have to take matters into our own hands.

[Victoria]

I've gotten a text message from Lococolt saying that his phone lines have been out since Sunday, but should be fixed by tomorrow. He's used the time to prepare everything, so as soon as he gets back online, everything should be under way.

Thanks. Have a nice day. o_O;

[Lucid]

Maybe I'm just too picky, but there never seems to be any good original RPs on this site.

I'm getting so tired of some of the boring and unoriginal crap that people post here. It reminds me too much of Gaia...

[Anomaly]

I've gotten a text message from Lococolt saying that his phone lines have been out since Sunday, but should be fixed by tomorrow. He's used the time to prepare everything, so as soon as he gets back online, everything should be under way.

Thanks. Have a nice day. o_O;

Well thats good to hear. If there's further problems though, Toro and I have agreed to come up with the initial posts between the two of us. (Not that I'd see us having much chance in agreement on the terrain, but you never know)

I'm getting so tired of some of the boring and unoriginal crap that people post here. It reminds me too much of Gaia...

Hah, just about every place is a refelction of that insipid little cesspool these days. A lot of the soul has gone out of RP...even if you find a good one its like to die after a week. I blame our generation thats going out (which doesn;t have time for RP anymore really) and the new generation thats coming in (that doesn;t have the patience for it rally).

Who knows though...maybe they'll make an artform out of chatroom brawls.

[LocoColt04]

They were supposed to be out Thursday or Friday. It's Sunday night. I'm borrowing internet and my notes are at home. Please refer to your inbox as well as the Q&A thread... and hopefully the problem on my end is resolved shortly.

Go figure... for once, I'm NOT having computer problems... it's the damn phone lines.

/sigh

[Anomaly]

Update on the war.

Battle settings have been loosely agreed upon as well as the set up for the introductory post for the war itself. Work has begun on a first draft for the introductory post by ToroMor and drafts for each battle that will branch off from this introduction are in the works by myself. We hope to get this war underway ASAP and are using our free time to see that this will be the case.

More updates will follow, but I wanted to let you lot know that we ARE working on this since Colt is not able to. The war will take place, but it will obviously be slightly delayed.

[LocoColt04]

And I'm still borrowing teh intarwebz.

What kills me the most is that we're sitting here, paying our DSL bill, and not getting internet. ;_; This whole phone thing is just obnoxious. Still, I'm honestly not inclined to swap my service or anything of the sort... shit happens, I suppose. I just have really awesome timing.

Feel free to push back the ending deadline as well, if you all wish to do so. If I catch a note about a date that you all settle on, I'll go edit it in the official mumbo jumbo thread later.

[Anomaly]

Ok Colt. Though if I were you I'd refuse to pay for services I was not technically receiving.

Just an update, I've seen the first draft for the war intro and it looks pretty good. Only a few minor changes here and there are necissary and it should be ready to post by the end of the week. I've shared the first drafts of each battle intro with ToroMor and am just waiting to here word back from him before I go into the 2nd/Final draft stage (depending on if there are any major disagreements).

It's looking like we should be able to finally get things started this week, but I think we'll hold off on selecting a final date to push back the end of the war for when we actually know what specific day the war is going to start.

And happy birthday Tainted Mage =P

[Prodigal Madness]

I get an email... yet I see no thread.

>_>

<_<

/rampage

I'm going back to nursing my ongoing headache now. =/

Which no, is not from being 21 and the whole legal drinking thing. If only, then it'd be gone by now. z_z

[Anomaly]

The War has officially started as of now.

If you have the first post you have seven days from this time in which to make that post. I suggest, however, that you post at your earliest convience. I'll likely make my first post tomorrow when I've a bit of spare time.

But for those whos patience has worn thin beyond comapre...the war is on. The war is now.