The Great Hall - General Guild Chat

[zarikrahia]

Rename the one we have.

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[zhunter]

micrody said:

DISCUSSION TOPIC: Profiles Thread

I was over there, in the East wing o' the cas'le, 'bout ready to update my — holy crimson Flagrah! There's a spider on my monitor—no, wait, I got it. *sigh of relief* Alright, where was I...? Oh, yes, as I was saying, I was about to update my profile, and I simply found it peculiar that, since the Knights' quarter of the cas'le is in the North wing, the profiles happen to be in the East. Certainly, information would be logically kept in the library, but do we all, honestly, have publically-available records...? After all, aren't the profiles meant to serve as a sort of "get-to-know-you" guide for the players, not the characters themselves...?

So...should we start a new profiles thread, rename the one we have, or just not care about it?

Both ideally.

And I'll rename it if it's partially conflicting. No big deal.

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zhunter said:

Both ideally.

And I'll rename it if it's partially conflicting. No big deal.

It's not particularly conflicting. I'm just particularly conflicting with it. :)

If you would change it, that'd be great. Maybe you could even put a reminder that when you update your profile, to change the title of the post, too? If so, it'd be even greater.

Thanks, Shino. ^_^

[zhunter]

micrody said:

zhunter said:

Both ideally.

And I'll rename it if it's partially conflicting. No big deal.

It's not particularly conflicting. I'm just particularly conflicting with it. :)

If you would change it, that'd be great. Maybe you could even put a reminder that when you update your profile, to change the title of the post, too? If so, it'd be even greater.

Thanks, Shino. ^_^

No problem, m'lord.

People don't really have titles of posts and the title of the thread now says North Wing so Knights will be sure to know to edit any information not pertaining to the North Wing corridors. That's where the living quarters are so...

DISCUSSION TOPIC: Knighthood

Does anyone else think we're letting people in to the KONTWF too easy? I know it's an open guild and you're supposed to let forumers in if Knights are what interest them, but it just seems a bit lax. In the original medieval days you would have to have a lot of skills, abilities, and powers to achieve Knighthood.

Being a gentleman or lady, jousting, swordsmanship, magic, and the art of war...these are just simple examples of requirements you would have to be knowledgeable in. Young pages/squires only became Knights when they performed a great feat or deed or excelled in everything thusly. Older Knights studied history, literature, and often language. Just laying that out to consider.

Perhaps we should start newer members at new levels in the guild and then have them work their way up to Knight and even higher.

[Ikkin]

zhunter said:

DISCUSSION TOPIC: Knighthood

Does anyone else think we're letting people in to the KONTWF too easy? I know it's an open guild and you're supposed to let forumers in if Knights are what interest them, but it just seems a bit lax. In the original medieval days you would have to have a lot of skills, abilities, and powers to achieve Knighthood.

Being a gentleman or lady, jousting, swordsmanship, magic, and the art of war...these are just simple examples of requirements you would have to be knowledgeable in. Young pages/squires only became Knights when they performed a great feat or deed or excelled in everything thusly. Older Knights studied history, literature, and often language. Just laying that out to consider.

Perhaps we should start newer members at new levels in the guild and then have them work their way up to Knight and even higher.

In a word, no. As you said, it's an open guild and you're supposed to let forumers in if their persona is a knightly character. There's nothing lax about it, it's a way of ensuring that the private boards don't degenerate into elitism, which is against the purpose of the guilds in the first place.

In any case, it might have been an interesting idea in the beginning, with everyone being on equal ground. But, now that everyone already here has become a knight without it, it seems rather unfair to new people to start them out lower.

And, again, this is a persona thing. People want to join the guild because their persona is a knight. And setting them down to page or squire or something changes their persona character for them, which generally isn't a good thing to do.

So, I'm voting no on this. The potential problems seem to outweigh the potential benefits to me.

[zhunter]

ikkinwithattitude said:

zhunter said:

DISCUSSION TOPIC: Knighthood

Does anyone else think we're letting people in to the KONTWF too easy? I know it's an open guild and you're supposed to let forumers in if Knights are what interest them, but it just seems a bit lax. In the original medieval days you would have to have a lot of skills, abilities, and powers to achieve Knighthood.

Being a gentleman or lady, jousting, swordsmanship, magic, and the art of war...these are just simple examples of requirements you would have to be knowledgeable in. Young pages/squires only became Knights when they performed a great feat or deed or excelled in everything thusly. Older Knights studied history, literature, and often language. Just laying that out to consider.

Perhaps we should start newer members at new levels in the guild and then have them work their way up to Knight and even higher.

In a word, no. As you said, it's an open guild and you're supposed to let forumers in if their persona is a knightly character. There's nothing lax about it, it's a way of ensuring that the private boards don't degenerate into elitism, which is against the purpose of the guilds in the first place.

In any case, it might have been an interesting idea in the beginning, with everyone being on equal ground. But, now that everyone already here has become a knight without it, it seems rather unfair to new people to start them out lower.

And, again, this is a persona thing. People want to join the guild because their persona is a knight. And setting them down to page or squire or something changes their persona character for them, which generally isn't a good thing to do.

So, I'm voting no on this. The potential problems seem to outweigh the potential benefits to me.

Sorry...What I should have said in the opening question was: Does anyone else think we're letting people become Knights too easily?

Your words are true. RP and NTWF personas would be complicated and probably more trouble than it's worth, but I'd still like to hear from anyone else about this.

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Although I do love the idea, I have to agree with Ikkin.

The idea, after all, is that these are personas we're playing with, not ourselves exactly. Therefore, as long as the persona has obtained the title of knighthood, they can act as knights.

Understandably, though, it would be a good idea to have a special thread somewhere here to educate people on such important things and what it means to be a knight and what it means to be a part of a kingdom. And although you aren't hearing this from me, I've actually had an idea for that sort of thing for a while, and as I get out of school the end of this week, I'm hoping to be able to start putting things to paper...erm, pixels, as soon as I can.

Though, since clearly the cat's out of the bag on this one, what topics would be of best interest?

I'm thinking, medieval forms of government, a bit about knighthood and combat, and, of course, how it all relates to the KONTWF, since we're not exactly the most historically-accurate knights around...

At which, I say "KONTWF" as con-toof, because in Celtic words, "w" sounds like "oo." Heh. lol.

[Ikkin]

zhunter said:

ikkinwithattitude said:

How about you prepare for your funeral right now? >.>

How 'bout you be kind at my grave and toss me a rose?

An exploding rose? Sure. ^_^ Vaporizing the corpse at the funeral always goes well.

Note: Moved here at Kit's request. ^^;

[zarikrahia]

Question: How did the knights gather at Dunburrow in the first place? Were they sent a letter? What about those who already had knight training and an education? >_____< curiosity killed the Fae.

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zarikrahia said:

Question: How did the knights gather at Dunburrow in the first place? Were they sent a letter? What about those who already had knight training and an education? >_____< curiosity killed the Fae.

Quote of the week! No, no--the month!!! ^_^

Um, anyways, it goes sorta like this:

In a land distant and far away, with text floating off into the horizon much as it does on Star Wars and in an awesome and deep voice much as is on any good movie trailer, a kingdom was in peril and dying without knights to uphold it and a bearer for its crown. A lone knight, the White Knight Shino, set out on a quest to create a new order of knights to return to the kingdom and revive it. He wrote letters to some and merely wandered across others. In a short time, he had acquired a legion of knights, and he called them the KoNTWF! Carrying banners and marching in gaiety, these Knights then returned to Dunburrow and the kingdom was saved.

However, that story is 100% godmoding on my part of Shino, and every time I tell it (this is the third or forth time now, I think) Shino neither confirms nor denies it. So I continue to regard it as fact. (And it niftily connects our club days to the guild. ^_^)


EDIT: I also think I discovered the identity of "Lunariiku" and the mysterious "Dragon".

[zhunter]

ikkinwithattitude said:

zhunter said:

How 'bout you be kind at my grave and toss me a rose?

An exploding rose? Sure. ^_^ Vaporizing the corpse at the funeral always goes well.

Note: Moved here at Kit's request. ^^;

Oh, aren't we mature adults here?

[zhunter]

micrody said:

zarikrahia said:

Question: How did the knights gather at Dunburrow in the first place? Were they sent a letter? What about those who already had knight training and an education? >_____< curiosity killed the Fae.

Quote of the week! No, no--the month!!! ^_^

Um, anyways, it goes sorta like this:

In a land distant and far away, with text floating off into the horizon much as it does on Star Wars and in an awesome and deep voice much as is on any good movie trailer, a kingdom was in peril and dying without knights to uphold it and a bearer for its crown. A lone knight, the White Knight Shino, set out on a quest to create a new order of knights to return to the kingdom and revive it. He wrote letters to some and merely wandered across others. In a short time, he had acquired a legion of knights, and he called them the KoNTWF! Carrying banners and marching in gaiety, these Knights then returned to Dunburrow and the kingdom was saved.

However, that story is 100% godmoding on my part of Shino, and every time I tell it (this is the third or forth time now, I think) Shino neither confirms nor denies it. So I continue to regard it as fact. (And it niftily connects our club days to the guild. ^_^)


EDIT: I also think I discovered the identity of "Lunariiku" and the mysterious "Dragon".

That's pretty much it. Except for the part where you made it sound like I revived a fallen kingdom (in actuality it was fine & dandy except for the nobles bickering between each other about who gets to be the ruler) went off in search for many and all Knights (they weren't all Knights and they came to me in which I or Wolf knighted them) also I wasn't per se wandering...(Most current Knights had history already with the Castle Kestrel so the only other trouble was that most of the previous generation of Knights had been wiped out.

[Ikkin]

zhunter said:

ikkinwithattitude said:

An exploding rose? Sure. ^_^ Vaporizing the corpse at the funeral always goes well.

Note: Moved here at Kit's request. ^^;

Oh, aren't we mature adults here?

Yes we are. =3 *uses Shino as a scratching-post to sharpen her claws*

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zhunter said:

micrody said:

Quote of the week! No, no--the month!!! ^_^

Um, anyways, it goes sorta like this:

In a land distant and far away, with text floating off into the horizon much as it does on Star Wars and in an awesome and deep voice much as is on any good movie trailer, a kingdom was in peril and dying without knights to uphold it and a bearer for its crown. A lone knight, the White Knight Shino, set out on a quest to create a new order of knights to return to the kingdom and revive it. He wrote letters to some and merely wandered across others. In a short time, he had acquired a legion of knights, and he called them the KoNTWF! Carrying banners and marching in gaiety, these Knights then returned to Dunburrow and the kingdom was saved.

However, that story is 100% godmoding on my part of Shino, and every time I tell it (this is the third or forth time now, I think) Shino neither confirms nor denies it. So I continue to regard it as fact. (And it niftily connects our club days to the guild. ^_^)


EDIT: I also think I discovered the identity of "Lunariiku" and the mysterious "Dragon".

That's pretty much it. Except for the part where you made it sound like I revived a fallen kingdom (in actuality it was fine & dandy except for the nobles bickering between each other about who gets to be the ruler) went off in search for many and all Knights (they weren't all Knights and they came to me in which I or Wolf knighted them) also I wasn't per se wandering...(Most current Knights had history already with the Castle Kestrel so the only other trouble was that most of the previous generation of Knights had been wiped out.

Okay then, so Shino gathered Knights on his journey, some from Dunburrow some from not, to quell the quarrels of the kingdom and allow it to rise into power once again... (because, before then, it was so burdened with the weight of civil disputes that no one knew it even existed ^_^).

[zhunter]

ikkinwithattitude said:

zhunter said:

Oh, aren't we mature adults here?

Yes we are. =3 *uses Shino as a scratching-post to sharpen her claws*

^__^...Owowowowowowowowowow...