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Region: The Mystical Council
I just teasing. I have to go, military stuff to look over. Bye guys
Crazy
Forestavia
I woulda said 3-5 10 is a complement.
May I suggest embassies with Unmoderated?
Forestavia, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
I can't help with that but I don't see why not.
Interesting! I would be willing to support that. Perhaps we should take a vote?
Forestavia, Budapestum-The Mystical Council
The Mystical Council's Supreme Court hereby convenes to for the initiate the trial of [nation=short]Lunar Rear Admiral[/nation] v. The Mystical Council. The prosecution [any Lunar Council Member or Everloyal] is hereby called to the RMB to present the case on behalf of the region. Prosecution, you may now make your opening statements.
Forestavia, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
The prosecution has one hour to present their case. If the prosecution fails to present their case within the allotted time, any outstanding charges on [nation=short]lunar_rear_admiral[/nation] will be dropped.
Forestavia, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
Again straight from oaks criminals list.
3. The People's Republic of Lunar Rear Admiral:
1 day 10 hours ago: Lunar Rear Admiral revoked posting privileges on the The Mystical Council Regional Message Board from nations in embassy regions.
Abused communications authority by unnecessarily silencing vast sections of the RMB.
Forestavia, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
That should work eh?
Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
Works for me.
Forestavia, Malcholm
That'll work.
The defense may now present their opening statements. If an adequate defense has not been provided by 10:30, the court will temporarily adjourn and later reconvene to seek a final verdict.
Forestavia
Yeah, the mods have me up for DOS discussion because of a joke story I wrote. They are using it to say I accused Misley of raping someone, which is the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
New Bacon
Sorry to hear that.
I've seen similar stuff happening on other sites. My understanding is that a lot of non-adult-only forum / wiki / etc. sites are under pressure from advertisers to keep the user-generated content under control, so efforts to limit moderation often take a back seat. It's gotten especially bad on parts of YouTube, where there are apparently third parties that earn money by making questionable copyright claims.
New Bacon, Malcholm
Well castle were getting a embassy up with unmoderated.
New Bacon, Budapestum-The Mystical Council
Yay! I think my new nickname is Buda now, or maybe Buddha. I dunno.
Forestavia, Vedan, New Bacon
Hmmmm how about pest? That sounds like a good nickname :p
Budapestum-The Mystical Council
I have been told that lamps are now also considered trees in the region.
ELF? The Ever-Listening Foundation. Would that be like our intelligence agency? Sounds interesting. Tell me more about it. I'm listening...
Looks like a mystical council kinda place.
I vote yes. (AU912, if you want to send a puppet to our back up region, I'll give you polls authority there. Just remember to open the vote up to all nations so that we can vote remotely.)
Thanks Everloyal! I wasn't on too much yesterday.
Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Budapestum-The Mystical Council
Eh, I fell asleep.
[nation=short]lunar_rear_admiral[/nation] has failed make themselves present or present their defense within the allotted amount of time. The Court hereby adjourns, and the Lunar Council is called to reconvene in Sentagon to seek a final verdict.
Forestavia
I hope you and the mods can get something worked out. I would just turn your game play down a notch or two for awhile as a proactive measure to keep things from escalating with the other players involved.
Malcholm
Justice shall prevail!
Malcholm
Yeah... I was gonna do that, then I ended up signing a document declaring independence from the mods and joining Unmoderated... oops...
I'm going to make an appeal, even though they've already said they'd deny it, because I feel my puppetsweep was very unjust.
Btw, I highly suggest you all sign this: http://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=593599
Forestavia
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=forestavia/detail=factbook/id=594157
After elections?
Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Budapestum-The Mystical Council
Yes. I love it.
Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
I support the general idea behind it - handling our own issues autonomously and without interference while simultaneously abiding by the site rules. This is the general principle I abide by already.
But, I have had very little interaction with the mods. I have no beef with the mods personally. Plus this could very easily work against us. If ever there is a time when our region would need the help of mods to sort something out, they would be within their rights to refuse on the basis of us being a "mod-free zone".
The tone of the document sets up too much of an 'us vs. them' mentality. Now, I'm not saying that the mods are perfect. But they are people you want to have on your side when and if the time arises. The reason I say this is because they can see far more than we can see. They have the means to research and investigate certain issues and situations that arise. As much as we would like to live in a bubble where nations don't report each other for silly infractions, there will always be that one nation that messes it up for everyone else.
For this reason, I would be more supportive of a treaty/alliance type of concept that would assert many of the same ideas laid out in this document but would support better communication between nations, regions, and mods where possible. I withhold my signature.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Budapestum-The Mystical Council
That's a really good point. Currently, none of my regions have become thriving communities, so if they die it's not a huge loss to the community. The Mystical Council is something more than just puppet storage, dropping off point, etc.
Are you trying to get me ejected? :P. But legit man we need to keep our heads down and stop provoking them. Tag raids happen all the time and most of the time have absolutely no meaning behind them we should just forget about it and keep out of there way otherwise they might decide to do something serious.
Forestavia
Hehe. ;)
No you should be safe, I think... When it comes to the fleet they are strategic. We must increase restrictions on them in honor or our continued rivalry.
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As for getting serious, you might be right. We need to figure out how this declaration of war is going to function. If we pass it, I recommend we play it in character as much as possible that way things don't get personal between players. Maybe we need ground rules to keep things fun? I'll be sticking with my nation's government/characters if we play this out.
Let's recognize first and foremost that the "fleeters" are actually players who are making the game fun for the rest of us. Without The Red Fleet, we wouldn't have an enemy to fight. So I just want to remind everyone these players are actually doing us a favor. Basic tenants of respect should be maintained. Site rules and all that good stuff, etc. Even as we demonize the enemy in our RPs or in the R/D game play we need to remember somewhere in the back of our heads that there are real people behind the nations. And it's ok to take a break and walk away if things do get intense.
So how should we proceed? Maybe we should wait to declare war after the trials have been completed. My activity is going to continue to be spotty as well this week. So this may not be the right time for a full-blown war. On the other hand, the fleet may just avoid us since they know I enjoy getting raided so much. At this point we are probably more of a target for espionage.
Malcholm
I'm logging off for now I'll try to check back in later tonight or tomorrow morning.
The new poll is up in Mystical Council.
Forestavia
can someone give me a sum up of whats happened here this weekened?
As I understand it:
- Castlemaine got puppetswept (a huge number of nations belonging to him and several other players got deleted) by the mods because... I'm not completely sure why. Possibly something about a rape joke. The mods are apparently scheduled to hold further discussion on this and we are hoping he doesn't get DOSsed.
- The temporary ANTICOM / Fascist alliance continues to hold Alliance Against Nazis. Anti-Fascist and Anti-ANTICOM forces raided many small regions in retaliation with little success.
- We held a trial for Lunar Rear Admiral and the defense didn't show up, so we have now moved on to the verdict stage.
- We are currently voting on Lunar Council seats, whether to convict Lunar Rear Admiral, and whether to join Unmoderated to protest Castlemaine's troubles. I signed Unmoderated's agreement myself but remain unsure whether The Mythical Council should.
- We started a debate on whether to declare war on the The Red Fleet for raiding us.
- We had a roleplay which hasn't ended yet in which some sort of magic that was protecting The Mystical Council from the gods of chaos failed and all sorts of weird fantasy monsters are running amuck, it is raining poop in the cities and snowing in the tropics and other such things. We decided this will explain what has happened to Castlemaine in the roleplaying universe. I brought in some puppets to help manage voting and contribute to the roleplay.
Forestavia, Malcholm
It looks like they killed castle agin. :(
New Bacon
Now guys I do feel sorry for Castlemaine but, he/she should have never joked about what they joked in the first place. The game mods take things very seriously and they don't want to be bothered all the time. Maybe they will let Castlemaine in, or maybe they won't. But what [nation=short]au912 mystical council consulate[/nation] said is very serious and should not be taken as a joke. I heard ally about what has happened. Now, they have also affected ANITCOM's Navy nation due to Castlemaine logging in to the nation. But seriously stuff like that should you should not be joking about. I've got nothing against the mods. The mods are volunteers that do not get paid and they spend their time playing on nationstates. Instead of just trying to think negative about the mods we should turn that into a positive manner and think positive. They are only doing their job. [nation=short]vedan[/nation] I wasn't specifically talking to you even though I quoted you but I am talking to everyone. If one follows the site's rules we all can get along and have no problems what so ever.
Forestavia, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
Hello, it's Patvarus from ANTICOM. It looks like Castlemaine's DoS now, so I'd like to serve as the ANTICOM liason to this region. Please telegram me at [nation=short]Patvarus[/nation] if you wish to receive a quick response on anything.
Forestavia, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
We will need to amend the Anticom Alliance Act. I propose to the region we make the position and elected position for every three/four months. We will deal with this after the elections. After that we can vote on war or not.
Unless anyone has an objection, I am going to give you the title "Acting ANTICOM Liaison" until the region decides what to do with this.
Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
who do i vote for?
me (:
FYI, for those wanting to better understand what happened with Castlemaine, here are the gory details.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=17929838
Unfortunately, we live in a world where people take things seriously even when it's obvious to most that it was not intended that way. There are also employers that, facing rumors of misconduct, would rather fire an employee they know is innocent (and face lowered morale & possible lawsuit) than face the repercussions from false accusations that they knowingly contributed to a hostile workplace, exposure of children to inappropriate material, etc.
Something almost identical to this happened on the Drowtales forum. Someone posted a rather nasty fanfic, and they got banned, even though it wasn't clearly against the rules. That forum had a reputation for being very open and artistic, so it had quite the chilling effect. Finally, the owner had to pretty much come out and say, "look, there are certain things I refuse to permit on my site, and if that means I loose market share and have to work extra hours to keep the site profitable, I'm OK with that."
New Bacon
Castlemaine wasn't the only one.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=17933628
New Bacon
But den was using cheats
New Bacon
Hey bud, i finally tracked you down
New Bacon, Tumetu-Iin Noyan
Nice flag!
New Bacon
You guys have a Commie in your region, you know who it is right?
New Bacon, Malcholm, Order Of Hospitallers, Germanistania
Commies can stay if they want. But fleeters better watch out! ;)
But who are you concerned about, specifially?
New Bacon, Germanistania
I write in Castlemaine for the election.
New Bacon, Order Of Hospitallers, Germanistania
Hell I wasn't expecting the support I am getting on the poll thank you all.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Germanistania
*Menacing smile* Yes comrade just WHO are you concerned about?
Forestavia, New Bacon, Malcholm
I think he means do you know who that puppet's main nation is.
New Bacon, Germanistania
Hmm I think there is some puppet voting going on.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Germanistania
This is my main nation.
New Bacon
Why did you letr your nation get deleted :P
New Bacon, Germanistania
NO DELEGATE YEET
Forestavia, New Bacon, Malcholm
Well, if it's Vedan they are referring, too, Vedan's trustworthy - believe me. We go way back.
*Sits in rocking chair by fire place*
You can actually go back into the very first pages of this RMB and see Vedan's puppet New Vedan involved in RP. Vedan also introduced me to UTNA.
Vedan, New Bacon, Malcholm
Delegacy up for grabs!! Quick collect your endorsements to become the 30th Delegate in our lineage!
New Bacon, Malcholm
As Acting Delegate, I have taken the following actions:
Seconds ago: The Outpost of Oakplumington agreed to construct embassies with The Second European Empire.
•Seconds ago: The Outpost of Oakplumington withdrew a request for regional embassies with NSLeft.
•1 minute ago: The Outpost of Oakplumington withdrew a request for regional embassies with The Red Fleet.
I will also be appointing Everloyal as Director of Intelligence and Defense. Since this is a cabinet position, the next Delegate may feel free to keep or position and/or retain or dismiss Everloyal from the cabinet if they so desire.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Everloyal
This is a tight election.
New Bacon, Malcholm
I would like to thank oak for my position I am here to serve the region. I am planning on starting an intelegence agency if anyone would like to join telegram me WA account is not needed. I would also like to make it clear if anyone leaks any classified information of the intelegence agency your post will be suppressed also if you are a red fleeter I have been given permission to suppress your post.
I would like to wish the best to everyone and hoppfully we will be able to crush are enemies... Together as a region.
Forestavia, New Bacon, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Order Of Hospitallers
Looks like Vedan will become our 30th Delegate unless someone else launches a campaign for it.
I was thinking something. What if we make it so that the ANTICOM Liaison and the Director of Defense and Intelligence are permanent cabinet positions who the Delegate controls? Whoever the Delegate is would be able to appoint nations to these positions.
New Bacon, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Order Of Hospitallers
We are probably gonna get called out on this one but let's see what we can get away with in the name of security. :P
New Bacon
Hell yeah!
New Bacon, Order Of Hospitallers
RP:
Headlines -
The Socialist Party of Forestavia has come out in support of the Mystical Council People's Party (MCPP). Forestavia is currently affiliated with the Minimalist Party. Socialist Senators hope to change that in the coming months by appealing to Theocrats and Independents. Liberals and Nationalists have blasted the Socialist minority as being too sympathetic to leftist views.
New Bacon, Malcholm
Ew socialists, we need to get the inquisition in here
New Bacon, Order Of Hospitallers
would everloyal be able to be a lunar councilor and director?
Anticom Liason shouldnt be under delegate.
New Bacon, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate
Yeah, cabinet positions are ok to double up on. For example, New Bacon is Sentagon's President and also a Map Minister. That's ok. We just can't have the three separate branches of government getting all tangled up. Otherwise we'll have tyranny and corruption faster than the speed of light.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Order Of Hospitallers
You're probably right about this. If the fleeters sneak in here and take the delegacy we wouldn't want them to have access to all that tasty, mouth-watering intelligence. I didn't think of that. After the election I propose we make Patvarus the new permanent Anticom Liaison.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Order Of Hospitallers
Well everyone I have an announcement. I have done absolutely nothing with the Constitution this week. Things have been busy. Hopefully by next week I'll send the telegram out to everyone. Fingers crossed.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Order Of Hospitallers
When your friend forces you to come on nationstates :P
New Bacon
Roleplay
The grandmaster seeks to restore anti communism and religion to the realm, and has started to subjugate and negotiate with nations in the region
New Bacon, Malcholm
Roleplay
Our forces humbly surrender.
New Bacon
Hello everyone. I have returned with terms of alliance and trade from the Fourth Reich.
Order Of Hospitallers, Germanistania
what happens if its a tie?
Glad your back, heil.
New Bacon, Germanistania
Roleplay
New Bacon City metropolis area surges to a population of 29.5 million people because of all the nations that joined the Mystical Council. Housing is becoming scarce--new housing is being constructed. Traffic is now becoming an issue on New Bacon City's expressways. The immigrant line is very long. Commutes in New Bacon City will take approximately 3 and a half hours now. [nation=firstguygames] who role plays the people/states of New Bacon has said that housing is becoming more expensive and businesses looking to move to New Bacon City are looking at property taxes going up. So many people come to New Bacon primarily because all the housing is tax-free but businesses aren't unfortunately. I wonder what the people of New Bacon City are going to do about the traffic issues and cost of living.
Malcholm
Heil. I would like to speak with your leader.
New Bacon
Me?
New Bacon
Well, this is a dilemma. We've never had this happen before. Hm.
[nation=short]Patvarus Ambassador III[/nation]! Save us! Since you voted for Castlemaine who no longer exists you must revote ASAP. Our region depends on you! We need you to recast a ballot for one of these three: AU912, Hospitallers, and Everloyal.
Then what we will do is have a follow up between the two candidates left.
In the meantime, I'll make all three of you Acting temporarily until we have an actual conclusion to this mess.
New Bacon, Order Of Hospitallers
How is everyone?
Would anybody like to join the mystical council intelligence agency? WA is not needed.
New Bacon, Oakplumington, Order Of Hospitallers
:I
New Bacon
82 minutes ago: The Empire of Everloyal tagged the region "Fascist".
This action is in violation of section 9 (http://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=575091) of the Anticom Alliance Act.
Quick fix.
New Bacon, Malcholm
I like the new flag. :)
Selven, New Bacon
Jawohl.
New Bacon, Oakplumington
Announcement: I have forwarded the conversation that Selven and I just had in regard to the NSCNR to everyone in their telegrams. Look it over. Feel free to ask Selven questions. Selven previously requested to speak to the region's leader. And of course every nation here is a leader. Let's do our research and find out of this alliance is something we want.
Selven, New Bacon, Malcholm
If we run with a six member Council, we will have the potential for ties there as well. So, if this is the option we decide to go with, just for this lunar month, Malcholm, our Council President will have the power to break ties.
New Bacon, Malcholm
Apparently this NSCNR thing is time-sensitive. I'll put up a poll after the one that's up there.
Malcholm
Sh*t forgot about that whoops... Thug life.
New Bacon, Order Of Hospitallers
How does having the fascist tag have anything to do with anticom?
Idk... Good question... Still whoops.
Order Of Hospitallers
Post self-deleted by Order Of Hospitallers.
Flag wars #2, lets hope noyan doesn't come on and poop spam again :P
Forestavia, Malcholm
Our map is months out of date, someone update it.
I claim malta and sicily
Malcholm
Considering that castlemaine no longer exists, this part of the alliance act it void.
You should make a new act or revise it
4. Nations with World Assembly status or with an interest in R/D gameplay are encouraged but not required to assist ANTICOM with military operations. Nations interested should contact West castlemaine.
5. West castlemaine will be designated as "ANTICOM Liaison", and will function as the region's official connection to ANTICOM. Due to the potentially sensitive nature of missions, communications authority will be granted to Castlemaine indefinitely until this legislation is repealed or the embassy with ANTICOM is cancelled or Castlemaine resigns from the position.
Forestavia
Roleplay
While smoking marijuana our experts have found statistics to base the tradeagreement off of.
http://www.broomdces.com/nseconomy/nations2.php?nation2=bunicken&nation1=Oakplumington
Forestavia
Interesting flag..Kaiserreich, eh?
New Bacon, Au912 Mystical Council Consulate, Order Of Hospitallers
Indeed, flag wars has begun.
That flag is better then pieces of poop right?
OOC - Im not a part of kaiserreich or affiliated with them at all.
Selven, New Bacon, Malcholm
But I am.
New Bacon, Order Of Hospitallers
Heil.
Order Of Hospitallers
No. We get Cascadia instead.
Better then that anime crap
Selven
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