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Fan Area => Roleplaying (Communitive Storywriting) => Topic started by: Noobis on October 05, 2005, 12:54:05 pm
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In the words of Evangan:
When I was younger, and striving for power, I saw everyone more powerful then me as a Challenge... Now that I can defeat them, I am looking for a new challenge.... I search as see.... The Forming of new guilds, and the loss and corruption of others...
One I am mainly conserned of is the \'Dark Empire\'. When I first opposed and defeated Sangwa I saw the \'Dark Empire\' as weak. But now, I am more curious of the purpose of the \'Dark Empire\'.
I have defeated most, and will defeat all of my foes, but I do not wish to gain more, and let past \'arguements\' go. I rather like to walk with \'Sangwa\' and find out what is happening to the \'Dark Empire\'. Also, I would like to walk with others to discover what is happening to this changing land.
Things arn\'t as they were when I first arrived, many changes have happened in such a short while. I just hope these changes are not for the worst....
This is all I have to say....
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It\'s seems like you\'re growing up a little and realizing more of how things work around here, but you should put any questions for DE in their guild thread or ask them in-game or via PM. I doubt they\'ll have interest in you however....
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\"Power? Hahahaha, you think yourself powerful? There are even mortals which are more powerful than you, but you wouldn\'t stand a chance against the gods in a melee fight... but battles aren\'t won by strength alone.\"
\"True power, true power is far more than physical power, even more than the immortal will of a god, ..., the strive for true power is the eternal strive for balance in all individual attributes.\"
Cyl drops down from a roof, landing directly in front of Evangan. He places a small piece of paper in his hands and vanquishes between the houses
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I can\'t understand how someone can sound so blind.
You call the Empire weak because you defeated one of its members. This member was me, the Shadowmaster, head of the Empire\'s Intelligence (as in information).
This is a stupid assumption. You know why? Because even if I do represent the Empire\'s will, at the moment, there is no way I alone can represent its warfare power. Nor can any other member on its own.
And are you really claiming we\'re corrupted? Based on which facts? Hmpf, try to think instead of spitting random injuries against something you barely understand.
The Dark Empire may have no interest in Evangan, but I do. I find it fun to witness how someone can be so wrong and yet so full of will.
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Trust me, when a guild like the Dark Empire is called to war, their true warriors come out of the woodwork and they do it en mass in a highly organized manner. I\'ve seen such things in action. It\'s only a few guilds that flaunt their total strength of arms outside of wartimes.
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Not you Corrupted, the Guild Knights are being Corrupted. In there Mass Recruitment, they have grown past morals. The Guild Master Sirunie, doesn\'t hear of the things, I don\'t know why....
Dark Empire, your guild seems to be falling, and I was asking if I could walk with you to see what you see....
And Power, is based on Physical Strength, because any other power, even though worth getting. No one can challenge you of it. Becoming \'Immortal\' one of the most useless, what do you do when you have defeated all your enemies and you cannot die. NOTHING. I am Powerful, because I can walk alone and defend myself against most, possibly all... I am powerful because I can defend others against most, possibly all... I am powerful, because I can walk alone and not be afraid of dying because I am powerful enough were once I defeat all my enemies, and no one is left or wants to challenge me, and I given all that I can give, then I can die.
I am powerful because I can use the skills I have to win battles, I am powerful because I am constantly training the skill I need. I am powerful because I can defeat the ones others call powerful. I am powerful because I have sat on top of the world.
But Power only goes to where you take it, and it ends when you defeated everyone. I constantly look for the next challenge, and if there isn\'t one then I make it. That makes me powerful. I am eviler then most, not because I want to rule everything, but because I create the good to oppose me, to call me evil. What is evil without a name and a purpose. When the world is consumed in evil then is it evil anymore? No, because you will now have new morals, and you would be the \'new good\'. I am evil, because I provoke the young into becoming stronger just to oppose me, and I am evil in the ways I do it.
Once I have the enemies I want, the challenges, then I can defeat them. What makes me powerful is that in every fight I feel a rush, a rush that I might lose, a rush of intensity. Then I win, and I feel the win. I can feel that I have defeated an enemy that was more powerful then before. I am powerful, for training the new challenges. I don\'t train them to lose, I train them to win.
Although, some may say that none have taken training from me. But before I came to Hydlaa, everyone was using swords, most were standing in one place an fighting. No one made it a challenge to win. Then I and few others, started changing the challenge, while most stayed with their swords. I chose daggers, and daggers now is becoming the most prefered weapon. Most are training to win the present, while I train to win the future. That makes me powerful.
I train for the battles ahead of me, while others train for the battles now. I practice in the arts some call useless, just so I can discover and contain their power. That, makes me power.
Now then... The Dark Empire, you may say, \'Just because we arn\'t seen, doesn\'t mean we are not their.\' When truth fully, if you arn\'t seen... Then your arn\'t there. So the less you show of yourself, the less of you their really is...
I am not insulting you, which you may have thought, and this thread wasn\'t quite about you. Its just I was hoping you would show me a challenge, which you have not, and when someone shows me no challenge, then they are weak. If you just admit to yourself that you are weak, or prove to me that you are not... Then, that would make you powerful.
But if you are weak, and you admit to yourself that you are, even if you don\'t, I would like to walk with you, to see what you see... Because your guild should be the one most challenging, because evil is possessive in nature. Evil will challenge and grow and learn and defeat. Its the whole purpose of being evil.
Good- Protects, Evil- Challenges...
Its how they are defined. If you do not challenge, then you are not evil, and if you do not protect, then you are not good. You become neutral. If you create a balance of protection and challenges, you are Neutral. I create more challenges the protections. I challenge and oppose, not to own, but to know I am better. I am better.
Being a \'god\' is pointless... When you are a god, you have nothing to do but to make others fight. \'gods\' are not power... Their armies are their power, and if one man can defeat the gods army.... Then that god wasn\'t to powerful. I am one man that can defeat the gods army. I am powerful because I am mortal, because I can die, because I can bleed.
Fist fighting with a person who trained in the arts of Melee combat when I have not yet... that doesn\'t prove anything but I cannot fist fight yet. But if the fist fighter can win a battle versus steel... then he is powerful. It can be done, it just has to be proven first. I have one battles where I only used the common daggers, I mean the ones with no special abilitys. Against someone who was using his best weapons. That is power. If you deny it, you are wrong, and have yet to show me what your image of power is...
Thats why I want to walk with you Sangwa, to see your image of power. I also want to defeat your guild leader, just to show you I can do it. I think I only have a few worthly guild leaders left. Maybe just two...
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Hey! I switched to daggers the MOMENT they appeared. Stop complimenting yourself.
You have nothing to brag about in terms of innovation, understanding of evil, or understanding of power. Maybe you are a strong warrior, but strength of arms counts for only so much in this world. And do not confuse the forces of change with the forces of evil or chaos. All three things are different from one another.
On the guild knights: They are no longer mass recruiting. They have only a little more than half the number of members as the dragon council has, and now only Sirunie can invite people into the guild.
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AH! Youre evangan. I\'ve heard about you. Apparently you spend most of your time insulting all the major guilds. Pleased to meet you.
Oh, and by blatantly saying \"The Guild Knights are the image of corruption\" you have made approxiamtely 150 new enemies, so there goes your wish to not have any new enemies :))
Thank you Zanzibar :) Well, actually sirunie, Knight Avatars and Arch knights can invite (In other words; Guild leaders)
And After reading your post I find I can, although crudely, sum it up in 5 phrases: \"I am powerful\", \"I am powerful\", \"I train to be as powerful as possible\", \"I want to defeat guild leaders to show I am powerful\" and \"I am powerful\".
So, in other words I won\'t be suprised if your words in PS have little weight. Any kind of power really has no meaning in the PS community (Except mabye social power and influence).
And you can\'t just sum up \"Good\" and \"Evil\" in a few words like that. There are hundreds of little nuances and connotations, as well as many many meanings, so.. no.
Hope this clears some things up :)
Boy I\'m glad Shalmaneser has turned a new leaf.. :)) One of that type is quite enough. ;)
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you are weak and foolish until you realise the errors of your ways.
you can only become truly powerful when you realise power is nothing, nor is intellect, for each variable of your existance matters not over any other, a perfect balance needs to be maintained over all equally with control this is something I have never seen anyone in this entire realm ever manage.
the strength of body
the intelligence of mind
the will, persistance, even life aura
all must flow as equals
or be doomed to destroy each other.
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Originally posted by Neryam
Boy I\'m glad Shalmaneser has turned a new leaf.. :)) One of that type is quite enough. ;)
I haven\'t changed. You have misjudged me in the past, and have yet to either realize or admit it.
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Originally posted by Keyaz
you are weak and foolish until you realise the errors of your ways.
you can only become truly powerful when you realise power is nothing, nor is intellect, for each variable of your existance matters not over any other, a perfect balance needs to be maintained over all equally with control this is something I have never seen anyone in this entire realm ever manage.
the strength of body
the intelligence of mind
the will, persistance, even life aura
all must flow as equals
or be doomed to destroy each other.
Power means the abilty to achieve your goals. Having no goals does not make one powerful.
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You are weak because you can use the skills you have to win battles.
You are weak because you are constantly training the skill you need.
You are weak because you can defeat the ones others call powerful.
You are weak because you claim to have sat on top of the world...
When you have not the true power to move it.
~Arnigus Faymore, one who you will never be able to defeat with your \"power\"
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What a foolish one, to think that by defeating one, he can defeat all. I agree with the others, of good or evil alignment that in thinking that you know nothing of the nature of combat or of wars.
A guild leader has many responsibilities that if taken to heart and preformed to the utmost of his or her ability consume great quantities of time. Thus it is unlikely that any guild leader can train properly. Others within the guild do not have this responsibility and therefore can devote their full time to training. So if you truly want to see if you can defeat an entire guild, I suggest you ask the guild leader to send you out a champion and arrange for a match.
They are also right about the ways of battle, great battles and great wars are won before the first sword is drawn. If you do not know this, you are a mere hack and slash and doomed from the start. Strive to be as Talamir, my friend and my enemy. Our chess game continues and because it is a chess game, we have great respect for one another.
I suggest you read the books of Sun Tzu, Sun Pen and Miamoto Musashi and then read them again and by the third time, you MAY begin to understand.
SensoTaka Kishu : Leader of the Defenders
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Cyl suddenly comes back into sight out of an other alley.
\"I can\'t belive that you even listen to that guy.\", he said to the crowd, \"leave that madman alone with his brabblings.\"
Some of the people started wandering off, others stayed, Cyl turnt round again walking back into the alley he came from, but suddenly turnt round.
\"And remember, foolish child, \'One who only watches for the giants will be eaten alive by the ants.\'\"
Cyl\'s voice, even being silent as it was, echoed between the houses, and the words formed an eerie chorus. He turnt right and quickly climbed up a wall.
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*shakes his head*
He isn\'t mad, he\'s just young, as many of us once were.
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Man you sure know how to ramble. That was a huge post about how powerfull you are, yet when i challenged you it turned out you didnt want to fight me. Like Sangwa said he is the brains of the Empire, I am a soldier, and next time dont tell me you are too busy.
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A voice suddenly speaks from nowhere, no owner visible.
\"Powerful... Hah! Don\'t make me laugh. Your ideal of \'Power\' is not even close to what it truely is. Physical strength means nothing. If you can defeat anyone and everyone on their own terms, then maybe you can claim the title of all-powerful. However... Can you cope with a distant bowman, who can kill at fifty paces or more? Can you cope with a mage who rains death and destruction upon his foes?\" the voice says, a hint of humour in its tone.
\"I think not. Especially a foe like the silent assassins, each which can kill a man faster than you. All you have is strength, no brain to deal with the cunning of the likes of Sangwa, no finess to deal with agents sent out against you, not even speed to deliver a killing blow against another warrior.\"
\"But, most importantly of all, that which you have not seemed to have realized, is that if you try to cut off the head of a group, most of the time, the rest becomes angered. Even if you manage to actually remove it, it matters little, for the rest of the group is still there.\"
\"If you insist on taking on the guilds of Ylakium, do so, but refrain from killing the head; take the whole guild on, then you\'ll be permitted to come back here and gloat. Not that we\'d listen.\"
\"All those are needed and more... Yet, even when you think that you\'ve reached perfection, it is that much easier to bring you to your knees, which is your failure...\"
The voice fades away, into nothingness
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\"power,\" steuben shakes his head.
\"i have walked through fields of ash. i have felt your power.
\"i have waded rivers thick with blood. i have tasted your power.
\"i have walked emptied villages. i have seen your power.
\"i have stood in fields laid waste. i have smelled your power.
\"i have laid still in the dark. i have heard your power.
\"i have weilded your power. i wish that i could forake it.\"
he shakes his head and continues on.
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OOC: Trying something different with the ic speach here.
Power? What pray tell do you know of power?
I will tell you of power.
Does not the smallest flower help to feed the entire bee hive?
Can not the smallest stone slay the mightiest giant?
Do not a woman and a man create new life within the woman\'s womb?
Till you have helped to feed an entire city, till you have slain a being that could easily crush you like giant crushing a pebble into sand, till you have given life to a child, do not come back claiming of power
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This thread has turned into self-indulgent rambling. A pity.
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Originally posted by Hatchnet
OOC: Trying something different with the ic speach here.
Power? What pray tell do you know of power?
I will tell you of power.
Does not the smallest flower help to feed the entire bee hive?
Cannot my foot crush the bee and the flower?
Can not the smallest stone slay the mightiest giant?
The stone must be wielded with power, or the Giant an idiot.
Do not a woman and a man create new life within the woman\'s womb?
New life... The one thing that is harder to do alone than taking a life.
Till you have helped to feed an entire city, till you have slain a being that could easily crush you like giant crushing a pebble into sand, till you have given life to a child, do not come back claiming of power
I have helped feed the city, the city became a giant, then I have destroyed that city....
But giving life to a child... That is the one power that will always elude me.
And to Jimmik, I would have fought you, but you were far from me, when I tried to find you, you were no longer in reach. If you wish to fight, the acception still stands, I wanted to fight you, its just I could not find you.
Originally posted by Darkblade
A voice suddenly speaks from nowhere, no owner visible.
\"Powerful... Hah! Don\'t make me laugh. Your ideal of \'Power\' is not even close to what it truely is. Physical strength means nothing. If you can defeat anyone and everyone on their own terms, then maybe you can claim the title of all-powerful. However... Can you cope with a distant bowman, who can kill at fifty paces or more? Can you cope with a mage who rains death and destruction upon his foes?\" the voice says, a hint of humour in its tone.
I have became the warrior to defeat the mage. I have became the mage to defeat the archer. I have became the archer to defeat the assassain. I have became the assassian to defeat the king. I choose not to become the king because I choose not to rule over others. My power is for myself. When it comes to it, the only thing power is, is a word and a feeling in a man. No matter how many men think you are great. If you do not, then you are not.
When I defeat an opponent, I let them use any weapon they choose.
And if you think that because I won\'t use the same weapon as them I am weak. No I am strong for knowing the weapon they are weak against.
If running is a sign of weakness to you, then you don\'t know what power is.
If hiding means your scared, then try walking through a forest in the open when all your enemies are hidden in the shadows.
Theres all kinds of ways to determine power, but it all goes down to one thing. Can you be defeated in battle?
If your weapon is a massive army or a single sword. All power goes down to if you can be defeated in battle.
The meaning of defeat is not death. But its when your opponent chooses not to challenge you after his loss.
If your army is destroyed by a single sword, and you live to destroy that single sword, who then has the power? You or the man you killed...
The answer is you. If he could destroy an entire army but fall by you, then he was not a match for your strength.
But if he destroys your entire army and you, or you do not except his challenge, then you have been defeated.
No matter how many times you face this foe in battle. The time you choose not to face him ever, is the day you are defeated.
Power is of physical strength, will, and knowledge of your enemy. If you do not have the will to fight you have been defeated. No matter if you say the person is not worth it... If you choose not to fight him ever, you have been defeated.
Now there are times when a person isn\'t up to fighting, or declines the first time to tell his opponent that he should not fight. Those are fine, but if your opponent still chooses to fight, if you deny him, you have been defeated. No matter how many times you face him, not matter how
many times you beat him. If he still chooses to fight, then he is not defeated. But the day either of you choose not to fight again, is the day you are defeated.
Who I give my defeat to:
I have been defeated, but not by a creature. I have been defeated by something that is more powerful then most. Between you and me, I believe I will never win.
I give my semi-defeat to:
Constrabus- Who has fought me and won in an odd way, I think I know how to beat you, but I have to train more first.
Cerohirk- Who has fought me and won when I was weaker, I know I can defeat you, but I have to find you.
Sirunie- Who I train with, I don\'t think their will ever be a defeat between us, because we are always willing to fight each other.
And who I have defeated:
I don\'t need to put any names here, because it would be pointless. If you know I have beat you then thats all that matters. But if you think you can or have beat me, then we will fight. I have yet to be shown full defeat to a person.
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Originally posted by Noobis
New life... The one thing that is harder to do alone than taking a life.
I disagree with this. I think it\'s incredibly difficult to do EITHER responsibly, but it\'s EASY to do either poorly. Really, it\'s not what people do but how they do it that counts in the end.
Originally posted by Noobis
And to Jimmik, I would have fought you, but you were far from me, when I tried to find you, you were no longer in reach. If you wish to fight, the acception still stands, I wanted to fight you, its just I could not find you.
Ah, so he challenged you from a distance thinking he could arrow you to death. I\'ve always enjoyed that one.:)
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OOC: He wasnt even in the same sector or region as me. I have no clue where he was, then when I went looking for him I crashed, then when I came back he was gone. So I had no chance to even fight him at all.
OOC: Also if I contridict anything, it probably has meaning, if not, then I forgot what I said in the past. ^^ I have a habit of contridicting myself.
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Originally posted by Noobis
Power is of physical strength, will, and knowledge of your enemy. If you do not have the will to fight you have been defeated. No matter if you say the person is not worth it... If you choose not to fight him ever, you have been defeated.
To me, those things can be a part of power, but they are not themselves power. Power is the ability to achieve your goals. If you have no goals, then you have ultimate power. Thus, desire leads to suffering. However, to those who have desire and who embrace desire, we must walk down a different path. We cannot deny who we are, because to do so is to admit defeat and to embrace a state of living death. Sleep walking. But you cannot make the mistake of confusing chaos with evil, or purity with good, or neutrality with honesty, or conflict with loss, or control with leadership. Worse still is to confuse the ability to kill with the ability to control life, and I believe you have made this mistake.
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Thus, desire leads to suffering. However, to those who have desire and who embrace desire, we must walk down a different path
Zanzibar, are you telling him to be a buddhist? He should stop his fighting ways and start a nice little zen garden down by the ruins. Oh that would be so.....oh wait thats not a trainable way of this land.
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Originally posted by jimmyknife
Thus, desire leads to suffering. However, to those who have desire and who embrace desire, we must walk down a different path
Zanzibar, are you telling him to be a buddhist? He should stop his fighting ways and start a nice little zen garden down by the ruins. Oh that would be so.....oh wait thats not a trainable way of this land.
Darn, thought you were on to something there too, ;)