the finks!!!!
:D
As for the other stuff, I've seen him posting over at CK for the past few days, so I think he's still around.
Maybe he got banned too... that's where we all end up sooner or later. :P
Maybe he got banned too... thats where we all end up sooner or later. :P
-Hey I resemble that remark! ;)
18DELTA (Chosen of Cyric.) :P
But if he casts his spell again it will only fizzle - it was designed to take control of the Weave away from Mystra, so NO Weave = Useless Spell.
Why did you think he's been gone for a while? He has to re-research the spell so it works again! You think spells like that just up and write themselves?
(Then again, just move your mouse over the picture next to his name and you have Karsus's Avatar right there....)
Anyway, I think the casting of Karsus' Avatar hasn't brought him enough disgrace, for his taste, so this time he tries something even greater, i.e. casting a 13th lvl spell.
I guess noone knows where he is then. Does anyone know his emial address or something because I really could use an answer to this question that I asked him.
I do not. But I would suppose that if he isn't answering here email would go nowhere as well. I would hazard a guess his PMs go to his email
I guess noone knows where he is then. Does anyone know his emial address or something because I really could use an answer to this question that I asked him.
PM sent.
He's pulling a GothicDan/Karsus the Mad for those of you that can catch my drift
Strange to read that though, but I would think he has his reasons for it.
Anyway, I think the casting of Karsus' Avatar hasn't brought him enough disgrace, for his taste, so this time he tries something even greater, i.e. casting a 13th lvl spell.
He is trying to rest the power of the Crystal Sphere away from Ao himself?
I wish him luck... Ao's been doing a lousy job the last hundred years or so.
PM sent.
He's pulling a GothicDan/Karsus the Mad for those of you that can catch my drift
-That is unfortunate.
18DELTA (The Chosen of Cyric.)
You yourself have recently experienced how 'liberating' being free of this site can be. By staying away, one learns to appreciate the Realms that much more.
If he is still making himself available over at CK, then so much the better. If he is completely gone for good, then NO, that would be a terrible thing for the community.
Funny... no one even noticed when I was gone for awhile...
Anyhow, he just responded to a post a few minutes ago over there, so if you want to talk to him, just do so through CK PMs.
Everyone knows thats where "the elite meet'. :P
No.. it's not.
You yourself have recently experienced how 'liberating' being free of this site can be. By staying away, one learns to appreciate the Realms that much more.
If he is still making himself available over at CK, then so much the better. If he is completely gone for good, then NO, that would be a terrible thing for the community.
Funny... no one even noticed when I was gone for awhile...
-Yes getting banned was a good thing for me. Thats why I have bowed out of this "pointless edition war". I support the Realms regardless the edition. Sure there are things I dislike about the 4E Version, yet I also dislike some parts of the 1E, 2E, and 3E versions. If people want to talk Realmslore or about having a fun game set in the Realms regardless the edition then lets talk. I am currently running a 3E Realms game, plan on running a couple of more before I run a 4E Realms game.
-What I meant about LK "leaving" was I know what happened to KtM for the most part, I remember Dan leaving. I think its unfortunate "if" he did leave.
-Quit being melodramatic Markus. :P
18DELTA (The Chosen of Cyric that supports the Realms)
Join the club! :P
I noticed Old Sage. In fact, I did mention it somewhere, I'm pretty sure
And there's me, and Delta, and Old Sage... and wait... Yes! Wooly Rupert is seen running up someone's pant leg! :D
P.S. _ i'm the fat guy buying cotton candy. :P
And you can tell it's me because I have cute red shoes.
I think I found him!
And there's me, and Delta, and Old Sage... and wait... Yes! Wooly Rupert is seen running up someone's pant leg! :D
*There* I am.
::The Sage points to the man in the purple shirt, reading the book at the top of the image.::
snickers, noby will see me in that image..... hahahahahahaha, or is becuase im not there,o r am i there and not there at the same time
Funny... no one even noticed when I was gone for awhile...
I am sorry and did not mean this as an insult for everyone else. I dont know if I was around when you left or when anybody else left. I know karsus a little bit because hes helped me with a few things here and I have talked to him on IM a few times getting his help there. I am sure that with some time if I get to know everyone since I am a newbie and I have alot of questions I will wonder where you go if you leace.
I m whatever you gals think is the hottest dude in the picture
That would make you the guy with the barbecue at the bottom, right? ;)
and LK told me he was going to hang in CK even tho he didn't like it there as much. I told him that I have to stay here to show the "young bloods" (as in you dave)the ropes just as he did with me.
And I did miss you, MT you BIG lug! I asked LK where you went. and I did give you a Welcome Back.
Anyhow, I doubt he wants his business known, but he is still working on Realmslore, so thats a good thing.
Sometimes it's good to take a 'sabbatical' from this asylum. ;)
I'll admit that I find Therise... interesting
I hate clowns... I'm more likely to be the guy with a scope attached to a .300 H&H leading the idiot on the pogo stick, waiting for his shot... and definitely off-screen. :P :D
You're kinda creepy, sometimes.
I hate clowns... I'm more likely to be the guy with a scope attached to a .300 H&H leading the idiot on the pogo stick, waiting for his shot... and definitely off-screen. :P :D
Someone likes oldies but goodies. Personally give me something like this http://www.snipercentral.com/pm_sm.htm prefrably in a .338 Lapua. Reach out and touch someone. :D
You guys aren't careful, you're gonna make the FBI 'Watch List'.
If it was going to happen, it would have happened a long time ago. I think I avoided it by not taking certain job offers after I got out of the Marine Corps. ;)
Sometimes it's good to take a 'sabbatical' from this asylum. ;)
-Tell me about it. :D
18DELTA (Chosen of Cyric) ;)
I'll admit that I find Therise... interesting
hmmm.......how do you mean?
Anyway, I've spoken with LK. He hasn't left for good, he's just taking a break.
Anyway, I've spoken with LK. He hasn't left for good, he's just taking a break.
I am glad that he hasn't abandoned us. He is missed.
I am glad that he hasn't abandoned us. He is missed.
really? why? :P
Anyway, I've spoken with LK. He hasn't left for good, he's just taking a break.
A break from what? I thought spamming (or if you prefer, posting) on these boards here is already considered to be some kind of break.
really? why? :P
Perhaps for of his cool Master of the Unive... err, Obvious status.
really? why? :P
Because I am a really rotten shot? :P
Just Wow.
-
!18DELTA (Cyric's Chosen that is posting from work!) :D
Someone likes oldies but goodies.
Go with what you know... ;)
hmmm.......how do you mean?
I think she's um .... you know.... cute...
and y'know... HEY!
Why I'm telling this to you?!?!?
How do you people even know what each other look like?
No. What's you piont? :P
All silliness aside I think she's what you said, (a refreshing brezze?) I wouldn't mind finding out how she looks like though. what do you think Therise ?
I get you. I miss his bright blue eyes.................did I say that out loud?
I can not believe you posted that.
Funny... no one even noticed when I was gone for awhile...
I did! Though I knew where I could find you!
As for LK, well, maybe that job at the NYPD finally meant he could not linger about here all day debating with me! :D
How do you people even know what each other look like?
actually I met LK, Rin, mstaran, and johnkretzer
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I'm never sure what's going on with this stealth moderation style, but... did you just delete Lord Karsus's insult to himself?
How do you people even know what each other look like?
You didn't ask me (I don't think?), but I know what some of the posters here look like.
I game with LK, msatran and JohnKretzer and I've met Merrick.That would make you the guy with the barbecue at the bottom, right? ;)
I would be the cat (I have little heats floating around my head) that is watching the guy feeding the fish to the seals, on the right side of the picture. Or I could be the griller that caught himself on fire. :D
No one in that picture is pretty enough to be me.:P
Why not the clown on the pogo-stick? :P
No one in that picture is pretty enough to be me.:P
Nice. :D
No one in that picture is pretty enough to be me.:P
She's right
I'm never sure what's going on with this stealth moderation style, but... did you just delete Lord Karsus's insult to himself?
-You'd think a guy knows himself best...
-I think I found myself in that picture, too. That guy, feeding the seal? I'm the seal.
-Everything seems to have been lacking as of late, so here I am indeed.
-I think I found myself in that picture, too. That guy, feeding the seal? I'm the seal.
It has been getting better, but it's still going to take time to get people back that got sick and tired of the environment.
Welcome back, LK, by the way... I had hoped you would be back sooner rather then later.
Dunno if it can be helped. 4e just doesn't seem to inspire the masses like it used to, unless we're talking about a tar and feathering of each other. Think they need to roll out some RSE's to get minds off of the whole pro/anti-4e thing so we can all get back to some solid unified negativity.
Heh.
LK, I'm so happy you're back!:D
Well, the comic relief has been lacking of late, so welcome back. ;)
excuse me? What am I chopped liver?
-I'm back, and better than ever. I'm still not allowed to make fun of myself, though.
and you have been busy
excuse me? What am I chopped liver?
Not sure you rank quite as high as chopped liver on my scale of comic relief... :P
And you haven't exactly been Mr. Laff-a-Minute of late... ;)
-I was, but I've received no less than 6 or 7 PMs here and at Candlekeep, and 3 or 4 Emails, asking me to come back. So, here I am. You all need me.
something must have failed with that planar binding spell! Must try better next time I lock you away, must try better ... 
-I'm back, and better than ever. I'm still not allowed to make fun of myself, though.
You can make fun of me if you want to...
-I'm back, and better than ever. I'm still not allowed to make fun of myself, though.
Welcome back!
Not sure you rank quite as high as chopped liver on my scale of comic relief... :P
Well, sure, chopped liver is funny
And you haven't exactly been Mr. Laff-a-Minute of late... ;)
I guess we should rename 4th edition FR - The Killjoy Realms
-Everything seems to have been lacking as of late, so here I am indeed.
-I think I found myself in that picture, too. That guy, feeding the seal? I'm the seal.
No, no, no...
I purposely left out the 'Waldo' character so no-one could find you (and the Wizard too, just in case). :D
Welcome back, BTW... things were moving like molasses around here without you.
You can make fun of me if you want to...
-No, no. Then it just becomes malicious, and it all goes downhill from there.
I purposely left out the 'Waldo' character so no-one could find you (and the Wizard too, just in case). :D
-I was wondering why I couldn't find Waldo...
Welcome back, BTW... things were moving like molasses around here without you.
-So I hear.
-So I hear.
its kind of slow, man,
its kind of slow, man,
-Well, of course. Where there's fire, there's smoke, my friend. The hippo attracts the flies.
-Activity has already gone up. I meant it also in a more "sneaky, covert" way, but...
Guerrilla Tactics? Ambushing their supply lines and all that?
-Activity has already gone up. I meant it also in a more "sneaky, covert" way, but...
not that much though
:D
-The long and the short of it, I already said, so...
:D
-Isn't it more enjoyable to visit a message board in which people are (more or less) getting along, rather than visiting a message board in which people have to look over their proverbial shoulders before posting, knowing anything they say will be, as Stigger was saying, twisted out of context, and used to attack you, or general lies will be made up, and used to attack you, and other kinds of behaviors like that? I know I prefer the first to the second. That's 50% of the reason why I skipped posting here for most of this month.
-Concerning forum traffic, compliance doesn't necessarily go hand-in-hand with activity. In other words, everyone doesn't have to be assimilated into the BORG in order for forum traffic to go up. Most conversations that are worth any salt that go on here stem exactly from two opposing views. Take one example: A discussion I was having with MT, concerning ancient Ilythiir. Reading the same exact book, the same exact page, the same exact paragraph, I saw one thing (I was right, by the way...:incog
and he saw something else. If I saw one thing, and he saw the same exact thing, there's about two pages of discussion that never happened.-I think that, like so many other aspects of life, people are a lot quicker to jump to the "extremist" side of things. For whatever reason, I am reminded of John McCain's concession speech, when the gathered crowd audibly booed and jeered multiple times when McCain mentioned President Elect Obama winning the election. I've never seen coverage of the losing nominee's concession speech before (I saw Kerry conceded in '04 while I was walking home from school, on a taxi, and before that, I was too young to care enough about politics to tune into the loser's concession speech). It spoke to me, though, and reminded me that people are indeed jumping to metaphorical sides, instead of milling around in the middle.
-Anyway, the point of that whole long schpiel is that: (A) Just because you don't like something doesn't mean that you don't have to participate anymore. By and large, I, like you, don't like most of what I've seen, concerning the "new" Forgotten Realms. When conversations come up, that doesn't preclude me from participating. If they're not about the "new" Forgotten Realms, super, I have even more to contribute. If they are, well, I'll see what I can do. (B) Just because you don't like something doesn't mean that you should be spiteful about it. I'm not saying you are, but it's very easy to get into that type of mentality, where, since I can't benefit, no one should. Those people, we call trolls, they came in both pro- and anti- forms, and no one likes them. (C) At the end of the day, things are (or really should be) business as usual. As has been mentioned in various places, contrary to popular belief, Rich Baker is not going to round up the WotC goons and take your books away from you, replacing them with the new ones, and some morphine to keep you quiet. You still have your books, and the same problems/strengths that existed beforehand still exist. We still don't know what Lantan was like. We still don't know what happened to Rowan, the last Ghazneth. There's still plenty of things out there that need to be done (A sourcebook on Elves, a sourcebook concerning Kara-Tur, a sourcebook concerning Cormyr, and various other things). Instead of withdrawing from the community, treat everything as business as normal. The phrase "Not in my Realms" comes to mind. Ignore things you don't like. That's what I do. I don't like it, I ignore it. I still try to be relatively in the know, but I disregard such things from any projects I am working on (for the most part). Keeping that philosophy in mind, nothing has changed. None of those unsolved questions have been answered, and all of those projects that needed doing still need doing. So, no reason to not ask, and do.
-And that, is a mouthful.
(And, keep in mind, I am not singling you out, Merrik, or even necessarily talking about you, per se, as much as I am using the general form of 'you', and talking about nobody in particular.)
-You don't want things to be happy? Why is that?
My only hope for the Realms is the unhappiness with the current Realms
(A) Just because you don't like something doesn't mean that you don't have to participate anymore. By and large, I, like you, don't like most of what I've seen, concerning the "new" Forgotten Realms. When conversations come up, that doesn't preclude me from participating. If they're not about the "new" Forgotten Realms, super, I have even more to contribute. If they are, well, I'll see what I can do.
I have no interest in talking about what they now call the Realms. Its awful and is not compelling at all. I will participate in discussions about the old Realms for sure. But certainly, my involvement here will not be the same.
(B) Just because you don't like something doesn't mean that you should be spiteful about it. I'm not saying you are, but it's very easy to get into that type of mentality, where, since I can't benefit, no one should. Those people, we call trolls, they came in both pro- and anti- forms, and no one likes them.
True enough. I am often spiteful in these discussions. It is sometimes hard not to be frankly. But as I said before, I feel the only chance (however slim it is) for the Realms at this point, is the utter failure of the 4e Realms
(C) At the end of the day, things are (or really should be) business as usual. As has been mentioned in various places, contrary to popular belief, Rich Baker is not going to round up the WotC goons and take your books away from you, replacing them with the new ones, and some morphine to keep you quiet. You still have your books, and the same problems/strengths that existed beforehand still exist. We still don't know what Lantan was like. We still don't know what happened to Rowan, the last Ghazneth. There's still plenty of things out there that need to be done (A sourcebook on Elves, a sourcebook concerning Kara-Tur, a sourcebook concerning Cormyr, and various other things). Instead of withdrawing from the community, treat everything as business as normal. The phrase "Not in my Realms" comes to mind. Ignore things you don't like. That's what I do. I don't like it, I ignore it. I still try to be relatively in the know, but I disregard such things from any projects I am working on (for the most part). Keeping that philosophy in mind, nothing has changed. None of those unsolved questions have been answered, and all of those projects that needed doing still need doing. So, no reason to not ask, and do.
That is easy and difficult at the same time. Sure, its easy to just toss aside the 4th edition changes and pretend like they never happened. And I am sure many will. But to me, the real loss is the lack of anything new when you do that. I truly enjoyed getting that next sourcebook and digging into it. I enjoyed the discussions here about all the new lore that we got positive or negative. I enjoyed being a part of that. Thats now gone. Thats the real shame. Even more than the time leap. Even more than Mystra's removal or the pointless other changes that were made.
(And, keep in mind, I am not singling you out, Merrik, or even necessarily talking about you, per se, as much as I am using the general form of 'you', and talking about nobody in particular.)
I do not mind being singled out here.
Let's get the topics back on the Realms.