Personification Life OOC Thread X [sign-up & planning]

[Giovenith]

Or not...

*shoots a dog in front of a mirror*
He's dead now. Now nobody can stop me from making terrible puns!

Relevant.

[Cerillium]

I would have figured his abilities pretty underdeveloped given how many restrictions. I'm trying to make him moreover a personification of the English Language, thus the less sense he makes, the less powerful he is. The less he speaks, the less powerful he is. In order to gain power or momentum at all, he has to consistently keep speaking or chanting, and even then it has to pertain to the task at hand meaning he has to know what he's saying. In short, at this point he's so inexperienced (because he indeed is young), his ability is next to useless save for the word wall thing. Then again, that takes so much time and focus it practically is useless and the words themselves begin to evaporate when he stops speaking or changes subject.

Excellent character concept. A few things stand out that should be addressed. I'm writing this on the run so please bear with me if it seems abrupt.


-A literal word wall is fine. To clarify, that's what you're thinking rather than "he speaks and it becomes so", correct?

- "Puns however are the worst thing he can use as they are near lethal to any mere mortal in range. No one knows why, but the less clever the pun, the more impact it appears to have..."
Puns are usually brief one-liners. Bad puns are easy to fire off.

- "He also is prone to emotional attacks, and reading or hearing particularly emotional phrases or words can lock him up as he attempts to find the right words. In short, if he cannot find words to express something, he falls into a panic attack of sorts and refuses to emerge from it until his mind has found a suitable enough feeling or word. It is at this point he is liable to accidentally injure himself or others around him as he'll lose all control and power over his ability and it will in turn go wild. It is at this point where it can do lots of damage to those particularly sensitive to such outbreaks of raw and charged emotion."
I prefer weaknesses to harm only the character rather than the people around them. There are also beings in PL that are sensitive to outbreaks of raw and charged emotion however such an outbreak would fuel them rather than harm them. We have some psionicists that would respond violently should his power go wild. They would move to defend themselves and they do have the ability to destroy personifications.

- "Scripture as he recites can bend reality around him to his will, the effects of which while generally a side-effect of his own ability manifesting often benefits him as he continues along."
This ability would require a 9 or higher power level. I can't allow any character the ability to bend reality unless the player themselves is extensively and intimately familiar with the PL setting and the reality binding things together.

- IIRC you signed on Feb of 2014 with Valdis but I couldn't find any IC posts. I remember your stuff in Promethean Insurgency though. Nice work there.

[Charlia]

I would have figured his abilities pretty underdeveloped given how many restrictions. I'm trying to make him moreover a personification of the English Language, thus the less sense he makes, the less powerful he is. The less he speaks, the less powerful he is. In order to gain power or momentum at all, he has to consistently keep speaking or chanting, and even then it has to pertain to the task at hand meaning he has to know what he's saying. In short, at this point he's so inexperienced (because he indeed is young), his ability is next to useless save for the word wall thing. Then again, that takes so much time and focus it practically is useless and the words themselves begin to evaporate when he stops speaking or changes subject.

Excellent character concept. A few things stand out that should be addressed. I'm writing this on the run so please bear with me if it seems abrupt.


-A literal word wall is fine. To clarify, that's what you're thinking rather than "he speaks and it becomes so", correct?

- "Puns however are the worst thing he can use as they are near lethal to any mere mortal in range. No one knows why, but the less clever the pun, the more impact it appears to have..."
Puns are usually brief one-liners. Bad puns are easy to fire off.

- "He also is prone to emotional attacks, and reading or hearing particularly emotional phrases or words can lock him up as he attempts to find the right words. In short, if he cannot find words to express something, he falls into a panic attack of sorts and refuses to emerge from it until his mind has found a suitable enough feeling or word. It is at this point he is liable to accidentally injure himself or others around him as he'll lose all control and power over his ability and it will in turn go wild. It is at this point where it can do lots of damage to those particularly sensitive to such outbreaks of raw and charged emotion."
I prefer weaknesses to harm only the character rather than the people around them. There are also beings in PL that are sensitive to outbreaks of raw and charged emotion however such an outbreak would fuel them rather than harm them. We have some psionicists that would respond violently should his power go wild. They would move to defend themselves and they do have the ability to destroy personifications.

- "Scripture as he recites can bend reality around him to his will, the effects of which while generally a side-effect of his own ability manifesting often benefits him as he continues along."
This ability would require a 9 or higher power level. I can't allow any character the ability to bend reality unless the player themselves is extensively and intimately familiar with the PL setting and the reality binding things together.

- IIRC you signed on Feb of 2014 with Valdis but I couldn't find any IC posts. I remember your stuff in Promethean Insurgency though. Nice work there.

You missed mine.

[Mincaldenteans]

crap post was uber crap but there ya go -nodnod-

[Swith Witherward]

You missed mine.

He missed a lot of things. Long work hours and visiting family have pretty much sucked up every moment of his time this week.

Your app's link is in the CoOP box. I glanced at it when I added the link, and I suppose the only question out there would be "where is she going to stay?"

[Torsiedelle]

I'd assume she'd stay with Char!Charlotte. If not then maybe another character...

Seeing that her personification is related to Japan, it would certainly interest Jasmine

Speaking of, not many characters actually live together. I remember Eru and Na's' characters did, which was neato. Huh.

[Primordial Luxa]

So im just thinking out loud.

My plan is to make a largish group of more Human characters which the Luxans are recruiting/employing/observing and have fun with the various interactions they would have. I suppose their are a few of your characters but that can be dealt with later. I imagine they would be part of the Luxan challenge or some other sort of quest that has them travelling the world and doing various magical/pulpy things. I dont know exactly what they might do but im thinking steal artifacts, assassinate certain people and help enforce Luxan internal magic presence. Maybe turn the Luxan into some sort of a Magical Mafia/Monopoly/Vigilante group?

Also i'm considering a skeptic character based around sleight of hand magic tricks. Someone who failed to find real magic and now has some sort of grudge. Mostly young. How does that sound.

As for Bran's character idea i'm thinking of a living weapon whose bodily fluids change nearly every feature of a person. (Race, Species, Gender, Appearance, etc...) Maybe each different bodily fluid would cause a different thing to change. It would probably struggle with how isolated it felt, seeing as it cant interact too much with others, maybe some kind of protection suit??? It also would have a really screwed up personality since its essentially a living bomb. What do we think of that?

[VolksImperium (Ancient)]

Debating if I would like to sumbit an app or not....

[Fvaarniimar]

Think I'm going to wait on Carly to post. It's late here, anyway.

[Kassaran]

Excellent character concept. A few things stand out that should be addressed. I'm writing this on the run so please bear with me if it seems abrupt.


-A literal word wall is fine. To clarify, that's what you're thinking rather than "he speaks and it becomes so", correct?

Yes. Kind of. Moreover, if he begins to speak, those words emerge from his mouth. It's kind of like having constant subtitles on except said subtitles can then be wielded as a physical object containing the literary characteristics of whatever they are.

- "Puns however are the worst thing he can use as they are near lethal to any mere mortal in range. No one knows why, but the less clever the pun, the more impact it appears to have..."
Puns are usually brief one-liners. Bad puns are easy to fire off.

Alright, well rather than the bad puns being dangerous, only the best and most complex are dangerous. If a pun goes unnoticed, it is completely avoided. Again, the puns have to be used with meaning or emotion behind them for them to be dangerous in the first place. Any of his words will quickly evaporate when he stops talking. He could talk about a vacuum, but as soon as he's done it dissipates and it only had power if he meant for it to. Like saying in just common conversation, the word as it appears would have little more effect than simply drawing in minute amounts of atmosphere otherwise indiscernible without proper instruments.

As soon as a thought completes itself, the words would immediately begin to evaporate, with words that had little sentiment or meaning when he said them fading away quickly. In this way when he responds without sincerity it's pretty obvious.

- "He also is prone to emotional attacks, and reading or hearing particularly emotional phrases or words can lock him up as he attempts to find the right words. In short, if he cannot find words to express something, he falls into a panic attack of sorts and refuses to emerge from it until his mind has found a suitable enough feeling or word. It is at this point he is liable to accidentally injure himself or others around him as he'll lose all control and power over his ability and it will in turn go wild. It is at this point where it can do lots of damage to those particularly sensitive to such outbreaks of raw and charged emotion."

I prefer weaknesses to harm only the character rather than the people around them. There are also beings in PL that are sensitive to outbreaks of raw and charged emotion however such an outbreak would fuel them rather than harm them. We have some psionicists that would respond violently should his power go wild. They would move to defend themselves and they do have the ability to destroy personifications.

Noted, I still will hold that his words do hold power, as all words do and that's why he needs to be careful. His self-control has to be peak in this event, however this ability is no more dangerous than any superhuman going on a rampage. How do I say it better than, the significance of the cause dictates the significance of the reaction? I think though I'll best contain it by rewriting that as him needing to find a proper word or else he'll snap if interrupted. Think if he hears news that his family has died (spoilers maybe), he'll just shut down not knowing how to respond to that. Crying would hurt too much, and his own pride would keep him from doing so. Grief might be what comes to mind for most as being appropriate, but this is his family and no mundane word would describe what he'd be feeling. The more complex the feeling, the more complex the word and if it isn't suitable enough he just stays pent up.

Disturbing him in this process of trying to find the right word is what can cause him to lose control and throw a veritable temper tantrum of words. Whatever he feels will become very much visible as he vents. Those words he won't have control over, and likewise he is less dangerous than his words once they're present and as long as they're present. When he tires himself out or is eventually sedated, he'll revert to a normal state, his emotions set back to ground zero, but regardless he'll have reacted accordingly.

Likewise, if he is complimented on having cleaned a countertop well, and he is interrupted or disturbed before he can answer, he'll grow upset and possibly passive aggressive. In short, this is his reaction to being interrupted while trying to hold a conversation.

- "Scripture as he recites can bend reality around him to his will, the effects of which while generally a side-effect of his own ability manifesting often benefits him as he continues along."
This ability would require a 9 or higher power level. I can't allow any character the ability to bend reality unless the player themselves is extensively and intimately familiar with the PL setting and the reality binding things together.

The very nature of the words he says becoming physical in nature is bending reality. The strength of that bending though is excessively limited. As I said, his ability to form words and have them take on the nature of their meaning with the intent to use them is in fact interacting with the reality of the universe at hand. He cannot however maintain powerful disruptions of reality without proper focus or training, in short you're right when you say this ability would and should require a higher power level equal to or greater than 9. The only issue with this is that as he uses it in its current form, and with his inexperience in using it, he is completely incapable of significantly altering reality. At the most he can only generate highly localized and limited disruptions in energy. His lack of knowledge in certain fields (and likewise mine) keeps his knowledge in how those things work as limited as mine.

In short, the extent to which I understand how a wall works is the extent to which I can establish its strength. I know next to nothing for certain about a black hole, and I likewise would have to go to great lengths to understand even the simplest of things regarding the physics behind it however, so creating a black hole with his ability is incredibly more difficult and infinitely more inefficient. Likewise you can probably guess his ability is limited in extent to my own literary knowledge. His puns will have to be obscure and likewise will be more literary in build and the worst part is I can't drag attention to them or else they didn't work. I as the author have to work with Kassaran to make him useful and effective.

I'm not sure I'm coming across quite clearly however, so I'll just summarize the strength of the ability as follows: His ability is only as powerful as it is knowledgeable and detailed on the subject at hand. If focus or knowledge runs out on the subject at hand and he has to begin repeating himself, he loses his strength and likewise he is left utterly defenseless or harmless as his words dissipate. So the more he can say on a subject, the more effective it is, but the less he says the less effective it is thus creating the effect of a word wall of text. In reality this won't be an ability he uses to such a stressed extent so the likelihood of him altering reality in any significant way for any significant amount of time is unlikely.

I will however be looking into figuring out how to use his ability to create objects from mid-air by reciting scripture built for doing just that. In short, think of Scripture as the incantations for magic, except what he says is actual holy writ for the Kassaran people because he said it and for no other reason.

- IIRC you signed on Feb of 2014 with Valdis but I couldn't find any IC posts. I remember your stuff in Promethean Insurgency though. Nice work there.

The Promethean Insurgency? Wait, as in the Regional RP Mon started and which I added to barely? Okay then. I do have lots of other better works present, and the Application is moreover up for review to give pointers on how to better describe the character. It is at this point that I realize I'm liable to become very attached to Kassaran as a character as I have become attached to it as a nation. Merde. OH! That reminds me and at this point I'm actually writing train-of-consciousness: his ability only works in the English language as of this point because he is the personification of the English language's Word Wall, but as I become more fluent hopefully in other languages, would I be allowed to use said languages as his ability grows with mine?

[Warpspace]

Do not remove this search tag: #PLAPP
Your NS Nation's Nickname: Warpspace

Character Name: (Sir) Gefrei de Bataille (Geoffrey du Bat-ai-ye)

Character Gender: Male

Character Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Human

Character Physical Description (height, weight, apparent age, actual age): 5'11, weighs around two hundred pounds. He appears to be in his early forties due to weathering and stress, however is still just in his late thirty winters of life. Hinting at pure Norwegian heritage, his hair is colored a dirty blonde, and wears it long to serve as cushioning. Although he already wears a coif and arming cap, rolled up and pinned his long hair serves as additional protection against concussions. Gefrei typically remains clean-shaven in domestic times, but when at war (such as when he took a tumble down the hole) it's rather hard to not grow a beard. When not dressed in his armor, he'll at least initially be wearing typical Norman/Scandinavian dress of tunics, robes, and fur pelt trophies.

He also has an old war wound suffered as a youth in the start of his career as a warrior. Mangled by the spear of an enemy footman when charging some infantry, his right forearm was torn apart- forcing amputation. He commissioned the forging of a prosthetic arm to replace his lost limb (which was severed below the elbow) and had an iron replacement made. The grip is simple with it being lever activated and is capable of holding a shield or crudely controlling a lance.

URL to Character Picture, if any: Face, traveling armor

Primary Skill or Power: Landed Knight/Warlord. Trained in all facets of early Medieval Warfare from horsemanship, fencing, archery, endurance, and military lordship as a leader of a warband. Absolute CQC beast when it compared to other normal mortal humans such as himself.

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: No communication immediately. His primary language is fully extinct and the only descending remnant is spoken in a tiny pocket of north-western France. However due to being a pious Catholic and nobleman, he was taught Latin in his studies as a boy and can both write and speak it to a minimal degree. It's a stepping stone to learning English. He's also partially disabled through the loss of a limb in his younger years as mentioned above, but has managed more or less to overcome the weakness.

Character Background/Biography: Born in 1111AD to minor nobility, Gefrei (yet to take the surname Bataille) came into Norman world still experiencing the aftermath of William I's conquest of English lands in 1066 and seizing lordship over the island. Son of one of the many Knights rallied under the Bastard's campaign, Sir Raulf, Gefrei's family was well rewarded for his father's service in the conquest- becoming part of the new Anglo-Norman nobility (however minor as a Knight) and gifted a lot of land near Dorset. Raulf eventually built a small Motte and Bailey castle upon the land within a decade of his ownership, a manor Gefrei spent much of his childhood in.

His adolescence beyond childhood was average for the times and one of his station. While he was the third son of his father (aged well over his fifties upon his birth as well) and a bit of a footnote as it came to heirs, Raulf saw fit to allow even a third son the expenses to become a Knight. Shipped off to distant relatives across the channel in lower Normandy, Gefrei was trained in all the makings of a knight- spending eight years learning archery, horsemanship, and fencing under the tutelage of some far removed cousins. Finishing his training, Gefrei was lusting for a fight to put his new career skills to use. Hearing some (extremely belated news) about Norman conquests in Sicily and Southern Italy against Saracens, he caught a merchant ship heading into the central Mediterranean along with some other young knights in search of glory, coin, and blood. What better cause to test his mettle in than killing heretical dogs oppression local Catholics?

What Gefrei found in Italy was far worse than he could have ever imagined. Arriving in the Duchy of Apulia in 1132, the young knight found that the Saracens were either dead, fled, or submitted to the rule of Roger II years ago and now the Norman Prince was stamping out a seemingly endless stream of rebellions. Still desperate for patronage, he joined Roger II in his fight against the rebellions of Southern Italy from 1132-1137, only to his further horror found that the rebels were Catholic, but the rebellion was instigated by the Pope of all people. Caught in a war where he started to view himself as the villain, things took a further turn south when during a cavalry skirmish, a Neapolitan lance caught Gefrei's right arm and utterly shredded the limb after rending his maille armor. The lance tip had punched between the Radius and Ulna, forcing the bones apart and effectively split his hand. Amputation came swiftly after the battle with his arm being severed right below the elbow, putting him out of the campaign for good. All was not lost however, at the cost of an arm and a crisis of faith, Gefrei did manage to reap a profit from the ransom of enemy knights taken in battle. It was enough to allow him a comfortable lifestyle for several years, and money to sail back to Normandy.

But he came home to the Anglo-Norman empire in 1138 only to find anarchy, and not mere scuffling, but THE Anarchy- one of the earlier civil wars that gripped England and its Frankish holdings for nearly two decades. The wounded veteran of the Italian campaign arrived at port to find that his beloved king, Henry I, was dead, and Stephen of Blois had taken the crown. Infuriated by these turn of events and viewing Stephen as an usurper to the proper heiress of the throne -Empress Matilda-, Gefrei meant to immediately take up arms, but then fell over because his arm was recently amputated and he was plagued by illness from the still-smelling stump of an arm. He still could serve the true royal family and reap great rewards from such service yet. The Empress' husband, Geoffrey, was sweeping through Normandy from the south to make straight for England and take the fight for Stephen. Gefrei's retinue managed to intercept some of Geoffrey's men, calling for audience with their liege in exchange for swearing fealty and willing to donate to the cause. Both making off like a bandit and clearing his conscious in the process, Gefrei ended up bartering away a great sum of the loot he had taken in the Italian conquest and in exchange secured ownership of a small keep in southern Normandy. Most importantly was a secured hand in marriage to one Lady Adeline of a Magnate sworn to Geoffrey's service- thus further securing his station of minor nobility.

As with most marriages of the time, it held little to do with love, and was more a simple business transaction. By handing off his daughter, the Magnate ensured Gefrei's loyalty should need for his aid ever arise, and it cultivated more fame to the (ironically now forgotten) Magnate's name. Gefrei was a veteran, and his service to Roger of Sicily (however murky their actions) associated chivalric glory with the family. But the relationship did eventually blossom with mutual feelings. Unlike most of his peers, from his sustained injury Gefrei was to spend two years recuperating in the small keep of Bataille with Adeline before he could return to the field leading a warband of mercenaries. The two grew closer over the two year's time, and it was the Lady who spawned the idea of replacing Gefrei's lost arm with a metal harness so he could ride to war with his men-at-arms and not be seen as a cripple or coward.

After a period of adapting to using the iron prosthetic fitted to his stump and learning to use the sword in his left hand, Gefrei to the fold. Now titled Gefrei de Bataille, the Knight donned his old Norman-Italo armor and rode off for the channel with a band of mercenaries and conscripted peasants in tow. Before vanishing from the face of England in 1147, Gefrei gained further favor from the Empress' court as he took more ransoms from enemy knights and loyally stood beside Geoffrey's allies, even himself ending up captured to aid in their escape.

Why the character is in Bielefeld/Occupation: Fell through a pesky rabbit hole with a localized time portal. You could call him Alice in Wonderland, but only as long as he isn't aware of the reference.

URL to Apartment Picture: He prefers to live in a familiar environment.

Link to RP examples:

IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details:


WIP

I'm posting this unfinished to force myself to finish it by the week at least, hopefully tomorrow if I feel up for it. Been toying around with a "Knight out of time" concept along with the medieval equivalent of a modern combat veteran. True story too, multiple people from the roman times to the late middle ages apparently have iron limbs fashioned for them.

[Swith Witherward]

Business Name: The Prytaneum
Character that owns it: Peter Kelphanos
What services does it supply: a Greek restaurant. It serves typical Greek goodness, but is best known for lamb keftethes, and freshly made tsatziki sauce.
Where is it located: Downtown

[Swith Witherward]

Also, insomnia bites.

[Highfort]

Also, insomnia bites.

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Happy 4th of July and Republic Day/Filipino-American Friendship Day!

"Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I shall conquer the world." - General Douglas MacArthur, United States Military

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord. It is currently employed in combat against Islamic Separatist groups in the south, notably the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Abu Sayyaf, and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

[The BranRiech]

I'm wondering if I should send Bran out to do stuff, or Calle, any suggestions?

[Mincaldenteans]

Also, insomnia bites.

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Lol! Colonel Fluffy was attempting a gesture in friendship, perhaps the impression was a tad misleading

>_>
<_<
^_^

[Torsiedelle]

MacArthur is my man.

And happy July 4th!

[Swith Witherward]

Happy 4th of July and Republic Day/Filipino-American Friendship Day!

"Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I shall conquer the world." - General Douglas MacArthur, United States Military

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord. It is currently employed in combat against Islamic Separatist groups in the south, notably the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Abu Sayyaf, and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

On this day, in 362 BC, Sparta had its ass handed to it by Epaminondas and the Thebans.


Happy 4th of July and Republic Day.

[Giovenith]

Happy 4th of July and Republic Day/Filipino-American Friendship Day!

"Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I shall conquer the world." - General Douglas MacArthur, United States Military

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord. It is currently employed in combat against Islamic Separatist groups in the south, notably the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Abu Sayyaf, and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord.

force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation

... *smile* *shot five billion times* I'm going to Hell.

Anywho, Happy 'Murica Day everyone! Obligatory theme song.

[Northwest Slobovia]

Happy 4th of July and Republic Day/Filipino-American Friendship Day!

"Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I shall conquer the world." - General Douglas MacArthur, United States Military

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord. It is currently employed in combat against Islamic Separatist groups in the south, notably the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Abu Sayyaf, and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

On this day, in 362 BC, Sparta had its ass handed to it by Epaminondas and the Thebans.

I think the Theban Sacred Band may have had other ideas for the Spartans' asses.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

About those Facts...

[Swith Witherward]

I think the Theban Sacred Band may have had other ideas for the Spartans' asses.

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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

About those Facts...

It's not easy being fabulous and fierce. The theory was that the men would fight harder to protect their lovers. And they did!

I've always found the DODs Directive 1332.14 hilarious. "Homosexuality is clearly incompatible" with military service.

[Monfrox]

I spent the midnight of the 4th drinking whiskey and coke.

Giov, I'm sure everyone in this RP is going to hell for something(s) so you won't be lonely.

[Tiltjuice]

I was amused.

[Torsiedelle]

Happy 4th of July and Republic Day/Filipino-American Friendship Day!

"Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I shall conquer the world." - General Douglas MacArthur, United States Military

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord. It is currently employed in combat against Islamic Separatist groups in the south, notably the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Abu Sayyaf, and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

Fun Fact: The Filipino military, despite constant budget cuts, bureaucratic mismanagement, corruption, obsolete equipment, and general governmental asshattery, managed to successfully force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) to sign a peace accord.

force the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation

... *smile* *shot five billion times* I'm going to Hell.

Anywho, Happy 'Murica Day everyone! Obligatory theme song.

Lol.

[Tiltjuice]

[15:25] -Global- [Network Notice] If you live outside the U.S, happy start of the Tour de France? Do you people have holidays?