The Grey Wardens: Warden-Lieutenant Eshialand

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[Witchcraft and Sorcery]

I mean, it's a pretty dang accurate representation of how most of my real tours end up.

(and it was like the third image that game up on google images and i'm lazy)

[Tim-Opolis]

Being a college tour guide is 45% bullshit, 45% tolerating dumb questions, and 10% waving to people you know in very exaggerated waves to seem social

[Tim-Opolis]

Liberating Armies lock in and mow down the Darkspawn menace plaguing the lands, even using a huge image for the ocassion

We Own It by 2 Timz and Roav Khalifa

(It's Roav Khalifa man!)
2 TIIIIMZ

Winning's the motivation
Winning's the conversation
You on vacation, we getting wins so
We on win-cation, we do it for the fam
It's whatever we had to do, it's just who I am

Yeah, it's the life we chose
Triggers in the dark, two tabs rose
And we got that trigger running right real close
You can catch me libbing regions, with both eye closed

Perfecting my bashing, thanks for asking
Couldn't slow down, sent the darkspawn crashing
You use pilers, we racking up cash
With our updater numbers, you we're gonna pass

I never fear jumps or dying
I only fear never trying
I am whatever I am
Only [v] can judge us now

One jump, everything rides on this one
Even if I've got slow troops, I'm a go for it
This update? We own it

Ay, we're not to be messed with
Be-cause it can get rough in
See these, updaters I roll with
This update? We own it.

2 TIIIIIMZ is on the report tonight, what what what!

Y'all, the night was starting real good when the Danes started staging their Spears for some spicy stabs. First up on the docket was visiting The not-so-Roman Empire in The Sense of Right Alliance, with about eighteen Darkspawn in the region. Fortunately, Club Libcord was bumping tonight, and about thirty-five updaters showed up to visit Kleo and friends. The Darkspawn were swept aside rather easily, even though variance tried its best to make it tough for our troops. Another liberation, however, was soon after! Pushing the number to forty-five updaters, the lads all got crossed-up and flew into Slavic Union, easily dispatching the small outcropping of Order of the Sword and KGB troops helping some minor region pile it up. It was a fantastic turn-out, and one that shows the strength of defending and our various staunch allies.

In addition, while we're not exactly sure what was going on in The Blight Hawks/Tartar Sauce camp, they attempted two major operations on Christmas and The Pirate Bay with something around fifteen darkspawn a piece. In both situations, they were intercepted and brutally sent packing to their caves to lick their wounds by a force of more than twenty-five defenders each time. We can't really say "well fought" because we pre-moved both of them, and aren't very sure what happened. On the first situation, they had an individual jump early and give it away, and it seemed that on the second one the same exact thing happened. Genuinely, we're sending our best wishes to them for figuring out what exactly went wrong with communications, because we'd love to beat them in more competitive fights as well.

Thanks to all turning out to Club Libcord, good night y'all!

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Regions Defended

Christmas
The Pirate Bay

Regions Liberated

The Sense of Right Alliance
Slavic Union

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Wardens Present

First Warden Roavin
High Constable Deadeye Jack
Chamberlain Vincent Drake
Commander Tim-Opolis
Constable Nakarisaune
Constable Lenlyvit
Constable Witchcraft and Sorcery
Lieutenant Blightbane
Warden Melody
Warden GCMR of Cokeland
Warden Kurnugia
Warden Acronius
Warden Pyrosky
Warden Ikania

Other Military Forces Involved*

The Dragon Knights of Aenaroth
Dyr Nasad
The Federation of Organized Regions for Global Enlightenment
The Holy Inquisition of Lazarus
The Joint Task Force
The League of Conservative Nations
The Renegade Islands Alliance Special Forces
The South Pacific Special Forces
The Ten-Thousand Islands Treaty Alliance
The Rejected Realms Army (The Space Unicorn Brigade)
Union of Democratic States
The West Pacific Armed Forces

* in the interest of not making this list too large, I had to just list military forces rather than individual troops. If I forgot your region, let me know!

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And now... everyone get some sleep, eh?

In War, Victory.
In Peace, Vigilance.
In Death, Sacrifice.

[Greytex]

You forgot the 58 regions that you failed to fend .-.

[Witchcraft and Sorcery]

I am absolutely amazed. 45 updaters is insane. Congratulations to everyone and really well done!

Oh, and those regions we failed to fend, the correct number is 59. You forgot Warzone Europe

[Blight-Bane]

You forgot the 58 regions that you failed to fend .-.

Didn't fail, just absent. Nice total tho. I thought you might've broken the record, but i guess not.

[Lenlyvit]

You forgot the 58 regions that you failed to fend .-.

To be fair, we had 45 updaters tonight. We could have broken off half of our forces to beat the taggers easily, but we wanted to save you the humiliation.

I say this with love. Please don't take it the wrong way. And that is an impressive number! Good job!

[Satya Romefeller]

You forgot the 58 regions that you failed to fend .-.

Didn't fail, just absent.

Isn't that the same thing?

You forgot the 58 regions that you failed to fend .-.

To be fair, we had 45 updaters tonight. We could have broken off half of our forces to beat the taggers easily, but we wanted to save you the humiliation.

Oh is that the reason?

[Westwind]

Raiding the Equilism protectorate of Warzone Europe is an act of war against Equilism.

Explain yourself.

[Tim-Opolis]

Oh is that the reason?

Pretty much.

Plus, it's tags. In the grand scheme of things, they're irrelevant graffiti on a battlefield where liberations and major defenses struck actually significant blows.

[Ikania]

Raiding the Equilism protectorate of Warzone Europe is an act of war against Equilism.

Explain yourself.

For the record, no Wardens were forced to join the mission, and I, for one, took action to enforce the sitting Delegate. This is more a Tim thing, not a TGW thing.

[Nyx-]

You forgot the 58 regions that you failed to fend .-.

To be fair, we had 45 updaters tonight. We could have broken off half of our forces to beat the taggers easily, but we wanted to save you the humiliation.

I say this with love. Please don't take it the wrong way. And that is an impressive number! Good job!

Thanks, lovely one! <3
That's an impressive number of updaters! :3

[Tim-Opolis]

Raiding the Equilism protectorate of Warzone Europe is an act of war against Equilism.

Explain yourself.

For the record, no Wardens were forced to join the mission, and I, for one, took action to enforce the sitting Delegate.

No Wardens are forced to join any operations should they choose to avoid them, that does not mean an operation is not one in which Wardens are officially involved if some of them abstain.

If Equilism has an actual issue with a non-serious drive-by on a region that was specifically created for the purpose of being invaded, its government officials know how to contact us and the half-dozen other regions involved. To clarify, not all regions listed in the update report were involved in an operation against Warzone Europe, with a good number of them retiring for the night after the liberation of Slavic Union.

[Westwind]

I do represent Equilism as Co-Founder and Commander.

Those involved should be ashamed, and certainly do not deserve the respect due to those that help, not harm, innocent peaceful regions. It is my position that an attack on an Equilism Protectorate is an attack on Equilism itself. This act of war against us cannot go unanswered.

I call for immediate withdrawal of forces from Warzone Europe, and immediate removal of all bans. The failure of to do so immediately, extends this offense against us. Waiting a few hours, waiting for minor update, and maintaining their bans in the meantime, which is the current response, is completely unacceptable.

I also call on your allies to condemn this raid. Otherwise I will presume your implicit support for these actions against our sovereignty. Equilism takes its treaties, alliances, and protectorates seriously. We will respond appropriately. We are prepared to invoke our alliances in defense of our sovereign regions against all attackers.

Do not make me your enemy. This attack was not funny, and our protectorateship treaty is not a joke as some seem to think. I expect an apology. Otherwise I will presume you want war with me, and you will have established yourselves as raiders and hypocrites. I am prepared to call for a declaration of war over this. So yes, I have a serious issue with this.

[Pergamon]

-snipping the userite-

An UCR having technically a GCR as Protectorate!? I do not call these actions a "raid" which is to be condemned, but a "liberation" that must be cherished and commended.
Good job there.

Furthermore: I strongly believe that any UCR influence over GCR's must be broken, with either military force or through diplomatic isolation. Thus I strongly agree with the merits of this operation.
Just wonderful. I furthermore encourage the participants not to get intimidated by the threats of an ancient ADN member. As we, the NPO, survived the entirety of the ADN, you guys will with no doubts survive Westwinds empty threats.

Hail Pacifica Comrades o/

[Westwind]

You obviously don't known me well, or you wouldn't try the 'userite' label. I am the longest serving delegate of TWP and also was delegate of TNP. I was Minister of Defense in both TEP and The Pacific. I am a field commander of TWP. I have been resident in all Feeders and Sinkers since 2004. You yourself liked my posts on The Pacific RMB in support of The Pacific. I always say 'Hail Pacifica!'

Furthermore, as a Feederite, you should be eager to defend GCR communities from a UCR raid like this.

And you obviously have no understanding of the nature of our protectorate relationship. WZEU is autonomous and entirely runs it's own affairs. Equilism provides forums as they request, and military support.

But I suppose you feel it is wrong for a UCR to defend a GCR at all, eh?

[Consular]

An UCR having technically a GCR as Protectorate!? I do not call these actions a "raid" which is to be condemned, but a "liberation" that must be cherished and commended.

Furthermore: I strongly believe that any UCR influence over GCR's must be broken, with either military force or through diplomatic isolation.

But it's completely ok for a GCR to attempt to enslave another GCR, right Pergamon?

[Pergamon]

You obviously don't known me well, or you wouldn't try the 'userite' label. I am the longest serving delegate of TWP and also was delegate of TNP. I was Minister of Defense in both TEP and The Pacific. I am a field commander of TWP. I have been resident in all Feeders and Sinkers since 2004. You yourself liked my posts on The Pacific RMB in support of The Pacific. I always say 'Hail Pacifica!'

Furthermore, as a Feederite, you should be eager to defend GCR communities from a UCR raid like this.

And you obviously have no understanding of the nature of our protectorate relationship. WZEU is autonomous and entirely runs it's own affairs. Equilism provides forums as they request, and military support.

But I suppose you feel it is wrong for a UCR to defend a GCR at all, eh?

At this point, it doesn't really matter what you have been or have done before. As you are now representing a UCR and its interests, as proud co-founder of said UCR openly right now in this thread. I doubt you can try the 'Feederite" label there. I am well aware who you are. This being said: WZEU is not the only region you actually try to protect. - And I can't tell what's more disturbing about all of this: An UCR with the ambitions to protect GCR, to act as main Patron, where a Feeder could basically take this place, as it should by its exalted right? Or the fact that this "protection agreement", or "protectorate" however you would prefer to call it, entirely failed for the whole world to witness and some "Defenders" just rolled that Warzone for fun. And now you attempt to threaten those said "Defenders" and set an ultimatum. You wouldn't like to hear that, but for me this is UCR (Equilism) on UCR (The Grey Wardens) drama. Maybe I should appoint a Senator of Userite Affairs to observe the further progress of this conflict. Excuse me if I am slightly amused.

But it's completely ok for a GCR to attempt to enslave another GCR, right Pergamon?

Absolutely! Especially if this means that there is an absolute real chance that all influential third parties (except the Pacific) and all cosmopolitan userites, are being purged to the point of no return? Yes. Give me more GCR enslavement. You call it enslavement though, I call it liberation. The GCR are not the playground of the advanced NS politician, nor the legitimate holdings of some powerful NS families or the prestigious outpost of Defender or Raider orgs. These elements just harness the rich resources of the GCR's or polish up their completely irrelevant CV. (Sometimes I wonder why some regions do not even have a Minister of Ego Affairs.)

We have a different perception of this game. I might remind you that Pacifica doesn't only resolve around the Pacific. What has been started 2003 is far from being over and the battle for Feederite soil isn't over yet.

[Cormactopia Prime]

An impressive update. I very much enjoyed participating in the liberations and defenses!

Also, Westwind: No offense, but get a grip. While I'm sure no one wants war with Equilism, primarily because NationStates wars are silly, I don't think anyone is particularly afraid of war with you as an individual. If Equilism really wants to go to war over a single-update invasion of a Warzone, that's up to Equilism, but this is what should have been expected when a Warzone designed for invasion was made a protectorate of Equilism. It's amazing that it hasn't happened before now. Going to war over a Warzone, no matter the circumstances, is the height of absurdity. It was unwise for Equilism to ever make Warzone Europe a protectorate in the first place, especially when Equilism lacks the WA capacity and diplomatic clout to actually protect it.

I would be very surprised if your bluster leads to an apology from anyone, and please bear in mind when implicitly threatening the "allies" who worked with the Grey Wardens at update last night that not all participated in the invasion of Warzone Europe, and that Equilism is in no position to be implicitly threatening much of anyone with much of anything. Instead of preparing for war, perhaps you should do a bit more to get Equilism's internal house in order. Equilism is in no condition to prosecute a war. You can't even sustain your own activity without massive cross-membership from Europeia, let alone a war against these other user-created regions or Feeders and Sinkers, all of which have larger and more active populations than Equilism.

[Frattastan II]

I also call on your allies to condemn this raid. Otherwise I will presume your implicit support for these actions against our sovereignty.

I don't know what you mean with "[TGW's] allies", so I will post a clarification: we don't attack community projects, and we don't attack regions that are under the protection of friendly regions. No RRA member took part in this raid, and we will continue not to harm Warzone Europe while it remains home to a community.

If asked for a personal opinion I may say it was a foolish move: I would never run an operation just to annoy someone else over a personal grudge or for bragging points. However, demanding that we officially "condemn" it, or even suggesting that we should break relations with TGW over it seems excessive.
Warzones have always been fair targets for both raiders and defenders, for various purposes. Even the 'natives' who inhabit them have come to accept the risks of a warzone as part and parcel of their lifestyle, and they know that even if displaced they will be able to return immediately after.

If we chose to purposefully avoid Warzone Europe, it's purely out of courtesy towards its natives, towards Equilism, or towards Astarial, and you should be more than happy with that, and not make further demands. It's your protectorate, after all. Not ours.

Certainly I don't plan to condemn TGW over a warzone raid, no matter how silly: they are our friends, we share a common cause, and I know that they would stand by our side if we needed their help.

Do not make me your enemy. This attack was not funny, and our protectorateship treaty is not a joke as some seem to think. I expect an apology. Otherwise I will presume you want war with me, and you will have established yourselves as raiders and hypocrites. I am prepared to call for a declaration of war over this. So yes, I have a serious issue with this.

Going to war over hurt pride is a diplomatic failure, not a show of strength.

[Plagentine]

Wouldn't be as fun raiding without hordes of fendas such as these showing up once in a while. Congratulations on the turnout.

[Neop]

I do represent Equilism as Co-Founder and Commander.

Those involved should be ashamed, and certainly do not deserve the respect due to those that help, not harm, innocent peaceful regions. It is my position that an attack on an Equilism Protectorate is an attack on Equilism itself. This act of war against us cannot go unanswered.

I call for immediate withdrawal of forces from Warzone Europe, and immediate removal of all bans. The failure of to do so immediately, extends this offense against us. Waiting a few hours, waiting for minor update, and maintaining their bans in the meantime, which is the current response, is completely unacceptable.

I also call on your allies to condemn this raid. Otherwise I will presume your implicit support for these actions against our sovereignty. Equilism takes its treaties, alliances, and protectorates seriously. We will respond appropriately. We are prepared to invoke our alliances in defense of our sovereign regions against all attackers.

Do not make me your enemy. This attack was not funny, and our protectorateship treaty is not a joke as some seem to think. I expect an apology. Otherwise I will presume you want war with me, and you will have established yourselves as raiders and hypocrites. I am prepared to call for a declaration of war over this. So yes, I have a serious issue with this.

Not representing any region here, but your silly "protectorate" treaties have no jurisdiction over the mechanics of the game. Warzones are designed for this purpose, and if you don't like it, don't settle in a damn warzone.

[Aumelodia]

I also call on your allies to condemn this raid. Otherwise I will presume your implicit support for these actions against our sovereignty. Equilism takes its treaties, alliances, and protectorates seriously. We will respond appropriately. We are prepared to invoke our alliances in defense of our sovereign regions against all attackers.

Do not make me your enemy. This attack was not funny, and our protectorateship treaty is not a joke as some seem to think. I expect an apology. Otherwise I will presume you want war with me, and you will have established yourselves as raiders and hypocrites. I am prepared to call for a declaration of war over this. So yes, I have a serious issue with this.

Just clarifying, if you're planning to go to war against all of TGW's ally regions who participated in this update, you're planning to go to war against:

The South Pacific
Lazarus
The Rejected Realms
The West Pacific
The Renegade Islands Alliance
10000 Islands
Aenaroth
LCRUA
Superiorem Merionem Region
Dragon Clan
The Empire of Friendship
The United Rogue Nations of Alteria
The Union of Democratic States
International Republican Union
Juritean Union
The Region That Has No Big Banks
The Straw Hat Pirates
Future Earth
Kappa Region
Imperial Fatherland
The Pacific Republic
The Peaceful Coffee Shop In Chicago
Equality and Development Coalition
The League of Conservative Nations
Cape of Good Hope
Conch Kingdom
Lands End
Ridgefield

It sounds like an extremely good idea to declare war against all of them.

[Cormactopia Prime]

Not representing any region here, but your silly "protectorate" treaties have no jurisdiction over the mechanics of the game. Warzones are designed for this purpose, and if you don't like it, don't settle in a damn warzone.

So much this.

It's also worth noting that Warzone Europe being a protectorate of Equilism, and by extension The Land of Kings and Emperors due to their treaty to defend each other's protectorates, actually has the potential to make Warzone Europe more vulnerable than it would be otherwise. Warzones, on their own, have little gameplay value to most gameplayers. Equilism has added gameplay value to Warzone Europe by making it a protectorate, and it is really amazing to me that it has gone without invasion for this long. Now that Westwind has reacted as he has on behalf of Equilism, I don't think it will be nearly as long before it's invaded again. In a game that largely revolves around salt production, exposing a new and mostly untapped salt mine for the world to see is asking for more digging, because in gameplay there is never too much salt.

I would invade Warzone Europe right this minute, and hold it for as long as I could, if I had the time to organize that before minor update. Just for the entertainment value. And I absolutely probably will do so in the future.