Just to clear up a few things I hear are of the utmost concern to some very bored people...
Yes, I was involved in whatever that thing was that Bowzin was doing in Balder.
No, I did not get anyone else I knew involved in it. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to: Exshaw, Asgard, The North Pacific (okay, let's cut to the chase and say all the Pacifics), Osiris (again, let's cut to the chase and say all the Sinkers), the UDL, the FRA, Spiritus, The Brotherhood of Malice, The Black Hawks, The Black Riders, The DEN, The Invaders, the Empire, Lone Wolves United (well, actually, I hear Evil Wolf was involved, so like, maybe Empire and LWU after all...) and... well, you get the idea. None of my friends were involved, defender, raider, or otherwise. As so many of you are by now so well aware, I have a tendency to do my own thing from time to time. When I want to be a defender, I become a defender. When I want to be a raider, I become a raider. And most certainly, when I want to annoy NES, I annoy NES. I don't consult a committee beforehand, and as per usual, I'm not sorry about it.
But now onto the thing I actually came back -- very briefly, I promise, I'm not back to stay -- to say.
Which is, why in Max Barry's bloated ad revenue check do any of you care what NES thinks or says?
He is the has-been Delegate of a washed up region which is part of a totally irrelevant group of regions in a game that is way past its prime and should have gone the way of the dinosaur sometime when George W. Bush was still President of the United States (those were the days, eh?). He has nothing diplomatically to offer except the endorsements he has just from sitting in a Sinker for a long time. He has nothing militarily to offer except the dwindling number of pilers the decaying imperialist sphere has on hand. Because he has so little to offer, he also has very little to threaten. Whatever pilers he might deign to taketh away in his fit of totally in-character paranoid delusions could be easily made up because, guess what, his whole sphere of regions hasn't actually been relevant in... how long has it even been now? It's been a while. Aside from that, all the pilers belong to regions that aren't Balder because, well, Balder doesn't really exist except on paper (hence why Bowzin was doing the thing). So it would have to be Europeia and The LKE that would yank their pilers away, and in order to do that they'd have to all finally admit they're basically all run by the same oligarchy of people. They hate admitting that. So your tiny little stock of pilers are safe without Balder, at least until NES can find some reason for Europeia and The LKE to get "independently" (every pun intended) mad at you, and even then you won't really be missing much. Nothing you can't make up on your own.
Point is, folks, why do any of you care what NES does? Or Onder or any of their other little minions. Why not beat him to the punch and just tell Balder to make like a banana and split? Granted, that would probably be a messy affair, because Balder would most certainly be a
So anyway, with that all cleared up now I will happily be ceasing to exist again 28 days from today. I'd like to say this has been fun but, much like the eight years I wasted on this game, it really hasn't been. I do appreciate that even in retirement I'm scaring the shit out of NES though. At least that's something.
In closing, let me just say: Execute Order 66. Dance, puppets, dance! Etc.
Until we meet again. <3
