Under the Iron Sky

In my previous blog post entitled Stairway To Haeven, I was kidding about old NOR stuff found on the net. For some reason this bothered Asiandragon Slade and this make me sad. Asian should understand as being friends doesn’t mean everyone have to suck up to Bizarre Obscure.
Also, a person blessed with an average intelligence should see how the rule currently in force in NOR “smile or get banned” does not apply to free people not playing in NOR and not intrested at all. In these cases trying that kind of approach generally can lead only to a “kiss my butt” reply.
However it’s all fun for us - and I’m grateful to the dozens of norians calling me daily to tell some new jokes about  Bizarre Obscure, JD Llewyln and their gang of subnormals. I love to hear it.
One of their current occupation consist in manipulating or deleting DCS sheets and writing insults on it. All this against people that have done nothing bad and are not even playing in NOR.

Stairway to Heaven

Some days are slow at work is slow and you get bored. In such days sometime I like to give random words to the Google search and engine and then browsing the results hoping from link to link.

So today I had a blast running in a this nice archeologic find from the Second Age (NOR). I've to thank Xue Udimo for this, he's polite enough to share his NOR Admin's screenshots and documents in a public blog :)

Anyway, the ugly thing in the picture is the so-called "Stairway to Heaven", a materpiece of Liderc defensive architetture, a path of ramps designed to make the access to our home hard for enemies. Ugly, yes, but very effective: I stil smile pleased remembering all tose OOC grieffers and gankers sent by Bizarre Obscure (as in the case of this pic) to harrass NOR players. And their whines, their babies cries when the Stairway to Heaven defeted and stopped them... Never tears were more sweet.

The Third Age

We're updating Liderc documents to fit witht he last changes and the relocation in the new sim of Masada. First change is the general info notecard. Beside some minor adjustment the major change is related to the Liderc history; here we had to redefine our faction timeline branchin the storyline in 3 majore "ages".   

Here the preview of this part :

Merry Christmas

Settlers

Finally the encampent in the new location Masada starts to be replaced with stone buildings. The Liderc base rebuilded and the town center. Also Vashar arrived in Masada settling her new base in the land.

A view of Masada landscape:


The new Liderc base:


Crusader Shrine and Remembrance Memorial:


Vashar base gates:

The Caravan

Liderc caravan is finally moving; NOR base in Spiritus Sancti is disassembled: furnitures, weapons, war loots, gold, documents and all the Family's goods are loaded on a caravan counting more than 300 camels.

The caravan gathering in front of Liderc base in Spiritus:

After weeks of travel the caravan finally reaches the new home. The land is renamed Masada. Here the clan sets a temporaru encampment and starts to rebuild and to shape the land:

Even here, roasted goat for dinner:  

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THE ATTITUDE OF THE KNIFE

To: Liderc and Crusaders of NOR.

"Remembrance teaches the attitude
of the knife — chopping off what's
incomplete and saying: "Now it's
complete because it's ended here."
       ~ Liderc Dark codex I, 45. ~


Dear Liderc, dear Crusaders of NOR,
I write this note to officially inform everyone about our decision, as Liderc,  to stop our activities in NOR.

I am sad to announce this and I apologize with you all for this. But if we're at this point means there were really no alternative; having to deal daily with the personal frustration of JD Llelewin or with the psichotic paranoia of Bizarre Obscure and their OOC wars is pointess for someone (as we all) that is putting effort, RL money and time in their love for NOR.

Many of you (Liderc and Crusaders) are with us since the first day. Together we built the strongest groups and alliance ever seen in NOR, together we promoted the most important long term roleplay and richest gameplay in NOR for almost 2 years; and and all this with no special/aritificial  admins "support", XP rewards or other bullcrap. And everyone in NOR, in some way, had to relate
to it.

I feel an huge respect for you all, Liderc, vashar, Invictus, Crusaders... you're the elite, I am honored for the the time and gameplay you accepted and accept to share with me. You're hte best fighters, best roleplayer, best people and friends in NOR, you never knelt; you don't deserve to waste your time to deal with JD bullcraps or Biz and Roth toxic OOC campaigns (i.e. the "summer mutant roleplay" and others).
Accordingly:

LIDERC
will stand, of course. Simply the group will not be an active faction in NOR anymore, his home will be moved elsewhere else and the faction re-focused. This is going to be defined better in the next days and will require some time and sacrifice.

CRUSADERSI'm to keep the group anyway, but here of course is not up to me only, we already had some talk with the Crusader COuncil members. We'll talk more wth everyone in the next days/weeks to decide.

Blood and Honor
Abe Tristan

FAREWELL AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

To: NOR players and community.

This note is to say goodbye to you all. I decided to move out of NOR and focus on something else.
Such decision comes after several months of events; this summer, the so-called "mutants roleplay" - designed and driven to purposely harrass OOC and split the community - was already a strong signal in this direction and things were already gone too far.
However the main reason - as in many other cases - is the continuos harrassment coming from JD Lewin and her lobby.

This just only to make clear there's no issue related to NOR in ggeneral or to any of his players.
We're not happy to leave: we love NOR and norians. However there are limits; in situations like this one is forced to evaluate if all the passion, effort, time and money invested in a project are evaluable or if is not more productive in somehting else.

In respect of Liderc and our groups the feedback from my people is blunty. Accordingly in the next days the group will be relocated and refocused elsewhere.

But here I won't talk about this. This note is only to apologize with you all for all the interrupted IC threads story and projects and to
thank you all for the years of fun and roleplay, we'll miss interacting with you all;
NOR is good and his players community is awesome; one of the most intelligent, fun and creative in SL. Please, continue so and don't allow to anyone to turn you in an herd of hotspots campers or trafic bots.

Safe paths to everyone and - anyway - see you all on the grid.

Abe Tristan

Introducing Lotka Volterra

I. LOTKA-VOLTERRA

Lotka-Volterra (LV) is a racial vampire elite group in the Nation of Remembrance.
The name is derived from the Lotka-Volterra equations, also known as the predator-prey equations, are a pair of first-order, non-linear, differential equations frequently used to describe the dynamics of biological systems in which two species interact, one a predator and one its prey ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equation)).


II. MISSION

Lotka-Volterra is not a faction, a clan or an alliance and does not follow any clan/faction logic and is not meant to intrude specific factional business.
Main goals of the group are:
1. To study and document vampire history, presence and bloodlines in the Nation of Remembrance lands.
2. To serve, protect and promote the kindred culture and ethics.
3. To train younger vampires in proper knowledge and using of their powers (hunting, fighting and assassination arts)
4. To provide meeting point and a communication tools among the kindred in the Nation.
5. (Classified)


III. JOINING LOTKA-VOLTERRA

Lotka-Volterra is an elite group; joining is not a right, it is a privilege.
Individuals (not faction or clan) can join the group if they meet these requirements:
- To be a pure  vampire (Defined in the OOC Notes below)
- To be a member of the VoN group
- Having a decent knowledge of Nocturnal powers and skills
- To be approved by the LV Elders.

*** OOC NOTES:
(1) We define "pure vampire" as: both, "Nocturnal" race in the meter AND equivalent RP (so - sorry - no: "I'm a vampire-neko-human hybrid" or "yes, I am a machina  in the meter but I rolplay a vampire").
(2)  Have a minimum level of 9, (The level cap ensures members possess enough combat knowledge to teach spells and general combat to the younger of our Race)

 
IV. STRUCTURE

(Classified)



V. ETHIC

- Lotka Volterra is not a faction and in no way acts as faction. The group exists to aid in fixing issues among members of the vampire community and promoting talks or diplomatic tools while staying out of factional business and politics.
- Lotka Volterra and their communication channels cannot be used as a platform to trigger a fight or to call for help.
- Lotka Volterra membership does not have to be displayed or declares in any way (no badges and so on).
- Being in LV is not a right, it is a privilege. This privilege can be given as well as taken away.
- (Classified)



~ document version 1.2 - last update 9/16/2011

RACIAL POLICY UPDATE

((IC internal note to Liderc))

The recent events proved as this new "mutants" race is only toxic for the true norians and a cancer for the Nation.
For this reason Liderc racial policy is changed. The following clause is added and immediately effective:

Mutants are not welcome and not allowed to join Liderc.

~The Liderc Council~