New Dawn Fades

((IC note  attached in masada City hall and deliverd to all the Crusaders group. So IC publicly visible))

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
   
-Friedrich Nietzsche-


Masada, 30 Feb 012

In view of the relocation of the three Crusaders factions, Liderc, Vashar, and Invictus Sanguinus and then new political and historical scenario, the Templar Council, head of all the Crusaders armies 

DECREE THAT:

Our restless souls

Generally we do not post about the Liderc iniziations. However in this case is in some way "special" since Waki Toki is our first recruit since we moved the Family from NOR and started to build Masada, we found her shy and a bit scared and brought in Liderc to train, as in Liderc traditions. Once again we're proud to share our blood.

Thee brethren shall find you

and no matter how far away you are
whomever stands in between us
our restless souls shall answer your call

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