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Muz

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #225 on: July 06, 2010, 11:29:22 am »

I thought feudalism only works if there's a war.
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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #226 on: July 06, 2010, 11:32:29 am »

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #227 on: July 06, 2010, 11:32:58 am »

I thought feudalism only works if there's a war.
Considering feudalism lasted around 1000 years, I'd say that's false.

Can I get in on Royal Alchemist? I'm just Hydrochloric Acid away from being able to purify metals using chemicals I know how to extract from natural substances. Plus I know how to make soap from similarly obtained ingredients (no buying industrially-produced NaOH for me!).

You realize you just admitted to being a soap maker on these forums, right?
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Murphy

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #228 on: July 06, 2010, 11:42:38 am »

Let him be. Historical feudalism was dirty and even sometimes stinking, but why make the same mistake?
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Aklyon

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #229 on: July 06, 2010, 11:43:14 am »

A soap maker Alchemist? interesting job. but a job it is, so you are now an Important People.
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It's known as the Oppai-Kaiju effect. The islands of Japan generate a sort anti-gravity field, which allows breasts to behave as if in microgravity. It's also what allows Godzilla and friends to become 50 stories tall, and lets ninjas run up the side of a skyscraper.

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #230 on: July 06, 2010, 11:45:52 am »

I thought feudalism only works if there's a war.
Considering feudalism lasted around 1000 years, I'd say that's false.

Or you just need a state of war that lasts a thousand years.  Indefinite peace is a very modern invention.

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #231 on: July 06, 2010, 11:46:50 am »

*Ahem*

The Lord Pillock of Erkinshire, formerly known as CJ, wishes to dispute the title of Lord ToonyMan's, known henceforth as the "Knight of Time" on the grounds that he himself is a Time Lord, and better suited to the tasks such a job might entail.
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Aklyon

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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #232 on: July 06, 2010, 11:52:41 am »

*Ahem*

The Lord Pillock of Erkinshire, formerly known as CJ, wishes to dispute the title of Lord ToonyMan's, known henceforth as the "Knight of Time" on the grounds that he himself is a Time Lord, and better suited to the tasks such a job might entail.
Does Thou have Armor? Or a Horse? Knight Challenges are Either Jousts or a Duel of some kind.
Also, where is this Erkinshire? Its not in my list of fiefs. Are you one of the claim holders that have not set up their stuff?
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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #233 on: July 06, 2010, 11:55:22 am »

If there are two Knights of Time, why not make one be Knight of Past and another be Knight of Future?
Time's plentiful, there's enough for two.
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« Reply #234 on: July 06, 2010, 11:57:34 am »

If there are two Knights of Time, why not make one be Knight of Past and another be Knight of Future?
Time's plentiful, there's enough for two.
The Knight Of Time Was Challenged! That is a good idea, but we must resolve the challenge first. this is Feudalism, not diplomacy.
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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #235 on: July 06, 2010, 11:58:43 am »

Heck, make it a whole knightly order - The Knights of Time - and they'll be like "of Past", "of Future", "of Present", and "of Never" at the top, and all the lower knights get to be "of Yesterday", "of Later", "of 4'o'clock", and whatever else.

Or maybe that's a load of horseshit.  I'm just saying I'd endorse it if it came to that.
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« Reply #236 on: July 06, 2010, 12:00:24 pm »

I claim Knight of Christmas past ^_^
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« Reply #237 on: July 06, 2010, 12:02:12 pm »

Or maybe that's a load of horseshit.  I'm just saying I'd endorse it if it came to that.
Correct me If I'm wrong my liege, but don't you endorse everything "when it comes to that"?
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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #238 on: July 06, 2010, 12:04:22 pm »

 M'Lord, I request the title of Lord Duke the Second, governor of the chilly plains of the southern Bay12. I request this due to my services of Defender during your term as Baron, a title I defended every time others would come to dispute it without a fair election. Not to mention creating the best you were to fight to become the King of Tejas.

 Just promise me I won't be required to make any other creations that eat the laws of reality.
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Re: Up with Feudalism
« Reply #239 on: July 06, 2010, 12:08:09 pm »

Or maybe that's a load of horseshit.  I'm just saying I'd endorse it if it came to that.
Correct me If I'm wrong my liege, but don't you endorse everything "when it comes to that"?

Acquiescence of unimportant policies fits fine with my ultimate goal of keeping things running in some semblance of smooth.  System work best when you let them shake out on their own.  That being said-

Well, it is an abomination, but for the preservation of the structure they should keep their fiefs separate.  Can't have anybody getting too rich.  I could entertain the idea of them moving their fiefs together though, or exchange with a local.  Unless "merge fiefs" is a euphemism for some horrible act of sodomy, in which case, no you can't.  That's not really part of Feudalism, I'm just saying that's gross and I wouldn't allow it if I was king.  ...Which if I was king, would make it part of Feudalism.  Divine right is funny like that.

There, I shot down merging fiefs in homo marriages, and any other nasty shit that follows.  I gots no problem with the gays, but keep it out of my manorial politics.


Just promise me I won't be required to make any other creations that eat the laws of reality.

Once again, you did that shit yourself, and have no one else to blame for the consequences.  Otherwise, cool, more vassals.  Plant a flag wherever you want one.
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