Confederate Recruitment: Swampcrazed.

[Hamel]

We are the CoB, the Confederation of Bottleneck. In the first age, the glorious city of Bottleneck was one of the oldest and finest in the land. It is from these great roots that this new confederacy springs.

The confederacy is a coalition of several villages and outposts, constantly expanding and exploring, seeking out new civilizations, boldly going were n-Oh, wait. Sorry, wrong script. *chucks papers off* Anyway, you get the idea, massive thriving confederation, free states, yada yada yada.

Unfortunately, the confederation in question is a little understaffed at the moment! So this is an announcement of a new open-doors immigration policy. Basically, our old steppingstone village, Swampcrazed, is being renovated into a newbie recruitment center. You join Swampcrazed just like any other village, and soon enough you will be let into the rest of the confederacy! After we determine that you aren't a griefer or a thief, or something nasty like that.

Swampcrazed was a bit of a mess, the last time I was there. So you guys might want to help organize it a little to make it a better place to live for you and future immigrants to come. It's got lots of crops and public resources, though. But even those pale in comparison to the resources and might of our grand confederacy, which you would, effectively, be joining!

As for how stuff gets done around here, big decisions are normally made by Potjeh and myself, since we were the officials of good ol' Bottleneck. But, many decisions are made by other members, and most decisions tend not to be decided on without consulting as many people as possible. We intend to get our official government into place, probably as soon as we get our villages to a nice thriving state, and switch to capitalize, and such. Our later government will be a confederacy, obviously, with a senate, and a consul, and, and, and... Oh, why don't you just read my proposal topic on our forums. It's all explained there.

So, if you want to join up, just send Kobnach or Hanuman (our current acting purple dwarves of SC) a PM on our forums, or on these forums. Or you could try our public IRC, although I cannot guarantee that they will be on that.

Summary: We want you! (Don't worry, we don't do pillaging... much.)

[Onionfighter]

Contact me about joining Swampcrazed. I am Hanuman in game.

[Potjeh]

An important detail Hamel forgot to mention: we don't protect criminals. If you join, and someone comes to SC with a summonable scent of yours, we'll just move out of the way and let him do his thing. If there is a legitimate reason for you to leave a summonable scent, you need to explain it to us before you retrieve your cart or whatever.

As for people that track down a criminal to SC: contact us first, so we can verify the clue. If it is indeed a clue pointing to someone that didn't report leaving any justifiable clues, you can do as you please. If it's a clue from someone who reported leaving one, we'll just need to go to the site of crime and harvest some clues to see how they mesh with both parties' stories.

[TheJohan]

hi i'm from the village of New Shorepoint, i left a sign in a basket next to your crossroad sign, just so you know
we would appriciate if we could trade with you guys at svampcrazed

[Hamel]

Oh, I should also mention that we, the confederation, have: Two iron mines, a tin mine (we've actually found several, I think), and a copper mine (somewhere). :)