Peasant's revolution

[Peter]

Perhaps it's time to share with everyone the message I sent to sabernati a little while ago... It's obvious that wasn't meant to last:

Perhaps I'm being too subtle. Maybe my poster won't be. Rest assured, yu don't have to convince me of anything. I'm just indulging in a little RP.

Ideally, I do intend to capture the gold mine and pay mercenaries to wipe out any remaining red guards. Then I have the gold all to myself.

Of course, I'd be totally unable to hold the mine, and someone else would claim it. That's quite alright with me, because by that time the mine's location would be well-known, so someone else would take it from that person.

The gold mine would become an engine for conflict... and development. Towns may attempt to capture it, first from bandits like myself and then from other towns.

And through it all, gold would keep moving through.

You must admit, that would be fun. In fact, if you'd like to say that you've been inspired by my stalwart comittedness to the cause, you'd be welcome to be a part. I can't offer to pay you gold, because that's basically what I've promised to pay all the others who I am going to betray. But you would be in a very good position to betray me and take some gold from the mine yourself.

In the end, loosing is fun, as we all know. I just plan to loose BIG.

Now, who's up for some straightforward rampaging and pillaging? No politics, nothing. Just scout out the mine, then let everyone know. From there, it goes to the strongest. Nothing less communist than that.

(And seriously, it took a poster for you guys to figure it out? I would have thought the YES WE CAN would have done it.)

[theTrav]

Aww, you gave up the RP, that's no fun

[CG62]

Now, who's up for some straightforward rampaging and pillaging?

This I agree with. Rampaging and pillaging is ¡MUY BUENO!

I would have thought the YES WE CAN would have done it.

Most Americans are still recovering from the Obama sensation, so don't expect any of us to get that.

[Krantarin]

Sorry for the bump; I regret I didn't see this thread earlier.

You dropped the RP, Peter? Dang! I was about to bust out with a Karl Marx/Audacity of Hope case for the destruction of tyrannical monopolies on your side... I was really enjoying reading the prior posts. Oh, and I had some stuff about how it seemed like you were drugged up... on an opiate... like religion...

Viva La Revolucion! But seriously, to get Americans to understand that you don't mean what you're saying (or even many Europeans), "Yes We Can" won't cut it. You need a few guillotines or, like you added later, a couple hammers and sickles.

PS: Jorb, we want sickles! And Pitchforks!

[Murazama]

The very core of the American revolution was the struggle to keep what is rightfully everyone's out of the hands of those that would hoard it. Whether these people are a far distant king or the wealthy mine-owner is arbitrary.

Broke it down into two parts. One that shoots yourself in the foot, and the supporting argument to shooting yourself in the foot.

1. The person found the mine.
2. You are trying to take said mine.
3. He is protecting said mine.
4. You are acting like you deserve something you obviously can't pay for via trade.
5. There are most likely countless other mines, go find one and get off your lazy rear.

As you said. The very CORE of the American Revolution was the struggle to keep what is rightfully everyones out of the hands of those who would hoard it. Your Revolution is trying to take it from someone who rightfully owns it. You don't own it, ergo you don't rightfully own it. You didn't spend the countless hours trying to find one, or the resources. Just sounds like a boohoofest to me. As is typical in most games. Someone gets something better, someone wants it, and thinks they can't get it, and they cry about it. Get everyone whipped up into a frenzy, and then chaos ensues. I highly don't suggest attempting a Revolution. Just my opinion.

Don't even bother wasting time. If you want gold. Make something worthwhile to trade for it, or actually find your own gold mine.

Of course not to sound too harsh, just rational.



Also I would like to point out Peter.
It is a sickle, not a scythe. Hammer and Sickle is the sign of the Soviet Union. Not a god damned Scythe.

[theTrav]

Hey man, you can't like, you can't OWN LAND maaaaan, it's like one of mother natures creatures.

A mine's just a hole in the ground, what made it your hole maaaan, did you put it there? did YOU fill it with gold? what about the dryads man, they were there before you, how come it's not their hole maaaan?

[CG62]

Hey man, you can't like, you can't OWN LAND maaaaan, it's like one of mother natures creatures.

A mine's just a hole in the ground, what made it your hole maaaan, did you put it there? did YOU fill it with gold? what about the dryads man, they were there before you, how come it's not their hole maaaan?

Hehe, Medieval hippies.

[Peter]

The very core of the American revolution was the struggle to keep what is rightfully everyone's out of the hands of those that would hoard it. Whether these people are a far distant king or the wealthy mine-owner is arbitrary.

Broke it down into two parts. One that shoots yourself in the foot, and the supporting argument to shooting yourself in the foot.

1. The person found the mine.
2. You are trying to take said mine.
3. He is protecting said mine.
4. You are acting like you deserve something you obviously can't pay for via trade.
5. There are most likely countless other mines, go find one and get off your lazy rear.
...

I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE. You have convinced me yo give up communism, my friend! Whether it was the accusations of laziness or just the dazzling effects of colored font, you have changed my mind.

Now, here's the question; assuming I successfully killed Gold and took control of the gold mine, would that not mean that I earned it? After all, it's a lot of work to organize a rebellion and put down my former allies and such. And of course, possession IS nine tenths of the law (in fact, it's pretty much all of the law, seeing as there aren't any lawyers around here...).

[theTrav]

seeing as there aren't any lawyers around here...).

AHEM

I believe Yolan the LAW-SPEAKER of Brodgar would beg to differ (as per section 6 of article 4 on page 113)

[Blaze]

A lawspeaker is as similar to a lawyer as I am to a diplomat.

GIMME SOME GODDAMN FUCKING GOLD YOU FUCKING QUEER BEFORE I TEAR OFF YOUR SKIN AND BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH YOUR OWN DICK!

And of course, possession IS nine tenths of the law

This.