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Name five things of any variety of things that can five be named to thing five do such thing name.

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Name five things you can see outside your window.

Another apartment
Trees
A small mail hut
Cat pee bushes
A fire hydrant in the middle of a yard

Name your five favourite books

Boo, you didn't make a new wish 

I wish I was an ent O.o

Hence, Ramår resolved to follow the forest's edge, all the while keeping their distance. They plucked some marram grass from the fertile earth under their feet, and forced themselves to swallow their juices with tsampa and a pickled yam. They started walking. In the distance, northward, the sky seemed lit up with bonfires and torches. Ramår's pace grew more hasty.

Is this meant to hint at Ramår beginning to see Ceadaichte Mòir in the distance? If so, would you like to work on a collaborative post? Kaegan is now my only character in the story until we set off through the forest and he hasn't been doing much of anything lately.

Can I roleplay as IRL Natalie, and she has i n c r e d i b l y realistic skills?

Ever morning Natalie goes out to the shooting range and fires fifteen shots, all of them travel over three miles and pass through a single hole at the bullseye. She then goes home and spends the next hour on her loom to weave a ten feet of handmade carpet to give to her neighbour in need.

[is it weird?]

I've attached a poll to this thread because apparently I say syrup weird. But is it weird?

Vote now on your phones.

[Question:]

Question: Hello, what is this board!?
Answer: It's a board about NationStates

Question: What is a NationStates:
Answer:

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

Question: What can I do here?
Answer: You can build this region into your dreams.

In Refugia, we more or less set all the rules. Not just CalRef mods and admins, but actual players. The rules that govern this region are called the Refugia Revised Statutes, and we are one of the few regions that have a direct democracy, meaning anyone who is a member state of the region can submit a proposal to revise, add onto or dismantle the law of the land or run for a council seat.

Question: How would I make such a proposal?
Answer: To draft a proposal, telegram it to me and have your Second verify that they support it, and it will go up for vote.

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

If you want to collect people's ideas and plan out what you're going to submit, place a thread here with the [Draft] tag and collect feedback from people in the region.

Question: How do I run for a Councillor?
Answer: By sending a message on the RMB (the message spot at the bottom of the region page) preferably with a short message about why you should be elected. You may also post in this NationStates board to do the same thing. Make campaign posters if you want.

The election schedule is here:

Foreign Affairs         Jan 1 - 7         May 1 - 7         Sept 1 - 7
Culture            Jan 7 - 14         May 7 - 14         Sept 7 - 14
Operations         Jan 14 - 21         May 7 - 14      Sept 14 - 21

The first and second days are the candidacy period. You must announce your candidacy then or you will not appear in the poll. Look for an announcement from me when a candidacy period begins.

Question: Can I just submit a proposal to make a new Councillor position to run for?
Answer: Of course.

Question: How do I join the World Assembly?
Answer: Look at the World Assembly Page and apply to become a member. You must have a valid email address to confirm you are a real human and you may only have on World Assembly account at a time. Creating multiple accounts to influence WA votes or delegacies will get you MEGA BANNED. Endorse Refuge Isle to give a +1 to the regional vote.



This topic remains open for any questions you have which aren't in the above How Does.[/list]

Granted, but it will now always be December.

I wish I had another lamp in this room.

Edit: Haha, I'm distracted. I forgot I posted that.

I wish I had some dinner already

This board has been up for a few days without any ideas on what to post, so it must be time for a new megathread in this officially sanctioned board to post nonsense.

This is the corruption game. The point is to grant the wish of the previous poster in the most useless or unsatisfying way. Then, make a new wish for the next poster.

I wish I owned a sports car.

Granted, but it is in space.

I wish I had a lamp for this room.

[Admin]

As I continue to get healthier and less stressed, these posts will start to get  w  i  d  e  r.
It's good to work on site development again. Here's where I'm at with things related to this forum.

In the last week on the forum:

New Feature: You may now upload files directly to the forum using the attachment function. These are intended for an easy way to attach images to posts. The total file size is presently limited to 5MB, and you may upload up to five files at a time.

• The Admin/Arch-Admin colours now display correctly.
• Avatars have been scaled back to 100px If you upload one that is larger, it will be automatically resized.
• Postage ranks and BBC buttons now display correctly in Aquarelle.
• The Recent Posts list in Yorky now more competently lists the recent posts.
• Posts in NationStates and Spam are now announced by Ligrev like the other boards.
• Made an adjustment where the local moderator position and thread names no longer include three hundred spaces inside the header of the board.
• Local Moderators now have a clarified non-system member group which allows them to both see the mod board and appears as a fluffy lavender turtle.
• Uhhh. Added. Role. Descriptions.
• Yorky quotes and nested quotes no longer have apocalyptic colour schemes.
• Fixed the spacing on jumpdown menus.
• Made the calendar no longer display as #FFFFFF
• Critical alerts no longer display as invisible text.
• Yorky no longer scales avatars up 50%.
• The text for resetting your password is no longer set to collision spacing.
• Fixed a display error that implied there was no option to expand additional post options.
• Forum emotes have been redone to be function instead of just well-intentioned.
• Rest-of-the-world-that-is-not-the-US spellings have been added to the BB code, like colour and centre.
• The WYSIWYG editor has been deprecated, along with the changelog tag, off-topic tag, move tag, and the pre tag.

This is one of the best entrance posts we've ever had from someone new to RPing. You did a good job, Cas, I'm proud of you 

Congratulations to Emily for her

[Refugia]

This document establishes this association of nations and their shared beliefs and values. We define these values as refuge and shelter to all who have need of it, environmental stewardship of our nations while working to improve global atmospheric carbon levels, as well as the fair treatment and political inclusion of all peoples. We resolve ourselves to form governments with transparency and integrity in leadership and work to leave things as better than we found them.

The nations here will compose a region to be known as Refugia.

- The Refugia Revised Statutes -

1. Acceptance to the Region is a right afforded to any nation willing to uphold the values named herein. Nations that oppose, disregard, or obstruct these values may be subject to ejection and transportation via variation magic to The Rejected Realms.

2. Member States are defined as World Assembly nations that have resided within the Region for a period not less than seven days.

• a. A Nation will lose its status as a Member State if it elects to depart the Region, its status is self-requested to be revoked, or the nation is ejected.
• b. Nations that lose their status may apply to obtain it through the same process again unless they are barred from the Region.

3. Nations may apply for Member State status in conditions where admission to the World Assembly is declined, rejected, or impossible.

• Exemption nations must still have resided within the Region for a period of time not less than fourteen days and have received the unanimous approval from the Regional Council to provide the exemption.

4. Member States are entitled to submit any proposal, amendment, repeal, or revision to any revised statute, including this document in its entirety. Votes must be easily accessible and include the option to abstain. Only one vote is allotted to each Member State per referendum.

• Proposals must be supported by at least one other Member State, which may be referred to as a "second."
• Votes will last a period of seven days from the time of announcement and will be enacted or discarded upon conclusion.
• Proposals which have been defeated will trigger a cooldown period on the sponsor nation from submitting a new proposal for seven days after the end of the poll defeat.

5. All nations within the Region have the right to solicit a ruling or official Regional position on:

• Opinions regarding the legality of a proposal
• Opinions regarding World Assembly affairs
• Opinions regarding foreign regional actions
• Opinions regarding the status of Member States
• Suits regarding ejection or barring of Regional nations

The results of rulings solicited by member states will be formed by the Regional Council and delivered by a representative of the Government.

6. The Regional Council is defined to comprise of the following members:

• The Arch-Administrator, defined as Refuge Isle, which acts as the head of state for the region. The Arch-Administrators responsibilities are defined as the appointment and dismissal of all positions that are fairly elected into office and maintaining records of significance.
• The Councillor of Foreign Affairs, whose responsibilities are defined as management and maintenance of the travel portals within the region, foreign affairs and authority over embassies established to outside regions, diplomatic negotiations and foreign correspondence.
• The Councillor of Culture, whose responsibilities are defined as orchestrating cultural events, inspiring activity, and developing the identity of the Regional culture.
• The Operations Councillor, whose responsibilities are defined as developing and executing strategic operations to use and expand the Region's influence, internal and external threat assessment, and maintaining the registry of Member States.

The members of the Regional Council may conduct business in the name of the Region with the titles that reflect their status and authority.

7. The succession of the Arch-Administrator is subject to the succession laws of Refuge Isle, and verified by the presence of an anchor stone and Administration Tower. The Arch-Administrator will call elections for the three democratic Council seats according to the following convention:

Foreign Affairs         Jan 1 - 7         May 1 - 7         Sept 1 - 7
Culture            Jan 7 - 14         May 7 - 14         Sept 7 - 14
Operations         Jan 14 - 21         May 7 - 14      Sept 14 - 21

8. Elections will consist of a two day candidacy period, followed by a five day voting period. On the eighth day, the results of the elections will be announced and, if applicable, the next ones will begin.

• Member States are prohibited from occupying the same Council seat more than two times consecutively, and more than four times in total.
• In the event of unexpected absences or positions that cannot be filled, the Arch-Administrator may appoint an individual who may serve in that capacity until such time as the following election produces a regular appointment.

9. At any time, a Member State can charge a Regional Councillor of neglect in their duties or mismanagement of their position. Their charge will be submitted in writing to the Arch-Administrator only after a second member state has seconded the motion. This charge must contain:

• A list of grievances against the accused.
• Argument as to why these grievances should result in the removal of the accused prior to the next election.

If all requirements laid out in RRS 4(c), 9, 9(a), and 9(b) are met, the Arch-Administrator will call for a vote of "No Confidence" among the member states. If this vote passes by a simple majority, a new election will be called for that Council seat within the following five days. The previous seat holder can run again granted they qualify under circumstances detailed in RRS 8a.

10. The Region defines the goals and expectations in it Members' conduct and operations in the following ways:

• Reach an average environmental beauty score of 1,500 by the end of 2019, and maintained thereafter.
• Reach an average eco-friendliness score of 5,000, by the end of 2019, and maintained thereafter.

11. The Councillor of Culture must develop a Regional Eco Report in order to support 10. a) and b) which identifies ways in which Member States of the Region may contribute towards the environmental targets established herein. Further, the Councillor of Culture must publish regular updates to the report in order to maintain its relevance and timely advice.

If ye go past that forest without knowing what's going on in Éire, ye'll look like a fool! There's a bloody war going on over there, and even though Thomond is ages away from the Kingfisher, there'll be havoc right outside it.

Up to this point in the RP, it's already been established that the Kingfisher forest is some endless-feeling 50km deep forest that was created by the Empire. As a result, its border is a solid line, because that was as far as the spell extended. No one has been known to have gone through it that I'm aware of.

Edit: sniped

Even more minor: the arrow next to "Attachments and other options" beneath the post text box looks like it should point downward to indicate that it can be expanded.

Addressed.



I've updated the smilie set to be more relevant for this universe. You will now notice two rows of slightly different smilies from the world of Discord and some from long ago here. These are all sized to 18x18px, and won't affect the post spacing much when you use them. Below that, there is a [more] option that will open a pop-up of more emotes that are mostly sized to 32x32px. They are separate because they're bigger, and it's hard to tell what they are at eighteen pixels, but they're still good and I want to include them as an option to use in posts.

You should now be able to see:



-> [more] <-
:cthulhu:


Some existing emotes have been renamed for better organisation. So if you see an old post where something isn't rendering, that's probably what happened. I've removed some of the text auto-resolving to emotes, such as :p resolving to  . So if you just want to use :p to convey ":p", you can do that.

Project Red, which has a lot of power generation and lighting options. I'm interested in the lighting mostly, which I think can be used to create fun building designs.

I don't think it would be a good idea to add this mod. In cases where a new mod adds new ores or other natural resources, they don't spawn in areas that are already in the game. And, although we've reset things a couple times to get BOP to work, we've explored extensively since then. Also, Project Red adds an additional type of copper and tin, which is incompatible with the Forestry copper and tin that we already have.

Pam's Harvestcraft doesn't seem to add any resource blocks to the world, although I'm not really sure where the new seeds for plants would come from. If they come from villagers, you'll need to travel for a bit to a new village that will have the buildings to but them, but there's nothing wrong with adding plants and food recipes.

The furniture mod looks fine, I believe. At least I don't see any conflicts that it would have. I'm concerned that the barrel mod's huge storage space is possibly overpowered, but really I've never seen it before.

I'd like to start working on getting started on this trip through the forest, is there anything that we need to take care of before we start to go? Also how do you want to get started on going? If Riza's in charge of the caravan, what's going to make him start to get moving?

[here]

Hello! This didn't have a topic yet, so here's another thread for your Minecraft needs.

As of September 13th, 2019 there's a CalRef Minecraft server again!

This server runs our custom modpack called Refugia and in this three thousand word essay, I will explain how. Step one, download the technic launcher, which solves everyone's problems forever. You can get it here. When you launch Technic, type "Refugia" into the search bar and click install. If you get an error message that talks about incompatibility issues, make sure you're on the latest version of the modpack

Because Technic's a bitch.

When you launch game, click multiplayer and type minecraft.calref.network into the address bar.

Let me know if you have any trouble getting this working. If there are any updates to the server or the modpack, I'll let you know in this thread. Also, you can talk about the server here (obvs). I will eventually be building a photo album of all of the places that we have been to and made in this server. So if you want those pictures to be included, post them in this thread. You can attach up to five images to the attachment function of the forum, or just link them here from somewhere else.

The text beneath the log in box has some formatting issues, visible in both Firefox and Chrome.

Addressed.

I'm going to say waffles for their far greater capacity for emotional depth.

Alright, with four on Yorky and none on anything else, I'm going to shift the default to that for the time being. Everyone is still free to select their own themes using the method described in the OP. I will continue to develop this one primarily and post updates to the development journal as they happen.

I've also removed the system themes of the default SMF core, which zero people should ever use, so the theme selection should be less cluttered in the future.