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#11
General Discussion / Re: The year is 2025. okay!
Last post by walrus - July 30, 2025, 11:16:29 PM1. I don't see why not if it still is online.
2. Make friends! I'm walrus. since we haven't particularly spoken one-on-one.
3. From my understanding this has been an option in the past, when a small group of highly motivated Refugi began CalRef anew. I don't believe such motivation at the previous scale exists within enough people currently to have me believe we could/should do so again though.
4. Lately it has been somewhat of a recurring theme in my life for people who have given so much to something possibly abstract, possibly real to step away in a manner I can only describe as hard to believe. I am privileged in this specific case to know *why* things happened the way they did, and it is still hard to believe.
5. Won't comment, as I'm not personally looking for RP at the moment.
6. Posting forum topics sounds like a decent first step.
2. Make friends! I'm walrus. since we haven't particularly spoken one-on-one.
3. From my understanding this has been an option in the past, when a small group of highly motivated Refugi began CalRef anew. I don't believe such motivation at the previous scale exists within enough people currently to have me believe we could/should do so again though.
4. Lately it has been somewhat of a recurring theme in my life for people who have given so much to something possibly abstract, possibly real to step away in a manner I can only describe as hard to believe. I am privileged in this specific case to know *why* things happened the way they did, and it is still hard to believe.
5. Won't comment, as I'm not personally looking for RP at the moment.
6. Posting forum topics sounds like a decent first step.
#12
Spam / Re: A Trove of (Peculiar) Rare...
Last post by walrus - July 30, 2025, 11:07:06 PM(Common) Temporarily grows new pockets on your clothes, increases inventory size by 5.
Mysterious Whistle
Mysterious Whistle
#13
Spam / A Trove of (Peculiar) Rare (Le...
Last post by omnicrumb - July 28, 2025, 10:17:48 PMOkay!!!! I had a new game idea! hopefully this one is good:
Every response to this topic should be a plausible rarity ranking in parenthesis, and then a somewhat interesting and witty description of the previously titled and Uncommon Unique item. For instance, :
These interactions describe the following items:
I think that's most of the idea, so I'll start the chain!
The Pocket Potion
Every response to this topic should be a plausible rarity ranking in parenthesis, and then a somewhat interesting and witty description of the previously titled and Uncommon Unique item. For instance, :
START: The Mace of Doom
PERSON 1: (Rare) A rare mace forged in the crucible named Doom, from the land of the Crucible-Namers. Bartholomews Contraption
PERSON 2: (Uncommon) An all-in-one gadget, made by, of, and for Bartholomew. Mystical Dough
(And on and on.)
PERSON 1: (Rare) A rare mace forged in the crucible named Doom, from the land of the Crucible-Namers. Bartholomews Contraption
PERSON 2: (Uncommon) An all-in-one gadget, made by, of, and for Bartholomew. Mystical Dough
(And on and on.)
These interactions describe the following items:
- The Mace of Doom (Rare) - A rare mace forged in the crucible named Doom, from the land of the Crucible-Namers.
- Bartholomews Contraption (Uncommon) - An all-in-one gadget, made by, of, and for Bartholomew.
I think that's most of the idea, so I'll start the chain!
The Pocket Potion
#14
General Discussion / The year is 2025. okay!
Last post by omnicrumb - July 26, 2025, 11:21:43 PMI've been meaning to say a few things here for a while, so I'm putting it all in one topic for the sake of organization. I specifically am essentially irrelevant to CalRef given at least my current and rather unfortunate historical relationship with the community existing only in the most glancing of engagement, but im still posting this just cause. :}
Calamity Refuge has existed for like seventeen years now (?!?), and currently the community is very small (outside of Nationstates for the most part, of course.) Relatively recently, and for tiered reasons that seem fairly complex and inappropriate for external speculation, Luca (The Arch-Administrator) and Emily (another administrator) have wholly withdrawn from NationStates, the CalRef discord server, and seemingly this forum [last accessed on April 02, 2025 and May 21, 2025, respectively]. I don't know how the server system for this forum is organized but this likely kind of puts this community's infrastructure into a weird place: the only people who have historically maintained it are absent, and really shouldn't/can't be expected to reappear. They have put a truly inspiring amount of work into this community, and I'm really sorry that I haven't spoken on this forum or much on the discord server sooner to express that.
Now, I don't really know anything at all (this is a recurring theme) but from my veiled (and likely biased) understanding of Calamity Refuge there are many very cool people in this community, and I feel like I should do or say at least something because I've mainly appreciated this place externally since my fairly convoluted discovering of it. The idea of making a community of real people, who work together creatively to spin fanciful tales and just Make A Place, or places, for eachother, feels so important and real to me, especially now when there are so many places where the internet is becoming an inhospitable and predatory slop silo. Even if Calamity Refuge disappears, I will keep the idea of it because I do really believe it is special, to work together and make a safe place - but I really hope and am willing to help to make sure that it doesn't!
So far this topic message has been kind of poorly organized but please do not worry it will be over soon! I mainly wanted to mention these things to communicate some context to be able to ask these questions, for any prospective readers who could happen by this forum again.
Apologies for the eventual absolutely poor organization and inco[her/nsist]ent phrasing/prose. if this topic sucks let me know! I want to learn
Calamity Refuge has existed for like seventeen years now (?!?), and currently the community is very small (outside of Nationstates for the most part, of course.) Relatively recently, and for tiered reasons that seem fairly complex and inappropriate for external speculation, Luca (The Arch-Administrator) and Emily (another administrator) have wholly withdrawn from NationStates, the CalRef discord server, and seemingly this forum [last accessed on April 02, 2025 and May 21, 2025, respectively]. I don't know how the server system for this forum is organized but this likely kind of puts this community's infrastructure into a weird place: the only people who have historically maintained it are absent, and really shouldn't/can't be expected to reappear. They have put a truly inspiring amount of work into this community, and I'm really sorry that I haven't spoken on this forum or much on the discord server sooner to express that.
Now, I don't really know anything at all (this is a recurring theme) but from my veiled (and likely biased) understanding of Calamity Refuge there are many very cool people in this community, and I feel like I should do or say at least something because I've mainly appreciated this place externally since my fairly convoluted discovering of it. The idea of making a community of real people, who work together creatively to spin fanciful tales and just Make A Place, or places, for eachother, feels so important and real to me, especially now when there are so many places where the internet is becoming an inhospitable and predatory slop silo. Even if Calamity Refuge disappears, I will keep the idea of it because I do really believe it is special, to work together and make a safe place - but I really hope and am willing to help to make sure that it doesn't!
So far this topic message has been kind of poorly organized but please do not worry it will be over soon! I mainly wanted to mention these things to communicate some context to be able to ask these questions, for any prospective readers who could happen by this forum again.
- Is it appropriate for people use this forum?
- How do you think I can help this community?
- Should we just "start over"?
- What do you think about the recent events in Calamity Refuge?
- Does anyone want to start a new roleplay topic?
I have some world ideas but I'm not really sure how/where to post them onto the forum. - What happens next?
Apologies for the eventual absolutely poor organization and inco[her/nsist]ent phrasing/prose. if this topic sucks let me know! I want to learn
#15
Spam / Re: One Word Storyline
Last post by omnicrumb - June 30, 2025, 10:51:45 PMOnce upon a star supernova, twenty six legendary cards descended from our tall card tower. Hooray!
Our newfound love Testlandia, wore splendid magenta fursuit, specifically commissioned to contain BEES! It buzzed through rainbow, over walls yonder, and into the sky. At midnight, Gerald Ford erupted from his volcanic lair, overflowing with meritorious service. Both chambers reloaded their legislative shotguns while removing glistering shirts, heated by lava undershirts. Ford devoured the 535 imperial guards, while copper prices skyrocketed, and legislation stalled.
Meanwhile, the legendary crocodile, Crocodile Irwin, initiated CPR for the legislature of New Hartoria. Mercifully, HS wrote textwalls of nonsense which follows:
"Spinning crickets mercifully inundate Equestria"
Obviously, this sucked. Mercifully, Andraste (Jesus Ronaldo) smote tobacco from a Tevinter corpse. Aromatic! It smelled. Unclear directions confounded the manufacturing executives, who decided there was no better fate than death. Opportunistically, they provided Andraste more timeshares filled 37% of the time by Tevinter, but why? For this, the ultimate price of three dollars and forty seven cents must be paid.
Dissenting Justice reminds us of prison. Thanks Justice! Very cool! Not until Alexander Wallexander jumped out and landed beside several upside-down teletubbies doing yoga. "Hi peoples how do you learn a cat's truename?
Our newfound love Testlandia, wore splendid magenta fursuit, specifically commissioned to contain BEES! It buzzed through rainbow, over walls yonder, and into the sky. At midnight, Gerald Ford erupted from his volcanic lair, overflowing with meritorious service. Both chambers reloaded their legislative shotguns while removing glistering shirts, heated by lava undershirts. Ford devoured the 535 imperial guards, while copper prices skyrocketed, and legislation stalled.
Meanwhile, the legendary crocodile, Crocodile Irwin, initiated CPR for the legislature of New Hartoria. Mercifully, HS wrote textwalls of nonsense which follows:
"Spinning crickets mercifully inundate Equestria"
Obviously, this sucked. Mercifully, Andraste (Jesus Ronaldo) smote tobacco from a Tevinter corpse. Aromatic! It smelled. Unclear directions confounded the manufacturing executives, who decided there was no better fate than death. Opportunistically, they provided Andraste more timeshares filled 37% of the time by Tevinter, but why? For this, the ultimate price of three dollars and forty seven cents must be paid.
Dissenting Justice reminds us of prison. Thanks Justice! Very cool! Not until Alexander Wallexander jumped out and landed beside several upside-down teletubbies doing yoga. "Hi peoples how do you learn a cat's truename?
#16
Spam / Re: The Substituence Game
Last post by omnicrumb - June 30, 2025, 10:49:37 PMSoo... It's been like almost two weeks at this point and I'm pretty sure that this game isn't that interesting or fun to play on forums. I will come up with better games in the future to play on the spam board in the future, and this was a fair learning oppurtunity.
... If i should lock or like. Delete this thread (?) please alert me in this thread! I am not wise of the ways of the forum yet! Thank you!
... If i should lock or like. Delete this thread (?) please alert me in this thread! I am not wise of the ways of the forum yet! Thank you!
#17
Roleplay / Re: The Wiki Discussion Thread
Last post by omnicrumb - June 30, 2025, 10:46:28 PMHello! I have a question about the wiki: I've browsed through many articles and found a few slight errors, so I was wondering if there was a sign-up page to perform and track edits to the wiki, as I could not find any on a cursorial search. If the wiki just isn't open to basically random user contribution that completely makes sense, but I figured that I would ask still!
#18
Spam / Re: Pen Nib - Lies Edition
Last post by omnicrumb - June 19, 2025, 10:59:24 PMThere are more grains of sand in this bowl of oat meal than there are fish ever
#20
Spam / Re: CTRL+V
Last post by Aav - June 18, 2025, 03:10:14 PM Once upon a star supernova, twenty six legendary cards descended from our tall card tower. Hooray!
Our newfound love Testlandia, wore splendid magenta fursuit, specifically commissioned to contain BEES! It buzzed through rainbow, over walls yonder, and into the sky. At midnight, Gerald Ford erupted from his volcanic lair, overflowing with meritorious service. Both chambers reloaded their legislative shotguns while removing glistering shirts, heated by lava undershirts. Ford devoured the 535 imperial guards, while copper prices skyrocketed, and legislation stalled.
Meanwhile, the legendary crocodile, Crocodile Irwin, initiated CPR for the legislature of New Hartoria. Mercifully, HS wrote textwalls of nonsense which follows:
"Spinning crickets mercifully inundate Equestria"
Obviously, this sucked. Mercifully, Andraste (Jesus Ronaldo) smote tobacco from a Tevinter corpse. Aromatic! It smelled. Unclear directions confounded the manufacturing executives, who decided there was no better fate than death. Opportunistically, they provided Andraste more timeshares filled 37% of the time by Tevinter, but why? For this, the ultimate price of three dollars and forty seven cents must be paid.
Dissenting Justice reminds us of prison. Thanks Justice! Very cool! Not until Alexander Wallexander jumped out and landed beside several upside-down teletubbies doing yoga. "Hi peoples how do you learn a
Our newfound love Testlandia, wore splendid magenta fursuit, specifically commissioned to contain BEES! It buzzed through rainbow, over walls yonder, and into the sky. At midnight, Gerald Ford erupted from his volcanic lair, overflowing with meritorious service. Both chambers reloaded their legislative shotguns while removing glistering shirts, heated by lava undershirts. Ford devoured the 535 imperial guards, while copper prices skyrocketed, and legislation stalled.
Meanwhile, the legendary crocodile, Crocodile Irwin, initiated CPR for the legislature of New Hartoria. Mercifully, HS wrote textwalls of nonsense which follows:
"Spinning crickets mercifully inundate Equestria"
Obviously, this sucked. Mercifully, Andraste (Jesus Ronaldo) smote tobacco from a Tevinter corpse. Aromatic! It smelled. Unclear directions confounded the manufacturing executives, who decided there was no better fate than death. Opportunistically, they provided Andraste more timeshares filled 37% of the time by Tevinter, but why? For this, the ultimate price of three dollars and forty seven cents must be paid.
Dissenting Justice reminds us of prison. Thanks Justice! Very cool! Not until Alexander Wallexander jumped out and landed beside several upside-down teletubbies doing yoga. "Hi peoples how do you learn a