Now I did a bunch of reading here and realized I got behind on this forum. I am going to ignore all the fluff but one. Someone, I believe virginia, is an expert on propaganda. Least she likes to accuse others of it. So I think I should Justify it by using some of hers. heh.
This would sound best if spoken in the old ww2 newscaster voice.
In other areas of world 1 today, Virginia started her peptalk to the 660 gunslingers under her control, by impressing upon them how powerful and strong they are and calling them to arms against a very small collection of towns that seems to stand in their way of greatness or something.
She followed this up by an accusation meant, I am sure to instill great fear in the listeners hearts. I will quote it here. "
The Community Alliance is resorting to sending hate-mail and propaganda to every one who choses to be a part of the LG".
Notwithstanding the spelling errors, this allegation is totally unsubstantiated and made up as I have been assured that the community alliance has not bothered to type 5 names into any mail list much less 660. I am sure this is because they simply have not had time. Perhaps it will be true in the future who knows though I much doubt it as the community alliance is too busy reclaiming its counties forts from Justin/cuft and giving them away to worthy neighboring towns.
This little home crafted fabrication was followed with a tirade about spies in the great LG empire and raping churches. Quite frankly Virginias way of putting it was so well done I shall simply quote her here.
"
As we all know, our alliance is filled with spies and flies, many of which are probably reading this right now, but you know what, they can all run home to mama and let her know that that the six-hundred plus strong of the LG is calling their little five town alliance out! It's time to let them know that we're tired of their cowardly hate-mail being sent to our brothers. Let's get out there and show them just how powerful we are! It's not enough to be at war in words; as gunslingers, we need to pound them into the dust! We need to have RattleSnake Basin and - Wanted - knocked out 24/7. They've been dueling our builders, burning our women, and raping our churches for far too long!"
heh wow what a powerful inspiring message! That would be extremely moving if it were remotely true. Virginia has most assuredly taken her position as military boss seriously. Facts be damn lets squash them little guys that fight for the rights of the other little guys. Well done Virginia, thanks for that inspiring little talk.
Now lets move on to the second peptalk of the day From Justin to all the aspiring followers of Virginia/Justin.
This Peptalk is about elections that have apparently already been resolved but are coming up soon. We are pretty sure that Virginia gets the job regardless. One reason we are so sure is that no other candidates were listed and after all she already gave her sound to arms speech. So much for the appearance of democracy.
A very nice peptalk on Virginias qualifications. It was dynamic and awe inspiring speech regaling her recent smashing success against those Rattle Snake Basin infidels and their "cronies" where she led the charge that Koed several members and left the rest quivering in fright in their Hotel. Wow that sounds great doesn't it? Surely he couldn't mean that attack that Ko'd 2 old builders(jiresa was already KO'd from action earlier) where she herself spent most of her time in local hotels. Surely not the same quivering in fear group that marched down to Laredo LG in retaliation and ko'd 13 of her/his town members? Those guys? Thats not counting Justin who had gotten knocked out earlier in the week. The majority of the town of Laredo is KO'd as of this writing lol. nobody left to question. Hmm lets go back and read that inspiring speech from Justin again.
"
A new Leader
Justin Michael Today at 1:27 AM
We're comming up upon an election soon for the President of the Legion of Gunslingers. As the game gets more intence with new enemies and fort battles, we need some one who can rally all of our troops and bring them together with a spirit of unity. A new leader has arisen amoung the ranks of our gunslingers. This leader has taken the time to gather everyone of your names for quick access. She wants to be able to notify you of any important news immediately. She want to be able to talk to everyone of you. She wants to challenge you to be even better than you ever have been before. She is Virginia. Just today she has sounded the trumpet of attack on RattleSnake Basin and their cronnies. Hours latter, several of their members have been knocked out, and the rest are hiding in their hotel. Our presence alone is enough to make them shake in their boots! However, the charge was lead by Virginia! She can lead us to many victories with her dedicated loyalty. Her charisma is dynamic; our allies will follow her. Her determination is unsquenchable; our enemies will fall before her. Vote for Virginia!
Signed,
Justin Michael"
Hmm must be roughly 13 to 16 years old
Rumor has it that Buhn is dead as it is suspected that he never would have let something like this get so out of hand.
Now how about a few facts:
RSB does not want all the forts and in fact gave away the second one it had procured in a rather bold counter move when its own fort was attacked. RSB is also working out a deal that shares their fort with everyone in the county(planned) and apparently other counties(unplanned) where smaller towns would like to participate without losing their indpendence.
RSB's political position is against large empires bent on taking over world 1 and hogging up all the forts.
That being said RSB is eternally grateful to several large empires that have taken notice of its small towns members and bothered to take the time to teach them things they needed to know about fort battles and dueling. These Large empires may not
entirely share our ideals but that in no way diminishes our gratitude to them and/or our loyalty to them and their fort battle causes. Miners are cool, RR rocks, and TW is the best, SB is inspiring. Even a couple of Abandon Hope towns have been helpful.(cuft ones even)
Suzies arguments against Justin and his cuft resolved around his methods, which include intimidation and promises he can't possible keep. Not to mention all the people he has to stomp on to "Win" the game. That is his goal to "win" the game and he intends to no matter who he has to use or step on to do it. Plays too much CIV III perhaps.
RattleSnake Basin has never, that I recall, ever attacked an original LG town. The fact is Justin declared war on us way back when we were still at odds with our Parish Brothers. We have confined our relatively passive retaliation to mostly his town of Laredo and other nearby cuft towns that have attacked us.(yes I know they joined LG, getting LG to attack us was one of their major reasons for joining LG)
Suzy(yes I know third person) found it ironic that Justin chose LG, because LG had one town that bragged about how mean they were in one of their profiles, while at the same time Justin was trying to impress Suzy about what a good Christian he was in an effort to refute her opinion that his actions resembled some of Hitlers actions.
Suzy acknowledges that she is not a good Christian, but also recognizes that that does not make her ignorant of what a "good" Christian should and would be.
(First Person)
I would like to thank Parish for getting us ready for this fight against us. Once at odds with them, we found too much in common and made too many friends amongst our enemies to keep fighting them. We toughened them up and they did the same for us. They taught us how to fight outnumbered and outgunned, even if they didn't want to.
And that ladies and gentlemen is the lesson in todays propaganda. The dictionary definition I looked up did not differentiate between whether the information was false or not. Just that it was used to persuade a group to believe a certain way. It seems to me then that the world is filled with propaganda. Truth should be enough but truth is often in the eye of speaker and unknown or unprovable to the population.
Charismatic speech(Hitler was good at it) can often override the listeners sense of right and wrong. Inspiring 660 duelers to go annihilate some small little towns takes a huge amount of charisma to overide the majority of the peoples conscience. Of course it is just a game so conscience doesn't apply. Or does it? Nah nobody really gets killed. But then some people bring real world values into the game and some people leave those values behind when they enter the virtual world. It isn't too hard to spot those people eventually and the result is you make friends with like minded people. Mostly.
-Suzy
Flame time - Just remember I may not get back to these forums for a few days. Of course you can always flame me in game if you like. you got my number.