Don't worry about it. It's not like we have a bunch of people chomping at the bit to join. The best way to learn is by doing.

The thing is, though, that I would rather not mess things up (again) trying to learn by doing.

I mean... This was both my first nation and hardcore RP when I first got told I should join on the MCF. And since then, I've been trying to learn by doing, and look what happened to the canon as a result. At first with the nation swapping, it was just kind of a habit from the RP's I was in pre-POW. If you wanted to play a different kind of character, you either killed off or NPC'd your old one, and started fresh. So going into POW, I still had that mindset. Really, coming into POW, I just didn't really know what to expect. And by the time I finally figured out how to do things, I had gone through too many nations to really be trusted.By both myself and others, I think.

So I just feel like I need to be overly cautious now, because I'm playing a country who's lore I don't even completely understand, and don't want to cross any boundaries, becoming even more of a nuisance to the RP's lore than I already have been, due to the bambi nature I had when I first joined. So that's why I feel like I should leave the RP. Because I feel that, because of my early background in it, I'm not really trying to write for fun anymore, and instead trying to write to keep others from thinking "Feo's pulling a Feo again."

Being overly cautious is what you are doing wrong then. The thing is, the way we've set this RP up allows us to rationalize weird shit and sort of compartmentalize each nation so fuck-ups don't hurt other nations much. For instance, Florida being an independent nation never really complicated things for the rest of us. We only changed it because it made America difficult to grab.

The worse thing you could do is quit and ask somebody else to be Britain because that is what "pulling a Feo" is. Britain is yours now. Play with it. There isn't really a solid idea of what the anarchy and Britain has had a minimal impact on the rest of the nations, so you can do what you want so long as it makes sense. And that isn't difficult. All you need to make something work is the ability to rationalize it.

So write for fun. Don't think fun equals doing big explosive things all the time. I've had more fun with Sahle than any of the others, and Sahle's story hasn't exactly been world changing. Play with ideas and play with the way you use words. That's how you get good at this.

It's not that I wanted to write big explosive things that was keeping it from being fun. It was the not knowing what I could write about, since I was getting lot's of different feedback about what state Britain should be in because the Anarchy. And at the time, the Anarchy was being treated like a respected, detailed event that I had no details about, rather than an element that I was supposed to create the story for. Really, looking back on it, that's the whole source of pretty much all the confusion since I started as Britain.

But, I mean... If I can wipe what little I've done with Britain since the start on this forum, I feel I can make a new, detailed history actually worthy of Precipice this time around. Since what was written on the MCF was based on a major misunderstanding of the shape Britain would be in, as was everything so far on this site. Both times I thought "The Anarchy" was a literal anarchy that threw Britain into chaos. But if that's not actually fact, and I can work with it to make something else out of it, then that will make Britain much easier to write for.

All that we have established is that there was a near state of anarchy. And all that really means is that, at some point, the government was not functioning well. It's vague because we want you to fill in the details.

I would expect the Anarchy in Britain to look sort of like Weimar Germany, but that is just one interpretation. Do whatever works.

So I began a post.

Then I figured I should do college werk.

Okay. So... Here we go. The newest (and final) revision of the history of Great Britain. I didn't go into large amounts of detail, so I can elaborate more through posts later on (though it's mainly because it's extremely hard to write having to Control+V every single space in.)

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Great Britain


Following the end of the Great War, Great Britain entered into a period of economic stagnation, military inefficiency, and imperial downfall.

Directly after the end of the war, the people of Great Britain were tired. They were sad. But most of all, they were angry. Many citizens grew to hate the government as the war dragged on, and when it didn't end in victory, the citizens lashed out. There were mass protests across both the nation and it's colonies, riots and even occasional attempts on the lives of certain members of the government. Even after an emergency reelection, which replaced almost all members of the government, the public outcry continued.

Throughout many of Great Britain’s colonies, civilians began to act against the local government branches. Almost without any resistance, civilians were able to take over the colonial governments, while whatever military they had was quickly forced to surrender, if they didn't just up and leave on their own.

In response to the public, the King of Britain, Edward VIII, made a speech, stating that the outcome of the Great War was due to the current government system, and called for a governmental reform which would grant more power to him. Quickly, the King gained public favor through many convincing speeches that sympathized with the people.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, the Prime Minister tried to relay to the people that returning that much power would be a mistake, and that the current government existed for a reason. While some people sided with him, not many did. And when one radical member of this party made an attempt on the Kings life, the citizens of Great Britain mirrored those of their previous colonies, marching on the governmental buildings, arresting those inside, and later on, exiling them from the country all together.

With the government exiled, and the citizens now following the lead of the King, a new constitution was drafted, which granted the king much more power, while still allowing the citizens to elect a small parliament and Prime Minister to ensure a balance of powers.

With the populace now happy with the government, it was now time to focus on recovering. However, that quickly became impossible, as Ireland was taken over by a wave of Nationalism, with India following suit six months later. Ireland refused to follow a government lead by the English king, and India had lost all faith in the British government, and was suffering because of Britain's instability.

Having to make a choice, it was decided that India was much more worth fighting for by many, and a peace treaty allowing Ireland it's independence was drafted within a week of the start of India's independence movement.

However, things would not go very well for Britain. With their war exhaustion already incredibly high, many people began to simply let India go, and stop sending what young men were left off to die. Unable to see a way to win without risking the people turning on him, as well, the King finally gave into India's demands, releasing them as their own sovereign nation in 1952.

These twenty-five years since the end of the Great War came to be known as the Great Anarchy, due to the absolute inability of the government being the cause of the collapse of the British Empire.

Following this great Anarchy, Britain could not do anything more than hold onto what colonial holdings remained, and simply rebuild. During this time, they almost completely vanished from the world stage, and the name of the British Empire faded away into the history books. The British people themselves seemed to almost be as much a thing of legend as the Romans were with how little the world heard of them.

Then, in 1970, they re-appeared. In a brief and hostile takeover of the independent Ireland, marking Britain's return from their near-isolationist period. Now under the rule of Edward VIII's son, William IV, who chose the Regnal name William in place of his first name, Edward, as a nod towards William of Orange, in that William of Orange was given the crown by parliament, where as his father secured his crown by taking power from parliament.

In 1976, Britain took part in international affairs for the first time in a long time, when they sent two SIS agents into Canada to retrieve and escape with Lawrence Williams: the creator of VX gas who had been imprisoned in Canada following the Seattle bombing. In a greatly successful mission, they were able to escape with him across the American border. However, in exchange for their cooperation, the agents had no choice but to leave Williams with the Americans.

Now, William IV seeks to restore British pride, by restoring the Empire, and reclaiming it's title as a global power. With a navy heading for Africa, and plans in motion for the reconquest of Canada, Great Britain's name will soon return to the headlines around the world.

And as you did that I went through and cleaned up China's history. Made it more consistent with the shit I know now then I did when I first wrote it, and the PoW lore summary.

god fuk that took too long.

The only problem I see with your history, Feo, is the bit about Irish independence. Before the war, there were plans to introduce Home Rule to Ireland(an autonomous parliament in Dublin) but this met with resistance from Northern Irish (Ulster unionist protestants) who saw a Parliament in Dublin as Catholic tendencies seeping into Ireland ('Home Rule is Rome Rule'). 100,000 (give or take) Irish unionists signed a treaty that said if Ireland got Home Rule, they would quickly make their own parliament in Belfast and form an Orange/Protestant state that covered the Protestant-majority in Ulster.

Civil war was about to happen when the war started and Irish Home Rule was immediately suspended so that Britain could fight a war without worrying about Eamonn De Valera pissing about with taxes. What I propose is that Ireland is currently in some sort of civil war with Irish Unionists who want to re-join the UK as the Ulster State while the Republic argues this is unconstituitional. Apart from that, a-ok.

Oh yeah and I started another Georgia post last night. I'll throw her up whe she's ready.

How about editing in the history that Britain intervened in the middle of the civil war on the unionists side. That way what you said is kept in mind, and current British control of Ireland is still explained

Again, if I had more than a work around method for spacing and a phone, I would have included much more. But as it is right now...My desktop has a fried motherboard, my laptop has a broken keyboard, and typing on the phone takes about as long as control Ving in spaces. Not to mention auto correct...

Once I'm up and running again, I'll add more to the background. But for now, the skeleton will be good enough. :p

Of course, that's fine. Good luck Britishing!

EDIT: 911'th post. Illuminazi cuntfurmed?

Speaking of terrifying and brutal - we Spanish-Ethiopian War now

Posted and won the award for calling a dude a bitch a lot.

Chapatrap said
What do you fella's think of a thread for factsheets/characters/post catalogues in the Character Sheet section? I've already asked a few on steam but putting it in the thread makes it more official, innit?

About 5 months back, I posted this but never got around to actually making it. The general consensus at the time was 'go ahead', so I'm assuming the same is now. What I hope to achieve is a thread where everyone has posted a fact sheet similar in style to Vilage's one on the first page. If we can include a post catalogue (with the short summary) at the end of everyone's fact sheet it could make it much easier to find relevant information for newbies rather than trawling through pages of IC. I wouldn't ask you to update it daily but maybe every three months or so to update the posting catalogue.

So, yeah, expect that to come along in the next few days.

Woo.

I'll work on my post this weekend too.

Chapatrap said
About 5 months back, I posted this but never got around to actually making it. The general consensus at the time was 'go ahead', so I'm assuming the same is now. What I hope to achieve is a thread where everyone has posted a fact sheet similar in style to Vilage's one on the . If we can include a post catalogue (with the short summary) at the end of everyone's fact sheet it could make it much easier to find relevant information for newbies rather than trawling through pages of IC. I wouldn't ask you to update it daily but maybe every three months or so to update the posting catalogue.So, yeah, expect that to come along in the next few days.

I don't know how the rest of you managed to get along without doing the same thing a long time ago.

I update mine every time I post in the IC. That is the easiest way I do it.

Chapatrap said
So, yeah, expect that to come along in the next few days.

Scratch that. I just did it.

If anyone has any suggestions or if I've missed anything, give me a shout over Steam or something.