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Nope, there is no dice roller implemented for this site.

As for playing in Russian, I'm not sure. That would be something to ask a site moderator, and a couple of them look through this section regularly so hopefully you'll get a reply from one of them soon.
Never played the first version of this game, but it looks amusing.

Species name: Troglodyte
Species colours: Black or very dark grey main color, light green eye, dark green dangly claw things.
Species origin: Invertebrate
Kalia made it up to the third floor to discover another already there, a woman in robes of a strange shade of orange. The light coming around the edges of the slab intrigued her, but when she saw the stranger already investigating it she shied away. There was of course no telling what kind of person the robed woman was, and the fear and dread that gripped Kalia's heart upon the thought of what horrors might lurk within the heart of that stranger was enough to start her walking away. She hadn't stopped to look at any of the halls leading off the first or second floor, so she figured she might as well do so now. She made her way around the ring in a clockwise direction, looking at each of the passageways leading off of it, hoping to find some other light that she might work toward alone.

She found nothing of the sort. Each hall was much the same as the one she had first found herself in, minus the water. They went on for a ways and ended in a broken statue. The walls of all of them seemed to contain more of those stone pods, the things she and the others had apparently come out of. Plants grew here and there, more evidence of the structure being old and abandoned. Kalia couldn't help but wonder if each of the pods held people in it, and the thought sent shivers down her spine. The place seemed devoid of intelligent life, but if each pod held another person...

She walked to the railing and looked up, trying to estimate just how many floors there were. There was no end to them that she could see, dozens of floors extending upward until it was impossible to make out where one floor stopped and another ended, and then up to the faint light from above. Her best guess was that there had to be hundreds of floors to this place, and maybe fifty pods per hall, six halls per floor. Three hundred pods per floor, countless floors above. There could be thousands of people in those pods, just waiting to be released. The six of them who'd found themselves in the flooded hall below could have just been the first wave. Soon this strange building could be like a crowded city, with people pressing in on all sides, making the air foul with their various odors, and all the monsters in human skin just walking around like normal people, and they'd make the place just like a city too with all the fighting and rape and murder and evil and...

Kalia found herself clinging to the vines hanging in front of her face with a death grip, knuckles white. Her heart was pounding and her breath came in shallow gasps. She closed her eyes and tried to picture her favorite place, a tranquil little pond in the forest near her home, where she would often sit for hours at a time, just watching nature. The image was almost immediately ruined by the thought of a horde of people coming and trampling everything, and her eyes snapped open. She instead pushed some vines aside and looked down at the pool of water below, trying to calm and control her breathing. This place was not nearly so lovely as her pond, but it had a beauty of its own nonetheless. It was also very clearly devoid of swarms of people, which helped quite a bit. She could see further floors going down into the depths, presumably with more halls full of pods extending from each of them, but they did not worry her. If there were people in those pods they would probably be dead due to drowning, or they would die in attempting to find their way up to the surface. At most she imagined only the first few floors beneath the water could feasibly send out more surviving people, assuming they were good swimmers and did not panic, and a few hundred more people atop the thousands above did not worry her much.

Once she had mostly gotten herself under control, Kalia turned and saw a vine now leading over to the slab. The woman in orange was looping it around the stone, and her intent was pretty clear. She wanted to pull the slab down and open the way past it, toward the light. When the woman stopped without actually trying to pull it away, Kalia made a decision. One stranger, or even five if it came to that, was far better than thousands. She wanted to get out of this place and away from those pods as quickly as possible, and perhaps the only way to do that would be to work with these other people. The slab looked heavy enough that it might take all of them to pull it down, and if that was the case then so be it.

Kalia took a deep breath to steady her nerves and walked over to the woman in orange robes. "I am Kalia. I will help you remove this barrier." Kalia knew that she did not look very strong, but she figured any offered help would be welcomed, even if the one offering did not look extraordinarily strong. She was slim and on the short side for her species, but being an elf that made her about as tall as an average human male. Her dark hair hung down to her shoulders, with the tips of her ears extending far enough to be visible unless she made a particular effort to hide them, which she had not done this day. She walked over and placed a hand on the vine, readying to help but not yet pulling, waiting for approval and for the other woman to give the signal to start.
Write a spamfic in the style of a mecha anime, where some people are pilots and others are the AI system in the mechas.

Also make yourself a pilot and make Toellner your mecha, so that you can get all up in his cockpit. It's what he deserves for being a little shit in this thread.
Awson said
We could start with a slow-moving world border in order to gently force cooperative play and to sprout a nice city at spawn. And then maybe remove it after a few days.wot thing


It's a thing that's not at all what you're proposing. Don't worry about it, it doesn't involve you.
Doivid said
yeah I get ya. I am actually going to miss nerdburg quite a bit. It's become home, as haphazard as it could be. But I look forward to making something new. I have some big plans, and hopefully this time it can be a little more organized.


Just do the thing we talked about and it'll be way more organized. :D
Alphakoka said
Unless it uses tvtropes' definition of scrappy....which rather hurt. :(


I dunno about Elendra's intent, but that was my reasoning. :)

Cpt Toellner said
I'm seconding my speculative identity.


Don't though, it was wrong.
I'm still active and interested.

I also know PCSutfin is still here too, since we were just talking about it earlier today.
Lucian, you are the worst sort of person. Get out.
Doesn't seem worth the effort to add it, since overall it somehow has less functionality than what we have now, which is bare bones formatting as far as forums go.

Markdown lacks underline and strikethrough formatting. It also lacks text centering.

Its quote thing is just awful for forums since all it does is indent the stuff that's supposed to be quoted. Honestly I would just say it lacks quoting capability and has indenting, based on how it works.

It lacks youtube embedding code.

Its image embedding code is obtuse. Why ![alt text](image path) sounded like a good idea to the creator is beyond me, since it utterly violates his own philosophy of being easy to read and write.

Oh, its hyperlinking code appears to be the same way. The code for that is [example], which doesn't make a ton of sense.

It lacks hiders.

What does it have to offer that our current code stuff lacks? Text size alteration, but only in the form of header coding. It sort of allows a font choice through that preformatted code block thing. That's pretty much it, aside from minor convenience in the form of using punctuation marks instead of little code blocks for text formatting.

I don't think that would be a good exchange at all. If there was going to be a change in how the forum text formatting worked, I'd say it would be better to just switch to straight up HTML, which has far more options and is not much more complicated than Markdown or what we have now. Markdown is basically just a set of modifications to HTML (which is what everything is converted into by Markdown anyway), so why bother with the not so great workaround instead of going straight to the source?

It seems to me that this Markdown thing is meant largely for blogging and similar type writing. It just isn't robust enough to bother using on a forum, which is probably why you've never seen it before.
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