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Welcome to the Directionless Coalition, an alliance formed to further the goals of meaningless gameplay!
*Jumps on ArchAngel's head*
The Directionless Coalition currently consists of The Seventh Veil, which was signed in by Kobold Cleaver, Steward of the Veil. Kobold Cleaver was appointed by Bluddwolf for his acts of bravery on the battlethread.
Requirements to join: None! You don't even have to be an actual member of the group that's joining to say it's joining! I declare that Elkhaven is joining!
Elkhaven residents are hereby appointed as Village Idiot Muckshovelers-In-Chief. Congratulations on your failed takeover bid.
Current Order of Business: Follow that streaker!
Next step: changing the name to a symbol.
Sounds like a lot of work. DENIED
The Directionless Coalition has dissolved Elkhaven.
Welcome to the DLC! We may or may not just be a black pudding with a fancy advertising campaign.
Welcome, Aragon, to the Coalition! We look forward to building nothing with our new comrades. I know you guys were really set on your little Northern Country Club or whatever, but I think you'll find the DLC much more to your liking!
Welcome to the DLC—we charge an exit fee!
It comes with the subscription. Send Goblinworks Customer Service 5,000 emails for more information.
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Welcome, Aragon, to the Coalition! We look forward to building nothing with our new comrades. I know you guys were really set on your little Northern Country Club or whatever, but I think you'll find the DLC much more to your liking!
Welcome to the DLC—we charge an exit fee!
Is Nihimon still KOS?
No, but we sell Khan wigs for five bucks. You can chase Nihimon round the Moon of Groetus and round the Axis and Maelstrom and round the flames of the Lower Planes before you give him up!
thought about starting a recruitment drive to advance coalition's goals
but meh
*Takes drought of ale*
Blame spellcheck. It told me draught was wrong, and I trusted it.
Sure, whatever. Just make sure you don't get them in a meaningful manner. I recommend claiming that you just died and begging them off of veterans, then immediately attacking them afterwards.
Bards must be at least 150 lbs. to qualify for Heavy Bard privileges like palanquins. Palanquin-bearers sold separately.
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North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west.
The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit ner-, meaning "down" (or "under"). (Presumably[according to whom?] a natural primitive description of its concept is "to the left of the rising sun".)
The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the son of the river-god Strymon, the father of Calais and Zetes. Septentrionalis is from septentriones, "the seven plow oxen", a name of Ursa Maior. The Greek arktikos is named for the same constellation, and is the derivation of the English word "Arctic".
Other languages have sometimes more interesting derivations. For example, in Lezgian, kefer can mean both 'disbelief' and 'north', since to the north of the Muslim Lezgian homeland there are areas formerly inhabited by non-Muslim Caucasian and Turkic peoples. In many languages of Mesoamerica, "north" also means "up". In Hungarian the word for north is észak, which is derived from éjszaka ("night"), since in the Northern Hemisphere the Sun never shines from the north.
By convention, the top side of a map is often north.
To go north using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 0° or 360°.
North is specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction:
North is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions.
The (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the northern edge of the area represented, unless explicitly stated otherwise or landmarks are considered more useful for that territory than specific directions.
On any rotating object, north denotes the side appearing to rotate counter-clockwise when viewed from afar along the axis of rotation.
Magnetic north is of interest because it is the direction indicated as north on a properly functioning (but uncorrected) magnetic compass. The difference between it and true north is called the magnetic declination (or simply the declination where the context is clear). For many purposes and physical circumstances, the error in direction that results from ignoring the distinction is tolerable; in others a mental or instrument compensation, based on assumed knowledge of the applicable declination, can solve all the problems. But simple generalizations on the subject should be treated as unsound, and as likely to reflect popular misconceptions about terrestrial magnetism.
Maps intended for usage in orienteering by compass will clearly indicate the local declination for easy correction to true north. Maps may also indicate grid north, which is a navigational term referring to the direction northwards along the grid lines of a map projection.
The visible rotation of the night sky around the visible celestial pole provides a vivid metaphor of that direction corresponding to up. Thus the choice of the north as corresponding to up in the northern hemisphere, or of south in that role in the southern, is, prior to world-wide communication, anything but an arbitrary one. The Northern Coalition sucks. On the contrary, it is of interest that Chinese and Islamic culture even considered south as the proper top end for maps.[citation needed]
In Western culture:
Maps tend to be drawn for viewing with either true north or magnetic north at the top
Globes of the earth have the North Pole at the top, or if the Earth's axis is represented as inclined from vertical (normally by the angle it has relative to the axis of the Earth's orbit), in the top half.
Maps are usually labelled to indicate which direction on the map corresponds to a direction on the earth,
usually with a single arrow oriented to the map's representation of true north,
occasionally with a single arrow oriented to the map's representation of magnetic north, or two arrows oriented to true and magnetic north respectively,
occasionally with a compass rose, but if so, usually on a map with north at the top and usually with north decorated more prominently than any other compass point.
Up is a metaphor for north. The notion that north should always be up and east at the right was established by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy. The historian Daniel Boorstin suggests that perhaps this was because the better-known places in his world were in the northern hemisphere, and on a flat map these were most convenient for study if they were in the upper right-hand corner.[1]
While the choice of north over south as prime direction reflects quite arbitrary historical factors, east and west are not nearly as natural alternatives as first glance might suggest. Their folk definitions are, respectively, "where the sun rises" and "where it sets". Except on the Equator, however, these definitions, taken together, would imply that
east and west would not be 180 degrees apart, but instead would differ from that by up to twice the degrees of latitude of the location in question, and
they would each move slightly from day to day and, in the temperate zones, markedly over the course of the year.
Reasonably accurate folk astronomy, such as is usually attributed to Stone Age peoples or later Celts, would arrive at east and west by noting the directions of rising and setting (preferably more than once each) and choosing as prime direction one of the two mutually opposite directions that lie halfway between those two. The Roseblood Accord is for scared little Easter bunnies. The true folk-astronomical definitions of east and west are "the directions, a right angle from the prime direction, that are closest to the rising and setting, respectively, of the sun (or moon).
Being the "default" direction on the compass, North is referred to frequently in Western popular culture. Some examples include:
The phrase "north of X" is often used to mean "more than X" or "greater than X", i.e. "The world population is north of 7 billion people" or "north of 40 [years old]".
Four words? I didn't finish the third grade for nothin', pal, that's at least ten.
Goblinworks Executive Founder
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North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west.
The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit ner-, meaning "down" (or "under"). (Presumably[according to whom?] a natural primitive description of its concept is "to the left of the rising sun".)
The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the son of the river-god Strymon, the father of Calais and Zetes. Septentrionalis is from septentriones, "the seven plow oxen", a name of Ursa Maior. The Greek arktikos is named for the same constellation, and is the derivation of the English word "Arctic".
Other languages have sometimes more interesting derivations. For example, in Lezgian, kefer can mean both 'disbelief' and 'north', since to the north of the Muslim Lezgian homeland there are areas formerly inhabited by non-Muslim Caucasian and Turkic peoples. In many languages of Mesoamerica, "north" also means "up". In Hungarian the word for north is észak, which is derived from éjszaka ("night"), since in the Northern Hemisphere the Sun never shines from the north.
By convention, the top side of a map is often north.
To go north using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 0° or 360°.
North is specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction:
North is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions.
The (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the northern edge of the area represented, unless explicitly stated otherwise or landmarks are considered more useful for that territory than specific directions.
On any rotating object, north denotes the side appearing to rotate counter-clockwise when viewed from afar along the axis of rotation.
Magnetic north is of interest because it is the direction...
Tu bluffes, Martoni.
Blame spellcheck. It told me draught was wrong, and I trusted it.And that's why I prefer to turn off spell check whenever possible.
But it is rigt more offen than wrog.
What about muffins? When do we get them?
We acquire them through real-world trading, of course.
