Our community has survived internal sabotage & players that seem only seem to want to cause problems. We have come out of it stronger and NoR is a fun place again now that we are free of these elements. As we continue our rebound, we are noticing patterns of old appearing from certain "new" players. We strive to continue what is SL's most fair, sane and consistent set of rules along side the most admin accountability. NoR has become fun again, this policy is meant to allow that to continue. Thanks.
The terrorist demands not being met they made good on their threat to reign down fire. Who they are is unknown but several groups are taking responsibility and accusations are flying.
((This event is tied in with the new build for remembrance. The current build will remain in place for shots we may need for the next video release. It will be some time before that is released but the build will start to be replaced in days. Since the city was nuked RP wise it should be treated that it was destroyed and the new build is merely another nearby city of the Plex that is connected via City Deep. In the meantime, City Deep and the Icarus Station are open for your RP and investigation as to what happened. Enjoy))
((The following is in character information that was distributed around NoR in various methods. It is presumed common knowledge BUT you are free to role play lack of knowledge. Those that visit our website are getting the heads up to this before we announce it in the groups. Membership has its privileges after all :) )).
Simple: Change. During the coming week we will be reconfigure NoR’s sims to what should be its final setting. We wanted to reduce sims due to world & SL economy issues for a year, we contracted more then we expected with the split. However, things are stabilizing nicely now. Player numbers are up & the quality of the players is outstanding. NoR is a fun place again. A lot of stuff is in the works, 2010 is going to be interesting indeed. Many more announcements to come. Enjoy the ride
The Space Station above Remembrance nears completion now the new Community Center is getting shape. Various promotion campaigns have started to get new players into NoR and our numbers grow steadilly. We realize that NoR has a long history and many events have gone forgotten in time. As a reminder for older players and to help new players get started and understand what happened in NoR I wrote a summary of NoR history. I kept it as objective and neutral as possible without going into details... Those can be found here on the forum deep in the rp logs.
Enjoy the read,
Bizarre Obscure
The predicted End of Days came and went quietly. Humanity warred among itself even taking its fights to the stars. The Angels stepped forth into the world through long sealed portals. The world paused, and then rejoiced at the confirmation of Faith. The elation faded quickly, turning into suspicion then fear as the Angels took little notice of humanity and the cold realization that where one thing exists so must its opposite. These Angels were not the protectors of humanity, they were warriors of the Armageddon and they had an enemy. Demons and all those touched by evil.
Caught between a war of Titans, society collapsed, with humanity struggling to survive. Into this chaos Vampires woke from their centuries of sleep with promises of immortality to the disenchanted Lycans and Nekos prowling the streets while other races of Lore step from the portal. The ultimate Jihad, the War of the Armageddon, The Apocalypse rages on!
During the high point of the Pogrom, where high populace cities were being ravaged by Angels and Demons alike, several governments agreed in secret to a show of Terran might and unity. On the same day, on the same hour, on the same minute seven nuclear devices were detonated, unannounced, killing any and all caught in its wake. Despite taking place during the day in some locations it became known as the Eve of Atom. The idea worked as open hostilities virtually ceased overnight and the hot war went very cold.
That is where it all started for NoR as we know it now... The relative peace of the cold war allowed these new races to settle on the scorned land and occupy the ruins of the city to build their empire, use it as hunting and feeding grounds or simply as a place to hide and fight for survival. First to achieve dominance over the lands were the Vampires of Remembrance; their numerous forces raided the lands in Remembrance during its endless night and submitting the Demon Horde to their will. The Vampires dominance and actions in the land preempted in the creation of the Rejects who aided the free Demons to free the Demons of the Horde from the Vampires of Remembrance, secretly supported by Demons from other regions.
A dawn of a new era for the other races started as well as they settled themselves in the city. The Dominion was born from the flock of Angels appearing in the land and the proud, but mad Malkavians found shelter with the Vampire of Remembrance. After the Horde was freed they were disbanded and became the Vengeance Brood. Aided with Malkavians support the Vampires in Remembrance raided and ruled the lands once more. Though stripped of their Demon servants their numbers were numerous again, filling them with confidence and strength. The fights were fierce and lasted many months while both Demon and Angel diplomats were trying to separate the Malkavians from the Vampires of Remembrance. Ironically, despite all efforts it was the Vampires own infighting causing the rift which the alliance could widen that eventually drove them apart.
The Vengeance Brood had disbanded and reformed itself into the Demons of NoR, spearheaded by the Legion of the Damned, not long after the Vampires of NoR were beaten into submission. The Lycans managed to get a strong position of influence and power in the nation under the guidance of Pack Corvinius and others joined groups and families of mixed races such as the Crimson Kingdom or Witches of the Observatory, but the peace resulting from the new found balance in Remembrance lasted not more then a few days. Fights between the Rejects and the Dominion broke out and the Demons of NoR were drawn into a war with the Malkavians. Two fights that were soon fought as one after the Dominion and Malkavians joined forces against the Rejects and Demons starting off an age of hostilities in the Nation of Remembrance that would be the background of events lasting years and stretching to the recent past. The guns of war only silencing when the entirety of the Nation was being threatened with potential invasions of foreign factions or the appearance of the mysterious Ichor being who managed to reduce the joined forced of the Nation of Remembrance to scrap metal in minutes before he was finally beaten.
Despite the bloody war the Nations population grew fast... Various Vampire houses, Neko packs, Demon hordes and families of mixed races settled themselves in the nation during these days. Some were crushed under the weight of the war before getting a size of importance; others flourished and grew rapidly under the harsh conditions. The war ended after the majority of houses and factions allied themselves in the Axis of Evil against the Malkavian and Dominion forces who were eventually beaten and left the Nation... But not all... Some small groups and individuals stayed. House Giovannie absorbed a large number of young Malkavians and turned into the Drakula while others found a new home amongst their own race or started their own family in the Nation of Remembrance like the Tzildaris Vampires. The remaining Angels of NoR organizing themselves in the Sentinels.
A short period of relative peace fell over the Nation of Remembrance as the families and houses took the time to recover from the war and the nation started to reorganize themselves. Families were disbanded and new houses and families came to the scene like the Vashar, Lacedaemons, Chaos Marines and the Cult of Vampires just to name a few. And as the (former) AXIS factions recovered from the war a Resistance was started against the dominant forces in the nation. A new war of epic proportions was hanging over the Nation of Remembrance as the Drakula vampires who had grown enormous started aggressive raids in the lands. The smaller, reformed and hollowed out families and houses were no match for the Drakula forces and though it didn't take long till old friends and allies had found themselves they lacked training and routine to make a fist.
As predicted, the war became long and bloody tearing up families and crushing entire clans in its wake. Many months passed until the Drakula Vampires could be forced back onto their own soil in Vampire, but not defeated. It took another few months of fighting and diplomatic pressure which resulted in the choice from the Drakula command to withdraw their forces. The Nation of Remembrance entered a period of change accompanied by relative peace was it not that the Nation was visited by pink mutants of amazing strength, dropped by orbital landing ships with a sinister objective. After they achieved their goals they destroyed their temporary base in Sulin on the new found continent of Megapolis. Those staying behind from the Drakula vampires found homes in factions all over the nation or joined new families like the Immortals and the returned Malkavian delegation who eventually settled themselves on the new continent.
With the major wars behind us and majority of the remains of the Resistance forces resettled on the continent of Megapolis the Nation of Remembrance entered a period of relative calm, fights limiting to cross continent raids and relative small scale assaults at first. This calm was used by many houses and families to reform and reorganize. The Legion of the Damned that disbanded at the end of the Drakula war was recast in the Legion Legacy and started to work on a new Demonkind, the Drow settled themselves and even more exotic beings like the Machina and Elfin appeared in the Nation of Remembrance. But what started small didn't stay small. The small raids became organized attacks and the guerilla war threatened to escalate into a full scale war again... But none could foresee what happened next.
<< More details about the current phase of the NoR role-play can be found on the forum and in the PaNoRama magazine sold (L$1,-) in NoR >>
Whether it was a plague that was raging through the nation, the discovery of the huge Space Station or the INFERNALS attacking out of nowhere or perhaps a nuclear device or the casualties of many years of wars finally revealing themselves... Nobody knows for sure. The new continent disappeared as mysteriously as it once appeared the Space Station dooms over Remembrance and the city is plagued by these strange bugs. What has happened? What are these infernals? Who made them? Why are they here? Why now? When...? More questions then answers and the Infernals keep growing stronger. And why are the Demons and Angels at each others throat again? Some feel they need to join the infernals side; others joined forces in order to find ways to destroy these bugs while others try to pick up their everyday lives again and build an existence during these violent days of the Armageddon.
It is my pleasure to announce we have a new general manager and head of admins. Please congratulate our new GM, Bizarre Obscure & our new head admin, Baskers Deluca. They have some really exciting ideas and plans for the coming months.
On a related note, with these 2 capable people in charge I will largely be stepping back to address RL issues. I will still very much be in the loop on things but I am letting some fresh blood bring in new ideas for our community while I deal with RL.
Ok so we have our first IC NoR themed wee nasty NPC. There are 5 spawners in Rem with a spawn clock of 20-30 minutes. This will be a constant. There will be times when we up this a lot for some fun but now there will always be something to do and earn extra XP. Please thank Kitty Mantel, her designs are rather fantastic. Ill be working up a Encyclopedia entry for them soon.
We also have some other badies coming but for now you all play with the Infernals. We are working up a encyclopedia entry on them but did not wait to start letting you all have fun. The basic premise is these are non-sentient creatures accessing our realm through some other means then the portals (though the timing of the reopening of the portals and their appearance is undeniable). They are very aggressive, powerful and usually attack in numbers. While it is unknown precisely what their motivation is, certain logical guesses can be made: Mating or food.
As is probably painfully obvious by now, NoR will be switching officially over to DCS2 tonight at 7pm SLT. We regret not being able to provide more notice on this but we did “leak” the information so that it would not come as a total surprise. There are many reasons for the change but rather then begin a new start by slinging mud we are going simply focus on the positive. Suffice it to say that we are charged with the protection of this community and that was at the heart of this decision to change to DCS from XRPS (aka WARPS).
In our time of need, Dimentox Travanti, creator of DCS2, has stepped up to the plate. He has gone out of his way to make changes to DCS2 to make NoR’s transition a smooth one. In addition, he customized much of our presence in DCS2 to meet our needs. We have worked hard together to create a DB of races and skills that will be familiar yet provide a new experience for you. We have also made an arrangement that our community will be getting the DCS2 meter for free.
This decision was not easy or made lightly nor was it made by one person (various admins, mentors, land owners and key players were consulted about this possible change). It has taken weeks with us hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. As such we looked into many options, one of which was DCS2, and after a long testing period we strongly feel it meets the needs of the community and then some. We know that change is difficult but please trust in us as you have for nearly three years, this move is not only necessary but is best for the community. We split from one detrimental system before and came out stronger for it. Also, many of the plans, both roleplay and other, we had been waiting on implementing in WARPS/XRPS are now within reach. So before making any judgments, have some faith in us and give it a try for awhile.
We Are NoR.
Quick need to knows:
1) The FREE DCS meters will be distributed in our 2 main groups, Land of NoR and NoR Chatterbugs. You can get it from the drop down notice to follow or by looking up old notices.
2) We will be level matching, so you will NOT be starting over from scratch. Your time in NoR building your character will not be lost. NOTE: We will be level matching NoR sheets only.
3) We are also working with some NoRian sim owners who wish to remain behind with XRPS. They will be inheriting the NoR WARP/XRPS Datebase plus the player sheets.
4) AOs banned in combat rule is being revised to meet the new capabilities with DCS2. This will mean that AOs will be returning to combat with some minor and reasonable exceptions.
5) Due to an advanced damage control system in DCS2 we will be reviewing banned weapons to see if they can be removed. Heavy lag weapons will be remaining but hopefully this will return some of your favorite makers back to the legal list.
6) The current database in DCS of our classes/races/spells is just the beginning. We will be tweaking it and looking for your input on what to change and what to add on www.landofnor.com
7) Naturally, DCS iterms are no longer banned in NoR.
Just a fun little thing for the community. Take the test
When done with the test, you will be asked to register. I registered with bogus info as I have no interest in hearing from these people again. I DO NOT RECOMMEND LETTING THEM CHECK YOUR EMAIL LIST FOR FRIENDS OF YOURS ON THEIR SERVICE.
Look for it at vendors in NoR. Important note, an in-character story was released relating to the official NoR back story. It is a 3 parter that will answer many of the questions on the history of NoR.
Update: 7pm SLT
Emergency Maintenance starting 22:10
Sun Jun 21 01:01:33 2009
Hi everyone, the planned emergency maintenance is starting at 22:10 (10:10pm) instead of 22:30. Please see http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2009/06/20/post664/ for updates.
Unfortunately no ETA for completion at this time :(
========================================================
Previous:
From our friend, Charlene Linden:
As you may have noticed, unfortunately the grid is not at all happy at the moment. Something somewhere turned over and we are still getting an army of chats and calls about it. We are on it, and I sincerely apologize for the trouble. :) We have updated the status blog and will resolve it when things are OK again.
Our engineers are still working on bringing up all remaining regions. We will continue to update here until the matter is resolved.
[UPDATE June 20, 2009 8:11AM Pacific] Logins are once again available however there are still approximately 6,000 regions unavailable at this time. See this post for updates as we resolve the issue.
Birthday(s):
v6.01.11 © 2003-2005