Badass Dragoons of the Highlands - Epilogue

[Pogo]

[messana]

Now that we’ve reached the conclusion of our latest journey, let us continue the tradition.

Players’ Choice Awards!

All players are welcome to submit your votes via PM to me directly for each of the following categories:

• Favorite Character Concept
• Best Character Development
• Character You Were Saddest to See Defeated

Feel free to submit up to three choices per category ranked by preference. Winners will be revealed in the final epilogue following the calculation of Round 10. Votes must be received by Sun Jan 14 @ 2300 EST and results to be announced early next week.

I know the game gathered a lot of dust during the December scheduling snafus, so hopefully the Table of Contents will be useful for refreshing the ol’ memory.

[Pogo]

[guest_account_7]

We understand that you are a busy man, and most of your time and effort is focused on your studies in grammar and philosophy (a less-charitable observer might question why this is taking so long for one in possession of ultimate knowledge). Consequently, it may have escaped your notice that it is now 2018 AD, thirty-two years since your well-deserved victory in the final Gathering.

“The Prize” is all of the Executive Time that a politician of such calibre as Mr. Collins desires.

[Pogo]

[David_Falkayn]

Friends (aka Quakers) place great value in silence.

I could talk about silence for hours.

Friends place such a high value on silence that Quaker worship is typically an hour of Silence.

So as we all grapple towards Consensus, I ask that we all take heed of the reticent but ever present ElHar Aziz @TobinL .

Here’s a bit more about Quaker Worship:

If you have never before attended an unprogrammed Friends (Quaker) meeting for worship, your first meeting may surprise you.

While all Quakers meet for worship to hear more clearly God’s “still small voice” (I Kings 19:12), Friends in the unprogrammed tradition base our worship entirely on expectant waiting. We take the Psalmist’s advice literally: “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).

We meet in plain, unadorned rooms because we feel that, in such places, we will be less distracted from that small still voice. Our benches or chairs face each other because we all are equal before God. There are no pulpits in our meeting rooms because we all minister to each other. We have no prearranged prayers, readings, sermons, hymns, or musical orchestrations because we wait for God’s leadings (guidance and direction) and power in our lives.

Occasionally, during meeting for worship, someone is moved to speak out of the silence. Although Friends value spoken messages which come from the heart and are prompted by the Spirit of God, we also value the silence and find that expectant worship may bring profound leadings. Friends have found that some leadings are for sharing immediately, some are for sharing on another occasion, and some are for our personal reflection. The meeting ends when one Friend, designated in advance, shakes hands with his or her neighbors. Then everyone shakes hands. No two meetings are ever the same.

http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/values.html

Yours in Truth,

Mr. Collins

[teknocholer]

Friends (aka Quakers) place great value in silence.

The first rule of Quaker meetings…

[archivist]

So Much Strife. So Much Killing. So Much Lost. For What?

For Consensus.

That is Prize. Our Talents, pooled.

We no longer spread across the world, hiding our gifts from humanity.

With the Prize, we act in concert. We have impact beyond the thud of our weapons.

And so it came to pass that the sole survivor of the Immortal contest wandered off into the setting sun. To any unknowing observer, he merely appeared to be an eccentric old man - possibly a librarian or scholar - talking quietly to himself and seemingly fretting about lines of reasoning of strange import.

To the knowing observer, of which only one remains, the question presented by these conversations were clear: having harnessed the insight, erudition, and life experiences of over two dozen Immortals, how best to harness that wealth of knowledge to benefit the world?

What will become of that discussion? One can only wonder.

[And so the Last Archivist, the final member of the Order of The Watchers, gently closed the ancient ledger forever. Shortly thereafter, the Last Archivist closed his eyes for an equally long time.]