Dias Ex Machina Games

http://www.godhateselves.com

How bizarre an evil kingdom in Amethyst would have a website?

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

You got me with this website !

I saw the advertising on ENworld and did click. At first I was flabergasted, "who is hating elves so much as to do a website just to express his hate about them?". I found it funny, yet a little strange. Then, I did read the word "limshau" somewhere and remembered where it comes from. Congratulations to you, I hope your setting will be a success. I posted a message about it on Dragonsfoot by the way.

However, I read something that instantly arouse my curiosity:

Hey, where can we get that 300 pages Stapp's writing?! I REALLY want to read it!!! (By the way, it looks like a hoax, since there is absolutely nothing on any Rudoph Stapp on the internet to be found except here... )

Unfortunately, a hard drive crash wiped out my only copy and I have not been able to locate it online in two years. I’ll hunt around and see if I can find some scraps.

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

Sigh, I should have thought better... Re-reading the "Inspired by Fact" I eventually noticed that it looks like it was directly excerpted from some Lovecraft story... (the shaken scientists, including one who abandoned science and turned to priesthood instead; the guy who finishes into a psychiatric hospital; Stapp who mysteriously disappears after having revealed some revelation will never hear about...)

I guess that Stapp's writings are to Amethyst what the Necronomicon was to Lovecraft's stories.

Except that I have a copy of said Necronomicon, even if it's not as cool as I expected when I bought it years ago. Anyway, I had hope for something like that with Stapp. Hey, I was willing to donate 10$ to get a copy. Bah, never mind, I found other weird stuff perusing the web, including the so-called writings of a Russian scientist who pretends that some insects have anti-gravitation built-in, and that studying them he created a flying transportation device of his own... Dr. V. S. Grebennikov

Well, I don't know about that. I have never read Lovecraft in my entire life.

I know a few others associated with the project had actually but I was the one that wrote the dedication.

Damn shame about Dr Stapp.

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

...and you are awesome for doing so. I saw the message and read through it. Some cool and funny posts and no one took it the wrong way (at least that's how it appears). But why was the post locked then?

I even signed up to thank you on Dragonsfoot. What gives?

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

The thread wasn't locked. It's just the whole forum that was locked for a full day or so because the admin was angry at some people's behavior (but nothing to do with the thread).

Thanks, I posted a reply.

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“I despise stallions. I ride them as I ride an ugly noble women--smiles for appearances and politics only. Stallions. All personality with no depth. They prance like ponies and trot with arrogance. I always say, respect your mules most of all. A stallion may lead with the king and gather the eyes, but a mule will follow behind…and carry your kingdom.”
Tsarevick Kazaan
Amethyst D20

http://www.diasexmachina.com

By the way: I am not sure that Rudolph Stapp should be kept "as fact". I suggest to simply include it into Amethyst's mythology, as the fiction it is. It's not very pleasant to discover having been tricked by this, when after some research on the internet, it clearly appears it was all made up... Just my 2 cents.

So that story about Stapp was made up?